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[amigov6]

That helps. Did'nt realize you're mates, thought everyone was ganging up on him & my protective side came out. I've always been like that, can't help it even though i've never met him.
    At least i can stop crusading now!

[JamesV6CDX]

   At least i can stop crusading now!

Lol, I've met max on numerous occasions, Maria and I have also had the pleasure of having some beers with him, eating with his family and staying over his place for the weekend while enjoying some Miggy tinkering.

You have my word I'm not knocking Max one bit - we are and will remain very good friends -

To be honest, this isn't about Max, just about the specific points highlighted in this thread.

But that doesn't stop me enjoying a good debate and conveying the beliefs I have

[Gaffers]

That helps. Did'nt realize you're mates, thought everyone was ganging up on him & my protective side came out. I've always been like that, can't help it even though i've never met him.
    At least i can stop crusading now!

I am not rounding on Max but I feel very strongly about the subject and I have my reasons....

...had plenty of good banter with him over the years but bragging about such speeds, let alone driving at them, is not responsible and you could ruin it for some family.  It took mine 8 years to get over the worst of it 18 years later there are still scars  

[amigov6]

That helps. Did'nt realize you're mates, thought everyone was ganging up on him & my protective side came out. I've always been like that, can't help it even though i've never met him.
    At least i can stop crusading now!

I am not rounding on Max but I feel very strongly about the subject and I have my reasons....
Point taken.
...had plenty of good banter with him over the years but bragging about such speeds, let alone driving at them, is not responsible and you could ruin it for some family.  It took mine 8 years to get over the worst of it 18 years later there are still scars  

[amigov6]

Last comment posted in wrong place but...point taken...

[MaxV6]

no offence or umbrage taken.....   from any of it...

to be honest I was somewhat surprised by the speed....   but since I had no idea of where exactly we were going....    ( a follow me to XYZ situation) I initially felt I ought to at least keep up....

at that point the speed was more like 80.

when the road opened up, it climbed rapidly....      and frankly I got andrenalined up and went along for the ride....      somewhere in the back of my temporarily rather childish mind, i felt i was defending the miggy's honour from a jumped up little A3 (okay so it's remarkably more than that but still..... )

there were other road users once or twice, and he slowed down to more sensible speeds while they shared the tarmac , no matter which side of the road they were travelling along....  

and absolutely sat on the speed limit in built up or restricted areas...

although I'm normally fairly quick...  i'm usually much more sedate these days (although I hold my hands up to having been a complete loon in my youth)

i seek not to justify it....   in reality there is no valid defence in law...  



but bloody eck it were fun.

I doubt i'll repeat the experience any time soon though.,

and for those with 17hand + horses.

motorways and autobahns are every bit as dangerous , perhaps more so....   especially with the rise of the screen mounted sat nav.... which people appear to pay more attention to than the actual road.....       and require every bit as much concentration and respect as a twisty A or B road.

(i've had several near misses on the M1 , M25, M40,  M42, and M6 in the last 12 months , with people paying no attention to other road users, but instead staring at their little colour screens mounted in stupid places......   and looking rather shocked when they look up / round to see there was in fact a big black miggy in the "space" they were "aiming at"  (if,  that is , driving blind/dumb/without looking can be called aiming ) and no , i was NOT doing 120 at the time....   not even near it....    more like about 70-75)

I know all about the effects of ignorance....     having had my neck broken in 1989 by a nurse running some red lights on her way home for lunch, doing  (calculated by police) 70 in a 30 limit.

now THAT was unreasonable no matter what spin you put on it.


now  drink yer milk.



 

[amigov6]

no offence or umbrage taken.....   from any of it...

to be honest I was somewhat surprised by the speed....   but since I had no idea of where exactly we were going....    ( a follow me to XYZ situation) I initially felt I ought to at least keep up....

at that point the speed was more like 80.

when the road opened up, it climbed rapidly....      and frankly I got andrenalined up and went along for the ride....      somewhere in the back of my temporarily rather childish mind, i felt i was defending the miggy's honour from a jumped up little A3 (okay so it's remarkably more than that but still..... )

there were other road users once or twice, and he slowed down to more sensible speeds while they shared the tarmac , no matter which side of the road they were travelling along....  

and absolutely sat on the speed limit in built up or restricted areas...

although I'm normally fairly quick...  i'm usually much more sedate these days (although I hold my hands up to having been a complete loon in my youth)

i seek not to justify it....   in reality there is no valid defence in law...  



but bloody eck it were fun.

I doubt i'll repeat the experience any time soon though.,

and for those with 17hand + horses.

motorways and autobahns are every bit as dangerous , perhaps more so....   especially with the rise of the screen mounted sat nav.... which people appear to pay more attention to than the actual road.....       and require every bit as much concentration and respect as a twisty A or B road.

(i've had several near misses on the M1 , M25, M40,  M42, and M6 in the last 12 months , with people paying no attention to other road users, but instead staring at their little colour screens mounted in stupid places......   and looking rather shocked when they look up / round to see there was in fact a big black miggy in the "space" they were "aiming at"  (if,  that is , driving blind/dumb/without looking can be called aiming ) and no , i was NOT doing 120 at the time....   not even near it....    more like about 70-75)

I know all about the effects of ignorance....     having had my neck broken in 1989 by a nurse running some red lights on her way home for lunch, doing  (calculated by police) 70 in a 30 limit.

now THAT was unreasonable no matter what spin you put on it.


now  drink yer milk.



 

Said John Wayne!