As I said above, you’re not breaking any law.
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exactly !!

whereas the poster of this vid is quite possibly guilty of leaving the scene of an accident and speeding !!

but at the same time can you tell me what law i’m breaking by not doing ??

at the end of the day the discussion boils down to your considderation of another human being ( end of ) the fact he continued with the intention of filming or catching someone in front ( he’d soon notice he was on his own )
shows his contempt for other humans and road users ( they weren’t exactly respectful to the cyclist they passed either )
and as for saying it was a small accident that is proposterous ( there are many injuries that someone will get up with after an adrenaline release )

An adrenaline rush is the fight or flight response of the adrenal gland, in which it releases adrenaline (epinephrine). When releasing adrenaline, one’s body releases dopamine which can act as a natural pain killer. An adrenaline rush causes the muscles to perform respiration at an increased rate improving strength. It also works with the nervous system to interpret impulses that trigger selective glands.

the pure and simple fact is you do not know how severe a person may be injured just because they get up and move around

like it or not he was first on scene and should have stopped for many reasons

as i am a qualified first aider if i did not stop to assist i would to some degree be liable !! but it would be tricky in this particular incident as the wording of the law is if he was directly involved to some degree it could probably be proved he was with his own video evidence as it would seem the rider involved was waiting for him and he was riding with him

it would be damned difficult if not impossible to get out of and he put the noose round his own kneck

Re licencing…I got my first 650 (beezer Tbolt) before I passed me bike test,but I had one of the old ‘booklet’ type licences and already having a full car licence and therefore the groups text was black…I would have defied anybody to pick out the missing bike groups from the absolute pageful of text LOL:D

My 650 was a 1970 BSA Thunderbolt which also was 100% oiltight and reliable except when one of my girlfriends was on the back…she was a right jonah LOL but she was ‘outstanding’ in certain departments and had other talents as well 😉
It (the BSA) was my favourite bike :)…always regretted selling it 🙁

it would be intresting to observe how many old bikers would need to be re tested

the instructor i went with informed me that the previous week he had had to re test a motorcycle cop that had been doing the job for years as he was not officialy licenced as the DVLC had deleted motorcycle entitlement over the years !!

If you’re as good as you indicate, then applying for the said test and passing would be a sensible (and easy) course of action I would suggest. At your age, (I guess over thirty) and experience, I would think a direct access course would be no problem.

but why ?? a 125 will do 70 ( any faster is illegal ) , i have no intention of riding on motorways , all a larger machine would be doing would be serving as an expensive macho toy with larger price tags than a car , if i wanted to pay the same as a small car the small car would win every time

no doubt they are nice bikes but it just doesn’t compute paying the same or more as having a small car with the advantage of getting drowned as well

you are perfectly correct saying passing your test is a benchmark as am i in saying that it only proves you achieved that benchmark for 1 hour of one day !!

No because the authorities–that’s the law, that you’re so keen on quoting to other riders on here uses the fact of passing a test as a mark of competence.

As I said before, people like you take endless advantage of what is for all intents and purposes a loophole in that law, to continue riding. Without showing the commitment to passing a test.
You also talk about people who you feel bring motorcycling into disrepute.
I actually feel that endless renewal of provisional licences has the same effect.

And the Bonneville is a strange choice for off road work.
What mods did he do to that..?

a test does not mean one rider is better than another !! all a test says is you rode to a ministry standard for one day !! it is not in any way a reflection of day to day habbits same as the car test ( that i passed first time ) it just says you drove to a passable standard for the hour during the test

Well at least someone in the family passed his test.

why do you presume that ??? because everyone who has passed a test is the ultimate rider ??

he actualy used it as an off road machine before going into the army and riding trials competitions for the royal artillereys trials team

The British would never have built anything like my V4 Hondas, so there was obviously a R&D problem, but that doesn’t make everything British bad, or for that matter everything japanese good–there have been some right dogs.

again the fact the british industry went under when no others did would dispute it

in the 70’s a friend had a garage with a scott flying squirrel with carbide headlamp , a brough superior and 4 other equal types

when his father died he asked for the number for the local scrap man !!

may be looked on as a travesty now but it said a lot about how they were valued back in the day !!

As usual you talk about something you have no knowledge on.
Your experience of Triumph ownership must by definition be limited.
I see Japanese stuff too in some dreadful states of decay–it’s all about storage in most cases.
Riden hard and put away wet, it doesn’t matter who makes them.

So, you’ve never owned a British bike, can’t ride anything of any size and your experience of motorcycling is riding a 125cc Honda and some 250’s long ago before our glorious law-makers took even that limited pleasure away from you.
Yet you continue to give us here the breadth of your experiences.
If you detect a note of irritation in what I write when I refer to you, you are correct. I have serious issues with people who don’t pass their test. Especially when like you, they profess expertise–and are quite verbal in their condemnation of other riders. Ones who I happen to know of and who know what they are doing.

I came upon a Jubilee Bonnie for sale not so long ago. You could buy a lot of 125’s for what they were asking. Not hugely my choice, I never thought parallel twins were hugely exciting. The British bike industry did die, and they did make a lot of ‘grey porridge’ like bikes. The people who ran it under invested and the rest paid the price.
The British would never have built anything like my V4 Hondas, so there was obviously a R&D problem, but that doesn’t make everything British bad, or for that matter everything japanese good–there have been some right dogs.

brother owned a bonnevile and happily got rid for a good jap bike !!