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• Learn maintenance and road cra – each rider
is a teacher and a learner, each having different
levels of skills, professional and practical, to
share collectively.
• Can come together and help out fellow biker
friends.
• Can just come and have a chat and a cuppa.
Derek Gannon is a serving member of the
Defence Forces and a motorcycle enthusiast, he set up the Bikers Shed with a
friend for other like minded people: "e Bikers Shed is free to use and works
on donations, we are currently looking for any tools i.e. spanners, sockets etc.
you may have gathering dust, which will be put to good use. All donations
greatly received."
B I K E R S S H E D
Is a place for all bikers no matter of gender age or experience to come to
share experiences or help a fellow biker buddy out, learn and teach making
more experienced riders, reducing road deaths. All Are respected, valued
and belong, and can comfortably use and pass on their practical skills and
knowledge.
Check us out: www.facebook.com/groups/bikershed
or email: bikers.shed@gmail.com
Motorcyclists are over-represented in collision statistics in Ireland: less than
2% of licensed vehicles but 10% of road deaths. ey are six times more
likely to be killed on Irish roads than any other road user. According to the
road collision fact book, 29 motorcyclists were killed and 494 injured on
Irish roads in 2007. According to the Organisation for Economic Co-opera-
tion and Development (OECD) figures, a motorcyclist is two to three times
more likely to be killed in Ireland than in other European country.
