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What is with these crappy fibreglass boxes on wheels?
Everytime the weather improves these folk who are to cheap to pay for a B&B hit the roads.
It's the next step up from those of us who use tents and are too cheap to pay for b&b.
But seeing as you reckon they're TOO CHEAP TO PAY FOR B&B.... GO CARAVANERS!!!
You sir, are a SNOB.
You sir, are a SNOB.
I resemble that remark :takeabow:
pikeys. . .
Pikeys... they STEAL everything they get.... i.e. they nick phone cables from paying houses so they can phone free of charge... ETC.
Now... as far as I'm aware... people going on thier 'CHEAP' holidays pay for birth, electicity/water/gas/etc at the camp site...
As well as ROAD TAX, which.. forgive me if I'm wrong... PIKEYS DON'T.
Bikeage, you utter utter utter utter utter UTTER, UTTER SNOB. :lol: ;)
(stirrer)
pikeys. . .
Pikeys... they STEAL everything they get.... i.e. they nick phone cables from paying houses so they can phone free of charge... ETC.
Now... as far as I'm aware... people going on thier 'CHEAP' holidays pay for birth, electicity/water/gas/etc at the camp site...
As well as ROAD TAX, which.. forgive me if I'm wrong... PIKEYS DON'T.
Bikeage, you utter utter utter utter utter UTTER, UTTER SNOB. :lol: ;)
(stirrer)
snob off :)
timwilky
30-04-06, 06:27 AM
Sorry I am with Top Gear on this issue. Only fit for use as a backstop for jet powered dragsters or a game of caravan conkers.
Caravans are a menace and should be banned from the roads like in Monaco.
They are pulled by unqualified drivers, in underpowered vehicles, they are inherantly unstable. They lack any form of safety inspection regime. generally their tyres are perished, brakes siezed. They cause cage drivers miles of misery every summer which is then impacted upon bikers as the cagers then take stupid risks just to get past the 5 mile queue of caravans overtaking each other with a 3mph speed differential
If you must sleep in a plastic box on wheels buy, a static one. Otherwise book into a hotel you closet pikey.
mysteryjimbo
30-04-06, 07:36 AM
Now... as far as I'm aware... people going on thier 'CHEAP' holidays pay for birth, electicity/water/gas/etc at the camp site...
:shock:
What is with these crappy fibreglass boxes on wheels?
Everytime the weather improves these folk who are to cheap to pay for a B&B hit the roads.
Have you seen how much them buggers cost? I'd rather have a B&B, it'll be cheaper!
Dan
GSXR Carlos
30-04-06, 09:13 AM
i thoink they're 8) but not when they're in my way, we've got one and its great :lol:
tomjones2
30-04-06, 10:35 AM
What is with these crappy fibreglass boxes on wheels?
Everytime the weather improves these folk who are to cheap to pay for a B&B hit the roads.
Have you seen how much them buggers cost? I'd rather have a B&B, it'll be cheaper!
Dan
Yeah there really expensive, can see how they are uselessfull but when you get stuck behind one on a mountain road in a car :x :x. Though have to agree, far to many are towed behind underpower, overloaded cars. Watching them wobble down the m-way is horrible.
I used to own a caravan and use if for work.
My job used to take me all over the country and taking the caravan was by far cheaper than paying for B&B all the time. When the Mrs came to to stay it didn't cost me anything more either. :thumbsup:
i thoink they're 8) but not when they're in my way, we've got one and its great :lol:
Do you live it it full time?
i thoink they're 8) but not when they're in my way, we've got one and its great :lol:
Do you live it it full time?
And where do you keep the "dags".....
GSXR Carlos
30-04-06, 04:01 PM
i thoink they're 8) but not when they're in my way, we've got one and its great :lol:
Do you live it it full time?
And where do you keep the "dags".....
nope, it lives at my Gran's not used it in years :lol:
what are "dags"?
i thoink they're 8) but not when they're in my way, we've got one and its great :lol:
Do you live it it full time?
And where do you keep the "dags".....
nope, it lives at my Gran's not used it in years :lol:
what are "dags"?
Watch the film "Snatch"
Jelster
30-04-06, 06:33 PM
i thoink they're 8) but not when they're in my way, we've got one and its great :lol:
Do you live it it full time?
And where do you keep the "dags".....
nope, it lives at my Gran's not used it in years :lol:
what are "dags"?
Watch the film "Snatch"
Cuppa tar anyone :lol:
caravan stock car racing. i love watchin em gettin smashed to pieces :twisted:
muha muhahaaa :twisted: :twisted:
Weekend gypseies should only be allowed to travel at night between the hours of 12.00am to 4.00 am!!!!!!! :lol: :lol:
Weekend gypseies should only be allowed to travel at night between the hours of 12.00am to 4.00 am!!!!!!! :lol: :lol:
NO !!! thats when the roads are empty and us nocturnal insomniacs get our street GP sessions in.
they should only be allowed out during the hours of 0800 and 0815, and must only use motorways.
I have to admit, much as I also hate caravans on the roads (for the aforementioned reasons of underpowered cars etc) I did love going for holidays in them as a kid.
My parents were both teachers, so come the school holidays we were rarely at home. They could still do work, marking etc as if they were at home and my brother and I got to see so much of this country that we would otherwise have missed.
Yorkshire, Derbyshire, the Pennines, Devon and Cornwall were favourites.
It's one of the things I'll give my Dad credit for, he sure could drive well when towing the van. I remember seeing him reverse and park the huge thing on the spot with the minimum of fuss.
If I had the chance I'd like to have a camper van - with a trailer for the bike on the back.
I do agree that most drivers don't know how to tow something that big safely. But isn't it something extra on your test or something now? Or is it missing from a basic licence or summat?
I just remember someone saying they couldn't take my trailer to an event once when I couldn't go because their licence didn't cover it. :?
Personally I think you should have to pass a test before being allowed to tow anything that's too big to move by hand - so anything over the size of one of those little trailers you can buy in Halfords.
Horse boxes, Caravans, they should require some kind of competence test.
ArtyLady
30-04-06, 10:06 PM
If you passed your test over 100 years ago like I did then you automatically have a trailer licence and up to - I think but dont quote me - a 7.5 tonne lorry.
Ive towed caravans (hated it - unstable things) and I used to drive a horse box but now I believe you have to take a separate test.
I really like camper vans too Kate Ive always wanted one but OH says they go to slow :?
valleyboy
30-04-06, 10:10 PM
Camper vans are too slow... been stuck behind 2 of the critters on the A40 pulling my hair out.. as what are usualy brilliant roads turn into a swear fest as somethings trundling along at 30 mph in a 60 holds up several cars and makes things worse... :lol:
My parents were into the caravan thing when I was younger.. I HATED it with vengance! when your from a family of 6... with a 5 berth caravan... there isnt enough room! even with the awning on.... :lol:
If you passed your test over 100 years ago like I did then you automatically have a trailer licence and up to - I think but dont quote me - a 7.5 tonne lorry.
A have a licence to drive an articulated truck, but have never even sat in the cab of one. Go figure. :lol:
ArtyLady
30-04-06, 10:14 PM
If you passed your test over 100 years ago like I did then you automatically have a trailer licence and up to - I think but dont quote me - a 7.5 tonne lorry.
A have a licence to drive an articulated truck, but have never even sat in the cab of one. Go figure. :lol:
surely you had to take a test though? so you must have sat in one :?
whats worse than caravans are them things. there like supercaravans.
there the ones that are permanently stuck in caravan homes, like a house on wheels,
they take up 2 lanes of dual carageway and cog it up doing 20mph,
had to end up overtaking one in a lay by. (i wasnt gonna stay on the A303 for 150 miles behind one of em. )
If you passed your test over 100 years ago like I did then you automatically have a trailer licence and up to - I think but dont quote me - a 7.5 tonne lorry.
A have a licence to drive an articulated truck, but have never even sat in the cab of one. Go figure. :lol:
surely you had to take a test though? so you must have sat in one :?
I took and passed my C+E but not in an artic. I drove a rigid with a draw bar trailor. :wink: I have to be honest, if I ever had to actually drive one, I think I would poop myself. :lol:
ArtyLady
30-04-06, 10:25 PM
If you passed your test over 100 years ago like I did then you automatically have a trailer licence and up to - I think but dont quote me - a 7.5 tonne lorry.
A have a licence to drive an articulated truck, but have never even sat in the cab of one. Go figure. :lol:
surely you had to take a test though? so you must have sat in one :?
I took and passed my C+E but not in an artic. I drove a rigid with a draw bar trailor. :wink: I have to be honest, if I ever had to actually drive one, I think I would poop myself. :lol:
TBH I used to poop myself driving the horse box even though I did it for quite a few years - especially if the horses started kicking and getting jumpy :roll: :)
Caravans.
The coolest things on 2 wheels.
Anonymous
02-05-06, 03:25 PM
Sorry I am with Top Gear on this issue. Only fit for use as a backstop for jet powered dragsters or a game of caravan conkers.
Caravans are a menace and should be banned from the roads like in Monaco.
They are pulled by unqualified drivers, in underpowered vehicles, they are inherantly unstable. They lack any form of safety inspection regime. generally their tyres are perished, brakes siezed. They cause cage drivers miles of misery every summer which is then impacted upon bikers as the cagers then take stupid risks just to get past the 5 mile queue of caravans overtaking each other with a 3mph speed differential
If you must sleep in a plastic box on wheels buy, a static one. Otherwise book into a hotel you closet pikey.
:winner:
:notworthy: :takeabow:
Now... as far as I'm aware... people going on thier 'CHEAP' holidays pay for birth, electicity/water/gas/etc at the camp site...
:shock:
(Think he means berth..) Or did you know that..
Im in the pro caravan brigade im afraid, although not when im stuck behind one.
Loved going in them as a kid - Just to have somewhere familiar to come back to at the end of the day and you can do it how you like and go when and where you want. However i have seen people driving them who shouldnt be and not using stuff like stabiliser bars/towing mirrors etc.
My ex hubby n his g/f actually LIVE in a caravan!
I know... Why???
They're tiny!
They got no storage space!
Not even big enough to swing your arm let alone a cat!!
And they pay an extra £4000 per year SITE FEES!
Woohoo! Bargain at half the price.........!
NOT
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