Have to say, I firmly agree with Tornado here.

I used to commute to work 5 days a week (540 miles)
runaround (120 miles) per week, Coastguard work approx 80 miles per week, so on average 740 miles every week in all weathers. This equates to nearly 3,000 miles a month, every month. (Yammy 750 shaft)

However, never on a weekend, too dangerous in Cornwall with all the ‘Sunday’ riders tear ar5ing up and down the country roads. I would swap to my trusty old 109″ Landy.

SpitfireCorner (where I live) is in fact two bends one of which is a lovely sweeping curve to the left, the other is a nasty tight (90 degrees) right hander.
Between these two bends is the approach to RAF St Mawgan, so a further distraction to the unwary with aircraft 40ft above your head. I have at least 4/5 bikers run out of road here every year and it is quite usual for a broken collar bone etc. Although they give the impression they are ok by getting up, they are in fact incapacitated, unable to move their bike and quite naturally, going into shock.
So, what can 5 bikers do?
Well I guess 1 could render first aid, 1 could nip up the road to warn the traffic approaching one way and 1 could nip down the road for the other. This leaves 2 to remove the wrecked bike to the side of the road and call the ambulance. Whether the guy is considered a muppet or not, should not be a prerequisite for getting assistance.:rolleyes:

Just because he is moving doesn’t mean he’s not injured.

Next time…..stop.

Poor show.

He still may have had a serious injury.

The 4 guys behind may have also been as selfish and sailed by without stopping.

You should have stopped, even if it was to help him get his bike off to the side of the road and prevent another accident.

Where were the 50 onlookers BTW?

As a (recent retired) biker in the UK, we look after our own.

Did I say poor show?

Commonly Spitfires (of this period) were painted in two different camouflage schemes (A and B)of which even serialed aircraft were usually ‘A scheme’ and odd serialed were ‘B scheme’

This is not hard and fast as some Supermarine built aircraft were opposite, but the majority were.

Your Spitfire is in the ‘B scheme’ which sort of indicates an odd serial.

However, I may be talking tosh.

Baz

Star Trek First contact

Last night on the box.

Bit confused with it.

Zefran c)ckthingy lauched his space ship from a missile silo, it rose like a rocket etc…..er, how did they get back to earth? It just showed them getting p*ssed in a pub at the end.

The Enterprise was full of Borg but at the end when Data breaks the ‘thingy’ that releases the ‘stuff’ that kills the queen and 2 other Borg, what happened to all the other Borg on the ship? One of the crew made out they were being swamped and over run just a couple of minutes beforehand. Was he just fibbing?

Right at the end, how did the Vulcan (first time they had visited Earth) speak perfect English? Pickard had already said they had no interest with a pre-warp planet….

How did he know the earthling was english speaking as he (Vulcan) was the first to talk?

When they travelled back to the future (at the very end), was the deflecter array the only thing that could do the temperal ‘thingy’ to open the portal ‘thingy’?? Had they not blown it to bits not 30 minutes ago?

The film is great, however, the last ten minutes must have been filmed on a Friday afternoon…..

Baz

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……also Keel hauling was a punishment……
Lincoln .7

Pretty serious on an Aircraft Carrier………

(quote from Top Gun)

Baz

No, but the fact that the UK claims the islands…won in a war.
Just like Isreal won the claimed lands in a war.

Poles apart.

By the way, we didn’t start the war in the Falklands, we retrieved it after somebody else invaded it.

The inhabitants did not want to be ruled by the country who had made 30,000 people ‘disappear’ over the previous few years. (and they still don’t now)

Won in a war, yes?
Rather like the Falklands…..

Don’t remember us slaughtering the Falkland Islanders bit.