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oldbloke at 09:34am on 01/05/2008
oldbloke at 09:34am on 01/05/2008Yesterday I got up to level 9 as per, saw a space, started to turn into it.
I had the revs a bit low and was slightly late feathering the clutch, and the engine died.
Hey, I thought, it's only 3 yards, I'll coast it in.
Except, with no engine, there's no power steering.
Jeez that thing gets heavy real fast!
I gave up with a yard to go and restarted it!
This morning, I came up the ramp from level 1 to 2, and had to stop to avoid a woman crouched directly in my path a few yards from the top of the ramp. She was fiddling with a bag, dropped something I guess. She got out of the way quickly, but when one of your sad life's small pleasures is whacking round those ramps in 2nd just to prove you can, you don't really want to see somebody suddenly appear a fathom or so in front of you.
I had the revs a bit low and was slightly late feathering the clutch, and the engine died.
Hey, I thought, it's only 3 yards, I'll coast it in.
Except, with no engine, there's no power steering.
Jeez that thing gets heavy real fast!
I gave up with a yard to go and restarted it!
This morning, I came up the ramp from level 1 to 2, and had to stop to avoid a woman crouched directly in my path a few yards from the top of the ramp. She was fiddling with a bag, dropped something I guess. She got out of the way quickly, but when one of your sad life's small pleasures is whacking round those ramps in 2nd just to prove you can, you don't really want to see somebody suddenly appear a fathom or so in front of you.
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