No license No Lid No Brains

[fizzwheel]

Originally Posted by Peter Henry

Have a look at this picture again. What do you notice.

1. The left hand side wing mirror is missing possibly broken.

2. She's got the clutch pulled in and IMHO appears to be coasting.

To me that looks like she's showboating. All morons like this do is give the rest of us a bad name.

Like others have said thats two peoples fault. The person that gave her the keys, and her. I wander how much the owner loved that R1 if they were riding it around with a broken / missing mirror. I hate it when I have little niggles on my bike and if that was my R1 I would have had it put right straight away.

Originally Posted by RizlaSV

You criticise the audience for just standing by, but it can be difficult to say anything in these situations - for a start most people there wouldn't know that she'd been drinking or that it wasn't her bike. So the only thing you could raise would be the lack of helmet, and possibly the choice of clothing.

So what are you gonna say "excuse me but wouldn't it be an idea to wear a helmet and proper gear?" as she rides past you at speed? Chances are she won't hear, and if she did you'd probably wouldn't get a sympathetic response.

Agreed. I've ridden my bike a short way across a car park to refuel it on a lunch stop, without my gear on, or even a lid. If one of the "holier than thou" brigade had given me a lecture on it, I'd rightly tell them where to go. People often don't speak out at these sort of situations for this reason; what's the best that will happen? The person will stop, park the bike, go and get their leathers and lid on, thank you for bringing them to their senses and then go on their way? It's far more likely you'll get a lot of abuse, as the person is either in a rush, or just a reckless fool.

It's the job of people's friends (if anybody) to give them a ticking off for this sort of behaviour, not total strangers.

Although, as total stangers, we can still have a guilt-free chuckle when they have an off when they're being stupid like this.

Fizz...I wonder how much he loved HER, before she added a few more niggles of her own!? :P