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Caminando,
Don't go, we love you really! You're welcome to engage in debate here anytime cos we all love arguing the toss. Martyn is a funny guy who likes to have a laugh with people. We may have over-reacted and mis-understood your motives and what you were trying to say but it's no BIG deal honest. Surely we are all old enough (and ugly enough) to put this small disagreement behind us and wipe the slate clean (until our next falling out)! No hard feelings and I think I can say that on everybody's behalf... There, no need for any BANS or further admonishments! We are self-policing... Neil One of the Old FAT Bast**d Gang (except I'm an associate member at only 12.5 stones). |
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Gents,
Please behave yourselves. I appreciate that in this damp weather you're probably bored and think that you have nothing else to do than partake in virtual handbags. If you want to wind each other up, please swap email/phone numbers and do it privately. I'm sure that the vast majority of HUBB visitors would prefer not have to read your nonsense in order to get to stuff that interests them. Kind regards, Chris |
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YouTube - Shangri Las - Leader of the Pack "... as he drove away that rainy night, I begged him to go slow..." |
This has been an interesting thread....really.
Martynbiker ..i'll will have a ride up to Sax one day for a beer mate.....or tea! |
Your welcome Dean!
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PS What is a "Super' Moderator? as opposed to a 'Normal' Moderator? By the way, this is an HONEST question, not a wind up, OK? Martyn |
Job titles
With ref to job titles, Grant decides the naming. "Super" is his choice. As far as I'm aware I have similar user rights to "Administrators" (i.e. Grant and Susan): All the usual stuff and in addition the ability to delete/edit posts, ban users etc.
Yours, Super:cool4: |
My other ride.......ing in the rain....
My other ride's a 6200 HP Tug and Barge working on the East coast and Gulf of Mexico of the U.S........ When it starts raining or when the weather gets really nasty (Like when my coffee cup goes airbourne and ricochets around the wheelhouse kinda nasty), the song of choice is Robert Cray's "The Forecast calls for Pain".....(I would have enclosed a photo for all you landlubbers out there but I haven't mastered the resizing and sending "thing" yet).
While I'm at it, I repowered my riding lawnmower with a Harley engine two summers ago. It still cut grass O.K. but now it scares the hell out of the neighbors dog and it doesn't turn very well anymore??? Maybe I should get a couple of goats????? |
Riding in heavy rain, though unpleasant, is less worrying than a light rain which raises the oil and grease from the tarmac, making the surface really treacherous. I've been off a couple of times on this.
Heavy rain carries away all this stuff, though aquaplaning etc is a problem, and being blinded by truckspray, which sometimes is terrifying. In heavy rain, I get off motorways because of spray. Lesser roads mean less speed which I find safer. |
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Some time ago, another guy on here told me about "irfanview" - its a free bit of software that will do that re-sizing thing, but not automatically - you still have to play around with it a bit. It's spelt out in another thread in here if you fancy searching for it; since then, this computer dinosaur has found that Microsoft can do the same sort of thing with pics, as can just about all of the range of picture editing software. Again, there's information in the other threads. So, a pic of your "other highway" would be good - more pics the better in this website, to break up the reams of type, but Grant may not like that too much!!:rolleyes2: Bandwidth, bandwidth and more of the same. :offtopic: again |
Dont want to Nitpick Cammy...
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It is the First Few Minutes of rain after a Dry Spell that raises the oils & greases to the surface of the road, it will happen, Light or Heavy rain, same difference. The only difference is, the heavier the rain, the faster it washes away.:thumbup1: That is why here in Spain car crashes are GUARANTEED on most roads whenever it rains, Drivers here have'nt learnt yet that you wait half an hour or so for the grease to get washed away, and another hour or two for the Tow trucks to remove the Carnage! Martyn |
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On the sublect of Spanish drivers it kills me(not literally...at least not yet)the way some of them leave it until the very very very last moment before taking the slip road from motorways from the fast lane. Bless their little cotton socks....the ****ing arseholes! |
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Living is Spain is an Instant 'Crash Course' ( exscuse the Pun) in Defensive Driving, we should run courses eh Dean? Valencia, Madrid & Alicante make London look tame in Comparison! Martyn |
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You know! I don't think there would be any takers for driving courses here in Spain as most drivers seem to think they already know it all......just like Alonso Fernandez....is that his name??...Fernando Fromage!!! |
Behave Dean......
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The worst City By far for completley screwed up loonies was Pamplona! but what do you expect from a place where they let themselves be chased throught the streets by Bulls? |
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Is that how you got off your Ban then?
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Well YOUR contributions are like below..... The man asked an HONEST question, because he suffers from a problem. You Delivered, in your usual vein. Sarcasm.... the lowest form of Wit. And I see from above with my Name, your spelling still has not improved Cammy! Tut Tut! :nono: http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/hub.../Animal026.gif Caminando http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/hub...ser_online.gif Contributing Member Veteran HUBBer Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: London, UK...(and France) Posts: 855 Jeez! thats like asking if you should cut your ears off in case they get dirty. Just wash yourself man! |
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One of the strangest places I've seen was Bassano del Grappa at the foot of the Dolomites, home of ex-WRC champion, Miki Biasion. It's a quiet, sleepy little town one minute but on the route of an illegal street racing scene on a Saturday night. Everything from heavily modified FIAT 500's to a Chrysler Crossfire on nitrous. Good to watch, just don't get caught up in the middle of it in a hired FIAT Punto, like I did. Bologna in rush hour isn't recommended either. |
Banning IP addresses
Grant advises he can ban individual addresses or ranges of IP addresses, all of Spain if he wants...
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back to original post of riding in the rain.
i ride all year round and always wear the gear. somebody said something about making it illegal to ride in the rain! you'd never ride your bike in britain if that happened! i carry a one piece waterproof with me at all times but when i ride in the rain i am so cautious (especially on roundabouts) that i get cars right up my backside which seriously gets to me. they dont do it when i'm driving my truck! |
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Maybe you need a sticker: "Back off, my other bike is an artic"? |
Even In Saudi
Nice and smooth in the rain for me.
I was riding from Jeddah over the mountains in rain and fog with a trail of cars following close behind for miles on end using me as their guide when suddenly the road changed from three lanes down to two,:eek3: I saw it in time and swerved over but the cars behind went straight down a bank. I think the Saudies have had driving lessons in Spain as they leave it to the last minute to leave a motorway from the outside lane. Cheers Ian:thumbup1: |
Walkabout you want a ride report, Dragged the ktm out it was raining rode north from my house up the coast to Bamburgh it was still raining, dark dark clouds and a bit of wind (Mainly from my soup at lunch time) Bamburgh looks good in this weather the sea is white with froth and waves the sky moody, From here turned inland over to Belford then over the moor to wooler very nice road, its still raining - snow on the cheviots - kept heading north west past wooler to kirk newton (Near the north side of cheviot (lovely scenery but its raining and a touch of sleet) then north to Cornhill cross the border into Scotland and a coffee at Coldstream. From here it was a quick blast to Duns coffee and a pee at my mates house, touch of white stuff on higher ground but nothing to shout about its getting dark now !!! so its back to Berwick - south to Alnwick and then on to home. It Rained nearly all the way !. Wet stayed on the outside of me and once again another nice afternoon run out in the rain. About 130 miles in all. As for sliding or slipping on wet roads RUBBISH - ive got a modern bike with modern semi knobbly tyres and 30 years of riding all year round under me belt.
That keep you happy. No photos though didnt take the camera -it might of got wet you know -after all it was raining. |
It's a start!
As per this thead from Dan 23:- http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/hub...od-stuff-30852 which has not really "clicked" with the readers :rolleyes2:. Next time someone from overseas, say, wants to know where to go in England, and they do a search for, say, "Coldstream" (OK, it is in Scotland)they will be blessing you!! Cheers, |
Walkabout if we really did this type of ride report then the system would certainly clog up. I must admit that my part of the country is stunning its a place i really do love to be in(Northumberland and the borders) with superb and fairly empty roads and scenery, being the least populated county with the most castles its teaming with history from the Roman Wall, Lindisfarne loads of Castles (to ward off the neighbours across the border and historic small villages and even a few towns, hundreds of miles of scenic back roads across hills, vast moors and forests much of this is missed by bike travellers who travel straight through the county on the main roads to scotland. I could take some really nice photos (not sure how to download them onto here mind) and suggest some nice routes. But really anyone wanting to come to this area can just contact me and I will try my best to give them routes or info on the area or even a guided run out if thats what they want and a night down the village for a few beers.
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It was snowing today when I took the bike out for a shake down run over snake pass (Buxton to Mansfield) with the rain the night before and the freezing cold road was well slippy with black ice, does that mean I'm even more stupid then those that ride in the Rain?
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Riding in the rain is great, in a sort of S&M way.:thumbup1: I love it, after all it's all about the journey and the more varied the journey better, even if that means rain.
In October last year I rode a bike back from Paris to Milan for a friend and I collected it in gentle drizzle in central Paris, by the suburbs it was pouring, by the Autoroute it had REALLY started to rain and after an hour it was like a cloud burst all the way to Beaune about 360 miles of rain. That night I poured 1/2 a pint out of each glove and hung all my stuff out to dry, but hey I'd do it again. And anyone who was at Ripley last year got wet, didn't we boys and girls.:stormy: Slow down, think positive and enjoy what you're doing and if it all gets too much, pull into a hotel/B&B, dry out, go for a meal, a drink, meet new people and add it to the list of things you've done on a bike.:scooter: |
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Hi Adv950, I don't know about the clogging up thing, nor do I care to even think about it - a techie thing for the techs to sort out. It was a great suggestion and question from Dan23 and I reckon it needs an answer, eventually. Ultimately, Grant will do something about the question, even if that decision is to do nothing. In the meantime, that type of post will continue on Advrider, GSUker and the like. I've posted a few pics on here (took me some time to sort out how to do it within the limits set on this website) and I have now run out of "Quota"; that doesn't matter to me greatly. I'll just do something else with my time. Your generosity of time in hosting people is excellent, but you may not be around at the time that someone or other wants such a "service"; those folk can do a search in here, find your key words - Coldstream etc etc and then make up their minds, ask more questions or just get on with it. Anyway, that's my thoughts for now - I'm off to Advrider to look at the pics! Quite agree about Northumberland - I've ridden quite a few routes around there and they are often missed in the rush to get over the border at Carter Bar and elsewhere (there's another place name someone might search for!) Cheers, |
Northumberland
Did some work with the National Trust at Cragside many years ago, very nice area.:D
Cheers Ian:thumbup1: |
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