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by jcochrane
Sun Aug 07, 2022 9:48 pm
Forum: Advanced Driving - Bikes
Topic: Motorcycle videos
Replies: 259
Views: 3887665

Re: Motorcycle videos

Was the camera mounted behind the rider? Oooo, never been asked that. No, it was just above my left front turn signal. https://i.ibb.co/zrjqPW2/20190923-121801.jpg Click image for better quality wider photo Ah. With it positioned there probably explains why overtakes were done before all nearside i...
by jcochrane
Thu Aug 04, 2022 5:45 pm
Forum: Advanced Driving - Bikes
Topic: Motorcycle videos
Replies: 259
Views: 3887665

Re: Motorcycle videos

Was the camera mounted behind the rider?
by jcochrane
Wed Aug 03, 2022 5:38 pm
Forum: In The News
Topic: The nightmare has arrived, or has it?
Replies: 12
Views: 6740

Re: The nightmare has arrived, or has it?

Looked fine and safe to me.
by jcochrane
Wed Jul 27, 2022 9:22 am
Forum: Advanced Driving - Cars
Topic: Reg Local - IAM Masters
Replies: 46
Views: 29591

Re: Reg Local - IAM Masters

Horse wrote:

There are times when letting go of the wheel is the best option.

^ That's advice from a ex-colleague who did a lot of research on airbags.

Definitely. Once passed the point of recovery and keep the brake on.
This is the instruction given when driving a Nascar on an American Speedway.
by jcochrane
Tue Jul 26, 2022 8:48 am
Forum: Advanced Driving - Cars
Topic: Reg Local - IAM Masters
Replies: 46
Views: 29591

Re: Reg Local - IAM Masters

... a likely occurrence when driving on the road. Although could doing (and trying to cling onto control during) an unintentional off-road excursion create the situation? I think in those circumstances you may have more to worry about than a wrench on the thumbs. It may also be possible that the fi...
by jcochrane
Tue Jul 26, 2022 12:47 am
Forum: Advanced Driving - Cars
Topic: Reg Local - IAM Masters
Replies: 46
Views: 29591

Re: Reg Local - IAM Masters

One thing my checker did insist on was thumbs not around steering wheel, yet Reg does that and said it's ok. My checker told me he had attended RTCs where folks had thumb injuries. I've heard that quoted before. In motor racing it is usual to have the thumbs round the steering wheel and in more tha...
by jcochrane
Fri Jul 15, 2022 8:05 am
Forum: Advanced Driving - Bikes
Topic: Search for understanding
Replies: 18
Views: 8750

Re: Search for understanding

Is there any explanation in the comments (I've watched the video) of what happened? The rider is up and walking, so it probably wasn't a high-speed impact (such as Vs oncoming vehicle, or a wall or tree) and #2 has been able to turn around and park. Then the fire. Was there a fuel leak, or tank pun...
by jcochrane
Sun Jun 19, 2022 8:42 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Really good or quite bad?
Replies: 33
Views: 17984

Re: Really good or quite bad?

Visit such as an American President involved having to co-ordinate with several specialist units including the FBI who always seemed to have their way of doing things and we had ours so it could get interesting. FBI? I thought they were US domestic only. Are you perhaps referring to the Secret Serv...
by jcochrane
Sun Jun 19, 2022 7:06 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Really good or quite bad?
Replies: 33
Views: 17984

Re: Really good or quite bad?

Having seen videos of the DPG SEG Special Escort Group? Yes - I thought they were called Diplomatic Protection Group - either they were or I imagined it.... I think they're the ones stood close to the VIP, looking twitchy behind their mirror shades, talking to their wrist, and trying not to reach u...
by jcochrane
Thu Jun 09, 2022 2:12 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Hypermiling
Replies: 23
Views: 12501

Re: Hypermiling

Yes I quite agree Tom - there is some rubbish advice on t'internet...things like putting it in neutral while slowing...or using really high gears when travelling at 30mph. Yet a lot of auto cars now do this when you lift of the gas, so there is no natural acceleration sense driving. Not that I'm sa...

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