lahndahn

White Pans with stripes have an automatic traffic clearing beam.

The mirrors are wider than the panniers.

 

WHAT?

 

Fucking dangerous bastard.

 

I was gently waiting at lights on my B6 when the earth began to shake
and looked in mirrors and this lovely blue Yamaha came up behind me...

Shock and awe

Louder pipes would be recommended.

Hj

 

Had this several times in Brum today. It's strange but it never seems
to happen when I use the western approaches into the centre from the
M5, but happens a lot on the southern route if I go up/back through the
Cotswolds instead.

I went up this morning on the M5 route, & got pulled by the most
officious **** of a copper it's ever been my displeasure to meet. Then
on the way back this evening, some stupid bitch decided to change lanes
on a roundabout without looking & side-swiped me. I managed to stay on
thankfully, & the only damage was to her mirror where she rammed it
into my hip. So not a great day's biking, although the hooning on Fish
Hill on the way home almost made up for it.

--
Krusty

'03 Tiger 955i
'02 MV Senna (for sale) '96 Tiger (for sale)
'79 Fantic Hiro 250 (for sale) '81 Corvette (for sale)

 

What, the horn doesn't work, there isn't a map on the TFL site, a badly
adjusted HID doesn't get noticed, there aren't parallel routes to dodge the
choke points (if you can be bothered to find 'em), or a Pan's twice as wide
as a ZZR? There's definitely more NSL on the way out of town, where the
inbound's down to 50 (from the services in, at least).

And by the way, how often do *you* commute into London? On a bike, that is,
not a lardy Ringe Raver Vague.

Dave H.

PS - learn to snip, there's a good chap.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Dave H.

Do that to me and I'll ram you, leaving you lying in the gutter moaning
"God, my legs, I'm paralysed!".

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - "He's hopeless, but he's honest"

I have already made the greatest contribution to the fight against climate
change that I can make: I have decided not to breed. Now quit bugging me and
go and talk to the Catholics.

 

meh, that's your problem, north london, innit

 

Go on, have a guess :0)

Well-adjusted HIDs are fucking cracking though, shame a lot of idiots can't
be arsed to do it right (method's no.12 in "101 uses for a laser level").
I've reached the age where I need good lights, unfortunately, and got used
to HIDs before I ditched the car (commuting between home in Hampshire and
town took an extra 45 minutes each way, I'd rather spend that 45 mins in bed
or otherwise doing sommat I enjoy rather than swearing at the traffic)

Dave H.

 

People on proper bikes admire you, people on cycles hate you, people in
cars fear you. Is this not the perfect situation?

 

**** you, you fucking cocksucking ****. You know nothing.

 

Coppers can hear you coming from fucking miles off and get time to
finish their tea _and_ their donut before getting the speed gun ready?

 

For starters, you use main beam ffs. the rest speaks for itself.

Have a pop at my car, i don't drive it around blinding every **** on the
road you fool.
--


Nige,

BMW K1200S
Range Rover Vogue
Aprilia RSV Mille

 

1. you can't hear anything coming from miles off in london.
2. you can't catch anything filtering with a speed gun.
3. the coppers in london are totally uninterested in traffic (except when
they have a special "awareness" day) and you can only get them out of bed
with promises of shooting brazilian plumbers.

 

<waves fixed penalty notice hand-issued by London copper>

Beg pardon, but you're talking bollocks.

 

But you're special.

 

Tallking of fines, I realised yesterday that the tax on the Sprint ST
had run out. In March.

And I haven't yet changed the address on the V5C, so any reminder or
other letters just won't have got to me yet.

Bugger.

 

All my MOTs, tax and expiry dates are in my Outlook calendar as
reminders and I have my phone synced against that. Haven't forgotten
since I went 4 months without insurance around 2001.

 

Look, I'm just a software developer, as you well know. Where would I
be if I went round using modern technology outside of the working
environment, eh?

On the road to Geekdom, that's where.

 

whatever.

I noticed a couple of days before the BOSM that the KTM hadn't been
taxed for 9 months. I hadn't received any letters on the subject
(despite having updated the V5C when I bought it last June), so I just
taxed it from the start of April and moved on with my life.