Posted by: Andrew Stephen on 11:20am Mon 24 Mar 08
A kind-hearted and noble jesture from sometimes maligned road users - BUT THINK OF THE POLLUTION from ALL THOSEE BIKES in the one place the one time. So much for Glasgow's current 'cut the fumes' advertising!!!
A kind-hearted and noble jesture from sometimes maligned road users - BUT THINK OF THE POLLUTION from ALL THOSEE BIKES in the one place the one time. So much for Glasgow's current 'cut the fumes' advertising!!!
Posted by: jefstewa, govan on 11:25am Mon 24 Mar 08
awww andrew u had to spoil it didnt you with bit about pollution
awww andrew u had to spoil it didnt you with bit about pollution
Posted by: leesome, Glasgow on 11:51am Mon 24 Mar 08
Andrew tephen, Maybe a thunder storm will clear away that pollution. Better still, think I'll complain. Spoiling the weans Easter, shame on you.
Andrew tephen, Maybe a thunder storm will clear away that pollution. Better still, think I'll complain. Spoiling the weans Easter, shame on you.
Posted by: Frank, Glasgow on 2:35pm Mon 24 Mar 08
Good point Andrew I think that if the SNP were serious about climate change they would have come to some amicable agreement between the hospital and the bikers. But usual all words from that mob.
Good point Andrew I think that if the SNP were serious about climate change they would have come to some amicable agreement between the hospital and the bikers. But usual all words from that mob.
Posted by: People Power, Glasgow on 3:59pm Mon 24 Mar 08
Top class show guys, gals & all those participating!
The horns blasting, headlights on full beam & atmosphere was red hot! All these guys ( & gals) in their sexy leather was just too much!
Hope the final total raised excels last years £30,000. And everyone involved had a great day!
Congratulations & thanks to all of those involved!
Three cheers to all the hard work M.A.G. (The Motorcycle Action Group.) have done to raise £30,000+ last year, for sick kids - hopefully more this year.
Top class show guys, gals & all those participating!
The horns blasting, headlights on full beam & atmosphere was red hot! All these guys ( & gals) in their sexy leather was just too much!
Hope the final total raised excels last years £30,000. And everyone involved had a great day!
Congratulations & thanks to all of those involved!
Three cheers to all the hard work M.A.G. (The Motorcycle Action Group.) have done to raise £30,000+ last year, for sick kids - hopefully more this year.
Posted by: JamesP, Glasgow on 4:04pm Mon 24 Mar 08
Oh, give me strength. Next we'll have complaints about the packaging the egg came in. Then there will be complaints about the paper we use up reading about it. Or the electricity we use up viewing it online.
Not meaning to be flippant as I do recycle and believe in not wasting resources but thats a different arguement to not using resources.
There's already been an ice age and I've never seen any historical artifacts of cavemen on motorbikes so maybe pollution isnt the main cause of our climate change. Maybe its just the fact that thats what life is about. Change.
Oh, give me strength. Next we'll have complaints about the packaging the egg came in. Then there will be complaints about the paper we use up reading about it. Or the electricity we use up viewing it online.
Not meaning to be flippant as I do recycle and believe in not wasting resources but thats a different arguement to not using resources.
There's already been an ice age and I've never seen any historical artifacts of cavemen on motorbikes so maybe pollution isnt the main cause of our climate change. Maybe its just the fact that thats what life is about. Change.
Posted by: hightower, glasgow on 4:48pm Mon 24 Mar 08
well done bikers
Posted by: Andrew Stephen on 5:13pm Mon 24 Mar 08
[quote][bold]JamesP[/bold] wrote:
Oh, give me strength. Next we'll have complaints about the packaging the egg came in. Then there will be complaints about the paper we use up reading about it. Or the electricity we use up viewing it online. Not meaning to be flippant as I do recycle and believe in not wasting resources but thats a different arguement to not using resources. There's already been an ice age and I've never seen any historical artifacts of cavemen on motorbikes so maybe pollution isnt the main cause of our climate change. Maybe its just the fact that thats what life is about. Change. [/quote] Yes, EVERYONE can recycle packing/newspapers (I do too!!) but just where does one recycle the pollution (from *noise as well as *fumes)?
I still LAUD the nature of the event but personally witnessed/suffered the 'polluting' *aftermath on Dumbarton Road!
JamesP wrote:
Oh, give me strength. Next we'll have complaints about the packaging the egg came in. Then there will be complaints about the paper we use up reading about it. Or the electricity we use up viewing it online. Not meaning to be flippant as I do recycle and believe in not wasting resources but thats a different arguement to not using resources. There's already been an ice age and I've never seen any historical artifacts of cavemen on motorbikes so maybe pollution isnt the main cause of our climate change. Maybe its just the fact that thats what life is about. Change.
Yes, EVERYONE can recycle packing/newspapers (I do too!!) but just where does one recycle the pollution (from *noise as well as *fumes)?
I still LAUD the nature of the event but personally witnessed/suffered the 'polluting' *aftermath on Dumbarton Road!
Posted by: annette, cambuslang on 5:57pm Mon 24 Mar 08
Andrew Stephen - gie yersel peace: a once a year garthering of like minded bikers doing a good turn will not make the glaciers melt any quicker. Glasgow had many years as a heavily industrialised city, it was full of homes with coal fires,had steel works, shipbuilding, heavy engineering, a busy working river- THAT was pollution and we're still here. I was also in Dumbarton Rd during the run but have been there previously when the bus and car fumes have been worse. Get a grip!
Andrew Stephen - gie yersel peace: a once a year garthering of like minded bikers doing a good turn will not make the glaciers melt any quicker. Glasgow had many years as a heavily industrialised city, it was full of homes with coal fires,had steel works, shipbuilding, heavy engineering, a busy working river- THAT was pollution and we're still here. I was also in Dumbarton Rd during the run but have been there previously when the bus and car fumes have been worse. Get a grip!
Posted by: Andrew Stephen on 6:22pm Mon 24 Mar 08
[quote][bold]annette[/bold] wrote:
Andrew Stephen - gie yersel peace: a once a year garthering of like minded bikers doing a good turn will not make the glaciers melt any quicker. Glasgow had many years as a heavily industrialised city, it was full of homes with coal fires,had steel works, shipbuilding, heavy engineering, a busy working river- THAT was pollution and we're still here. I was also in Dumbarton Rd during the run but have been there previously when the bus and car fumes have been worse. Get a grip![/quote] "PEACE" was not to be had thereabouts!!!!
annette wrote:
Andrew Stephen - gie yersel peace: a once a year garthering of like minded bikers doing a good turn will not make the glaciers melt any quicker. Glasgow had many years as a heavily industrialised city, it was full of homes with coal fires,had steel works, shipbuilding, heavy engineering, a busy working river- THAT was pollution and we're still here. I was also in Dumbarton Rd during the run but have been there previously when the bus and car fumes have been worse. Get a grip!
"PEACE" was not to be had thereabouts!!!!
Posted by: Andrew Stephen on 6:24pm Mon 24 Mar 08
PS Bring back the ELECTRIC trams!
PS Bring back the ELECTRIC trams!
Posted by: People Power, Glasgow on 7:22pm Mon 24 Mar 08
Andrew, away & buy yourself some ear plugs - or preferably move out to a shack in the middle of no where! Some folk are never happy!
Personally the engines revving, backfiring & horns sounding was all part of the lively and upbeat atmosphere.
The pollution people should worry about is when the queues of stationary traffic along Dumbarton road sit & emit their fumes - buses, lorries and vans to boot.
Thats at least where motorbikes have the upperhand - at least they can overtake all the queuing traffic & ride off into the sunset!
So - I take it you didn't donate to the Motorcycle Action Groups funds either then ?
Away & moan somewhere else, ya old codger!
Andrew, away & buy yourself some ear plugs - or preferably move out to a shack in the middle of no where! Some folk are never happy!
Personally the engines revving, backfiring & horns sounding was all part of the lively and upbeat atmosphere.
The pollution people should worry about is when the queues of stationary traffic along Dumbarton road sit & emit their fumes - buses, lorries and vans to boot.
Thats at least where motorbikes have the upperhand - at least they can overtake all the queuing traffic & ride off into the sunset!
So - I take it you didn't donate to the Motorcycle Action Groups funds either then ?
Away & moan somewhere else, ya old codger!
Posted by: Ray Macfadyen - Egg Runner, Paisley on 7:47pm Mon 24 Mar 08
Some people just love to get on our backs, complaining about the noise, pollution, bad image etc.
I am a biker of many years, who came from the good part of the West End of Glasgow.
I am a professional person and not some reprobate who terrorises old ladies.
Why do people have to regard bikers as scum?
We step out on a Sunday (maybe this is a problem for some of the bible thumpers out there) and do a good deed for the poor kids suffering in all manners.
Our day out has again raised thousands of pounds for Yorkhill, as well as putting a smile on many a kids face.
Who can put us down for that?
There's no catch. It was for the kids!
Some people just love to get on our backs, complaining about the noise, pollution, bad image etc.
I am a biker of many years, who came from the good part of the West End of Glasgow.
I am a professional person and not some reprobate who terrorises old ladies.
Why do people have to regard bikers as scum?
We step out on a Sunday (maybe this is a problem for some of the bible thumpers out there) and do a good deed for the poor kids suffering in all manners.
Our day out has again raised thousands of pounds for Yorkhill, as well as putting a smile on many a kids face.
Who can put us down for that?
There's no catch. It was for the kids!
Posted by: ilona, glasgow on 7:53am Tue 25 Mar 08
it was a great day for bikers and kids and the do gooders that always want to rubbish the people with big hearts should grow up and find something else to moan about."how much do they give to help the less fortunate?" and bikes are less polluting than the cars and help keep down congestion on our roads [bold]1day a year to help bring a smile to even one kids face is all worth it.[/bold]
it was a great day for bikers and kids and the do gooders that always want to rubbish the people with big hearts should grow up and find something else to moan about."how much do they give to help the less fortunate?" and bikes are less polluting than the cars and help keep down congestion on our roads
1day a year to help bring a smile to even one kids face is all worth it. Posted by: Biker Buster, Helensburgh on 10:29am Tue 25 Mar 08
Andrew, get a grip, that was a fraction of the pollution ever experienced on a busy day in Glasgow, (after all, I would warrant more than 8,000 cars pass through the city every day..) And besides if they were not all in Glasgow doing something good for the children (obviously you have never had cause to use any of the local hospital facilities!), we would all have been out elsewhere, producing a mere fraction of the pollution caused by cars. So no matter how much you malign the biker communities, who do more for UK charities than [bold]ANY[/bold] other faction. We will always be the more environmentally and congestion friendly mode of transport.
Yes I am proud to have been a part of it.
Andrew, get a grip, that was a fraction of the pollution ever experienced on a busy day in Glasgow, (after all, I would warrant more than 8,000 cars pass through the city every day..) And besides if they were not all in Glasgow doing something good for the children (obviously you have never had cause to use any of the local hospital facilities!), we would all have been out elsewhere, producing a mere fraction of the pollution caused by cars. So no matter how much you malign the biker communities, who do more for UK charities than
ANY other faction. We will always be the more environmentally and congestion friendly mode of transport.
Yes I am proud to have been a part of it.
Posted by: Pete, Glasgow on 10:48am Tue 25 Mar 08
Are youse serious? Therse are kind-hearted people taking a day to deliver easter eggs to sick kids. There's not an environmental aspect to this (and I'm usually one of the first to bang on people using cars rather than public transport)!!!
Granted it's a bit noisy. I used to live in a flat along Argyle Street and when the Easter rally went past it was noisy and smelly (tell me, why do Harleys have to be so loud?) but only a true curmudgeon would complain.
Are youse serious? Therse are kind-hearted people taking a day to deliver easter eggs to sick kids. There's not an environmental aspect to this (and I'm usually one of the first to bang on people using cars rather than public transport)!!!
Granted it's a bit noisy. I used to live in a flat along Argyle Street and when the Easter rally went past it was noisy and smelly (tell me, why do Harleys have to be so loud?) but only a true curmudgeon would complain.
Posted by: JamesP, Glasgow on 10:43pm Tue 25 Mar 08
Roll on April 12th next year and we get to do it all again.
Roll on April 12th next year and we get to do it all again.
Posted by: dawn, glasgow on 12:41pm Wed 26 Mar 08
hey guys just a wee comment to say thanks for printing a photo of my uncle robert in the paper the guy with the big red trike.
hey guys just a wee comment to say thanks for printing a photo of my uncle robert in the paper the guy with the big red trike.
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