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Glad we don't own a Duster!
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Fark. Glad we have very quiet roads :D
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This is why I don't tow an enormous concrete wall behind me :thumbup:
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So. Ford, Landrover and Toyota for the win.

Oh, and don't have a head on with a concrete wall tailgating you!!! :lol: :lol: :lol:
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My take was that I should be buying an American tractor unit as soon as possible.
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It’s not the most relevant test I’ve ever seen.
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Well that's all CGI innit, hardy Euro NCAP.
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KungFooBob wrote: ↑Tue Aug 29, 2023 7:33 pm Well that's all CGI innit, hardy Euro NCAP.
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The truck did ok.
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Skub wrote: ↑Tue Aug 29, 2023 7:55 pmThe truck did ok.
They used 17 trucks :D
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Not as good as the 300mph bus crash test:
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Even bland can be a type of character :wave:
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Go big or go home!

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Viewer discretion: this clip contains footage some may find distressing.

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slowhare wrote: ↑Wed Aug 30, 2023 12:41 pm Viewer discretion: this clip contains footage some may find distressing.


Mortimer Road, or as us locals tend to call it.. the strines.

Great bit of road, most of it was resurfaced for the Tdf a few years back.
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KungFooBob wrote: ↑Wed Aug 30, 2023 1:16 pm
Great bit of road, most of it was resurfaced for the Tdf a few years back.
Hope you never meet a car head on in your lane.

At least that chap cleared the vehicle.

Happened to me once (once was enough). Must’ve been the late 80s, at a large junction at Eaton Gate SW1. A courier van, in a hurry, took the traffic island on the wrong side. Hit me head on. I cleared the van and must’ve pirouetted mid air as i ended up in a press-up position facing the opposite direction. Everything went dead silent and hazy, just as in a few scenes in Saving Private Ryan. Then, as i picked myself up, all hell broke loose: honking horns, & people screaming ‘get out the fcking way!’ I was shaken, but fine and not half as shocked as the courier who’d hit me, who was pale & visibly trembling. The z650 was totalled.
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I went over the top of a 5 series pulling across my lane to go down a drive way, I cleared it like a pro... Apparently. I don't remember much.
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Clearing the vehicle has benefits.

There’s a horrific head on from Hungary out there involving two bikes. One ran wide into another at speed. Neither survived. ☹️
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slowhare wrote: ↑Wed Aug 30, 2023 4:20 pm
Hope you never meet a car head on in your lane.

At least that chap cleared the vehicle.
I ride with a Helite airbag vest these days. People have questioned the value. I think it's in that type of crash that there would be real benefit.
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slowhare wrote: ↑Wed Aug 30, 2023 12:41 pm Viewer discretion: this clip contains footage some may find distressing.

That's like the crash in 2001 that ended my courier career, bike coming the other way, lost it and took me out, I saw the bike sliding straight at me and hit the brakes, did a stoppie like the guy in the vid and when the impact occured I did my superman bit like the vid.

Fooking sore.
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