Quads & Scrambers

BronsonTB

Crazy to think this wasn't in place before now.
Hopefully this will help with a zero tolerance policy & punish irresponsible owners.



https://www.msn.com/en-ie/news/newsireland/garda%c3%ad-to-be-given-powers-to-seize-scramblers-and-quad-bikes-on-the-spot/ar-BB1dIoHM?li=BBr5KbJ

blade1

BronsonTB wrote: »

Crazy to think this wasn't in place before now.
Hopefully this will help with a zero tolerance policy & punish irresponsible owners.



https://www.msn.com/en-ie/news/newsireland/garda%c3%ad-to-be-given-powers-to-seize-scramblers-and-quad-bikes-on-the-spot/ar-BB1dIoHM?li=BBr5KbJ

I wonder how far the gardaí will go to catch them.
Can't imagine too many of the people they'll be chasing giving up too easily.

Trigger Happy

I was just reading that story yesterday about the fella who was sunbathing with his wife in darndale park and he got hit by a scrambler in 2018. He is permanently braindamaged, in a wheelchair and lost an eye. He is in permanent care home.
His poor wife then got breast cancer and decided to return to russia for treatment last summer.
I wonder what happened to the scumbag who was on the scrambler.

Max Headroom

Trigger Happy wrote: »

I was just reading that story yesterday about the fella who was sunbathing with his wife in darndale park and he got hit by a scrambler in 2018. He is permanently braindamaged, in a wheelchair and lost an eye. He is in permanent care home.
His poor wife then got breast cancer and decided to return to russia for treatment last summer.
I wonder what happened to the scumbag who was on the scrambler.

I'd say his scummy Da just went onto DD and got him a new one ,that was probably robbed....circle of bike...:rolleyes:

Wanderer78

we have to become realistic in this game, we have to build facilities for these kind of activities, we re not going to stop them

MojoMaker

Don't be naive. The interest isn't in motorcycling or the bikes, the interest lies in doing something forbidden. Put them into a motox facility and tell them to go happily ride within the confines of the facility, the interest would drop off to nothing. No drama, no adrenalin rush from evading Guards, racing on public roads.

They'd just move onto some other activity that provided the same or similar rush.

Wanderer78

MojoMaker wrote: »

Don't be naive. The interest isn't in motorcycling or the bikes, the interest lies in doing something forbidden. Put them into a motox facility and tell them to go happily ride within the confines of the facility, the interest would drop off to nothing. No drama, no adrenalin rush from evading Guards, racing on public roads.

They'd just move onto some other activity that provided the same or similar rush.

i know plenty of riders, they drive me insane to, we illegally build mountain bike trails, and they continually wreck them, but our approach is all wrong with this one

H_Lime

Hopefully they go after the dog owners who leave them off the leash in forestry too. Farmers and myself incl have more of a problem with them than the odd fella on a quad or bike.

Max Headroom

MojoMaker wrote: »

Don't be naive. The interest isn't in motorcycling or the bikes, the interest lies in doing something forbidden. Put them into a motox facility and tell them to go happily ride within the confines of the facility, the interest would drop off to nothing. No drama, no adrenalin rush from evading Guards, racing on public roads.

They'd just move onto some other activity that provided the same or similar rush.

Exactly..robbing our bikes.......

listermint

H_Lime wrote: »

Hopefully they go after the dog owners who leave them off the leash in forestry too. Farmers and myself incl have more of a problem with them than the odd fella on a quad or bike.

Think you might be barking up the wrong tree there.

These are lads lashing across open roads and housing estates in finglas and darndale.

All the Mucky hills in Ireland won't stop them flying down footpaths looking for a chase. Some level of naivety lads. This isn't a facilities problem it's a little prick problem.

H_Lime

I'm barking up my own tree listermint. Not everyone lives in fu*kin darndale or finglas. I live out in the sticks. There are no scrotes riding stolen crossers in parks over foreign fellas heads here, there's lads who own and maintain bikes and quads and use em up the hills now n again. I have no problem with 90% of these, I've been and occasionally am one, but I do have a problem with self righteous a holes with loose dogs giving grief to "law breakers" when they're doin it themselves.
Just a bug bear of mine...

Stihl waters

Should give the guards the same power they have in London, give them the power to ram the little cnuts off the bikes if they try to evade

Henry Ford III

Wanderer78 wrote: »

we have to become realistic in this game, we have to build facilities for these kind of activities, we re not going to stop them

The answer to every anti social behavioural issue isn't to throw money at it. We pay for IBT/licensing, insurance, tax etc. to keep our motorbikes legal, so why should scobes be treated with kid gloves?

Let them buy or rent their own facilities.

Any of these bikes or quads being used illegally should be seized.