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Sponsorship is even harder to get now.....
With sponsorship's so hard to find and I need another way to survive.
Even harder to find when you're not riding.... Ant West 30 day ban for doping
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Re:Unenforceable?
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Will my insurance cover this toxo bug?So, the good news is that the U.S. has like a 13% infection rate. The bad news is that apparently,
Evidence even suggests that motorcyclists are more likely to have Toxo. Something like a James Dean effect. Generally, males with Toxo are more aggressive and less inhibited. "
http://www.motorcyclenews.com/MCN/News/newsresults/General-news/2010/June/jun0810-The-pill-that-could-cure-you-of-motorcycling/
So, did I ever mention I'm a biker? hahaha -
Re:Did you even read the summary?
Bullshit!
My car was hit by an uninsured driver while stationary. The car was local to my neighborhood (it was entering a dead end close). The police never prosecuted the driver, my insurance company decided that a civil claim would cost to much and would be unlikely to yield any results due to lack of assets so the whole thing was dropped.
I got stuck with higher insurance premiums, reduced no claims bonus and generally fucked. The system does not work because nobody cares to enforce it.
For less anecdotal problems with the system, look at the fact that in January 2008, the government complained that 40% of all motorcycles were untaxed (based on DVLA data). That too was bullshit and the figure is closer to something like 7%. The system does not work.
The so called 'safety' cameras can _only_ enforce speed limits, and we've seen two major accidents within 100m of a camera caused by a reckless driver jumping from lane to lane. But apparently this is perfectly safe because he was doing it within the sight of the 'safety' camera and it didn't do anything. When he sideswiped the other vehicle on his 3rd lane change, the safety camera _still_ didn't do anything.
Road enforcement of tax, speed, safety issues and insurance in the UK does not work. At all. And that's without getting into the sheer number of foreign registered vehicles on the road that are exempt from all of the above because there is no enforcement agreement in place with the countries the vehicles are from.
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Re:they will become mandatory sometime too
One of the UK's Government departments is considering making it compulsory for Motorcycles to have an embedded device in the number plates that can be read from road side devices. MCN