Lee Rigby memorial ride

[fireblake]

Any Foccers going?
Thursday 22May 2014[/size]Meet at the Oakdean cafe Wrotham Kent TN15 7RRRun leaves at 9am & goes to meet up with the Blackheath tea stall run.Meet at Blachheath tea stall Run leaves at 10.00am when the Oakdean run gets here & then on to Woolwich barracks.No sign in required just turn up at any of the meet points, both runs have a police escort.   
I've just copied this from the web.  Alas very short notice, i only found out early this morning


Mickey[/color]

[ogri48]

As you say unfortunately too short notice mate, me and penny would have been up for that

[dazza]

Did plan on going on this but can't say for definite as I work nights and  am seeing my daughter in the afternoon. If I can do some juggling, I'll be there. 

[fireblake]

Fantastic turn out.

[dazza]

Good to hear, gutted I couldn't make it.   God bless and sleep tight Lee.

[fireblake]

A few photo's of the gathering at Greenwich park before the Lee Rigby memorial ride

[fireblake]

On the ride home it was pissing down, eventually I started to feel a cold wet feeling around my bollocks. I'm riding a big metal thing and then the lightning started. I must admit the poop muscle flinched a few times


Mickey

[ChristoT]

Why was your brown eye winking? You're on rubber tyres, right? Insulated, like a Faraday's hobby horse!

[dazza]

Why was your brown eye winking? You're on rubber tyres, right? Insulated, like a Faraday's hobby horse!

Your theory is seriously flawed Christo....http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CFEQtwIwAw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kptv.com%2Fstory%2F23352247%2Fride-the-lightning-man-on-motorcycle-hit-by-lightning-bolt-on-i-5&ei=Rm2CU6vhKsPPObmsgDg&usg=AFQjCNFAqWCiVulr5cKZknC4DYPBQQmrrw&bvm=bv.67720277,d.ZWU

[ChristoT]

Weird, that should be impossible!

Cool link though! 

[dazza]

Not impossible, it's a common misconception that it's  the tyres that protect you from a lightning strike in a car. Not so, it's the metal body that surrounds you that offers protection as the current is directed round it and acts as a Faraday cage. No such protection on a bike and the rubber tyres don't mean shit to 10's of thousands of amps. There have been cases where a direct hit lightning strike on a car has blew out all the windows and burst all the tyres (Or did I see that on television) Who knows, but it sounds good. 

[fireblake]

Whether the tyres protected me or not I still had soppy bollocks and the sparks were flying. This was at the same time as that lightning strike hit the Shard. I was on the A3 on that nice open bit just south of Kingston, you know that bit where the are no tall buildings and I'm sitting proud or lying prone over that metal tank filled with explosive petrol. Like a baby lamb to the slaughter.
Needless to say I made it home safe and sound.


Mickey