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I was strolling down the street this summer looking forward to the end of another work day.  It was around 90 outside and I was looking forward to my ride home along the lake.  I ran into Dave sitting having a smoke and solving the world’s problems.  We started talking about a bike he had built and sold then the conversation moved to BCCOM.  Dave is one of the hierarchy in the BCCOM organization.

BCCOM is the British Columbia Coalation of Motorcyclists.  They have a rather strong voice when it comes to lobbying the goverment on behalf of all motorcyclists.  They lobbied to have us included in HOV lanes, and priority loading on BC ferries, to name a few.

Anyhow they are now tableing the idea of graduated licences.  Now it has it’s good points and it’s bad so I am sure there will be quite a few opinions on this.  There is no way that the manufacturers are going to take any responsibility for selling some green horn a R1 and sending them off to their certain doom.  They now propose manditory driver training to help people gain some of the basic skills before they head out.  They aren’t all agreed on how best to lay down the graduated licences part.  I’m thinking if you set it up so new riders have to start out on low cc bike then work their way up after a year to a bigger bike it may help slow the rise in motorcycle related accidents.  I started out on a RZ350 I hated the fact everyone else had faster bikes but looking back it was the smartest thing I ever did.  I realize there may be lots of very experienced riders just getting their licences but rules are put in place to save the weak and stupid.