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- Tue Apr 27, 2021 4:34 pm
- Forum: Advanced Driving - Cars
- Topic: Driving thoughts
- Replies: 16
- Views: 16747
Re: Driving thoughts
Comfort braking is when you brake for traffic coming in the other direction. This is common practice round here.
- Thu Apr 22, 2021 3:11 pm
- Forum: Advanced Driving - Bikes
- Topic: Motorcycle videos
- Replies: 259
- Views: 3913912
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 ....
- Thu Apr 22, 2021 9:04 am
- Forum: Advanced Driving - Bikes
- Topic: Motorcycle videos
- Replies: 259
- Views: 3913912
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.
- Wed Apr 21, 2021 5:23 pm
- Forum: Advanced Driving - Bikes
- Topic: Motorcycle videos
- Replies: 259
- Views: 3913912
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 ....
- Mon Apr 19, 2021 10:34 am
- Forum: Advanced Driving - Bikes
- Topic: Motorcycle videos
- Replies: 259
- Views: 3913912
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...
- Thu Apr 15, 2021 12:32 pm
- Forum: Advanced Driving - Bikes
- Topic: Motorcycle videos
- Replies: 259
- Views: 3913912
Re: Motorcycle videos
The great advantage of the shoulder check is that it doesn't need electronics.
- Tue Apr 13, 2021 8:07 pm
- Forum: Technology
- Topic: Best features to look for when buying a new car.
- Replies: 75
- Views: 59592
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...
- Tue Apr 13, 2021 1:12 pm
- Forum: Technology
- Topic: Best features to look for when buying a new car.
- Replies: 75
- Views: 59592
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...
- Fri Apr 09, 2021 5:43 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Importance of surprise horizon
- Replies: 42
- Views: 21109
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...
- Fri Apr 09, 2021 6:52 am
- Forum: In The News
- Topic: Smart Motoways
- Replies: 38
- Views: 31393
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...