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What a clever link to bring the thread back to motoring!

I'm going down the pub to talk to the drunks....I might get some sensible conversation out of them...nite alll ...

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My views do not represent Safespeed but those of a driver who has driven for 39 yrs, in all conditions, at all times of the day & night on every type of road and covered well over a million miles, so knows a bit about what makes for safety on the road,what is really dangerous and needs to be observed when driving and quite frankly, the speedo is way down on my list of things to observe to negotiate Britain's roads safely, but I don't expect some fool who sits behind a desk all day to appreciate that.

where are you going? We'll come and join you incase there are no drunks in tonite.

Yes, and because you've pulled me up on it, I'll tell you a fact. The logo is a propeller!

http://daveibsen.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83 ... 8834-800wi

I'd join you, but there's no smoking now. Those numpties in parliament put a stop it. Yet they can still smoke in the bars in thier buildings, the swines.

I didn't think anyone would notice. You've made my day...

Abercrombie: A propeller? Well I never knew that. Just glanced at the logo and would have thought it was a crash test marking, but then I don’t think anyone would buy a car that looked as if it was about to under go a NCAP test. So can I assume that Bayerishe Motoren Werke had an aviation background or did this logo come in later. I know the first BMW’s were Austin Sevens made under licence, called Dixi’s in 1927 - thank goodness they didn’t carry on like that and make Morris Marina’s!

I can’t see that Dixi’s had the BMW logo, but from my book I’m thumbing through the first sign of the BMW logo is a Dixi in 1931.

Ah ha, just discovered the aviation link. Bayer Flug-zuegwerke AG was a successful aviation company that BMW emerged from. They used aero engines in their cars – what a good idea, they should do that today! So I guess it was a bit like sticking Cosworth badges on Ford Escorts.


Come down our pub, everyone smokes down there – mind you they still hunt foxes with hounds around here so what can you expect. As Martin Luther Kings said “You have a moral duty to disobey an unjust law” (or something along those lines).

Did you know that the German Military uniforms were designed by .... Hugo Boss.

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Malcolm W.
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Really? I hope you're not pulling my leg and going to make me look a muppet trying to impress my chums in the pub with my trivia!
Nevertheless, you can see the style.
My friend does battle re-enactment and there is a big do down south for all eras of war. But apparently her English civil war lot now boycot it because in the WW2 section the Nazi's out number the Tommies by about 10:1 and they feel 'uncomfortable' with that. I say to her, just look at the uniform. What would you rather strut around in?

That's very simplistic thinking and assumes that Britain (the British I assume) think logically. Also as Abercrombe said, is one life worth as much as another?

Anyway, one day we'll view the people dying of cold (incidentally they're not just old, they are the vulnerable young too), as just as big an outrage as the deaths on the roads. It's all about perspective. Then something will be done about your 24,000 deaths.

Yeah, thermal imaging cameras, no doubt. If you go over 21degC you get sent a ticket 14 days later.

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Malcolm W.
The views expressed in this post are personal opinions and do not represent the views of Safespeed.

Well, current events suggest that an Israeli life is worth about one hundred Palestinian lives.

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When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race. H.G. Wells
When I see a youth in a motor car I do d.c.brown

You seem to have missed the point.

Why does a road that never had a speed limit on it now have one?

I give up B cyclist you tell me! No doubt you remember the days when roads didn't have speed limits?

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My views do not represent Safespeed but those of a driver who has driven for 39 yrs, in all conditions, at all times of the day & night on every type of road and covered well over a million miles, so knows a bit about what makes for safety on the road,what is really dangerous and needs to be observed when driving and quite frankly, the speedo is way down on my list of things to observe to negotiate Britain's roads safely, but I don't expect some fool who sits behind a desk all day to appreciate that.

(a) councillors' antipathy towards motorists has increased over the years, and
(b) changes in the law have made it easier for them to express that antipathy by imposing new curbs on motorists

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"Show me someone who says that they have never exceeded a speed limit, and I'll show you a liar, or a menace." (Austin Williams - Director, Transport Research Group)

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They do, at least in their motorcycles. The boxer twin is a form of "radial" aero engine. It has
the minimum number of cylinders (2) that a radial engine could have. It just has a shaft drive fitted at the back,
instead of a propeller at the front!!! Cool, eh?

Those red jackets, little brass bugles and the shiny leather boots are a bit kinky too. Couple that with a bit of animal torture, and you can see why they had to do away with it. But as long as they don't wear Nazi uniforms while they are at it, I don't mind.

Can I interest you in a Terrafugia Transition sir? Yours for about £170,000 and road legal. I wonder what a flight numpty would do?

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You will be branded a threat to society by going over a speed limit where it is safe to do so, and suffer the consequences of your actions in a way criminals do not, more so than someone who is a real threat to our society.

Being poor, my boots are plastic and I have a tweed jacket not a red one, but I do have the horn

Big Tone, you have cracked it! Give all the Numpties Terrafugia Transition's and get accidents off the road.