Do we ever learn?

Originally Posted by northwind

Winter riding teaches you skills you never pick up in the summer... On a hot day with good visibility you can throw it around like a madman, brake heavily into corners, hammer it back out... But riding on unpredictable slippy surfaces makes you work on smoothness, on preserving speed rather than brake-throttle-brake, and on surface observation... Or at least, that's how it seems to me, this far into my first summer on a real bike.

good point.

On my way home yesterday in my truck, I had to divert off the motorway because the A50 was closed due to an accident. I came off the M1 and was heading towards Coalville and Ashby. I came round a roundabout and nearly ended up going from whence I came

I was so bloody mad that the road was in such a state, I called the police and reported it, He said what do you expect us to do about it, Its Christmas and its icy,

The temperature was above 10 degrees and it was diesel not ice.

Go steady out there, the coppers dont care either

[northwind]

Earlier this year my mate binned his Vespa on a really big diesel spill, phoned the council to clear it but 3 days later, they'd not bothered to do anything about it... So he got a can of spray paint, circled the spill and sprayed "WARNING DIESEL!" in the road before it. Lo and behold, the council came along the next day and cleared off the paint and left most of the spill...