Motor cyclists in summer
- 23 July 2014 21:58269719The problem gets worse year on year, mostly the young ones who adhere to the law by wearing a helmet but ride around in a t shirt and shorts.
Seasoned bikers are well aware of the advantage of wearing leathers however hot the weather is. - Terry Nunn
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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23 July 2014 22:13269721...............and doing 50+ along London Road with dB's to match!
TerryQuis custodiet ipsos custodes? - 24 July 2014 08:08269735Yes its always good to have the right gear. The problem is in all this hot weather as soon as you get off the bike its nigh on impossible to trundle around in all the gear. Even if you are nipping into the supermarket you boil over before you get through the till, so some sort of compromise is probably the best option...but not shorts and t-shirt.
I believe there is a new safety campaign launching shortly...I think ColetteB mentioned this anyway the other day. Always good to hear that.
I will let our oul comrade in arms Phil West do a bit of modelling for us here. Can you adam and eve it...these pictures were taken in 2006..strewth! where did the years go.
Phil has a fluorescent jacket over his leathers here. I think he probably wore that for me as I was following him thru the leafy lanes of Kent. This was so I wouldnt lose him and get lost. Very bewildering those leafy lanes ...way too much for a lowly foreigner
That's my bike in the foreground..or was then.
Serious kit below from another occasion...
email: dover7@msn.com - 24 July 2014 10:49269748Lovely bikes - Phils looks O.K. too !!
Roger - 24 July 2014 22:51269788Responsible bikers like Phil and PaulB are the true knights of the road. Unfortunately there too few of them, and too many of a minority (?) who:
1. Use the A256 on a Saturday as a racetrack at up to 150mph to impress their mates.
2. Do wheelies off the Shepherdswell traffic lights to impress their mates.
3. Take the baffles out of their exhausts to create more noise and impress their mates.
4. Do 70mph down Chapel Hill in Eythorne on a Sunday afternoon to impress their mates.
5. Ride round the green lanes in this area which are supposed to be foot- and bridle-paths, to impress their mates.
Anyone who thinks that all bikers are responsible adults should drive an HGV through the Blackwall Tunnel during the evening rush hour.
This is not just Victor-Meldrew-style moaning. All 3 of my sons are responsible bikers in their spare time and agree with me 100%.I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson - 25 July 2014 16:31269813Late yesterday beyond 8pm these guys turned up for a pint. Obviously they were just in off a ferry. After their pint they moved inland, but they appeared to have come all the way from Poznan, which for the uninitiated is in Poland ( I had to look it up too ). Although some have Austria on their backs as well. However they had clearly come a long way and needed a pint. Whether they are/were responsible bikers or not I don't know...I wasn't prepared to saunter up and ask. I didn't see the local UKIP rep down there asking em to bugger off back to Poland either...lol!
There was about 20 bikes in all...from the Black Rider Chapter..
They put on something of a spectacle as they prepared to depart (there is just a few of them in the shot above) taking up much of the road and attracting much interest from the wide-eyed locals, then with a thunderous roar up the seafront they went. Some sounds are just superb...
email: dover7@msn.com - 25 July 2014 17:40269822A group of about 20 went down the Folkestone Road a few days, the were members of a German biker club and I have to say they were very responsible.
I think the ones that Peter refers to are just individuals not attached to a group.
