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Merry Christmas to you, Stig, and the whole forum family!!

Excellent dark shots there, Stig! Thanks for sharing the beauty with us.

There's been big problems in the UK with motorcycles/moped becoming the vehicle of choice for robbery and muggings. This has been facilitated in no small part by the fact that our Police have always struggled to pursue them with cars, though we do have effective motorcycle Police who just push them off, and have done for years.

We don't worry so much about our Police going too far in this country - they're quite restrained compared to other countries and we largely trust them.

It's a good thing. After a couple of years of knocking them off, the message will get through that bikes are no longer an untouchable tool, as it hurts the image of all of us riding them.

Well said, Viper. Unarmed police have to do something to get the message across to these jerks. This is a very good and reasonable solution.

Wow, that's a bad day! Just grateful you weren't involved in either accident.

I'm getting older, too, so I get it, but past a certain age (let someone else figure that one out) people should have to take a driving test every year in order to renew their license. My mother-in-law was "dating" another elderly gentleman at her assisted living, and he was driving her to the store, etc. Well, a month later we found out that he had lost his license a year earlier, and COULD NOT FEEL HIS FEET!! He didn't know which pedal he was stepping on and couldn't feel how much pressure he was putting on the pedals, either. His family KNEW he was driving and didn't care, they just let him do it because it was "too much trouble" to confront him and take his keys away. We moved her to another facility, then heard that about 6 months later this guy had run into the side of a building because he thought he was stepping on the brake pedal. 

Time to change the laws!!
Be safe out there!

Why is it that only Stig sees all the cool stuff?!? And he has pictures, too. Dang, man, making us all look droll and boring.

Well there's your problem right there... you only have experience with GM products.  No wonder you're confused! Go get yourself a good American Ford F-150 😉

Hmmm... That's a tough question.
Personally, I like the idea of having that one less thing on which to concentrate. I try to ride defensively, paying a certain amount of attention to what's on the road around me, and not having to shift removes one more thing from the equation, no matter how habitual or subconsciously it's done. Twist and go just simplifies things, I suppose.

I will second everything said here - sums it up perfectly for me.

Love that first shot, Stig! Very nice!