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New Motoconcho regulations
When are they going to remove the law that; when a moto smashes into a driving gringo, the gringo is at fault? And when will the lawyers who represent and sometimes encourage these moto crashes to be fined/sanctioned?
What really amuses me and is the epitome of the culture we are dealing with is; The Prez and Tourism minister want/expect tourism to double to 10 million when they put no safeguards in place to protect these tourist? Worse, they allow the criminals/police etc. to rob/kill/extort them with very little concern or investigation.
What really amuses me and is the epitome of the culture we are dealing with is; The Prez and Tourism minister want/expect tourism to double to 10 million when they put no safeguards in place to protect these tourist? Worse, they allow the criminals/police etc. to rob/kill/extort them with very little concern or investigation.
Riding dirt enhances your physical skills as far as handling a motorcycle, and that's really important.
But those skills are useless without an understanding of the driving culture, and where you fit in. The awareness and stategery skills on dirt have little transfer to the DR streets.
You just like to argue, dont you ? LOL
I was speaking about BODY LANGUAGE... Riding on a dirt track, in circles , hundreds/ thousands of times, ya kind of develop our own body language with the other riders, and solid cues and signals that each person on that track respects and adheres to.
You can call them strategy skills if you want.. It does not matter what culture you are from, you learn REAL Fast to adapt, or you get Hurt..
why you would think there are no transferable skills here for a person with such EXPERIENCE, is beyond me...
Its as Clear cut an example as one could possibly give.
my guess is you are a young buck who thinks he knows it all .
and thats ok too.
and by the way, I have done well over 140 MPH on the Autobahns of Germany many many times, and been PASSED at that speed as well, so better get out the left lane if you see headlights behind you, ya just kind of learn that stuff real fast..
stay safe.. and all the best
I do understand the thing about Culture though, I was kind of just breaking your b***s a little
and this is exactly why I do NOT ride a bike in the DR, but mainly because if I do take a fall, im not counting on anyone scraping my arse off the pavement and taking me to the Clinic.
The Risk just not worth reward at my age..
but yes the culture part is a very valid point..
Frankly, I am shocked. Shocked that the government realized how ridiculous this regulation would be, if it even existed for a brief moment, and clarified that there is no such ban.
(They should just ban motoconchos entirely.)
Not arguing, trying to be more precise for safety reasons.
I may be older that you are.
My point is your threat assessment scan on DR streets is entirely different than your scan on a single track, a motocross track or a race track.
Different worlds, different scans, not a whole lot of commonality 'twixt the two.
"A super rider is one who uses his superior judgement to keep himself out of situations requiring use of his superior skills."
Maybe they were fishing. Throwing a bait with supposedly enacted regulation to see the public reaction.
(They should just ban motoconchos entirely.)
From a safety standpoint, this makes some sense. If they replaced motoconchos with something safer, like those three wheeled moto rickshaws that are so common in India and Peru, there wopuld surely be fewer fatalities. But the price of getting around town in a place like Barahona would be more expensive, and there would be a lot more unemployment.
There is a tradeoff involved here: employment and convenience vs safety.
Nearly every time I go around the Arco in Barahona, I see a near collision. I know that there are a lot of accidents, but so far I have not seen one, though I know many people who have been in a motoconcho accident.
Most of the motoconcho drivers are sober most of the time, and they seem to have excellent reflexes.
I have seen several incidents in which some fool practicing his wheelies seems to forget that he has a passenger or two on the seat behind him.
By accident I do not mean such acts of idiocy, I mean incidents involving blood and ambulances.
From a safety standpoint, this makes some sense. If they replaced motoconchos with something safer, like those three wheeled moto rickshaws that are so common in India and Peru, there wopuld surely be fewer fatalities. But the price of getting around town in a place like Barahona would be more expensive, and there would be a lot more unemployment.
There is a tradeoff involved here: employment and convenience vs safety.
Nearly every time I go around the Arco in Barahona, I see a near collision. I know that there are a lot of accidents, but so far I have not seen one, though I know many people who have been in a motoconcho accident.
Most of the motoconcho drivers are sober most of the time, and they seem to have excellent reflexes.
I have seen several incidents in which some fool practicing his wheelies seems to forget that he has a passenger or two on the seat behind him.
By accident I do not mean such acts of idiocy, I mean incidents involving blood and ambulances.
This is what they do with all their laws but they forget watch for, read, or care about the feedback.
I sent my friend in Moca the link.
Her response was "hahaha where is this going to happen? Not here.
She asked a few people and they've never heard of this.
Her response was "hahaha where is this going to happen? Not here.
She asked a few people and they've never heard of this.
My sister in law works in a hospital here, heard the law, but told me it was rejected, so hopefully she is right.....
The above post is not exactly worded in a way that is clear about if it won't happen or if it won't happen just yet.
But maybe this helps to illustrate just how far they are willing to take this:
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No Headlight, No Tail light , No Helmets and Three Riders.
But maybe this helps to illustrate just how far they are willing to take this:
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No Headlight, No Tail light , No Helmets and Three Riders.
SosuaNews posted some info Re: new regulations for Moto's
http://www.sosuanews.com/index.php?id=4543&article=1
http://www.sosuanews.com/index.php?id=4543&article=1