This is my local stop and the residents have been campaigning for a 50 limit for nearly 10 years so I think the extra bikers in the last few years have given them more ammunition. The journalism is just sensationalist and laughable! It's got nothing to do with the type of bikes going anyway ITV have just gone mad with a stereotype and stock biker imagine and have already received a lot of complaints about it. I will still be going often and they can enjoy the sound of my Duke for longer at 50 There have been fatalities on the road but they don't record the details, I can remember one with a car and a cyclist.
The image used appears to be actual German Hells Angels, and as previously stated they are on the right-hand side of the road, so probably in Germany - not "hells angel type bikers" and definitely not in Wales. Still, never let the truth get in the way of a good story (journalists' motto). I wouldn't be surprised if HAMC sue the ITV...
And... The traffic police in Wales have had an anti-bike agenda for years. Hence the "reclaim the roads" action set up by MCN and others a little while ago...
:Hilarious: 1340 chop with 18" apes,top end approx 120mph.. seems you have the same research method as that newspaper..
They're probably Welsh dressers.... I could easily imagine this this French gang of chicken head-biters riding full dressers. Spotted at Moto Legende, Dijon a few years back. Gentlemen, I present the terrifying Eagles Rider Suburanites!! Relaxing after doing a few perms and closing the books on some year end accounts, no doubt.
The thing is, like American muscle cars for example - they look good, in the right place....few years back we were in the states, on the freeway in our "A-Team style white rental van" and I was watching this hulk Hogan looking dude on a Harley - mid afternoon, sun out, he was sitting in the slow lane plodding along and I thought....I could just do that now....but, and its a big one....place the same bike in south wales, pissing rain (as it usually is over there) cold, in the valleys, or wherever it is....the whole image then falls flat on its face. And before anyone says, no I will never own a Harley or ride one...if I had a gun to my head, a v-rod - that's the only bearable one that I can see...
wont matter what you ride in wales,its going to be all 50mph max everywhere there soon backed up by millions of stupid cameras and a handful of helicopters. theyll all be riding xmax 400cc scooters in the coming years,well the ones that still have licences..
You have to know where to ride quick in north wales. Big number speeds for miles and miles in the good places
I cant really see which would be worse,, I don't think it would matter really, a cold wet day in wales is not the place for a road bike .. Harley V Ducati,, really is chalk and cheese,, ( well until ducati started to copy HD with that Diavel thingy )
I'd buy a Harley, but it'd be a cold day in hell when I pay the kind of prices people seem to believe they're worth. A tractor engine in a pig iron frame with moped brakes sounds like no more than £500-worth to me. The chinese make much better bikes for much less money.
According to Dante's Inferno, the ninth and lowest circle of hell (for traitors) is always freezing cold and Satan is at the bottom, frozen in up to his waist. So can I take it you'll be ordering an H-D at full price shortly?
Though I take the mick out of them I quite like Harleys in a very special occasion sort of way. The current breed are vastly better than the bikes of 20 years ago and having 100 lb/ft of torque at 3000 odd revs is not unpleasing. But I couldn't have one as an only bike and if I started wearing a bandana and growing 70's porn star facial hair I'd seek psychiatric help. Trouble with HDs is they're designed only with California in mind and anything with a thread on it goes brown while you watch in contact with the outside air. And I don't like the way they charge you 15 grand for a bike you've got to finish yourself out of the custom parts catalogue for half as much money again before it'll go properly.
i like and would ride pretty much anything with two wheels and an engine and 99% of the time have great fun whilst doing it! some bikes are a whole lot prettier than others and some a lot more practical. a harley to me isn't either of those but i like em and find em surprisingly good fun to ride. im amazed at how well balanced and nimble they are despite their bulk and they pull like a school boy. I always hire one if pos when on hols abroad as i like the sound, they are actually comfortable and chugging around at a leisurely pace on something with a ton of torque aint a bad way to sight see. have also got laid a couple of times as a result of riding them!!! Wouldn't have one as my only bike and cant stand the whole bandanna,chaps and tassel thing but i dont like the spanking race rep leathers,unscathed knee slider £1500.00 helmet cafe cowboy set either...
Pete, that Dante's a right old storyteller, you can't believe a word he says... I test rode a V-Rod Muscle for Superbike magazine a few years ago, the engine's a stonker but the rest is shite.
had a go on one,enjoyed it for the afternoon but happy to give it back not for me, we used to get a lot of dutch owners staying with us at the roy, we had 18 bikes in the bar once, mad feckers.
MAG complained to ITV about the inaccuracy and ITV removed the story. The picture was taken in Germany on the way to a funeral. That's like going to Wales so that bit was right
