Monz's Tip of the Day

When lofting long (long enough for the front wheel to stop spinning) mingers
in the pissing rain, be prepared for the front tyre to **** off on a tangent
to your intended course on landing.

Does anyone know if you can soak leathers...

mitigation:
Came out of work after an 11 hour night shift to ride home in the pissing
rain ( After about 10 minutes of ever more enthusiastic hooning was
really enjoying the ride and came upon the by-pass, thinks... tyres are nice
and warm... just loft one for grin value, just as I was snicking third it
dawned on me that there was likely to be slightly less traction than normal
when the front retouched and whilst is usually smokes on a dry road I knew
things were going to be slightly different this time. Thank you Mr
Bridgestone, even though your 014 initially set off sideways it caught up
soon enough for me to save it, but it was a close one. Another valuable
lesson learned me thinks.

 

<flip wibble alert>

Would it have helped if you were very gentle with the landing, or made it
worse?

</fwa>

 

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

<wibble flip, too>

FWIW, airline pilots are trained to smack it down hard on a wet runway,
to minimise the aquaplaning risk.

--
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
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

 

Same with trains.

 

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

You do worry me sometimes.

Mind you, if anyone was going to able to claim to have landed a train,
you're probably that man.

--
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
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

 

Thanks. Saved me a post.

Doh!

--
Alex
BMW R1150GS
DIAABTCOD#3 MSWF#4 UKRMFBC#6 Ibw#35 BOB#8
http://www.team-ukrm.co.uk
Windy's "little soldier"

 

Intercity Smackdown.

 

Ermmm, that was a fib, you do know that, don't you?

I've been working a steam engine which was travelling at some speed that
became derailed; I honestly thought the world had ended. The driver
looked over and through blurry two peas being shook in a tin eyes shouted
"Do you think we should stop?" my reply was "If you think so".

Almost as scary as when the pony spring came through the footplate - by
**** I got a headache as I was bashed into the cab roof and the
floorboards splintered about me. Same driver that time.

In fact it was with that same driver we drove through Aberystwyth shed
doors leaving a little steam engine shaped hole.

<happy sigh> I think he's retired now.

 

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

What worried me was that I was only *fairly* sure.

Oh Christ, I hope so. It's bad enough with the terrorists trying to kill
us, without the hired help starting.

--
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
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

 

<serious>
Wet spots can cause the bogie suspension to compress enough to bottom out
and have you out the seat if you hit them hard enough.

I honestly nearly shit myself when I did it at 90 with a 12 car '63 stock.

 

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

Fark. I thought they were just something to try to make sure the missus
sleeps in.

--
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
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

 

sweller says...

Sounds like a job for a well set up Ohlins shock.

 

That must be the solution to the conspiracy theory thread recently on
uk.rec.cycling.
Apparently there was a steam engine size hole in the Pentagon rather than
a 757 shaped one, and a truck was seen covering up with sand the two
gouges on the lawn at 4' 8 1/2" spacing.

 

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

Ahah! Aslef Q'uaida.

--
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
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

 

? What is that?

 

oOOOo

The above is a 2-6-2 wheel formation [1]; the big wheels are driven and
coupled together; the two wheels (but we only see one side in the figure)
at the front are undriven and known as the leading pony and the two
undriven wheels at the rear are the trailing pony.

On these particular locos [2] the trailing pony is under the cab and
suspended on a very big transverse leaf spring. Which broke and came
through floor.

To my surprise.


[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whyte_notation
[2] oddly the best pictures I can find are of this model:
http://www.roundhouse-eng.com/rheidol.htm

 

On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 22:49:28 +0100, "sweller"

And my best memories of racing with Team UKRM in 2005 will be? No
contest, listening to Swellers 'train tales' in the bar.

 

#Baby love, ooooo

Ah; now if you'd said 'bogies', I'd have known. Or is 'bogie' a term
only used for carriage wheel assemblies?

There is that. A pony up the chuff is always a shock.

 

Normally yes, easy way is bogies have more than one axle. Applicable to
both coaches and locos.

 

Es muy loco! [1]

Phil.

[1] This is almost the total extent of my Spanish. Other than "No hablo
Espaniol".