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[Auto Addict]

Didn't that Labour Peer only get six months, when he was texting, and ploughed into the back of someone whom he killed?

Bloke on the bike did a stupid thing, pity he wasn't a Labour Peer though.

[Martin_1962]

Still think it is over the top and custodial is wrong.

Nothing did happen.

Harsher punishment than many criminals get and harsher than the majority of drink drivers.

Road user = easy target

Hence I thought a shorter ban was more apt.

Presumably then drinking and driving is acceptable as long as 'nothing happens'

I am in favour of more graded punishments but DD AFAIK is a nono

[Turk]

122mph in the wet, with a child on the back. How many of you would be supporting him not being locked up if he had come off and killed the child ?

We all no big sports bikes have virtually slick tyres anyway.

And at the end of the day crime is crime, if you can't do the time don't do the crime.

He took the chance of killing himself and a child.  :-/

 :-? That's news to me !  

[stuart30]

122mph in the wet, with a child on the back. How many of you would be supporting him not being locked up if he had come off and killed the child ?

We all no big sports bikes have virtually slick tyres anyway.

And at the end of the day crime is crime, if you can't do the time don't do the crime.

He took the chance of killing himself and a child.  :-/

 :-? That's news to me !  

I believe he assumes as sports bikes tend too have a different tread pattern too other bikes he assumes there slicks.

[Turk]

122mph in the wet, with a child on the back. How many of you would be supporting him not being locked up if he had come off and killed the child ?

We all no big sports bikes have virtually slick tyres anyway.

And at the end of the day crime is crime, if you can't do the time don't do the crime.

He took the chance of killing himself and a child.  :-/

 :-? That's news to me !  

I believe he assumes as sports bikes tend too have a different tread pattern too other bikes he assumes there slicks.

Ah right.  

That's the problem, folk don't realise that the technology behind bike tyres is streets ahead of car tyres.
The rear tyre for the average sports bike costs well over £100 and will last around 3k miles.  
The average litre sports bike will accelerate from 0mph to 100mph and back to 0mph in less time than the average car can reach 60mph.      

Not saying he wasn't irresponsible seeing as a passenger (not just a minor, any passenger) was on board, but what about the Young 'n' Dumb hot hatch brigade, hammering around our streets...with their mates on board. Several lives involved.
Custodial sentences there ?  I doubt it somehow.

[albitz]

According to the news reports he was doing over 120mph,in the wet with his 14 year old son on the back.To me thats rather stupid.I rarely carry passengers and tend to ride like a granny when I do.
I personally dont have an issue with the speed,but in the wet with his kid on the back suggests he needed to be taught a lesson,a couple of summers of not being on his bike might have done the trick,but I dont think a prison term was called for,no-one was hurt.

[albitz]

122mph in the wet, with a child on the back. How many of you would be supporting him not being locked up if he had come off and killed the child ?

We all no big sports bikes have virtually slick tyres anyway.

And at the end of the day crime is crime, if you can't do the time don't do the crime.

He took the chance of killing himself and a child.  :-/

 :-? That's news to me !  

Me too,they have a completely different type of tread pattern to a car tyre(different tools for very different jobs)but a good set of tyres on a bike will give surprisingly high levels of wet weather grip.
I put a new set of Bridgestones on mine today,££££££

[Vamps]

A Guy on Roadwars just got 4 months suspended sentance for dealing drugs and several motoring offences, including failing to stop and no insurance.  Lets get this into some perspective.
Must ask my brother how fast he hs been with my stepson, when he was 14, and my brother is a ROSPA instructor. Don't get me wrong, I am not excusing the speed he was doing in the wet, but do not think that a custodial sentance was needed in this case.

[Mack]

I agree that a custodial sentence is over the top and a long ban is more appropriate.....

Are they not just making him an example in the media to prevent others doing this sort of thing? It's received pretty high publicity levels for a traffic offence which seems out of proportion to the crime he committed.

[Cybertrucker]

BTW I know of a pub in that area which is haemoraging customers as the land lord is an extreme anti speed nutter, he has a pretend speed camera and points it at passing customers.

Serves him right if all his customers desert him and he goes out of business. I wouldn't spend a single penny in any shop where the proprietor pointed speed guns at people. The only reason I pay towards my local police force, which points a lot of speed guns/cameras at me, is because the b*st*rds put you in prison if you don't pay into their protection racket.

There was a Gatso nearby until JCB modified Also has been burnt as well

Personally I think that's the best thing to do with a Gatso, and the sooner they're all taken down the better.

[Elite Pete]

Just shows how useless the judicial system is in this country. 14 months for breaking the speed limit with a child on the back of a bike or 18 months for wiping a family of 6 out with you truck

[LaserLance]

Then you get the usaul suspect papers scaremongering with headlines " This bike has a top speed of 220 mph " complete and utter load of bovine effluent ,186 mph yes because thats what the speed limiter on it is set to . Plus to get 200 mph you need at leat 200 bhp and a large set of ...... to go that fast