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Bloody tractor drivers !!

#1 Post by Samray » Sat Mar 31, 2007 3:16 pm

One pulled out on me today. I saw him coming towards the main road from a junction on the right about 1/4 mile away and he must have seen me. :smt018
Did you know Norfolk is flat? :smt001

Anyway out he comes about 35 metres ahead of me without stopping while I was travelling at about 50. Would have been disastrous if I hadn't been in the car.

We spent the next 3 miles to the main road at 35 mph where he joined, again turning right without stopping causing the oncoming traffic to brake again. :smt013







.... and he had a pillion and luggage. :smt002
Highly Deranged TWAT !!

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#2 Post by Gio » Sat Mar 31, 2007 5:16 pm

You should have run him down. :smt003

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#3 Post by Shebee » Sun Apr 01, 2007 6:38 pm

Nod nod its silly season again, not manyof them on the 272 today though thank goodness! - well done for missing him!

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#4 Post by Kwackerz » Sun Apr 01, 2007 6:44 pm

I got sideswiped by a Massey Ferguson today up in Ely.

Luckily I was in the car and all he did was clip the already knackered wing mirror. What the hell he was doing going down the high street I'll never know.
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#5 Post by Ex » Sun Apr 01, 2007 8:47 pm

It's lambing time; they're all half asleep. Well, they are round here anyway. :smt015

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#6 Post by BikerGran » Sun Apr 01, 2007 10:00 pm

Kwackerz wrote: What the hell he was doing going down the high street I'll never know.
Mike and I went Ely when we visited the area a couple of years ago, and my first thought was - HOW did he get along the high street!!!!?!!

I'm afraid my main memory of Ely was this pub.

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This is what the note on the door said.....

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Yep, you guessed it, it was!

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#7 Post by Kwackerz » Sun Apr 01, 2007 10:08 pm

Ah, now getting down the High Street is easy enough! I was parked down the Market Square end. I just cant understand why He was going that way. The Argicultural dealer is waaaay down the bottom end of Ely and is much easier to get to if you go round the City not thru it! (probably quicker too, in a tractor!)

You dont tw*t car mirrors that way either... :smt013 :smt013


Is that the Pub by the junction at the top of town (near the Cathedral?)

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#8 Post by Gio » Sun Apr 01, 2007 10:11 pm

Good friend of mine lives in Ely, its the nearest the east side of England has to the laid back shiftless approach to life of the west country. :smt005

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#9 Post by D-Rider » Sun Apr 01, 2007 11:09 pm

With all the talk of Massey Furgusons and the like, I'm not so sure that many picked up on the explanation you added at the end of your post!

:smt003
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.... and he had a pillion and luggage. :smt002
Highly Deranged TWAT !!


Sounds like we've got a "tractor" from Milwaukee, then !
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#10 Post by Kwackerz » Sun Apr 01, 2007 11:41 pm

I chose to ignore it. :smt005 :smt005

That and I was going to start a thread about bloody Tractors anyway!!
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#11 Post by D-Rider » Sun Apr 01, 2007 11:56 pm

Kwackerz wrote:I chose to ignore it. :smt005 :smt005

That and I was going to start a thread about bloody Tractors anyway!!
Excuse accepted ..........












....... but maybe we'd better start a poll to see how many actually believe it !

:smt019


Oh OK - I do if it makes you feel better.
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Re: Bloody tractor drivers !!

#12 Post by Goldie » Mon Apr 02, 2007 12:01 am

D-Rider wrote:... I'm not so sure that many picked up on the explanation ...
C'mon Andy you don't have to explain everything to us!! :smt017 :smt003

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#13 Post by D-Rider » Mon Apr 02, 2007 12:10 am

Goldie wrote:
D-Rider wrote:... I'm not so sure that many picked up on the explanation ...
C'mon Andy you don't have to explain everything to us!! :smt017 :smt003
Sorry ! :smt053

(probably 'cos I missed it the first time I read it and then noticed that no one had mentioned anything about agricultural 2-wheelers).


:smt053 :smt053 :smt053 :smt053 :smt053

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#14 Post by Gio » Mon Apr 02, 2007 6:32 am

D-Rider wrote:
Goldie wrote:
D-Rider wrote:... I'm not so sure that many picked up on the explanation ...
C'mon Andy you don't have to explain everything to us!! :smt017 :smt003
Sorry ! :smt053

(probably 'cos I missed it the first time I read it and then noticed that no one had mentioned anything about agricultural 2-wheelers).


:smt053 :smt053 :smt053 :smt053 :smt053


But you did, you called my GS a tractor :smt005 :smt002

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#15 Post by D-Rider » Mon Apr 02, 2007 9:13 am

That was another, older, thread Gio ..... and now you've bought a Falco I can no longer try to wind you up on your choice of bikes.



..... still plenty of things to tease you with, though!
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