Why "superbiking" dangerously?

A superbike adventure by a group with police connections yesterday at the North Klang Valley Expressway (NKVE) has ended with one death, a 53-year old rider.  The other five riders who are riding closely were also injured quite bad.

What happened? Well, according to a superbiker, he claimed that they were riding on the fast lane when suddenly a car from the middle lane got to the left side and guess what? All six of them were deliberately hit. One of the injured biker is a traffic police officer carrying the rank of Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP).

We would not know if what has been alleged by one of the injured biker was true or otherwise, as everyone knows it happened just to fast and unexpected. Furthermore, as seen in some of the newspaper reports, they are all mostly focusing on the "sadness" or "sorrow" sight of these superbikers. Nothing has been reported on what had really transpired from that car driver who had eventually went over to the fast lane.

This is critically unfair for the press to simply passing some sort of "judgment" onto the car driver by tuning him in a "guilty" condition just because that superbike convoy consist of a police ASP.

To state the facts clear, no matter how superb your motorcycle or bike is, or how fast is your two-wheeler machine is, these bikers ought to know that they should be riding their motorcycles on the lane specifically for motorcycles instead of occupying some other lanes in the middle or left which are all supposed to be for cars, vans or trucks, or whatever heavy vehicles you may describe.

Motorcycles are not supposed to be at the first (slow), second or third (fast) lanes. That is the law. In this case, these superbikers are the ones who are not following the law while they are on, especially, the expressway.

These superbikers are actually hitting at their fastest speed they could in order to show off their branded and expensive machines (believed to be valued between RM80,000 to RM150,000 per unit) to the other motorist, or perhaps hoping other motorist would take notice on them and making way for them to show off.

The worst thing is that traffic police officer (ASP) who was part of the superbikers' team also follow suit in breaking the simplest ever traffic rules in riding on the fast lane which are mean for cars or any other kind of four-wheeler.

We are wondering and worried if the police investigation is only going focus on penalizing the car driver instead of looking into the whole picture.