Most stupid thing I've seen this week

Nickj · 18-02-2010, 10:23 PM

Some might have noticed there was a bit of snow around today over my neck of the woods.
I was primed to get out from work but unfortunately there was a system glitch I had to go trouble shoot that put my escape plans back quite a bit.
Got from Cheltenham to Gloucester OK and pressed on to the deep dark forest. Just where you turn off the A40 onto the A4136 the roads were bad, about 3" of snow and a little bit

slippery. So I decided enough was enough and I'd walk the next 8 miles, older but no wiser me LOL.
Just as I was stashing the bike in the local garage I saw some bike lights coming up the road. There's a guy on one of the small 'adventure' BMs being followed by some poor little kid on a chink 125. They were both slithering about a bit, the little bike and rider looking like they were right on the edge of disaster. They were heading on up the A40 which gets twisty and hilly from where I was. I'd checked with a landy driver who'd just come down it and was told it was '

deeply

dire' with a few jack knife trucks and cars visiting ditches, I was thinking of using it as an alternate route home but thought better of it.
What really amazed me was that the BM rider had a localish training 'school' instructor bib on and the poor sod on the little bike was the trainee.
I think someone should have known better!!

19-02-2010, 03:52 AM

WTF was it the school of death or something????

Even our IAMS instructors wouldn't go out in that !!!!!..

Ok I appreciate you should know how to ride in all weather conditions but out of choice and a learner.. unless it caught them out.

Most schools have a back up truck to come and fetch breakdowns and the like.
That's mental..

Ok he's on a Charlie type thing but on one of those 125's friggin hell!!! er no ta they is made of dairylee my brazilan 125 bends like um rope now those 125's are even bendier eeeeeek lol!!! lunacy!!!

LVC · 19-02-2010, 09:02 PM

Maybe it's part of the new bike test - good way to reduce the number of legal bikers on the UK roads.

19-02-2010, 09:49 PM

So in MCN says amount of people taking the new test down..
After hearing how much it cost lady up our road and the stress she went through I am not surprised.

Cost an arm and a leg when I was 18 .. if I had to take it now I doubt I could afford it as an 18 year old!

18-02-2010, 10:23 PM	#1
Nickj Too much time on my hands member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Forest Of Dean Bike: S2r Posts: 3,195	Most stupid thing I've seen this week Some might have noticed there was a bit of snow around today over my neck of the woods. I was primed to get out from work but unfortunately there was a system glitch I had to go trouble shoot that put my escape plans back quite a bit. Got from Cheltenham to Gloucester OK and pressed on to the deep dark forest. Just where you turn off the A40 onto the A4136 the roads were bad, about 3" of snow and a little bit slippery. So I decided enough was enough and I'd walk the next 8 miles, older but no wiser me LOL. Just as I was stashing the bike in the local garage I saw some bike lights coming up the road. There's a guy on one of the small 'adventure' BMs being followed by some poor little kid on a chink 125. They were both slithering about a bit, the little bike and rider looking like they were right on the edge of disaster. They were heading on up the A40 which gets twisty and hilly from where I was. I'd checked with a landy driver who'd just come down it and was told it was ' deeply dire' with a few jack knife trucks and cars visiting ditches, I was thinking of using it as an alternate route home but thought better of it. What really amazed me was that the BM rider had a localish training 'school' instructor bib on and the poor sod on the little bike was the trainee. I think someone should have known better!! __________________ "The final measure of any rider's skill is the inverse ratio of his preferred Traveling Speed to the number of bad scars on his body." Song of the sausage creature

19-02-2010, 09:02 PM	#3
LVC The Loire Valley Monster Join Date: May 2006 Location: South of Le Mans Bike: S4 Posts: 709	Maybe it's part of the new bike test - good way to reduce the number of legal bikers on the UK roads. __________________ *Kiss French, Play Japanese, Ride Italian....*

19-02-2010, 03:52 AM	#2
He11cat Guest Posts: n/a	WTF was it the school of death or something???? Even our IAMS instructors wouldn't go out in that !!!!!.. Ok I appreciate you should know how to ride in all weather conditions but out of choice and a learner.. unless it caught them out. Most schools have a back up truck to come and fetch breakdowns and the like. That's mental.. Ok he's on a Charlie type thing but on one of those 125's friggin hell!!! er no ta they is made of dairylee my brazilan 125 bends like um rope now those 125's are even bendier eeeeeek lol!!! lunacy!!!

19-02-2010, 09:49 PM	#4
He11cat Guest Posts: n/a	So in MCN says amount of people taking the new test down.. After hearing how much it cost lady up our road and the stress she went through I am not surprised. Cost an arm and a leg when I was 18 .. if I had to take it now I doubt I could afford it as an 18 year old!