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Please behave yourselves. I appreciate that in this damp weather you're probably bored and think that you have nothing else to do than partake in virtual handbags.

If you want to wind each other up, please swap email/phone numbers and do it privately. I'm sure that the vast majority of HUBB visitors would prefer not have to read your nonsense in order to get to stuff that interests them.
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Seein' as you've asked nicely Chris, I will behave! ( Just) ......

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My other ride.......ing in the rain....
My other ride's a 6200 HP Tug and Barge working on the East coast and Gulf of Mexico of the U.S........ When it starts raining or when the weather gets really nasty (Like when my coffee cup goes airbourne and ricochets around the wheelhouse kinda nasty), the song of choice is Robert Cray's "The Forecast calls for Pain".....(I would have enclosed a photo for all you landlubbers out there but I haven't mastered the resizing and sending "thing" yet).

While I'm at it, I repowered my riding lawnmower with a Harley engine two summers ago. It still cut grass O.K. but now it scares the hell out of the neighbors dog and it doesn't turn very well anymore??? Maybe I should get a couple of goats?????
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Riding in heavy rain, though unpleasant, is less worrying than a light rain which raises the oil and grease from the tarmac, making the surface really treacherous. I've been off a couple of times on this.

Heavy rain carries away all this stuff, though aquaplaning etc is a problem, and being blinded by truckspray, which sometimes is terrifying.

In heavy rain, I get off motorways because of spray. Lesser roads mean less speed which I find safer.
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Riding in heavy rain, though unpleasant, is less worrying than a light rain which raises the oil and grease from the tarmac, making the surface really treacherous. I've been off a couple of times on this.

Heavy rain carries away all this stuff, though aquaplaning etc is a problem, and being blinded by truckspray, which sometimes is terrifying.

In heavy rain, I get off motorways because of spray. Lesser roads mean less speed which I find safer.
Your Both right & Wrong Cammy. Your Especially Correct on the last bit about getting off the Motorways! Trucks and Sidespray is no fun!

It is the First Few Minutes of rain after a Dry Spell that raises the oils & greases to the surface of the road, it will happen, Light or Heavy rain, same difference.
The only difference is, the heavier the rain, the faster it washes away.

That is why here in Spain car crashes are GUARANTEED on most roads whenever it rains, Drivers here have'nt learnt yet that you wait half an hour or so for the grease to get washed away, and another hour or two for the Tow trucks to remove the Carnage!

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That is why here in Spain car crashes are GUARANTEED on most roads whenever it rains, Drivers here have'nt learnt yet that you wait half an hour or so for the grease to get washed away, and another hour or two for the Tow trucks to remove the Carnage!

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You are right there Martyn.......
On the sublect of Spanish drivers it kills me(not literally...at least not yet)the way some of them leave it until the very very very last moment before taking the slip road from motorways from the fast lane.
Bless their little cotton socks....the ****ing arseholes!
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".....(I would have enclosed a photo for all you landlubbers out there but I haven't mastered the resizing and sending "thing" yet).
Hi Smitty,
Some time ago, another guy on here told me about "irfanview" - its a free bit of software that will do that re-sizing thing, but not automatically - you still have to play around with it a bit.
It's spelt out in another thread in here if you fancy searching for it; since then, this computer dinosaur has found that Microsoft can do the same sort of thing with pics, as can just about all of the range of picture editing software. Again, there's information in the other threads.
So, a pic of your "other highway" would be good - more pics the better in this website, to break up the reams of type, but Grant may not like that too much!!
Bandwidth, bandwidth and more of the same.


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