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feef
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PostPosted: 08:56 - 19 Jan 2007    Post subject: carnage :( Reply with quote

cockrockets!

I can hereby confirm that while Firestorm sidestands can withstand the weight of a 2-bike trailer on them (with both bike wheels off the ground) Firestorm wing mirrors can't.

the trailer was leaning against the side of the house. it's not as if there's any large panels to act like a sail on a bike trailer, but it's still blown over. Luckily it looks like there's no other damage apart from the wing mirror.

I've lost 3 fence panels on the drive between my neighbour and I. dunno if there's any come down in the back garden, it's a bit dark.. but I can see my windsurfer has broken it's straps and is lying at the end of the garden Neutral

The drive's also got a horrible oil slick, where a FULL recycling wheely bin was blown over onto an old oil holder that I was using to hold, um old oil.. and it's burst it. (I hadn't got round to taking it to the reycling center)

Hope the two monstrous trees are okay..


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PostPosted: 09:58 - 19 Jan 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote

Shocked

Fookin' hell, that sounds bloody windy to say the least!

What are you going to do about the oil slick? Dump sand on it?

Shit one about the straps on the board, but they're easy enough to replace Razz
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PostPosted: 12:41 - 19 Jan 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote

TBH, there were gale wind warnings all week... why put your bike near stuff that is probably get blown over?

Yes it sucks... but then so do you!!! Laughing
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feef
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PostPosted: 12:46 - 19 Jan 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote

bob-a-job wrote:
TBH, there were gale wind warnings all week... why put your bike near stuff that is probably get blown over?


because I've not been home all week.

I'd also not expect a trailer that is heavy enough to need two people to lift it, to be moved by a gust of wind.

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PostPosted: 14:07 - 19 Jan 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote

It goes to show how fickle the wind can be - I live just around the corner from Feef, and my empty wheelie bins are still where I parked them, and nothing has been disturbed in the yard either.

I'd have thought that the drive down the side of your house was pretty sheltered...
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PostPosted: 01:29 - 20 Jan 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote

id think about mopping up some of the oil, or digging up the oiled soil and binnging it and getting some more
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feef
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PostPosted: 08:51 - 20 Jan 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote

colin1 wrote:
id think about mopping up some of the oil, or digging up the oiled soil and binnging it and getting some more


talk about stating the obvious Very Happy

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it really is that quick
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PostPosted: 09:48 - 20 Jan 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote

use cat litter on the oil (the one with fuller's earth in) should draw all the oil out of the drive a bit better than sand does.

sucks about the bike though

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PostPosted: 09:55 - 20 Jan 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote

I know how you feel,

went out bought some leathers at discount Laughing got back to find my bike on the floor Sad

Lucky the only damage was the footpeg and rare indicator unit but I still gotta pay ..... GUTTED Evil or Very Mad
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PostPosted: 16:51 - 20 Jan 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote

Set fire to your drive Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 16:54 - 20 Jan 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote

Go to an industrial supplies and get some oil absorbent (if you spill oil in industry, you chuck this down ove rit..leave it a while and sweep it up...looks like oil doesn't even exsist Smile )

It is far cheaper than cat litter and is basically the same thing (cat litter is basically a glorified version of this)

Where you might spend a tenner on a bag of cat litter...you could get twice as much for about 7.50 or something

Generaly comes in a biggish white bag....places like Arco should sell it.

edit - this is the stuff im talking about

https://www.arco.co.uk/cgi-bin/arcobvp.dll/Arco/controller?event=product&BV_SessionID=@@@@1686122860.1169312073@@@@&BV_EngineID=cccjaddjmdiehdgcflgcefkdfggdfoo.0&productcode=5650200

not exactly the same as what we use at work but probably the same stuff inside the bag.
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PostPosted: 17:01 - 20 Jan 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote

MattHirst wrote:
Go to an industrial supplies and get some oil absorbent (if you spill oil in industry, you chuck this down ove rit..leave it a while and sweep it up...looks like oil doesn't even exsist Smile )

It is far cheaper than cat litter and is basically the same thing (cat litter is basically a glorified version of this)

Where you might spend a tenner on a bag of cat litter...you could get twice as much for about 7.50 or something

Generaly comes in a biggish white bag....places like Arco should sell it.

edit - this is the stuff im talking about

https://www.arco.co.uk/cgi-bin/arcobvp.dll/Arco/controller?event=product&BV_SessionID=@@@@1686122860.1169312073@@@@&BV_EngineID=cccjaddjmdiehdgcflgcefkdfggdfoo.0&productcode=5650200

not exactly the same as what we use at work but probably the same stuff inside the bag.


Maybe someone should point this out to councils, the Highways agency and the DFT...
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PostPosted: 17:14 - 20 Jan 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote

I know how you feel, i really tied my cover on my bike back at the start of december, only to come home from work last night and find it had blown past 4 houses in the street, and was in the 5th house's garden tree's. we have a camera system as our previous bikes have been stolen, watched the cover fook off like a balloon just after 1pm! Evil or Very Mad
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PostPosted: 19:22 - 20 Jan 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote

st3v3 wrote:
I know how you feel, i really tied my cover on my bike back at the start of december, only to come home from work last night and find it had blown past 4 houses in the street, and was in the 5th house's garden trees. we have a camera system as our previous bikes have been stolen, watched the cover fook off like a balloon just after 1pm! Evil or Very Mad

Well, at least it'll keep the trees warm and dry... Mr. Green
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PostPosted: 19:56 - 20 Jan 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote

feef wrote:

I'd also not expect a trailer that is heavy enough to need two people to lift it, to be moved by a gust of wind.


The wind manages to move large sailing ships weighing many thousands of tonnes. It also manges to turn 50meter wind turbine blades made of sheet metal.. and that's not even in gale force strength winds....so why should it struggle with a mere trailer? Wink
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feef
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PostPosted: 09:43 - 22 Jan 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote

extreme3d wrote:
feef wrote:

I'd also not expect a trailer that is heavy enough to need two people to lift it, to be moved by a gust of wind.


The wind manages to move large sailing ships weighing many thousands of tonnes. It also manges to turn 50meter wind turbine blades made of sheet metal.. and that's not even in gale force strength winds....so why should it struggle with a mere trailer? Wink


because yachts have sails, which are made up of hundreds of square feet of material, designed to take the force of the wind and translate it into forward motion.

Wind turbine blades are far from thin, will move very easily, and are far from light (for their size) and use aerodynamics to translate wind force int orotational motion.

Motorcycle trailers, on the other hand, are made from galvanised steel sections, have wheels, and a couple of troughs to put a bike in.

Perhaps I should tell Ellen Macarthur to not worry about finding millions of pounds to reasearch methods of lessening Von Karman vortexes around the mast and other tubular sail components.. she can just stick a 2-bike Trelgo onto the hull and sail that around the world.

sheesh.. children these days Wink

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