I did a bad thing today…

[Arch]

I've mused in the past, sitting behind a car, on the fact that the exhaust pipe often sticks out quite a long way, and is often chromed and shiny. And, I assume, is very hot. I wonder what would happen if you dangled a used inner tube over it and touched it. Would it melt enough to stick and drag behind the car until the noticed, or would it just melt and leave a sticky residue and a burny smell, or would it not melt at all?

I ask purely in the spirit of scientific enquiry...

 

[Twenty Inch]

I've mused in the past, sitting behind a car, on the fact that the exhaust pipe often sticks out quite a long way, and is often chromed and shiny. And, I assume, is very hot. I wonder what would happen if you dangled a used inner tube over it and touched it. Would it melt enough to stick and drag behind the car until the noticed, or would it just melt and leave a sticky residue and a burny smell, or would it not melt at all?

I ask purely in the spirit of scientific enquiry...

Half-a-dozen fireworks up the pipe is a more worthy field of enquiry.

 

[semislickstick]

I've mused in the past, sitting behind a car, on the fact that the exhaust pipe often sticks out quite a long way, and is often chromed and shiny. And, I assume, is very hot. I wonder what would happen if you dangled a used inner tube over it and touched it. Would it melt enough to stick and drag behind the car until the noticed, or would it just melt and leave a sticky residue and a burny smell, or would it not melt at all?

I ask purely in the spirit of scientific enquiry...

Plastic bags melt well on exhaust pipes, I've done it by accident.

 

[Zippy]

I wonder what would happen if you dangled a used inner tube over it and touched it. Would it melt enough to stick and drag behind the car until the noticed, or would it just melt and leave a sticky residue and a burny smell, or would it not melt at all?

The inner tube would melt onto the exhaust pipe, but you would have the other end slung over your bar ends and you would end up travelling at 40mph down the road while the driver is totally unaware of you as they never look in their rear view mirrors anyway and are used to being tailgated.

Then the car would turn suddenly left, of course without looking, and you would be catapulted at a great many knots towards the traffic island and wind up in a yogic position around a bollard.

I hope this helps

 

[Arch]

The inner tube would melt onto the exhaust pipe, but you would have the other end slung over your bar ends and you would end up travelling at 40mph down the road while the driver is totally unaware of you as they never look in their rear view mirrors anyway and are used to being tailgated.

Then the car would turn suddenly left, of course without looking, and you would be catapulted at a great many knots towards the traffic island and wind up in a yogic position around a bollard.

I hope this helps

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Oh, no, I wouldn't...

 

[thegrumpybiker]

lives[/I] with impunity.

Maybe next time they're considering ignoring someone else's safety 'because they're in such a hurry darling' they'll stop and think 'last time I did that it cost me £850', and think again.

Fook 'em.

I fully agree. Thanks for putting far more articulately and with far less foul language than how I would have responded. If this twat of a driver had made eye contact with the cyclist and still pulled out on him, a damaged car is the very least she deserves.