Sun shone all weekend, Two longish bike trips along all my favourite roads clocked up nearly 300 miles (and smiles) - avoided most of the weekend misery factors. A Good weekend, caught myself singing loudly at one point.....!
No complaints about anything or anyone.
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Great, I was ferrying the family around looking at all the bikes going past thinking that by the time I got out again it would be raining. Obviously not a Harley if it was that good, Vee-Rod accepted.:-)
Bill
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Will you accept a japanese copy?
Kawasaki VN800 Classic.
It is of course nowhere near as fast as it looks, but "adequate" mid-range. And brilliant exhaust note.
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Gwyn
A good and honourable try to lift our spirits, but two posts in nearly three hours versus nearly 60 (at the last count) on "the Joys of UK Motoring and the Drive to Jail" in nearly ten hours tends to confirm that bad news outsells good news.
However, to offset this, I'll also mention two great days in the open air on Saturday and Sunday in beautiful spring weather driving, well, a golf ball actually .....
Ronnie
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I'm hanging onto the memory of last week with no school traffic and a much quicker run into work.
Amd yesterday, when they were back, I thought it was going to be bad again, but it wasn't.
Saw a brilliant hot-rod type vehicle on the road on Saturday, very down-market, looked like something out of Scrapyard Challenge, with no bonnet (is that legal in the UK?) and four exhausts on the side I could see going into a single pipe with no silencer. How lovely to be different!
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Here here,
Enough doom and gloom.....my contribution for a cheerful thought of the day:
I commute by either bus or train from the Cotswolds to Oxford every day. Monday was my turn on the train. Arrived at the station to find the train expected 30min late...oh well. Sit down to read a paper. At the appointed time, a toot from the train
alerted us to its imminent arrival but to my untrained eye it seems to be travelling rather fast, the expression on the face of the driver was a picture....Oops!
Finally came to rest with the rear engine carriage 20m beyond the end of the platform.
It only took the driver 10 min to find reverse and shunt back all of 50m to pick up 100 bemused commuters.
This seemed to cheer up most commuters who until this point had been complaining about late trains.
Today (tuesday) same guard on the train...announces that the train will be calling at ALL stations today.
How difficult is it to reverse a train? 10 min for 50metres?
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Ian
Unfortunately not quite that easy to reverse a train.
Before the train can 'set back', (I believe that is the correct term), the train crew have to contact the signal box controlling that section of track to inform it of their intention to do so. This was/is to fulfil any safety implications of reversing back up what is basically a one-way street. Certainly this was the case up until my father retired from the railway a few years back and I see no reason why it would have changed, if anything probably more difficult following Hatfield etc.
The driver may also find he is in for a bit of ear bashing from his boss as well as the signalman used to have to file a written report as to why. Mind you, the driver also used to have to file a report for running more than so many minutes late, five IIRC, there probably wouldn't be many trees left if they were still doing that!!!
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