Posted by James Marriott on September 6, 2011 under Morotoring, Real Life, Traffic |
We’re all equal. Just some of us are more equal than others.
For at least as long as I have been riding bikes (at time of writing some 18 years), and maybe I was aware of this even before I was riding bikes, there has existed a “them and us” mentality between non-motorcycle-owning-car drivers and … Read the rest
Posted by James Marriott on March 16, 2010 under Morotoring, Traffic |
Now that you can download satellite navigation (sat nav) applications to phones such as the T-Mobile G2 (aka HTC Hero), the makers of in-car satnav products need to come up with something new and better to ensure that we keep forking out the £100′s on their products.
By a huge margin, TomTom are … Read the rest
Posted by James Marriott on March 8, 2009 under Personal, Traffic |
I came across this on MySpace and thought it was so good that I’m going to quote it here. Written by (or at least, posted by) someone called Billie Williams and it makes me cry every time I read it.
"I saw you, but you didn’t see me.
I saw you hug your purse closer … Read the rest
Posted by James Marriott on March 4, 2009 under Morotoring |
Honda make what I consider to be the finest piece of motorcycle technology ever created, the CBR1000RR Fireblade. This bike started out back in about 92 as the CBR900RR. The bike that finally stole the number 1 spot away from my beloved Yamaha FZR1000.
Since that time we have seen manufacturers developing machines that are … Read the rest
Posted by James Marriott on February 1, 2007 under Out and About, Traffic |
Am I really the only person who has noticed this? Lorries overtaking one another cause unnecessary traffic jams. Next time you’re travelling along a fast road during rush hour and you come across a lorry overtaking another (usually just as the road starts to climb), watch how quickly traffic builds up behind it. Why do … Read the rest