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Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« Reply #2640 on: 26 March 2025, 21:16:32 »

idiotted a huge pothole at speed.
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Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« Reply #2641 on: 26 March 2025, 22:21:04 »

idiotted a huge pothole at speed.

Well if you come out our way there’s a deep crater just past Oakley, just past Leatherslade Farm entrance. It made one hell of a bang when I hit it.
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Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« Reply #2642 on: 27 March 2025, 05:59:08 »

idiotted a huge pothole at speed.
At what point will you slow down? 10 tyres a year? 5 wheels a year? >:D

That's obviously a rhetorical question as you're a reformed character but there's a bit of a pattern...

That said, if two wheeled people can swerve around irregularities on the road, why can't cars? The Highway Code is a bit conflicted on this as the implication is that car drivers should be reading the road far enough ahead to plan for and avoid obstacles with ease, especially if following at a safe distance and speed. Yet Moto/bicyclists are allowed to swerve on a whim and everyone else has to allow for it.

Surely the insinuation with that is the riders are travelling too close or to fast to safely react to the road ahead?
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Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« Reply #2643 on: 27 March 2025, 13:04:52 »

idiotted a huge pothole at speed.

Well if you come out our way there’s a deep crater just past Oakley, just past Leatherslade Farm entrance. It made one hell of a bang when I hit it.
And the road from Oakley to Bicester, and Oakley to Worminghall is pretty bad, worse when you've had rain, as you need to remember which puddles might be potholes!
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Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« Reply #2644 on: 27 March 2025, 13:12:06 »

idiotted a huge pothole at speed.
At what point will you slow down? 10 tyres a year? 5 wheels a year? >:D

That's obviously a rhetorical question as you're a reformed character but there's a bit of a pattern...

That said, if two wheeled people can swerve around irregularities on the road, why can't cars? The Highway Code is a bit conflicted on this as the implication is that car drivers should be reading the road far enough ahead to plan for and avoid obstacles with ease, especially if following at a safe distance and speed. Yet Moto/bicyclists are allowed to swerve on a whim and everyone else has to allow for it.

Surely the insinuation with that is the riders are travelling too close or to fast to safely react to the road ahead?
Very narrow, winding, single track road, limited options for moving about - probably less that 18", and only 0.5 to 1s of hard braking before having to release to leave some suspension travel for the pothole.

The choice of potholes to hit in about a 1.5m stretch was very generous, so I decided to let the OS take it this time, as the NSF in particular has had a pounding in the last few months ;D


Aside from that set of potholes, the lanes on Skye were great fun - empty, narrow, bendy but great visibility to see any wildlife and cars (there weren't any!), I almost forgot I was reformed ;D

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Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« Reply #2645 on: 27 March 2025, 13:18:49 »

A pic of the roads...

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Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« Reply #2646 on: 27 March 2025, 13:27:37 »

That definitely looks like any road around where I live.  :D
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Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« Reply #2647 on: 27 March 2025, 13:46:37 »

A pic of the roads...



That's a good looking car. :y

The owner not so much. :)
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Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« Reply #2648 on: 27 March 2025, 13:52:54 »

Because you're reformed I will give you the benefit of the doubt. >:D

Beautiful part of the world by all accounts but haven't done the bit between Glasgy and Cape Wrath yet.
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Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« Reply #2649 on: 27 March 2025, 14:23:17 »

Went to hell frauds to get another spray can of Ford racing red, they have changed the can range and no longer list it .
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Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« Reply #2650 on: 27 March 2025, 15:23:20 »

Went to hell frauds to get another spray can of Ford racing red, they have changed the can range and no longer list it .
Not having much luck, are you?
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Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« Reply #2651 on: 27 March 2025, 18:01:24 »

Sh1t comes in 3s--------- First was the upper 4 link arms foul the drive shafts
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Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« Reply #2652 on: 27 March 2025, 21:31:22 »

Mrs TheBoy. Bitch.


Me: "That's taken 5hrs from Fort William to Carlisle"
Mrs TB: "The weather didn't help, you couldn't go much above <insert a speed figure here>"
Me: "But I wouldn't anyway, I'm a reformed character"
Mrs TB: "'dangle berries'"
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Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« Reply #2653 on: 27 March 2025, 23:45:21 »

Thing is, she's not wrong >:D

Not that it helps any but she probably still gets better mileage out of her tyres than you get out of your brake pads.
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Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« Reply #2654 on: 27 March 2025, 23:55:46 »

The two bits I purchased for TPC at the beginning of March still haven't arrived. Emails sent and one company replied that the vendor was unable to find said item so I would be refunded.

Obviously total bo lax as they still have it listed for sale. Bank contacted and form completed to reverse the transaction.

No response from the seller of tother item, so similar form completed with PayPal.

Still have to get the parts though, but only two sellers with both parts in stock that aren't asking for 4 figures for the two parts and neither post to the UK.

Some creative thinking required but even Blackadder himself may be impressed with the cunning of the plan.
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