Filtering

I have issues with giving verbal. Last year I ranted at a car, then a really
old fella stepped out
and wanted to fight me in the middle of Sainsbury's car park.
I faced three options;
1, fight and win, look like a **** for duffing up an old duffer.
2, fight and lose and look like a **** for getting beaten up by an old
duffer.
3, drive off.

I chose 3.

 

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Exactly. I always think it's a fair trade: they can sit in their
comfy car, in a comfy seat, cossetted by the caress of warm air
flowing from the heater and sweet, sweet music from their stereo.

I'm perched on a machine that wants to kill me, clinging to a freezing
tank of freezing petrol; controlling my breathing and my balance,
scanning for spilled diesel and cat's eyes; working throttle with
great control and slipping the clutch incrementally - and pissing past
them with a grin on my face.

Works for me.

Incidentally, I've been running a gimpy mate about a bit recently, on
a replica trip to the one I used to make to physio sessions. The
difference is, I used the bike each time and now I have to use the
car. The journey took 15 minutes max on the bike, takes 25 in the
car.

Popping into town on errands while I'm there now means 20 minutes
tossing about finding a space, then finding a ticket machine, paying
for it and then walking to where I want to be. Bike-borne, I was into
exactly where I wanted to be in less than five minutes, land the bike
virtually anywhere as bikes park free and then by the time I had
gloves and lid off I was where I needed to be.

On the return trip it takes 15 minutes to get out of town, then 25
minutes following the crocodile at max 45mph down the gatso-strewn A6.
On the bike it's a 5-minute zip across the town centre and ten minutes
well-spent satisfying the overtaking urge by the direct route, or an
hour in the sunshine down the lanes ;-)

No comparison - bikes rock.

 

Pip said...

Best bit is the Gatsos you mention are actually Truvelos, so can't clock
an oncoming bike.

Indeed.

 

I think you've posted that to the wrong group. We all know that
already!

 

Linger wrote

<smug> Works every time it does.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, Linger belched forth and ejected the following:

It's the fella you want to be giving verbal to, not the car

Also, I tend not to give verbal unless I am affronted in some way first.

"You'd never catch me, you wrinkly old ****"

:0)

 

Whinging Courier said...

Like some idiot giving you the finger as you ride through Acton?

 

He was even older than you.

 

Linger wrote

Don't be fooled by appearances, I am older than I look.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, Lozzo belched forth and ejected the following:

Hahahaha!

Yes!

Hahahahaha!

BTW, I made a point of clocking the first part of your reggo number just
incase I ever see you <G>

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Linger

"Because I don't have to, you thick ****."

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the ability to unlearn old falsehoods.

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Whinging Courier said...

PY03[1], silver Golf with 'SD'[2] badges on the boot. I'm told it'll be
changed soon for a newer, bigger, better specced car.

[1] Our firm has 10 Golfs with this prefix, 2 of which are regularly
seen in London. Make sure you get the right car, mine has a company
sticker below the VW badge on the boot.
[2] I lost the 'i' badge when I was cleaning it and bearing in mind the
amount of weight I've put on thought it was rather apposite.

 

steve auvache said...

If you were older than you looked you'd be dead.

 

Lozzo wrote

What do you mean, this isn't purgatory?

 

Purgatory has been cancelled.

It's hell already.

 

average

 

It terrified me.

Rabbits and headlights an' all that.

 

Slow and very average. I thought I was a bit mental at filtering and now I
realise that I am a total loon.

Peter M

CBR6

 

Dan L wrote

Familiar?

He did some things that I do and some I don't. Although I doubt I could
have ridden as far round here as he did round there and see as few cages
changing lanes.

 

He was getting close to other vehicles and I thought he was taking a
few chances going between lorries but otherwise it wasn't all that
spectacular. I've seen people filtering at very high speeds on
motorways with the traffic varying from 50mph to standstill when the
bikes were using the hard shoulder if the gaps between lanes were too
small. It's ok as long as you have trust in your own ability and the
drivers failure to spot you and panic.