Idiots stopping in ASL boxes.

[Racing roadkill]

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=L397TWLwrUU

I love that song.

 

[Inertia]

Very few drivers know what the ASL is anyway, so it's a bit of a non-story. Not worth going to the waste of time editing a video and posting it. Can we have something more exciting, like you blasting down a hill at 50-60mph on your new steed ?

 

[Racing roadkill]

Very few drivers know what the ASL is anyway, so it's a bit of a non-story. Not worth going to the waste of time editing a video and posting it. Can we have something more exciting, like you blasting down a hill at 50-60mph on your new steed ?

You could have, but it will be a cold day in hell before I take any unnecessary risks on that bike

 

[Racing roadkill]

Ahhh well; that's ok then! I hope lorry drivers don't start to use the same logic when it comes to stopping at stop lines.

If the car hadn’t had been in the box designed to give me ( the cyclist ) ‘get away‘ space, I wouldn’t have had to shuffle so far forward. If a lorry did what the car did, I’d have had to stop halfway up the road

 

[fossyant]

You could have, but it will be a cold day in hell before I take any unnecessary risks on that bike

Boring ! Come on 50's not that fast !

 

[Racing roadkill]

Boring ! Come on 50's not that fast !

It is when the rig cost 12 grand, and I had to buy it with my own money.

 

[fossyant]

I should have taken my camera at weekend - we had a howler of a descent over massive rocks - the sound of rocks hitting the frame would have made you cry (nearly did my when I found a big chunk of paint missing).

 

[derrick]

It's not necessarily a problem, if the light changes and he doesn't have time to stop before the first line he's perfectly entitled to stop before the second line.

If he can't stop in time he must be going to fast, But hey ho that's ok.

 

[fossyant]

It is when the rig cost 12 grand, and I had to buy it with my own money.

Pah. I used to do 60 mph on my handbuilt Columbus SLX and Dura Ace - probably a similar price in inflation terms since 1990, and I couldn't go out and get a replacement frame as it was a one off.


PS I might have been young and stupid then.

 

[winjim]

If the car hadn’t had been in the box designed to give me ( the cyclist ) ‘get away‘ space, I wouldn’t have had to shuffle so far forward. If a lorry did what the car did, I’d have had to stop halfway up the road

The bigger boys made you do it?

 

[Racing roadkill]

Pah. I used to do 60 mph on my handbuilt Columbus SLX and Dura Ace - probably a similar price in inflation terms since 1990, and I couldn't go out and get a replacement frame as it was a one off.


PS I might have been young and stupid then.

There’s a candidate road on a route I ride quite often, and if I took leave of my senses, I could launch the Bianchi down that, but I really don’t fancy explaining that to the insurance company if it went wrong.

 

[classic33]

It is when the rig cost 12 grand, and I had to buy it with my own money.

50mph remains the same regardless of what the cycle cost.

 

[Racing roadkill]

50mph remains the same regardless of what the cycle cost.

yes it does, the ability to allow oneself to push it, diminishes exponentially with the increase in price though.

 

[fossyant]

50mph remains the same regardless of what the cycle cost.

Unfortunately, the bill is bigger if/when the rider stacks it.

 

[fossyant]

PS and age usually

Unfortunately, the bill is bigger if/when the rider stacks it.

And RR might cry.... lots !