A friend was sitting at the traffic lights in the middle of Glasgow in the 80s and a motorbike pulled up alongside and , as it stopped, the rider just fell sideways. My friend got out to see what had happened. " my sidecar is in the garage and I forgot. I'm used to just "leaning over" when I stop"
No point in going out anywhere here on a Saturday, Change over day, so this week we went to daughters on the Sunday, not quite so much traffic on the notorious A30, coming back on the evening it was very quiet, until we were all diverted off at the Bodmin junction, some idiots done something stupid, even on the quiet road, we had to go miles for diversion, a huge chunk of the road was shut. Always the same, every year, usually a flat packed caravan on the verge, and I can see why. 😱😩
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
I drive an SUV and always reverse using the mirrors even though I have a reversing camera. Only time I use that is if I am reversing back against a wall or such like. Perhaps reversing is a skill like making soup, that is being lost in the younger generation.
'Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement' - Helen Keller
I drive an SUV and always reverse using the mirrors even though I have a reversing camera. Only time I use that is if I am reversing back against a wall or such like. Perhaps reversing is a skill like making soup, that is being lost in the younger generation.
Those I encounter are rarely young. Reversing seems to be a skill lost to some of all generations.
I drive an SUV and always reverse using the mirrors even though I have a reversing camera. Only time I use that is if I am reversing back against a wall or such like. Perhaps reversing is a skill like making soup, that is being lost in the younger generation.
Or due to the useless technology they are imposing on newer vehicles. OH's new vehicle has back up camera and the side mirrors 'auto adjust' themselves to what the stupid-smart technology thinks you want. Ignoring the back up camera results in completely losing your frame of reference when the side mirrors start moving on you of their own accord. Very disorienting. Took a bit to figure out what was going on. Thought it was the heat and fatigue.
Here I see learner drivers being taught how to use a roundabout by sticking to the outside lane all the way around to the farthest exit. Indicators are very much optional. Cyclists overtake you on the inside while motorcyclists overtake on the outside. Huge pelotons block the entire road. I saw an old guy go round the roundabout the wrong way and nearly have a head-on crash with an articulated lorry. But weirdly, they can reverse. In the village I used to live in, I regularly saw 4WDs with trailers attached back into the tiniest garage spaces in narrow, steep roads. I might be a competent reverser and can reverse park into the smallest space, but that was a jaw-dropping skill.
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My friend got out to see what had happened.
" my sidecar is in the garage and I forgot. I'm used to just "leaning over" when I stop"
Always the same, every year, usually a flat packed caravan on the verge, and I can see why. 😱😩
Roll on the end of September when we get the place back to ourselves.