EOSM 2006 hijack

DoetNietComputeren wrote

What are these "off motorway" speed limits of which you speak?

 

Happy birthday.

 

Well quite - I mean, speed limits onkly apply between the white lines
used by gatsos right?


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In uk.rec.motorcycles, YTC#1 amazed us all with this pearl of wisdom:

I agree a MOSM would be better; not that the E or B should change but
just that there should be a MOSM, too with beer and dancing girls etc.

 

Don't forget the wind and rain.

 

Carlisle is my parish, Nick - keep me informed.

 

Maybe it should be called OSM, or just SM

 

There's more info at <http://b12.batcave.net/bgn/index.html> - I'm
sure something will be posted closer to the time so we can see what
everyone is doing.

We still need to sort out overnight hotels, B&Bs or crash space for
the Jogle group. The arrangements for us to get to John o'Groats are
a bit more casual, but I've got over 800 miles to travel from Kent so
I'll probably do it over two days. I'll be travelling up with SeanH.
Big Dave is doing something similar, Scraggy is making his way from
somewhere near Wales. There are a lot of miles there.

 

Bit early sonny jim.........

 

I'll have forgotten by then, granddad.

 

http://groups.google.co.uk/group/uk.rec.motorcycles/msg/3a062e817130c7de?dmode=source

 

No, it's a fair estimate. Door-to-door for a couple of parties in the Beds
area worked out at about 40mph average. This is over A and B roads, some
dual carriageways, and an aggressive transit of the Milton Keynes
Metropolitan Area.

....on a Z200.

 

Champ wrote

Bollox.

See that is the trouble with you racer types, you haven't got a fucking
clue how to ride under a hundred miles an hour have you.

Ask a fucking courier, he'll tell you how to Make Progress. If it is
any help I used to average a tad under 35 on a 30 mile commute into and
out of Central London 5 days a week 40 odd weeks a year riding for two
hours a day in a yard wide gravel strewn band with NO fucking margin for
error and the couriers left me like I was standing still.

 

<waves>

 

Bloody kids tday.......no respec..............no self
esteem..............can't fekin ride a bike to save their lives.

Pah!
A good slap is what they need........

 

I beat a bloke on a FJ1300 across Brighton on my CG125 not so long ago.
I don't know what my speed was, but it was full CG125 steam ahead! Ahoy
you car drivers... oops... mind that door mirror... ))

 

Muck wrote

Piss taking aside the biggest problem with long distance high speed
stuff is maintaining the your concentration like your life depended on
it for hours at a time. Not everybody can do this, there is a lot of
them can't do a whole one let alone many. Mind you they tend not to
ride bikes anyway so it isn't an issue.

 

Champ wrote

That explains why you have a reputation from being quick in the past
then. Shame when it goes innit eh?

 

Hmm.. I ride at my speed, which is never high speed, so it's not really
an issue for me.

Hat off to the couriers though... I do keep an eye out for them and dive
into a suitable gap to let them past as and when.

 

Muck wrote

I ride at my speed, for everything else I use a cage.