Now this is wheelie funny ...

[jmo21]

cheers guys

I wasn't expecting that the cops would follow him around or anything, no chance they'll do that

i was thinking more of a chap on the door and a stern warning - whether that would do any good or not is another matter

[The Lone Gunman]

I don't normally have a problem with speed and bikes. But this bloke is a tit of the first water.
Biking has a bad reputation as it is and this kind of behaviour doesn't help.

[NickFitz]

interesting this has been posted......

a guy in my work is constantly bragging about doing quite frankly ridiculous speeds on his motorbike

he is a total fanny and i am seriously considering an anonymous call to the law to report him - not sure what they could do right enough, maybe give him a warning?

any thoughts on this?

report him?
mind my own business?

Unless he has a regular time and place that you can specify, the Police can't do much - they can hardly follow him around all day in the hope that he accelerates.

If he drinks and then does this, they'll be willing to deploy people to catch him, but only on a "happening right now" basis that is subject to availability.

You could follow him and then arrange for a friendly lorry driver to overtake in the opposite direction at just the right time - but be sure to use a hands-free phone to communicate with said trucker. Let's be careful out there

[Diver]

Disconnect his brakes?

[jmo21]

interesting this has been posted......

a guy in my work is constantly bragging about doing quite frankly ridiculous speeds on his motorbike

he is a total fanny and i am seriously considering an anonymous call to the law to report him - not sure what they could do right enough, maybe give him a warning?

any thoughts on this?

report him?
mind my own business?

[NickFitz]

Sounds like a case of driving while under the influence of testosterone. A combination of youth, testosterone, a sense of indestructibility and a powerful machine many (almost half) of us succumb to in youth. My wheelies were small and I was careful around people. I think.

Years ago, a mate of mine spent the morning working on his bike at the side of his house, as a few of us sat around drinking coffee and chatting.

Having decided that his work was finished, he fired it up, said "Right, watch this!" and blasted off down the drive doing a wheely.

At this point the front wheel dropped off and went bouncing down the drive. He was so startled that he fell off the back of the bike, which continued down the drive on its rear wheel before crashing into his neighbour's car, parked on the road outside.

He had to explain all that to his insurance company

[AtW]

Driving licenses should be issued to under 21s only under strict condition that they visit local morgue to see young victims who died from dangerous driving.

[thunderlizard]

Skilton, of Ellis Road, pleaded guilty to six speeding offences after being identified by recognition experts.

Can I be a "recognition expert"? It sounds dead easy. "You want to know who did those wheelies on that massive pea-green bike? You see that man over there doing a wheelie on a massive pea-green bike? That's him."

[TimberWolf]

Sounds like a case of driving while under the influence of testosterone. A combination of youth, testosterone, a sense of indestructibility and a powerful machine many (almost half) of us succumb to in youth. My wheelies were small and I was careful around people. I think.

[NickFitz]

Steven Skilton, 22, of Bitterne, Southampton, was captured seven times exceeding 30mph in Maybray King Way and Northam Bridge in the city.

On three of those occasions he reached speeds of more than 80mph.

Respec' ...

Contempt

Shame he didn't kill himself and save the court some time.

[DaveB]

I must have been working too hard today - Skimming the article, I pictured him towing a wheelie bin at 82mph.

Only when looking at the picture and not seeing any obvious large bin behind him did the penny drop.

There are a couple of phrases used for people like this. Twunt is one, Organ Donor is another.

[OwlHoot]

Respec' ...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/h...re/7643925.stm

A motorcyclist caught on a speed camera pulling an 82mph wheelie in a 30mph zone has been banned from driving.

I must have been working too hard today - Skimming the article, I pictured him towing a wheelie bin at 82mph.

Only when looking at the picture and not seeing any obvious large bin behind him did the penny drop.

[moorfield]

Respec' ...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/h...re/7643925.stm