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« on: 16 August 2013, 11:23:12 pm »
Glad you enjoyed your Welsh trip but I have an observation to make , it is not raining, how did you arrange that, very rare.  Lew
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« on: 16 August 2013, 11:18:37 pm »
I am lucky down here on the North Costa Blanca, I ride with a group every Sunday morning , Brits , Dutch, Germans in our group.
I am not resident here and to be honest I may keep it that way, if I take out residencia it is compulsory to get a Spanish licence so will stick with my UK(Euro)licence for as long as I can.
Lew
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« on: 16 August 2013, 01:21:03 pm »
if you are renewing your license do it online if you can, if you have to pay then apply as if you have lost your license, that way you will have your old license to hand. so long as you respond straight away dvla will have your old license in their system, they destroy them after I think is either 3 or 6 months. so long as you respond within that time you should be safe.
But surely these days it is compulsory to have a photo card licence when you renew so what about the photo side of things. Also if you fail to renew your photo licence when due it is £1000 fine. Sound advice by other posters but I would still take a photo copy as well. I know of one guy when he got his licence back the Bike section was not on the new licence. When he contacted them, there reply was , well you will have to resit your test again. heaven forbid if it was to happen to me , there is no way I would pass a test again, to many bad habits now. Lew
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« on: 16 August 2013, 01:13:34 pm »
Through Denbiegh and over the moors road drops down to the A5 and head into Bewtsy Coed, sorry about the spelling.
lew
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« on: 16 August 2013, 01:00:50 pm »
send in the warships. we have had enough of those greasy gringos, all they do is moan.
Trust you are joking about moaning non worse than us, think we Brits invented it.
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« on: 14 August 2013, 02:42:12 pm »
Which city it was?
I'm from Spain and I've never been fined for filtering, and only once for speeding  . Filtering is a grey area that depends on how hard the city's council tries to get money, if it happens that somebody there hates or likes bikes and how dangerous the action seemed to the police. It is not a good idea to filter on a solid line anyway.
In cities like Madrid and Granada you have advanced motorcycle stoplines. I think that nobody is going to fine you if you filter to reach them if the cars are fully stopped and you do it slowly even if you do not leave the 1'5m.
Parking on the sidewalk is allowed in some cities and forbidden in others, so when you travel it seems you have to study each council's local rules. Radar where the speed sign changes are increasing. It is a theft. They mostly control speeding at the sorrounding of towns or at the end of descents. Never where the traffic is very light -no matter the accidents, according to the former chief's words-. The 50% discount is very embarrasing and for many law experts it is considered actually illegal.
It was Altea Costa Blanca North, Alicante province Bike for filtering, and the car speeding fine A-P23 up Narvonne?, parking incident Teulada/Benissa Alicante province. Having a moan but loving my life here in Spain, but I will be hanging onto my British licence as long as I can as I have been told when I get my Spanish licence I will have points straight away. Lew
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« on: 13 August 2013, 01:30:49 pm »
Good ride out this morning sadly spoilt by the €100 fine I have to pay for filtering at the lights, there reasoning is I either crossed a solid white line or failed to allow a distance of 1.5 mtrs between me and the cars I was passing, even though I was just about moving, feet down etc! Okay I was in the wrong but come on tell me this is not all about making money. One good thing out here is if I pay within 20 days I get a 50% discount, Anything to help the Spanish economy lol.  
Went to pay my fine this morning , asked how I wanted to pay, cash I says so popped a €50 note on the counter. She says you need another €50. No I says all full of myself. As I am paying within the 20 days I get 50% discount. Yes she says , read the ticket so I did, the fine was €200.00 and seeing as I was paying with in the 20 days now only €100.00. Fecking livid I was since I moved out here to Spain in march this year the bastards have had €250.00 of me in total. I got done for speeding in the car on the AP-23 110kph in an 80kph zone. The crafty bastards had a speed camera right behind the 80 sign, I would not mind but I was slowing down . If you are coming out to Spain anytime soon just be aware it is hunting season for motorists and bikers alike, slightest infringement and they will do you. I nearly got done for parking she was in the process of writing the ticket when I came back to the car to put the ticket I had just bought from the machine on my windshield. She said I was to long away from the car. I pointed out that the ticket machine was nearly 100mtrs from the car and as I walk with limp I am not the fastest on two feet. She continued to issue the ticket and when she handed it to me to sign, I started laughing, the ticket I had bought was time stamped 11.54 and the time she was booking me for 11.57. I was actually going into see my Abegado /Solicitor on house business when he appeared at my side. He looked at what was going on and I do not know what was said in Spanish but she put the book in her pocket and buggered off. Just milking it for all they can get. Lew
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« on: 11 August 2013, 09:42:17 pm »
You don't happen to have a GB sticker on do you? They're a bit touchy about us at the moment.
No GB sticker I live here now and the bike is on Spanish plates, Lew
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« on: 11 August 2013, 01:18:40 pm »
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« on: 10 August 2013, 01:10:22 pm »
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« on: 10 August 2013, 12:52:32 am »
Is it just me but is the site running slowly?? I am on the CBF1000.com site and the Z1000SX sites a lot and they run a lot faster than this one why????
Lew
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« on: 10 August 2013, 12:48:45 am »
Welcome and enjoy
Lew
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« on: 10 August 2013, 12:43:11 am »
Now if only the FZ6 had a swinging arm like that.
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« on: 02 August 2013, 12:29:03 am »
As I live in Spain went for a blast around the Jalon/Xalo valley with a mate on his GSXR 1000, he had his girlfriend on the back. I can honestly say that is the best TAILTIDY I have enjoyed following for quite some time. Lew
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« on: 02 August 2013, 12:16:41 am »
Can I ask how old you are ? you sound as if you do not mind getting your hands dirty. What area of the country do you live in?
Have a go and see if you can train as a Plumber, don't laugh , it is not like the old days were you had to spend years.
A bit about me , retired this year after 44 years as a Marine engineer. Currently living out in Spain. Last week my German neighbour was having problems with a leaking toilet and I noticed he had a few taps dripping as well. Took me an hour and a few beers to sort things out for him. What do I owe you? get away I am your neighbour!! €40.00 he insisted. So far this week just by word of mouth I have 10 jobs on ranging from overhauling swimming pool pumps and filters, new bathroom suite to fit, shower cubicle to replace etc! I do not really want the work as said I am retired. The work should take me about two weeks to do looking at €4000.00.
Train as a Plumber if possible, a good busy plumber in the London area can earn up to £2500.00 a week if he chases the work, leaking tap less than 5 minutes work £40.00 as most of that will be a standard call out charge anyway.
Lew
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« on: 30 July 2013, 12:52:04 am »
By higher I mean above the minimum wage.
I just don't think I'd be running my Fazer thou if I was on a minimum wage rate.
And many folks working full time on a minimum wage can't make ends meet, a lot claim benefits.
Who pays for those benefits, those benefits that effectively subsidise many big companies.
So we agree then we Bernie could put a wee drop more into the pot
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« on: 29 July 2013, 03:01:22 pm »
Wish I could get involved in F1 and collect £27 million for just giving the nod to run an F! race, and I like others would quite happily pay HMG less than £1 million in tax with a turn over of £300 million, me thinks some folk are jealous of the wee man.
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« on: 29 July 2013, 08:39:57 am »
Isn't the Valencia F1 race run on a street circuit?
Just copied this from Wikepedia, Would appear Bernie is a man of honour just like the Politicians he was dealing with, Must admit though I did not know it was a street circuit. Being a street citcuit I assume would explain the reasoning why the regional government got involved , what the article did fail to mention was what income the event pumped into the local economy, and that you will never find out as the Spanish are masters at not paying there taxes if they can avoid it. The deal to host the Valencia race was signed on June 1, 2007, and is for seven years. [10] The deal was made between Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone and the Valmor Sport group, which is led by former motorcycle rider Jorge Martinez Aspar and Villarreal football club's president Fernando Roig. This deal goes back on comments made by Ecclestone previously stating that no European country should hold more than one race each year as Barcelona currently holds the Spanish Grand Prix each year. Although now confirmed, the deal was rumored to be conditional on the People's Party winning regional elections on 27 May 2007. [11] However, Ecclestone had clarified his comments on May 16, 2007: "I said I wouldn't formalise a contract until after the elections because I didn't know who I would be signing it with." He said his statements were taken out of context. [12] Ecclestone has since been cleared of influencing the election by the Valencian Electoral Commission. [13]The official track layout was unveiled by Valencia councillor and transport counselor, Mario Flores, on 19 July 2007. The track was first used in the last weekend of July 2008, as the circuit hosted a round of the Spanish F3 Championship and International GT Open. It was first used for the European Grand Prix on August 24, 2008.
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« on: 28 July 2013, 11:31:13 pm »
I read an article in my local newspaper a week or so back. It cost the regional government in Valencia Spain £35 million pounds /Euros to run the GP last year of which £€27 million was paid to that little weasel Ecilstone. as usual more gets more.
Lew
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« on: 26 July 2013, 02:26:31 pm »
Check out www.visorshop.com site should lead you to Crossans based in Newry co Down Northern Ireland. They have to be one of the cheapest suppliers on the web and there prices include delivery to main land UK. I have had two sets of PR2's from them and even though it cost me £30 for fitting and balancing elsewhere I still saved money. I have nothing to do with this company just giving them a plug as they are excellent.. Lew
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« on: 23 July 2013, 04:52:13 pm »
The British Stiff Upper Lip lives on.
On a train from London to Manchester a drunk Australian was berating the Englishman sitting across from him in the compartment.
"You English are too stuffy. You set yourselves apart too much. You think your stiff upper lip makes you above the rest of us. Look at me... I'm ME! I have Italian blood, Greek blood, a little Irish blood, and some Aborigine blood. What do you say to that ?"
The Englishman replied, "Awfully sporting of your mother, old chap!!!"
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« on: 22 July 2013, 06:11:43 pm »
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« on: 19 July 2013, 11:01:09 pm »
Bush's White House Tour
Before the inauguration, George W. was invited to a 'get acquainted' tour of the White House.
After drinking several glasses of iced tea, he asked President Clinton if he could use his personal bathroom. He was astonished to see that the President had a solid gold urinal!
That afternoon, George W. told his wife, Laura, about the urinal. "Just think," he said, "when I am President, I'll have my own personal gold urinal!"
Later, when Laura had lunch with Hillary at her tour of the White House, she told Hillary how impressed George had been with his discovery of the fact that, in the President's private bathroom, the President had a gold urinal.
That evening, Bill and Hillary were getting ready for bed. Hillary turned to Bill and said, "Well, I found out who p155ed in your saxophone."
Borrowed from CBF forum .
Lew
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« on: 18 July 2013, 10:33:42 pm »
Did a bit of gardening, said to the wife had enough. Got the gear on sweating like a pig in this heat (live in Spain) and went for a blast around the mountain roads at the back of me 150 kms back home and jumped in the pool for a cool off and flashed the BBQ up few cold beers and bed, hard life but someone has to do it.
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« on: 16 July 2013, 11:39:11 pm »
You only need ABS once ?? and in that instance as long as you stay upright the extra cost surely has to be worth it.
Lew
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