[Luckypants]

Actually after watching the Welsh news etc that have been promoting this program it was not as bad as I was expecting. The trailers for the program really went to town on the speeding issue linking it directly to deaths.

The program actually stated that less than 4% of bike fatalaties are due to breaking the speed limit. The bad riding footage was showing speeding and one instance of overtaking on solid white lines. The two tossers from Stoke were filtering hard but the undertake on the hard shoulder was dangerous - thier attitude whilst being interviewed was apalling and has done us no favours at all.

The guy they interviewed at the Ponderosa was from our Bikesafe course. They picked him as an inexperienced rider, one of two with a big sportsbike. He said they kept asking him why he needed such a big, fast bike. He was a bright articulate guy and did not give them what they wanted, hence why so little of his interview shown? It was interesting that they said that we all had bought sports bikes! There were two out of 16 bikes that were sports bikes. One guy was on a Dauville, there were three cruisers, three big trailies and misture of others - sports bikes my @rse!

I think they should have made more of the fact that advanced riding courses are fully booked which shows that most bikers take thier riding seriously.

Whilst I feel for the featured family whose son / husband was killed close to home, his death was not related to speed or dangerous riding. I felt they took his accident a little out of context by linking it to the speed message. Describing his SV650 as a 'high powered sports bike' was plain wrong and sensationalist, like they wanted a dead sportsbike rider. They stated that what caused him to clip a kerb was unknown. Like a lot of riders, he died as a result of hitting street furniture.