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- From: charlie@elektro.cmhnet.org (Charlie Smith)
- Subject: Re: Police blame BMW
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.052140.17686@elektro.cmhnet.org>
- Organization: Why do you suspect that?
- References: <1993Jan25.105744.26127@galadriel.bt.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 05:21:40 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.
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- On several trips to the UK in recent years, I've seen the police riding
- BMW K75 models - the 3 cylinder; not any K100's at all.
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- >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 incompetents looking for a scapegoat!
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