"A health and wellbeing warning for BMW R1200 riders..." thread in "Motorbike Chat"
Good save! Anyway what do ya mean you were cold, could you not just go a bit closer to your flaming bike to keep warm? ...

Good save! Anyway what do ya mean you were cold, could you not just go a bit closer to your flaming bike to keep warm?

Knowledge stored in memory banks for future reference (hopefully).

NOW you tell me, just AFTER I started writing my reply!

Well saved mate! Blimey.
Bet you got some funny looks from passing motorists...

Surely he is used to them?

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Dear me. that sounds just too much fun and to think I was looking at one of those and thinking of it in a sort of "next bike" perhaps way... I'll stick with drooling on Trog's Griso instead. Good that you got off lightly and saved a potentially nasty situation.

It's a conspiracy by senior, budget holding management. As far as they're concerned, bikes are far too expensive to run, crash too often and all the police riders have constant grins on their faces. On top of that there's the endless "training" weeks / months where plod get to hoon around the country on someone else's bike.

So far the dark powers at work within headquarters have been lucky that their unsanctioned sabotage has only killed one or two riders and they've been able to cover that up. How many more fatalities will it take before the truth comes out?

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Formerly known as Mikey

Go and read upon hydrofluoric acid

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Glad to hear you got off the bike ok

Why cant they make a honda to suit the job ?

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Bikes for kids needs 2 more tandems pm me if you can help

Are you suggesting Mr Dazzle is wrong?

Sounds about right to me, from school chemistry lessons many moons ago.

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MC011

From Hydrofluoric acid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

...Hydrofluoric acid is corrosive and a contact poison. It should be handled with extreme care, beyond that accorded to other mineral acids, in part because of its low dissociation constant, which allows HF to penetrate tissue more quickly. Symptoms of exposure to hydrofluoric acid may not be immediately evident. HF interferes with nerve function and burns may not initially be painful. Accidental exposures can go unnoticed, delaying treatment and increasing the extent and seriousness of the injury. HF is known to etch bone, and since it penetrates the skin it can weaken bones without destroying the skin....

Unless you were refering to my 'Hydroflouric acid', which is presumably made from wheat.

Try and find some second hand 1100 Pans? I'm going to be speaking to our tech people later, and possibly BMW themselves. I'm hardly over enamoured with the 1200 as it is, especially as we've already had people left stranded all over the place due to the ignition key deciding it wants to reprogramme it's immobiliser chip at random. In addition there have been issues regarding what fuel we can use in them. The bikes are supposed to be run on 97 RON unleaded, but we held stocks only of diesel and 95 RON unleaded. Initially we were told by BMW that they would be fine on the 95 RON, but then a couple of bikes went pop and we had to revert to 97 RON purchased from public filling stations. Now the bikes have apparently been remapped to run on 95 RON.

The fire itself was quite minor and confined to the engine, and was the rather less worrying aspect of the incident. It actually managed to burn itself out before the brigade turned up, not all that surprising as they were coming from 18 bloody miles away and had to carry on past me for another six miles to get to the next junction so they could turn around and come another six miles back.

How's that work then?

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MC011

Shh, I'm tired and grumpy

Bloody hell chuck, glad you're ok and didn't come off - scary stuff!!

Blimey - sounds like you were lucky

Glad you're o.k.