Chinese food!! Found a neat hole-in-the-wall Chinese restaurant...good food, if a tad pricey....but then again even McDonald's is pricey these days. And I have a birthday cake to plough through later, as I "reportedly" turned 57 today, although I deny any knowledge of this. The cake is hu...

Kwacky wrote: ↑21 Apr 2024, 18:04 It's the Optimate 2.

It's a standard battery in the MV

That must be getting on a bit now, if it's an OII
Nonetheless should be perfectly good enough if the MV runs a Lead Acid, shouldn't it. (I naturally presumed that it would be a Lithium as standard).

Gave the sx a wash and quick polish. I haven't noticed the rust on the chain, so that got a good scrub and lube. The battery on the MV was flat. I had a bit of a panic when the Optimate didn't charge the battery. Thankfully the original MV charger worked, but there wasn't enough time to charge the ...

It looks very special.
Should the chain be that slack at standstill ?

Monty wrote: ↑17 Apr 2024, 22:09 It's a proper weapon. Just did 90 miles in rain, beautiful sunshine, a hail storm, and I one point it snowed!

Happy new bike day Monty..

Not really "a joke" as such, but fwiw it made me smile so I thought I would share..

Hope it's true.



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Kwacky wrote: ↑16 Apr 2024, 14:47 Tell him to adjust his phone settings, that bike looks red

That was genuinely my first thought !

Do I take it that it's a KTM in some sort of disguise livery to make it look less Tango ???

Monty wrote: ↑12 Apr 2024, 22:11Incoming!!!!

I'm staying in bed. I'm full of cold. Fwiw I was laid out flat, I thought with flu, came on late last Sunday evening. Monday morning I could hardly stand up. Covid test negative. Tuesday I was already feeling somewhat better. Wednesday it was but a memory.! I asked around and quite a number of peop...

Surfing for car insurance since Hastings sent me this... Screenshot_2024-04-06-08-32-56-87_e307a3f9df9f380ebaf106e1dc980bb6.jpg That's just mad... Everyone's premiums have skyrocketed.. The insurance companies have all those cars at Luton Airport to fork out for, and so we 've all got to pay for th...

Went shopping a birthday present for my niece.. Is it just me ??? I did consider it, purely for a laugh, but I don't think her mum shares my "sense of humour" so decided against... . . https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20240327/687fbaea0918a6d3d94e33dd9fa3a987.jpg StM mobile using Tapatalk

And this year's winner of the annual Darwin Awards goes to...:



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,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Seemed really slow to start, heaps of battery and cranked fine but didn’t want to fire. Finally got it going and headed of down the mountain. Was about half full so 10 km in topped the tank up. 5 mins to get the thing to fire again. Every stop I did it stalled out. Started ok mos...

Indeed very shocking. Couple of things that I am left considering.: Mistry apparently was charged & pled the offences via a postal requisition ???? There is no mention of the outcome of the injuries to his victims. ?? They could well have been left with life changing injuries, that's more than 4...

Not much evidence of chain lube....

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Not so much "watching" as listening to on the radio. Baldrick on top form.
Spoiler alert, "that's nice"

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0007kjj

Kwacky wrote: ↑14 Mar 2024, 15:09 installing the new internet hub. 2 minute job and everything seems to be working as it should.

Well, you ma be impressed to learn that we get a blistering 1.14mbs here, so there's your benchmark

It seems like the current political approach is to Gaslight us ..

All Politicians simply ignore concerns & talk up everything (/or talk up improvements they will make, depending on their allegiances) .

And for those Slappers who prefer it when Im not wittering on about politics..:

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Seems topical, being Budget day today..:


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