nevillen

nevillen

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Last night on the way back from Shepherds Bush to Pimlico I thought I would adjust the passenger mirror while I was stationary at Fulham Broadway. Not concentrating properly at all, there was an enormous crash and I realised the Rangey had 'crept' forward and run into one of those huge bell shaped bits of steel used to keep busses and trucks off of the pavement. I moved along until it was safe to stop and got out expecting to see half of the front missing, only to find that the result of the 'crash' was a scuff mark on the N/S front tyre, nothing else, tracking OK, no added noises from the front, only a chastened driver who CANNOT multi-task! I know things were helped because the vehicle is always 7.5 Cms higher than it should be because it has a lifting kit installed, but I think ihey Don't Make 'Em Like This Anymore!
 
nevillen said:
there was an enormous crash and I realised the Rangey had 'crept' forward and run into one of those huge bell shaped bits of steel used to keep busses and trucks off of the pavement.
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How was the huge bell end shaped steel thing .... ,i hope it was fine :rolleyes::D:D
 
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Last night on the way back from Shepherds Bush to Pimlico I thought I would adjust the passenger mirror while I was stationary at Fulham Broadway. Not concentrating properly at all, there was an enormous crash and I realised the Rangey had 'crept' forward and run into one of those huge bell shaped bits of steel used to keep busses and trucks off of the pavement. I moved along until it was safe to stop and got out expecting to see half of the front missing, only to find that the result of the 'crash' was a scuff mark on the N/S front tyre, nothing else, tracking OK, no added noises from the front, only a chastened driver who CANNOT multi-task! I know things were helped because the vehicle is always 7.5 Cms higher than it should be because it has a lifting kit installed, but I think ihey Don't Make 'Em Like This Anymore!
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That's a heck of a 'crept forward'. Didn't you feel her go up on the kerb?
 
No I think they are placed to cause maximum damage and are on the same level as the road, just on the corner!
 
A tol of scrap with a handy lifting eye and it is still there? Even the gypos in London must be loaded.
 
Haven’t seen one of these for years, but then I don’t drive in Fulham or anywhere else in Central London now and use the Tube :)
This one has a few scratches
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They have taken more than their fair share of front spoilers! Will be going past the one I had the encounter with tomorrow and will see how much it moved!
 
Hicap phill said:
Iv seen a few vans parked on top of these. Delivery drivers mount them.

and they don’t move when you rub these with an artic trailer :oops:
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I'm guessing they might have a central post that goes down a foot ir so in order to stop them moving.
 
The one I hit didn't, but then again there are FOUR of them on the corner of the North End Road....overkill!
 
To add to my burgeoning amount of 'council placed' obstacles struck I managed to 'inadvertantly' move a line of 'temporary' bike scaffolds that were erected supposedly only during the Covid outbreak and were due to be removed but never have. These 'obstacles' are right next to a post office which has many disabled pensioners who used to use the parking bays now occupied by the virtually unused cycles stand, strangely enough the disabled pensioners don't tend to arrive on their bicycles! Anyway, as I was parking to visit the plumbers next door to the post office I managed to 'shunt' the scaffold bay out of the way and into an unused space that had been left so no one could use it, hardly noticed the noise, didn't harm the beast and created a safer and more usable cycle rack....should I bill Westminster council for an improvement to facilities grant?
 
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