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- BMW Motorrad is the motorcycle business unit of the German company BMW, part of its Corporate and Brand Development division. The current General Director of the unit is Hendrik von Kuenheim.
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BMW D1 RHO & Mercedes B4 ARD
Queuing has often been seen as a special gift of the British - fair, functional and a bit dull. Learning the importance of waiting your turn is also an integral part of parental discipline and from a young age most of us are taught to queue for the same reason we are taught to share – it’s about respect, good manners and showing a level of growing maturity.Queuing skills are passed down from generation to generation – a baton of good manners that is inherent within us as a nation. It’s also not something we really ever question either, it’s simply accepted as a prerequisite in terms of social skills. So what goes wrong on the A538 in the tunnels under Manchester Airport’s runways between Wilmslow and Junction 6 of the M56 motorway? Here, civilisation has broken down. I’ll bet 99% or more of people driving through the tunnels at 8.30 on a Monday morning are regular commuters. They know the road opens into a dual carriageway with 50mph speed limit for the short distance under the two runways only for the two lanes to reconverge on the other side. So when the rush hour is at its peak, the traffic builds back into a longer and longer queue from where it meets the M56 junction up ahead. This quickly builds back to the tunnels and traffic coming from Wilmslow soon spots the bright glare of red brake lights burning ahead in the tunnels. In no time the queue forming in the left lane emerges into a line of stationary vehicles. It’s a queue. You have to be stupid not to recognise it as a queue. Now, I wish to explain to drivers, such as the one in the white BMW D1 RHO, who has just passed a line of 400 yards of patient drivers that, along with all the others in the left lane, I am not some lower species of human because I am so stupid I haven’t realised there is a spare lane on the right (I’m not normally a slow driver either as I know what it was to drive a Ferrari 599 GTO and a Ford Focus rally car in the previous week too). And I’m not ‘hiding’ in the left lane because I want any excuse I can get to be late for work. In fact I want to get to work and I want to get there as quickly as possible; Probably just like Mr D1 RHO. Queuing is not my idea of fun and I would rather not be doing it. But I do it out of respect to the others who in a civilised world consider it fair to let those who arrived first go first. We form queues in shops and any other place where numbers of people assemble to do the same thing at the same time. We could all choose to fight it out at the tunnel entrance, but who knows, Mr D1 RHO might lose out. Jump the queue and you can bet someone bigger than you might decide to remind you what respect is. Did you know that when they cone off one of the lanes for repairs that in fact the traffic flows through the tunnel quicker when there isn’t the stop start, push shove brawl as left laners don’t let rightlaners back in line, and then some rightlaner insists on driving parallel to the leftlaner all the way up the middle of the once-again two way road in some maniacal deathrace to get ahead of the other car? Hmmm? So why do people think that when they are in their tin box the need for queuing is any different to lining up in a shop to get to the till? It isn’t. What happens in the tunnels under the runways at Manchester airport is that a queue forms in the left lane. The right lane is only used by queue jumpers who fully deserve the resentment and occasional road-rage they cause by ignoring all standards of politeness, decency, respect and civility. We all want to get somewhere without delay or stress. You stressed out rightlaners, come join us on the left. You’ll find you’re with a much nicer class of human.
Manual Gearbox
Peter very kindly donated his spare manual ZF box to my cause on a try before you buy basis. Neither of us can figure out its provenance. Peter bought it as a 328 E36 box from an M52 engine but the ZF casting numbers don't bear any relationship to BMW part numbers. It definitely fits my M50B25 engine and if it is a 328 box then all the forums suggest this is an even better match than the original one in terms of ratios for better acceleration. As top speed in a kit car is limited by the neck muscles and wind chill factor anyway, this is a good thing. The reason it is so shiny is that it rolled on its back in Peter's boot and unfortunatly leaked oil everywhere through the top vent. Easy enough to clean off, whether the same can be said for boot carpet I'm not sure?
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