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As a recent recruit to MAG and after 30 years on bikes I'd just like to apologise for my previous misconception of MAG. Over the many years of riding I’ve enjoyed the biking scene, been in local bike clubs, made many rallies and numerous TT weeks as well as following BSB, WSB and GPs all over Europe.
I’ve lost my license and got it back, much to my parents disgust, been married, had kids and survived divorce. Bikes have been the only 100% constant in my life since I was eight years old when I’d go down to the local bike club and offer to look after the lads’ bikes for them while they had a shandy. In return I'd blag a backie round the car park which ultimately taught me how it all worked and what limb did what.
Both my sons live with me and my eldest who is now 19, passed his CBT and jumped onto his Derbi GPR 50 at 16 + 1 day much to his mother's disgust and to the detriment of my bank balance.
I have two sons and two step sons and we all ride. Between us we now own six bikes, a Ducati 748, a 600 Monster, a 550 Zephyr, two Yamaha XJ6s and the Derbi. My point is that after all these years of thinking that other people would do the donkey work on the political front for me I've realised that if I and my boys don't get involved, we don't actually deserve anything other than what’s coming to us. We’re all signed up as MAG members now and I'm just sorry it's taken so long to realise that we need to stand up, take to the road and protest, which we did on September 25th. If we don’t do this then the thing that has kept me going throughout my adult life and given me more friends and experiences than anything else I could imagine, may well end as we know it. It will become both too expensive and unattractive to young kids to get involved. If that happens then in another 30 years it will only be the old decrepit arthritic die-hards who'll still be pottering around.
If there is anything I can do to help the
Speed vigilantes With reference to your article about recruiting vigilantes to spy on their neighbours I must say that I am totally opposed to this. What happened to the concept of help your neighbour? Nowadays many authorities encourage people to grass on their neighbours for all kind of reasons. What's happening to this country? This scheme will only encourage the miserable folk with no hobbies of their own to stand by the roadside and try and spoil
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cause we’d be happy to contribute. I know the local meet is at the Beacon Court Tavern in Gillingham and I'm sure that we could raise a few additional faces as my sons go to the Wednesday night meet at the Oakdene Café which is rammed full with bikes and bikers of all ages.
MAG has changed from what I perceived to be ie a bit of an outsider group, to being the only biking voice with an agenda which is actually trying to address the current issues we all face, be they old or young, or not even on the road yet.
Please accept my late conversion to the fold and pass on my backing and thanks to those of you who have been fighting the fight for my way of life long before I bothered to get off my arse. Hi-Viz clothing, ABS, drive train restrictions, compulsory daytime running lights, pink socks on Tuesdays, blue on Monday – bloody hell haven't these people got
somebody else's day. Doesn't this DIY concept fly in the face of David Cameron's ‘big society’ ?
It's all very well suggesting we could report drivers who cut up bike riders but it also works the other way, eg the old fogeys who don't like the way we overtook them. It seems the former Assistant Chief Constable Alan Featherstone is puffed up with his own perceived importance. He should be reminded that he is now retired and should find a hobby of his own that
Picture shows Dave Brown on the white bike and eldest son on the red one
anything else to worry about? The world’s economy is falling apart at the seams and we're more likely to die from their screw ups than our own mistakes. Behaving safely is the right choice Dave Brown, Kent
PS: Isn't it funny how though I now live 500 miles from where I first became a biker that all the old mates I've been able to contact from those days are still on the road. The need just never goes away!
doesn't interfere with other people’s enjoyment. Peter Allt
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