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- Path: sparky!uunet!well!moon!island!fester
- From: fester@island.COM (Mike Fester)
- Subject: Re: Police blame BMW
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.222707.7567@island.COM>
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- References: <1993Jan25.105744.26127@galadriel.bt.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 22:27:07 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan25.105744.26127@galadriel.bt.co.uk> ant@galadriel.bt.co.uk (Antony Espindola) writes:
- >
- >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.
- >
- >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.
- >
- >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.
- >
- >So what is the opinion of the netters ?
- >
- >BMW to fault or Police Riders ?
-
- Sounds like a problem with the police and/or maintanence. I have never had a
- problem at high speeds on either style, er, uh, that is, I never HEARD of
- anyone having such a problem. I certainly never would travel that fast. It's
- against the law. I would NEVER travel at 130mph +, the limit on the K75 (or
- so I'm told), but if I did, I sure wouldn't have encountered any handling
- problems. Nor would I have encountered them on my friend's R80 at ~110mph, if
- I had ever ridden that fast. Which I haven't. And neither has my friend.
-
- Just a theoretical data point.
-
- Mike
- --
- Disclaimer - These opinions are not so much opinions, as pearls of wisdom. Any-
- one disagreeing is obviously either a) a snivelling, whining, mentally-
- deficient, weak-willed, inconsequential, namby-pamby tool of some vague but
- conveniently defined conspiracy, or b) my wife.
-