SIR - What a miserable person Graham Hoyle must be (Time for limits on motorbikes, T&A, September 12).

Has he not moved on from the Fifties? Has he never experienced the joy of riding a modern motorcycle? I ride a large, modern 1000cc motorcycle in Australia. It is not noisy, dirty, unsafe, unstable, anti-social or inefficient. Just the opposite in fact. His reference to 25/25/25 is ridiculous.

As to the leather-fetish, he has obviously never been down the road on his back after being hit by a car, the driver of which will usually say: "Sorry mate, I didn't see you."

Jeff Hill, Kimberley Way, Parkwood, Perth, Australia