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Re: Chimay and ukrm feckwits (longish)
On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 09:06:58 -0700,
TOG@toil,chateau.murray@btinternet.com, <chateau.murray@btinternet.com> wrote: >Wimp! I managed nearly 60 on the clock, with Dodger screaming like a >girl on the pillion seat. Too bloody right I was. To put things in perspective for a moment: I didn't actually fit on the seat; "Platy's ring"(tm)[1] seemed a little unsafe, and required me to place my hand within a couple of inches of your bumcrack, and Bonwick was alternately trying to offer me more beer (by throwing it over my T-shirt) or disconnect the battery master switch. Then there was your "enthusiastic" riding style, and the way the thing weaved all over the shop under braking. I defy anyone else not to scream under the same torture. [1] It looks substantial enough, but it soon becomes apparent that there's nothing structural within the perished rubber of the grab handle at all. -- | ___ Salad Dodger |/ \ _/_____\_ GL1500SEV/CBR1100XXX/CBX1000Z |_\_____/_| ..91198../..24811.../..31928. (>|_|_|<) TPPFATUICG#7 DIAABTCOD#9 WG* |__|_|__| BOTAFOT #70 BOTAFOF #09 PM#5 \ |^| / IbW#0 & KotIbW# BotTOS#6 GP#4 \|^|/ ANORAK#17 IbB#4 YTC#4 two#11 '^' RBR Clues: 26 Pts:0500 Miles:1739 |
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Re: Chimay and ukrm feckwits (longish)
SD <salad.dodger@dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
> It looks substantial enough, but it soon becomes apparent that > there's nothing structural within the perished rubber of the grab > handle at all. There is a wire loop, actually. -- BMW K1100LT 750SS CB400F CD250 SL125 GAGARPHOF#30 GHPOTHUF#1 BOTAFOT#60 ANORAK#06 YTC#3 BOF#30 WUSS#5 The bells, the bells..... |
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Re: Chimay and ukrm feckwits (longish)
In article <1i1qui4.e5fu65ynv14N%chateau.murray.takethisout@d sl.pipex.com>, The Older Gentleman wrote:
> SD <salad.dodger@dsl.pipex.com> wrote: > >> It looks substantial enough, but it soon becomes apparent that >> there's nothing structural within the perished rubber of the grab >> handle at all. > > There is a wire loop, actually. Presumeably for garotting the rider if they won't slow down? Phil. -- Phil Launchbury, IT PHB 'I'm training the bats that live in my cube to juggle mushrooms' |
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Re: Chimay and ukrm feckwits (longish)
Phil Launchbury wrote:
> In article > <1i1qui4.e5fu65ynv14N%chateau.murray.takethisout@d sl.pipex.com>, The > Older Gentleman wrote: >> SD <salad.dodger@dsl.pipex.com> wrote: >> >>> It looks substantial enough, but it soon becomes apparent that >>> there's nothing structural within the perished rubber of the grab >>> handle at all. >> >> There is a wire loop, actually. > > Presumeably for garotting the rider if they won't slow down? If the pillion could unclench his fists from the ring-piece in the first place, he could simply transfer his death-grip to the driver's neck. -- platypus "fastidious and precise" |
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Re: Chimay and ukrm feckwits (longish)
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "platypus" <monotreme@blueyonder.co.uk> saying something like: >If the pillion could unclench his fists from the ring-piece in the first >place, he could simply transfer his death-grip to the driver's neck. Ah, a pillion throttle. Do you think an outfit might steer and handle better if the pilot is dead? -- Dave GS850x2 XS650 SE6a Teach a man to fish and he and his pikey mates will have the river cleaned out in a day. |
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Re: Chimay and ukrm feckwits (longish)
Grimly Curmudgeon wrote:
> We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the > drugs began to take hold. I remember "platypus" > <monotreme@blueyonder.co.uk> saying something like: > >> If the pillion could unclench his fists from the ring-piece in the >> first place, he could simply transfer his death-grip to the driver's >> neck. > > Ah, a pillion throttle. Do you think an outfit might steer and handle > better if the pilot is dead? An outfit - well, my outfit, anyway - is sensitive and responsive to changes in speed, camber, gradient, loading, throttle position etc, rotates around all three axes as well as deflecting along them. Gyp recently opined that the whole thing seemed to be made of rubber. Driver input isn't the smallest of these influences, by a long chalk, so a deceased driver will certainly have an effect on the progress of the outfit. Whether or not this is a beneficial effect is possibly best determined by experimentation. -- platypus "fastidious and precise" |
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Re: Chimay and ukrm feckwits (longish)
On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 20:24:20 GMT, platypus <monotreme@blueyonder.co.uk>
wrote in <Udtpi.3475$By5.2791@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk> : > Driver input isn't the > smallest of these influences, by a long chalk, so a deceased driver will > certainly have an effect on the progress of the outfit. Whether or not this > is a beneficial effect is possibly best determined by experimentation. So, ...um..., you're volunteering? -- Ivan Reid, School of Engineering & Design, _____________ CMS Collaboration, Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN GSX600F, RG250WD "You Porsche. Me pass!" DoD #484 JKLO#003, 005 WP7# 3000 LC Unit #2368 (tinlc) UKMC#00009 BOTAFOT#16 UKRMMA#7 (Hon) KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty". |
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Re: Chimay and ukrm feckwits (longish)
Dr Ivan D. Reid wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 20:24:20 GMT, platypus > <monotreme@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in > <Udtpi.3475$By5.2791@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk> : >> Driver input isn't the >> smallest of these influences, by a long chalk, so a deceased driver >> will certainly have an effect on the progress of the outfit. >> Whether or not this is a beneficial effect is possibly best >> determined by experimentation. > > So, ...um..., you're volunteering? I'll need a corpse for the driving. If I sit on the pillion and hold it by the throat, then I'm in a good position to hurl it overboard and take control if things start to go awry. -- platypus "fastidious and precise" |
