170mph OK who was it?

Doesn't it make your head itch?

 

No it is the carbon fibre matting that does that, if you don't seal the
edges properly. Cut it with the proper tools and it isn't really an
issue though. Or do what I do and use a carbon/kelvlar cloth that has a
carbon warp and a kevlar weft and you can cut very effectively with
pucker kevlar shears. It also has the advantage that it turns out to be
very effective for the low millimetre stuff from the Omega Dimension.
Nothing but bloody adverts it is, utter fucking rubbish.

 

Have you tried using wooden blocks instead?

 

As if that was a surprise to anybody...

 

It is just my opinion of course but I think that wooden blocks are
simply not as good as modern materials. There is always an exception of
course, as in the case of impregnated thin sheets of the very softest of
soft Balsa wood but I feel that it is simply the case that Balsa absorbs
fully and quickly but to an easily predicable depth giving a good
broadband approximation of the right nodal spacing. Give it it's due,
as part of one of the layer techniques it has it's place there can be no
argument about this. Mind you, without something to back it up you
still get some adverts though so it ain't that good.

 

No.... I've forgotten who I am now.....
Lovely bit of road. Easily capable of taking 170 safely... duelled and
good surface.

 

Well exactly, which is why I started my third sentence in the way I did.

 

Don't be silly. That wooden block anything.

 

Tenon to one it would.

 

The Older Gentleman wibbled:

<waves>

As Hog said - bollards rock . . . .

 

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It happened too quickly for the speed cam to take the photo's too.


--
Beav

VN 750
Zed 1000
OMF# 19

 

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Me when I was a sprog riding a Bonnie along the East Lancs Road. Plod was
driving a TR6 and was parked at 90 degrees to the East Lancs and pulled out
after me. Not being in posession of a full bike license, it wasn't going to
be a good idea to stop, so I made a run for it. Fucker knew where "we biker
boys" operated from (the back yard of my mate's house, naturally) so when I
lost him, he just bimbled around to the yard. I'd beaten him there and
shoved the bike in the shed and thrown a tarp over it, but he knew it was me
from the clean streaks on my face where the tears (no helmet, not goggles)
had run from my eyes to my ears.

He wasn't able to DO anything, but he made it clear that he'd be watching us
and he did exactly that until he got me for riding a Sunbeam 500 outfit
without fucking "L" plates. [1] Never saw again him after that.

[1] Always replace "L" plates after painting a bike.


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Beav

VN 750
Zed 1000
OMF# 19

 

I've been done for speeding on an MZ.

 

The bit of road in question is straight and with a good surface so I

Sighted and reported...

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Yes - on the Fantic, when I lived in London. I used to get flagged down
on that pretty much every fucking time I rode it, simply because it
didn't have any lights.

One day plod on a bike was sat near the northbound entrance to the
Blackwall tunnel, & pulled into the road in front of me to stop me. I'd
had enough by this point, so just gunned it. The northbound tunnel was
closed & blocked off by concrete barriers, which were /just/ far enough
apart for a skinny Fantic to fit through. That was the last I saw of
that particular plod, & nothing came of it even though he must've got
my reg number.


--
Krusty
www.MuddyStuff.co.uk
Off-Road Classifieds

'02 MV Senna '03 Tigtona 955i '96 Tiger '79 Fantic Hiro 250

 

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Pfft.

I was forced to accept a Police Caution for furious pedalling (or
summat) on my pushbike when I was 13 or so. Mr Blue in his Panda
reckoned I was clocking 40 in a 30, without lights, reflectors or
mudguard (eh?) straight through the middle of my home village at about
midnight on a wet Wednesday night, attempting to turn the clock back,
being out after curfew.

Trying to sneak in silently was shat on a bit by the flashing blue
lights that pulled up outside the house five seconds after I'd skimmed
the gatepost and launched off the drive into a handy arrestor bush.

The Copper's Knock at midnight was just what my parents had always
looked forward to. My Dad's comment of "You look like you've been
dragged through a hedge backwards" was met with total disdain, I tell
you.

 

(The Older Gentleman) wrote in

So we have speeding witnesses now? Whatever next?

Me, "Officer, I've been burgled"
Plod, "Do do have a witness?"
Me, "No, but me telly is missing"
Plod, "Sorry, no witness, now **** off while I don't do you for having a
TV licence under false pretences."

 

(The Older Gentleman) wrote in

Once, on a Triumph Trailblazer, across the Meadows in Edinburgh. The
Panda couldn't keep up on the grass and the bollards at the far end
stopped him anyway. I was very young... wish I could still ride like
that, <sigh>

 

Pip wrote;

Bloody hell, me too.
10 years old, coming down the hill out of Holland park, swerve to avoid
copper at the gates, shoot across Kensington High street, crash outside
Lyons corner cafe (as was) at the top of Earls Court road.
The bike had cow-horn handlebars and a speedo, and was totally fucked. I
had three lumps of gravel jammed under my left kneecap, so was only
partially fucked.
The copper said I must have been doing 60, but I only saw 55 on the
speedo.
The nice ladies in the corner cafe gave me a piece of cake cos they knew
my mum. They gave the copper a bollocking for picking on a little boy as
well.
Wonderful how time takes away the pain and leaves the good bits...