MP to join motorbike 'go-slow' protest (From Bucks Free Press)
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MP Steve Baker to join motorbike 'go-slow' protest
2:12pm Thursday 22nd September 2011 in News By Lawrence Dunhill
Wycombe MAG
MOTORCYCLISTS who meet in Flackwell Heath each week will be taking to the M40 on Sunday to protest against a raft of new rules affecting motorbikes.
Wycombe Motorcycle Action Group, which meets at The Stag pub, will add its voice to a national demonstration on Britain's roads.
Travelling in convoy at about 45mph, and using the inside lanes, the peaceful protest will aim to draw attention to a raft of proposed EU regulations.
The group says one of the proposals threatens to remove an owner’s right to modify their machine.
Wycombe MP Steve Baker is a member nd will be taking part in the demo.
He said: “I am delighted MAG is running this nationwide, peaceful and lawful protest against the EU’s unnecessary and oppressive over-regulation.
“Of course this protest is focused on motorcycles but it matters to everyone who loves liberty and who thinks state power should be restrained by democracy.
“Those behind the EU do not mean to harm us, they mean to help, but they must be stopped from turning all Europe into a graveyard for the human spirit.”
Wycombe MAG regularly supports the Thames Valley and Chiltern Air Ambulance Trust, so will be starting and finishing their ride from its 'Heli Bikes' event in Berinsfield, Oxfordshire.
Anyone who rides a motorcycle is welcome to attend. Meet the group at the H-Café before midday, or at M40 J8a services from 12.30pm.
More information on 01926 844064 or email: paddy.tyson@mag-uk.org
Comments(24)
Cressex Offender
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2:42pm Thu 22 Sep 11
Why the hell should my journey be made a misery?
How can I change the law?
Idiots.
wayneo
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2:48pm Thu 22 Sep 11
Trip
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2:51pm Thu 22 Sep 11
nd?
I don't think this will jam the roads, traffic is quite light on a Sunday, depends how many join in I guess. Don't want lorries in the middle lanes for miles and miles.
wayneo
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2:55pm Thu 22 Sep 11
Cressex Offender wrote:Go to the likes of the brookwood war cemetary, look at the thousands of graves then tell the relatives of those that are buried there that their sons deaths were in vain because you were inconvenienced FOR A COUPLE OF HOURS. People fought and died so that the people of this country could exercise their democratic freedoms one of those is the right to protest, ironically in this case, at interference from a foreign power.
Because the best way to make a point against the government is to jam the roads up for other motorists. Why the hell should my journey be made a misery? How can I change the law? Idiots.
Slacker
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3:03pm Thu 22 Sep 11
The only issue may be one of a driver wanting to exit and them having to wait behind a load of motorcyclists.
Cressex Offender
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3:14pm Thu 22 Sep 11
Mr Totterdge Hill
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5:01pm Thu 22 Sep 11
Cressex Offender wrote:As do those that get upset about a few hours inconvenience...
I apologise for my somewhat over the top last comment. I just don't like your insinuation that I have no respect for our war dead because I take issue with the form of protest. You have to admit that it's a bit of a stretch.
Sunday, inside lane...plenty of more room for everyone.
Let's hope it gets on the telly!
wayneo
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5:41pm Thu 22 Sep 11
Cressex Offender wrote:Don't worry about it, we all get heated from time-to-time, one takes the rough with the smooth.
I apologise for my somewhat over the top last comment. I just don't like your insinuation that I have no respect for our war dead because I take issue with the form of protest. You have to admit that it's a bit of a stretch.
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The insinuation was not about lack of respect for war dead but more the appreciation of why it is important that we respect the right to protest; In hindsight I might have framed it better however when I see a protest, even were it a cause that I do not agree with, rather than docus on the inconvenience, I reflect on how lucky we are to have the right to protest and the cost associated with that right.
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Of course if the protest is well run and that they want to get the wider public onside, then they should try to mitigate any disruption for others as MAG have done in the past.
Stand up for England
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11:40pm Thu 22 Sep 11
bintheredonethat
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7:15am Fri 23 Sep 11
ThePolice
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10:21am Fri 23 Sep 11
Cressex Offender wrote:Hardly anyone ever uses lane 1 anyway. If this causes any kind of obstruction or delay to anybody I'll eat my hat
Because the best way to make a point against the government is to jam the roads up for other motorists.
Why the hell should my journey be made a misery?
How can I change the law?
Idiots.
wayneo
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10:39am Fri 23 Sep 11
bintheredonethat wrote:Another turkey voting for Christmas:
Any law that stops the d*ckheads changing their exhausts is fine me. Wish they would apply the same to cars. Why is it that people feel the need to be so anti-social. Must have shortcomings elsewhere....
Firstly, there are laws already in place that determine the legal restrictions associated with exhaust noise, output etc so i'm not sure why you think that more regulation that prevents'tampering' are going to solve your perceived problem.
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The irony of the legislation being proposed, is that it would not restrict somebody who was determined to break the law anyway by attaching a race category exhaust (ie noisier), which under existing legislation would likely be unlawful, this new legislation would however prevent somebody from changing an exhaust at the top-end of the noisy scale to a less noisy option.
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Incidentally, the proposals are as follows:
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Incidentally, do you consider others when you mow your grass?
Cressex Offender
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10:55am Fri 23 Sep 11
bintheredonethat
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11:05am Fri 23 Sep 11
wayneo
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5:23pm Fri 23 Sep 11
bintheredonethat wrote:LOL, the irony of somebody replying to a newspaper's online thread only then to chastise another contributor for spending time on a newspaper's thread. That you know nothing about me or indeed of my life and that your opinion concerning it has absolutely nothing of relevance to the topic. What I do know, is that it takes me mere seconds to frame a reply to an ill-informed and poorly constructed post such as the one you presented above; in contrast, the productivity from being able to think fast and provide where possible well researched replies, means it likely that your contribution provides a yield of diddly squat to the debate compared to mine, as such, you might well reconsider your opening line of "you obviously have very little going on in your life to spend so much time on this website".
Wayneo, you obviously have very little going on in your life to spend so much time on this website, but that is your choice. Idiots on two and four wheels with exhausts that are designed to make as much noise as possible do not give me a choice. I have to listen to them as I have not yet gone completely deaf. When my lawnmower gets to even a fraction of their noise, I will start to get worried and get it serviced. The current laws are unenforceable - or certainly unenforced. Making it an offence to fit non-standard exhausts will be much easier to police. They should then have their motorbikes confiscated and crushed.
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If you have your mower serviced then I assume it is petrol, it's always other people that are the nuisance isn't it LOL:
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If the current laws are unenforced, how will making it offence to fit non-standard exhausts make it easier?
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An average lawnmower 95 - 105 dB - ;
Rock concert or a jet engine - 120 dB
Cadwell park race track (with race exhaust), combined noise limit 105db
Maximum net noise Oulton park race track 102dB
Mouthy whining chav 150dB
wayneo
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5:31pm Fri 23 Sep 11
Stand up for England wrote:Spoton
think the real issue here is not the means of protest or the democratic right to do so; it's the EU dictating what we can and can't do, meddling in our affairs, interfering in God knows what and generally making peoples lives a misery through rules, regulations and increased financial waste. A referendum on staying in Europe is what's needed and Mr Steve Baker MP, over to you. That will get you the publicity you want, not a Sunday morning motor bike protest. If we weren't in Europe there would be no need to for the protest in the first place. Anyone with me on this one?
demoness the second
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7:32am Sun 25 Sep 11
bintheredonethat wrote:If there is one thing I cannot stand, it is self righteous people coming on to an internet forum and telling people that clearly they have no lives or little to do as they are contributing to an on line discussion.
Wayneo, you obviously have very little going on in your life to spend so much time on this website, but that is your choice. Idiots on two and four wheels with exhausts that are designed to make as much noise as possible do not give me a choice. I have to listen to them as I have not yet gone completely deaf. When my lawnmower gets to even a fraction of their noise, I will start to get worried and get it serviced. The current laws are unenforceable - or certainly unenforced. Making it an offence to fit non-standard exhausts will be much easier to police. They should then have their motorbikes confiscated and crushed.
How I spend my spare time is my business. At the moment it is 0730 on a sunday morning. I am enjoying a cup of coffee in my conservatory and reading through various sites. Other people may like to lie in bed, others may like to watch TV. Neither is wrong.
So get off your high horse and throw your computer out of the window if you consider it such a time waster. :)
NicM
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8:38am Sun 25 Sep 11
However, I have a real issue with idiots that think that, the noiser the motorbike, the better it is. I live about 1/4 mile from the A40 on the side of a hill in Loudwater. From where I live the only vehicles that I ever hear on the main road, however quiet it is, are emergency vehicle sirens and motorbikes. There seems to be no reason to create that amount of noise, apart from the misapprehension that other people will be somehow impressed.
Trip
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10:10am Mon 26 Sep 11
Also the Police should go around with crowbars, stop anyone caught using their foglights when it isn't foggy, and smash them into little pieces.
Peter Smithson
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10:21am Mon 26 Sep 11
The demonstration which was for 2 whole junctions on the M40 on a Sunday afternoon will have had very little disruption but had already woken up MEP's etc to the issues. Hopefully the changes won't get through and we'll slightly less oppressed than we would have been otherwise.
People protested and politicians listened - isn't that a good thing?
Trip
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12:19pm Mon 26 Sep 11
Mr Totterdge Hill
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2:17pm Mon 26 Sep 11
wayneo wrote:Ditto...
Stand up for England wrote:Spoton
think the real issue here is not the means of protest or the democratic right to do so; it's the EU dictating what we can and can't do, meddling in our affairs, interfering in God knows what and generally making peoples lives a misery through rules, regulations and increased financial waste. A referendum on staying in Europe is what's needed and Mr Steve Baker MP, over to you. That will get you the publicity you want, not a Sunday morning motor bike protest. If we weren't in Europe there would be no need to for the protest in the first place. Anyone with me on this one?
Trip
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3:27pm Mon 26 Sep 11
Mr Totterdge Hill wrote:Indeed.
wayneo wrote:Ditto...
Stand up for England wrote:Spoton
think the real issue here is not the means of protest or the democratic right to do so; it's the EU dictating what we can and can't do, meddling in our affairs, interfering in God knows what and generally making peoples lives a misery through rules, regulations and increased financial waste. A referendum on staying in Europe is what's needed and Mr Steve Baker MP, over to you. That will get you the publicity you want, not a Sunday morning motor bike protest. If we weren't in Europe there would be no need to for the protest in the first place. Anyone with me on this one?
daemonite says...
2:29pm Thu 22 Sep 11