More details of the incident...

http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wa...55578-21302396/

http://www.thisisthesentinel.co.uk/displ...tentPK=21042808

Reading the report on the Beeb website, my initial impression was to be reminded of that sobering on-board 'snuff' video from Hungary that we all saw the other year, and nothing above changes my impression.

Two riders from the same group cocking up the same bend, entirely on their own minutes apart, one of them hit the scenery and lived to tell the tale, one of them died hitting and killing an innocent rider coming the other way.

All points about group riding made above are spot on in my view. And if you think realising you are getting sucked in to riding over your head is a bad feeling, try the sheer terror of looking in your mirrors and realising that a mate of yours is following you and getting in seriously over his head trying to keep up with you...

One thing that shocked me was that the rider that ran wide and killed the guy on the Goldwing was 52 years old. If he had been 19 or 20 it would have been much less of a surprise to me. But then, the last rider who I found following me when it was madness for him to do so was 48 at the time, so...

It's also not clear whether the bloke who ran wide should have been able to get round the corner at the speed he was travelling or whether he was just going far too quickly to get round. It sounds like the police don't know either because the impact with the Goldwing may have mucked up all their calculations which could only have been based on how far the bike and rider slid after that impact...

Evidence if ever it was needed that whether you are riding in a group or not, the most important thing is to always ride your own ride. And not ride like a twat. If that means everybody else in the group fucks off over the horizon at a million miles an hour with their knees down round blind corners then that simply saves you the trouble of having to tell them why you aren't going to be riding with them after all...