{"id":8440,"date":"2012-03-02T11:32:13","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T11:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=8440"},"modified":"2012-03-02T11:32:13","modified_gmt":"2012-03-02T11:32:13","slug":"think-biker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=8440","title":{"rendered":"THINK! Biker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An <font color=\"#800000\">email alert from the DSA<\/font> mentions a \u00a31.2m ad campaign by THINK! urging people to think and take care around motorcyclists.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 180px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 180\/149;margin: 5px 10px 5px 0px; display: inline; float: left\" title=\"Motorcyclists doing what you have a motorbike for in the first place\" alt=\"Motorcyclists doing what you have a motorbike for in the first place\" align=\"left\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/motorbike.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"149\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/>One very important piece of missing advice is that motorcyclists also ought to take care and think \u2013 they\u2019re often not entirely blameless for the scrapes they get into.<\/p>\n<p>Weaving in an out of cars at traffic lights, almost invariably going either too fast for the conditions or speed limit, accelerating \u201cjust because you can\u201d, and so on when you\u2019re already a very fragile moving target isn\u2019t the most intelligent way of behaving.<\/p>\n<p>I am 100% behind the idea of motorists \u2013 or anyone on the roads \u2013 taking care around motorcyclists. I mean, I wouldn\u2019t like to prang one, even if it wasn\u2019t my fault.<\/p>\n<p>However, I am not convinced that motorists should continue to be forced to shoulder quite so much of the responsibility. It is all too often the stupidity of the motorcyclist that\u2019s the real underlying problem.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps THINK! should \u201cthink\u201d about dealing with the problem at source, rather than keep trying to patch things up elsewhere?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An email alert from the DSA mentions a \u00a31.2m ad campaign by THINK! urging people to think and take care around motorcyclists. One very important piece of missing advice is that motorcyclists also ought to take care and think \u2013 they\u2019re often not entirely blameless for the scrapes they get into. 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