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- From: ant@galadriel.bt.co.uk (Antony Espindola)
- Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
- Subject: Police blame BMW
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.105744.26127@galadriel.bt.co.uk>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 10:57:44 GMT
- Organization: Data and Business Comms, BT Labs, Martlesham, Ipswich, UK.
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- I was readin in the national press over the weekend about how the
- Police are blaming BMW for the numerous accidents happening due to
- the 'wobble and weave' effect.
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- In the UK, BMW supply 90% of bikes and the 'wobble and weave' effect
- was first noticed at high speeds on the older R80s.
- The various Police forces have since replaced the R80s with the newer
- K100s, hopefully to solve the problem but alas it still continued.
- The paper quoted a figure of #25,000 (pounds sterling) paid out to
- officers injured in these high speed incidents.
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- The Police forces are now blaming BMW (I can't remember the exact
- reason) but BMW are defending themselves by repling that the effect
- is not caused by the bike itself. They claim it is a mixture of
- poor maintainence of police bikes, bad load spreading, increased wait
- of police equipment and also rider inexperiance.
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- So what is the opinion of the netters ?
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- BMW to fault or Police Riders ?
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- Antony.
- DoD#1832.
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