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Reply | Footballers and fast cars
at 19:24 13 Dec 2024
It's a steep learning curve when you first start riding . The first 6 - 12 months are critical because you are new and learning " on the job " . It's a bit like being a spitfire pilot in the battle of Britain I suppose . Young pilots were often asked How many hours on Spitfires?
The more hours the more likely you were to survive. If I could give one piece of advice to a novice rider it would be watch out at junctions . Junctions are where a lot of rta's happen . Iam speaking from personal experience here as well I got knocked off twice at junctions by drivers not paying attention .
Your brother in law sounds as if he was trying to impress you with his skills but had the opposite effect.As they say - accidents are nature's way of telling you to slow down. |
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Reply | Footballers and fast cars
at 17:48 13 Dec 2024
You are never too old Max . One of life's great pleasures is a spin out into open countryside on a warm summer day . A car moves your body a bike moves your soul but you knew that anyway. One of the drawbacks of living on this Sceptered isle is that Summers are too short .
and the opportunities to ride also limited by poor weather . I often wonder how a nation such as ours with the short seasons and inclement weather has produced the finest bikes on the planet .
Marques like Norton, BSA ,Triumph, Ariel ,Sunbeam ,AJS, Vincent, Brough Superior, Rudge , Matchless etc. were born solely from the engineering gene and not from the urge to get sunburnt in the saddle. |
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Reply | Footballers and fast cars
at 18:24 12 Dec 2024
Good thing about them is they are easy to work on if you can handle a spanner .Overhead valve push rod engine , points ignition . Simple. |
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Reply | RIP VIC
at 15:36 12 Dec 2024
A stocky, no nonsense hard tackling full back. RIP Vic . |
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Reply | Footballers and fast cars
at 12:25 10 Dec 2024
Had an open face helmet on , it was a few years ago now . I caught it just right at bout 60 mph at head height perfect connection . Bike didn't even wobble . |
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Reply | Footballers and fast cars
at 09:00 10 Dec 2024
I was riding a motorbike on a straight just outside Glasbury . There was a dip in the road . Suddenly a pheasant flew vertically upwards .. I knew I was going to hit it . I carried on straight braced myself and headed it into the side of the road . 1.nil back of the net . The Swans would have been proud. |
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Reply | Joe Low-Wycombe
at 19:22 9 Dec 2024
Wow !!! We could be signing J Low . |
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Reply | Assaults on Paramedics
at 19:30 5 Dec 2024
Voltaire - " i might not agree with what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it". |
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Reply | Suggestions for Coleman
at 19:12 3 Dec 2024
We never had a stall at the Wales airshow - it's on the doorstep . Lots of youngsters there with their families . A missed opportunity . |
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Reply | Meanwhile in London….
at 19:23 27 Nov 2024
Not just London . Birmingham per capita has the highest firearm use in GB. Shootings have become routine . I think there were 4 last week . Sheer madness. |
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Reply | Antiques Roadshow
at 00:12 25 Nov 2024
I remember he used to swing off the crossbar
occasionally when play was up the other end. |
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Reply | Best Sunday carvery
at 16:55 18 Nov 2024
I wouldn't bother with the Lamb and Flag .
Try The Dillwyn Arms Pontardawe . Good value nice food friendly staff. |
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Reply | The Donald
at 18:56 13 Nov 2024
And he never had a duelling scar either .... that was more of a German thing. |
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Reply | The Donald
at 16:41 13 Nov 2024
Controversial .......... The forum's martial Zhukov. |
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