traf pol (paging the daily mailisti?)

Getting out of the car (or off the bike) has that effect however large or
small you are IME. Suddenly, it's personal, and the heroic pilot who's been
effing and blinding and trying to shunt you into the oncoming traffic isn't
so brave any more. You have to be in a stationary queue with no prospect of
escape for this to work properly, though.

 

None whatsoever.

It doesn't matter if Mr Plod speaks to them nicely, sends them flowers
and a box of choccies with a nice little note. They won't get it.

If you're feeling vulnerable, it's time to trade up to big 4x4 with
crash bars.

When drivers cause me near death experiences I take a deap breath and
wait for the opportunity to blast off into the horizon so there is at
least several vehicles between me and the crash which is inevitably
going to happen.

The lack of mirror signal mirror manouver in the driving population is
such a source of deep disappointment to me every day that I don't even
bother with the horn or the finger anymore.

Even when Mr Plod is sitting at the end of the bus lanes for their
regular keep the bus lane clear duty, the merging lanes are an
illustration of fuckwittery of the first order.

So the only solution is to ride your bike positively.

 

TBF that was me in the 1980's so I'm not sure it got worse. Perhaps it
has become more common? and anyone who says access to firearms has
become easier now was obviously sleeping then. The penalties for getting
tripped up are a dozen times worse now too.

Mostly I see women driving these hideous abortions. Are they blind?

Which brings us back around to Burnt!!

 

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

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6500087.stm

Uh-huh.

<nods>

Yes, it all makes a certain kind of sense.

--
Wounded Uncle Nigel - Podium Placed Ducati Race Engineer as featured in
Performance Bikes and Fast Bikes

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
SBS#39 OMF#6 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (Falling apart) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha Vmax Honda ST1100 wiv trailer

 

Hmm. I thought under the circumstances the only realistic course of
action was to be exceedingly aggressive in the hope the chap would think
I was a nutter and not bop me. Fortunately this worked, at least on
*this* occasion. One day though someone will take umbrage and lay into
me, can't say I'd really blame them either...

 

What an odd coincidence about teeth and food. I 18 years old and on a
training course in digs in Bristol for me yoofs B course and I woke up
in the morning wiv raging toofache and a pillow covered in blood and one
of me wisdom teeth had come through and really it needed seeing to and
there was two dentists in this village I was in and they both had market
day off and so I had to go to the hospital in Bristol and wait until 12
o'clock until this really nice dentist just cut the gum with a knife and
all the pain went away and I went out and had a crunchy cheese roll and
some of their lovely beer to celebrate and I loved it cos I was
downright hungry.

 

Is it cold in Sunny Essex or have you turned into some sort of Smurf?

 

No it is reference to a motorcycle what I have had for a couple of years
I think now namely a 97 GS500E in a rather feltching shade of Bloo.
Lots of people put stuff like that in their sigs. The bit about the
built in safety features refer not only to it being Bloo and thus by
scientific proof dog fucking slow but also having lost two cylinders,
and half a hundred horses in the design process and thus being a rather
modestly performing machine by the normal standards of boasting in ukrm
I get to ride it at full throttle everywhere I go and am not scared
shitless of it and how many round here can honestly say that.

 

It does, very much so.
Thanks.