And today's commuting highlight is...
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It is strange. Personally it has been quieter from mine but once I got into Manchester it has been normal busy. At the same time much better as idiot kids aren't running in-between static traffic.
Highlight today was hitting a new top speed. Obviously being a complete idiot myself but couldn't resist the completely empty road.
Probably the last highlight from me for a while as tomorrow is my last day at work. Hopefully the next job won't add many miles onto the bike.
Highlight today was hitting a new top speed. Obviously being a complete idiot myself but couldn't resist the completely empty road.
Probably the last highlight from me for a while as tomorrow is my last day at work. Hopefully the next job won't add many miles onto the bike.
No bike today off out later
This weeks commute has been fine road wise
One angry cyclist - anyone that over took him he was ranting about
One rider on a Goldwing who was even slower than me and thought he was like someone out of a
CHIPS
WFH tomorrow - looking at the forecast good move !
This weeks commute has been fine road wise
One angry cyclist - anyone that over took him he was ranting about
One rider on a Goldwing who was even slower than me and thought he was like someone out of a
CHIPS
WFH tomorrow - looking at the forecast good move !
Sea Demon said:
I dived into the kids paddling pool with all my gear on when I got home yesterday (minus boots as I didn't want to put a hole in it) - left it all out last night and was dry this morning 
Sea Demon - did your wife put a video of this up on Facebook? If so, I used to work with her. Or someone else stole your idea.
Coming in on the A3 this morning I see a Poh-lease X5 all lit up tracking a red S1000RR at about 20m distance and at low speed, off the highway going in the opposite direction (south), around Chessington or so. "Oh dear", I thought. "Bad day for him and there but for the grace of god, go I".
Just as I approach the speed camera before the junction with the A308 (going north), I see something approaching extremely rapidly in my mirrors. I gave it plenty of space and it turned out to be the same S1000RR, absolutely whistled by me and through the traffic, with the plucky but delusional Police X5 picking its way through the queue about 400m behind. The X5 caught me up at the traffic lights, biker was long gone and they hadn't a clue which way he went. Biker had obviously decided today was not his day to go to jail. At least not straight away, anyway. Assuming its actually his I guess he was going to park it in south London somewhere, get the train home and claim it was stolen during the night at some point. "No idea officers, I just woke up and noticed it was gone. And so was my helmet. And my jeans. And shoes. Very thorough these burglars..." Not that I've ever given that any thought. At all.
Nice bit of entertainment
Just as I approach the speed camera before the junction with the A308 (going north), I see something approaching extremely rapidly in my mirrors. I gave it plenty of space and it turned out to be the same S1000RR, absolutely whistled by me and through the traffic, with the plucky but delusional Police X5 picking its way through the queue about 400m behind. The X5 caught me up at the traffic lights, biker was long gone and they hadn't a clue which way he went. Biker had obviously decided today was not his day to go to jail. At least not straight away, anyway. Assuming its actually his I guess he was going to park it in south London somewhere, get the train home and claim it was stolen during the night at some point. "No idea officers, I just woke up and noticed it was gone. And so was my helmet. And my jeans. And shoes. Very thorough these burglars..." Not that I've ever given that any thought. At all.
Nice bit of entertainment
308mate said:
Coming in on the A3 this morning I see a Poh-lease X5 all lit up tracking a red S1000RR at about 20m distance and at low speed, off the highway going in the opposite direction (south), around Chessington or so. "Oh dear", I thought. "Bad day for him and there but for the grace of god, go I".
Just as I approach the speed camera before the junction with the A308 (going north), I see something approaching extremely rapidly in my mirrors. I gave it plenty of space and it turned out to be the same S1000RR, absolutely whistled by me and through the traffic, with the plucky but delusional Police X5 picking its way through the queue about 400m behind. The X5 caught me up at the traffic lights, biker was long gone and they hadn't a clue which way he went. Biker had obviously decided today was not his day to go to jail. At least not straight away, anyway. Assuming its actually his I guess he was going to park it in south London somewhere, get the train home and claim it was stolen during the night at some point. "No idea officers, I just woke up and noticed it was gone. And so was my helmet. And my jeans. And shoes. Very thorough these burglars..." Not that I've ever given that any thought. At all.
Nice bit of entertainment
Sounds dramatic. I've never actually seen a high pursuit that I'm aware of.Just as I approach the speed camera before the junction with the A308 (going north), I see something approaching extremely rapidly in my mirrors. I gave it plenty of space and it turned out to be the same S1000RR, absolutely whistled by me and through the traffic, with the plucky but delusional Police X5 picking its way through the queue about 400m behind. The X5 caught me up at the traffic lights, biker was long gone and they hadn't a clue which way he went. Biker had obviously decided today was not his day to go to jail. At least not straight away, anyway. Assuming its actually his I guess he was going to park it in south London somewhere, get the train home and claim it was stolen during the night at some point. "No idea officers, I just woke up and noticed it was gone. And so was my helmet. And my jeans. And shoes. Very thorough these burglars..." Not that I've ever given that any thought. At all.
Nice bit of entertainment
Zarco said:
There's quite a good S1000RR pursuit on YouTube. It's in the UK somewhere. They spot him on the motorway and he f
ks off. Think another car picks him up after he comes off the motorway but he loses them once out of town again.
Must be a buzz playing real life GTA
I can highly recommend it. ks off. Think another car picks him up after he comes off the motorway but he loses them once out of town again.Must be a buzz playing real life GTA
Absolutely p*ssed on coming home today in a thunderstorm, but then I really wasn't the only one caught out. Absolutely nothing 2 wheeled kept pace or came past me and I knocked the pace back due to the amount of water about and the fact it hasn't rained for 2 months - normally rain just doesn't phase me at all, just a little more wary than normal but still tons of grip from my 6k old pr4s. Road surface was bizarrely foaming up in places too. First time in a long while I've been caught out without my full waterproof gear, top half of me relatively dry bottom half totally not, luckily I was still carrying my summer gortex gloves I'd left in my backpack so I could wear these and my feet were dry thanks to my gortex boots.
Zarco said:
Nice 
I'm too chicken (or have too much to lose?) for those kind of antics.
I’m by no means a veteran but there is always “a moment” that everyone who’s been in it knows only too well and it’s absolutley addictive. I'm too chicken (or have too much to lose?) for those kind of antics.
It’s that moment when you have to weigh up lot of really important factors in a very very short space of time and decide if you’re going to go or not. And the thing about deciding to go is that you have to be very sure that you be gone and stay gone because if you go and get caught, it will be ten times worse than if you just pulled over at the start. Which means some fairly exciting riding antics, the likes of which are very hard to replicate on your regular brekky run.
Well, last night's run home was, erm, different.
A20 heading out of town, down by the Queen Mary's hospital junction, an ambulance on blues & twos came through. In the underpass at the QMH junction, they've had one lane coned off for a couple of weeks, so there's traffic chaos there every night.
The ambulance starts picking it's way through, with cars moving out of the way, and followed by a small number of bikes taking advantage of the gap to pass the cars whilst those are still split apart. Then, the ambulance decides "bugger this" and dives into the coned area to continue. Closely followed by some tit on a bike. I'm a couple of cars back, and I saw him dive into the coned area following the ambulance and thought hmm, not clever. About 2 seconds later, I see the back wheel of the bike lift about 4ft off the ground followed by bike and rider collapsing on a heap on the deck. Yep, he'd rammed himself right up the jacksie of the ambulance. I didn't see why the ambulance braked or why he didn't notice.
So myself and another biker pulled into the coned area to help him. He was a bit beaten up - he only had regular jeans on which has gone through at the knee, from where he was bleeding profusely, he was holding his hip, and he'd clearly taken a bang on the head because his helmet was quite scuffed up and the bracket which held his GoPro wasn't holding his GoPro any more.
Anyway, the ambulance didn't stop for about another 100 yards, so me and the other guy started picking up the dropped bike (I didn't actually clock what it was, 65 plate, fully faired, but covered in patterns like those you see on new cars when they don't want you to know what it is). As we moved the bike onto the pavement, the ambulance had eventually stopped and reversed back up.
What did tick me off somewhat was the female member of the ambulance crew marching straight up to me, she got right in my face as I was putting the bike on it's stand and started bking me: "what do you think you were doing riding inside the cones? Why were you inside the cones?" until I managed to get a word in edgeways and told her this wasn't my bike and I was just moving it, to which her response was "oh, well you're in the clear then". Sorry love, I was never NOT in the clear, I was trying to help. I guess she was the driver and was (a) pumped up for her blue light run and (b) pissed off that it had been stopped, but I didn't need her attitude. She then went and spoke to the other crew and ignored the fact that the crashed biker was bleeding, in pain, and quite possibly had taken a knock to the head.
Anyway, me and the other guy who stopped asked him whether he needed anything else from us and he held his hands up and said it was entirely his fault and he didn't need us as witnesses. Expensive ride home for him, hope he's not too sore this morning.
A20 heading out of town, down by the Queen Mary's hospital junction, an ambulance on blues & twos came through. In the underpass at the QMH junction, they've had one lane coned off for a couple of weeks, so there's traffic chaos there every night.
The ambulance starts picking it's way through, with cars moving out of the way, and followed by a small number of bikes taking advantage of the gap to pass the cars whilst those are still split apart. Then, the ambulance decides "bugger this" and dives into the coned area to continue. Closely followed by some tit on a bike. I'm a couple of cars back, and I saw him dive into the coned area following the ambulance and thought hmm, not clever. About 2 seconds later, I see the back wheel of the bike lift about 4ft off the ground followed by bike and rider collapsing on a heap on the deck. Yep, he'd rammed himself right up the jacksie of the ambulance. I didn't see why the ambulance braked or why he didn't notice.
So myself and another biker pulled into the coned area to help him. He was a bit beaten up - he only had regular jeans on which has gone through at the knee, from where he was bleeding profusely, he was holding his hip, and he'd clearly taken a bang on the head because his helmet was quite scuffed up and the bracket which held his GoPro wasn't holding his GoPro any more.
Anyway, the ambulance didn't stop for about another 100 yards, so me and the other guy started picking up the dropped bike (I didn't actually clock what it was, 65 plate, fully faired, but covered in patterns like those you see on new cars when they don't want you to know what it is). As we moved the bike onto the pavement, the ambulance had eventually stopped and reversed back up.
What did tick me off somewhat was the female member of the ambulance crew marching straight up to me, she got right in my face as I was putting the bike on it's stand and started b
king me: "what do you think you were doing riding inside the cones? Why were you inside the cones?" until I managed to get a word in edgeways and told her this wasn't my bike and I was just moving it, to which her response was "oh, well you're in the clear then". Sorry love, I was never NOT in the clear, I was trying to help. I guess she was the driver and was (a) pumped up for her blue light run and (b) pissed off that it had been stopped, but I didn't need her attitude. She then went and spoke to the other crew and ignored the fact that the crashed biker was bleeding, in pain, and quite possibly had taken a knock to the head.Anyway, me and the other guy who stopped asked him whether he needed anything else from us and he held his hands up and said it was entirely his fault and he didn't need us as witnesses. Expensive ride home for him, hope he's not too sore this morning.
CAPP0 said:
Well, last night's run home was, erm, different.
A20 heading out of town, down by the Queen Mary's hospital junction, an ambulance on blues & twos came through. In the underpass at the QMH junction, they've had one lane coned off for a couple of weeks, so there's traffic chaos there every night.
The ambulance starts picking it's way through, with cars moving out of the way, and followed by a small number of bikes taking advantage of the gap to pass the cars whilst those are still split apart. Then, the ambulance decides "bugger this" and dives into the coned area to continue. Closely followed by some tit on a bike. I'm a couple of cars back, and I saw him dive into the coned area following the ambulance and thought hmm, not clever. About 2 seconds later, I see the back wheel of the bike lift about 4ft off the ground followed by bike and rider collapsing on a heap on the deck. Yep, he'd rammed himself right up the jacksie of the ambulance. I didn't see why the ambulance braked or why he didn't notice.
So myself and another biker pulled into the coned area to help him. He was a bit beaten up - he only had regular jeans on which has gone through at the knee, from where he was bleeding profusely, he was holding his hip, and he'd clearly taken a bang on the head because his helmet was quite scuffed up and the bracket which held his GoPro wasn't holding his GoPro any more.
Anyway, the ambulance didn't stop for about another 100 yards, so me and the other guy started picking up the dropped bike (I didn't actually clock what it was, 65 plate, fully faired, but covered in patterns like those you see on new cars when they don't want you to know what it is). As we moved the bike onto the pavement, the ambulance had eventually stopped and reversed back up.
What did tick me off somewhat was the female member of the ambulance crew marching straight up to me, she got right in my face as I was putting the bike on it's stand and started bking me: "what do you think you were doing riding inside the cones? Why were you inside the cones?" until I managed to get a word in edgeways and told her this wasn't my bike and I was just moving it, to which her response was "oh, well you're in the clear then". Sorry love, I was never NOT in the clear, I was trying to help. I guess she was the driver and was (a) pumped up for her blue light run and (b) pissed off that it had been stopped, but I didn't need her attitude. She then went and spoke to the other crew and ignored the fact that the crashed biker was bleeding, in pain, and quite possibly had taken a knock to the head.
Anyway, me and the other guy who stopped asked him whether he needed anything else from us and he held his hands up and said it was entirely his fault and he didn't need us as witnesses. Expensive ride home for him, hope he's not too sore this morning.
I think I know the bike, some kind of Honda? An NC750 or something. I've given up with the M20 until its open properly again in 2 years unless I'm at work extra early or late.A20 heading out of town, down by the Queen Mary's hospital junction, an ambulance on blues & twos came through. In the underpass at the QMH junction, they've had one lane coned off for a couple of weeks, so there's traffic chaos there every night.
The ambulance starts picking it's way through, with cars moving out of the way, and followed by a small number of bikes taking advantage of the gap to pass the cars whilst those are still split apart. Then, the ambulance decides "bugger this" and dives into the coned area to continue. Closely followed by some tit on a bike. I'm a couple of cars back, and I saw him dive into the coned area following the ambulance and thought hmm, not clever. About 2 seconds later, I see the back wheel of the bike lift about 4ft off the ground followed by bike and rider collapsing on a heap on the deck. Yep, he'd rammed himself right up the jacksie of the ambulance. I didn't see why the ambulance braked or why he didn't notice.
So myself and another biker pulled into the coned area to help him. He was a bit beaten up - he only had regular jeans on which has gone through at the knee, from where he was bleeding profusely, he was holding his hip, and he'd clearly taken a bang on the head because his helmet was quite scuffed up and the bracket which held his GoPro wasn't holding his GoPro any more.
Anyway, the ambulance didn't stop for about another 100 yards, so me and the other guy started picking up the dropped bike (I didn't actually clock what it was, 65 plate, fully faired, but covered in patterns like those you see on new cars when they don't want you to know what it is). As we moved the bike onto the pavement, the ambulance had eventually stopped and reversed back up.
What did tick me off somewhat was the female member of the ambulance crew marching straight up to me, she got right in my face as I was putting the bike on it's stand and started b
king me: "what do you think you were doing riding inside the cones? Why were you inside the cones?" until I managed to get a word in edgeways and told her this wasn't my bike and I was just moving it, to which her response was "oh, well you're in the clear then". Sorry love, I was never NOT in the clear, I was trying to help. I guess she was the driver and was (a) pumped up for her blue light run and (b) pissed off that it had been stopped, but I didn't need her attitude. She then went and spoke to the other crew and ignored the fact that the crashed biker was bleeding, in pain, and quite possibly had taken a knock to the head.Anyway, me and the other guy who stopped asked him whether he needed anything else from us and he held his hands up and said it was entirely his fault and he didn't need us as witnesses. Expensive ride home for him, hope he's not too sore this morning.
GM182 said:
Sounds dramatic. I've never actually seen a high pursuit that I'm aware of.
I saw one back in Spring, similar scenario and location funnily enough.. was a BMW K1300S.. wasn't sure if he was plod or not, BMW had no lights or sirens but weaving between traffic and going considerably quicker than everything else.. two unmarked police cars sirens and lights in pursuit. Sea Demon said:
I think I know the bike, some kind of Honda? An NC750 or something. I've given up with the M20 until its open properly again in 2 years unless I'm at work extra early or late.
I did thnk Honda, yes. It was surprisingly light to pick up and drag around - but then, anything is light to pick up and drag around compared to the RT! On arriving in Glasgow this morning. I was second to park. Passed the bike 15mins later and found this idiot parked there (with his nearside front wheel smacked into the kerb) . On way back to bike in afternoon I passed a warden and asked him if he'd seen it. Said yes, it had been ticketed, having a disabled badge doesn't mean you can make up the rules. Cheered me up! 
Young lass on a scooter this morning did about a mile and a half with her left hand indicator on. Finally got alongside her at the lights at the omniplex at Waterloo but thought by the time I turn my music down, get her attention and explain the issue, the lights would go green. So I reached across and cancelled it for her. The problem is that I was slightly behind her and that I had managed to do it without her seeing what I had done, only that I had invaded her personal space and then the lights did indeed go immediately green. So instead of looking like a white knight, I looked like a late-night sneaking uncle. Blast.
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