MrGrumpy wrote:
Now this (in a rather roundabout way) reminds me of something that happened this week. Now, I definitely have the speed 'gene' and am rather noted for my desire to make as rapid progress as possible in any vehicle. However, on Tuesday, it was quite snowy here, and some of the estate roads were snow covered, whilst more major roads were OK but slushy. Given the snow cover, I took the car rather than the scoot. However, given my normal speed crazed behaviour, I was rather perturbed to find myself attracting a queue of other cars behind me, obviously wanting to go faster, wherever I went! I was doing around 20 on entirely snow covered roads, rising to 40 on a slush covered dual carriageway (50 limit), where following drivers blasted past me like the roads were in perfect condition! I clearly slow down a lot more than other people in dodgy weather conditions. Is this something to do with riding a PTW most of the time, when you are rather more cautious about poor road conditions liable to be lacking grip at any moment? Or am i just getting old fogeyish???
No, this is you driving how you should and reckless selfish twats driving like, well, reckless selfish twats. I was by no means brave today, I pootled home at a pace I felt comfortable with, occasionally moving over when safe to let car drivers behind get past.
richie the 1st wrote:I Own up,did use the Big Red Bus today.Only cos my road never gets salted.My garden path has though,council dumped lots near me.
Nothing wrong with that. Ironically the train service was cancelled before we had any snow so I had little choice as I'm not paying for a taxi and there are no buses as they only seem to exist in central London.
