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Originally Posted by lynw
Soho is being disrupted by some antisocial individuals, the police are probably going to clamp down at the ace because of the bimbo on the R1. We as a group do not help ourselves or show that we can be trusted to ride sensibly and safely when the minority who are accident statistics waiting to happen is what the governments care about.
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I think part of the problem is the way that bikers (probably because we're a minority) are lumped together, and what one does reflects badly on the whole lot of us. You get idiots in cars doing just as dangerous things, but because most people drive, they don't see those sort of people as anything to do with them, or other car drivers. Unfortunately, whilst we are quick to distance ourselves from uninsured/unlicenced chavs on scooters, people on supermotos wheelieing past schools and people on hyperbikes doing 180 on the motorway, most non-bikers cannot, or rather will not, make that distinction. They don't see the person as "a bad apple", they just see them as another biker.
It's hardly suprisingly really. Careful, considerate riders are barely registered (even if the cager sees them, there's no reason to make a mental note of their presence and they're soon past). People who wheelie past on the inside at a ton, with a full race can with the baffles out, understandably stick in their memories for longer.