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What a gallon worth out there for you guys? And when would you be "up in arms" about petrol prices?

Ian

Does anyone else find them self almost permanently angry at car drivers? I mean constantly, every time I ride, something happens, to make me so apoplectically enraged with retarded, glass and plastic death machine driving, **** nuggets I think I might end up having a stroke or high blood pressure or sommething before I'm thirty.

Take today. I quick ride into town, about ten minutes down the road, all residential streets, passed two schools, across one cross roads with lights, one roundabout and into a car park. I only had to pick up some oil for the scoot, and bits and pieces to make a cake for the Mrs coming home for the weekend.

I turned right out of my road and was clear in both directions. A 4x4 pulled out behind me and accelerated up to 50mph (in a 30), left me no space as they overtook me past the senior school, before slowing down for the lights at the cross roads (I assumed). As I pulled up behind it, about thirty yards short of the lights, it just slammed on the anchors, pulled in on double yellow lines (no parking, if its different in the US), and kicked out a pair of kids for the junior school, leaving me no option but to pull out around it in traffic or slam into the back of it. But why? Why not just keep the speed down and pull up safely, in an area where these limits and restrictions are in place to keep THEIR KIDS safe?


The rest of the journey was ok, and I parked up in the dedicated motorcycle parking space in the town car park, as far out of the way as possible, right by the bollards to chain the scoot to, went off and did my shopping. When I got back I had no choice but to watch from the other end of the car park as a stupid bloody middle aged woman reversed right into my scoot and just nocked it over! Luckily a passer-by tapped on her window and she got out and started picking the scoot up as I got there, but why?! Why didn't she just look out of the window, or take a glance behind the car as she got in?

If that's what it's like after a quick trip into town, imagine what happens when I spend over two hours for every shift commuting on it? Some times I'm lucky to be alive. The only hope we've got is ATGATT.

Hopefully I'm not the only angry dawg?

Ian.

I actually agree with that. I was lucky to get home this morning in the fog and low cloud. It was too cold to close the visor and too wet to keep it open.

I'm thinking of going with the pinlock DIY kit. I've got a spare helmet lying around so I'm not totally screwed if I mess it up.

Water in the carb? I wash mine before taking it to the garage every time, and rinse with a garden hose. They did a carb clean last time and it was almost full!

I've always hated the needless use of anything petrol driven. Don't get me wrong, I love engines, and would work on them all day, if I hadn't gotten sucked into electrical engineering instead of mechanical. But for any journey on my own, of less than ~15 miles, I'll ride my push bikes, in any weather. For any longer journeys I've just used public transport, usually trains. As for luggage, my motto has always been, "if it wont fit into a rucksack, I probably won't need it". My wife and I have always owned a car between us, in four and a half years of marriage, I think I've driven it twice. Also, if you factor in the cost of motoring here in the UK, where you pay tax on your income, you pay sales tax when you buy the car, you pay Vehicle Excise Duty every year you own the car, you pay sales tax, and insurance premium tax to insure it, and there's so much sales tax and fuel duty on petrol that its up to £7 ($8-$10?) a gallon now, I really don't understand why people have two, sometimes three or more cars for each household so that each individual can drive twenty minutes down the road.

Unfortunately, having left the Navy and moved to country side, my new job is a 90mile round trip, and public transport in Yorkshire is...........lacking, at best, so I need an engine. I also needed it "cheap" and I needed it "now". So I got my little Patricia brand new on finance, and I've got to say, I've fallen in love with her. I'll only use the car when there's snow settled on the ground now, and when the finance is done, or the scoot dies, I'm thinking of moving up to a 250, maybe 300, and getting the Mrs into some biker gear on the back for some dirty weekends away!

Well that's the most stupid, unhelpful and down right backward thing I've ever read on an advice forum, of any subject.

While you're right that a direct correct answer is the easiest, simplest and quickest route to a solution, I doubt it's always the best route to a solution. Open debate, assistance in thinking through a problem, education on how to reach the correct answer yourself, are all far more useful, especially in engineering and defect rectification, than being spoon fed the answers all the time. There'll be a time when you're stuck without access to help from this forum, and the "process" of solving a problem is more important to you than a list of answers. Wrong answers are a part of that process.

If you don't want replies from everyone, and feel only a select few are worthy of answering your questions, don't post in a public forum.

Hurumph.

Ian.

What scoot are you on mate? Looks a little bigger than my 125............which does a 90mile round trip commute every day! Lol

But a nice long ride out just looking at the scenery and enjoying the road is always worth it.