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[quote]endemoniada_88 (28/02/2009)
The only dog we ever had was a Lab cross, when I were a wee lad. Sadly for all concerned, he only made it to a couple of years old before trying to eat my little brother's face. Whilst I can have some sympathywith that, in principle, it was a rather offputting experience (and a fatal onefor Willis the dog). Only do cats now. Lots of cats. Sorry to hear about yours, BD.
It's good to hear Mrs D's home and recovering, though- hospitals have never been great places to spend time, even before they were knee-deep in superbugs. I paid my way through polytechnic working in the local hospital kitchens and I have to say - speaking of offputting experiences - well, let's just say I wouldn't relish a stay long enough to involve eating a meal...[/quote]
Sorry about Willis - that's a bad thing to happen, although as you say the dog perhaps demonstrated more judgement than you gave him credit for. I am really a dog person, and could never be bothered with cats, didn't see the point. However, I did get quite attached to the two that I inherited along with Mrs Dog, and they both went within a couple of months of each other. We have too many mice not to have a cat or two, so some kittens will be acquired before too long (a first for me), but not just yet. Di seems to have got home without acquiring any of the dreadul acronyms that hospitals seem to provide these days (CDiff, MRSA, C&A, PVC etc), but she would agree that the food wasn't all that great. She continues to improve.
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| Hope Mrs D's still on the mend. Kittens are great fun, albeit there does come a point when you wish they'd grow up and spend more time sleeping quietly rather than destroying the furniture and battering each other constantly. Been a bit quiet round these parts recently. Haven't had much of a chance to get either bike out of the garage except for commuting - it's been a bit of a week at work. Sadly, one of the ladies I work with lost her eldest son: only 22 years old, smashed himself to bits writing off his BMW (car) in the small hours of the morning. The photos in the press suggest that excessive speed may well have been involved: it was in a 30mph zone on the seafront, and the car demolished several concrete fenceposts before rolling into a streetlight and taking that down, too. Slightly sobering thought: sure, he was young and with a powerful vehicle, but when all's said and done it can go just as wrong being old and with a powerful vehicle. Speaking of which, happy birthday to me! 43 (a youthful 43, that is) today - well, yesterday now - contributions welcomed towards my single-sided exhaust conversion for the TDM. That should be safe enough, it still won't be all that powerful even if it sheds about 20 kilos of mild steel tubing...!
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| Happy birthday for yesterday, me old fruit. With the greatest of respect to your views on age, I think you're wrong, even though it was your birthday. When you are 22, you believe you are immortal, and drive/ride accordingly. When you get to 43 (or 55, take your pick) you realise that you ain't no such thing, and that life is a bit more precious and fragile than you used to think. Hence the very small number of middle-aged people who take out rows of bollards and lamp-posts after a minor misjudgement in a fast car in a 30 limit. Very sad case here this week. A young lad (16) on a moped was being followed up a long hill at night by a lorry. For some reason, he turned right without warning just as a car was overtaking the lorry up the hill. His helmet wasn't properly fastened and came off in the impact, and he died instantly of head injuries. The car that hit him contained his mates, who were following him on a night out. If he hadn't been only able to do 20 up the hill on his restricted machine, if he had been trained how to make a right turn, if he had done a shoulder check, if he had put his helmet on properly, if, if, if. I don't know what this has to do with the case you mentioned, but it made me sad.
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| Cheers for the good wishes! You're not wrong there: age does bring a certain amount of wisdom and - hopefully - the skills to avoid (preferably) or rescue (if need be) situations that would once have been disastrous. In all honesty, it isn't the power of the vehicle, or the type and place of the incident that seems sobering: as your local lad shows, it can happen at the other end of the spectrum, too. Just that, sometimes, the consequences of a bad decision are irredeemably severe - the best the medics could do in this case was keep the lad breathing for a day or so, then turn the lights off. Intellectually, I guess, you always know the risks and vulnerabilities are there and - should - behave accordingly: emotionally, it's a bit of a stark reminder of mortality and that it doesn't necessarily take much in the way of thoughtlessness, exuberance or misjudgement for it to go savagely wrong. Which, in many respects, is only stating the terribly obvious...it just came a bit closer to home having it happen to someone I knew. "Sad" is a pretty good word for it, really.
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Agreed on all points.
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| An item of slightly happier news, in an only partly-ironic sense. I was talking to a colleague from the West Midlands today: first time since Christmas. He's been off since a car chose to turn right across the nose of his 1340 Harley and left him with two rather badly broken legs. One's now got a ten-inch metal pillar in it, while the other had been beyond any sort of artificial repair and is having to heal as best it can unaided. And the bike? Well, in that wonderfully-understated way the Black Country folks can have, he tells me: oh, it's already fixed. Cost me £40. They build 'em tough, both in Milwaukee and Telford...
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| I trust said right turn car driver man went to court for dangerous driving or driving with undue care and attention? £40.00! Wow, my Trumpets bodywork is going to cost me £80.00 and I just fell off! (Stupid boy)
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| Think it's just going down the insurance route, no criminal action involved. As they say, though, it's not the damage that gets done to the victim that counts, only the culpable negligence of the driver. I don't know a lot about the detail of the accident itself, so I wouldn't like to say whether that's fair or not! Possibly not, but in all honesty, it's not always fair to judge. I had another mate, years ago, who had a car turn right on him - smashed his Guzzi into a billion pieces, in fact - but the reason for the crash was that my mate saw the car indicating, didn't believe it was really turning off and decided to overtake him...we laughed for ages about that one! £40 buys a lot of cast iron but rather less in the way of seductively-shaped and lustrously-painted bodywork panels, I guess...on the bright side, you've got a nicer bike, even if it is a little bit scratched! Too much to hide with a couple of strategically-placed stickers (my favourite cure for cosmetic damage!)?
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| NIce one Edem. Sugest the sticker! A new game! So its a British racing green Sprint RS Triumph which needs a couple of stickers to hide a scratch just on one side but I would like the same on the other side to match. Any ideas anyone? If so where does one get stickers these days? First stikers I ever put on anything to do with my bikes was those eyes you could get that go on the back of your lid! Do I have to purchase an expensive exhaust or some new forks before I get stickers now?
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| eBay (search for "product/manufacturer motorcycle stickers"), M&P (just "stickers") or at the nearest bike show are where I usually get hold of mine. Good quality vinyls should set you back less than a tenner and come with an expected five year minimum life. As for content, I rather favour the gothic style myself, black and with plenty of skulls...probably not the best recommendation for the Trumpet, though. You could amuse yourself and confuse the hell out of people by putting Yamaha tuning forks on it... But seriously, favourite tyres or aftermarket exhausts are often quite plain but effective. If you don't already have enough Triumph logos, then there's a fair selection of those in classic or modern style around. You can even go to a specialist and get something custom-printed: I got all the lettering for my GSXR done by Signs Of Life online, they also do some off-the-peg stuff. What would be the ultimate in cool would be a set of Team Joe Bar decals, but I've no idea if anyone makes them. Hmmm...may have to look into that!
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