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General / Re: Word Association
« on: 12 November 2020, 01:41:07 pm »
Rocker

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General / Re: New boots
« on: 13 February 2020, 09:28:22 am »
I use military issue boots (or ex mil) from army surplus supply shops.
last pair lasted over 10 years...
having said that all 3 of mine gave up the ghost last year so bought some new style whilst comfy as feck & Gortex they have a side panel that are bit breezy in this weather!

my mate gave me a pair of Daytona M Star GTX boots & they are great & comfy enough to walk about in!
https://www.sportsbikeshop.co.uk/motorcycle_parts/content_prod/98183
not cheap but great boots! (mine were free but that's another story lol)

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General / Re: Word Association
« on: 13 February 2020, 09:18:41 am »
rain

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General / Re: Word Association
« on: 10 January 2020, 07:15:50 am »
Monarch

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General / Re: Word Association
« on: 12 December 2019, 08:14:12 am »
Wicca

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General / Re: What did you do with whatever else you've got?
« on: 09 December 2019, 07:41:55 am »
Mary Rose Charity Bike run (Portsmouth)
150+ bikes
over £850 plus presents raised.

well done to all Santa rides this weekend!

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General / Re: Winter bike gear.
« on: 05 December 2019, 09:35:21 am »
mountain warehouse thermal base layer
rugby shirt
lidl thermal wind stopper
hoody
leather jacket
cut
military issue long johns
jeans
lined overtrousers
issue artic snood
magnum winter gloves
lid is standard all year round (shoei GT Air 2)

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General / Re: Site outage
« on: 07 November 2019, 08:28:26 am »
I couldn't log on all day as was saying server error but I just assumed it was my works computer blocking the site!!

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General / Re: Word Association
« on: 09 October 2019, 10:44:01 am »
spit

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General / Re: Word Association
« on: 23 September 2019, 12:13:25 pm »
sins

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General / Re: What Fazer did you spot today?
« on: 23 September 2019, 08:51:40 am »
saw a couple or 3 Fazers on a big run down to Liskard Saturday..
if you were one of them.. I probably said Hi to you as I was in the pack

(tail end Charlie for ride along A35!)

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General / Re: Nuisance calls.
« on: 18 September 2019, 12:51:08 pm »
I love cold calls.. I just answer in some kind of made up foreign language.. cross between German & French... they just hang up!!
 :rollin :rollin

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General / Re: Word Association
« on: 10 September 2019, 02:54:18 pm »
Point

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General / Re: Word Association
« on: 09 September 2019, 07:14:36 am »
planned

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Events, Meets, Ride outs etc / Re: Brighton burn up , sun 8 sept
« on: 09 September 2019, 07:13:08 am »
next time CERI,ROBBO.... :thumbup ......ROBBIE , sorry i missed your post  :o ...ill be riding from the ace with the rest of them ,leaving at 10.30 we should be there for mid day , going to peel of jct 9 of the M25 down to box hill onto cowfold and then onto brighton , phone less at the moment but i`ll look out for your night storm...i`ll be on my silver thou with a mate on his yellow MT09 , you`ll see the MT first ,it stands out in a crowd .....weather forcast is excellent ,if we dont meet have a great day.......

cheers!
didn't see you but there was hundreds of bike.. few night storms & Fazers!
weather was excellent had a good ride both ways

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Events, Meets, Ride outs etc / Re: Brighton burn up , sun 8 sept
« on: 05 September 2019, 12:08:51 pm »
I unexpectedly am free this sunday!! may take a trip along the A27 & have a look see..

any timings?

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General / Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!
« on: 05 September 2019, 07:13:54 am »
Been the first one in the office everyday and make myself a brew & my oppo who comes in 5 mins later.
one of the officers comes in today early (normally in at 8 ) flashes up his computer & says wheres my brew?
in the kettle was the reply..
apparently I have a bad attitude! ffs 

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Events, Meets, Ride outs etc / Re: LOFO's. Day trip to Cornwall on Monday.
« on: 02 September 2019, 08:13:21 am »
Was there for the Calstock rally the other week!
I ride to Falmouth regularly from Portsmouth but tend to use A303 / A30 going & A30 back via Chard. (main reason is i'm going to see my kids & just want to get there!)

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General / Re: Word Association
« on: 06 August 2019, 06:54:20 am »
beaver

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General / Re: What did you do with whatever else you've got?
« on: 26 July 2019, 06:49:41 am »
Just ridden the T-Bird to work & don't know if its the weather or what but it felt so hooked up .. was in full hooligan mode! even managed to get hero-blobs to grind (1st time ever on this bike) going around a corner that I normally take gingerly! :eek :D :lol


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General / Re: Word Association
« on: 24 July 2019, 06:43:02 am »
south

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General / Re: Word Association
« on: 18 July 2019, 03:00:09 pm »
lots

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General / Re: The 2019 FOC-U Bike Picture Challenge
« on: 15 July 2019, 07:50:28 am »
Great idea DUDE :thumbup  ........and onto to page 3    :)




your bike and a............ TYPICAL BRITISH SCENE .


is this the village where goodnight Mr tom was filmed? with the chitty chitty bang bang windwill is on the hill?

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General / Re: Manual Stop/Start at the lights and junctions
« on: 02 July 2019, 07:02:22 am »
SWMBO has recently swapped her convertible Saab 9-3 for a Golf TDI DSG. We have manual Skoda Octavias at work with the same stop/start technology. Makes much more sense in the DSG car IMHO, vs the manual it seems clunky, annoying and just doesn't seem to work well with the gearbox. At work I turn stop/start off, driving her car I let it do its thing. On the bike, I'd kill it if I knew I'd be waiting ages; there's a level crossing just off the A59 near Airedale Hospital where you can sometimes be held for three trains in a row, I usually kill the engine (after filtering to the front of the queue) if I'm held at that crossing. For me it comes down to local knowledge; if I know I'm going to be held for a good while at a specific obstruction I'll turn the engine off, more so in hotter weather. Other than that I'd leave her idling, I feel I'd be hammering the starter motor, battery and alternator etc. doing much more work than it wasn't designed to do, i'd rather pay for a few pence more of petrol than several pounds for battery/alternator/starter motor work[size=78%].[/size]

I was talking to a mechanic friend of mine the other day.. (& Ill caveat this by saying I was talking about my triumph T-Bird) & he was saying that starting the bike needs a minimum of 11.6v to start a bike, and it takes approx. 16 miles of riding to get the charge from starting to get the charge back into the battery. so constant stop starting eventually kills battery/rectifier/starter motor etc so I consider that, but agree if sitting at level crossings I will kill my engine as quoted previously sometimes can be held for 2 or more trains...

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General / Re: Word Association
« on: 26 June 2019, 06:53:39 am »
Conquer

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