Ducati Sporting Club UK > General > Idle Chat > Best Biking hints and tips

[Redruth]

Never nod at courriers. They are a miserable bunch of gits when they're riding, and then they expect you to smile sweetly at them when you're signing for their package Any courriers in this club? Ooops

[Redruth]

And, if not dangerous to do so, thank motorists for moving over for you in traffic. It encourages them and other drivers and stops them getting mad about you getting out of a jam when they can't.

[Fordie]

Rockhopper,try not extending the index and middle fingers often gets a negitive result.
I all ways give em a wave, if and when I spot em and it seems to give them some thing to smile about, bit like the AA man in the good old days when they saluted you if you were a member,well I remember my Dad getting the treatment as Im not that old really Wave Wave 4D

Oh ya a tip. When in doubt ,leave it out.
in other words, if it looks like a dodgy move don't do it, hold back and don't take chances.


[Edited on 10-7-2004 by Fordie]

[moto748]

Here's one.
If you have a 748/9**, check your bike carefully after riding over what British councils humourously refer to as "re-surfacing". Where they put down lots of loose chippings.

The chipping fly up and can rest in the recesses in the bottom yolk, next to the lock-stops. As they're tarry and sticky, they tend to stay there.

It's quite easy for them to jam in there against the lock-stop, so that the normal "limited lock" can easily become "no bloody lock at all"!

Not too funny the next time you come to a T-junction!

[Edited on 10-7-2004 by moto748]

[webbyc]

Don't follow me round Rockingham

[SSTU]

BDG
Yes I live in Eccles and use that stretch there are only two cameras both at the same spot on opisite carrage ways.

[BDG]

Originally posted by Redruth
Never nod at courriers. They are a miserable bunch of gits when they're riding, and then they expect you to smile sweetly at them when you're signing for their package Any courriers in this club? Ooops

Thanks Ruth. Its not often i get called a miserable git, must remember to smile more often.



[Edited on 11-7-2004 by BDG]

[Guido]

Look where you want to go, not where you are going..........

Basically put...look thru the corner not into in it....Free's up so much more time to you