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Why ride a bike?!!!

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  • Registered Users Posts: 102 ✭✭spartan1


    hold on now, can we not just accept that if you ride a bike you are way more likely to die than if you drive a micra, again, my mate, who was a motorcycle cop and still loves bikes tell tales of peeling skin ond limbs (no joke) off tarmac, it happens in cars, it happens on bikes way more often....it just does


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,236 ✭✭✭Idleater


    spartan1 wrote: »
    tell tales of peeling skin ond limbs (no joke) off tarmac
    Kangaroo leather is great for preventing this.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,155 ✭✭✭Stainless_Steel


    nereid wrote: »
    Kangaroo leather is great for preventing this.

    Not really...you'd still be peeling skin off the ground!....the kanagroos! :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,180 ✭✭✭Interceptor


    nereid wrote: »
    Kangaroo leather is great for preventing this.

    Not falling off is better I find. And I don't encourage kangaroos to ride bikes due to their short arms and big feet.


    'c


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,236 ✭✭✭Idleater


    Not falling off is better I find.
    'c

    You're preaching to the converted, I (unfortunately) was lowering myself to the level of ignorance.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,823 ✭✭✭EvilMonkey


    spartan1 wrote: »
    hold on now, can we not just accept that if you ride a bike you are way more likely to die than if you drive a micra, again, my mate, who was a motorcycle cop and still loves bikes tell tales of peeling skin ond limbs (no joke) off tarmac, it happens in cars, it happens on bikes way more often....it just does

    Any real facts to prove this claim not just what your mate says?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,236 ✭✭✭Idleater


    EvilMonkey wrote: »
    Any real facts to prove this claim not just what your mate says?

    his mate's a bike cop.

    them's all the facts you need.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,918 ✭✭✭Steffano2002


    Slightly off-topic but has anybody seen the latest RSA advert for "Biker Awareness"? Saw it last night and thought it was very good. A step in the right direction anyway!

    And they weren't afraid to say that car drivers are responsible for a lot of "our" accidents!


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,201 ✭✭✭KamiKazi


    Slightly off-topic but has anybody seen the latest RSA advert for "Biker Awareness"? Saw it last night and thought it was very good. A step in the right direction anyway!

    And they weren't afraid to say that car drivers are responsible for a lot of "our" accidents!

    Haven't seen it actually. Is it on youtube?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,918 ✭✭✭Steffano2002


    KamiKazi wrote: »
    Haven't seen it actually. Is it on youtube?
    Don't know... Can't access YouTube in work...


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,180 ✭✭✭Interceptor


    Can't access YouTube in work...

    You'll want to watch this at home then...



  • Registered Users Posts: 9 maccarthy_annem


    Brilliant video!! ;) Don't think I'll be trying that in this weather (and the fact of needing the extra hide potentially against the Irish tarmac!!!)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,918 ✭✭✭Steffano2002


    Excellent vid! :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 207 ✭✭no scope




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 207 ✭✭no scope


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-mdoambAQQ&feature=related

    the second part of the vid is the best


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,790 ✭✭✭✭galwaytt


    spartan1 wrote: »
    hold on now, can we not just accept that if you ride a bike you are way more likely to die than if you drive a micra, again, my mate, who was a motorcycle cop and still loves bikes tell tales of peeling skin ond limbs (no joke) off tarmac, it happens in cars, it happens on bikes way more often....it just does

    No, actually, I don't have to accept it. What I do accept, and the RSA now rightly states, is that 50% of collisions are caused by cars. Micra's included.

    So, I can accept that 50% of my risk of colliding with a vehicle is down to you, in your Micra. That being the case, what are YOU going to do, to improve your driving ??


    As for the new bike ad on the TV- well no, you can't see it, or get it, on the web. I know this because I contacted the RSA on it, congratulating them, actually(novelty for me ;) ), and they told me they were not allowed to put it on their site, or the web because...............of copyright reasons. Yep, they don't own the ad, and they are not allowed to have it anywhere except on the telly.

    So, there you go, education of the afore-mentioned car drivers who cause 50% of accidents is not deliverable because..........of copyright infringment.

    Fan-tastic :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

    Ode To The Motorist

    “And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, generates funds to the exchequer. You don't want to acknowledge that as truth because, deep down in places you don't talk about at the Green Party, you want me on that road, you need me on that road. We use words like freedom, enjoyment, sport and community. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent instilling those values in our families and loved ones. You use them as a punch line. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the tax revenue and the very freedom to spend it that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said "thank you" and went on your way. Otherwise I suggest you pick up a bus pass and get the ********* ********* off the road” 



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,898 ✭✭✭✭seanybiker


    my brother is a bike cop aswell and he is after seen bad stuff on bikes and cars. Ya dont need to be a cop to know that if ya act the bollox you are in far more danger of crashing.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,261 ✭✭✭Fabio


    Why ride a bike?

    You ride a bike because you can, because you have the choice to skip traffic, to have fun on the daily commute, to carry your helmet with you when off the bike and feel like the man :D.

    A bike is so so different to car. You are more committed in every sense to the world around you as you can see everything without the constrictions of a car, you can feel the wind against you and you can feel the tarmac if you ever do fall. What it is, is living, and living requires committment.

    That's scary at first but all you are doing is living and living to enjoy it.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 16,647 CMod ✭✭✭✭faceman


    jetlagged wrote: »
    Cons
    -Get soaked in wet weather
    -Cant carry hardly anything with them
    -Girls wont ride on them cos their hair:pac:
    -Dangerous
    -noisy and antisocial
    -in a crash you are minced
    -cant listen to the radio
    -have to wear set clothes
    -have to drag the helmet around with you

    Someone please give me some pro's:mad::(:(:(

    Re the cons:

    * Get the right gear and the rain wont bother you at all.
    * My bike has panniers and a top box. I can carry quite a bit of stuff.
    * Girls dig bikers (may not be necessarily true!) :pac:
    * As someone already said, vunerable. the correct protective gear and training could save your life.
    * My bike is quiet. Not sure how its antisocial tho.
    * I used to have an autocom fitted to my bike and to my helmet. Could listen to my Ipod, the radio and receive phone calls. Some bikes can have speakers installed, mostly tourers.
    * No different than people who have to wear certain clothes to work in the office or on a building site etc.
    * get a top box and you can leave your helmet in it.


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