Sir — Richard Wilson. He’s a motorist (Letters, August 7). You know the sort.

They have cars with lowered suspension, drainpipe exhausts, badly fitted body-kits, huge speakers blaring out from the parcel shelves and they do doughnuts in carparks and get drunk and joyride around until they kill someone who gets in their way.

They’re all like that. Or is that just the sort of silly generalisation that he makes about motorcyclists?

I am sorry he lost a friend on a motorcycle, but when we reach a certain age we inevitably knew someone who died by accident, whatever the cause. I had a friend who was killed by a bus, but it would be absurd to want buses to be banned.

However, I am worried that he isn’t using his rear-view mirror correctly just because he is “nicely within the speed limit”. One should be aware of other traffic at all times.

Mike Morris, Witney

PS I was not aware that Harpies are now “usually, young men”. I suppose that’s another advantage of equal opportunities legislation.