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On 2 Dec 2003 08:24:42 GMT, "sweller" <> bored us
all completely to death with wittery prose along the lines of:

****, you do *not* want to ride around most of the roads in Poland.
DAMHIK,IJD, OK

 

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Although never having driven in Poland I have in other similar places
(The Peoples Democratic Republic of East Sussex for one), so have a very
good idea what state they were in the late eighties and how 10 years of
extensive infrastructure investment and renewal would have improved them.

Poland! Poland! Poland!
(but with stronger wheel rims)

 

On 10 Dec 2003 08:25:32 GMT, "sweller" <> bored
us all completely to death with wittery prose along the lines of:

Funny you say that. Years ago, a friend of mine was riding around
Poland on a Bonny and happened to hit a fsck off big pot hole that
fucked the front wheel rim.

Ordering parts where next to impossible, with an umpteen month waiting
time. The garage where my mate took the bike ended up repairing the
rim, with typical Eastern European knowledge. Got him back on the road
within a couple of days.

One thing for the Poles and Communism. Nothing went to waste and
repair skills were (and probably still are) second to none.

 

Crikey, you took your time.

Anyway, there's too much traffic, too many villages etc on that. The
amazing thing about the N71 is how little traffic it has.

 

sweller was seen penning the following ode to ... whatever:

And an off-road race prepared chassis. For road riding that is. SWMBO
and myself went to Poland last year to look for her Grandad's grave[1]
and the state of the roads - especially the motorways - beggars
belief.

We got off the Motorway because we didn't dare to go faster than about
25-30mph for fear of losing the rear axle. I mean, you could hear it
hit the bump stops at that speed. Constantly.

[1] Didn't find it. Found what's left of the cemetary but appearantly
the Red Army destroyed most of it.

 

On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 20:29:05 +0000, Timo Geusch
<> bored us all completely to death with
wittery prose along the lines of:

There are a few new 'motorways' springing up. Notably one between
Warsaw and Gdansk. It's pretty good actually. But (since the last time
I was there, three or four years ago), there weren't too many new
roads.

When I was there, most of them were restricted to 90kph on the long
stretches too. And the Police were real bastards and over-zealous with
the fines.

It helped to have two wallets. The main one hidden and the other one
with only a few zloty (about 100z) max. That way, when I got pulled, I
did the tourist thing and pleaded ignorance. I also said 'Nei rakunek
[1]' which means 'No receipt'. That way the fine was divided by two
automagically.

Saying that, I loved the place. Best work mission I've ever done in
Europe. I'd love to go back.

They did a lot of that. :-(

[1] Don't fsking ask me to spell that in Polish