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Posted : 06/05/2012 11:17 am
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No Helmet!


 
Posted : 06/05/2012 11:19 am
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I always draft a really solid, opaque vehicle with lots of sharp sticky out bits whenever I go riding too 😕


 
Posted : 06/05/2012 11:20 am
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Nowt like folk... 😯


 
Posted : 06/05/2012 11:26 am
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No helmet? What speed?

Used to draft buses on Princes St, great fun.


 
Posted : 06/05/2012 11:27 am
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Looks like he's doing about 80kmh which is about 50mph!

Big brass balls and something loose up top!


 
Posted : 06/05/2012 11:30 am
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No helmet? What speed?

Would guess about 80kmh!

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Mental.

slainte 😯 rob


 
Posted : 06/05/2012 11:31 am
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Good work 🙂


 
Posted : 06/05/2012 11:39 am
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Cheers, could not see it on my phone.


 
Posted : 06/05/2012 11:40 am
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Bet he got a good time for that Strava segment.


 
Posted : 06/05/2012 2:50 pm
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I used to do that on the link road from Heysham in towards Lancaster. Get behind a heavily loaded truck and it'd accelerate slowly enough for me to stay behind it. Long straight road, no junctions or lights so very little chance of it braking heavily. I've had speeds of 56mph behind them but at that speed you're spinning out 53:12 and the buffeting you get when you lose touch with the lorry can be really quite severe. If you can stay with it as it winds down slowly then it's OK.


 
Posted : 06/05/2012 3:59 pm
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Good lad!


 
Posted : 06/05/2012 4:40 pm
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Used to draft buses

My dad used to do the same - in his late teens, heading to work, in the days when the conductor stood on the open platform at the back....
Every morning, Hollinwood to the outskirts of Manchester...
One day he took his eye off the ball - bus stopped, dad did not, until he hit the bus - fortunately not going to fast... Conductor laughed, picked him up, checked him over said 'You won't do that again, will you son?' and off the bus went, leaving dad with a rather buckled front wheel (this was in the days before Pringles 😉 ) and a dent in his pride.... 🙂


 
Posted : 06/05/2012 4:47 pm
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I do take EXTREME care.


 
Posted : 06/05/2012 4:51 pm
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No helmet
Too close to the lorry
Too fast
WRONG SIDE OF THE ROAD!

All that will add up to DEATH!


 
Posted : 06/05/2012 5:48 pm

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