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10,000 bikers demonstrate against dangerous crash barriers
10,000 bikers demonstrate against dangerous crash barriers
Published by grotbag
11-09-2008
10,000 bikers demonstrate against dangerous crash barriers

10,000 bikers collect in Madrid to demonstrate against dangerous crash barriers

A guillotine at the demonstration today, to symbolise the dangerous crash barriers



More than 500 bikers have died on the roads of Spain so far this year.

Some 10,000 bikers collected in Madrid on Saturday in protest at the dangerous crash barriers installed on many roads of the country. The upright metal supports on the barriers can act as guillotines to bikers who slide under them, and many fatalities and injured have been caused in that way.

Indeed just before the demonstration there was a fatality outside Madrid on the M-625.

The bikers held a minutes silence for the more than 500 bikers who have died on Spanish road so far this year. They want to see more safety measures, such as anti-skid tarmac, better road surfaces and fewer taxes.

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By AndyR on 11-09-2008, 01:23 PM
Re: 10,000 bikers demonstrate against dangerous crash barriers

Well it's no worse than the wire type barriers we have over here which will take off a leg, an arm or even a head if a biker hits them.

It's just a shame the bikers in the UK can't collect together to protest them
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By grotbag on 11-09-2008, 01:39 PM
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It's just a shame the bikers in the UK can't collect together to protest them

Exactly!
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By serenity13 on 11-09-2008, 06:28 PM
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yes, but we're english so we put up and shut up...we should be more like the spainsh, french, germans and americans.
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By bulldog63 on 11-09-2008, 07:20 PM
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yes, but we're english so we put up and shut up...we should be more like the spainsh, french, germans and americans.
we should but the only time I've seen as near to that amount of bikes on the road at the same time is at the Easter Egg Run. But it's for a good cause.
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