UKRM Run 2010
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From: dozynsleepy on 3 May 2010 07:13 zymurgy wrote: > On May 2, 11:45 am, Cab <m...(a)privacy.net> wrote: >> Oh, I'm back. > > Me too, what a bloody awful run back, and was *cold* for the last 30 > miles or so after the jacket dried out. > I'm pretty sure I was in early stage hypothermia by the time I hit York last year. It was lovely during the day with the sun shining but as soon at it started to set, wham ! > Me, Adie and Andy did a bit of spirited riding in the pissing rain, me > particularly in the filtering bits. I'll not say where as my NIP might > already be in the post :) > Does it have to be within 14 working days or calendar days, checking the mail every day is killing me and if it's 14 working days I've got till the 7th May before the BOSM run is clear. -- DozynSleepy Ducatenstein ST4s
From: dozynsleepy on 3 May 2010 07:15 Higgins wrote: > Spete wrote: > >> Higgins: since you didn't react to my waving my arms, I hope you >> gathered I took to the road to Liege and aren't searching ditches for >> cloggie bits :-) Thanks for the ride, was a nice road we took. >> > > I stuck me leg out. Gone native, you see. > > > It was good apart from the moment of sheer panic when the fuel gauge > went from four bars to none, in an instant. Flicking to the distance to > empty only showed three dashes, i.e. out of range. Clearly something > wasn't right but the question was, which reading was correct: the four > bars or no bars. > > A quick Ctrl-Alt-Del with the ignition key seemed to sort things out. It's amazing how far you can go on fumes if you ride at 50mph. -- DozynSleepy Ducatenstein ST4s
From: dozynsleepy on 3 May 2010 07:17 TMack wrote: > Higgins wrote: >> Spete wrote: >> >>> Higgins: since you didn't react to my waving my arms, I hope you >>> gathered I took to the road to Liege and aren't searching ditches for >>> cloggie bits :-) Thanks for the ride, was a nice road we took. >>> >> I stuck me leg out. Gone native, you see. >> >> >> It was good apart from the moment of sheer panic when the fuel gauge >> went from four bars to none, in an instant. > > My ST3 does something similar - goes from 3 bars to orange light in next to > no time. > The Ducati still gets a very good consistant long tank range whether you're cruising at 70 or 120 mph. On the CBR600RR I halved my tank range trying to keep up with Hog's ST4s. -- DozynSleepy Ducatenstein ST4s
From: doetnietcomputeren on 3 May 2010 07:45 On 2010-05-03 13:13:15 +0200, dozynsleepy <dozynsleepy(a)ireallymeannospam.invalid> said: >> Me, Adie and Andy did a bit of spirited riding in the pissing rain, me >> particularly in the filtering bits. I'll not say where as my NIP might >> already be in the post :) >> > Does it have to be within 14 working days or calendar days, checking > the mail every day is killing me and if it's 14 working days I've got > till the 7th May before the BOSM run is clear. IIRC Working days, and sent does not mean received, as long as sending can be proven. -- Dnc
From: Veggie Dave on 3 May 2010 10:05
doetnietcomputeren <doesnotcompute(a)gmail.com> wrote the following literary masterpiece: >IIRC Working days, and sent does not mean received, as long as sending >can be proven. Unless things have changed then simply sending is all the proof they require. -- Veggie Dave http://www.iq18films.co.uk "To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin." Cardinal Bellarmine |