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by dvenman
Fri Jul 01, 2022 9:56 am
Forum: Advanced Driving - Bikes
Topic: Reg Local - How to pass an Advanced Motorcycle Test
Replies: 70
Views: 33095

Re: Reg Local - How to pass an Advanced Motorcycle Test

Has anyone commented either on YouTube or in PistonHeads, where Mr Local is a regular poster?

I don't watch his bike videos - not a biker, no plans to become one. And I've not seen anything on PH.
by dvenman
Wed Jun 22, 2022 8:33 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Really good or quite bad?
Replies: 33
Views: 18124

Re: Really good or quite bad?

martine wrote:Did they get their man?


No
by dvenman
Wed Apr 20, 2022 7:31 am
Forum: In The News
Topic: Locusts causing crash...
Replies: 0
Views: 9439

Locusts causing crash...

Well, one other hazard to add to the list, in Namibia at least...

https://www.namibian.com.na/111408/read ... d-accident
by dvenman
Mon Feb 28, 2022 3:15 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Appalling standard of road maintenance
Replies: 11
Views: 6126

Re: Appalling standard of road maintenance

That particular piece of road is unusually subject to large subsidence. It's been patched over the years but the time has come when the underlying soil and land structures just have given way.
by dvenman
Sat Jan 29, 2022 8:22 am
Forum: Advanced Driving - Bikes
Topic: Drivers & riders see different things
Replies: 9
Views: 5673

Re: Drivers & riders see different things

Triquet wrote:Particularly if vehicle is a white van or a large 4x4 propelled by a very short person. Lot of those in Berkshire. :gear:


Short people or large white vehicles?
by dvenman
Fri Jan 21, 2022 3:41 pm
Forum: In The News
Topic: Phone use (again )
Replies: 62
Views: 94468

Re: Phone use (again )

crr003 wrote:W3W now lets you display the three words and the lat/long or British National Grid together.


Excellent. Three ways to tell a control room you're lost...

If W3W was that good, it wouldn't need those integrations.
by dvenman
Fri Nov 19, 2021 11:01 am
Forum: In The News
Topic: Banning the wrong things again?
Replies: 26
Views: 15316

Re: Banning the wrong things again?

One thing that has been pointed out to me. If you pull over to a safe place to use the phone legally the engine has to be OFF. Suppose it makes it easier to enforce that way but....... How do you prove that with an EV and keyless entry? Well, there's no whining. Until the driver gets the ticket...
by dvenman
Fri Oct 01, 2021 3:15 pm
Forum: Advanced Driving - Cars
Topic: Reg Local - How to pass an Advanced Driving Test
Replies: 135
Views: 86962

Re: Reg Local - How to pass an Advanced Driving Test

Here I've committed (decided to go) to overtake the lorry from my offside position well behind it but the information changes and I abort. That's what I meant. I don't think you'd committed then - you were still hanging back and decided not to go for it when you saw the sign. For me, committal is t...
by dvenman
Tue Aug 10, 2021 7:37 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Brake and their RoadMap
Replies: 63
Views: 34460

Re: Brake and their RoadMap

"but I was doing the speed limit officer, as the council has set, so I was safe". And therein lies the rub. I seem to remember there's no longer a need to a safety case to be made to change a limit, and councils have the power to do it themselves, so local opinion can force a change wheth...

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