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    Quote Originally Posted by jasonu View Post
    I don't remember there being a standard 5. Where I was it Form 1 followed Standard 4.
    Young fulla ay?
    Prolly never had a slide rule either!
    High miles, engine knock, rusty chrome, worn pegs...
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    Quote Originally Posted by jasonu View Post
    I don't remember there being a standard 5. Where I was it Form 1 followed Standard 4.
    Started the year as Std 5 and name changed to Form 1 by end of year, to match the Form 1 to Upper Sixth layout of the school...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Honest Andy View Post
    Young fulla ay?
    Prolly never had a slide rule either!
    Still got mine... did you ever get to use a circular slide rule?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Moi View Post
    Still got mine... did you ever get to use a circular slide rule?
    A circular one? I thought a slide rule was ATGATT ..
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    Quote Originally Posted by Moi View Post
    Started the year as Std 5 and name changed to Form 1 by end of year, to match the Form 1 to Upper Sixth layout of the school...
    I went to standard six then to a high school that started at form 3, notice I say I went there, was not well attuned to school, maths was my biggest downfall, only pi I ever knew was from the tuck shop. I used math once when asking the teacher if I could go for a piss one day and she told me not to use that word, "urinate" being the proper word to use. She said if I can use it in a sentence, then I can go. So I with my math skill told here "Well miss your an eight, but the physed teacher is a ten, ...much nicer tits.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Moi View Post
    Still got mine... did you ever get to use a circular slide rule?
    Nope. I must've been sick the day they did maths
    High miles, engine knock, rusty chrome, worn pegs...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Moi View Post
    When I first learnt to calculate the area of a circle or part thereof, probably in Std 5 [remember those days?] we used "three and one seventh" as Pi or "twentytwo over seven"... then in Form 3 we got to use 3. 1415 and had to learn to use log tables...
    easiest way is the same way I always use to calculate ccs
    Bore x bore .7854 x by stroke /1000 and you have CCs rather than litters.
    no need to half the bore to get diameter etc then.
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    Quote Originally Posted by jasonu View Post
    I don't remember there being a standard 5. Where I was it Form 1 followed Standard 4.
    You never went to Standard Five? That explains a lot ..
    "So if you meet me, have some sympathy, have some courtesy, have some taste ..."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Banditbandit View Post
    You never went to Standard Five? That explains a lot ..
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_NG1yXT6QY

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    Quote Originally Posted by lowededwookie View Post
    Because on a bike far left is a dumb spot. Keeping just left of the centre line allows you to see right down the road although the safer spot is in the righthand wheel track.

    On the left you can't see squat if there are vehicles in front of you. Sure ride there if you're in a group and riding staggered but the first rider should be the one with all the visibility because he's setting the pace.

    It seems to me the original poster may not have been riding staggered and may also be the sort of person who passes on blind corners which is the dumbest idea in all of humanity.

    although the safer spot is in the righthand wheel track ? bollocks the safest place to ride is where you can see the drivers face in their wing mirror at least you can assume they might have seen you also give you a line if the brake

    40 years of riding here
    i enjoy seeing a bike in the distance catching up waiting for a moment so they know you are there and then twisting throttle i aint going to wait till they move they are in the front the onus is on you to pass safely
    same applies if a bike comes up to me i aint moving or changing the way im riding to accomodate them

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    Quote Originally Posted by jimichelle View Post
    at least you can assume they might have seen you also give you a line if the brake
    The only assumption a biker should ever make is all other drivers are fuckwits and are out to get you.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jimichelle View Post
    same applies if a bike comes up to me i aint moving or changing the way im riding to accomodate them
    Thanks heaps. Glad to know that there are such courteous people out there.

    Do you have a caravan by any chance?

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