Tank Slap - Motorcycle Forum

Snow for me this morning. About 1 - 2cm. AS usual as soon as I get on the A5 heading to Tamworth it's all gone.

It was snowing this morning, which meant the usual carnage on the roads. Plenty of crashes.

Muppets, the lot of them.

even a crash in our road this morning with two cars,why cant people drive in a bit of snow ? its not even that bad ffs

Perkles wrote:even a crash in our road this morning with two cars,why cant people drive in a bit of snow ? its not even that bad ffs

Because most people drive on their brakes these days rather than planning ahead. They are too busy texting, talking, pressing buttons in the car or thinking about what's for tea.

I may sound old, but society today cannot do concentrate on one task thoroughly.

Self driving cars are needed, not because the technology is there, but because technology has removed lots of basic skills from the populous.

I'm becoming old school

Some cars handle terribly in the snow, the Merc C class I had was the worst by far, even when I touched the brake with a feather touch it just locked up and slid, about 2-3 years ago I got about half way to work shitting myself but gave up and abandoned it in a car park and walked home, useless thing in the snow.

I pulled alongside a young woman yesterday who was in deep conversation on her phone with a baby in the front seat,it beggars belief
I told her to get off the phone and she just gave me the vs,what a charmer

The biggest difference is made by winter tyres. Compulsory in some countries and regions at the right time of year. Tbh it should be in the UK too.

You can't force people to buy a second set of tyres and wheels for 1 day of snow.

just popped down to halfords for some neon lights for my new car and see that they have just gritted the shit out of the roads

I had a few twitchy sphincter moments today on the gritted roads

I've got the joys of sitting in a car in "rush hour" traffic. I may go psycho.

Perkles wrote:just popped down to halfords for some neon lights for my new car and see that they have just gritted the shit out of the roads

Neon lights?

Kwacky wrote:I've got the joys of sitting in a car in "rush hour" traffic. I may go psycho.

the journey home was fine.

I'll save the Uzi for another time

as snowbombs go that was more of a snow firecracker

it was a more of a "snow fart" round here .

On a positive, it did manage to drop up to 1m of snow in some of European ski areas.

However, apparently the powerful winds & lack of properly cold base layer made short work of it.

My wait continues, & I think I'm beginning to get the DT's ...

And it's gone nice and warm now!! We had one day of snow down here and it wasn't even a day...maybe a few hours! But I hate snow, I hate the cold to be honest soon glad it's buggered off [SMILING FACE WITH OPEN MOUTH AND SMILING EYES]