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Forum: Motorcycling Topic: Filtering |
| Speedy23 |
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Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 16:39
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| As I've said before on another post: Have your headlight on main beam and "swerve" by rocking the bike side to side while filtering. This ensures that your headlight "flashes" in side mirrors making you more noticeable when some twat decides they are going to change lanes. Assum... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Driving ban for drunk passenger (not the Daily Mail story) |
| Speedy23 |
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Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2008 18:57
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| [/quote] So are you saying that my arrest 3 years ago for failure to provide was illegal?[/quote] Strangely enough, yes :D .....if your car couldn't be moved without a breakddown truck, I would imagine they would have had a pretty difficult time in court proving the "driving/attempting to drive... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Driving ban for drunk passenger (not the Daily Mail story) |
| Speedy23 |
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Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2008 16:55
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| Not so. First of all. there are NO sections "b" or "c" of the RTA 1988 - the act is divided into numbered parts and subsections with lettered paragraphs.. All offences are based on the act of driving or attempting to drive, indicating intent and the Police can only require a samp... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Driving ban for drunk passenger (not the Daily Mail story) |
| Speedy23 |
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Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2008 19:13
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| Sounds like a load of old tosh to me....from the Road Traffic Act 1988 "Breath tests (1) Where a constable in uniform has reasonable cause to suspect— (a) that a person driving or attempting to drive or in charge of a motor vehicle on a road or other public place has alcohol in his body or has ... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Road Pricing becomes Managed Motorways |
| Speedy23 |
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Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 16:56
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| Remember the e-govt. petition on road pricing that resoundingly rejected road pricing? Well I do, but apparently these idiots have got much shorter memories. :furious: :furious: :furious: Just exactly what part of the word "no" is it that they have a problem with? Time for (yet) another pe... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: emergency vehicle = panic |
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Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 16:04
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| That is an extremely questionable interpretation of that act, and I'm pretty sure it would be impossible to pursue a case based upon it against a motorist for failing to break another law to allow passage of the emergency services . Hi Odin - read what I said again....nobody is expected to break an... |
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Forum: Near Misses and Crashes Topic: Zebra crossing |
| Speedy23 |
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Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 15:15
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| Clue....guess what the Belisha Beacons on top of the black & white striped posts are for....... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: emergency vehicle = panic |
| Speedy23 |
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Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 14:59
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| I don't remember seeing any law which says I have to make any effort to get out of the way of any emergency vehicle. It would be nice to know for sure though. Err....it's illegal not to - you can be done for obstruction under the The Emergency Workers (Obstruction) Act 2006 for fire and ambulance s... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Birmingham's tram system haemmorhaging passengers |
| Speedy23 |
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Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 14:40
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| Quality reporting "By comparison more than 310 million people used buses in the region last year." Impressive for a country with not even a third that number of people living here :p Not really....the West Midlands has a population of 5.2 million, so if 20% go to work or school etc. on th... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: The Occasional 'Turn Right' advanced technique |
| Speedy23 |
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Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 12:42
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SafeSpeedv2 wrote: I have never seen it in any advanced driving book ... ...
And I wonder just why that should be?  |
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Forum: Motorcycling Topic: double standards |
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Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 13:40
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| Car drivers and bike riders both have engines which the government seems to be venemently against; we should bloody well team up for christ's sake! Car enthusiasts appreciate enjoying driving just like riders enjoy riding, we have much in common, stop being foolish by fighting with people who have ... |
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Forum: Motorcycling Topic: Both Feet down when stopped ? |
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Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 10:31
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| I also agree with Big Tone that if you throttle off in a corner the bike will indeed want to fall inwards. I have slightly embarrassing memories of my beloved YDS7 Yamaha doing that one to me as I tried to do a U turn in the road with a cold engine. Saw a car coming round the corner and instinctive... |
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Forum: Motorcycling Topic: Both Feet down when stopped ? |
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Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 10:10
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| Err........the reason why you used to be told to cover the back brake when stationary is this (nicked from UKGS'er)... "Chaps, I have read through the preceding pages. & I can see that this topic clearly “fires up” a few folk, so I thought I’d weigh in with my two ha’porth. Whilst there hav... |
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Forum: Motorcycling Topic: Both Feet down when stopped ? |
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Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2008 15:27
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| Please see above. This is getting good now ('twould be better over a :drink2: , though - I love a good pub discussion!!). First of all there is no such thing as centrifugal force. What is really there is centripetal force (see http://regentsprep.org/Regents/physics/phys06/bcentrif/default.htm . Cent... |
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Forum: Motorcycling Topic: Meeting up for a |
| Speedy23 |
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Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2008 12:04
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 ??? ( yes, I meant coffee, what did you think I meant?)
Following on from another thread, anyone from the MC group fancy a meet-up? 
The Western Spiral Arm is situated in the Midlands, BTW.
Could be a laff.
Any takers? |
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Forum: Motorcycling Topic: Both Feet down when stopped ? |
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Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2008 11:28
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| Damn! Rumbled! (But I bet you can't guess where the 23 bit comes from?) Good points re. reading vs. instruction. As for the physics, as matter of interest, consider this: The precessional force experienced by a gyroscope is proportional to its rotational inertia at the rim. If you hold a bicycle whe... |
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Forum: Motorcycling Topic: Both Feet down when stopped ? |
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Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2008 08:20
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| [quote="Herbie J] Think logically and just imagine that SPLIT SECOND as you stop where you only have one brake covered when muppet behind choses that moment to hit you? Front brake only when its wet and uneven??? [/quote] So what difference is having both brakes covered going to make? You still... |
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Forum: Motorcycling Topic: Both Feet down when stopped ? |
| Speedy23 |
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Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 17:03
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| Another thing with not using counter-steering is that by throttling-off while banking over you can tighten the bend to negotiate smaller bends/islands etc.. Weight transfer induced geometry and slip angle changes - whole new argument :) Not to mention torque reactions. Errr....wrong again, when you... |
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Forum: Motorcycling Topic: Both Feet down when stopped ? |
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Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 16:59
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| 1. How am I able to turn and negotiate an island with my hands on the petrol tank? How can I zig-zag through cones with my hands on the tank? Or do you think it can't be done? 2. PS. And if you care to explain why the small bikes are different I'm sure we'd all like to hear it? 1. Love to see you d... |
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Forum: Motorcycling Topic: Both Feet down when stopped ? |
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Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 15:56
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| And here's another, apparently defying the laws of physics :roll: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ASqbY06gwFs Convinced yet? No. :evil: Small models and pushbikes are very much a different Marmite de poissons to a motorbike. Read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countersteering Oh & FTR, 33 yrs... |
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