Fast flying motorcycles in the news media

djalbin · Post by **djalbin** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 9:11 pm

Fast flying motorcycles, say critics, have caused hundreds of accidents in the north Georgia mountains.

Some more bad publicity for sportbikes

Part 1:
http://www.myfoxatlanta.com/myfox/pages ... geId=1.1.1

Part 2:
http://www.myfoxatlanta.com/myfox/pages ... geId=3.1.1

I came across a sportbike wreck today on my Mt. Lemmon ride. Guy was not hurt. Bike was leaning against the guardrail with the front end destroyed. The rider had a friend with him while they waited for another friend to arrive with a pickup truck to haul the bike home. Ambulance had already arrived, checked the guy out, and gone. Only damage was to the bike.

Don

Post by **FZRDude** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 10:22 pm

They have been doing those reports in the N Ga mountains for years. I know, I was in one back in 89. Damn I miss those roads.

djalbin · Post by **djalbin** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 11:01 pm

They do look like fun twisty roads

Article also posted on Killboy (a blog with photos of Deals Gap riders)

http://www.killboy.com/

Don

Post by **FZRDude** » Mon Nov 06, 2006 12:25 am

The loop is sweet, but there are plenty of other less traveled roads that are just as fun.

koma · Post by **koma** » Mon Nov 06, 2006 10:00 am

Well in and around Melbourne (Australia) the police have discovered they're more likely to be able to stop the 'dangerous' riders by doing license checks. They've realised that pursuing a rider is likely to end badly and as such focus their attention on other ways to catch them.

On the other hand the police have also been using undercover riders with camera equipment to record their own speed and footage of the other rider. Supposedly, 5 seconds of footage of the other rider with their own speed recorded on the video is enough for a conviction. I've only ever seen one of them and the rider was very very quick!

I can't help but feel like wanting to open a can of whoop-ass on the reporters. The number of times they repeated the same clip over and over just to exaggerate the issue was ridiculous. I actually laughed when the reference was made to sports bike riders are 'bullet bikes'.

YZFRob · Post by **YZFRob** » Mon Nov 06, 2006 2:22 pm

The one from Atlanta at least is somewhat fair when the reporter stated over and over that its a small percentage causing all the problems.

There was one from Chicago last night (a FOX station no less also) that, well was rather irritating.

http://www.myfoxchicago.com/myfox/pages ... geId=1.1.1

MsHap · Post by **MsHap** » Fri Nov 10, 2006 7:55 pm

I hate that crap!
You can spin any story to look the way you want it to.

I really like the lady who was like, "I knew I was going to die" lol
How is she giving the interview? and she was barely hurt.

Mad Hatter · Post by **Mad Hatter** » Sun Nov 19, 2006 10:20 am

What I want to ask is, when they are "cruising and filming these guys passing them, how "fast" are they creeping to make the bikes look like they are speeding? Although passing on a double yellow is stupid I will admit.

Around here, I have seen a lot of stunters doing 70mph+ on one wheel and sitting on the tank with their legs in the air, but my near death encounters on two wheels have involved 99.9% "soccer moms" and gueesers driving their F350 crew cabs thinking they own the road and I would say 75% of them were all on cell phones.

But, where's that news story? "Speeding cell-phones and the havoc they cause."