mike wilson

You need a big stapler to nail his arse to the bike.

My take on the matter is: 1. The person crashing is responsible for the crash. 2. As the intersection is designed with excellent runoff areas but has had repeated replacements of the said sign, the designated authority is, at least in part, responsible for any injuries or damage caused by impact with it. 3. Said authority should do something about water management on the intersection. The sign is often down for months at a time - in one case for over a year. I presume that this is due to wrangling with insurance companies - the driver at fault is responible for the cost of replacement in the UK. Thinking further about the situation, I suspect that most of the accidents are happening at night. The street lighting is vestigial, as there is no foot traffic there. Travelling at 60mph, on dipped headlights, would give you (considerably) less than a second to do something even if you spotted the hazard.

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Motoring/Buyin...icle/DG_4022486 Might be of some use.

I take it you don't still have the original frame and log book?

I'm a good friend of the VMCC Machine Registrar. I can ask him. What machine, etc? PM if you don't want to do it in public.

I've done something useful today.

Here's an interesting one for you: About half a mile from my house is a big roundabout. It is about 150yards on a side, two lanes, at an intersection between two dual carriageways. One of them crosses over the other, so there are two underpasses. Think of it as more of a rectangle with very rounded corners than as a circle. The line of sight is poor, as the middle is taken up with an earth bank carrying the higher carriageway. Apart from that, it is easy to drive around it at near the legal limit (60 mph) for these roads and the large areas of clear cut land surrounding it allow you plenty of room to come to a stop in case of miscalculation. When it rains, the drains cannot cope on two of the diagonally opposite corners. If one exits the roundabout from the exit after one of these corners, you are in the middle of a direction change as you cross the water and mud running across the road. About 50 yards further on is a direction sign held up by, now, three 9" metal poles. Having lived here for seven years, I have noted that the sign never stays up more than about three months and is always demolished after heavy rain. Not difficult to work out why. Because of the geometry, any car that loses adhesion by hitting the runnoff spins and perfectly collects the sign on the driver's door. The third time it happened, it was the son of someone I know and he was severely injured. At this point, I realised that moving the sign to a different location would prevent further injuries, at least, and pointed this out to the local highway authority. The result of this was its reinstatement, in the original place, with thicker poles. It was comprehensively demolished last night. So: yuo are driving along a major highway when you encounter circumstances more akin to a farm track, you lose control and crash. You are severely injured. Who is responsible for what? In case anyone is interested, this should be a link to an aerial photo. I am talking about the exit to the left of the big roundabout in the bottom right and the runnoff goes across the road approximately where the red car is. http://www.multimap.com/map/photo.cgi?clie...;multimap.y=241

I've ridden worse and got the scars to prove it.

Avanti? Il Duce?

The UK government thinks it has the ability to track all vehicles on the UK roads at all times in order to tax the highest road users more. It would also be able to measure average speeds between location to determine if speeding was taking place. In other words, it is complete and utter fantasy - not even remotely possible with present technology. This is from a government that recently closed down the Child Support Agency because it couldn't track errant, non-paying fathers and that took five years over schedule to make the national air traffic control system work because it couldn't make the computer managed climate control in the computing centre work. I'm no shill for the transport lobby but I don't want the planks to waste any more of my money on expensive consultants.

Look at it another way. Most maintenance is replacement of parts. The only bit that requires a bit of thinking is engine tuning for best performance - however you wish to define that. If some grunter with more forearm hairs than brain cells has a go at your average multi, they are only going to make it slower by the laws of averages. So most people are getting less than they paid for and their machines are slower and (according to common wisdom) therefore safer.

Hah. Trick question. There's nothing wrong with it. You lent me the wheels for a bogie.

Lester Flatt and Buell Scruggs "The Beverly Hillbuellies"

Didn't someone have a problem with the horn just touching something?

It is useful that the UK government is so incompetant that any project requiring vast levels of computing ability is guaranteed to fail. I just wish it would not waste so much money.

They go on your WLSR 'Vert, so that, as it whistles past at X00mph, people who say "What the Hell was that?!" have a slight chance of findiing the answer.

This is just Beta testing for the site and forewarning politicians only means that they have time to find another way but..... http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/traveltax/ Electronic petition against fitting trackers to vehicles.

Only indirectly. "I would do anything for love (but I won't ride that)" Beatloaf

The combination of which gives you avast behind.

The only price I've found here is £16/quart, so £66/gallon. And those are piddling little US ones. Whingers. 8-) Just found some for £3/quart less. For those interested: http://www.turbobits.co.uk/acatalog/redlin..._oil_fluid.html

So????

Points all round, then.

It's more "cul-de-sac" country.

Indeed there is. There just isn't any spelling, punctuation or grammar. So everyone gets 100%. Which is good. Apparently.

I'll see what I can do. My carpentry skills will probably end at cutting it out of the bush. Now - how the Hell will we manage to smuggle it into the US? I suspect it breaks just about every import law you have. I'm more susceptible to Double Square-spot. I did know someone once with Yellow Tail. But we'll not talk about that.