Scars from motorcycling are NOT to be taken lightly. And ACTUALLY, the percentage of motorcycle accidents caused by idiotic car drivers is around the 75% mark. In a car this would result in a bit of nasty whiplash and a written off car. On a bike it would intale either a SERIOUS injury or death. Although i personally am only 17, i have lost 3 friends in motorcycle accidents. The first two (robyn and Mark, to give the deceased names) were both due to a car turning right in front of them without signalling. The driver not only was convicted of dangerous driving (and banned at the time) but was in an insurance write-off and had no insurance. The third (Paul) was rear-ended at 70mph by an executive in a mondeo doing 100mph who was on his phone. So please DO NOT trivialise the situation. It happens, we all know it, but we (and by that i mean motorcyclists) do not have the safety of cars (ie seatbelts, air-bags, abs etc) so are obviously going to have more serious accidents. If people (in general) payed more attention on the roads instead of yabbering on their hands free, listning to the radio, interacting with passengers etc there wouldn’t be so many deaths, would there?

4 wheels = BORING

well said John C!!

Well said John C!!! Finally someones taking a stand for the motorcycling community!! Most motorcycles can beat cars that cost more than 3-4 times as much. Hell my old C-reg (1986) cruiser is still quicker off the mark than most cars today…
YZF-R1 i just found on Autotrader.com for the same price as the clio- 0-60 in 2.5, 180mph top speed, 80 in 1st gear, can pull away in 5th from the lights. Or you could always buy a clio and put spoilers on it in the vain hope that it’ll ‘increase downforce.’ A SAIL would do a better job… Just think… which of these would YOU prefer to have?

Worst cars are the ones with stupidly huge spoilers, blacked out windows, massive alloys, stickers everywhere, massive exhausts driven by complete nobheads who insist on playing their DAMN bad music at insane volumes at 2AM. Seriously though- i was talking to a guy who said that he had a corsa which he spent £15,000 on- not engine improvements, mind you, it was still the bog-standard 1.1, but on paint jobs, dvd players etc. For £15,000 i would have bought A BETTER CAR!!! I would buy a Elise 111S for £14,990 like this!!! Wouldn’t anyone else?

ditto!!!