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Continuing the everyday look at everyday objects through the camera lens\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

At about 5.45am tomorrow I will be setting out for Weybridge, the Paris of the South (as nobody every said).<\/p>\n

My first meeting is at 9am. My second starts at 12.00.<\/p>\n

The weather forecast for tomorrow is excellent, so I’m looking forward to making the trip.<\/p>\n

M1, M25, A317.<\/p>\n

It’ll be a lovely trip cutting through the sheets of traffic\u00a0on the ZX10R<\/del>.<\/p>\n

But no.<\/p>\n

I have been talked out of making the 300-mile round-trip on the Ninja.<\/p>\n

I am, honestly, disappointed I was talked out of it and glad I was talked out of it, in about equal measures.<\/p>\n

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not against long rides.<\/p>\n

When I used to hang around with OMG we’d think nothing of legging it to Wales for a cup of tea, zoom around a mountain-top or several, and then leg it back home.<\/p>\n

Or zip down to the sarf coast for a cup of tea and to look at the Southsea view and then zip back home again.<\/p>\n

And SWMBO and I are planning a round-Scotland motorbikeathon next year on our respective machines.<\/p>\n

It’s just the ‘after cutting my way through the intensely mental and overbearingly heavy southern traffic on the world’s best high-speed filtering machine, would my cuttingly incisive brain still be capable of calculating the square root of 410 to seven decimal places?’<\/p>\n

20.2484567 if you care, being expressed as:<\/p>\n

\u221a\u00a0410\u00a0 = 20.2484567<\/span>
\nThus: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a020.2484567\u00a0 x \u00a020.2484567 = 410<\/span><\/p>\n

Probably not.<\/p>\n

And indeed probably knot.<\/p>\n

So instead I am going to make the trip in a newfangled machine called a ‘car’.<\/p>\n

Apparently they’re all the rage.<\/p>\n

It’s even got an infernal<\/del> internal combustion engine, but it doesn’t deliver anywhere like the 220bhp my (recently) uprated Ninja produces.<\/p>\n

Which is a shame, obv.<\/p>\n

Also a shame is the complete lack of filterability.<\/p>\n

The thing just doesn’t filter.<\/p>\n

I’m so used to folding in my mirrors, dropping down to midrange second gear and slicing my way through traffic.<\/p>\n

But tomorrow I shan’t be doing that.<\/p>\n

I shall be sitting in a chair, listening to the wonderful Shaun Keaveney on BBC6Music.<\/p>\n

Surrounded by thousands of other motorists, whilst encased in this:<\/p>\n

\"Temporary
Temporary transport<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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