5 Most Stupid Things

Steve Brassett wrote:
[snip]

Fairy nuff, just call me Mr. No-Alarm.

 

Otis said...

In the UK, priority is given to those people who are on your right, so
in your case in the US, those on your left. This mainly means that if
you are first onto the roundabout, then you have the right of way.

This is how it is in parts of France[1] and some other European
countries, to my mind it totally defeats the whole point of a
roundabout. That being, that the traffic is meant to flow smoothly
around the centre, with traffic joining and exiting the roundabout
without any interruption. If you have to stop on the roundabout, for
whatever reason, it messes up the flow.

[1] Not all, on a recent trip to the south of France I saw some
roundabouts that were sticking to the old system of 'piority to the
right', and others where the priority was given to the left. It gets
confusing sometimes if you aren't a local.

 

1.Take two hours to ride from TCR to Acton in heavy snow, two-up, on a
CBR1000FL, involving speedway style slides down Ladbroke Grove,etc.
Then fall off outside your front door.

2. Neglect to refit gudgeon pin circlips when rebuilding your TS185's
top end, hours after getting the thing rebored from when you let it
run out of two stroke oil.

3. Start a KH500 inside a closed garage.

4. Promise to take your Z750E1 back "next Monday" to Bike Techniques
in Clapham to have the frame straightened following an altercation
with a GPO Sherpa, and go to the TT for a fortnight instead.

5. Pull a near-vertical wheelie over a bridge, whilst pissed, with 24
x 25cl bottles of French beer stuffed down the front of your leathers.

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Are you from the Middle Ages?

 

Loads more would be lurvly, ta!

(Torn between resolution to avoid all such stupidity, and desire to Do The
Stupid Thing To End All Stupid Things, And Of The Telling Thereof On Usenet
There Shall Be No End.)

 

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Ride a mate's bike (that she'd entrusted with you while off on holiday),
pissed out of your tree, stark bollock naked, into Grenoble and back out
again, in temperatures around five degrees C.

 

Next Thread "Paging Robbo".

I thought, "Well, that's #1 taken care of".
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1. Borrow friends Raptor and slide it into a wall
2. Ignore bloody big hole in leg
3. Ignore bloody big hole in leg
4. Ignore bloody big hole in leg
5. Ignore bloody big hole in leg

 

Is that you Bear?


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The speccy Geordie twat.

 

(Thinks. Was the scrofula the giveaway? Or was it the "Ding-a-ling.
Unclean!")

Nah, just a daft postmodernist with Luddite tendancies.

 

**** off, ****

 

Must be.

 

1. Fit a brand new MX tyre to the rear of your R80/GS in Dartford, then
head off towards Brecon for a weeks trailriding, stopping when you reach
the M4 to investigate the slightly strange handling, only to discover
all the knobs & rubber have ripped out the center of the tyre leaving a
nice circle of fabric with which to grip the road.

2. Ignore what you discovered in [1], and continue to Brecon anyway.

3. Lend a mate one of your panniers to strap on his pillion seat when in
Holland for the TT, only for it to fall off somewhere between Groningen
& Amsterdam, complete with passport, race ticket & wallet.

4. Spend the rest of the day crawling along at walking pace, peering
into dykes for signs of floating panniers, rather than just killing your
mate.

5. Not on a bike, but... pull onto the hard shoulder of the M25 when
your Saab 900 breaks down, pop the bonnet, and lean over the engine to
take a look, using the turbo unit as a hand rest.

 

So you say. I reckon you had a choice between braking and crashing naked
into the nettles, and went for the option that involved the least
barebacking.

 

1) Falling into a ditch with a Harley Davidson landing on top of me.
2) Buying a Harley Davidson and actually riding it.
3) Wheelying a Harley Davidson and snapping the drive belt
4) Getting caught doing a 100MPH+ Wheelie up the A1M [1]
5) Scaring a blokes wife with Gowerschool students.


[1] Got let off with a wagged finger and a lecture.

 

That must have been like having the set of Scrap Heap Challenge fall on top
of you. Ouch! ;-p

COM

You can wheelie a Harley?
What, there's no Cherenkov radiation, nutrino detectors, W particles, or
orgone accumulators stopping you?

Not on a Harley one assumes

I'd call that a result, wouldn't you?

 

It's a famous story.

Nope a Harley WILL wheelie.

Aye it was.

 

How long ago did you use it? It's rather nice now....

 

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

Is that the one that's gone toll-road? That's a nice bit of tarmac, that
is. I should be on there (if a cunning plan pans out) in March.

 

<snort>
<chuckle>
<spits tea>

Bwhahahaha...

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