They're all out there, this weekend

You're as old as me and know EXACTLY what I'm wittering on about.

It's a hard thing to admit I know, but your hair gives the game away


--
Beav

VN 750
Zed 1000
OMF# 19

 

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

Well, there's a great deal to be said for mastering the machine, being
in control, taking corners at appropriate speeds, applying appropriate
braking, not headbutting armco...

Oh, what's the point? You wouldn't understand.

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - Podium Placed Ducati Race Engineer as featured in
Performance Bikes and Fast Bikes

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 (Falling apart) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha Vmax Honda ST1100 wiv trailer

 

.... Holding up the traffic

 

Where appropriate = as fast as you dare/the machine can cope with.
Honestly, even when I was first riding my 125[1] it was still all
about going as quickly as possible. 'Fast' is not an absolute, you
know.

<snips bait>

[1] Everyone else had a 250 - I thought the 125 was quick enough.
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..'_/_|_\_'. Ace (brucedotrogers a.t rochedotcom)
\`\ | /`/ GSX-R1000K3 (slightly broken, currently missing)
`\\ | //' BOTAFOT#3, SbS#2, UKRMMA#13, DFV#8, SKA#2, IBB#10
`\|/`
`

 

Jesus no. If I'd been about 75cm higher in the air and my body had
cleared the armco, my head would most likely not have remained
attached. Not in any meaningful way, certainly.

--
_______
..'_/_|_\_'. Ace (brucedotrogers a.t rochedotcom)
\`\ | /`/ GSX-R1000K3 (slightly broken, currently missing)
`\\ | //' BOTAFOT#3, SbS#2, UKRMMA#13, DFV#8, SKA#2, IBB#10
`\|/`
`

 

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

You're no fun any more.

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - Podium Placed Ducati Race Engineer as featured in
Performance Bikes and Fast Bikes

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 (Falling apart) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha Vmax Honda ST1100 wiv trailer

 

In the referenced article, (The Older Gentleman) writes:

I read things like this and think that maybe I'm not such a bad rider
after all. I'm not fast (I touch the ton occasionally on the Pan),
can't handle high winds and I'll never enter the knee-down Pantheon,
but I don't do 70 on motorways and I don't stay behind slow vehicles.

 

I try.

--
_______
..'_/_|_\_'. Ace (brucedotrogers a.t rochedotcom)
\`\ | /`/ GSX-R1000K3 (slightly broken, currently missing)
`\\ | //' BOTAFOT#3, SbS#2, UKRMMA#13, DFV#8, SKA#2, IBB#10
`\|/`
`

 

I had some fun this morning on the ST, taking the long way around. 70per
dual carriageway. Traffic doing between 30 and 80 depending on the cunting
trucks overtaking each other. White line between 60 and 110 with the
occasional exasperated trip up the hard shoulder.
It's good to get to site with an ear to ear grin.

Against it's design brief the ST4S may well be the best bike I've ever
owned, or at least equal to the GSXR1000K1/2.

 

I had to go up to Gatwick last week, A303, M3, M25 and there wasn't a
boring spot on it: the A303 is nice enough in its way and filtering on
the M25 is a treat at 5:00 in the evening, tucking in behind a local
rider.

 

In the "Kicking Fate in the goolies and running away" category, the
nominations are ...
--
| ___ Salad Dodger
|/ \
_/_____\_ GL1500SEV/CBR1100XXX/CBX1000Z
|_\_____/_| ..88203../..24080.../..31896.
(>|_|_|<) TPPFATUICG#7 DIAABTCOD#9 WG*
|__|_|__| BOTAFOT #70 BOTAFOF #09 PM#5
\ |^| / IbW#0 & KotIbW# BotTOS#6 GP#4
\|^|/ ANORAK#17 IbB#4 YTC#4 two#11
'^' RBR Clues: 00 Pts:0000 Miles:0000

 

SD banged the rocks together and they said :

From WUN earlier on today when asked "WTF happened then?";

He doesn't remember much at all. Coming up exit slip road off A1M, line
of traffic in inside lane, him passing it in outside lane, car
"appeared" in front of him, no room to do anything really. Next memory
is in hospital.

It would seem the car decided to pull out of the queue and did so
without looking, but he says he'll trust the statements of the
witnesses.

 

lol