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Originally Posted by DC
My ol' girl had not been touched since mid January. Inclement weather, illness and the lockdown.
Charged the dead battery, left it a couple of hours and it held the charge. Stuck it in the bike and it started instantly on the button.
Lost ½ lb in the rear and none in the front. Bunged grease on bits and oiled the chain.
Let's hope I can stay on the thing !!
So it seems that no one is very happy with Mr Karloff's 'next phase'.
With a huge library of advisers, how can the latest directives be so unpopular ?
I see that China & Germany have reported new spikes in infections since their easing of restrictions.
Should he have kept us under, a fairly liberal compared to some, lockdown for longer ?
Is it just that his real bosses are bored with not making billions a week ?
Or perhaps he has another lover lined up and he can't risk being caught philandering against his own rules.
It's forecast dry for the weekend, so do I really care ;)
Personally I think Boris is between a rock and and a hard place and can’t do right for doing wrong, I wouldn’t want his job and doubt anyone on here truthfully would either.
If he keeps the lock down in force then theres people like the dickhead judge lord sumption saying it’s wrong and against human rights, calling it an illegal nationwide house arrest etc etc, but if he lifts its then there’s people saying he’s wrong for doing that endangering life etc, So he’s taken the middle ground and seems to have done half and half (which can’t possibly work)
My own personal view is it’s not the right time to be lifting it and things should stay as they are indefinitely until a vaccine is found but looking at the history of other viruses then the likelihood of a working vaccine is at best unlikely in the foreseeable future, so realistically the nation can’t afford to do that.
so back to the rock and hard place situation.
But then I’m a fan of Boris and a staunch Tory supporter so what do I know. :)
I think he should have outlined the next steps and given us 3 more weeks of lockdown to drive the numbers right down
I'm inclined to think the same. I certainly won't be heading out too much. Let everyone else go mad out there for a week or so and see how it goes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dabz
Anecdotally they need more to infect. I keep in contact with guys I served with and one has just been sent back from a Nightingale hospital. They were briefed best scenario, local services to overwhelm and them to see 50% of capacity. They didn't get a single patient. His contribution to the fight was spending a few weeks trying to get in to nurses knickers...... jammy git.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dabz
They need more people to get it, they achieve this by loosening restrictions. They can't state it this way because doing so would be political suicide, plenty of people still have some belief the government will magically stop them ever catching this. It's game of balancing infections to match service capacity (NHS, etc) and also to take in to account economic impact.
There is also a scientific model floating around that shows if strict restrictions are kept for too long and infections bottomed out too far then you will eventually get a 2nd spike equal to what we just had.
I think basically we mostly need to catch it, however we need to do it in a terribly organised and managed way. Plagues being known for being organisable and manageable. ;)
I'm no fan of tories and I would happily hang the blonde tosser from a tree with a (very) short drop but just from the light academic reading I have tried to do, I wouldn't want his job right now. He has to take a bunch of disagreeing scientific opinions that he has no better qualification to judge than you or I and then formulate actions based on what may turn out to be utter crap.
Totally agree that Boris can't win - whoeever was PM now (thank god it's not still Teresa May mind you) would be fighting a losing battle. The tide has turned over the last week to start making this political when efforts would be better spent managing the crisis.
What I don't agree with is the government citing care home cases reducing as a victory. It's because as they're dying there are fewer sitting targets to catch it, not because the spread is reducing.
The movements now are definitely economically focused rather than based on the science though. You can tell because there's no consistency - people are fine in enclosed spaces if it's for work but not for personal. You can allow a cleaner in your home after they've been home-to-home all day but can't let a single family member from another household in your garden. You can view houses (stamp duty income very welcome right now clearly) with an estate agent but you can't yet go in certain small shops. Bin men don't get the benefit of 2m distancing when they sit 3 abreast in their vans, nor do doctors and nurses who have had to put themselves at risk since day 1, but teachers are up in arms at being sent back to work and letting their unions refuse for them.
What's more frightening that all of that is that they're now suggesting the public need to exercise common sense to get us through this! Since when did the UK general public have any common sense, much less enough to see us through a global pandemic? :P
I'd debate the point it's a mix, the science too needs infections to occur, when formulating (or writing on a fag packet) the plan though it seems (to me) sensible to base any planned increase in infection with economic opening. 2 Birds one stone, though granted it leads to a policy that looks like a laughable mess.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dabz
The economic recovery actually worries me more than the Plague.
I've heard repeatedly already today the distinct sound of litre bikes popping wheelies on the 338 as they leave Tidworth. Bet the beach is packed at Christchurch too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dabz
Ive been back to work now for 3 weeks (construction) Travelling all over to various different sites between London to Plymouth and into South Wales covering thousands of miles. The roads are still pretty quiet including the motorways. Going to be heading out on the bike next weekend, just for a hour or so, not looking to stop off anywhere tho, just going to enjoy the ride.
I've been riding the bike right through lockdown for local food shopping trips only , I've also ridden right through the Winter , didn't get frostbite or hypothermia , and the bike didn't rot away or dissolve . Today went out ALONE for the first proper jaunt in weeks , didn't speak to a soul , didn't slavver on anyone or get slavvered on . I'm 100% confident I didn't catch anything or pass anything on and I got back in one piece.......... Fancy that ! It were great :cool: :p
EDIT.... Forgot to say Petrol's a quid a litre !!! , happy days :)
https://youtu.be/lQFKMar4x-w
Nice one DC, about time you treated the old girl to a bit of premium now the price is low :)
Our current government are beneath comment, a cabinet filled with like-minded zealots rather than anyone selected for competence or experience. The easing of restrictions is based on economics, not science. The truth of their policy is based around herd immunity but after the initial backlash against a policy based on eugenics they’ve shut up about it but that’s what they’re aiming for. Why is the testing so feeble and shambolic? Far too much so to base a scientific response program around. Quarantine and checking for incoming air passengers eh? When? How about starting it three months ago like Italy did?
We went out for a wee ride yesterday, nowhere special but had a result at Tesco in Ciren, I was almost looking forward to paying £0.999/litre for the first time since I don’t know when, and after sticking 15litres in the tank the pay-at-pump gave me someone else’s receipt so I checked after getting home and I’d been charged ONE POUND! Chicky had paid the same for her 8 litres it turned out. Kind of made up for the unseasonably cold weather, but it wasn’t raining either :-)
Some of us remember when it was 75 pence a gallon ! lolQuote:
Originally Posted by DC
Ooohhh steady , it'll have to come down another 20 or 30 pence before I get that careless !:pQuote:
Originally Posted by Wes
I remember it as low as 49p a litre back in '92 , '93 ? ,but it was Cornwall and everything was cheaper down there once upon a time .Quote:
Originally Posted by Trev_P
Some of our American Brethren on the Triumph forum are paying $1.38 / gallon just now .
Don't get me started on 'I remember when petrol was...' :p
I'll make you all feel old, cheapest I can remember was about 60p per litre and I wasn't old enough to need it then.
Pah, I can remember when is was sold in gallons for £sd. lolQuote:
Originally Posted by WR6133
When I got my first bike it was 7 / 6d per Gallon. That equates to approx. 9 p per litre. Plus another 1p for a couple of shots of 2T oil.Quote:
Originally Posted by BB
We used to dream of living in a corridor !!!Quote:
Originally Posted by BB
https://youtu.be/ue7wM0QC5LE
Well, it was nice while it lasted, Tesco's system caught up and my £1 fill-up became £15.12... but it is nice to be paying less than a quid/litre for once. I recall that fill-ups on my Fizzie, with two squirts of 2T oil @20:1 cost me a quid in 1978, and the first time I remember seeing petrol priced in litres was around 1988 I think (give or take a year) and in those days my first sight of the price banner showing 37.5p/litre had me wondering to myself what that equated to in the stone age measures that we were familiar with at the time. It doesn't take long to get used to newer ways of doing things, such as fuel in litres and weight measures in kg, we just need exposure to them in order to gain familiarity. I started studying Engineering in 1991 and had to become familiar with SI units when I did so. It didn't take long, and the only thing that I think of in terms of pounds and ounces nowadays is fishing!Quote:
Originally Posted by Scotty
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I actually had a teacher in the early '90's who forced us to all learn imperial measures because "it's coming back soon"....... hope they etched that on his headstone.
I’m young (ish) enough to use metric but having worked a lot of my life on building sites with my dad who downright refused to use metric I was forced to use imperial so I use both.Quote:
Originally Posted by WR6133
Game on :D
Bozo has said yes !
It's the weekend, the suns out, it's mid may, let's roll !
There's only one problem though...
Nobody wants any visitors
:rolleyes:
And if you go anywhere everything is shut, no tea or coffee, no chips, no ice cream.... probably no toilets!Quote:
Originally Posted by Last Train
Well finally got out for a ride to go and exercise!! it was good and saw a few bikes out, just a really steady ride out and there were quite a few cars out on the road as well.
Braver than me then, I am waiting until at least Tuesday for all the peanut brains in their cars to calm down a bit and realise that they are not the only thing on the road but both the girls are polished, prepped and raring to go :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Dazr
Me too, want to ride the road bike and the trail bike while I still remember how to!Quote:
Originally Posted by Trev_P
I'm with you Trev.
I keep hearing 14k revs up and down the 3 main roads near me.
Probably rain until September now though
I’ve seen some, seriously right hand heavy, power rangers out & about today :rolleyes:
And.....
An ice cream van :D
Almost got taken out while walking today by a mini driver who didn’t know the width of the car, couldn’t find any gears, almost stalled trying to find a gear then zoomed past in 1st, missing my feet by about an inch. Luckily I’d had the sense to lift Sophie in to the hedge first.
People clearly struggling to remember how to work a car after a couple months. Their awareness doesn’t bare thinking about...
Have to agree it does seem that car drivers are out of practice, although did have a young guy in a golf revving at traffic lights next to me. He shot off and i let him go, at the next lights the same but just ignored him - go and play elsewhere. Hopefully things will start to get back to normal, although am thinking Burbler is prob right you watch the rain return now........