Ride out complete: Being forced off the road by a car

Nick - I cannot for the life of me think how you remind me of any
situation I have been in or any other person I have ever met. You keep
putting me under this psychological analysis - I'd appreciate it if you
didn't bother.

I've never met you. If I make any assumptions it is from how you post. I
think we all recognise that written communication can all too readily be
misinterpreted as there is no non verbal communication to set a proper
context to the total communication process.

I will try my hardest not to reply to you as it is obviously causing all
the parties far too much distress and using too much MSN Messenger
bandwidth.

And yes I've had a crap day as well.

 

I love that guy.

 

I've had a great day, if that helps.

 

And me!

Fucking funny ****, too.

It was great.

 

AOL to what Dan says.

Plus, if you *cough* were to bin your bike during training, it is
explained to you in non-technical language how and why it happened.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Richard A

"You fucking prat!"

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of
the ability to unlearn old falsehoods.

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
SBS#39 OMF#6 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

 

I'm sure that if you ask nicely he'll let you be his bitch.

 

snip>

You seem to have hit the nail rather firmly there.

 

That's fine, Paul.

Paul, I certainly don't disregard what you say by any account. Like
most of the other advice here, it's quite sage and useful. I did
consider a reply to one of your posts as "Yes, Dad" but decided
against it. I may well be misinterpreting what you say and the
transference could be on my side, for example. I don't like to cause
upset but the way I speak to people IRL and on here can be reactionary
and sometimes impulsive and often reflects my mood. That's a personal
fault and I apologise for it. Perhaps I come across as rude and
perhaps I am.

But it's back to work tomorrow for more of the same!

Are you going to BoSM this year? If so I'd enjoy a natter with you.
I've said it before, you're one of the few UKRMers that I haven't met
that I'd like to get to know.

 

Oh do **** off.

 

The reason I asked for Pip's view is because he is realistic, fair and
clinical. A lot of what was said by others (and me) was quite
reactionary and opinionated. It's nice to have a different point of
view.

 

lol. I heard the other end of that phone conversation to Dave.

Dave almost lost his composure

P.

 

Oh no it isn't. I spent 2½ hours this afternoon with someone from our
supplier who was trying to persuade me to review fault data from over 2
years "which has just been found and has to be reviewed as it is wrong."
As my team has spent 2 years dealing with this unmitigated load of crap
and I had been told that we had dealt with all of the backlog my
patience has run out. The supplier was put on notice several weeks ago
that my patience was just about exhausted. Today we reached the end - in
Sweller terminology things got "a bit shouty".

It is now up to my supplier to take us to dispute if they think they can
actually establish if I or my team have done anything wrong. I wish them
the best of luck.

Highly unlikely. Your comment about a chat is noted and I'm sure it'll
happen at some point.

 

If anyone's going to be anyone's bitch, he'll be mine - everyone knows
that text messaging is for girls.

Real men make phone calls.

 

That's the Ginger Effect, see. Like putting the heid on a French car
driver.

You asked the opinion of the group, Nick. Everything posted here, by
implication, is asking for the opinion of others. I chose to give my
considered view of the incident as I saw it, from a POV tangential to
the OP. Just this once I was direct and honest, with no intent to
wind up or poke fun. I'm pleased that you could see this and really
pleased that you could accept what I wrote in the manner intended.

However, as anyone who knows me will tell you - I'm no Riding God.
I've nowhere near the experience of many posters here and I readily
acknowledge that uk.r.m. taught me to ride. Without the contributions
of the likes of Bear, AndyR and the BCB, I'd be strawberry jam by now.

I acknowledge my comparative lack of experience by absorbing
everything I can, when advice is offered to tohers as well as to me.
That is one reason that I made my contribution, rightly or wrongly, to
put something back in to the pot.

I think a lot about my riding. I run through scenarios and plan ways
around them and out of them, just so if something happens I may have a
plan all ready to go, as it were. I am an anal sonofabitch. I still
can't think of a way out of TNTvanman's assault on my Bandit though,
apart from what I did - brake early, brake hard - and jump.

If you are looking for reputedly the very best in paid-for training,
go to see Dave Corden. Many people here whom I respect as riders have
done his course and come back singing his praises as better (and
quicker) riders, probably smoother than they were before and with a
greater ability to recognise and plan around hazards.

As others have posted earlier in this thread, a rep like DC's doesn't
come easy and doesn't grow on trees. I can't think of anybody who
went on his courses (and some went twice) who didn't come back a wiser
rider. If I can afford the cash and the time I'll go this year.

 

Ay-fucking-men. Out today to blow the cobwebs away; felt like I
hadn't been on a bike for, well, months. This was, of course, because
I hadn't. Didn't take long for it to start coming back, although I
need some more encouragement to corner properly. Some people might
suggest this is normal for me.

BT, DT, ASTU[1]...

[1] Almost Stained The Underwear.

 

Verdigris said...

What's her name?

 

Would I?.....

Bollocks, don't come out with that bull now! It was partly my fault
for not telling you that that corner was a bit different.

I think I did..

--
Lesley
CBR600FW
SBS#11 (with oak-leaf cluster)
BOTAFOT#101A UKRMHRC#12
BONY#54P BOB#18
Real burds don't take hormones, they rage naturally

 

I'll take advantage of his absence (and if course it's most unlikely
he'll go ego-surfing on his return) and confess that his driving had
me hysterical the day we went to collect a takeaway through town. I
think it was the very early days of SAAB ownership and he was most
taken with the torque, you see. That, and the crap non-stickiness of
the front tyres.

Young Mr C managed to find every little collection of small gravel
around in a circuit of Flitwick, exiting every roundabout and junction
in a puff of road dust and a haze of inside front tyre smoke. It was
just like being seventeen again.

The **** ;-)

 

Me too. Absolutely brilliant.