Nob of the Day.......

[daveinlim]

Coming out of our street onto the main road I was met with temp lights as the junction, normally there's no lights.

 

Sit at a red for a few seconds behind another car and our light turns green.

 

There's about 5 cars waiting at the lights to the left and the same to the right. 

 

Our lights green, as the car in front moves forward a jaguar SUV comes roaring past the 5 cars it was sat behind and into the path of the car in front of me. He was flooring it, engine screaming in first gear. If the guy in front had pulled away any quicker it would have been a head on collision as he turned onto the main road. 

 

Guy in the Jag needs a hot poker shoved where the sun don't shine. If they had collided then him the guy in front, me and probably another car or something pedestrians would have all been impacted.

 

 

[daveinlim]

2nd one today, guy in a new green ninja 125. It's a lovely bike for a 125 but slow down matey.

Stopped in a 2 lane road, heavy traffic approaching a roundabout. 

 

I'm driving a big SUV and he's come by so fast and close it rocked my car!

 

Whoever you are, if you're on here, take it easy or you'll be on the gifting side of the organ donor list soon.

 

[onesea]

40 minutes ago, daveinlim said:

Coming out of our street onto the main road I was met with temp lights as the junction, normally there's no lights.

 

Sit at a red for a few seconds behind another car and our light turns green.

 

There's about 5 cars waiting at the lights to the left and the same to the right. 

 

Our lights green, as the car in front moves forward a jaguar SUV comes roaring past the 5 cars it was sat behind and into the path of the car in front of me. He was flooring it, engine screaming in first gear. If the guy in front had pulled away any quicker it would have been a head on collision as he turned onto the main road. 

 

Guy in the Jag needs a hot poker shoved where the sun don't shine. If they had collided then him the guy in front, me and probably another car or something pedestrians would have all been impacted.

 

 

Local hobby round here, temporary lights should have cameras by default. 

 

I have sat through 2 light changes as cars just kept driving through.  I have stopped as lights changed and been "overtaken" by cars jumping the red lights.

 

People don't seem to give a fook about temporary lights.

 

Makes me want to get a dash cam.

[Fish]

That would be me...... 24mph in a 20 zone! Got to love our citizen Khan who is killing our capital.

[S-Westerly]

Had a reasonable ride north with only one nob - a truck on the M42 (2 lanes) who pulled out at the last minute then proceeded to creep past the truck on the inside over the next 5 miles.

[Shepherd]

Me again, maybe.

For the very first time, I could actually let family know what to buy me for Christmas this year. "Sportsbikeshop vouchers" says I to anyone who'd listen.

 

Went on their site today to buy the Abba bike stand that they don't sell 

[bud]

1 hour ago, Shepherd said:

Me again, maybe.

For the very first time, I could actually let family know what to buy me for Christmas this year. "Sportsbikeshop vouchers" says I to anyone who'd listen.

 

Went on their site today to buy the Abba bike stand that they don't sell 

Oh man what a disappointment.

[Simon Davey]

@Shepherd

I wholly sympathise, I have a £50 J&S voucher, and it has to be used in store, but everything I see on their website that I actually want, they don't have in store. 

Going down there to use it towards summer boots. 

[Shepherd]

10 hours ago, Simon Davey said:

@Shepherd

I wholly sympathise, I have a £50 J&S voucher, and it has to be used in store, but everything I see on their website that I actually want, they don't have in store. 

Going down there to use it towards summer boots. 

@Simon Davey I have a code on my vouchers, so I can use them online?

Although for boots, you'd want to try on for size.

Harlow shop is not too far for me, I'll have to go browsing 

[Shepherd]

17 hours ago, bud said:

Oh man what a disappointment.

Yep, first world problems ...

[Mississippi Bullfrog]

Driving along the A55 round the south of Chester heading towards Wales this afternoon.  There was ice and snow either side of the carriageway with traffic keeping to a steady 55mph in the left hand lane.

 

Mr BMW comes belting up the right hand lane which in that section was relatively clear. However, there is a junction coming up at which a lot of traffic leaves the A55. Consequently just past that junction the outer lane is much less used and so is filled with snow. 

 

Mr BMW fails to anticipate the conditions and hits the snow going like the clappers. Everyone else could see this coming so eased off leaving him space to pirouette gracefully across both lanes until the back of the car left the road and got stuck in the slush. 

 

Fortunately enough space was left for the rest of us to proceed without being held up. 

[Simon Davey]

That's only funny because no-one else was involved....

[Fozzie]

Reminds me of a time I was driving back from Scotland. Beautiful clear day, fresh snow on all the surrounding fields. 

What I thought was thick fog was up ahead as I went up a stretch of the motorway into some hills. It wasn't fog, it was a blizzard and I went into it at speed limit of 70mph. Big mistake. 

 

I had moved into the middle lane to overtake a truck, and as we hit this wall of flying snow we both got on the brakes and put our fog lights on. Never seen it go light/dark as fast as it did. 

Within seconds, we went from driving on clear roads to a lot of slush, and the right lane had a lot more snow settling on it. As I cleared the truck I saw a BMW coming up behind quickly in the right lane, I saw the inevitable happening and got into the left lane quickly. 

 

Mr BMW overtook me and the truck as he hit the snow and went sideways, and carried on into a big spin across the motorway as he overcorrected and ended up in the hard shoulder with some wheels on the verge. Me and the truck managed to shed speed and dodge him. 

No safe way to stop in that, so I kept on going, and about 20 minutes later it was back to clear skies and nice roads again. 

 

BMW was a nob no doubt, although he'd have gotten away with it had he not being doing 90+. 

 

 

[Fiddlesticks]

There were a fair few today driving in slushy snow in the outside lane at speed, leaving themselves little braking distance. A dab on the brakes or a bit of steering input in those conditions and you're sideways.

[daveinlim]

Lots of flooding locally this week. On a 40mph back road. Our side of the road is flooded with about a foot of water. 

Guy in a Skoda Octavia decides that crossing over to the other side of the road is the best way even though there's 3 cars coming against us. Rather than risk getting his front bumper wet (it's a foot deep he could make it) he plays chicken with oncoming traffic who are forced to stop dead or have a head on collision. 

 

I had wife and out baby in the car so hit our brakes fairly sharpish to avoid the potential disaster ahead. Lucky all 3 cars stopped in time to let this nob by. 

[Fender1515]

OK, I vote for ME as Nob of the day, why?

So a couple of weeks ago, i did the winterizing stuff on the bike, it's feral and lives outside.

Battery cover off, didn't lose any of the screws into the engine this time,  result, plugged in and rand out extension cable, attached battery conditioner, covers back on, job's a gooden.

 

It's been a tad chilly last couple of days in Yorkshire, so yesterday, out to start up bike and simmer, disconnect battery charger, not really paying much attention to the screen, it was cold! only it wouldn't, LED battery low indicator flashing, REALLY, reattached charger, nout charge, after some in depth diagnostics, discovered, brains of Britain eer, hadn't switched the 13amp socket to live.

If I had another brain cell, it would be lonely.

Have a nice day!

[Mickly]

2 hours ago, Fender1515 said:

OK, I vote for ME as Nob of the day, why?

So a couple of weeks ago, i did the winterizing stuff on the bike, it's feral and lives outside.

Battery cover off, didn't lose any of the screws into the engine this time,  result, plugged in and rand out extension cable, attached battery conditioner, covers back on, job's a gooden.

 

It's been a tad chilly last couple of days in Yorkshire, so yesterday, out to start up bike and simmer, disconnect battery charger, not really paying much attention to the screen, it was cold! only it wouldn't, LED battery low indicator flashing, REALLY, reattached charger, nout charge, after some in depth diagnostics, discovered, brains of Britain eer, hadn't switched the 13amp socket to live.

If I had another brain cell, it would be lonely.

Have a nice day!

I’ve had a similar experience, the charger in my metal bike garage runs off a plug in the utility room which has an RCD trip, last winter we had a power cut, I didn’t think to reset the RCD, so when I tried that bike in the spring the battery could hardly turn the bike over, being aware of the delicate sprag clutch I put the battery on charge immediately before using.

[RideWithStyles]

Not far too different, was the connection block between the charger and our Bikes live outside.

 was fine for a few days then wasn’t doing when I checked it a few weeks or longer???(i  think), happened a good few times So I could nominate myself for that one.

the charger was fine but some reason the block terminal rebelled about the one single thing it had to do, suddenly decided being gay/lesbian….

 

the benelli bike had a immobiliser,

Bike which wasn’t too battery hungry but the immobiliser definitely didn’t wanna share much metal or juice with it.

while the triumph had an alarm on top of, which or hated it and itself, settling with nothing but a brand new heavy spec battery….very often.

both used to draw and need too ups from the charger more than you think.

 

luckily my current bike is old, archaic, unmolested so it doesn’t have an complex ecu, alarm, tracker or anything really parasitic.

its about -9 *c and still lives happily on the battery charger, barely needing a feed.

Edited January 9 by RideWithStyles

[S-Westerly]

Me. 60 miles from home, 30 miles from Heathrow- did you pick up your passport? Uh no? Missed flight so now on the overnight one and no jolly in Dubai. Idiot.

[Fender1515]

41 minutes ago, S-Westerly said:

Me. 60 miles from home, 30 miles from Heathrow- did you pick up your passport? Uh no? Missed flight so now on the overnight one and no jolly in Dubai. Idiot.

There should be a "T" shirt for that, I would be wearing one !!

[husoi]

Today is the phoking herd of brainless tw@ts that since 7am are cycling along one of the busiest roads in south Lanarkshire the A70.

Notorious for near impossible to overtake even when you're trying to get rid of those morons on bikes without phoking engines.

[rennie]

The woman on the site we're on, cockapoo on a lead decided it didn't like motility scooters and tried to take a chunk out of my leg "oh I'm so sorry she's never done that before "

[bud]

I got bit on the top of my thigh a coup!e of years ago. It was pretty deep.

I was walking the pup when this dog comes out of nowhere really going for her. I pulled her round behind me, and the dog went for me!

I was holding my leg and the woman asked, "did he bits you?" Didn't apologise either.

[Simon Davey]

FFS!!

I bet you were too nice about it because you just want to get some peace with Sue for a couple of days.

 

[bonio]

Oh no! So stupid! Why I am sooo stuuupid? 

It was meant to be an easy job - replacing the front brake pads. It was an easy job until I set the torque wrench to 25 Nm out to tighten up the caliper bolts. But I never got that cl---unk feel it's meant to do, it just made a little click, so I tightened a bit more until it could feel it do something. Both bolts.... sheared off in the caliper.

I am so cross with myself. Speechless.