Cyclists waste petrol

On 09/09/2018 02:47 PM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:
On Sun, 09 Sep 2018 21:35:53 +0100, Rod Speed
wrote:



"Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message
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On Sun, 09 Sep 2018 19:22:50 +0100, rbowman wrote:

On 09/09/2018 08:10 AM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:

I hate anyone who uses headlights during broad daylight. They get my
full beam back.

And I hate anyone with HID lights at any time.

WTF is a HID?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-i...discharge_lamp

Ah the things that break the badly written laws. Some ****wit decided
they'd state headlamps on cars should be 55W, and measured it by power
consumption, not realising that someone might invent something more
efficient in the future. Now we have LEDs, we have cars with ****ing
searchlights on the front capable of reaching Mars.

Precisely. There are some LED driving lights for bikes that can reach
Mars and start a fire there. I've been thinking of mounting a set,
mostly to see that damn deer lurking in the shadows but they might come
in handy for assholes that don't understand the concept of low beams.

rbowman wrote
Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote
Rod Speed wrote

Once you lot are out of the EU, you'll have decent Korean cars available

Like Dacia and Daiwoo? Loads of them about already.

Dacias are Romanian, aren't they?

Yep, and a Renault subsidiary there.

On 09/09/2018 01:05 PM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:
On Sun, 09 Sep 2018 19:26:59 +0100, rbowman wrote:

On 09/09/2018 08:59 AM, Jimbore at the trailer trash park ... wrote:
I used to flash volvos to tell them their lights were on during the
day and
also flash them to tell them there lights were off and should be on
during
the day .....now every buggers font lights are on...no fun any more.....

I had a car with DRL. I got pulled over by a cop who alleged ifthe
headlights were on and the tail lights weren't. the tail lights must be
broken. "Listen, you silly ****, did you get out of cop school
yesterday?'

The cop was correct, if a car has headlights on when the tailights
aren't, then it's designed wrongly.

Not with DLRs. I don't think they are mandatory in this country yet but
they are in Canada. What I found annoying was at dusk you would think
your headlights were on but they really weren't.

On Sun, 09 Sep 2018 21:45:21 -0600, rbowman wrote:

On 09/09/2018 05:48 AM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:
In the UK the cops are in fear of being done for assault. They're
always very polite and behave like girls. It's quite funny arguing
with a traffic cop, they let you insult them.

Yes, well that's the UK... I'm sure you read enough US news to realize
this is not the UK.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/officer-ar...ide-apartment-
wrongly-thought/story?id=57715416

What surprised me there was that they actually arrested her at all.



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On Mon, 10 Sep 2018 04:57:41 +0100, rbowman wrote:

On 09/09/2018 05:53 AM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:
Anyone working for a council is an idiot, not sure how that happens, but
they have no common sense at all. Round here, next to a primary school,
they've rebuilt the entire junction (they claim for safety) and not put
any kind of markings on it at all. Nobody knows which road has priority
and I've seen several near misses and hooting of horns. One day some
kids are going to be squashed and I hope a council moron gets jailed for
manslaughter.

I've been avoiding a project that's been going on all summer but I
finally took that street. It's great! They replaced two straightforward
entrance/exit ramps with two small roundabouts back to back. It's a hoot
on a bike!

Unfortunately roundabouts are not native to this part of the country and
people don't deal with them too well.

Roundabouts are brilliant, no lights to wait for when there;s nothing coming the other way, there's always someone using the junction.

And I love cutting in front of ****wits who don't bother indicating right (in your case I guess left).

On Mon, 10 Sep 2018 12:55:45 +0100
"Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote:
On Mon, 10 Sep 2018 04:57:41 +0100, rbowman wrote:

On 09/09/2018 05:53 AM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:
Anyone working for a council is an idiot, not sure how that happens, but
they have no common sense at all. Round here, next to a primary school,
they've rebuilt the entire junction (they claim for safety) and not put
any kind of markings on it at all. Nobody knows which road has priority
and I've seen several near misses and hooting of horns. One day some
kids are going to be squashed and I hope a council moron gets jailed for
manslaughter.

I've been avoiding a project that's been going on all summer but I
finally took that street. It's great! They replaced two straightforward
entrance/exit ramps with two small roundabouts back to back. It's a hoot
on a bike!

Unfortunately roundabouts are not native to this part of the country and
people don't deal with them too well.

Roundabouts are brilliant, no lights to wait for when there;s nothing coming
the other way, there's always someone using the junction.

Until some ****wit in the DfT or a local council decides putting traffic lights
on a roundabout is a Really Good Idea, so completely defeating the point of
having a roundabout in the first place.

On Mon, 10 Sep 2018 14:07:22 +0100, wrote:

On Mon, 10 Sep 2018 12:55:45 +0100
"Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote:
On Mon, 10 Sep 2018 04:57:41 +0100, rbowman wrote:

On 09/09/2018 05:53 AM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:
Anyone working for a council is an idiot, not sure how that happens, but
they have no common sense at all. Round here, next to a primary school,
they've rebuilt the entire junction (they claim for safety) and not put
any kind of markings on it at all. Nobody knows which road has priority
and I've seen several near misses and hooting of horns. One day some
kids are going to be squashed and I hope a council moron gets jailed for
manslaughter.

I've been avoiding a project that's been going on all summer but I
finally took that street. It's great! They replaced two straightforward
entrance/exit ramps with two small roundabouts back to back. It's a hoot
on a bike!

Unfortunately roundabouts are not native to this part of the country and
people don't deal with them too well.

Roundabouts are brilliant, no lights to wait for when there;s nothing coming
the other way, there's always someone using the junction.

Until some ****wit in the DfT or a local council decides putting traffic lights
on a roundabout is a Really Good Idea, so completely defeating the point of
having a roundabout in the first place.

Agreed. I did in fact smash into another car the first time I saw a roundabout with lights, as I never realised they had such a stupid thing (they aren't in the driving test). I'm half way round the roundabout and I'm meant to stop? WTF? o a roundabout gives priority to those already on it, yet the lights do the opposite. Make up your mind paper pushing ****wits!

On Mon, 10 Sep 2018 04:39:20 +0100, rbowman wrote:

On 09/09/2018 11:40 AM, Rod Speed wrote:


"Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message
True, but if cycling through town, I'd wear shorts and tshirt.

More fool you in the depths of winter.

Oh, sweet Jesus... Here we go with Knife's fantasy that he can control
his body temperature like some Indian fakir and melt ice with his
wedding tackle at 20 below. Centigrade, Fahrenheit, take your pick.

It's called being warm blooded. Put a tropical fish in cold water and it dies. Put a mammal in cold water and it shivers.

On Mon, 10 Sep 2018 05:19:01 +0100, rbowman wrote:

On 09/09/2018 01:10 PM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:
On Sun, 09 Sep 2018 19:09:08 +0100, Rod Speed
wrote:

Once you lot are out of the EU, you'll have decent Korean cars available

Like Dacia and Daiwoo? Loads of them about already.


Dacias are Romanian, aren't they?

Dunno, don't care.

On Mon, 10 Sep 2018 04:45:21 +0100, rbowman wrote:

On 09/09/2018 05:48 AM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:
In the UK the cops are in fear of being done for assault. They're
always very polite and behave like girls. It's quite funny arguing with
a traffic cop, they let you insult them.

Yes, well that's the UK... I'm sure you read enough US news to realize
this is not the UK.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/officer-ar...ry?id=57715416

How ****ed up do you have to be to think you're in your house when you're in someone else's? She deserves everything she gets.