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From: Speedgazebo MOTP #1 on 19 Jun 2010 03:45
On 19 June, 07:03, Andy Bonwick <nos...(a)bonwick.me.uk> wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Jun 2010 12:22:20 -0700 (PDT), "Speedgazebo  MOTP #1"
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> <nicka...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> >On 18 June, 19:12, "Vass" <write2m...(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
> >> "Speedgazebo MOTP #1" <nicka...(a)gmail.com> wrote in messagenews:8ef25c1e-2c11-4254-ab83-40fa02602372(a)i31g2000yqm.googlegroups.com...
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> >> > On 18 June, 18:44, "Speedgazebo  MOTP #1" <nicka...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >> On 18 June, 16:36, "Nige" <de...(a)btinternet.com> wrote:
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> >> >> > Monday marathon, Bradford to Brighton & back in the day :) R1 style...
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> >> >> > OK, whats the best way on the M25, around lunchtime, anticlockwise are
> >> >> > the
> >> >> > roadworks still there near M40 etc? Obviously, i'll be hitting the M25
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> >> >> > the M1 intersection...
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> >> >> > I like going the clockwise direction, that time of day cause any
> >> >> > strife?
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> >> >> West side of the M25 M1 to M4 is stationary most of the time, has been
> >> >> for 2 years and will be for another 2 now the road works have moved
> >> >> further round to the M1, I know, I use it most days.
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> >> >> Go A1(M) - A14 - M11 - M25 - M23. The A1(M) further south is solid in
> >> >> the mornings through the Hatfield tunnel roadworks.
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> >> > You will cop the road works on the M25 around the M11 - A12 but it's
> >> > not so bad, the traffic is always lighter on the Essex side.
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> >> A14 is a minefield of cameras and so slow too
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> >Not the bit from the A1 to the M11, they are SPECS, so it's not an
> >issue on a bike.
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> I'm pretty sure there's a couple of bike catchers near Sandy.

There are, but if he takes the A 14 at Alconbury he'll miss them.

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Speedgazebo
From: Nige on 19 Jun 2010 04:37
Wicked Uncle Nigel wrote:
> Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Nige
> <ni(a)btinternet.com> typed
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>> Looking forward to Brighton, already..
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> Coming out post?

'ello sailor'

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Nige,

Land Rover 90
Yamaha R1
Range Rover Vogue

From: Lozzo on 19 Jun 2010 05:00
Andy Bonwick wrote:


> I'm pretty sure there's a couple of bike catchers near Sandy.

Two, on the A1 at Beeston just south of the roundabout - one on each
carriageway - both get the rear of the vehicle. The ones closer to
Biggleswade are front facers.

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Lozzo
Versys 650 Tourer, CBR600F-W racebike in the making, TS250C, RD400F
(somewhere)
From: Lozzo on 19 Jun 2010 05:01
Speedgazebo MOTP #1 wrote:

> On 19 June, 07:03, Andy Bonwick <nos...(a)bonwick.me.uk> wrote:

> > I'm pretty sure there's a couple of bike catchers near Sandy.
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> There are, but if he takes the A 14 at Alconbury he'll miss them.

That would be the sensible route. It's hell on earth down the bottom of
the M1 in the morning, but it also gets congested at Huntingdon all the
way to Cambridge as well.

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Lozzo
Versys 650 Tourer, CBR600F-W racebike in the making, TS250C, RD400F
(somewhere)
From: SIRPip on 19 Jun 2010 05:12
Lozzo wrote:

> Andy Bonwick wrote:

> > I'm pretty sure there's a couple of bike catchers near Sandy.
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> Two, on the A1 at Beeston just south of the roundabout - one on each
> carriageway - both get the rear of the vehicle.

I dunno why Beeston gets such special treatment - they've got a
footbridge and everything there. They slip a camera van into the layby
in the middle of the village as well: I saw it there when Southbound,
looking at me, then 30 minutes later on the return trip it was on the
Northbound side, looking at me again.

It was the fixed camera on the Southbound side that first made me
wonder about cameras making a substantial contribution to road safety,
as the skidmarks in front of it became obscured by the sad piles of
broken glass and plastic on a regular basis.

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SIRPip : B12
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