I remember in the early days of the channel tunnel you had to park your front wheel of the bike into a giant clamp type of thing. But there were only a couple of these on the train, it was a real struggle to get off it on my CBR 1000 loaded up with luggage etc. the modern way is much easier.
@@paulmorris3022 thanks Paul. Make a load of enquiries and last resort was smash window, remove dog, hand to staff and ride off. The owner came back in time and didn’t give a crap. Just puffing his chest out and shouting at us
Hi John, enjoyed the trip, but are we missing episodes? also the guy that had issues with his keyless fuel cap. did you find out what the issue is. i have a Tiger 1200 GT Pro and i have the same keyless system.
Hi Paul! Sorry you are quite right… working on the final episode as we speak. Had get the Bond trip sorted and a couple other projects, but the final Insanity feature is inbound. I’ll ask Chris what happened to his tiger when he took it to triumph
Goed gedaan maat/Well done mate. NL has contributed 3,1 Billion so far, and there's more where that came from! We know what war means, thank your grandfathers for that, US, UK, Can, PL( just naming the ones who fought in our neck of the world, great🙏to the rest of the heroes). Proud to be a Dutch tax payer, no one here contests further costs, we CAN'T let Little Shitler win.😏 You my good sir are ein mensch. P.s. Mark Rutte will sort it all out, Dutch politicians get shit done!!! UA, we got your back, no matter the costs or the repercussions.🤬
How do you get a pothole fixed in Devon? You invite BBC Spotlight along to its second birthday party. They even had cake! It was fixed two days later. Devon has more roads than any other county, but hasn't properly maintained them for years. Unless it's near Exeter, in which case money is no problem.
In Cornwall I meet a bus on a road similar to this every day the bus isn't a single decker its a college doubledecker, its rediculous , that's followed by a school bus and sometimes meet. The roads were never designed to take this size of vehicle and the bus companys are endangeting everybody's life.
Actually double-deckers are usually shorter than single-deckers and thus more manoeuvrable. I imagine the bus is only going that way because it is the only option. What would be the alternative to this? Every student in their own car or a taxi? Even with four to a car or taxi it still means more of a traffic jam. It certainly isn't any safer.
@@davidflett2765 it's the width of the bus and it's height as they try to avoid low tree limbs on a road barely 10foot wide in most places with minimal passing places.
Its funny how the councils will no longer repair roads becaue they are 'underfunded ' i wrote to sheffield council under the freeodom of information act to find out what they spent on green air zones.. the response was just shy of two MILLION pounds.
So I guess Cameron making a law to pay 0.7% of our GDP as an amount of international aid, was clearly unaffordable at the time and is today at at 0.5%.
Forgive me for saying this but you can contribute to road safety by walking your dog on the road on a lead. Please do it, for your dog's safety if nothing else.
One of the main reasons this is happening is due to the tories. They ensured that funding for local roads comes from local council budgets, meaning wealthy areas get good roads, poor areas have poor quality roads.
Cornwall always used to have better road surfaces than Devon. But now, in some places, Cornish roads are like driving across a ploughed field - so God only knows what Devon roads are like!
Some lanes around my way are getting like that. The problem around here is massive agricultural vehicles, which have grown in size far beyond what the old lanes were built for, plus land use has changed from grazing pasture to intensive 'industrially' managed grassland with the cattle living in sheds. The farming sector is doing a huge amount of damage to the envornment and to the road infrastructure, but its continually allowed to get away with it. Pull all their subsidies say I and put the money into repairing the damage. The scale of the problem, and the cost of rebuilding all these roads to cope with the reality of modern traffic, dwarfs what the local highway authorities are resourced for.
i always find it comical that people complaining about such things (you) are always the last people to roll up their sleeves and do any work to solve problems
@@TangoPasty A large majority of the country roads in Devon are in an awful state. The one leading to where I live has been comparable to that one for many years and is only getting worse. Have given up complaining and sending photographs. That also includes my neighbours making complaints. If you shout enough, they may put some cold tar on some of the holes, only to have to repeat the process about twelve months later.
That’s fine… I just don’t understand the ‘clearly not from Devon pop’ like you suggest I should be ok and accept the state of the roads. Clearly don’t know me
VED brings in £7.4bn, roughly 8 times less than the figure you gave, and maintaining roads costs £11.5bn, but that is a little misleading since ALL the money for local lanes like this comes out of council tax, not out of any kind of vehicle charges - that only covers national roads, motorways and major routes.
I'm in a remote part of the NW Highlands and we have some shocking roads, but I have to agree with you. I've never seen a road in that state before. At least not one that's still in use. What surprises me in the video is that the bus drivers haven't refused to drive on it. If the kids can't get to school, surely the council will be put under so much pressure they'll have to fix it. Or maybe they'll just shut another school.
Well explained…iv traveled by train many times on bikes. Highly recommend it to ferry..smooth and a fraction of the time.maybe a strapping system could be used like on the ferry to stop bikes lurching forward.be aware tall riders with flip up lids.. head clearance is limited….👍🇬🇧
All wrong! From my experiences in a car, ALWAYS use a lane with the T on the display, especially if you're following a Brit or it's almost guaranteed that you'll end up waiting for then. For a bike you're told to use the non-height restricted lane on the right otherwise you'll be charged the same as a car (bikes are supposed to be cheaper) and stay in the centre of the lane. I haven't tried it myself on a bike yet but plan to in the next few months.
Let me how you find it on a motorcycle - I think you may find it's not as straight forward as you think. Good luck. (most of the time you get charged as a motorcycle regardless of how you approach in your lane) It isn't foolproof by any means and I have had different experiences in differing densities of traffic. Enjoy
@@TangoPastyI owe you a reply, I’m currently in Germany checking my toll account for last week. I rode through the HGV lanes all the way from Calais to Geneva with the tag in an upper jacket pocket. Apart from having to stop once and puff my chest out when the barrier didn’t come up I can’t say I have any issues and my account shows vehicle class 5 (as opposed to 1 for my car) for each one so I can safely say that it can and does work. I had a GoPro on the bike and may post a short video compilation when I get home if you’re interested in seeing.
@@virtualllama I am interested for sure, in fact I’m going to try again this July! I’ll do likewise and have the tag ready! HGV lanes it is, though I’m on a Harley this time so I may actually get charged as an articulated lorry! Got a nifty pocket in the upper arm I’m tempted to try. Thank you and keep me posted, I’ll do likewise 👍🏼
