Phew.

May well have been ANPR rather than speed, of course.

 

Don't be silly - that was in the Black Maria, back in the days when
crims were honest enough to stay nicked on trust on the drive back to
the station.

 

Omega was last produced in 2003. Since replaced with the Signum and
recently the Insignia.

So, wise to be suspicious of large Vauxhall saloons, unless they are being
used by undertakers, who are the only other people I've seen using new
Omega sized Vauxhalls.

 

True

But I doubt it.

Everyone on the M6 Toll has paid.... therefore an obligation to speed

 

You useless bugger. You could have had a cuppa.

P.

 

After my bollocking in the back of a Volvo S60R last year I got from
the copper "Litre bike eh? I'm glad you didn't go when you saw our
lights otherwise we wouldn't have got you".

I kept my mouth shut too.

I now assume they had no plate etc on video as I've not heard anything
about it a year later.

 

I was living in a cottage in Ayrshire, overlooking a ~10 acre field when
one night I was aware of lights bouncing up and down in the darkness
outside, down and along the field. One set of lights came up by the
cottage to the exit and fucked off, the other set stayed down there.
I went down for a look and found a local plod car firmly stuck in the
bed of the drained lake - not so well drained as it turned out.
They'd been chasing a scrote of course, and got well glued in, so asked
me if I could pass on a request to the farmer to come and unstick them
with his tractor.
Fair enough, I thought, and went up to the farmhouse at the end of the
track to ask him. I was a little bit surprised when the two farming
brothers said something along the lines of, "They can **** off, not
after taking our shotgun off us last year."
Plod wasn't very happy, but I leavened the bad news slightly by simply
telling them the tractor was down. Eventually a tractor turned up from a
neighbouring farm and ... got stuck.

Another one turned up ... and got stuck...

The third one was a big bastard... with big fuckoff wiiiiiddddeeee tyres
and those load spreading cages on the wheels. Turns out the driver
didn't really need them because he kept well out of the shite and used a
longer rope - **** knows why this didn't occur to any of the brainiacs
before.

By this time the original crew of the cop car had fucked off home as
their shift was finished, so the crew that was to take over the car had
to immediately get covered in shite in the retrieval process - lovely
start to their shift they thought, according to their comments.
--
Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a

"It's a moron working with power tools.
How much more suspenseful can you get?"
- House

 

It is, and they are quite fast. They use at least one in N. Herts. I
had a good look at one when I was waiting to get in the back door of
Hitchin police station recently.

 

That's so weird, I hadn't read that when I sent my last post. Is there
a theme here, UKRM and the back door to cop shops?

 

Ah. I've finally figured it out. You're a wannabe. You're close to
forty which is OK as far as most UK police forces are concerned, but
you're probably barred either due to past convictions, or health reasons.

So you live out your fantasies on UKRM, inventing 'friends' who've
served with various constabularies and / or military special forces
units, and who've been involved in every big 'event' of the past
half-century.

It must be hell to be you.

D.

 

You have to wonder...

 

Been meaning to, but been busy, and tired.

 

BTDT. Nice innit?

--
Nige, 'That's not my name'

Range Rover Td6 Vogue
BMW K1200S (off soon)
Suzuki GSX-R1000 K3
Focus ST3 (off soon)
Audi A3 Cab
BMW F800GS

 

**** knows, it was a car. I can recognise BMWs that are more than 5
years old and Vauxhalls and Fords from 15 years back (the days of
company cars. sigh). But I've little interest in cars and don't really
pay much attention to be honest.

 

That's my take. The road was free (when I got to it) a few miles on.

I've never had needed to adjust mine. Having looked at the Clymer and
BMW factory manuals I've got... **** knows. There isn't an idle screw
thing on the throttle mechanism in the throttle bodies that the K100/75
8V lumps have. So...

I'd start by balancing the injectors. Then if it was a real issue I'd
(probably) try to adjust the idle speed by taking up a little slack in
the throttle cable, or some bodge in the throttle bodies jamming them
open slightly.

Sorry it's not much help!

 

Make sure there are no intake air leaks. In the centre of the throttle bank
there should be an idle adjustment screw IIRC.

 

writes

While pottering along an empty motorway at an almost legal 80+ and I was
over taken by a police car that was really shifting.
I know I should have seen him in my mirrors.

He pulls in, in front of me and a magic electric sign in the back window
comes up with 'POLICE'.

Bugger thought I.

Then comes up 'Biker Pull off at the next slip road'.

Double bugger I thought.

Then comes up 'Motorway blocked ahead with accident'

Then he pisses off at high speed.

Result thinks I and I pulled off at the next slip road.
Nice to think he took the trouble.

 

I'm pretty certain there isn't an idle adjuster there on the K1100.
There is on the K100 and K75 though.

 

So'm I, because I wasted enough time looking for one.

Hm... OK, the older Ks used the LE-Jetronic FI system didn't they? And
the later ones went to Motronic. I bet you can only adjust the tickover
with a laptop or something.