A bid!

Of 99p. Wow 

No bids so automatically relisted. Looks like I might be giving it to my local bike mechanic.

It's a long shot I know but is anyone still in contact with Pete Hawthorne who used to be Rookie75 on here? He's still registered and I've PM'd him but I don't know whether he ever comes on here any more.

Edit: looks like he moved to France in 2012 which will make it even harder to find him

Nobody? Four watchers on eBay but no bids yet.

Bump

Edit 17/8: I've given up on selling this on eBay due to a buyer who never paid and noone bidding when I relisted it, so anyone who'll take it away can have it for nothing but you'll need to come and pick it up from Milton near Cambridge.

I swapped this engine out years ago (with a lot of help from Gordo) when the output shaft bearings went and, because it's an engine-split job, it was cheaper to replace it than get it fixed. Since then it's been sitting in my garage with a plastic garbage bag over it so it should still be in good nick. I kept it well sprayed with Scottoiler FS365 when it was in the bike and the garage is bone dry.

It had exactly 62,597 miles on it when it was taken out and, to be honest, it ran better and looked better than the new engine did.

The World Superbike race in India has been moved from the 10 March to the 17 November due to an insufficient period of time to properly finalise the training of the marshals and medical staff around the racetrack

I've updated the timetable above.

With thanks to ozpm for the WSB races.

Who is this "ozpm" of whom you speak? 

Oz i seem to remember the december date was chosen for you in Bedford - but you did not show up ????

Not sure where you got that from. The date was already chosen and I said "Don't mind whether it's Bedford or Colchester, they're both miles away from me"

And I wasn't able to make it because it turned out to be the only weekend I could have an early Christmas with my brother before he went to Oz for real Christmas.

Am I forgiven? 

Not according to worldsbk.com. I've updated the date on the Aragon round.

December 2nd is free for me

Dont' mind whether it's Bedford or Colchester, they're both miles away from me

Not quite the can of worms I expected to open but it'll do   

Not wanting to get too Grahamm-esque but...

Quote from: ozpom on 16 August 2012, 08:14:15 am

To show the world that we're aware of it and glad of it.

We?

Yes, we, the people of Britain, who were being represented by the ceremonies. We, the British people who understand that while there are immigrants who take the piss and break the rules there are a lot of non-immigrants who do the same things and lot a of immigrants who do things right and make the UK a better place. If that doesn't include you then that's a pity.

Perhaps we should also have celebrated how wonderful it is to be in the EU?  Or replaced the Union flags with Brussels star circles and had our MP's march along waving them as examples of personal integrity and trustworthyness? The whole thing was political propaganda, stage managed confection, total bollox intended to project an image of a Britain that doesn't actually exist.

The athletes did well, but they were and are being used as political pawns.

Yes, they are, but as often happens in these sorts of discussions you're taking things to extremes to dodge the question. I'm not going to push this any further as I'll just be dismissed as a lefty pinko tree-hugger 

Ozpom - the opening ceremony was massively diverse!  The actors of various skin colours playing parts that would have been white at the time, the whole section about the immigrant workforce to rebuild after the war.  The section about teenagers appears to be about teenagers in that particular part of London (this made me laugh actually as I got a message from the Brazilian side of the family asking where the English kids were!).  Add in the volunteers and flag carriers of various backgrounds (including a lot of head scarves but no burka that I saw) there was a pretty obvious mix of people through the games.

Ah yes, I admit I'd forgotten the post-war immigration part. And yes, there was a good ethnic mix in the people who took part. It's just that no specific mention was made of how good it is that GB is a colourful mix of cultures, it was just left in the background. Maybe they though they'd offend too many Daily Mail readers 

I miss it  The BBC's online coverage was great - I got to watch all sorts of sports I'd never managed to see before (archery, BMX, water polo etc.) and I could watch what I wanted when I wanted I've now been living in the host country for two Olympics - Sydney and London - which is a rare privilege. There's nothing like being in the same timezone and seeing things properly Live. The online technology has come a long way since 2000.

The opening and closing ceremonies were good - very professional and nothing went obviously wrong - but I found two things disappointing:

1. The overall feeling I got was that GB is living in the past. Yes, we've got an amazing history (the bits that don't involve invading and exploiting other countries  ) but we've got an amazing Now as well, and where was it? A couple of kids texting each other in the opening ceremony and Taio Cruz, Tinchy Strider, Jessie J and (shudder) One Direction in the closing ceremony. Even Dizzie Rascal, Muse, Elbow and the Kaiser Chiefs have been around for a fair while (in pop music terms). I know they wanted to use people and images that everyone overseas would recognise but it would have been good if they could have made more of what we've got to offer the modern world right now.

2. I expect this will re-open the usual can of worms but why was nothing made of the ethnic diversity of Britain? All I saw was the Indian drummers around Eric Idle and that lasted a couple of minutes. The rest of the time you were lucky to see a slightly dark-skinned dancer as the camera flew past them. At least we had Dizzie, Taio and Tinchy but I doubt they were chosen because of their ethnic background. Like it or not, Britain is ethnically diverse but neither ceremony was which was a pity.

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