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Kickstart
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PostPosted: 17:36 - 29 Sep 2004    Post subject: Speed humps giving bus drivers the hump Reply with quote
Hi

https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/berkshire/3700664.stm

Basically Reading bus drivers are threatening to strike due to the speed humps that the council have littered the road with.

All the best

Keith
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AzA
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PostPosted: 19:29 - 29 Sep 2004    Post subject: Reply with quote
Nice one, i hope this means the council will start ripping their speed bumps back up because as we all know they are bloody annoying.
Perhaps if the bus drivers kick up enough fuss then maybe they will pull more speedbumps up...better news for us eh Smile
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PostPosted: 19:31 - 29 Sep 2004    Post subject: Reply with quote
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steveh
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PostPosted: 21:15 - 29 Sep 2004    Post subject: Reply with quote
whats this ? public transport finaly doing something, this cant be true, atleast not around here , there crap.
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mr jamez
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PostPosted: 21:47 - 29 Sep 2004    Post subject: Reply with quote
Yay I hate speedbumps! Very Happy, amount of times I have nearly ripped my exhaust off on the stupid things Rolling Eyes Middle Finger
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Kickstart
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PostPosted: 22:28 - 29 Sep 2004    Post subject: Reply with quote
Hi

Cracked the sump on the local humps in the car. 75mm tall speed "cushions" are a pig with 55mm of ground clearance.

All the best

Keith
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PostPosted: 22:33 - 29 Sep 2004    Post subject: Reply with quote
I hate them. Especially driving lorries, I wouldn't mind so much if they weren't built like the north face of the eiger! A gradual ascent would be so much easier!
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mr jamez
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PostPosted: 22:51 - 29 Sep 2004    Post subject: Reply with quote
Kickstart wrote:
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Cracked the sump on the local humps in the car. 75mm tall speed "cushions" are a pig with 55mm of ground clearance.

All the best

Keith


Confused

I keep meaning to get a sumpguard for the car, especialy for when I go to tesco, I have to go in first gear and slip the clutch to slowy drive over the thing. There are also some other nasty ones near our house as well Mad
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steveh
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PostPosted: 23:10 - 29 Sep 2004    Post subject: Reply with quote
ones i hate are the ones that fill the road, dont mind the tiny square ones that you can just drive round, pointless...


whoever designed these should be drove over about 500 of them at about mack 5 Razz


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Kickstart
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PostPosted: 09:01 - 30 Sep 2004    Post subject: Reply with quote
mr jamez wrote:
I keep meaning to get a sumpguard for the car, especialy for when I go to tesco, I have to go in first gear and slip the clutch to slowy drive over the thing. There are also some other nasty ones near our house as well Mad


Only any good when you have some ground clearance. Loosing another 10mm of ground clearance does not appeal.

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Keith
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