Calis Beach and Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum
Information and Services in Turkey Section => Cars, Bikes, Scooters, MOTs, Speeding... => Topic started by: KKOB on November 07, 2014, 19:09:14 PM
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A video shows the terrifying moment a furious motorcyclist went on the rampage with a knife, threatening to stab onlookers and slashing his own bike - all because he had been given a fine.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2825562/Berserk-biker-STABS-motorcycle-knife-pulled-riding-without-crash-helmet-fined-Turkey.html
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Amazing that Police actually stopped him. We have seen so many people on bikes with no helmets. Also notice a lot of men with a crash helmet and a woman passenger without one.
I think the worst thing that we see quite often is a woman sitting in a car in the passenger seat, with a child on her knee... Always makes me shudder. Time they started to show some videos on Turkish T.V. about children unrestrained in cars.
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Ye/s seeing women, sitting on the back of scooters with a child in their arms.
Makes me see red.
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For me the worst is a child in front holding the handles with daddy, then another child and the mother at the back with a baby slung over her arm and bags of shopping in between (and a dog). This is true.
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Well the worst I saw (and I saw lots) was a woman driving a car with her small child standing between mum and steering wheel. Should cushion the impact of adult on wheel in the event of an accident.
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For me the worst is a child in front holding the handles with daddy, then another child and the mother at the back with a baby slung over her arm and bags of shopping in between (and a dog). This is true.
Makes me wonder how the dogs are trained to sit still and not jump off at the sight of the nearest cat. I am sure that U.k. dogs would not be that well behaved. ;D
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The thing is Turkey is still behind the western world when it comes to health and safety.
Did you never sit on dads lap and steer the car?
My dad never wore a crash helmet, although he did wear the most hideous goggles, neither did Mum or myself and my brother and sister, all crammed into a sidecar that had seen better days.
They do not see the danger, they will, I think get educated on these things at some point but until then it will carry on.
Just look at the risks they take on building sites, but it is only the same as sites in the UK 40 years or so ago when building sites were amongst the most dangerous places to work.
Only last month we saw a guy riding a scooter along the Dalaman Rd and his friend on the back had a full size washing machine strapped to his back. 10 out of 10 for ingenuity.
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Talking of sidecars! I was driving down the hill from Ovacik to Fethiye one day before the road was widened and, coming up the hill was a motorbike and sidecar. Laying right across the sidecar was a complete security frontdoor and frame. Kneeling, and holding on tight to the door, was a passenger. It looked light a real Wallace & Gromit moment to me.
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When the laws changed here regarding crash helmets and seat belts the police enforced them and it quickly becomes second nature. In Turkey the police just don't seem to enforce the laws, until that changes then people will just not bother.
We have all seen people riding motorbikes with passengers holding ridiculously large things, imagine doing that in the UK.
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(http://s16.postimg.org/6d115jer5/helmet.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/6d115jer5/)
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Those that do wear helmets seldom have them fastened... It is just in case they do get stopped by the police...
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A few years ago people used to delight in Turkey being relaxed about such things and contrasting it unfavourably with the UK - 'Elf and Safety gone mad, nanny state, and so on. The result of this relaxed approach is that, per 100,000 motor vehicles, Turkey has 7 times the road deaths of the UK (42.4 per 100,000 versus 6.2).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-related_death_rate (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-related_death_rate)
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This Guys Legal
(http://s4.postimg.org/l1lrk30zd/crashhelmet.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/l1lrk30zd/)
Saw this guy road testing the new turko-Acme earthquake proof helmet, i clocked him at 33kph...
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OMG! :o
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Yes but was it Bill or was it Ben?
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Looking to ride out to Turkey on my bike,I've always worn a helmet even though I started before the law in UK made it compulsory. Well aware of Turkish driving and standard of riding, been fined for speeding while out there paying around £35 which was about as much as the bus driver was fined when he was dancing in the aisle of the bus while travelling at speed on a Turkish motorway try to impress the passengers. Not sure of the link but you should still be able to see it.
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In our almost 6 years of living in Turkey, it never ceased to amaze me that, even though the Turkish people absolutely love children , their own, and others, that they still insisted in placing children in the most dangerous positions when in / on , any type of moving vehicle !! Lorraine & I saw a motor bike on the ( 22 metre road ), Fethiye to Calis main road, which had the bike rider ( male ), sitting on a plank of wood about 2 metres long, which was sticking out to his right, with a rather " robust ", lady sitting on the other , outer end of the piece of wood , I kid you not !! I felt like following them , just to see if they made it, then decided against it !
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(http://s16.postimg.org/6d115jer5/helmet.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/6d115jer5/)
Is that a development of the traditional full face helmet - the full upper body helmet?
Ian
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It's his conditions for giving his mother-in -law a lift.
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Slightly off topic but related, does anyone know if the KTM dealer is still going/ in business. Many thanks in advance