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[wuvvum]

Being a Renault I'd hazard a guess that it's broken a spring.

[Split_Pin]

Unfortunately the previous owner fitted coilovers so I'd have to replace the whole lot as springs are not available separately.

[SiC]

Oops!

Going round a sharp corner on the Bristol to Bath cycle/shared path. I slow down a lot for it. Child on his own turning around on the corner. I swerved to avoid but swerved too far and hit the dirt. As I was going quite slow, I didn't have the balance to catch it from falling. Fell right, over compensated, fell left and scraped down the tarmac, smacking my head on the floor in the process.

I only bought my helmet last month and it has a nice dent in it too. I guess hundred quid well spent as I'm typing this now and not in the back of an ambulance...


Beginning to hurt now the adrenaline is wearing off and a nice big bruise is forming on my leg. No car fettling for a while.

No broken bones that I'm aware of though!

[Split_Pin]

Crikey, literally the best £100 you ever spent. Leg'll polish out.

[richardmorris]

Glad you’re ok, That’s about the only accident that helmets are designed for. Straight fall from stationary hitting the ground. All those sold here just have one standard so £10 or £300 the extra money just goes to design and ventilation not protection. 

[SiC]

7 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

Glad you’re ok, That’s about the only accident that helmets are designed for. Straight fall from stationary hitting the ground. All those sold here just have one standard so £10 or £300 the extra money just goes to design and ventilation not protection. 

Not entirely true. You have to spend a bit more to get a MIPS equipped helmet. Also the more expensive helmets tend to be a lighter design, so reduces the weight on your neck too in an impact. Paying over around 60 quid or so doesn't get you much more though admittedly. I paid extra for the MIPS and it was more comfortable than some of the cheaper helmets. 

The impact on my helmet was me coming off sideways and smacking it clean on the ground as I slid along. Going on the grazing on my arm, it would have been quite a mess on my head. Plus a fair old whack to the side of my head. 

My dad came off his bike after hitting a drain cover at 20mph. Force split the helmet in half. 

Best mate is a medical doctor. He worked in various A&Es in London while he was training. Apparently those cyclists that didn't wear a helmet generally ended up as vegetables or weeks of recovery from the head injury. Those that did had broken bones. More serious accidents he didn't really see, as they usually go straight to the morgue...

[richardmorris]

Best solution - don’t fall off!

[scdan4]

Yep, you just had your money’s worth.

glad you’re still with us.

eta

im aware of someone who no longer is from almost the same thing. Young family, wife, the whole 9 yards you try not to think about.

so, yes, very glad you are still here.

[MarvinsMom]

yesterday we took the Minis, Cocopop and rodney mini to thwaites mill, on the outskirts of the city. it was their classic car and bus day. the cars were o  show in the paddock at the rear of the mill, while a number of old busses were running through Leeds, either into the city centre and back, or from thwaites mill, to armley mills industrial museum and to the middleton railway.

we saw these cars there, including our two

the other cars on show frankly put our little cars to shame. they were mint, something our cars aren't!

we rode on these busses

the Alisia had a pretty impressive turn of speed, plus we also saw these other busses

its come to something wen a Dessin Dart and some poxy Optare thing have also been preserved, i rode them when  new and didn't think much of them then! but i also remember riding Bristol VR;s and RE's as well as Leyland Olympians and Nationals as a kid, all in United red.... i am getting old it seems!"

sadly numbers both of cars and busses were down on last year, i am hoping that it was just the week of crappy weather beforehand which had put visitors and exhibitors off going. cos it's a great show, one of my favorite ones anyway.

 

 

 

[SiC]

Hmm. Maybe I didn't slow down as much as I thought I did.


Turns out that having an accident and thus giving me a shot of Adrenaline speeds me up!


Thankfully I was a bit tired from work and wasn't really going for it...

[puddlethumper]

22 hours ago, dollywobbler said:

RRG was awesome. Thanks for tea Brownovas!

My pics. TWC and her bubbly friend.

That awful Iveco with the lovely CF grill and stuff, in my view, is quite awful and it's not taxed either.

[Spottedlaurel]

22 hours ago, trigger said:

It was the big Stonham barns car show today.......................

Wish I'd been able to go - last show I attended there was 20+ years ago! Saw one or two things on their way down there.

Thinking I might go along to the rod/custom show there next Sunday.

[purplebargeken]

SiC, glad you are okay mate. Phew.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

1 hour ago, MarvinsMom said:

....its come to something wen a Dessin Dart and some poxy Optare thing have also been preserved, i rode them when  new and didn't think much of them then! ....

When I started my career back in 1995/6, I used to have to get the bus from Golders Green to Bayswater - Route 328 as it was then - and Worst Bus relied on single decker Dennis Darts. They were mostly driven by ethnic Somali drivers based at Westbourne Park depot. The Somalis were often up for fast running and could make the Darts perform - I'm convinced they drove as though they were dodging bullets in Mogadishu (the civil war in Somalia was only four/five years after starting). From a standing start, they could make a standing passenger slide from front to the banked seat section at the back, and then reverse the slide as they braked.

[Dick Cheeseburger]

@MarvinsMom 

Excellent set of photos- thanks for sharing. 

What goes on with VDV142S though? Here it is on  Portland Bill in a former life...

The second photo is yours. Weird!

 

[High Jetter]

12 hours ago, MarvinsMom said:

Great pics, looks a nice local show. Something doesn't look right to me with the front of this, though - is it more tauny-like?

[High Jetter]

12 hours ago, MarvinsMom said:

Great pics, looks a nice local show. Something doesn't look right to me with the front of this, though - is it more tauny-like?

[stuboy]

31 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Great pics, looks a nice local show. Something doesn't look right to me with the front of this, though - is it more tauny-like?

check says registered 2014, so looks like an import

[Amishtat]

Different waistline too

[High Jetter]

Yup, think it's a Taunus GXL about 1971.

[dome]

14 hours ago, SiC said:

Oops!

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Going round a sharp corner on the Bristol to Bath cycle/shared path. I slow down a lot for it. Child on his own turning around on the corner. I swerved to avoid but swerved too far and hit the dirt. As I was going quite slow, I didn't have the balance to catch it from falling. Fell right, over compensated, fell left and scraped down the tarmac, smacking my head on the floor in the process.

I only bought my helmet last month and it has a nice dent in it too. I guess hundred quid well spent as I'm typing this now and not in the back of an ambulance...


Beginning to hurt now the adrenaline is wearing off and a nice big bruise is forming on my leg. No car fettling for a while.

No broken bones that I'm aware of though!

Liked for the helmet doing its job, although chicks dig scars.

Get onto Zyrofisher, the distributor for a crash replacement.

https://www.zyrofisher.co.uk/giro/content/giroreplacement

 

[danthecapriman]

Bought this off eBay the other day,

One of those cameras you shove up your arse, only £30 odd so how long it’ll last is anyone’s guess, but I bought it for a specific job on my Capri so if it does that then I’m happy.

It seems pretty good so far though! For the price I’m pleasantly surprised.

[clayts450]

^ Was it 'slightly soiled' then ?

[Tadhg Tiogar]

34 minutes ago, danthecapriman said:

.....One of those cameras you shove up your arse, only £30 odd so how long it’ll last is anyone’s guess, but....

...just hope the probe doesn't snap off whilst you've got it in there.

[danthecapriman]

6 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

...just hope the probe doesn't snap off whilst you've got it in there.

Nothing a pair of long nose pliers and a good rummage won’t sort!

[richardmorris]

2 hours ago, dome said:

Liked for the helmet doing its job, although chicks dig scars.

Get onto Zyrofisher, the distributor for a crash replacement.

https://www.zyrofisher.co.uk/giro/content/giroreplacement

 

That's good of them. I had a pair of shorts repaired free by rapha earlier in the year after they got slightly damaged. Given the length of time it took I think they must send them abroad, but it was free and came back in a "rapha hospital repair" musette.

[richardmorris]

39 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

...just hope the probe doesn't snap off whilst you've got it in there.

NO pictures please.

[Slowsilver]

3 hours ago, High Jetter said:

Yup, think it's a Taunus GXL about 1971.

Many years ago a friend of mine bought an imported left-hand drive Taunus of this type which was in immaculate condition apart from a very bent driver's side (i.e. nearside over here) front wing. Thinking it would be the same as a Mark 3 Cortina. he bought a new Cortina wing then discovered when he attempted to fit it that it was about 2 inches shorter than the Taunus one. He was so annoyed that he scrapped both the new wing and the car ?.
 

[dozeydustman]

 I’m on my first shitely

Wee-wee count = 1

[wuvvum]

16 hours ago, MarvinsMom said:

 

its come to something wen a Dessin Dart and some poxy Optare thing have also been preserved

Weren't those Optares based on a VW LT35 or something?