Seperation Of The Siamese Twins

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/PLNMqvmycN/conjoined-twins
a magnificent achievement by the NHS surgeons. As recent customer myself I am eternally grateful to our civilised approach to health care. Well done.

[Cloverjo]

Funny how you build up a mental picture of people on here. I didn’t have you down as a biker, TTT.

[twix123]

Glad both the twins and you came out OK 3T.

Anti-clockwise Junction 5 of the M25 is a nightmare as drivers jockey to get into the correct lanes, usually at the last minute, for either the Dartford Tunnel (M25) or the Channel Tunnel (M26) ! Which hospital patched you up (Darent Valley being the nearest - although the worst cases are helicoptered directly to one of the London hospitals) ?

[murraymints]

TTT..EEK....hope you look better than your bike..take care xx
The twins are separated..but...it does not bode that well...poor wee things

[ToraToraTora]

MM: "hope you look better than your bike." - marginal minty! thanks for your concern.

[Sqad]

TTT may I tell you a story?

[ToraToraTora]

hang on, Max Bygraves is among us, go on sqad, convince me of the Spanish Health system....

[Sqad]

1953..my first year at med school, a 5th year student was selling a BSA Bantam 125 ccs for £10.
I asked for a trial run and i left him outside the then London Hospital whilst I disappeared down the Whitechapel road to give it a spin. grays Inn road I stopped at the traffic light on the inside of a bloody great container lorry. Lights turned green and the lorry turned left and i just had time to jump off the bike onto the pavement as the BSA was crumbled under the wheels of the monster.
I got a tube back to Whitechapel and as i crossed the road to meet the owner, I could see his face go white as he mouthed...."tell me everything is fine"
I replied it is in a mangled heap near King's Cross Station.
Just a smile for the day TTT

[Cloverjo]

Blimey! Glad you escaped unscathed, Sqad.

[ToraToraTora]

wow sqad, did that put you off biking from then on? I've been a biker my whole life, illegally at first from 15 years old, I've had a few spills on the road and track but nothing like last Saturday. I feel pretty beaten up both physically and mentally. Without my top quality gear I've no doubt I'd be brown bread. The police told me they thought initially they were attending a fatality. Probably hang up my lid after this one.

[Calicogirl]

Glad you're okay TTT- don't be hasty about hanging up your lid yet though, maybe get a slightly smaller bike and just use it on high holy days for pleasure rides and not your general day to day. x

[Sqad]

TTT...I first learned to "bike" at 15 yrs old like you, on an O.K Supreme (bet you have never heard of it )...and after my dalliance in Grays Inn Road, I couldn't afford a bike anyway.
I would thimb a lift home down the A1 and past the Velocette factory Nr Hitchin and one time hitched a lift on one of the bikes being tested...that was pretty scary. But a mate of mine , had an all singing, all dancing BSA Golden Flash......but myself i could never affored a motorbike.

[ToraToraTora]

I've had a few odd bikes myself, PUCH 200( I think) ! and CZ 175, the latter was an eastern bloc basic bike with the gears upside down, still I liked it, wish I still had it now. My Kiwi mate had a KTT velocette.

[ToraToraTora]

calico, thanks, I think I might get a classic old bike and potter about the local gatherings. There are a few round here.