Sir Fallsalot

Got to be honest the first thing that came to mind was how would i get caught if i left it there, there were no cameras back then so it was just the name on the ladder, it was a few seconds after i thought what if i was on the bike and came up on that, back then if i was there on the bike i would have been well over 100mph on that stretch of road so the conscience then kicked in.

Just checking for future poll's LOL

Some of us start a whats app group when there's a weekend ride coming up in the future and invite people going on the ride to the group if someone drops out they get deleted that way everyone is up to date with whats going on and after the ride the group is deleted You can turn off all notifications if it's that you find invasive if its the app itself i find it far to useful to not have it

You could also start a whats app group for the trip and share your live location in there

Have you just let the cat out the bag

Right then @Slowlycatchymonkey now i'm home i got time to tell you about my little incident which made me know exactly how you felt retrieving your stuff of the motorway. Back in my mid 20's i was working on my own that week in Maidstone, it was about mid day on Friday and time to pack up for the trip home, i loaded everything on the van drove to our site container and off loaded it there for the weekend and off i went, i battled through the traffic to the M20 and then put my foot down to get a move on. I accelerate to the outside lane when i heard a chu chunk sound from the roof, i looked in the rear-view mirror and could see the large aluminium step ladder flying through the air i had forgotten to take it off the roof rack and put in the site container for the weekend. First thing that came to mind was shall i keep going then remembered our company name was written all over it and then the thought of someone hitting it on a bike came into my mind so i pulled over, I was about half a mile away by the time i negotiated the traffic to get to the hard shoulder and had to sprint back to where the ladder was which was easy to spot by all the smoke in the distance. when i got there it was in the slow lane and quite close but cars were skidding sideways trying to stop and swerving around it (the smoke i could see) then one car didn't see it in time and drove straight over it this was an industrial step ladder and was pretty heavily constructed but after the car went over it it jumped about 6ft in the air and landed in the middle lane fucking great i thought . There was no let up in the traffic and the thought of me witnessing someone dying soon started growing in my head then i see a gap, there was no traffic in the middle lane for as far as i could see but the inside and outside lane had traffic approaching i thought this was my chance i ran to the middle lane and grabbed the ladder by the time i picked it up and turned around the traffic i seen was passing me and i was stuck there with cars passing in front and behind me at 70mph i thought this was scary as fuck until i saw the car approaching me in the middle lane he had locked all four wheels and was heading for me in the split second of this happening i saw a gap in the traffic to the hard shoulder i just shut my eyes and ran for it my heart was pounding out my chest and i almost collapsed on the hard shoulder but i just legged it back to the van slung the steps in the back and fucked off before the police arrived, Even although it was scary as fuck and i almost died i found telling my boss i fucked his step ladders up even worse in fact i asked the foreman to break it to him first I still cant believe the steps stayed on the van from the site to the M20 as it was over 20 miles probably the slow rush hour traffic helped

Me too and stranded but that was being out with dull mates who i thought knew what they were doing but i should have known better

touché

The second man/woman rule is what we use trail riding as there are so many direction changes it's easy to get lost but as you said it only works well when everybody does it. We usually have a ride leader and a tail man/woman who is always at the rear both with the planned route and the second man/woman only moves on after they see the tail man/woman arrive. I also stress that everyone ride at their own pace and not try and keep up as we will always wait ahead somewhere. If someone wants to ride faster than the ride leader then they will have to put up with the speed or put a ride on themselves, it all seems to work really well.

Don't go there with Bob it's never open

Flying over the Alps this morning

Hang on a minute i thought you were mutton Jeff how would you hear the difference, that shoei must have been louder than a jet taking off

I know where your coming from with the route planing even for just a day's trail riding with a group is a load of sweat i usually end up riding the route the week before to make sure it was rideable then on the day you'd have someone saying lets go here or it's better up there but not willing to plot a route or lead a ride themselves that's why i went back to being a miserable twat

As i said you will never understand not worth wasting my time trying to explain not that i could anyway

When you love your country you don't desert it, you look forward to seeing it again every time you leave it, your 90% gypo so you will never understand

I'm home and glad of it, i fucking hate going away i find it a chore i need the rest of the week off to recover now

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And I’ll have to take your word on that because I can’t find anything saying it was introduced by the EU only the health act

Well their not listening to their own rules here then because everyone is smoking inside

That’s because he normally likes it dry must have guest coming round lol

Better keep that under wraps or our flag will end up with a fairy blowing bubbles on it

There’s one thing the uk definitely got right and that was to ban smoking indoors didn’t seem to bother me years ago but it does now trying to enjoy a beer but my eyes are burning with the smoke

I’ve been hanging around one of Croatia’s national parks the wife is determined to wear my legs down to a knub

If it gets me a paid day off work I’ll support anything but only for that day