How much diesel

on the road is considered hazardous?

Rode the B4011 Bicester to Thame yesterday and noticed a thin black ribbon
of something wet and shiny running along the road.

Thought nothing of it until the S Bend at Oakley, when the back end stepped
out by about 6".

Soiling of leathers ensued, followed by my riding style regressing by at
least 3 years [1] all the way to Thame, as I tride to dodge the fucking
thing.

I can only assume some form of agricultural vehicle with a dripping tank had
been along there before me.

Made riding the same route home in the dark quite un nerving too.

Does the road need to be soused in diesel for there to be a real problem, or
is a little bit just as dangerous?

[1] 3 Years ago I hadn't actually ridden a bike on the road.

--
Dan L (Oldbloke)
My bike 1996 Kawasaki ZR1100 Zephyr
M'boy's bike 2003 Honda NSR125R (Going)
Spare Bike 1990 Suzuki TS50X (Patio Ornament)
BOTAFOT #140 (KotL 2005), X-FOT#000, DIAABTCOD #26, BOMB#18 (slow)

 

Dan L came up with the following;:

If there is a bus depot nearby they are also a source. Around here the
local bus company fills the tanks absolutely brim-full, and the roads around
the depot to about a mile radius are a nightmare.

Little bits can be worse 'cos you often can't see them until the wheels go
out from under you. At least with a noticeable strip you can try to avoid
it.

 

Aaarrrgghh!

<rant>
That's what the clueless fucking cunty-bollocky shit-headed pantie-waste
arseholes from UNIVERSITY BUS and their affiliates do in Hatfield.

FUCKING STOP IT YOU WANKERS!
</r>

Trouble with our place is that it's on a private estate and Herts
Constabulary's finest (HQ is only three or so miles away...) seem
incapable/unwilling to do anything about it.

According to one copper I spoke to about it, unless thay actually see it
occurring, they can't do anything. Personally, I felt the clown in
question may just as well have said "I really can't be arsed, you
annoying, bike-riding ****" and I'd have known where I stood...

 

Enough to have you off.

 

I rode that the other day; not a road to have such challenges on... On
a road like that, I'd have been tempted to stop, get on the blower to
the local TrafPol and try to get 'em to sling some cement-dust or dress-
n-dry on it. But that's just me.

 

Paul - xxx wrote

The janitor I spoke to during the week about it blamed cage drivers
filling it to the brim. I did say "do you mean vans" and he said an
emphatic "No". Mind you we all know the extent of knowledge of most
plod don't we children?

There must be lots of it about because in the few minutes I was there a
truck with a vat load of fairy liquid turned up and another was
despatched to assist. That is two trucks with stuff just to clean up
diesel in the SE Essex area alone. Which is worth thinking about.

 

Wik wrote

You should, they become liable once they have been informed and once
they start becoming liable they will want plod to actually do something
about it.

 

Got to prove you phoned them though.

 

Does your mobile log each call?

 

Just ask for the log reference. If the operator had planned to fob you off, this
will stop 'em dead as they'll now have to create a log for the call, and show
that something's been done.

 

Wik? He'z just ziz guy, you know?

Its a pity there isn't some chemical that you can pour on to diesel
that makes it highly flammable.

I'm damn sure plod would do something about a few mile long trail of
flame on a road, and it'd be a damn site more obvious to bikers

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, Dan L amazed us all with this pearl of wisdom:

My riding regressed three years today. Fucking great it was, I haven't
looned like that since just before I wrote my Bandit off.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, Bear amazed us all with this pearl of wisdom:

It was fucking excellent, mucho stratcho, mucho squirmo and mucho "axle-
trampo" of the back under braking. I had a right fucking laugh and
nearly binned it twice

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Paul - xxx

It is amazing that with all their whinging about the cost of the stuff,
they can still afford to chuck it all over the road, isn't it?

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - Manufacturer of the "Champion-105" range of rearsets
and Ducati Race Engineer.

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
SBS#39 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha GTS1000

 

Wicked Uncle Nigel wrote

Obviously not costing them enough yet is it?

I'd write to My Member and complain but I am shit scared he would write
back again.



--
steve auvache
750 VT Shadow (something for the weekend)
Bindit 600 (was lost and now is found)
GS500E (small but perfectly formed)
mongvan (dehydrated)

 

At least Your Member isn't Michael Howard.