deptfordmarmoset
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Taking off the door mirror...
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Linford
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One action doesn't always automatically translate into another one....I don't feel he even considered how much his actions affected me, and so I don't consider that it was a belligerent act.
I'm trying to be polite here, but if you are joining the conversation, try and read what has gone before and that will likely save you some confusion.
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Cracking a solo.
I'm being polite too, if you care to read back yourself you'll see I contributed to this thread quite early on, whilst that offers no guarantees it should suggest that I have taken at least some interest in it.
Your post about your 120mph pass and subsequent chase followed a post which pointed out, not for the first time, nor the second or third for that matter, that what is NOT being suggested is that a close pass is a resonable event to get too animated about. You then wade with some drivel about a 120mph pass which wasn't very close anyway, but it made you a bit cross.
Linford
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It wasn't a chase
we were both going in the same direction...For clarity, I consider passing a cyclist on this road at 120+mph to be an unreasonable thing to do...but I doubt that the driver appreciated what effect this might have one someone else moving at cycling speeds on a road of this width.
Did you follow the link, and if so what were your observations
Linford
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I am no stranger to high performance vehicles...try not to be quite so condescending eh !
Linford
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[QUOTE 2918900, member: 45"]I don't need to have been.[/quote]
Paul, you are all talk. Riding a twist and go as you do is a long long way off this sort of performance.
Thanks for the levity
Paul, you are all talk. Riding a twist and go as you do is a long long way off this sort of performance.
To be fair you shouldn't have been on the M3 on a push bike anyway
Thanks for the levity
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Cracking a solo.
Unreasonable is not what is being discussed, deliberate calculated bullying and intimidation is. People not appreciating the effect their actions have on others is not what is being suggested, generally, as a reason to knock their wing mirror off, people that feel that being in a more powerful, faster, heavier vehicle who believe they have a greater right to a shared use facility that then use that vehicle to assert their assumed dominance is.It wasn't a chase
For clarity, I consider passing a cyclist on this road at 120+mph to be an unreasonable thing to do...but I doubt that the driver appreciated what effect this might have one someone else moving at cycling speeds on a road of this width.
Did you follow the link, and if so what were your observations
l have followed your link and i think you may be exaggerating a little.
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uclown2002
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Linford
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If someone tried to use their vehicle against me as a weapon, losing a wing mirror would be the least of their worries (if I were still standing).
My point was that people can do something (because they can), it can be seen as belligerent, but the reality is it is just fueled by selfish desire, and they don't think any further than that. I'm not even sure that the white Audi altercation was anything more than everyone at that set of lights doing what so many people do in London..race between the lights.
It is really very easy to attain that sort of speed down there if you have a high performance vehicle...they don't call it racecourse 'hill' for nothing.
I've been riding litre class superbikes and 600 class supersports bikes for decades on both the road and track. I've had this one since 09. It weighs 162kg and delivers 110bhp to the back wheel (dyno'd). It could comfortably attain an indicated 130+ going up (not down) that road from the lights.
An M3 wouldn't be a million miles behind its roll on performance from 80mph, and realistically any regular car can hit the 60 NSL from the roundabout to the brow of the hill before that 1/3rd-1/2 mile descent.
M3's are electronically restricted to 155mph....they still have a lot left in reserve when this is removed.
Linford
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Excrement
