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More like drove it off the wall.
There appear to be a great many motorists who accidentally put their cars in first-gear instead of reverse (or vice versa). How do you do that?
I did it a few times when I first got my MINI. 1st is left and forward, reverse is more left and forward. There’s no collar to push up, nor any need to lift or push down on the shifter.
My previous few manual transmissions were five speed, so reverse was where 6th is on this one. First was just push left as far as it goes, then forward. My Subaru allegedly wouldn’t even let you try to stupidly go 5-R without passing through neutral. I never tried.
If you can name the 3 (original) Rentaghost characters and sing the song then you ride a Mercian King of the Mountains with a Brooks B17, toe-clips, a Carradice saddlebag and your large flange wheels are 36h rear and 32h front.l-r Mr Davenport (c18th gentleman), Bob Mumford (recently deceased ordinary bloke), Timothy Claypole (court jester)
🎶At your party, be a smartie just hire Rentaghost
We’ve got freaks and fools and beasts and ghouls
At Rentaghost 🎵
That’s as best I can do without looking it up.
A pair of Rene Herse tan walls for the bonus to anyone who can (i) describe their special powers and how these are activated and (ii) the name of their landlord.
I don’t know that stuff, but I left the UK at eight years old in 1979, so I never saw the show after that, but I still have the general tune of that theme song stuck in my head, along with Andy Pandy and Rupert.
Bus drives into the river at Eastleigh. Facebook comment – “How?!?”The driver of the college bus that drove into the River Itchen this morning has been branded a “hero” after he told an eyewitness that his “accelerator was jammed”.
Pedal confusion, perhaps? The brakes on that bus should be able to overcome the engine. And if it has a clutch, just push it in and let the engine rev away.
Hahah no – I’m now wondering if it was in Fake Heroes about Douglas Bader. It was ! Allegedly to a bunch of school girls.Here’s Stan Boardman doing a long version of the joke on Des O’Connor Show – got him a ban from ITV and more or less ended his career:
Well, at least he wasn’t arrested for a public order offence.
The Rene Herse TPU tubes have
The Rene Herse TPU tubes have metal valve stems and (I think) removable cores.
I carry a Tubolito one as a
I carry a Tubolito one as a spare for one of my tubeless bikes, but haven’t had to use it yet. I have about 17,000 miles (not) on it, rolled up in my tool roll. It’s under half the bulk of a butyl tube.
chrisonabike wrote:
(Not news but only because I can’t unsee these things now) what appear to be the parking lots appear to take up more space than the buildings (OTOH perhaps the business is to do with vehicles?).
Not really, it’s an R&D lab for a company that mainly makes big yellow machines. I’m in the engine test lab.We are utterly car dependent, but it’s a good thing we’re nowhere near housing as we have dozens of smokestacks. No bus service, surrounded by 45-55 MPH roads with no bike infrastructure or even shoulders. Maybe five out of 1000+ people ever bike to work. I’m by far the most consistent at it.
chrisonabike wrote:
I think the “elf and safety” perspective is a useful one.This. I work in a large facility with six main buildings and internal roads. The speed limit is 15 MPH because there are also pedestrians going between buildings. The speed limit for forklift trucks indoors is “a walking pace” for the same reason. In the 25+ years I’ve worked here, we’ve cut way down on driving between buildings. It’s only supposed to be allowed when carrying heavy or bulky cargo, tools, etc.
Outdoors or indoors, vehicles are no closer to pedestrians than they would be on a city road with a pavement.
Aerial view. The east-west dimension is just over half a mile.
Exactly. I’m not on X, but
Exactly. I’m not on X, but here’s what today’s live blog looks like. The video even plays for me.
I do occasionally see blank ones, usually when “this content is not available in your country.” Not much they can (legally) do about that.
Peugeot 3008 overturns in Cheriton High Street, opposite BP petrol garage, as garden wall destroyedSo strange that a garden wall being destroyed would make an innocent passing car flip like that!
Thanks for the figures but 60 000 miles life for a car tyre? I have never got that much use out of a set of tyres. Indeed, my current EV has done 11 000 miles and has 4mm of tread left meaning I’ll need to change it within the year, or less than 15 000 miles.I know EV’s are hard on tyres, but surely not that bad when compared with tyres on ICE cars?
That tyre comes with a 6 year/60,000 mile treadwear warranty in the U.S. It’s not a performance tyre, it’s a decent quality, utilitarian tyre with a 700 treadwear rating.
Some EVs eat tyres as it’s so easy to accelerate at the tyre’s limit, and they weigh nearly double the equivalent petrol car. Still, 15,000 miles is pretty ridiculous if you have a good alignment, rotate appropriately, and are driving it sanely. I used to get over 25,000 miles from performance tyres on my turbo Forester, driven by my teenage sons, and even doing the occasional track day.
Do you think it did a good
Do you think it did a good job of reading the number plate? Is it easily human readable when zoomed in?
I may have posted this
I may have posted this previously, but I estimated a few years ago that bicycles lose about 1/3 the rubber per mile or km compared to basic cars. If anyone has any better numbers for any of these, I can put them in, or I can share the Google sheet and you can play with it.
Intuitively, it seems like it should be more like a tenth than a third.
How about a Raleigh?
How about a Raleigh?
stonojnr wrote:
Motorbikes count in this too right ? https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/25220635.motorbike-involved-collision-princes-street-ipswich/ Though how does a motorbike hit a traffic light that hard to move it and still be rideable?“It is unclear which vehicle caused the damaged to the traffic light.”
I think we all know which vehicle did it.