Sarky B’stard
Legendary Knight
And it was FUN! No pretentious sh1t just riotous youthful fun with Ziggy Stardust for an arty farty counterpoint.
A Place For Your WTF Moments
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MartytheMartian
Legendary Knight
I was never a Prodigy fan but I did like Keith Flint as a chap. I remember he was racing privateer at Knockhill back about 1997 I think it was. Crashed in his first race at the hairpin and knocked himself out and then crashed again at the hairpin in his second race and knocked himself out again. I spoke to him briefly and he seemed a really nice chap.
My WTF moment today was when I took the new Bullet out for it's maiden run tonight. I got up to the Rest and Be Thankful and I was descending the hill down to Butterbridge with a queue of traffic coming the other way when a feckin' transit van pulls out onto my side of the road to overtake and I almost brushed the side of the bloody thing as it was still half on my side of the road by the time I came up to it and I could clearly see that the driver was looking to his left and not at the road ahead of him that I was on so was totally unaware that he had almost gone head-on with me. Literally a second or so later here comes an unmarked car up the road and I think he's probably after the guy. Well I was somewhat 'raging' as we say in these parts and so, as soon as I could I pulled in, turned round and pottered, Being a standard Enfield Bullet I couldn't say 'raced', back the way I had come in hopes that the Police had been after him and had caught him so I could get a chance to sink the boot in. Sure enough the Police had pulled the van that just missed me and the one that it was overtaking (both I think Bear Scotland Highways workers vans). Unfortunately the two cops somehow didn't manage to see the near head-on and had actually been chasing up the road after the two vans as they had been lurking at the start of the Dunoon road and the vans had passed them clearly over the speed limit and racing each other. The two cops did say they would have a look at their dash cam to see if the incident had been captured on it but it probably wasn't. They also said that a Morrisons delivery van that had been behind me had a driver who just happened to be a retired cop from Dunoon and they would talk to him to see if his dash cam picked up what had happened so they could add it to the Reckless and speeding charges the two van drivers were already being reported for.
Normally I'm live and let live when folks make a mistake here or there or even commit an ill advised, slightly reckless overtake but for some reason tonights one really brought down the red mist and I would have happily swung for the bugger if the cops hadn't been around.
On the other hand I have to say that the Bullet in the big single sprung saddle but otherwise standard trim is a very interesting bike to ride a sort of a combination of a Space Hopper and a Tractor. It's a riding position that I've never experience before with my knees quite far forward around the tank sitting very upright and bouncing up and down like Zebedee. The gear lever is weird too. You have to actually take your foot off the peg and pull up with it to get the bike into first and then take your foot off the peg again and push down on the lever to change it up rather than the simple way you 'toe' a modern gearshift. I do think it needs a little adjustment to my personal tastes too and I might think about swapping the four speed box for a Five speed closer ratio box.
My WTF moment today was when I took the new Bullet out for it's maiden run tonight. I got up to the Rest and Be Thankful and I was descending the hill down to Butterbridge with a queue of traffic coming the other way when a feckin' transit van pulls out onto my side of the road to overtake and I almost brushed the side of the bloody thing as it was still half on my side of the road by the time I came up to it and I could clearly see that the driver was looking to his left and not at the road ahead of him that I was on so was totally unaware that he had almost gone head-on with me. Literally a second or so later here comes an unmarked car up the road and I think he's probably after the guy. Well I was somewhat 'raging' as we say in these parts and so, as soon as I could I pulled in, turned round and pottered, Being a standard Enfield Bullet I couldn't say 'raced', back the way I had come in hopes that the Police had been after him and had caught him so I could get a chance to sink the boot in. Sure enough the Police had pulled the van that just missed me and the one that it was overtaking (both I think Bear Scotland Highways workers vans). Unfortunately the two cops somehow didn't manage to see the near head-on and had actually been chasing up the road after the two vans as they had been lurking at the start of the Dunoon road and the vans had passed them clearly over the speed limit and racing each other. The two cops did say they would have a look at their dash cam to see if the incident had been captured on it but it probably wasn't. They also said that a Morrisons delivery van that had been behind me had a driver who just happened to be a retired cop from Dunoon and they would talk to him to see if his dash cam picked up what had happened so they could add it to the Reckless and speeding charges the two van drivers were already being reported for.
Normally I'm live and let live when folks make a mistake here or there or even commit an ill advised, slightly reckless overtake but for some reason tonights one really brought down the red mist and I would have happily swung for the bugger if the cops hadn't been around.
On the other hand I have to say that the Bullet in the big single sprung saddle but otherwise standard trim is a very interesting bike to ride a sort of a combination of a Space Hopper and a Tractor. It's a riding position that I've never experience before with my knees quite far forward around the tank sitting very upright and bouncing up and down like Zebedee. The gear lever is weird too. You have to actually take your foot off the peg and pull up with it to get the bike into first and then take your foot off the peg again and push down on the lever to change it up rather than the simple way you 'toe' a modern gearshift. I do think it needs a little adjustment to my personal tastes too and I might think about swapping the four speed box for a Five speed closer ratio box.
MartytheMartian
Legendary Knight
@Doc Strange Yep it did seem to be the actual app for 'Spotify' that was on my system. It showed up on the bottom bar of my screen and had a window open on startup. No idea at all how it came to work it's way onto the machine. I am very suspicious of these Microsoft updates as, rather curiously my machine always seems to start behaving oddly just before a new update appear and the update sorts it out only for it to start to go wonky again just before the next update arrives. A cynic might suspect that they code certain behaviours into the software that they can trigger whenever they decide they want you to take an upgrade.
Sarky B’stard
Legendary Knight
'standard trim is a very interesting bike to ride a sort of a combination of a Space Hopper and a Tractor.'
Are you sure you aren't in the Enfield marketing department? My problem is visualing you as the Space Hopper
Are you sure you aren't in the Enfield marketing department? My problem is visualing you as the Space Hopper
Scrappy
Legendary Knight
Ok so currently in the UK you can't get police to attend a burglary, they are not interested in the gang rape of young girls... but call sometime a "dickhead" and 7 officers will attend almost immediately and you get a good battering as well 
Why have British police become so antagonistic and physical towards people who haven't even committed a crime, seemingly to provoke them into then committing a crime. The police's remit used to be to prevent crime and de-escalate situations to avoid trouble.
Why have British police become so antagonistic and physical towards people who haven't even committed a crime, seemingly to provoke them into then committing a crime. The police's remit used to be to prevent crime and de-escalate situations to avoid trouble.
Sarky B’stard
Legendary Knight
Because they can look 'hard' but with zero risk of get a good kicking themselves?Ok so currently in the UK you can't get police to attend a burglary, they are not interested in the gang rape of young girls... but call sometime a "dickhead" and 7 officers will attend almost immediately and you get a good battering as well
Why have British police become so antagonistic and physical towards people who haven't even committed a crime, seemingly to provoke them into then committing a crime. The police's remit used to be to prevent crime and de-escalate situations to avoid trouble.
The image in this screenshot is disturbing...Ok so currently in the UK you can't get police to attend a burglary, they are not interested in the gang rape of young girls... but call sometime a "dickhead" and 7 officers will attend almost immediately and you get a good battering as well
Why have British police become so antagonistic and physical towards people who haven't even committed a crime, seemingly to provoke them into then committing a crime. The police's remit used to be to prevent crime and de-escalate situations to avoid trouble.
I wonder how many actual crimes took place whilst 4 of them were stood there?
Sarky B’stard
Legendary Knight
This still makes me smile
www.express.co.uk
WATCH MP complain of no Police presence with a policeman behind him
THIS is the embarrassing moment Labour MP David Lammy complains that police are not "around" as a policeman stands feet away from the Tottenham politician amid a surge in violent knife and gun crime in London.
Doc Strange
Legendary Knight
Was still in primary school when Slade made it big, but got a few of their singles. This was my fave - still think it's a great tune:
They had a little renaissance early 80s and played Reading festival - blew it away!
DS
Doc Strange
Legendary Knight
As I said, MS can be funny, especially on some machines - but the Spotify seems like it was packaged with the upgrade. But if so, why haven't others I know who have that upgrade got it?
Funny - unless someone on here has some proper IT knowledge, I suspect we'll never know.
DS
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Gimme 5 mins to make a cuppa & I'll be right back Doc
Foxy
Legendary Knight
It'll be 50yrs on November 9th for me, seeing Slade for t'first time, in 1972. I'd never heard of either of the support acts.
MartytheMartian
Legendary Knight
All of a sudden I feel younger. 1972 was the year I was born so I'm a youngster!
Don the Don
Legendary Knight
Belated Birthday for last wednesday Foxy...........you older fart
Doc Strange
Legendary Knight
Unfortunately you were still in your Dad's bag when some of these old f#ckers were on BaghdadWhat a line up!
Wish I'd been there
DS
Doc Strange
Legendary Knight
Unfortunately you were still in your Dad's bag when some of these old f#ckers were on Baghdad
My youthful good looks must have deceived you, I'm old enough to remember that lot.
Although still 'pre-pubescent', I was old enough to understand there was something 'special' about Suzi Quatro in her leather catsuit!
DS
Scrappy
Legendary Knight
When Suzi Quatro first appeared with Can The Can, I was only 7 and she fired up my lust
Sarky B’stard
Legendary Knight
Just fired up the Windows laptop for the first time in weeks (to install Todger Tool) and, yup, frozen up and talking to itself while waiting 'to configure Windows'. 
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