Cyclists waste petrol

[Peter Keller]

yes and when the lycra slips ....

[Bob Eager]

Uses a microscopic amount of fuel if you have auto-stop.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Uses significant amounts getting back up to speed.

Take a 1 tonne car at 30 mph (13m/s). mks system makes the KE 500* 13^2 = 84,500 J or about 6cc of diesel at 33% efficiency.

Each stop is costing you about 1p

[Bob Eager]

That may be, but a different cost to sitting stationary.

[Jimmy Wilkinson Knife]

And I laugh.

[Jimmy Wilkinson Knife]

Anyone working for a council is an idiot, not sure how that happens, but they have no common sense at all. Round here, next to a primary school, they've rebuilt the entire junction (they claim for safety) and not put any kind of markings on it at all. Nobody knows which road has priority and I've seen several near misses and hooting of horns. One day some kids are going to be squashed and I hope a council moron gets jailed for manslaughter.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Well yes, sitting staionary in a garage costs nothing.

Sitting stationary because you have to give way to a cyclist costs a lot.

CVompared with going a steady 30mph

[Jimmy Wilkinson Knife]

Why on earth would you want to drive as slow as 30mph?!

[rbowman]

You left a few out... When I'm walking in the woods I hate mountain bikers, unless I'm on a mountain bike of course. If I'm on my dualsport motorcycle, both are unacceptable. Horses are a pain in the ass no matter what my mode of transportation is. That goes double if I'm trying to ride the damn thing.

Oh, and quads suck. Until I get too old to deal with two wheels and then I guess a quad would be okay.

[Jimmy Wilkinson Knife]

I really pissed off a horserider once. I was driving a very old Range Rover automatic which had a conversion to LPG. It very often misfired, made loud bangs, and changed gear without warning. I managed to cause a small explosion and a loud revving of the engine just as I passed a horserider coming the other way along a narrow country road. The horse shit itself, and so did the rider.

[rbowman]

I've been avoiding a project that's been going on all summer but I finally took that street. It's great! They replaced two straightforward entrance/exit ramps with two small roundabouts back to back. It's a hoot on a bike!

Unfortunately roundabouts are not native to this part of the country and people don't deal with them too well.

[rbowman]

I did better than that... I was coming down a narrow road that went past a dude ranch on my Harley. Coming the other was was a herd of dudes on their docile refugees from a canning factory led by a genuine wild west cowboy. Shithead's horse had a nervous breakdown while the guests' nags barely roused from their stupor.

it doesn't take much to set them off. I've worked with horses enough to know most of them are a neurotic bundle of nerves. If the horse can't handle public roads, trailer it to a nice quiet horse trail someplace.

[Jimmy Wilkinson Knife]

Roundabouts are brilliant, no lights to wait for when there;s nothing coming the other way, there's always someone using the junction.

And I love cutting in front of fuckwits who don't bother indicating right (in your case I guess left).

[TMS320]

Motor vehicles make you sit stationary at junctions. Bicycles only make you slow down between them.

[Jimmy Wilkinson Knife]

Just as bad.

[T i m]

I'm guessing you mean an R80RS?

R (series), 80 (800cc) RS (Renn/Reisesport (Sports tourer)).

I have a R80 (naked R series 800cc aircooled twin) and a R100RT (1000cc Reise (Travel) Tourer).

But seem to be selling well, because they are very competent? I think things like this go though several phases of complexity ... from yer basic points and carbs, to some electronics but little in the way of any intelligent diagnostics to the all singing computer controlled thingy that are relatively easy to diagnose / tune (with the right kit).

When the clutch splines stripped on my R100RT at 35K miles I borrowed a Yamaha 900 Diversion for a week with the thought of replacing the RT with such.

I only road the 900 Divvy twice in the week I had it and whilst it was very good at what it did, it wasn't what I wanted from my motorcycling (no 'character').

Cheers, T i m.

[Jimmy Wilkinson Knife]

Indeed. Horses on roads were fine, before the invention of the motor car.