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Cyclists waste petrol
On Wed, 03 Oct 2018 06:49:30 +0100, Rod Speed wrote:
"rbowman" wrote in message ... On 10/02/2018 04:51 PM, Rod Speed wrote: "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Sun, 30 Sep 2018 20:37:49 +0100, rbowman wrote: On 09/30/2018 11:08 AM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote: Yes. Generally called spark plug wires in this country. They may be a thing of the past. My Toyota doesn't have any but I don't know how common that is. It will, but they're concealed in one tube. No concealment on the Toyota. It has Coil-on-Plug ignition. https://troubleshootmyvehicle.com/to...nition-coils-1 Why do they tend to put the coils on the plugs now instead of having one big coil? Because it works better not distributing the high voltage thru the distributor. And because it works better with modern computer controlled engines. This should be fun, explaining it to someone who by their own admission hasn't a clue of how an IC engine works... Yeah, bet he doesn't even know what a distributor does. My first car was a Rover, with the distributor mounted just behind the front wheelarch, where it regularly got soaked. I know all about the bloody things. |
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Cyclists waste petrol
On Wed, 03 Oct 2018 04:33:07 +0100, rbowman wrote:
On 10/02/2018 04:49 PM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote: On Sun, 30 Sep 2018 20:14:02 +0100, rbowman wrote: On 09/30/2018 09:13 AM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote: On Sun, 30 Sep 2018 02:11:54 +0100, rbowman wrote: On 09/29/2018 03:41 PM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote: Cost to the customer should dictate ones further away will be less likely to be bought, so I guess they were different carpets. Presumably. They were all 12' rolls so I never saw the working side. Furniture was the same deal. There still are furniture factories in the south eastern US while most of the furniture I loaded on the west coast was from Asia. Other products weren't so easy to rationalize. I don't know about the UK but the Sunday papers (when people still read the Sunday papers) have a lot of colorful advertising brochures and other crap that most people strip out and use to wrap garbage. I picked up a lot of those in Boulder CO to take to Baltimore MD, which is about 1600 miles. Nobody on the east coast can print useless stuff? The whole scheme depends on cheap transportation / cheap fuel. Keep those container ships and trucks rolling! If your government put as much fuel tax on it as ours did, that wouldn't be happening. A US gallon of gas here is $6.16 US. How does that compare to what you pay? It's been running around $2.97 all summer although I think it's up to $2.99 now. https://www.gasbuddy.com/USA This state has a 27 cents / gallon gasoline tax so it's on the higher end of the range. Distribution costs play a little part in the price spread but it's the state and local taxes that make up the bulk of the difference. California is the flyer. The tax is 30 cents but because of state laws they get special, super deluxe, designer blends. Washington has a 45 cent tax which explains their cost. Hawaii is obviously a distribution problem. Ours is an 80p per LITRE tax. If yours is still that expensive with so little tax, you must VERY expensive gas before tax. https://www.statista.com/statistics/...und-the-world/ But after tax... Distribution costs also factor in. As you've pointed out you could drop Great Britain in the northeast corner of this state where there's nothing but a few Indians and prairie dogs. The point is that BEFORE tax, our gas is WAY cheaper than yours. Don't you have your own oil over there? |
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Cyclists waste petrol
On Wed, 03 Oct 2018 03:59:04 +0100, rbowman wrote:
On 10/02/2018 04:47 PM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote: On Sun, 30 Sep 2018 20:26:26 +0100, rbowman wrote: On 09/30/2018 10:00 AM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote: On Tue, 11 Sep 2018 03:12:20 +0100, rbowman wrote: On 09/10/2018 12:53 PM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote: Are your roads littered with speed bumps? I go over perhaps 200 a day. That cinches it. No trip to the UK for me. Some of our dirt roads have speed bumps, aka small boulders, but I've never seen them other than on private roads. Round here they put them in the stupidest of places, for example 10 yards from a junction, where nobody could possibly be speeding anyway. And apparently they cost £10,000 each to install including paperwork. We have various 'traffic calming' schemes like roundabouts and bulbouts but speed bumps would really **** off the snowplow crews to say nothing of the cops. Even some of the semi-private areas are getting rid of them. I hit one of the damn things on my bicycle. The sun was in my eyes and I didn't see it coming so I taco'd my front wheel and did a face plant. I was not happy. You should have attempted to sue the council (or whatever you call them over there). Causing injury to a cyclist can't be allowed surely? I'm not big on lawyers... The counter would be that I was on private property. I thought all Merkins liked lawyers. |
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Cyclists waste petrol
On Wed, 03 Oct 2018 03:49:03 +0100, rbowman wrote:
On 10/02/2018 04:44 PM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote: On Sun, 30 Sep 2018 20:27:05 +0100, Rod Speed wrote: "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Mon, 10 Sep 2018 05:45:16 +0100, rbowman wrote: On 09/09/2018 01:08 PM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote: I really ****ed off a horserider once. I was driving a very old Range Rover automatic which had a conversion to LPG. It very often misfired, made loud bangs, and changed gear without warning. I managed to cause a small explosion and a loud revving of the engine just as I passed a horserider coming the other way along a narrow country road. The horse **** itself, and so did the rider. I did better than that... I was coming down a narrow road that went past a dude ranch on my Harley. Coming the other was was a herd of dudes on their docile refugees from a canning factory led by a genuine wild west cowboy. ****head's horse had a nervous breakdown while the guests' nags barely roused from their stupor. it doesn't take much to set them off. I've worked with horses enough to know most of them are a neurotic bundle of nerves. If the horse can't handle public roads, trailer it to a nice quiet horse trail someplace. Indeed. Horses on roads were fine, before the invention of the motor car. They weren't actually, lots got killed by them bolting etc. They're not the brightest of animals. A common description around here is a cowboy is the third dumbest critter riding the second dumbest and chasing the first dumbest. I would agree with that statement. |
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Cyclists waste petrol
"Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Wed, 03 Oct 2018 20:12:18 +0100, Rod Speed wrote: "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Wed, 03 Oct 2018 17:12:09 +0100, Rod Speed wrote: rbowman wrote Rod Speed wrote Ours are low enough so that trucks and vans can just drive over them, with a shallow curb so they don't even have to slow down to do that. The larger ones have a concrete apron for that purpose. The tiny ones were constructed without thinking that something like a moving van might need to navigate them. Ours are fine for that, those and semis can drive right over them as if they arent there. There is nothing but concrete in the middle. Can't actually find a street view of one, our street view is 8 years old now. Many drivers haven't figured out how they work yet. We have many four way stops where people take turns in an orderly fashion. We don't have any of those, one of the two roads at that intersection always has giveway signs on one of the roads. They tend to take roundabouts the same, stopping before entering even if the way is clear, which defeats the purpose. We don't see that at all, presumably because we don't have any intersections which don't have giveways on one road. Some of our chicanes/bulbouts have bollards on them to stop people doing that, but people have discovered they're just hollow plastic and driven straight through them, smashing the stupid things to pieces. We do have some of those, mostly to stop people driving along the footpaths in the big parks, but they are solid concrete so no one tries to take them out. Down in England they criminally damage cars with automatic raising bollards, should you dare to use a bus lane. We don't have any of those, but I spose its one way to enforce bus only lanes. Not sure we have too many bus only lanes tho. |
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Cyclists waste petrol
"Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Wed, 03 Oct 2018 20:10:12 +0100, Rod Speed wrote: "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Wed, 03 Oct 2018 15:14:11 +0100, rbowman wrote: On 10/02/2018 11:47 PM, Rod Speed wrote: Ours are low enough so that trucks and vans can just drive of them, with a shallow curb so they don't even have to slow down to do that. The larger ones have a concrete apron for that purpose. The tiny ones were constructed without thinking that something like a moving van might need to navigate them. Many drivers haven't figured out how they work yet. We have many four way stops where people take turns in an orderly fashion. They tend to take roundabouts the same, stopping before entering even if the way is clear, which defeats the purpose. There's a street near here with literally THIRTY speedbumps, and I mean the big full length ones right across the road. Even driving at the speed limit in a car, you get jolted about and a lot of cars (including almost new ones) scrape their undersides. I watched a bus go along the street, and the driver was very annoyed, he was accelerating then braking for each one, and all the passengers were being jolted everywhere. An ambulance would take an extra 5 minutes to get along the street. Give us a street view. And before you say it, yes, it's a council estate road. I do not live in that town, but the next one. https://goo.gl/maps/j9XZkfojkhM2 And me driving along it at 20mph, the legal limit: https://youtu.be/4rTu0jVTCK8 Yeah, that one does have a stupid number them. Tho I spose their argument is that with no driveways to park in, and lots of little kids living there, there is a high risk of kids running out between cars after a ball or dog etc. I sent that video to the council and told them the bumps were unacceptable. They actually phoned me to tell me I shouldn't be driving at 20 in a 20 zone! I told them to change the speed limit signs to 10 to match the bumps and they said they weren't allowed, I burst out laughing. Yeah, they are clearly using the speed humps to enforce a speed limit the stupid system doesn't allow them to have. The worst of ours is down the main street and that's only got about 5 and no one scrapes going over them and you don't have to slow down that much only to say 20Kmph That's ridiculously slow, less than any speed limit we have in the UK. That isnt the speed limit, its 50Kmph there, just the speed you need to go at to go over the speed hump. You can't go over any of ours at the speed limit where they are. and the traffic isnt going at the legal 50 there anyway except at say 6am etc. You're saying you have to slow to 20 in a 50 zone? Yep. Then like ours, the bumps do not match the legal limit. They arent meant to. Again, the street view is to old to show any of them. Our street views seem to be very up to date, only a year or 2 old, Yeah, much more recent than ours. I did see the street view car back in Feb but for some reason it hasn't been updated yet. I did wonder if it was in fact someone else's, not google's, but I cant think of anyone else it was likely to be. same for the satellite images. Ours are 2018. The street view is 2010 |
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"Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Wed, 03 Oct 2018 20:02:44 +0100, Rod Speed wrote: "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Wed, 03 Oct 2018 00:01:14 +0100, Rod Speed wrote: "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Sun, 30 Sep 2018 20:26:26 +0100, rbowman wrote: On 09/30/2018 10:00 AM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote: On Tue, 11 Sep 2018 03:12:20 +0100, rbowman wrote: On 09/10/2018 12:53 PM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote: Are your roads littered with speed bumps? I go over perhaps 200 a day. That cinches it. No trip to the UK for me. Some of our dirt roads have speed bumps, aka small boulders, but I've never seen them other than on private roads. Round here they put them in the stupidest of places, for example 10 yards from a junction, where nobody could possibly be speeding anyway. And apparently they cost £10,000 each to install including paperwork. We have various 'traffic calming' schemes like roundabouts and bulbouts but speed bumps would really **** off the snowplow crews to say nothing of the cops. Even some of the semi-private areas are getting rid of them. I hit one of the damn things on my bicycle. The sun was in my eyes and I didn't see it coming so I taco'd my front wheel and did a face plant. I was not happy. You should have attempted to sue the council (or whatever you call them over there). Causing injury to a cyclist can't be allowed surely? I hope I one day catch an old lady tripping over one on my dashcam. I've seen it happen before, a pensioner crosses the road and trips on the stupid thing. But I need proof. Further north, they have bollards on the narrowing things (we call them chicanes, Nope. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicane I assume that's what you refer to as a bulbout). Nope https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curb_extension We seem to have halfway between. Give us a street view of one of them. https://goo.gl/maps/FNZFcdeR8J32 Yeah, we don't have any with bollards and our curb extensions arent the same height as the normal curb, they are in fact massive great chunks of concrete on the road that you can't drive over. https://goo.gl/maps/iNph6a7699w I reported this to the council too. The priority sign (to tell which side to wait for the other) requires you to stop when going downhill, just after a blind bend, very dangerous in the winter. Then there's a pedestrian stood on the sticky out bit ready to be flattened by a sliding bus. When I suggested they reverse the priorities, they told me they didn't want to inconvenience people by having them do a hill start. When I suggested that everyone learns to do a hillstart in their driving test, I got no further replies. They mean that pedestrians are stood directly in front of oncoming traffic which has to swerve round them. Ours have massive concrete things on the road which means that no one ever drives there. https://goo.gl/maps/HGqk3Uqxfns They don't look that big, This one is much bigger. https://goo.gl/maps/iNph6a7699w and they seem to have slopes on the edge so you could go over them easily, No you can't at the speed limit. much like ours: https://goo.gl/maps/2bvfpSJk3192 I just drive straight over those. Yeah, but yours are the same height as the footpath. Ours arent, they are much higher. I once parked quite close to one (for about 5 minutes), requiring passing cars to mount one of the lumps. Some idiot got out and complained he couldn't get through. I asked him why he was driving a car without suspension then walked off. He eventually drove over it very carefully. A monumentally stupid idea. Sounds like it. Councils have way too much money to spend. At least our Conservative party is reducing their funding, but not by anywhere near enough. Ours decide for themselves how much they will raise in rates and only have a limit imposed by the state govt on how much they can raise the rates by in a particular year. And they drove a full aircraft carrier battle group thru that purported limit by separating the charge for water and sewerage from the rates and ended up doubling the total charge for a residential property in just one year. |
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"Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Wed, 03 Oct 2018 19:57:36 +0100, Rod Speed wrote: "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Wed, 03 Oct 2018 06:47:20 +0100, Rod Speed wrote: "rbowman" wrote in message ... On 10/02/2018 05:01 PM, Rod Speed wrote: "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Sun, 30 Sep 2018 20:26:26 +0100, rbowman wrote: On 09/30/2018 10:00 AM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote: On Tue, 11 Sep 2018 03:12:20 +0100, rbowman wrote: On 09/10/2018 12:53 PM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote: Are your roads littered with speed bumps? I go over perhaps 200 a day. That cinches it. No trip to the UK for me. Some of our dirt roads have speed bumps, aka small boulders, but I've never seen them other than on private roads. Round here they put them in the stupidest of places, for example 10 yards from a junction, where nobody could possibly be speeding anyway. And apparently they cost £10,000 each to install including paperwork. We have various 'traffic calming' schemes like roundabouts and bulbouts but speed bumps would really **** off the snowplow crews to say nothing of the cops. Even some of the semi-private areas are getting rid of them. I hit one of the damn things on my bicycle. The sun was in my eyes and I didn't see it coming so I taco'd my front wheel and did a face plant. I was not happy. You should have attempted to sue the council (or whatever you call them over there). Causing injury to a cyclist can't be allowed surely? I hope I one day catch an old lady tripping over one on my dashcam. I've seen it happen before, a pensioner crosses the road and trips on the stupid thing. But I need proof. Further north, they have bollards on the narrowing things (we call them chicanes, Nope. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicane I assume that's what you refer to as a bulbout). Nope https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curb_extension https://missoulian.com/news/local/bi...cc4c03286.html These are the worst of both. The theory is pedestrians will be out in the street, visible, and have a shorter path. Yeah, we have those outside one of our primary/grade schools. They suck for bicycles since you're forced out in the traffic lane, and are difficult for trucks and buses to navigate. There are also micro-roundabouts. Basically you take a 4-way intersection of residential streets, build a little round island in the middle, Yeah, we have lots of those. and plant flowers. Nothing in the middle with ours, only with the big ones. The first moving van in the area runs over the thing since it's impossible to navigate around it with anything bigger than a mini-van. Ours are low enough so that trucks and vans can just drive of them, with a shallow curb so they don't even have to slow down to do that. I drive over a lot of them with my car. I don't, but that's because I don't want to lose more demerit points and have to walk instead of drive. Its easy enough to stay on the road itself and I mostly don't go straight thru most of our smallest roundabouts anyway. Howe many ****ing pigs do you have? Heaps. Must be something like 30 in my town which has a population of 30K Got breath tested twice last weekend on the saturday morning after the garage sale run. The were 4 cop cars with about 10 pigs at the first one and just the one with just one pig at the second one. That was a long weekend here tho, and double demerits for 5 days. With the run over to the Henty Machinery Field Days a week or so before, saw 5 cop cars booking people going to that. They all have full time radar in their cars and that works whether they are moving or not. And they all do ANR too. Not sure if I damage the suspension more doing that than I would damage the steering by swerving round the ****ing things. No need to swerve and that doesn't damage the steering anyway. At the speed I travel, it's called swerving. But the main thing is I damage the stupid thing on the road. Doesn't damage ours, even when you drive over it with a fully loaded semi what you lot call an HGV. It does eventually. Many tonnes of steel creating quite a shock load over and over again. Not when the concrete is done properly. None of ours have ever needed to be replaced. Where lots of people have done it, they sink due to all the knocks they get. Ours don't. Unfortunately all our smallest roundabouts have been done since our last street view so I can't show you easily. Perhaps having dryer ground things don't sink so much. They don't sink at all. You can see here they've already repatched the area around them, and it's cracking again after only 2 years: https://goo.gl/maps/6xi5vut42yB2 That's not the smallest roundabouts, that's speed humps. I can't see the bolts on those, but some have visible bolts, and sometimes people come out at night and steal them :-) Funny to see a road with half of them uprooted. We don't have many like that, just the one road with 3 sets of them. No one has ever removed any of those. |
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Senile Ozzie Troll Alert!
On Thu, 4 Oct 2018 07:30:31 +1000, cantankerous trolling senile geezer Rot
Speed blabbered, again: We don't have There's absolutely NO "we" for you, you lonely senile Ozzie cretin! That's why you get up every morning between ONE and FOUR o'clock in Australia just to be able to talk to someone on Usenet! You are disgusting! -- Richard addressing Rot Speed: "**** you're thick/pathetic excuse for a troll." MID: |
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Senile Ozzie Troll Alert!
On Thu, 4 Oct 2018 07:50:34 +1000, cantankerous trolling senile geezer Rot
Speed blabbered, again: Ours There's NO "ours" for you, you lonely senile Ozzie cretin! That's why you get up every morning between ONE and FOUR o'clock in Australia just to be able to talk to someone on Usenet! You are disgusting! -- "Anonymous" to trolling senile Rot Speed: "You can **** off as you know less than pig **** you sad little ignorant ****." MID: |
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