Army Motorcycle Safety Video

[Lissa]

Apologies if posted before.
Quite hard-hitting this one I think!

http://news.motorbiker.org/blogs.nsf...cle-safety.htm

[appollo1]

That makes a point. Without sounding sarcastic but very hard hitting.

wow thats good should show that on TV as a bike safty advert. Interesting to know i am teice as likley to die than you Civvies. wonder why that is?

I think I may have seen this... Erm might not be the same one though. Has it got Suzy Perry on?

NOTE at work... link not working.

The link isn't working now (I'm at home).

Works fine now, good advert too.

Originally Posted by neio79

wow thats good should show that on TV as a bike safty advert. Interesting to know i am teice as likley to die than you Civvies. wonder why that is?

I'm one of smaller group that rides at work, I was talking about this with one the guys I worked with who doesn't ride. More officers in the service are killed/hurt in bike crashes than alot of other things including work related stuff it was high on the list of what hurts us.

Same question why? Me I don't worry if it happens then so be it (but I would rather it didn't)

Ride save people and enjoy sun

[lukemillar]

Originally Posted by neio79

wow thats good should show that on TV as a bike safty advert. Interesting to know i am teice as likley to die than you Civvies. wonder why that is?

You're not! A better tagline would be 'ride like a tit and you're twice as likely to die..' Unless you being on a motorcycle is directly related to your job in the forces, but as shown in the ad - it's just a mode of transport. They are obviously playing on a statistic that says that in year X, the number of motorcycle fatalities of people in the forces was double that of civilians.

Don't get me wrong, I think it is a well conceived ad/idea, but I can't believe that signing up will suddenly double my chances of dying!

Originally Posted by neio79

wow thats good should show that on TV as a bike safty advert. Interesting to know i am teice as likley to die than you Civvies. wonder why that is?

I don't know why, but forces bods do seem to chuck their bikes down the road a fair bit now that it mentions it. Possibly a combination of things: rushing home for leave (or rushing back after leave); they tend to be a bit more fearless than your average person and bit of fear on a bike keeps you alive; a bit more confident in general, a plus up to a point, but perhaps leads to overconfidence in their riding abilities?

That said, my brother is ex forces and I'd say he's less likely than average to crash than your average joe, but that's probably down to his restraint/personality rather than his job.

Quite a few of the camps round Salisbury area are "quarantining" returning troops from over sea's tours in a bid to stop them rushing straight out and getting on there bikes.
I did a bikesafe course at the weekend and one of the highest risks were returning forces personnel, for what reason they're not sure but they have psychologist's working on it, 3 were killed in 1 week on the same stretch of road earlier this year, all having only been back in the country for 1 week.