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Old 07-25-2011, 04:18 PM
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Rolling round the tight entry slip road onto the M2, the sun just having rolled past the horizon and the moon rising in my rear view I just couldn't resist a crazy right hand moment. Yep, a great **** on the hard shoulder. Ya shoulda seen the looks on the faces of the commuters........
Just kidding.
Back to the plot.
Not much on the road, bike running like a factory special so WTF... crank it up!
It's 12 miles between junctions. I covered the distance in 4.5 minutes. 2.6 MPM.
You can do the math to find out the average speed. I'm not saying but it was bloody exciting!
Anyway, here's the scary ****. When I got home I found that two of the 8 cans of beer in my top box had burst, quite violently. Like they'd been shot with a gun from the inside. No sharp objects in the box? Nope, they were well protected by other stuff, and bottles of wine, and other stuff.
Everything was wet in there. I had to get some willow branches from a nearby tree and beat the **** out of the damned bike for breaking my beer. Basil Faulty style. You bastard!!!!!!
Anyone got any ideas on this. It's bloody outrageous.
I put it down to low pressure in the box due to prolonged high speed but if I don't get an answer, and a ****ing refund soon I'm going to write to my MP about it. I demand action, some kind of oxygen tent over the motorway, a police escort.... anything but my beer exploding.
It could however have been small flies entering my luggage at light speed, photon stylee...... but we'll have to wait for Classic's take on that, he being the expert.....
 
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Old 07-25-2011, 04:23 PM
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Have you no shame ????

What a terrible waste of perfectly good beer !

I think you are on to something with the photon type explanation..... 7th dimension or
maybe a "black hole" ???
 

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Old 07-25-2011, 04:39 PM
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Lets see you cover 12 miles in 4.5 minutes with some great bloody pom on your back and half a bottle shop in your bum, I bet you'd sneak a couple beers for yourself on the way too. Just sayin....
 
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Bloody tragedy! Probably gonna keep me awake tonight...
 
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Old 07-26-2011, 01:15 AM
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Jesus Steve-o, I knew you'd start nailing this catastrophe in an instant and you ain't let me down..... no sireee!
All I can say right now is that you're right, I didn't reach the CBRF speed of light and that was due to the drag of the top box in the wind. Just took the top end off at WOT. Probably the only thing that stopped me being at home to greet myself as I buried the front wheel into the driveway on deceleration.
I guess in future I could strap the beer and wine to my body like a suicide vest and ditch the box. I dunno....what if the cans still explode? I might spark a terrorist alert, return home to find armed police surrounding my fridge.
Tsk, the whole thing's really got me quite flustered.
I think you're right. A trip to the Hadron collider is in order to put this thing to bed once and for all.
Anyway, I got to thank all of you guys for your concern and sympathy, it's so touching.
I've cried, believe me.... real big tears.
 
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Old 07-26-2011, 03:23 AM
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Vibration took your beer, our 'Enry - no matter how well you protect it, the vibration in a top box would keep any woman happy ! but it isn't good for beer, or any fizzy drinks especially at speed like OMG - HOW FAST did you say ?
I had a 2 litre coke do it once - gee what a MESS !!!
It's worse if your beer/coke etc is warm to start with.....................
BLOODY WASTE OF GOOD ALE imo
 
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Old 07-26-2011, 03:54 AM
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Originally Posted by Shadow
Vibration took your beer,...................
BLOODY WASTE OF GOOD ALE imo
Have any of you guys ever played "The Beer Hunter"?
 
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Old 07-26-2011, 04:00 AM
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Originally Posted by HenryM
Jesus Steve-o, I knew you'd start nailing this catastrophe in an instant and you ain't let me down..... no sireee!
All I can say right now is that you're right, I didn't reach the CBRF speed of light and that was due to the drag of the top box in the wind. Just took the top end off at WOT. Probably the only thing that stopped me being at home to greet myself as I buried the front wheel into the driveway on deceleration.
I guess in future I could strap the beer and wine to my body like a suicide vest and ditch the box. I dunno....what if the cans still explode? I might spark a terrorist alert, return home to find armed police surrounding my fridge.
Tsk, the whole thing's really got me quite flustered.
I think you're right. A trip to the Hadron collider is in order to put this thing to bed once and for all.
Anyway, I got to thank all of you guys for your concern and sympathy, it's so touching.
I've cried, believe me.... real big tears.


The moral really is that a person has to keep a sufficient float of beer in the fridge, just in case the trip home wrecks a couple!
 
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Old 07-26-2011, 10:58 AM
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You need to get one of these 'Our Enry'




That way you can keep an eye on 'em, and make sure you don't have any more casualties!!
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