Out and About on your Laverda.No bull,Just photos

In some places in the world that is a real version of Quick Sand, it's not like in the Movies where you sink till it's over your head. In big tidal flows, people get stuck on the mud flats, it doesn't take much. Just up to your knees and when the tide comes in you drown. Local rescue teams have a strategy where they pump water into the mud you are stuck in making it more sloppy so you can break the suction, which is really time-critical with a fast-approaching tide. I once got my dirtbike stuck in wet sand on a creek bed, the more I dug the deeper it got. Bloody hard work breaking that suction. The wildest ground I ever rode over was a valley that had a Piet Bog in it, it was okay if you didn't break the surface. The odd thing was you could cause it to bounce and ripple with your foot like a trampoline. Brake the crusty surface and it was wet sloppy mulch and stunk really badly.
 
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Vince said:
In some places in the world that is a real version of Quick Sand, it's not like in the Movies where you sink till it's over your head. In big tidal flows, people get stuck on the mud flats, it doesn't take much. Just up to your knees and when the tide comes in you drown. Local rescue teams have a strategy where they pump water into the mud you are stuck in making it more sloppy so you can break the suction, which is really time-critical with a fast-approaching tide. I once got my dirtbike stuck in wet sand on a creek bed, the more I dug the deeper it got. Bloody hard work breaking that suction. The wildest ground I ever rode over was a valley that had a Piet Bog in it, it was okay if you didn't break the surface. The odd thing was you could cause it to bounce and ripple with your foot like a trampoline. Brake the crusty surface and it was wet sloppy mulch and stunk really badly.
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Plenty of that over here.
Local rescuers have helicopters.
Paul
 
The Sock said:
It belongs to an ex-chairman of ILOC, Adrian O'Meara. He only lives round the corner, from the venue.

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Photgraphed beside a Chott chopper, outside Ricardo Oro's, in 1980.
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It's a shame he had disappeared by the time I had negotiated my way through the umpteen mile tailback on the M25 to get past the A3 junction, as I haven't seen him in years and it would have been good to have a chat as I like EVies. (y)
 
Andy J said:
It's a shame he had disappeared by the time I had negotiated my way through the umpteen mile tailback on the M25 to get past the A3 junction, as I haven't seen him in years and it would have been good to have a chat as I like EVies. (y)
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He was sampling his own 75th Anniversary Celebrations, with the family, hence his early departure, Andy.
 
Summer coming to an end here in Western Canada. This shot is the local arcade now closed until next summer. Spent my allowance here on pinball games and the digger. That's the little crane thing you put good money into to try retrieve some junky jacknife or toy. Imagine letting kids have the chance to win a Jack knife now.20230913_150127.jpg
 
Exmoor beast said:
Is your brother in Tiverton area By any chance?-I know there’s another 1000s down there
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Exmoor beast said:
Is your brother in Tiverton area By any chance?-I know there’s another 1000s down there somewhere
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More Crediton but probably the same. Can’t be many in Devon.
Having said that.
The first bike i notice at this weekend’s gathering in Tonenburg is a 1000s.
 

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