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From: YTC#1 on 14 Jun 2010 08:08 On Sun, 13 Jun 2010 15:40:07 +0100, Salad Dodger wrote: > On Sun, 13 Jun 2010 15:27:54 +0100, R C Nesbit <spam(a)ukrm.net> wrote: > >>Lozzo spoke: >>> > the most tedious road in the known universe. >>> >>> M6/M74. The only reason I put up with it was for what was at the other >>> end. >> >>I'll raise you the M6 from Brum to the M1 > > ... and I'll raise you the N10 from Castets to Le Muret. Oh, yes, hate the N10. -- Bruce Porter XJR1300SP, XJ900F, Pegaso 650 Trail (x2) one red one grey POTM#1(KoTL), WUSS#1 , YTC#1(bar), OSOS#2(KoTL) , DS#3 , IbW#18 ,Apostle#8 "The internet is a huge and diverse community and not every one is friendly" http://www.ytc1.co.uk There *is* an alternative! http://www.openoffice.org/
From: Pete Fisher on 14 Jun 2010 12:27 In communiqu� <pan.2010.06.14.12.08.12.390796(a)ytc1.co.uk>, YTC#1 <bdp-spambin(a)ytc1.co.uk> cast forth these pearls of wisdom >On Sun, 13 Jun 2010 16:18:41 +0100, Pete Fisher wrote: > >> In communiqu� <87jrgeF4hlU1(a)mid.individual.net>, Lozzo >> <lozzo(a)lozzo.org.uk> cast forth these pearls of wisdom >>>M6/M74. The only reason I put up with it was for what was at the other >>>end. >>> >>> >> Same here. I was chauffeuring the lad to the EICA at Ratho again this >> weekend. Camera vans on two bridges over the M6 through the Lakes on >> Friday. Easy enough to spot from a distance TBF. There's one bit of the >> M74 which could keep the brain awake if it wasn't for the possibility of >> less conspicuous traps. > >I'll guess at around J17 ? > > Not for me. There's a sort of slightly sweeping, swooping bit somewhere between J13 & J15 that relieves the monotony slightly and tends to find the cruise control[1] overridden. I haven't done it on a bike since I had the R90/6 and it was still just the A74. [1] Being one of the few motorways I use in the UK that, on most occasions I find myself on it, it's worth engaging cruise control for a decent length of time. -- +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Pete Fisher at Home: Peter(a)ps-fisher.demon.co.uk | | Voxan Roadster Yamaha WR250Z/Supermoto "Old Gimmer's Hillclimber" | | Gilera GFR * 2 Moto Morini 2C/375 Morini 350 "Forgotten Error" | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+
From: zymurgy on 14 Jun 2010 14:06 On Jun 13, 3:27 pm, R C Nesbit <s...(a)ukrm.net> wrote: > Lozzo spoke: > > > > the most tedious road in the known universe. > > > M6/M74. The only reason I put up with it was for what was at the other > > end. > > I'll raise you the M6 from Brum to the M1 That's always worse going north, than south. But agreed, awful stretch of road, to be traversed with throttle pinned. Even the services aren't worth stopping at ... Paul.
From: YTC#1 on 14 Jun 2010 14:27 On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 17:27:33 +0100, Pete Fisher wrote: > In communiqu� <pan.2010.06.14.12.08.12.390796(a)ytc1.co.uk>, YTC#1 > <bdp-spambin(a)ytc1.co.uk> cast forth these pearls of wisdom >>On Sun, 13 Jun 2010 16:18:41 +0100, Pete Fisher wrote: >> >>> In communiqu� <87jrgeF4hlU1(a)mid.individual.net>, Lozzo >>> <lozzo(a)lozzo.org.uk> cast forth these pearls of wisdom >>>>M6/M74. The only reason I put up with it was for what was at the other >>>>end. >>>> >>>> >>> Same here. I was chauffeuring the lad to the EICA at Ratho again this >>> weekend. Camera vans on two bridges over the M6 through the Lakes on >>> Friday. Easy enough to spot from a distance TBF. There's one bit of the >>> M74 which could keep the brain awake if it wasn't for the possibility >>> of less conspicuous traps. >> >>I'll guess at around J17 ? >> >> >> > Not for me. There's a sort of slightly sweeping, swooping bit somewhere > between J13 & J15 that relieves the monotony slightly and tends to find I've seen plod on bridges on that stretch. > the cruise control[1] overridden. > > I haven't done it on a bike since I had the R90/6 and it was still just > the A74. SInce the last bit of work to link the M6/M74, I don't think the A74 exists any more. I used to love going to Glasgow back in the '90s when it was A74 nearly all the way. Loverly run it was. -- Bruce Porter XJR1300SP, XJ900F, Pegaso 650 Trail (x2) one red one grey POTM#1(KoTL), WUSS#1 , YTC#1(bar), OSOS#2(KoTL) , DS#3 , IbW#18 ,Apostle#8 "The internet is a huge and diverse community and not every one is friendly" http://www.ytc1.co.uk There *is* an alternative! http://www.openoffice.org/
From: Grimly Curmudgeon on 14 Jun 2010 20:42
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember R C Nesbit <spam(a)ukrm.net> saying something like: >Di I ever tell you about when I passed Lockerby just >before.......dronedronedone A bomber passed overhead? |