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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - lew600fazer - 19-05-17
(18-05-17, 08:12 AM)NorthWestern link Wrote: What is it about a top box and bananas?!Bananas ripen faster when wrapped in anything, the reason is they generate Carbon Dioxide CO2 which causes them to turn brown. If you have to put them in any kind of container make sure it is well ventilated.
I can put in a couple of unripe ones, commute to work with them in the box and when I take them out its as if they are over ripe..... browning, often with bruises etc. I have tried wrapping them, putting them in another box... At first I thought they were rattling around etc but after wrapping them (even individually) I wonder if it is acoustic related.
Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NorthWestern - 20-05-17
Yeah I get what you are saying but as mentioned the time period is too short for that to make a difference. I can have my lunch packed in a sealed Tupperware box overnight and the 'nana won't ripen significantly. 45 mins in the top box and it overripens.
Maybe it's the sonic booms, my bike is red after all...
Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - robbo - 20-05-17
Maybe bananas don't like going to work. Try buying a banana at work, then see what it's like when you get home :lol .
Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - Skippernick - 20-05-17
(20-05-17, 08:22 AM)NorthWestern link Wrote: Yeah I get what you are saying but as mentioned the time period is too short for that to make a difference. I can have my lunch packed in a sealed Tupperware box overnight and the 'nana won't ripen significantly. 45 mins in the top box and it overripens.
Maybe it's the sonic booms, my bike is red after all...
More like its road rage at your riding...... :lol
Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - darrsi - 20-05-17
(20-05-17, 08:22 AM)NorthWestern link Wrote: Yeah I get what you are saying but as mentioned the time period is too short for that to make a difference. I can have my lunch packed in a sealed Tupperware box overnight and the 'nana won't ripen significantly. 45 mins in the top box and it overripens.
Maybe it's the sonic booms, my bike is red after all...
My journey averages 30 minutes, but my bike is black so that would explain the ripening time difference. :lol
Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - Dudeofrude - 20-05-17
(20-05-17, 09:37 AM)robbo link Wrote: Maybe bananas don't like going to work. Try buying a banana at work, then see what it's like when you get home :lol .
Fucking brilliant ??
Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NorthWestern - 21-05-17
Haha
Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - HarryHornby - 26-05-17
Drivers who get the hump (or are just blind/crap drivers) when a bike filters to the front of a queue at a roundabout and then they don't give way at all and muscle you all the way round the roundabout, not giving you an inch. >: Still it's sunny and and that always makes us bikers smile, especially as when it comes to home time I'm sure he will be stuck in more city traffic and I'll filter through again
Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - tommyardin - 26-05-17
Quire right Harry.
Yeah up yours all you shit car drivers, I will be home long before you and out in the glorious sunshine to, Oh! hang on I'm a car driver too :'(
Summers coming, as is the traffic jams, 40 or 50 cars waiting at the traffic lights, they changed 3 times and I'm still here.
I wonder what gets my goat.
Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - Dudeofrude - 26-05-17
(26-05-17, 08:00 AM)HarryHornby link Wrote: Drivers who get the hump (or are just blind/crap drivers) when a bike filters to the front of a queue at a roundabout and then they don't give way at all and muscle you all the way round the roundabout, not giving you an inch. >: Still it's sunny and and that always makes us bikers smile, especially as when it comes to home time I'm sure he will be stuck in more city traffic and I'll filter through again
That's what your right wrist is for ? if yiu can't pull away quicker than a car then your doing wrong haha
Personally I always wait behind the first car when filtering up to a roundabout just because it's less stress haha
Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - Skippernick - 26-05-17
(26-05-17, 05:48 PM)Dudeofrude link Wrote: [quote author=HarryHornby link=topic=17546.msg261385#msg261385 date=1495782049]
Drivers who get the hump (or are just blind/crap drivers) when a bike filters to the front of a queue at a roundabout and then they don't give way at all and muscle you all the way round the roundabout, not giving you an inch. >: Still it's sunny and and that always makes us bikers smile, especially as when it comes to home time I'm sure he will be stuck in more city traffic and I'll filter through again
That's what your right wrist is for ? if yiu can't pull away quicker than a car then your doing wrong haha
Personally I always wait behind the first car when filtering up to a roundabout just because it's less stress haha
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Thats what i tend to do, they are concentrating on the round about and not me, and cagers have little brains.
Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - red98 - 26-05-17
Yep , me too unless theres lots of room........harrys only a young'un , thinks his right hand only has one job to do :rolleyes
Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - HarryHornby - 26-05-17
ACTUALLY Mr Red.... I always filter for up to the back of the first car for the same reasons you stated, in my eyes the front driver is more interested in pulling away and less in me so :nana :b love you really.
But this morning was rush hour, busy 2 lane roundabout and the dick in the white van who it turned out when I got to the front had almost parked in the car in fronts boot so that didn't leave me a gap to pull in. I had a car to my right too who also wanted to make a quick get away and cars on the roundabout that had just passed from the right. It was pretty congested and because I have no idea which way any of the cagers are going to go (remember it's rush hour and they don't care about lane dicipline or signals) I don't like to sprint off too quick only to have a car turn across me, but turns out chap in white van wasn't going to let me filter in and it was a Fazer sandwich down the middle of a tightish roundabout. Those seconds he saved squeezing me out must have been very precious to him.
Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - Billy Balthorpe - 27-05-17
I always filter all the way to the front if I can, and then make sure I'm away and clear of the cars around me as soon as the lights go green.
AS I always say, the best place for cars is behind me, once I'm there at least they should be able to see me because they are facing that way.
Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - Robbie8666 - 15-06-17
tell you what really grips my shit especially in hot weather are muppets riding round (mainly on mopeds) with shorts & t-shirts etc
ok I know it's down to personal choice & I subscribe to the all the gear all the time rule but around the pompy area just now must have only seen 2 out of 10 riders in what I class as correct gear >:
Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - mrMoog - 15-06-17
Yep I had one of those this morning whilst on my way into work. Young un on L plates on a honda cb125. 1st he comes flying down the bus lane which is legal only for buses and cycles in my town, I know other towns allow motorbikes in these lanes. Then he tries to squeeze in between the car in front of myself and the one in front of that due to traffic lights up ahead on red but they don't let him in so slams brakes on and filters in next to me as I could see what was going to happen so had moved over for him to do so. Looked at me, no thanks no nod nothing. I looked him up and down, gear he had on was lid (well done) adidas tracky top (quite nice actually) combat shorts and to top it off was a pair of pumps with trainer socks. Few hundred meters down the road he continued on his reckless journey overtaking in the bus lane at madness speeds. I don't get it to be honest, I mean why is anyone in such a hurry to get to work that they'd happily risk becoming part of the road surface?
Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - Dudeofrude - 15-06-17
I'm always mixed on this issue. On yhe one hand I believe you should be allowed to wear (or not wear) whatever you like, helmet included, but I do get where your coming from. It doesn't bother me as much on a moped as that's just a given with that kind of bike but when you see some idiot on a gsxr/fireblade/zxr in a pair of shorts then does make me wonder what's going through their heads. With the wide range of kit avaliable these days there's just not excuse. I personally wear a Mesh jacket and gloves with kevlar jeans and vented boots when it's warm and it's perfectly comfortable.
Another option I'm thinking of trying is motocross armour over a tshirt. Not complete protection but as good as you can get while keeping cool
Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - BBROWN1664 - 15-06-17
Over 30mph full kit every time. Tarmac does a very good impression of a grinding wheel or sandpaper when you slide along it.
Under 30mph (mopeds only really) I don't care. You can do, and I used to, practically the same speed on a pushbike which you may not even wear a helmet for let alone gloves or long trousers.
Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - HarryHornby - 15-06-17
I subscribe to ATGATT when on my Fazer but it does make me giggle to myself and think as well when I'm out on my road bike with skinny tyres pumped up to 120psi, wearing lycra top and shorts flying down a hill at 40mph. I reckon I have more chance coming off the road bike at that speed than I do on the Fazer, but I think all the gear on the road bike would slow me down too much LOL
Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - tommyardin - 15-06-17
Like others in here I was riding motorcycle before the helmet law came out and I was absolutely fuming that some 'Home Office' arsehole said 'From now on you will wear a bucket on your head whilst riding a motorcycle' (Unless your a Sikh).
That was back then, thinking about it now as a reasonably responsible adult (Mmmm I should have put a reasonabley just before the word adult in there) of course it was a good law, it has saved many, many lives and many 100's of thousands of pounds to the NHS and numerous families lots of grief and heartache.
I hanker back to my good old days when I was 16 to 40 so I still wear my old Punk/Brando style leather jacket with my old 59 Club badges on it and jeans, I often wear a white or blue silk scarf under the lapels of my jacket (Aviator scarf)
I have a LS2 Convert Helmet that open right up at the front and folds over the back of the helmet to make a open face helmet (Bright Yellow), my jeans a Kevlar jeans, sports boots and leather gloves
A fluorescent Frank Thomas waistcoat, sure when it get hot I wear a breathable Cordura jacket with the lining removed but still wear the waistcoat..
Like others in hear I live only a hard stones throw from Pompey and I have seen guys on 1000cc machines and bigger filtering much to fast on the road from Southsea up to the A3 wearing less than I would wear on the beach, thinking to myself if they loss the bike and throw it up the road or some one changes lane while they are filtering at 40 plus miles an hours there is going to be an awful lot of road rash in Pompey and QA hospital. :'( :'( :'(