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by GTR1400MAN
Thu Oct 05, 2017 3:56 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Riding a bicycle without brakes
Replies: 76
Views: 71662

Re: Riding a bicycle without brakes

I'll leave these here. I know who's at fault (and could have avoided the collision), but the pedestrians didn't help themselves.



by GTR1400MAN
Thu Oct 05, 2017 3:02 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Riding a bicycle without brakes
Replies: 76
Views: 71662

Re: Riding a bicycle without brakes

On the subject of front vs rear brakes... I have disks at both ends... it is without doubt the front brake that stops you, but how come I go through rear pads a lot quicker than front ones :? You've got the levers on the wrong (for UK) bars?! :lol: More likely the rear disc is smaller, so a smaller...
by GTR1400MAN
Thu Oct 05, 2017 10:37 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Riding a bicycle without brakes
Replies: 76
Views: 71662

Re: Riding a bicycle without brakes

Err, fixed or not, corner with the pedal on the inside of the turn at the top of its rotation. Maybe you're thinking of a single speed with freewheel? Freewheeling is not possible on a single speed fixed gear bike, at all times, forward or backward, if the rear wheel is rotating so do the pedals. G...
by GTR1400MAN
Thu Oct 05, 2017 7:36 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Riding a bicycle without brakes
Replies: 76
Views: 71662

Re: Riding a bicycle without brakes

Err, fixed or not, corner with the pedal on the inside of the turn at the top of its rotation. Balancing braking on a push bike is no different to on a motorcycle. Even more so now many push bike have front suspension which increases the likelihood of the rear wheel lifting. Getting a nice balance b...
by GTR1400MAN
Tue Oct 03, 2017 4:52 pm
Forum: Advanced Driving - Cars
Topic: What verge?
Replies: 12
Views: 14261

Re: What verge?

Who stole the white lines? :lol: :D
by GTR1400MAN
Tue Oct 03, 2017 7:52 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Number plate legalities
Replies: 40
Views: 35681

Re: Number plate legalities

The irony is nobody outside the advanced driving community of nit pickers :) would have any idea of the plates meaning, either correctly spaced or not.
by GTR1400MAN
Mon Oct 02, 2017 2:36 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Number plate legalities
Replies: 40
Views: 35681

Re: Reg Local at Bristol IAM, 30 September 2017

Huge difference between bikes with tiny plates which are unreadable from a distance (and from anpr cameras) vs a bit of creative spacing which is still perfectly readable from the same distance as a regulation plate too... Something of a difference between this: PICTURES SNIPPED and this: PICTURE S...
by GTR1400MAN
Mon Oct 02, 2017 10:54 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Number plate legalities
Replies: 40
Views: 35681

Re: Reg Local at Bristol IAM, 30 September 2017

e.g. Seeing the NSL white background/black diagonal as 'GLF' (these days bowdlerised to 'Go Like Fury'). Those days are long gone. Everything within the posted limits. Sorry, was unclear. I meant personally as much as during training. I was also thinking of club rider-outs rather than training sess...
by GTR1400MAN
Mon Oct 02, 2017 9:48 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Number plate legalities
Replies: 40
Views: 35681

Re: Reg Local at Bristol IAM, 30 September 2017

Horse wrote:e.g. Seeing the NSL white background/black diagonal as 'GLF' (these days bowdlerised to 'Go Like Fury').

Those days are long gone. Everything within the posted limits.
by GTR1400MAN
Sun Oct 01, 2017 11:17 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Number plate legalities
Replies: 40
Views: 35681

Re: Reg Local at Bristol IAM, 30 September 2017

Horse wrote:
GTR1400MAN wrote:You can not be selective about which bits of your vehicle are legal.


Hmmm how does 'making safe progress *wink*' fit with that? Shouldn't, perhaps, pick and choose which laws we abide by when moving either?

?? Not sure what you are alluding to. Safe progress has to be legal. Care to expand?

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