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I know I do a lot of hours, including traveling, but last night on the M6 I seriously came within a few mill of rear-ending the merc infront of me---

The reason--

With the windows down, as I'm a tight git and don't use my Air con, I hear the distinct sound of a V twin rumbling along, looking around I spot a putrid yellow Storm cruising along looking rather fat......
Second look, she's 2 up and fully loaded with enough bags for a fortnight away,


THEN,







She's pulling a bloody trailer---------
eyes to the front and RAM on the brakes.... panic over.....

So to whoever may be the owner of a very nice looking fully pimped out touring bus, you owe me a new pair of pants and a few of your heart beats!!!

we need photos











no not of your pants, but the storm trailer combo

at one point I thought you was talking about me.....

Germans touring probably...I would have thought...possibly.

Did you see a plate ? Oh no silly me it was yellow that would never have overtaken you...

(:-})

hello there!

the fellow storm rider you seen two up was my mum and step dad heading for the isle of man
the trailer has got a lot of attention over on the isle.
i will try and get some photo's of it for you guys to check out.

damoere69 wrote:hello there!

the fellow storm rider you seen two up was my mum and step dad heading for the isle of man
the trailer has got a lot of attention over on the isle.
i will try and get some photo's of it for you guys to check out.

Sweet be good to see what there on about .( and welcome )

Welcome Dan.
you can tell your mum I've managed to get the smell out of the car.
looks a cracking set up.

hi im new to this so stay with me for a mo ? I was browsing this site and came across your ref about the yellow storm on the M6 pulling a trailer ? glad it caught your attention when we passed you. you were correct with the 2 weeks of baggage . just on our way home from a few days at the lake district after 2 weeks at the IOM following the TT sorry about the pants and the close shave with the merc hope all is well now

it was the first time I've seen a storm with a trailer, and you looked like you had plenty of stuff on it thinking about it, it must be an excellent bike for pulling with all that torque.
did you do all the modifications yourself?
stick up where you're from, as there's more of us about than you think and we like nothing better than mods, catching up and ripping up IL4's.

hi yes I made the trailer myself last year and developed it over the winter iv pulled it over 3000miles this summer carries about 150kgs and pulls well a bit to well soon forget its behind you The storm has more than enough torque to cope with it and wheelies come easily at the slip of the throttle as lots got to see at the tt but high speed cornering and braking are no problem went over the tt mountain with 3 fingers on the clock biggest problem is when I take the trailer off ? the Mrs buys things and no way to carry it home

I saw this on the island too. I took a double take ;)

Windows down air con off on a motorway uses more fuel because of drag than windows up and air con on!!!!

I've heard that before, but it was the M6: max speed 30mph at that time of day

hi me again any idea how to post a photo on here im new to this ? thanks brownie