Do you remove vario panniers overnight?

[Deleted account 211025001]

Here's a tune from the Dead, who sum it all up so neatly, as a present.

I myself have stayed in Dijon on several occasions when nothing has untoward - or really anything at all, if I am truly honest - has happened. I can only hope I have not stayed in the same place as you, Andres, or I will worry about going back. I have also bought petrol at a Texaco station (aren't they all, I hear you say) to the north of the city. Nothing has happened there either. I will make sure that too is added to the list.

So appropriate and one of my fav toons too

And apologies for not answering Bear, the square to be avoided at all costs, should one have Varios fitted, is:

Place Grangier
21000 Dijon



Andres

 

[Bear]

So appropriate and one of my fav toons too

And apologies for not answering Bear, the square to be avoided at all costs, should one have Varios fitted, is:

Place Grangier
21000 Dijon



Andres

I used the underground park in Place Clemonceau for two nights, with a full set of Varios, and nothing untoward happened. Are the Varios acting as some sort of talisman or was it because the parking charges were so high that no-one else was willing to pay them?

 

[Wapping]

So appropriate and one of my fav toons too

A great tune, without a doubt. I see that the Greatful Dead have been touring again, sans GC of course, and I assume with several spare keyboard players. Fingers crossed for a European visit.

I used the underground park in Place Clemonceau for two nights, with a full set of Varios, and nothing untoward happened. Are the Varios acting as some sort of talisman or was it because the parking charges were so high that no-one else was willing to pay them?

I suspect the latter.

For the same reason that nobody ever steals the towels in very expensive hotels, nobody that can afford to use that car park will find any value in a Vario pannier. I am surprised les patrons didn't leave you money out of charity.

Next time, leave your helmet upside by you bike. 10-1 says it will be full of coins when you return.

 

[karnevil]

I suspect the latter.

For the same reason that nobody ever steals the towels in very expensive hotels, nobody that can afford to use that car park will find any value in a Vario pannier. I am surprised the les patrons didn't leave you money out of charity.

Next time, leave your helmet upside by you bike. 10-1 says it will be full of coins when you return.

Not If i see it it wont,I'd take a dump in it
How ever what with me being poor and common I'm more likley to be mooching around a Fomule1

 

[Wapping]

Not If i see it it wont,I'd take a dump in it
How ever what with me being poor and common I'm more likley to be mooching around a Fomule1

Seems our paths shall never cross then.

A Jack Russell dog once cocked its leg over and into my helmet, which was nice. A joy all through the afternoon, I can promise you.

 

[karnevil]

Seems our paths shall never cross then.

A Jack Russell dog once cocked its leg over and into my helmet, which was nice. A joy all through the afternoon, I can promise you.

Set your sites a little higher then.Formule1 let,ALMOST,anyone stay.

May be this thread will interest you then.Perhaps you will reply
Unless of course you are George

 

[STUBBS]

trick or treaters about ive taken mine off

 

[Bear]

I suspect the latter.

For the same reason that nobody ever steals the towels in very expensive hotels, nobody that can afford to use that car park will find any value in a Vario pannier. I am surprised les patrons didn't leave you money out of charity.

Next time, leave your helmet upside by you bike. 10-1 says it will be full of coins when you return.

No. There would be no money in my helmet for the same reason that my Varios were unmolested. There was no-one there to either offend or donate.

 

[Wapping]

No. There would be no money in my helmet for the same reason that my Varios were unmolested. There was no-one there to either offend or donate.

I hope you got a discount then.

 

[Bear]

I hope you got a discount then.

French ticket machines don't know what a discount is. I do wonder whether I could have wriggled the GS past the barrier without paying at all if the Varios weren't fitted at the time.

 

[Wapping]

French ticket machines don't know what a discount is. I do wonder whether I could have wriggled the GS past the barrier without paying at all if the Varios weren't fitted at the time.

Limbo!

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[Bear]

Limbo!

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There are neither Varios or what the French call a horodateur in that clip. Is Mr Hasselhoff a GS owner or is he pmerely posing?

 

[Deleted Member I]

Don't goto Naples with your 1200 .. or better still don't goto Naples.

The attached video is genuinely disturbing so don't let your kids watch it. It is from an Italian newspaper. Some cctv clip in Naples. I think it is quite recent.

Sorry Tom...Gary's right, vid os people beung executed by neing shot in the head aren't on.

Bill

 

[Wapping]

Don't goto Naples with your 1200 .. or better still don't goto Naples.

Looked like Haringey to me

Still it will keep the riff-raff - and those of a nervous disposition - off the Amalfi coast

 

[Bear]

Don't goto Naples with your 1200 .. or better still don't goto Naples.

The attached video is genuinely disturbing so don't let your kids watch it. It is from an Italian newspaper. Some cctv clip in Naples. I think it is quite recent.

A few years ago Mrs Bear and I had two weeks near Sorrento. The tour operator reps bleated about how dangerous the area was so we ignored them on the basis that they were trying to make money by selling overpriced excursions. We took the train into Naples to see the Roman porn in the Secret Cabinet then went in search of lunch. The only thing that went wrong was a waiter spilling a couple of drops of sauce on Gillian's t-shirt. We used local public transport to see Sorrento itself, Pompeii and Herculaneum, and regret not having the initiative to book a week in Naples and organise everything ourselves.

 

[Wapping]

A few years ago Mrs Bear and I had two weeks near Sorrento. ..... We used local public transport to see Sorrento itself, Pompeii and Herculaneum, and regret not having the initiative to book a week in Naples and organise everything ourselves.

My parents did the same, in their late 70's. Hired a car and drove about, then to Rome. Seemed to have lived to tell the tale. A great part of Italy

 

[Deleted account 220427002]

Tom fer feck sake do you think you should be posting something like that on here... even worse... without a proper warning of what would happen in the clip.

 

[Deleted Member I]

Tom fer feck sake do you think you should be posting something like that on here... even worse... without a proper warning of what would happen in the clip.

Sorry

Thought the warning I did put was sufficient.

It is pretty horrible and it's real which makes it really scary. Take it off if deemed too much

 

[EggChaser]

This won't work with side opening hard cases but there is a similar thread on AdvRider at the moment and someone posted

"Another way to have the potential thief keep walking is to pick up a set of tighty whities (tr. undergrunts ) and a brown magic marker, draw a few skid marks and maybe a small spritz of yellow spray paint or even better, red, leave them inside out at the top of your panniers. For you this is your rag to wipe your shield or clean your chain, for them its better than a "beware of dog" sign. It also saves you mucho time at border crossings since none of the guards will want to search your bags.

BTW I take my panniers inside if I am staying at the hotel for more than one night (bike is then lighter for next days riding) but leave them on if only staying for 1 night

 

[Dinger]

but there is a similar thread on AdvRider at the moment

Really? is the OP getting relentlessly bummed over there too?