Biker fuel protest - Page 4

shillelagh · 04-06-2008, 23:31

Oh also would like to say im probably a lot greener than you in my travelling. I either catch a bus or train or walk.

emamum · 04-06-2008, 23:31

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Originally Posted by onlyme

Better solution, get rid of pratts like you. Maybes wouldnt solve the fuel problem, but I would hapily pay the extra

how do i donate to this worthy cause?

MargaretR · 04-06-2008, 23:35

gixerman - new avatar for you

BERNADETTE · 04-06-2008, 23:36

Why did nobody report the thread when the first insults were posted?

shillelagh · 04-06-2008, 23:36

No margaret thats too cute for him!!!

emamum · 04-06-2008, 23:37

I reported the thread for insulting shillelagh..... after last time i decided not to announce it to everyone.

BERNADETTE · 04-06-2008, 23:42

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Originally Posted by emamum23

I reported the thread for insulting shillelagh..... after last time i decided not to announce it to everyone.

Ok because I would have reported it at the same point(if I had been on-line to read it) just so long as the insult has been reported. No need to tell anybody if you report a thread

accyman · 04-06-2008, 23:47

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Originally Posted by shillelagh

Oh also would like to say im probably a lot greener than you in my travelling. I either catch a bus or train or walk.

lol you had him with walking but lost it when you said you use the bus , 1 lap from the dill hall circular bus would probably put out more crap than my car in a year lol

shillelagh · 04-06-2008, 23:53

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Originally Posted by accyman

lol you had him with walking but lost it when you said you use the bus , 1 lap from the dill hall circular bus would probably put out more crap than my car in a year lol

The bus is already on the road - if he caught the bus instead of firing up his bike ..... he would be greener than if he didnt use his bike ... that is why its called public transport - for people to use.

accyman · 05-06-2008, 00:05

sorry but you will never convince me a bus is greener than a motorbike no matter how many people travel on the bus

dear god dont get me defending motorbikes

Less · 05-06-2008, 07:19

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Originally Posted by accyman

mind you i spent my teenage years around bikers and soon learned that usualy whatever speed some biker claimed to be traveling should have about a third taken off to get you the speed they were ACTUALY traveling at.

When I was a teenager I had a motorbike, there was a lad that we knew claimed to have a large bike, (though we never saw it), when asked he would always say it's in for repair, he had a leather jacket with a poorly painted ace of spades on the back of it, he wanted us to call him 'Ace', we used to call him '99 splat', because whenever he turned up (on foot), he would tell us of his latest accident on some highly inappropriate stretch of road as he was attempting to do the ton, each tale was more ridiculous than the previous and he always finished them with,

"and just as I got to 99, splat! I would fall off my bike". He never had a mark on him.

I was knocked off a motorbike when I was only doing 15m.p.h. (according to theory one third of the speed should be taken off so I was actually doing 10m.p.h.),
a fractured leg and bruising to most of the body, so I would have thought someone doing 99m.p.h. on a regular basis should at least scrape their knee or lose a tooth, so perhaps 'Ace' was telling porkies?

I wonder has one of 'Ace's' descendants has started posting on accyweb?

accyman · 05-06-2008, 09:32

lol 99 splat sounds like an ice cream

maybe the flake got in his spokes lol

jambutty · 05-06-2008, 09:59

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Originally Posted by Less

When I was a teenager I had a motorbike, there was a lad that we knew claimed to have a large bike, (though we never saw it), when asked he would always say it's in for repair, he had a leather jacket with a poorly painted ace of spades on the back of it, he wanted us to call him 'Ace', we used to call him '99 splat', because whenever he turned up (on foot), he would tell us of his latest accident on some highly inappropriate stretch of road as he was attempting to do the ton, each tale was more ridiculous than the previous and he always finished them with,

"and just as I got to 99, splat! I would fall off my bike". He never had a mark on him.

I was knocked off a motorbike when I was only doing 15m.p.h. (according to theory one third of the speed should be taken off so I was actually doing 10m.p.h.),
a fractured leg and bruising to most of the body, so I would have thought someone doing 99m.p.h. on a regular basis should at least scrape their knee or lose a tooth, so perhaps 'Ace' was telling porkies?

I wonder has one of 'Ace's' descendants has started posting on accyweb?

Whether you get injured or not falling off a bike will largely depend on how you land, what you are wearing and whether the bike lands on you or hits you.

Back in the late fifties I came off my Thunderbird at 60 plus and suffered no injuries apart from injured pride. I was told that as I landed on the deck I rolled. Not by design though, it just happened.

On the other hand when the engine cut out at a mere 5 mph, the bike bucked and kicked so that I cracked my nose on the windscreen and the bike (all 350 plus pounds of it) fell over on me and severely bruised my hip.

entwisi · 05-06-2008, 10:26

Nowt as perverse as chance is there Jambutty!

My only big accident happened at 0mph( well, I was at zero ) and I broke my back. I too have slid down the road at 40, got up, kicked bike back into shape and carried on riding to work.

jaysay · 05-06-2008, 10:39

After reading this thread it seems like bikers are a bit like fishermen only substitute size of fish for speed