I had a small van do similar to me at the traffic lights when I was on the BM. He found himself in the right turn only lane (tying to overtake people waiting patiently) and I was behind him going to turn right. He decided to back up to get space to get back into the other lane but didn't see me behind him. Luckily it was only at the end of his manoeuvre and he was nearly stopped, but the van still actually rode up onto my front wheel!
Luckily no damage was done.
Cheers, T i m
Odly enough the JML battery operated one works well for people with arthritis. Except for one significant detail, it's sold in a blister pack and I doubt if anyone with arthritis could get it out of the pack.
I was very sceptical about the JMP opener but we've had one since this time last year. It's still working on its original set of batteries. The weakness in the design is the battery cover which detaches itself far too often, on the positive side it's large and easy to replace.
Heh I also used to do Leicester to North Derbyshire on one, which was challenging on the hills. IIRC it had to be refilled about halfway.
Seconded or thirded or whatever. I've even used it to open corned beef and tins of sardines when the key has broken or the ring-pull has pulled off. For ring pull cans there's an excellent opener sold by Oxo BTW. It's one of their "Good Grips" range and looks like a small shepherd's crook. Engage a prong under the ring pull, rotate the large handle and the tin opens easily.
Avoid the manual "Good Grips" can opener BTW, it's s**te. As are the "Good Grips" knives which are made of tinfoil and the handle detaches while you are using the knife. The "Good Grips" spud peeler works like acharm if it is the "Y" shaped one and not at all if it is the other model which is a conventional peeler with a large handle.
LOL. We bought my 92 y/o MIL one, and *I* had trouble getting it out of the pack. She'd never have managed.
The A628 from Windle Edge towards the Flouch is in this video
Decades ago I was waiting in a Doctor's surgery and the only reading matter was ancient copies of Readers' Digest. There was an article which I think was by George Mikes which described the future for his children, naked, starving and whimpering in a cave while the entire fruits of civilisation lay just a fraction of a millimetre away behind an impenetrable layer of plastic.
I remember the fuel tank on my C50 had a capacity of 5.3 pints! I briefly owned a Honda C90 which looked very similar to the C50. But it was a very different machine, with much better performance and a large fuel tank.
I rode the C50 from Liverpool to Buxton going over the Cat and Fiddle Pass. It got most of the way up in second gear (of three) with first needed only for two or three steep bits. The descent was a lot easier but I had my first experience of brake fade - slightly scary.
Mind you, that was a lot better than my previous descent into Buxton where I ended up in a field after the front brake blocks on my bicycle had come out. My father had put on new ones for the journey, but he made the classic mistake of fitting them back to front. At the first serious brake application, they just popped out. :-(
179 mph on the A628, it is 111 mph. It's still stupidly fast, just nowhere near as stupid as it might have appeared.
Heh, I used to live up that way and had exactly the same experience for exactly the same reason. I ended up hitting a kerb and somersaulting over a drystone wall.
That's a bit like an unemployed person living with their family on benefits in a seedy council flat in poverty-stricken Tower Hamlets, and being able to see the conspicuous wealth of Canary Wharf less than a mile away from their window.
That'll be if the Greens get elected, will it?
In message , Bruce writes
110 along there?I'd call it making progress
Not that fast when you can see the road ahead round the bends
Hmmm ...
"We have a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark and we're wearing SunGlasses, Hit It! "
It might have been the same corner, same kerb and same wall. ;-)
Some years later, I was returning home in fog westbound over the Cat and Fiddle, and hit something/someone that I never saw. My passenger was also looking out but saw nothing - there was just a heavy bump.
Stopped the car, searched the road behind, then the verge, then after a few minutes we found a sheep, upside down in a shallow drainage ditch and not moving, presumed dead. We pulled it out by its legs (it was bloody heavy!) and it suddenly sprang to life, rolled over and trotted off, disappearing into the murk.
No sign of damage to the car - a Renault 5, but the following morning I noticed the front bumper bad snapped almost in half.
You don't spot the overtaking on blind corners?
Not sure it is kph. From 1.18 minutes to the end (1.55min) of the video the bike passes between two laybys. That is 37 seconds. The odometer on my van gives the distance between the twos laybys as 1.4 miles.
1.4 miles in 37 seconds is an average of 136mph. Considering I can piss 90mph down that hill in a diesel Combo I doubt that the display is in kph.It should be easy enough to check the distances using google earth.
Cheers
Adam
Not for me thanks..
I spent a month in a Neuro intensive care unit last year due to a fall from height, not that high either but its what you hit on the way down;!!
Seems bikers are their bread 'n butter customers in such places;!....
I was in the car with my father driving on a trip back from the Cat & Fiddle to Buxton and the fog came down, so thick we couldn't see the road ahead. In places there were no cat's eyes or white lines so he was driving by following the kerb. After a time we noticed that the road was getting bumpy then trees loomed out of the fog close on both sides. He stopped the car and we got out to see where we were. He'd followd the kerb but had forgotten about the side road leading down towards Errwood reservoir. We were not far from Errwood Hall at the time.
Or the LibDems on current showing around these parts. They are continuing with their policy of closing the centre of Winchester to traffic by blocking all roads and restricting the width of the one-way system to a single lane. No doubt they will then impose a "necessary" congestion charge.
No, the cranks were fixed relative to each other. You set them horizontal when not pedaling, left pedal to the front. Rear brake was activated by back-pedaling.
Indeed it was. Lots of earthmovers.
Interesting that it has a left hand thread.
Chris
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