Thumper Club Forum
Club House => Chatter => Topic started by: guest27 on August 05, 2010, 09:44:43 PM
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Heart wrenching and made me think about how easy the candle gets snuffed.Makes me want to walk to work...i often think of my family on my rides as so many idiots make me think , that was a close one.I guess we all do at times. That's the price we pay for being venerable bikers as the scars chatter shows.Still..live to ride and all that eh? To be honest that's why i got the xbr..after a good old crunch with a car 50/50. I realised speed is an enemy and a good old thumper is more fun for me and the family.The xbr makes me relaxe and take it easy ,no thoughts of I've got the power lets do it! Getting older maybe, but wiser. ;)
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Excellent ad, an intelligent way to get to the point across. Not sure how well it works on non-parents, but I'm certain all parents will get the point.
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The point is always worth re-inforcing......even I find a reminder worthwhile......and my first mini (the only car i ever bought brand new) was written off on Bodmin moor with my wife and 6 month old son in, (i'd had seat belts fitted as an optional extra + a cot strap in the back....i was a right loony back then....must have had a eureka moment!)
i got 4 broken ribs off my belt, swmbo got 2, + a 2" wide nylon burn across her shoulder, and #1 son, who had been sucking his thumb seemed to have managed to get his index finger up his left nostril and a cot full of broken glass as the windscreen imploded.
Fact is, the bloke who drove into us head on (overtaking a lorry round a bend) in his new capri....sadly died....no seat belt....
We're here, by sheer luck (the mini cost me £550 cash on the road with belts, delivery, number plates etc) belts wern't cumpulsory in 1967......I could have saved £8 by not having belts......and at the time 8 quid amounted to 64 pints of beer....I regularly thank our gaurdian angel believe me
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Very clever and very poignant. I once banged into a wall in Safeway's (no pun intended) car park at a couple of mph whilst parking sans seatbelt, and by jolly you know about it.