American Numpty

Self portrait?

|| I don't know, all that money on a rock-crawling machine and then || couldn't be bothered to put a return spring on the || throttle....................... || || D

Wossiss all about Dave? Post a link and put us out of our misery.

Ah yes, sorry.

Dave

|| Ah yes, sorry. || ||

I wonder if his insurance covers him for all the other buggies he modified? A similar accident at WW4x4 could cause - what - fifty quids' worth?

Seriously, it does show why all mechanisms should fail safe.

On 5 Nov 2006 05:22:43 -0800, "Dave R" scribbled the following nonsense:

at the 4 minute mark, this one is priceless....

Probably why motorsport scrutineers require 2 return springs and a cutoff switch won't stop the really determined idiot but protects the rest of us and yes I have had one spring snap. Derek

On or around Sun, 05 Nov 2006 15:16:45 +0000, Simon Isaacs enlightened us thusly:

we've had this before, but it's good:

.... and think of the fuss in this country when there's half an inch of snow on the ground.

On or around Mon, 06 Nov 2006 21:12:40 +0000, Dougal enlightened us thusly:

yeah, quite. mind, I've no idea why they don't make a bit more effort to fix it, if the road's that relevant.

Austin Shackles uttered summat worrerz funny about:

Should post it on the Ramblers association forum for them, There will be a mass exodus from the UK to Russia.... which would be different!

:-)

Lee D