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sv_cath
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PostPosted: 10:25 - 15 Jun 2004    Post subject: Good thinking from the AA Reply with quote
https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/derbyshire/3807631.stm

For once, instead of saying how we should slow down and be more careful, etc etc... they're saying "road engineers had a duty to examine motorcycle accidents and to protect bikers with better junction design, better road surfaces and improved crash barriers"

So we're not all evil little sods that deserve everything we get after all!!
Well, most of us aren't anyway... Twisted Evil
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PostPosted: 10:50 - 15 Jun 2004    Post subject: Re: Good thinking from the AA Reply with quote
sv_cath wrote:
protect bikers with better junction design, better road surfaces and improved crash barriers"


Is it just me, or couldn't you just put tarmac or some stuck on grippy surface on a manhole!?!?! can still leave the holes so you can pick it up ???
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sv_cath
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PostPosted: 12:52 - 15 Jun 2004    Post subject: Reply with quote
Brilliant idea Smoto Bob! I might even ask the local council if they can do that from now on!
And if they could make overbanding grippy too, we'd be laughing!
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PostPosted: 14:03 - 15 Jun 2004    Post subject: Reply with quote
sv_cath wrote:
Brilliant idea Smoto Bob!


See i am not just a pritty face Very Happy
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PostPosted: 15:19 - 15 Jun 2004    Post subject: Re: Good thinking from the AA Reply with quote
Smoto Bob wrote:
sv_cath wrote:
protect bikers with better junction design, better road surfaces and improved crash barriers"


Is it just me, or couldn't you just put tarmac or some stuck on grippy surface on a manhole!?!?! can still leave the holes so you can pick it up ???


if they did that then some little sh*ts would rob them, i can't see anyting ever happening with making manholes safer, cost too much.....
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PostPosted: 15:31 - 15 Jun 2004    Post subject: Re: Good thinking from the AA Reply with quote
phill.c wrote:

if they did that then some little sh*ts would rob them, i can't see anyting ever happening with making manholes safer, cost too much.....


how would they be any more stealable? why on earth would you steal a man hole cover Shocked lol
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PostPosted: 15:34 - 15 Jun 2004    Post subject: Reply with quote
Some of the covers around here are done like that - although not many.
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PostPosted: 15:36 - 15 Jun 2004    Post subject: Re: Good thinking from the AA Reply with quote
Smoto Bob wrote:
phill.c wrote:

if they did that then some little sh*ts would rob them, i can't see anyting ever happening with making manholes safer, cost too much.....


how would they be any more stealable? why on earth would you steal a man hole cover Shocked lol


There's always someone out there....I wouldn't phase out the idea of that happening.

Sounds like the AA is on top form. The white lines are as much a problem in the wet as the manhole covers are.

We have some manhole covers that have a high friction semi-gravel mixed with tar surfices.
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PostPosted: 16:27 - 15 Jun 2004    Post subject: Reply with quote
On my blast out this morning I passed some of the new "To Die For?" signs... quite chilling and yes, it slowed me down for a minute...

However most of the roads I was on were full of towns with 30-40 zones, so they must be putting the signs up on any slightly long stretch of road in the county. Seems a little OTT but if it saves lives and makes cars drivers think about bikes then it gets the big thumbs up from me Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 22:47 - 15 Jun 2004    Post subject: Reply with quote
Aswell as Manhole covers and White lines, what about the silicon stuff the highways agency apply after filling in a hole on the road, that very shiny black stuff is slippy as hell, Rain or shine!
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