Car in field cat and fiddle

[InitialDave]

VAGLover said:

If road so unsafe at legal speeds, sue the council

Wait, you think speed limits should be set so you can 100% guarantee you can drive the entire road at that speed?

[VAGLover]

InitialDave said:

VAGLover said:

If road so unsafe at legal speeds, sue the council

Wait, you think speed limits should be set so you can 100% guarantee you can drive the entire road at that speed?

No. It’s clear,you drive the road based on conditions. But clearly this guy thinks it’s not his fault. So trying to prove the point. Something doesn’t add up

[InitialDave]

VAGLover said:

No. It’s clear,you drive the road based on conditions. But clearly this guy thinks it’s not his fault. So trying to prove the point. Something doesn’t add up

st happens. Pull your car back out the ditch and learn from it.

[Richard-D]

VAGLover said:

InitialDave said:

VAGLover said:

If road so unsafe at legal speeds, sue the council

Wait, you think speed limits should be set so you can 100% guarantee you can drive the entire road at that speed?

No. It’s clear,you drive the road based on conditions. But clearly this guy thinks it’s not his fault. So trying to prove the point. Something doesn’t add up

So you drive based on the conditions and if you get it wrong you sue the council? Why are you not capable of taking responsibility for your own actions?

[Plate spinner]

Richard-D said:

VAGLover said:

InitialDave said:

VAGLover said:

If road so unsafe at legal speeds, sue the council

Wait, you think speed limits should be set so you can 100% guarantee you can drive the entire road at that speed?

No. It’s clear,you drive the road based on conditions. But clearly this guy thinks it’s not his fault. So trying to prove the point. Something doesn’t add up

So you drive based on the conditions and if you get it wrong you sue the council? Why are you not capable of taking responsibility for your own actions?

Seriously, I wouldn’t get into a debate with this one, it’s either a troll or a bot.

[Richard-D]

Plate spinner said:

Seriously, I wouldn’t get into a debate with this one, it’s either a troll or a bot.

I know, I shouldn't, he was just being so ludicrous that it was too hard not to join in when it started going the other way.

[VAGLover]

Richard-D said:

VAGLover said:

InitialDave said:

VAGLover said:

If road so unsafe at legal speeds, sue the council

Wait, you think speed limits should be set so you can 100% guarantee you can drive the entire road at that speed?

No. It’s clear,you drive the road based on conditions. But clearly this guy thinks it’s not his fault. So trying to prove the point. Something doesn’t add up

So you drive based on the conditions and if you get it wrong you sue the council? Why are you not capable of taking responsibility for your own actions?

No. I was just trying to get him to own up to what happened.
He’s saying he drove perfectly and that the road was inherently unsafe. I don’t think that’s the case! If it were you’d sue right?
Anyway, he’s clearly not sharing. Why would you if you were liable for bad driving. Thank god no sheep were hurt.

[talksthetorque]

VAGLover said:

Or someone who sniffs out bulls£it

Op said it was a mistake. He’s paid for his own mistake. What more are you looking for?
I can’t see any more value to this continuing other than to further confirm you’re being a bit of a tit. I’ve seen some of your posts on other threads and you don’t come across as one there from my recollection.

[VAGLover]

talksthetorque said:

Op said it was a mistake. He’s paid for his own mistake. What more are you looking for?
I can’t see any more value to this continuing other than to further confirm you’re being a bit of a tit. I’ve seen some of your posts on other threads and you don’t come across as one there from my recollection.

Fair enough!
The pic should also go into the thread on “show is your crash pic” for completeness.

[flacko]

loskie said:

You do know that you can't park there don't you?

do you have a link to that video

[DonkeyApple]

VAGLover said:

FastDagda said:

I’d say your friend should voluntarily send his driving license back

To have it officially stamped with ‘legend’.

[popeyewhite]

DonkeyApple said:

VAGLover said:

FastDagda said:

I’d say your friend should voluntarily send his driving license back

To have it officially stamped with ‘legend’.

How many legends is too many though? People misread that road all the time.

[DonkeyApple]

Just restrict it to chaps who manage to ballsup in a sports car and walk away with nothing more than ruined trousers and with a good pub story.

[talksthetorque]

I do hope that future tellings involve
"...and ended up in the bottom of a ravine"

[popeyewhite]

"...bit of an oil top up and the damn thing started first time"

[ITP]

ToothbrushMan said:

bobtail4x4 said:

wasnt there a comment on here that "someone" was pouring diesel on the bends to cause accidents?

your ....kin joking?

This is true, happened many years ago, probably 15 or so, it was actually done to cause bikers to crash, which is even more sinister.

I used to go up there regularly, but it did start to get a bit daft with people coming from miles around at weekends to prove how fast they were on their new fireblade/R1 etc. Trouble is they be following some tatty old 400, or commuter bike and crash trying to keep up, unaware it was ridden by a local cat and fiddle expert....
The road used to get closed regularly, sometimes twice or three time a day at weekends for fools overestimating their talent, so it was inevitable that the authorities clamped down in the end with the average speed cameras. Ruined by a few for everyone else. Shame.

[popeyewhite]

ITP said:

ToothbrushMan said:

bobtail4x4 said:

wasnt there a comment on here that "someone" was pouring diesel on the bends to cause accidents?

your ....kin joking?

This is true, happened many years ago, probably 15 or so, it was actually done to cause bikers to crash, which is even more sinister.

I used to go up there regularly, but it did start to get a bit daft with people coming from miles around at weekends to prove how fast they were on their new fireblade/R1 etc. Trouble is they be following some tatty old 400, or commuter bike and crash trying to keep up, unaware it was ridden by a local cat and fiddle expert....
The road used to get closed regularly, sometimes twice or three time a day at weekends for fools overestimating their talent, so it was inevitable that the authorities clamped down in the end with the average speed cameras. Ruined by a few for everyone else. Shame.

The above is all true except for the diesel on the road bit, which is urban legend. There are lots of older wagons that use the Cat, and still do, if you're unlucky you'll still find a spot of diesel or two today, just like any other road. One suspected road surface sabotage event wasn't even on the Cat it was on the old Buxton road shortcut at the bottom of Teggs Nose. Another was at the far end of the road on one of the last bends before Buxton where a farmer was believed to have deliberately spilt diesel. No chance of that though farmers round here are miserly buggers and wouldn't waste a single drop of diesel like that.

[ITP]

Where I saw diesel, a few times I might add, was on the slow tight bends at the Macclesfield end a mile or two up, just before the corner where all the bikes used to park up.
I suppose it could have been spillage from an overfilled truck, but it happened quite a lot there for a while and then mysteriously stopped.

[popeyewhite]

ITP said:

Where I saw diesel, a few times I might add, was on the slow tight bends at the Macclesfield end a mile or two up, just before the corner where all the bikes used to park up.
I suppose it could have been spillage from an overfilled truck, but it happened quite a lot there for a while and then mysteriously stopped.

Sure, I'm not doubting you, but the fact diesel is spilled by a careless farm worker several mornings over a summer who then spots his mistake doesn't amount to a deliberate act of sabotage directed solely at motorcyclists, or indeed any road user. I'm pretty sure the supposed correlation between diesel spillage and deliberate road surface sabotage is entirely anecdotal!

[slopes]

gazza285 said:

Must try harder next time.

fkin hell that's impressive, story?