Timo goes green. Very green.

SteveH fascinated us all by saying...

This bit really did make me laugh loudly

 

Using the patented Mavis Bacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Ben Blaney

I am wrong a lot. You do know that, right?

Ah, would that it were not so, but you have the right of it.

UKRM does not count as "credible" for the purposes of this discussion,
OK?
--
Nigel
WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20

ZZR1100 and Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner" (No , I'm
not sure how that happened either).

 

It's true. Yesterday I was cut up by a guy driving a taxi that had a
Greek flag fluttering on the aerial. He drove up the middle of the road
with his hazard lights on, stopped in the middle of the road at a
junction, put his right hand indicator on then drove off. A hundred
yards later he put the left hand indicator on and immediately turned right.

He got categorised (very loudly) as "a twat".

Martin
UKMC

 

Ben Blaney came forth with the following in uk.rec.motorcycles

AOL

Large bus/truck in front - let them have the road
Hatty[1] in a metro - let them see the side of my big blue van as they cut
across two lanes on theroundabout for the straight line

[1] Bournemouth- full of them

 

Oh yeah, that happens lots, too - but this kind of thing is hardly an
argument in favour of HGV drivers being highly skilled and courteous.
[/QUOTE]
Umm, dare I say it, but if you are almost T-boning vehicles regularly
perhaps you should reasses exactly how you are riding?

--
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ZXR400SP
"Not bad for a Scouser"
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BOTAFOT#101A UKRMHRC#12
BONY#54P BOB#18

Un-cork me to reply

 

Ben Blaney was seen penning the following ode to ... whatever:

Lack of anticipation played a part because I wasn't anticipating that
he would be going that *slow*.

Slow, yes, but not careful. More in a get-out-of-the-way-here-I-come
kind of way. I've driven plenty of lorries so I know about the
restricted visibility and the (non)-handling you get around wet
roundabouts. It wasn't that, he was simply oblivious to his
surroundings. And that I didn't anticipate, because I've rarely come
across someone driving a bus or lorry like this.

*Proud*. Nice bite.

 

A lot of the time when I'm out and about something will happen and I'll
think 'fucking blind ****' and it's only later that I think no it's me
who was being the **** they were just driving normally.

 

Hmm. The other day, while driving a minibus full of children, we had
to stop to allow a heeuuge car transporter with 5 cars up (and many
empty spaces - it was one of the biggies) do a U-turn across the A4 (2
lanes each way at this point) in Reading. WTF? thought I. The children
were horrified. "He can't DO that!" they said. I told them they were
quite right. And we waited and waited, 'cos his U-turn turned into a
5-point turn, all the traffic was held up, until another truck driver
jumped out of his cab to help the bastard make it round without
clipping the street furniture or the parked lorry nearby with his
overhanging car at the front. What a fanny. As he finally ground
round, we could see the logo on the side of the cab "Sensible
Transport". How we laughed - especially the kiddies.

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

In a

50.1 ... 50.2 ... 50.3 ... 50.4 *bang*

sense?

 

Why?

 

Heh, nice.

Green is, of course, the only proper colour for Speed Triples.


You're right about the noise, mind; mine came equipped with the "medium
loud" low-level can.

That was very soon displaced by the "proper loud" high level carbon job.

Much more in character.

Good to hear that JL's didn't hand out one of those Ged-awful old things
they used to keep around as loan bikes...

 

Hmm.

Gah, they look *horrible* though.

Heh. I had a 750 Trident from them as a loaner once. A wonderful
machine, I reckoned. Revvy as ****, compared to the 900, and just enough
power to be able to thrash it round town without too many worries about
getting nicked. Shame about the vibrations passed to the mirrors.

 

[of high-level can on Speed Triple]

What?! Are you nuts? The "low-level" or regular can obscures the
gorgeousness of the single-sided swing-arm.

If you're gonna have a single-sider, you may at least /see/ the thing.

 

I think I am!

I have a single sided arm ATM, and I just don't agree, unless you're
talking about *proper* under seat cans, like a Ducati 748/9*6/etc

If I need to replace the exhaust on the VFR, I'll be putting on
something similar to what's there already, the OEM can.

To me, high level cans look truly *hom*, unless it's been designed to
accomodate 'em.

But, hey... I'm:

1. Nuts.
2. Slow.

So, er... wibbleflipdibbledo.

 

I've seen a number of aftermarket underseat jobs, too. Some, like the
BlackWidow and the Wolf setups for the Triumph look excellent. Never seen
it done to a VFR, mind.


Did see a 2002 R6 the other day with MV F4-style four exit underseat zorst
and that looked truly, truly gash.

Mined ewe, he also had those hideous iridium bulbs, an iridium screen,
iridium indicator lenses and an iridum visor. He probably had iridium
teeth and iridium contact-lenses, too.

What? That thing that Honda nicked off some boat somewhere?

Eww.

My VFR800 had a Micron high-level can on it and it looked and sounded the
dogs bits.

Made wheel-changes a piece of piss, too.

Quite. Each to their own.