Brother and sister in law are back from new York for a week (they been living over their for about 8 years) So be seeing them, hoping to get a few hours at some point to wash the bike, clean out the snakes and meant to be popping to a mates for a bit of a guitar session. ...

... to many people the test is passed what more can I do etc but I am seriously considering going on to a Masters not now it will prob be in couple of years if I get a f1st in the test - Masters may not suit me but id love to try. I am very much wanting to progress with riding and see whether I am ...

D41 wrote:Yep....would definitely like to see that.

Yeah me too! It's been about 15 years since I watched it. I just hope I can find it. It's on an 8mm tape and I'm pretty sure I made a VHS tape copy.. need to search some boxes in storage under the house.

... the extra confidence I get year round with the RSIII, they may not be the 'best' tyre on the market, but I've been riding RoadSmarts for about 5 years (that's about 35,000 miles) and they just have wonderful feedback and really progressive slip characteristics. The bike has spent almost all of ...

Drowning under emails. For the last 8 years I've had a nice little system were I action an email, save it to the file and then delete it. I've never had more than 30 emails in my inbox. Any email in there is something to action. I've now got ...

Drowning under emails. For the last 8 years I've had a nice little system were I action an email, save it to the file and then delete it. I've never had more than 30 emails in my inbox. Any email in there is something to action. I've now got ...

I regretted not going for 5 years immediately after taking it out to be honest but it'd been such a ball ache I didn't want to go through the hassle again so stuck with the 2 year deal 2 years is still a long time, plus by time that rolls ...

I regretted not going for 5 years immediately after taking it out to be honest but it'd been such a ball ache I didn't want to go through the hassle again so stuck with the 2 year deal

I fixed mine for 10years for this reason. Its so low it seemed daft not to. And I like the knowledge of how much I'm paying for ten years.

The interest rate hasn't changed for years. This will come as a big shock to a lot of people.

I reckon that's the start of a gradual rise over the next couple of years.

I think what those guys do is so impressive, remember seeing them a few years back and my brother saying, not to anyone in particular, "you see these guys pulling manoeuvres that accurately and yet there are people out there that cant even parallel park" we all cracked up.

Well talk about make me feel old. When I was a Tech on No. 2 Sqn (A-4K Skyhawks) and posted in Australia for a few years, this bloke came through to do his conversion training from our trainer jets to the Skyhawks as a Flying Officer. We were a small unit away from home and exercised ...

Cavetroll87 wrote:Dude I do not envy you.

I'm been a whiny brat to be honest, in two weeks I'll be home with 4 weeks off and temp's in the 30's. A bit of sleep deprivation will seem worth it then.

You can not envy me when I'm back out here on 3 weeks of night shift over Christmas and New years!

i got 9/10 and I hadn't seen ANY of those signs before... but I have picked up clues from this thread and other tidbits you guys have mentioned over the years.

I though roads signs where supposed to be universal?

in the last few years we seem to be seeing democracy being eroded away in the western world. Someone or something somewhere must be behind it.

... if the basques ask for it , I have heard that some of the northern italian states also want to cede from italy which again is only about 100 years old as the nation we know today . Chapter XI Article 73 b. to develop self-government, to take due account of the political aspirations of the ...

Spending money

Pre-ordered the iPhone X yesterday (first new phone in 4 years) and put the deposit on the new Campertrailer today.

It's a jumped up version of what Piaggio made 6+ years ago

... big twin do its job but that was scary, got back and looked and the brake fluid was literally black! Bloody death trap, apparently it was about 15 years old the fluid, stupid!