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by Triquet
Thu Apr 22, 2021 3:11 pm
Forum: Advanced Driving - Bikes
Topic: Motorcycle videos
Replies: 259
Views: 3887816

Re: Motorcycle videos

It's an interesting point. If you are out there and you see several bikes astern, clearly riding as a group, you are more likely to ease off to let the group pass ....
by Triquet
Thu Apr 22, 2021 9:04 am
Forum: Advanced Driving - Bikes
Topic: Motorcycle videos
Replies: 259
Views: 3887816

Re: Motorcycle videos

Horse wrote:
Triquet wrote:I may have to pop down to Hungerford to see if there is a real cow


Have you never seen one? Wow! ;)


Plenty round here, but mostly in fields. :popcorn:
by Triquet
Wed Apr 21, 2021 5:23 pm
Forum: Advanced Driving - Bikes
Topic: Motorcycle videos
Replies: 259
Views: 3887816

Re: Motorcycle videos

I may have to pop down to Hungerford to see if there is a real cow issue. Went to Marlborough and Avebury last week and it snowed ....
by Triquet
Mon Apr 19, 2021 10:34 am
Forum: Advanced Driving - Bikes
Topic: Motorcycle videos
Replies: 259
Views: 3887816

Re: Motorcycle videos

Interesting point John. I am not sure that the "examples" of commentary bandied about are actually that helpful. They seem to suggest that the driver is required to provide a full running commentary in full grammatical sentences whereas surely it is sufficient to make fairly short and cryp...
by Triquet
Thu Apr 15, 2021 12:32 pm
Forum: Advanced Driving - Bikes
Topic: Motorcycle videos
Replies: 259
Views: 3887816

Re: Motorcycle videos

The great advantage of the shoulder check is that it doesn't need electronics.
by Triquet
Tue Apr 13, 2021 8:07 pm
Forum: Technology
Topic: Best features to look for when buying a new car.
Replies: 75
Views: 48277

Re: Best fetures to look for when buying a new car.

What I do not want ... ⋅ electronic hand-brake Until I got the Leon, I would have agreed. But not now. That said, I have no idea on the maintenance and longevity aspects (although having a frozen handbrake cable on the Astra meant being 'creative'). Um. in the "old days" one cou...
by Triquet
Tue Apr 13, 2021 1:12 pm
Forum: Technology
Topic: Best features to look for when buying a new car.
Replies: 75
Views: 48277

Re: Best fetures to look for when buying a new car.

I've got full size spares in both my Saabs (courtesy of DCA), and they both have dimmable instrument lights. Saabs also have the "night time" panel where everything is off except the speedo. I believe that full size spares are essential if one is going to venture forth (eventually) the oth...
by Triquet
Fri Apr 09, 2021 5:43 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Importance of surprise horizon
Replies: 42
Views: 20665

Re: Importance of surprise horizon

Out to the West of us in the Vale of White Horse, there is a network of minor roads (which of course are at National Speed Limit because the various powers-that-be can't be arsed to post lower limits). On these little roads one can have many and varied Surprise Horizon events inclduing horses, lycra...
by Triquet
Fri Apr 09, 2021 6:52 am
Forum: In The News
Topic: Smart Motoways
Replies: 38
Views: 30900

Re: Smart Motoways

See IAM roadsmart have put their head above the parapet on smart motorways. What could be done would be to put a red X over lane one, oh and then publicise that this IS now the hard shoulder. Money better spent than those T......g insects. That advert is unbelievably stupid I suspect that 75% of dr...
by Triquet
Wed Apr 07, 2021 10:25 am
Forum: Technology
Topic: Best features to look for when buying a new car.
Replies: 75
Views: 48277

Re: Best fetures to look for when buying a new car.

When I used to travel a lot on business, I have on sometimes hired cars at foreign airports and had Unpleasant Surprises. These have included my first experience of stop/start causing me to struggle getting out of Oslo airport thinking I was continually stalling, the weirdness of lane nudging on the...

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