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Ext User(atec77)
23-06-2006, 02:13 PM
I have been driving quite a bit this morning and some thing occurred
to me while crawling around the city in the xy .
Now it's been raining mostly on for the last week here in Brisbane and
I think although the rain is tedious it's great in that we have nice
clean roads and some of the run off might make the dams ,there are also
some inconsiderate tossa's out there , one wonders why people drive
aster in the wet after a week as atm it's pissing down and sitting here
typing I just heard again the delicate thump of a prang , on average we
hear an emergency vehicle's siren on the high way 4 or 5 times a day
( more than usual)
Maybe I am getting old but a sense of self preservation would suggest
slowing down in traffic with falling water would be indicated.. but many
don't ( and a lot of yellow plates go faster..
Hard decision I guess , dead on arrival or alive...

Ext User(Jason James)
25-06-2006, 03:25 AM
"D Walford" <walford@iprimus.com.au> wrote in message
news:449b7638$0$490$61c65585@uq-127creek-reader-03.brisbane.pipenetworks.com.au...
> atec77 wrote:
> > I have been driving quite a bit this morning and some thing occurred to
> > me while crawling around the city in the xy .
> > Now it's been raining mostly on for the last week here in Brisbane and
> > I think although the rain is tedious it's great in that we have nice
> > clean roads and some of the run off might make the dams ,there are also
> > some inconsiderate tossa's out there , one wonders why people drive
> > aster in the wet after a week as atm it's pissing down and sitting here
> > typing I just heard again the delicate thump of a prang , on average we
> > hear an emergency vehicle's siren on the high way 4 or 5 times a day
> > ( more than usual)
> > Maybe I am getting old but a sense of self preservation would suggest
> > slowing down in traffic with falling water would be indicated.. but many
> > don't ( and a lot of yellow plates go faster..
> > Hard decision I guess , dead on arrival or alive...
>
> Having a crash is the only way they seem to learn, I know it taught me
> to take more care on a wet road:-)

A set of worn Michelin Xs on an R10 which gave me terminal under steer was
my awakener as a youngen,...thank God it wasn't coming out of corner and the
rear tires broke adhesion into gross oversteer (R10 rearengined) !!

Then a couple of years later, I planted it whilst doing a U-turn (no other
traffic) during drizzle, in the Fiarto 125,..hello,..180.

Jason