A nice run out with Cookie around Craven Arms. Saw a very lucky biker take a head shot from a pheasant. He managed to stay on. We pulled over to check he was ok. Shaken with a sore neck was the extent of his injuries. I remember reading a couple of years back ...

Kwacky wrote: ↑19 May 2024, 12:45 A nice run out with Cookie around Craven Arms.

Saw a very lucky biker take a head shot from a pheasant. He managed to stay on. We pulled over to check he was ok. Shaken with a sore neck was the extent of his injuries.

He was a nice bloke. He will have sore neck tomorrow imo.

A nice run out with Cookie around Craven Arms.

Saw a very lucky biker take a head shot from a pheasant. He managed to stay on. We pulled over to check he was ok. Shaken with a sore neck was the extent of his injuries.

... wasn't quite so lucky. I decided a couple of months back to do a challenge to raise some money, and that date is now nearly upon me. On Tuesday I take on the national three peaks challenge, this involves walking the three highest peaks in Scotland (Ben Nevis), England (Scafell Pike), and Wales ...

... But also got paid 5 weeks in lieu of notice. Payout figure was 15% more than I had expected too. Really nice to have that behind me and be able to take a breather and give the business idea a go with something in back up.

That's such a great photograph...I wonder what year that was taken.
Or did you take it yourself..?

The whole point of automated vehicles, I would assume, is because they are safer. We already have lots of safety systems built into new vehicles to take an element of control away from the driver. Auto braking, active cruise, lane centring systems. Bear in mind that fully automated vehicles will ...

... (clap) (clap) (clap) (clap) My B-i-L is ASD and that simply wouldn't be possible for him. At best he could put some shopping away but it would take him a day to do it and he wouldn't make himself anything to eat in the meantime. He certainly couldn't order food either and even if he did, he ...

... total of 17 deaths." That statement also includes emergency vehicles and large transport vehicles. There is zero chance they are going to be taken off the road. So the only solution is vast improvements in the automation of personal vehicles. Which will in turn improve safety for motorcyclists. ...

Kwacky wrote: ↑16 Apr 2024, 14:47 Tell him to adjust his phone settings, that bike looks red

That was genuinely my first thought !

Do I take it that it's a KTM in some sort of disguise livery to make it look less Tango ???

... Scorpion / Datatool and they confirmed that my subscription was cancelled last year and issued a refund receipt immediately, but the money can take up to 10 working days but at least it's on the way. Then nipped out in to the garage and made a horn adapter lead, I have a cheap FIAMM low tone ...

How can anyone take these seriously

Had a cold day, and it killed my starter. Maybe leaving it on the stone bench wasn’t the smartest idea.

Take 2

A granola bar while I take a break from cycling. It's like eating maple-flavored gravel, but it's all I have on me.

Just been tinkering with the car replacing the rear washer jet and it's pipe, nice to get it working properly.
And just about to take it to my former employer for its MOT, should pass as it's in good condition with new brakes all around.



EDIT
Passed with no advisories

I take it there's no one at at HR you can talk to you get a better picture for the next 12 months? Nah, this is all down to Operations. HR have zero clue or effect on when we'll wind up. Nearly all the long term core crew ...

Imagine how many decades it would take the UK to implement a viable hydrogen filling stations network. We are already years behind Europe on EV charging stations. I would be very surprised if hydrogen is the answer as it needs electricity ...

75litres of high pressure storage too... so let's take a stab that it'll be 30kg or more of tank to store 100 miles of range... which has now dropped to 80 miles of range thanks to the additional mass.

I take it there's no one at at HR you can talk to you get a better picture for the next 12 months?

It's going to take the wind out of your sails if you've had an end date in mind.

You've done this far, I don't think you should jump and risk losing redundancy. You've earned that.

Time to turn in to Dory