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Bikers!
Bikers!
There has been so much discussion about drivers, but I would be very interested to hear some view's on the bikers around town who appear to be unaware of the speed limit and the need to have a silencer fitted. It again appears to be similar to the vehicles, in that laws are applied, but not carried through.
A friend of mine from South Africa, who brought his motorbike with him to Portugal, was told it had to be checked out before he could be issued with a certificate to use it. One of these checks would be the on the silencer, and since it had not been cleared, it would have to be taken, at some considerable expense, to Lisbon on a transporter.
A friend of mine from South Africa, who brought his motorbike with him to Portugal, was told it had to be checked out before he could be issued with a certificate to use it. One of these checks would be the on the silencer, and since it had not been cleared, it would have to be taken, at some considerable expense, to Lisbon on a transporter.
hi ranger, i'm a "biker" myself...haven't driven in portugal (and from what i've seen of the drivers there i'ed think twice about it),but i did ride in spain in the early 70's (on a b.s.a. 350 twin i picked up in london). my impresion of portugse "bikers" is that some of them are simply crazy..kids mostly..although, i could say the same about kids in any country... as for "silencers", there are generaly three (3) reasons why bikes are so loud: (1) they arn't well maintained, (2) the drivers WANT to hear their bike's engine (the engine of a harley-davidson is the most beautiful sound in the world (to a biker), and (3), believe it or not, is SAFETY....other drivers, and pedestrians, many times just don't SEE a motercycle, but they"ll HEAR one. 
You have your sensible cruisers, usually abiding to most rules, going with the traffic flow and generally enjoying the scenery.
Then you have your lunatics who seem to think that their 750 - 1200cc crotch-rockets will break the sound barrier if they overtake enough cars in a single swoop.
Reality usually catches up with them in one of those stomach-turning bone meets tarmac/tree/rail/steel incidents.
Last but by no means least, you have your Sachs fan club, usually elderly men and women riding these 40 year-old "classics" down the back roads at a snails pace, leaving their fellow travellers and sorrounding countryside engulfed in a haze of blue smoke.
Then you have your lunatics who seem to think that their 750 - 1200cc crotch-rockets will break the sound barrier if they overtake enough cars in a single swoop.
Reality usually catches up with them in one of those stomach-turning bone meets tarmac/tree/rail/steel incidents.
Last but by no means least, you have your Sachs fan club, usually elderly men and women riding these 40 year-old "classics" down the back roads at a snails pace, leaving their fellow travellers and sorrounding countryside engulfed in a haze of blue smoke.