Hi dcb. I know we are perhaps just a few school years apart .. but are kindred "baby boomers" in the generation following on the 60s trend setters who set the scene for freedom of spirit
My parents. firm.. avant garde .. I think for their time. Crikey , my Dad (also medic) drove an E-type Jag
Raged at Barbara Castle ovet 70 mph limits in his day.,
He also rode a bicycle and a horse.
He was firm.. but approachable and kind , even when disciplining us on occasion . I still ask him for his advice just as we ask Wildy's parents for their takes on stuff.
OK we have a pop at Brake and Roadpeace extremities.. but we do not really undermine their real message of safety led and genuine advice which is worlds apart from doctrined "speed camera nonsense"
I think we are mature enough to accept and concede some points of view - which puts us above Brake and Roadpeace in that we look at things straight in the eye .. evaluate and give a serious debate over. By such debate . we forward a comrpehensive and sympathetis road safety manifest ,, or have a lobby strategy as result
which suits all more
back to topic . you get what you pay for. You have to know what you want the bike to do .. just as you decide on which car suits your family needs. OH sure .. I'd love a two seater TVR or similar.. but I have a huge family here.
I joke that I need a ruddy bus,. Reality . I NEED a ruddy bus
But we make do with the means available to us and we require value for money too, We try to teach our kids what our parents taught us, I suppose that makes me and Vrenchen seem really weird and not normal to some. We don't care. We know we have done what would be right as we steer our own and fosters to useful and respected and fairly comfy lives for them as best we can.
I try with IG and my wife and others to get folk out there to think about training . COAST . good practice.
We got undermined on PH by pretend cops. and you only need look at comments on the blind man's complaint over selfish parkers to realise this. Read the thread. Disgusting and I am now ashamed to think I gave that site any credit. I hate to say it. but SPINDRIFT was perhaps right in his evaluation and although we will never agree on speed cams . I would like to apologise to him for supporting PH as I once did.