This week's winner is a seasoned rider who has a simple plea.

Don't speed on highways.

In his winning letter, Mr Shahlan Saim, 38, a senior financial services consultant, tells us exactly why:

"The recent deaths and serious injuries involving at least seven motorcyclists and their pillions on the Malaysian North-South highway is of concern to me.

Three of the dead were young riders, below 30.

It is very common for some groups to meet at the Gelang Patah (in Johor) petrol station at 10pm on Fridays.

Together they would try to reach the Thai border by sunrise.

One could guess the speed needed to cover that 880km distance in a few hours. As a tourer myself, I have witnessed head-on collisions, twisted limbs and wrecked motorcycles.

Ironically, all these incidents could have been avoided as they had occurred due to rider fatigue, inexperience, lack of preparation, over-confidence and a sense of immortality.

Sometimes at coffeeshops, I overhear conversations where it is actually an "ego-boosting session at the next table.

I have also read postings in bike forums about that 0-100kmh speed they have just achieved.

Last week I attended a funeral where a worker for an undertaker pointed out 10 graves of dead motorcyclists all below 35 years old.

Motorcycling is a high risk activity, but steps must be taken to reduce the risks.

BIKER BOY SAYS:

Let this letter be a wake-up call to all of us who head North on the weekends. We are sometimes guilty of this rash act of speeding just because the road seems never-ending.

But at such high-speeds, avoiding debris on the road or reacting to a sudden swerve by the car ahead, may be a difficult thing to do.

The Malaysian highway system is not a race track for Singaporeans to test their "top speed"

If you're caught riding at breakneck speeds, there will be a price to pay. For some, it would be a fine.

Others perhaps, would pay dearly with their lives.