http://www.financial-ombudsman.org.uk/

+1

the same with the size of chocolate bars! I remember mars bars been at least a 1/3 bigger than they are now! and they were wrapped in paper not plastic!
4 black jack or fruit salads for 1p
other day kids found an old threpenny bit so i then tried to explain bout proper money £ s d!!! even my mrs looked at me blank!

Don't get me started!  I've still not gotten over the great decimalisation rip off! 

For those too young to remember that traumatic period in our history, a shilling used to consist of 12 'old' pennies and there were 20 of them to the pound.  When they decimalised the currency a shilling was in effect 5 new pence and an old penny was made the equivalent of 1/2 a new penny.

So overnight we went from a shilling getting you 12 penny sweets to 5ponly  getting you 10!!   

Did I get a pocket money increase to adjust for this sudden & drastic devaluation of my sweet purchasing 5 bob? No I bloody didn't! 

Quote from: Pat on 14 October 2013, 08:23:06 pm

Daytona Roadstar GTX

Anything else is quite simply less.

Had mine 18 years, still waterproof, not adorned with pointless gimmicks & tacky gee-gaws, but plenty of protection & comfy as a pair of slippers.

18 years? How often do you use them?

I use mine every day and I have to change boots about every 3 years and I wear them to the limit, I went through last winter in my current Sidi's wrapped in gaffer tape to keep the water out, the sole actually came off the left boot today

Don't use them during the summer, but every year since buying them pretty much constantly from whenever it turns cold n wet until it turns warmer & drier again.

For 15 of those 18 years I was also doing a daily 90 mile round trip commute, mostly on motorways/fast A-roads, not much putting my feet down or walking which probably explains why the soles have lasted so long.  Spent the last couple of years working from home so not used that much, but will be getting them out again once facilities sort me out on a parking space in my new job.

Like yourself, despite not buying cheapo boots (I was spending £100-120 a pair back in the mid-nineties) , before I got the Daytonas I never had a pair that lasted me more than 3 years.  The Daytonas cost me £180 at the NEC show in 1995 so I figure despite the 50% higher initial outlay I'd have spent something like £800 over the same period if I'd have stuck to the lesser makes like A-Stars or Sidis.

On top of that, I do still get a sense of pleasure from looking at & putting on a high quality product that was produced by skilled craftsmen in Germany rather than by a 10 year old in a 3rd world sweatshop.   

Of course it's a fake, it's been out there for years & was originally an American allegedly complaining to the State Department, hence despite a poor attemp at 'Britifying' it, it still has US only references, like visiting farms & those customs declaration forms you have to fill in when entering the US, but the dead give away is the "my family has been in this country since 1776" bit 

Quote from: Gingernutz on 12 October 2013, 07:11:38 pm

My choice for mid winter riding - heated oxford grips, handguard, fleece lined muffs and summer gloves. The handguard keep the muffs off the controls and the muffs keep the rain and windchill off the lot. Ridden 100 miles in sub zero temp and hands felt toasty. I got a heated vest last winter in he sales for keeping my core warm but the I'm too fond to find the cage these days to spend long on the bike in the snow.

What hand guards do you use? I have Oxford muffs and find they press onto the levers at high speed or on particularly windy days. I was looking at ways to prevent this and Hand guards seem a good idea.

I gave up using muffs for the same reason years ago, handguards are better than nothing, but nowhere near as good as muffs for keeping your hands warm & dry.

However, whilst reading your post, I've had a thought that may just work....

http://www.ebay.co.uk/bhp/lever-protectors

 

Personally I'd say not to try & do a complete lap of the island, you'll just be blatting about & will be missing out a lot by doing it in 4 days, you need to head off the beaten track a bit & make plenty of stops to really appreciate the place. 

According to your profile you're in Liverpool, so I'd suggest something like getting the ferry to Belfast & following Bitfik's recommendation about heading up the Antrim coast first, then head over into Donegal the following day, it's a pretty deserted & stunningly wild landscape. Then head down through Sligo to Mayo before ending up in Galway via The Connemara Loop, before heading back to Dublin for the ferry back home.

As for when to go, I'd recommend Late April through to mid June, it may be a couple of degrees cooler but it tends to be drier during that time, plus there's not so much tourist traffic about.

Oh yeah, and by staying in the northern half you'll also save a few bob on the trip costs, as you'll not have to hire yourself a translator in Cork.... 

I fitted one from a naked gen2 1000,  it's identical other than the mirror mount, so a straight swap.

First things first, whip the sprocket cover off & check to see if everything's tight & if there's anything obvious that's making the whining noise.  If you're lucky it may just be something simple like  a Mancunian stuck in there.... 

He needs to look where he's going or he'll run into the back of that German estate car.....   

It would seem HG & RST don't go in for it so much, but loads of clothing companies indulge in 'Vanity sizing'  whereby they increase clothing measurements but retain the same size marking on the label, so for example a pair of 32" waist trousers may now well measure  34" or even 36" in reality.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanity_sizing


So the bottom line is that  leathers have stayed the same, the clothes shops have been flattering you to keep you happy & now your bubble has been burst you need to stop dodging the salads.... 

The Necrophiliac Enthusiasts forum is good, if a little stiff. My forum name there is ColdEthyl. 

Really?  Sounds dead boring....

Surely the woman equivalent would be a vag head!

Nah, it'd have to be clit head!   

As it's a 600 have you checked the front sprocket?