Monty wrote:

Monty wrote:Far too soon, it's been a bad year. Lemmy, Bowie, Rickman, Wogan, Corbet and now Wood!

..... and Prince!

No way terrible news if its true

I hate these undercover buggers...they will follow you the whole way probably having a blast then pull you over and do you for it!! Bloody buggers!!

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... valves in 1 cylinder), repair damage, reset the timing and bobs your uncle. Drove perfectly after that. I hope there's no major bills headed your way. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Yeah, they did....way back in the mid 19th century IIRC.

... agreement is completed and signed. It puts you in a weaker position otherwise. The best advise I got was to get a financial agreement signed way before you deal with any divorce or otherwise. If things change you can rip it up, if they don't, a divorce is way easier. A separation agreement ...

... for their school she came around and let me buy her out. Even if you want to get her to agree to something for your gain, put it back on her in a way that it looks like you are thinking more for the kids. I recommend seeing a counsellor for yourself through all this, I did for 3 years and I reckon ...

I was there a few years ago, but as you say, only there for a couple of hours on the way to the Falklands.
It was midnight and we couldn't leave the departure "cage".

Nice and warm though!

... haven't an idea...anyone seen the Peugeot advert where he programs the sat nav to go to Glasgow or somewhere and the signs where saying to go one way but sat nav said to go another...well that was literally what happened with us. We saw signs and sat nav said no but it lead us to some cracking ...

Sounds ace Rossgo. You'll have to see if you can find any of the roads on a map and I'll take a look over that way.

Twots who can't drive 4x4s or SUV or whatever the feck they're called these days.

You should have a licence for something that size. Twits this morning drifting in their lanes, thinking they've not got enough room one side, moving over, panicking, moving back the way they were and so on. Feckwits.

Oh and on the way home (190 mile trip) I used the sat nav to plan a winding trip...it was so annoying we headed down some amazing roads then the sat nav would say please turn off here, which from the off set looked like shite roads...until ...

even if you didnt want physical contact with them you could at least say " ive rung the police and they are on their way" that would do enough to unsettle them.Pikey scum

... as much as the thieving scumbags do. Nobody expects the public to fight crime but they could rise the alarm. As long as people will look the other way the minority of scumbags who polute this earth will continue to prosper. If we stand together as a society we can defeat anti social crime and theft ...

Given the two bikes....whichever one pulls at the heartstrings...a bike is a very personal choice....it's like telling someone their favourite meal is wrong, there's just no accounting for taste...and I mean that in a good way, as Americans epitomize the very term "good taste".

If it was me it would be the 1299 all day long, I honestly found the 1199 way too difficult control/manage especially on our lovely roads and it was a Brutal bike. I believe the 1299 is a more refined ride, oh and I loved the up & downshift QS with auto blipper .

After mine and Kwacky's short flight and subsequent hard landing my bike has developed a knock when I brake. Could be the pads moving in the callipers but thinking the headstock bearing might need adjusting.

Anyone know a way of testing the bearings without lifting the front wheel off the ground?

1 hour? Bloody hell. Before I started getting headaches I used to do no more than 30 minutes and that would batter me.

Great way to get into shape though.

Jet washed and cleaned the Multi thoroughly after getting caught in the rain last week on the way back from Silverstone. Lovely washing the bike in the glorious sunshine yesterday.

... to ride a bike, grow the feck up, grow a pair, and get off road. Wankers !!! I'm with Nutz, I rode a lot for years on the roads around NZ and I always did my best to give cars a way past. I have no problem them riding abreast on a quiet road, but when a car comes have the sense to drop back to ...

Rode it down to Prescott, then up a Hill twice and then home. On the way home gave a couple of Gixxer boys a bloody nose as they thought their Hayabusa and GSXR1000 would be much quicker away from the lights than my 'touring' bike. Pushed their way to the ...