things that might make you go WOW!!!!! thread

V8Druid

V8Druid

do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better

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V8Druid

V8Druid

do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better

Getting me thinking ....
there has been 3 room fulls of the fancy roller shelving with the wheels/handles on the end to motivate them, on FB MP for a couple of months ...
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be some dismantling job ... Darlows were a BIG estate agents in this area once, 'til they (old man Darlow) went bust :oops::oops: ...... God knows what that lot cost
 
Lancs Lad

Lancs Lad

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Just had a wow WTF moment
Putling along in traffic on the M6 going over thell wall kid on a scrambler comes weaving down the middle of the traffic no helmet no number plate nothing just Balaclava wtf... Just only hope some poor b***** doesn't hit him... Can see the headlines now such a nice kid just doing a favour wasn't doing anything wrong
Actually contemplated ringing 999 and then I thought it was the point probably can't chase him. and that would mean they have to do something about it
 
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Smiffy

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Just had a wow WTF moment
Putling along in traffic on the M6 going over thell wall kid on a scrambler comes weaving down the middle of the traffic no helmet no number plate nothing just Balaclava wtf... Just only hope some poor b***** doesn't hit him... Can see the headlines now such a nice kid just doing a favour wasn't doing anything wrong
Actually contemplated ringing 999 and then I thought it was the point probably can't chase him. and that would mean they have to do something about it

Will be a drug dealer 100%. If they don't wear a helmet the police aren't aloud to pursue apparently.
We where working in staines this week.
Two kids on the electric Motocross bikes zipping around all day every day and one intermittently turning up on a proper motorbike with no plate. No plates or helmet just balaclavas. Not try to be discreet blatantly pulling up to cars to deal. If the police where interested it can't take more than a day to work out where it's all coming from.
 
V8Druid

V8Druid

do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
Will be a drug dealer 100%. If they don't wear a helmet the police aren't aloud to pursue apparently.
We where working in staines this week.
Two kids on the electric Motocross bikes zipping around all day every day and one intermittently turning up on a proper motorbike with no plate. No plates or helmet just balaclavas. Not try to be discreet blatantly pulling up to cars to deal. If the police where interested it can't take more than a day to work out where it's all coming from.
there's a cure for them discussed in a.n.other thread ... just need to decide on the calibre :rolleyes:;):giggle:
 
V8Druid

V8Druid

do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
set of pix off Old Girls of Plant on FB from Graham Rush (D4C on CEF) .... thought they'd be of interest.... it's in France .. Montlhéry oval .... all electrically powered due to 'angle of the dangle'
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pretty impressive feat for the day
 
Grahams

Grahams

Don't complain - suggest what's better
Just had a wow WTF moment
Putling along in traffic on the M6 going over thell wall kid on a scrambler comes weaving down the middle of the traffic no helmet no number plate nothing just Balaclava wtf... Just only hope some poor b***** doesn't hit him... Can see the headlines now such a nice kid just doing a favour wasn't doing anything wrong
Actually contemplated ringing 999 and then I thought it was the point probably can't chase him. and that would mean they have to do something about it
Had a similar moment yesterday. Two guys with faces covered on an electric motorbike passing the stationary traffic on the wrong side of the road as I'm coming towards them. No crash helmets, no number plates doing best part of 50mph and nobody seems to care less. I'm 5mph over the speed limit on a variable speed limit motorway, and I get fine and points on my licence. It doesn't add up.
 
Bob

Bob

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set of pix off Old Girls of Plant on FB from Graham Rush (D4C on CEF) .... thought they'd be of interest.... it's in France .. Montlhéry oval .... all electrically powered due to 'angle of the dangle'
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pretty impressive feat for the day
I was working on the mill brook testing which had a cambered circuit like that when I was transferred there by Blackwells this had just been completed so never saw how it was done we were building the mile straight which started in the church yard
 

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Monkeybusiness

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I was working on the mill brook testing which had a cambered circuit like that when I was transferred there by Blackwells this had just been completed so never saw how it was done we were building the mile straight which started in the church yard
In a previous job I drove around Millbrook a number of times in various cars - it’s an amazing place to give it the beans!!!
 
Bob

Bob

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In a previous job I drove around Millbrook a number of times in various cars - it’s an amazing place to give it the beans!!!
Cransfords Contracting had some TS24 s on that job and they fitter took wrong turning and landed up on the Belgium pave area when he managed to get off his spanners were spread over his van ,Main contractors land rover went round the hill climb and managed to roll it
 
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Monkeybusiness

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The hill climb road is the best driving road ever - often used to see it on Top Gear! One of our bosses crashed on it driving like a knob…

The bowl is an amazingly precise structure - 5 lanes with their own speeds (top lane is 100mph, I think the bottom one is 40 or 50) and if you sit at the correct speed the vehicle will circle continuously within its lane with no steering input. They use it for long distance testing of vehicles - the bods inside set the cruise control and then have both hands free to do other things.
 
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