Allways choose a good place for a breakdown
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So my bike broke down this morning,
I always seem to choose the best places
Narrow road, check
Slippery, check
Steep hill, check
Yes you massive
, beep me, as I often take my half ton of Honda out for a nice push in the morning.
How I laughed by the time I had pushed it a mile or so back to my house
Previous breakdown highlights include, section of M25 with no hard shoulder, twice on the elevated section of A4 in London, deep in rural france, and the euro shuttle.
I always seem to choose the best places
Narrow road, check
Slippery, check
Steep hill, check
Yes you massive
, beep me, as I often take my half ton of Honda out for a nice push in the morning.How I laughed by the time I had pushed it a mile or so back to my house
Previous breakdown highlights include, section of M25 with no hard shoulder, twice on the elevated section of A4 in London, deep in rural france, and the euro shuttle.
My Astra has been wholly reliable. Until, the EGR valve connector snapped (WTF?) on the way onto a ferry. This caused a total electronic shutdown.
Time: 01:30. Kick off in Hamburg 19:30.
The AA were stunning though and we only lost an hour, despite having to get the car to a garage and get a hire car.
Time: 01:30. Kick off in Hamburg 19:30.
The AA were stunning though and we only lost an hour, despite having to get the car to a garage and get a hire car.
isee said:
Your name is quite apt.
Why the overreaction to the beep? It appears it was actually used as designres intended for once.
He was just letting you know he was there, rather than pointing out that he was somehow inconvenienced by your breaking down.
I'm glad you are able to think the best of people, I had my lid off, he was a Why the overreaction to the beep? It appears it was actually used as designres intended for once.
He was just letting you know he was there, rather than pointing out that he was somehow inconvenienced by your breaking down.
as verified by the hand gestures and swearing 
When I had my accident on the marlybone road people were beeping at me to get my bike moved! what a nice country we live in.
road_rager said:
isee said:
Your name is quite apt.
Why the overreaction to the beep? It appears it was actually used as designres intended for once.
He was just letting you know he was there, rather than pointing out that he was somehow inconvenienced by your breaking down.
I'm glad you are able to think the best of people, I had my lid off, he was a Why the overreaction to the beep? It appears it was actually used as designres intended for once.
He was just letting you know he was there, rather than pointing out that he was somehow inconvenienced by your breaking down.
as verified by the hand gestures and swearing When I had my accident on the marlybone road people were beeping at me to get my bike moved! what a nice country we live in.
Then again I did get told be the plod once, to move my car when i broke down on the side of a 4 lane junction with the car leaking fluids and steaming from under the bonnet and hazards on...
due to the road configuartion, moving from where I broke down would mean crossing 3 lanes...
Oh well, sorry if I seemed to harsh mate
road_rager said:
isee said:
Your name is quite apt.
Why the overreaction to the beep? It appears it was actually used as designres intended for once.
He was just letting you know he was there, rather than pointing out that he was somehow inconvenienced by your breaking down.
I'm glad you are able to think the best of people, I had my lid off, he was a Why the overreaction to the beep? It appears it was actually used as designres intended for once.
He was just letting you know he was there, rather than pointing out that he was somehow inconvenienced by your breaking down.
as verified by the hand gestures and swearing When I had my accident on the marlybone road people were beeping at me to get my bike moved! what a nice country we live in.
Interesting how people reacted.
A small minority offered to tow the car - I couldn't accept without ruining two wheels - but the offer was kind.
Most people ignored us.
A minority of utter
s shouted, swore, made rude hand gestures, showed no sympathy whatsoever. I expect this was made worse by the bright red Porscheness of the broken down car. Their rudeness reduced my wife to tears.An AA Guy stopped behind us put his flashing lights on and stayed with us until the RAC came to recover my car to a garage. What a top bloke. My Mrs was practically in tears and he was jovial and kind and cheered us up.
There's all sorts but some people are
s and some people are ace. Always worth remembering, that.
road_rager said:
When I had my accident on the marlybone road people were beeping at me to get my bike moved! what a nice country we live in.
A good number of years ago I came off my pushbike at fairly high speed. The chain had come off and jammed the rear wheel. Cue me going base over apex and slowing myself down with the LHS of my body, mainly my left shoulder.The bike was lying bent in the road and I was rolling around the verge clutching my shoulder from which blood was gushing at quite an alarming rate.
A motorist kindly stopped at the scene, rolled his window down and shouted at me to, "Get the fvcking bike off the road!", after which the
drove off.I wish I had been of a frame of mind to react in a suitable way, but I was in absolute agony. I hope he's died in a fire since!
Cars and bikes seem to do this - I had a car go on me on an up hill section of autostrada outside Rome once - not only was it up hill, I was surrounded by trucks and in a tunnel with no hard shoulder! - Managed to limp it through the tunnel much to the annoyance of the trucks behind me forced to slow right down to about 30mph - not good for a fully laiden HGV going up a steep hill!
Vaporiser on the carb had cocked up - couple of heavy smacks with a screw driver handle (all I had at the time) saw the bh start working again!
Vaporiser on the carb had cocked up - couple of heavy smacks with a screw driver handle (all I had at the time) saw the b
h start working again!road_rager said:
twice on the elevated section of A4 in London
Friend of mine and I were driving home along there and his car dropped a valve. Completely fked it, with no tow rope. Was about 4am.Called the police, as people weren't paying attention to the car with hazards on and swerving and nearly smashing into it. 50mins later they show up, and lecture my friend for stopping in a stupid place.
The engine has grenaded, metal bits are coming out the exhaust, you think we VOLUNTARILY stopped here?!
They wouldn't listen and told him he was stupid for stopping there.
f
king stupid WPC.Broke down in the middle lane of what was then the M63 in rush hour. What's worse is the car wasn't equipped with emergency flashers. That was fun for about 15 minutes with people trying drive round me; beeping shouting and gesticulating. Then the police turned up en masse. A Range Rover to tow me to the hard shoulder and a Senator to stop traffic in the inside lane.
All sorted very efficiently apart from the guy who cut round the Senator and tried to drive into the side of the Range Rover while he was towing me. The police were far more interested in giving him a bking than ascertaining how I had managed cause chaos in rush hour traffic. I got a mention on the traffic bulletin of the local radio station 
All sorted very efficiently apart from the guy who cut round the Senator and tried to drive into the side of the Range Rover while he was towing me. The police were far more interested in giving him a b
king than ascertaining how I had managed cause chaos in rush hour traffic. I got a mention on the traffic bulletin of the local radio station The Blackwall Tunnel appears to be a popular choice. I know a girl who had an auto box die in a Ford Scorpio in there, in rush hour - Because she was blocking the left lane, they couldn't get a tow truck to her past all the stationary trucks. Their advice on the emergency phone was to push it in front of the flowing traffic in the right lane to let all the trucks go!
A passing van with a rope pulled the car out for her in the end.
A passing van with a rope pulled the car out for her in the end.
i once sheared the crankshaft on a 30tonne truck on mile end road in rush hour was outside the station blocking part of the turning had no end of numpties trying to have a go telling me to move it even had yellow band and police turn up and ask me to move kindly told them if they gave me a push I would gladly move it dont think that went down to well
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