Guinness
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| posted on 15/2/08 at 07:19 PM |
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Anyone a bus driver?
I need to find out if there is a British Standard for Bus Turning Circles 
Basically, I have a long, single carriageway road with a patch of hard standing at the end of it. The single decker bus turns round on there at the
minute, but it's turning very muddy and rutted.
So what is the turning circle of your average bus, and what do they weigh?
Cheers
Mike
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matt_claydon
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| posted on 15/2/08 at 07:24 PM |
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Buses have to pass a VOSA test (similar to SVA) called COIF (Certificate of Initial Fitness). Turning circle is part of it.
Regulation 13 of the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986 requires a bus to manoeuvre in the area between two concentric circles of
5.3 metre and 12.5 metre diameters, so that no part of it projects outside that area.
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Guinness
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| posted on 15/2/08 at 07:30 PM |
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Magic! Thanks Mat.
Just wasted an hour googling for that!
Cheers
Mike
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britishtrident
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| posted on 15/2/08 at 07:58 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by matt_claydon
Buses have to pass a VOSA test (similar to SVA) called COIF (Certificate of Initial Fitness). Turning circle is part of it.
Regulation 13 of the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986 requires a bus to manoeuvre in the area between two concentric circles of
5.3 metre and 12.5 metre diameters, so that no part of it projects outside that area.
I bet not many stretched Limos could turn in that --- more like 20 metres between kerbs.
[I] “ What use our work, Bennet, if we cannot care for those we love? .”
― From BBC TV/Amazon's Ripper Street.
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speedyxjs
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| posted on 15/2/08 at 08:02 PM |
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My tintop does it in 12 metres
How long can i resist the temptation to drop a V8 in?
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tom windmill
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| posted on 15/2/08 at 11:14 PM |
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Have a word with Graham (Jacko) on this site, he builds the things i guess he might have some idea 
Cheers Tom
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Macbeast
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| posted on 16/2/08 at 08:09 AM |
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I bet sodding Livingstone's sodding bendy sodding buses couldn't do that 
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Macbeast
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| posted on 17/2/08 at 02:19 PM |
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Just checked (how sad am I ? ) A bendy bus is 18m long so it wouldn't conform to the regs even if you mounted it on a turntable.
Wonder if Red Ken knows that ?
And if he did, would he give a monkey's ?
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