General Bike Whoring
01-21-2007, 08:02 AM
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Originally Posted by Busamav,Jan 21 2007, 04:48 PM
if you have 75mm posts in there now , put 100mm , they stand up to a lot more.
Lots of the current wooden ones seem to have rotted quite badly
Oh and to stay slightly O/T I had to get stuff out of the shed today, so I actually touched the bike
01-21-2007, 08:04 AM
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Originally Posted by san2000,Jan 21 2007, 04:44 PM
Went for a nice ride and met up with Jamie for lunch. Windy, but fun.
Is he going to do his bike test soon so he can appreciate real acceleration?
01-21-2007, 08:16 AM
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Well I went for a blat this afternoon with me in the Elise and Jo in the 7.
Why so relevant to a bike
ing thread then? Well on one road a bike was filling my minuscule rear window with his head light, he really was sitting on my back bumper. Anyway the traffic in front all clears so I accelerate and yep, the bike is still sitting there. No surprises.
So the next thing is a pretty strong RH corner, about 70 degrees round. SO I kept going at the pace we were at and didn't lift at all. Whaddya know, no bike. He must have lost 50% of his speed to get round. He then accelerated to over 100 mph to over take me.
Classic straight line warrior.
The point being is this needn't have happened if he hadn't been dazzling me in my rear view mirror.
Why so relevant to a bike
ing thread then? Well on one road a bike was filling my minuscule rear window with his head light, he really was sitting on my back bumper. Anyway the traffic in front all clears so I accelerate and yep, the bike is still sitting there. No surprises.So the next thing is a pretty strong RH corner, about 70 degrees round. SO I kept going at the pace we were at and didn't lift at all. Whaddya know, no bike. He must have lost 50% of his speed to get round. He then accelerated to over 100 mph to over take me.
Classic straight line warrior.
The point being is this needn't have happened if he hadn't been dazzling me in my rear view mirror.
01-21-2007, 08:22 AM
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Originally Posted by Busamav,Jan 21 2007, 04:09 PM
what part of the country do you reside in at the moment ?
01-21-2007, 08:39 AM
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Originally Posted by Kelk,Jan 21 2007, 05:16 PM
Well I went for a blat this afternoon with me in the Elise and Jo in the 7.
Why so relevant to a bike ing thread then? Well on one road a bike was filling my minuscule rear window with his head light, he really was sitting on my back bumper. Anyway the traffic in front all clears so I accelerate and yep, the bike is still sitting there. No surprises.
So the next thing is a pretty strong RH corner, about 70 degrees round. SO I kept going at the pace we were at and didn't lift at all. Whaddya know, no bike. He must have lost 50% of his speed to get round. He then accelerated to over 100 mph to over take me.
Classic straight line warrior.
The point being is this needn't have happened if he hadn't been dazzling me in my rear view mirror.
Why so relevant to a bike
ing thread then? Well on one road a bike was filling my minuscule rear window with his head light, he really was sitting on my back bumper. Anyway the traffic in front all clears so I accelerate and yep, the bike is still sitting there. No surprises.So the next thing is a pretty strong RH corner, about 70 degrees round. SO I kept going at the pace we were at and didn't lift at all. Whaddya know, no bike. He must have lost 50% of his speed to get round. He then accelerated to over 100 mph to over take me.
Classic straight line warrior.
The point being is this needn't have happened if he hadn't been dazzling me in my rear view mirror.
Or maybe he thought you were driving like a knob and then...
and most times a car is going to be able to carry the speed around a bend better than a bike. just look at the contact patch four square car tyres have v 2 round bike ones.
01-21-2007, 10:03 AM
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Neil all that is understood and in reflection on the occasion my issue is that a lot of the time we hear that drivers shouls appreciate and consider the situation for motor cyclists more etc etc in the media.
Well it's a give and take thing.
And as for him thinking I was driving like a knob - I was behind 2 other cars doing the limit on a pretty straight road, so either his opinion was way off the mark or he was just impatient.
Well it's a give and take thing.
And as for him thinking I was driving like a knob - I was behind 2 other cars doing the limit on a pretty straight road, so either his opinion was way off the mark or he was just impatient.
01-21-2007, 11:31 AM
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Originally Posted by euan,Jan 21 2007, 07:12 PM
How many times have you had Corsa-boy or white van man up your @rse though?
Went out for the first ride out of the year this morning. A bit wet but very nice on the whole.
01-22-2007, 11:15 AM
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Free BMW to anyone in Devon
Been washed up on the beach in sealerd containers after being lost from the stricken cargo ship
from BBC news
Branscombe Police's Pc Steve Speariett said "a couple of hundred people" were on the beach on Sunday night with the same number again scavenging on Monday.
Around 50 BMW motorbikes were carried off the beach last night
Pc Steve Speariett
Finders keepers?
"Around 50 BMW motorbikes were carried off the beach last night," he added.
Gareth Topping told BBC News he had pulled one of the motorbikes out of a container.
"It took about eight to 10 of us to lift each one out. As each one came out the front wheels were put on, then they were taken down to the beach and over the cliffs," he said.
Been washed up on the beach in sealerd containers after being lost from the stricken cargo ship
from BBC news
Branscombe Police's Pc Steve Speariett said "a couple of hundred people" were on the beach on Sunday night with the same number again scavenging on Monday.
Around 50 BMW motorbikes were carried off the beach last night
Pc Steve Speariett
Finders keepers?
"Around 50 BMW motorbikes were carried off the beach last night," he added.
Gareth Topping told BBC News he had pulled one of the motorbikes out of a container.
"It took about eight to 10 of us to lift each one out. As each one came out the front wheels were put on, then they were taken down to the beach and over the cliffs," he said.