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Originally Posted by Nickwiz
From what I saw reported witness evidence lead to the arrest.
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Nick, this pretty much sums it up. If the guy was arrested after the event based on witness statements, then based on a few bland news reports, we are not in a position to dispute or defend the apparent errant biker. It will as always all come out in the wash, but to simply champion this biker because he is a biker and that were 'always to blame' is a little naive. he could well be the cause of several tragic deaths and as a biker, I would suggest that if proven to be the case he should be locked up and the key thrown away. He could as you say be completely innocent, but we cant tell based on what has been reported so I look at the report as a tragedy, not as bikers being targeted unnecessarily.
I understand that its natural to rebel against the ever increasing pressure being placed on the riding community, but lets face it some bikers are dangerous and speed (excessively and inappropriately) and for this very reason we all have a bad rep. It is I am afraid the minority that have caused the poor opinion that the wider public has against bikers. As I have posted elsewhere in this forum, I see some horrific riding whilst I am out and about and I am left breathless watching some of these riders overtaking in large groups on blind hills/bends and if something was coming the other way then it would have resulted in an accident all at the bikers fault. Some of our community are not as blameless as you would have us believe and this has unfortunately tarnished our reputation.
Lets not lose sight of the real issue here, some people, inc children have died through not fault of their own and if the biker is innocent then he will not suffer as a result.
If were gonna complain about anything lets move our focus away from this rather sensitive subject until the facts are more well known.
Cheers
Dave
