immediately before the Intermot Cologne Motorcycle Show (6th - 10.10.2010), the Auto Club Europa (ACE), the motorcycle manufacturer called to strive for greater safety of machines and riders. They should motorcycles be equipped with ABS as standard. At the same time criticized the club in the industry "for years without brakes operated race" in order to increase engine performance. Instead of a technical initiative to develop the passive safety, many manufacturers and dealers remained still in the PS-thinking, complained ACE spokesman Rainer Hillgärtner today in Stuttgart.
Citing figures from the Federal Motor Transport Authority and the Federal Statistical Office, told the ACE, that are currently registered in Germany over a million motorcycles that can reach a top speed of 200 mph. This is one in four (27.4 percent) subject to approval, motorized bicycle in a position to break into the high speed range. Every twentieth motorcycle on the streets of Germany (5.6 percent) even overstepping the mark of 250 km / h. Compared to passenger cars, there is a third more bikes than cars that can tap into these speed zones.
the only segment in the overall decline in motorcycle market, it brings the field of sport and Supersport machines to strong sales growth, said the ACE. Within the past ten years, new registrations have increased this class of 37.7 to 46.5 percent. One third of all newly registered motorcycles in Germany have an engine capacity of more than 98 hp.
climb with the engine performance, however, the severity of the accident. Although only one in five motorcycle vailable on a power greater than 70 kW / 95 hp, are these machines ACE information in more than 54 percent of fatal and involved in more than one in three accidents caused by motorcyclists with serious injuries.
The ACE recommends motorcyclists in principle, to attend driver safety training. Anyone on the motorized Bicycle would be on the road should, in such courses at least at the start of motorcycle season in the spring of his driving school to refresh knowledge. Not all bikers know also that you could avoid, for example, using a special steering input technology in a precarious cornering a fall.
(ampnet / jri)
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