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« on: 28 January 2023, 10:55:46 am »
To get off the stand always sit on the bike first and just push forward and roll off it really easy and safe having both feet on the ground reduces the risk of drop if it gets the better of you and leans away from you if you are on one side.
That rather depends on whether your legs are long enough to be able to flat-foot the bike on both sides...!
I can not flat foot both sides whilst its on the centre stand but can get enough toes on the ground to push off the stand and as Darrsi says both hands are on the bars and I have control of the front brake. Maybe its totally different for your FZ6 as we are talking about the FZS which is Ratters bike. Like you mentioned first putting the side stand down to put the bike on the centre stand which would just get in the way for me on an FZs. When putting it on the centre I always make sure it is fully sitting on both stand feet as there is always the unintentional bias towards your side of the bike which could over time perhaps bend the stand making it increasingly more difficult to use. Ratters thinks his stand may be off an FZs 1000 but aren't they completely different looking and should be able to tell just by looking at it.
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« on: 27 January 2023, 04:23:47 pm »
I believe what he is saying is the bike is very difficult to get onto the centre stand, hence the comment about the technique of doing so and the possibility of it being the wrong stand, as a Thou stand could be longer? It is the terminology of “stand up” and “stand down”, stand up means in use. Different to what most of us here would say. I 🤔 so anyway.
I was always taught, put your foot on the stand and then stand up straight holding onto the handle by the rear foot peg - always works for me. Getting the bike off the stand is another matter 
To get off the stand always sit on the bike first and just push forward and roll off it really easy and safe having both feet on the ground reduces the risk of drop if it gets the better of you and leans away from you if you are on one side.
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« on: 17 January 2023, 11:03:27 am »
Why would you want to add any ambiguity at all to which way you intend to turn - or not turn to car drivers that are already trying their best to kill you.Much better to fit some white spot lights.
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« on: 14 January 2023, 08:46:22 pm »
My OEM battery is almost 25 years old  98 plate I have had the bike for 22 years and since 2012 have had the battery on an optimate type charger when not riding which can be 6-7 weeks at a time. It fires up really strong and I might make numerous stops whilst out but still seems strong.However I fully expect one day to pull the bike out and find that the charger has failed and the battery is flat from which it would not recover.I brought the charger in 2012 when the bike would not start - was old plugs and I flattened the battery trying, I got a Yam branded Ctek charger and it revived the battery after (cant remember but something like24 hours )Always ride with the light mod - left and right on but do not have any other possible electric drains. There you go that is my experience.
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« on: 13 January 2023, 11:45:35 am »
The main difference is that the foxeye is slower than the boxeye because as everyone knows --- a black fazer  is the fastest colour and they did not make a black foxeye 
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« on: 09 January 2023, 11:40:33 pm »
Did you go somewhere?
No, just not been on the forum for a long while.
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« on: 07 January 2023, 03:35:10 pm »
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« on: 13 June 2021, 12:25:02 pm »
Government shouldn't take those who were eligible for a vaccination, but refused it, into account in any way when it comes to lockdown decisions.
To adopt a "screw you, I'm alright Jack" mentality is selfish and discriminatory and will do little to encourage those people who are vaccine hesitant to change their minds because they'll be more likely to think "Here we go again, being treated as worthless by an establishment that never cared about us in the first place".
I've done everything that's required of me during this pandemic. I've had both the vaccinations, taken part in twice weekly lateral flow testing (still doing so) and followed every rule that's been required.
I totally agree. So you are now calling everyone who did what they were told and stepped up to take the vax - selfish. --- REALLY ! [removed comments that have already been removed from the original post - bkd]
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« on: 13 June 2021, 11:24:42 am »
At the end of the day it comes down to personal responsibility and if certain people still choose not to accept it there's little more the government can do.
Let me draw a parallel example: A lot of people resisted a seat belt law because it should be "personal responsibility" or an infringement on their "freedoms" etc.
In 1982, the year before the seat belt law was introduced, 2,443 people were killed in accidents on Britain’s roads. 30 years later, that figure had dropped to 816. Now that might not all have been due to seatbelts, but they were certainly contributory to it and yet people's "freedoms" are still intact.
Not wearing a seatbelt only affects you, but someone who is (for whatever reason) not vaccinated, can spread the virus to others and may even have a variant that the vaccine may not work on.
Now, yes, their decision not to be vaccinated may *also* be selfish, but demanding that the rules be changed because of what the majority have done (let alone because someone has declared an arbitrary date as "Freedom Day") when there is still a risk of new outbreaks, as is happening at the moment, will just make the situation worse, so decisions that affect the whole population have to consider this fact.
I have heard the "seat belt" one on the radio too.  And I have heard it repeated loads of times from people repeating it as though it was their own. Its apt that you should use the seatbelt metaphor because the same communities that we are referring to who are refusing the jab are also the same ones who repeatedly flout the seatbelt laws.
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« on: 13 June 2021, 11:17:07 am »
So if you are the wrong community you are a anti vax nut but if you belong to other communities then you are "vaccine hesitant".
these are still *people* with lives that need to be considered when decisions are made.
Yes you are perfectly right and I agree with you 100%. We should protect those people that will not have the jab by informing them that they should shield and stay at home to protect themselves.
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« on: 13 June 2021, 10:39:57 am »
some communities may have more people being "vaccine hesitant" because of misinformation (accidental or even deliberate) or because of a simple lack of trust in the authorities because they remember the number of times they have been screwed over by British governments in the past.
So if you are the wrong community you are a anti vax nut but if you belong to other communities then you are "vaccine hesitant". Its the same areas every time. As far as I can see the government has bent over backwards to get the vax message out to these communities. Calling it Delta may of even made things worse as a lot of these communities probably think the Indian one has gone. Call it the Indian variant and press the message home to them.
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« on: 12 June 2021, 09:06:12 pm »
I was on my phone looking and did not notice your new post. But did notice on my tablet. On the desktop it is very noticeable.
As most people look ( I assume), on a phone then I think being a sticky could be less visible than a topic that can be bumped to the top of the general section.
I don't think the challenge is ever that popular and only a core few people seems to take part. Maybe most use their bikes to commute and that doesn't fit well with the challenges.
On the other hand I am sitting here writing this when I could be out doing the challenge
Your bike next to a river/ stream/ quayside/ lake etc
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« on: 12 June 2021, 08:56:17 pm »
Great to see so many of the pandemic heroes honoured in The Queen's Birthday Honours. Well deserved 
Fantastic to see Her Majesty enjoying Trooping The Colour at Windsor in the sunshine today too. Happy Birthday Ma'am 
I think Windsor Castle is a much better place for it. It looks fantastic and is a far better backdrop than horesgaurds and Her Majesty looks so relaxed there. I see that she was freely mixing with the G7 without a covid care in the world. Everyone who has had 2 jabs would do well to do as our Queen and get on with our lives. If any minority group has refused the jabs then that's their problem but everyone else who has done their bit for this country should not pay the lockdown price for their selfishness.
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« on: 12 June 2021, 02:04:42 pm »
Expect to see news briefings by the 3 horsemen of the apocalypse with their scary charts as a warm up act laying the ground in the run up to borris anouncing lockdown extention.
Difficult to see how they're going to justify it. I thought restrictions were to stop the NHS being overwhelmed?. It's not being overwhelmed is it?. There's no one admitted to my local hospital with it now and everyone over about 30 has had at least one jab, most two.
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« on: 12 June 2021, 10:00:06 am »
Expect to see news briefings by the 3 horsemen of the apocalypse with their scary charts as a warm up act laying the ground in the run up to borris anouncing lockdown extention.
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« on: 11 June 2021, 09:07:14 pm »
I remember when you first got that jacket. Very nice, and a 46 Euro, you truly are a racing snake. My RST is perforated, but not as much as your Spidi.
RST do the same thing as that Spidi, it's called the Ventilator V. I use one myself in summer, excellent bit of kit. Feels as cool as riding in a tshirt. Mines a size 46 too but unlike sharpie's mine is the adult male size 46 🤣😜
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« on: 11 June 2021, 05:32:24 pm »
What gets my goat is when people say "re double our efforts" when they were not doubled in the first place so how can they be re doubled.
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« on: 11 June 2021, 03:34:36 pm »
Gotta say those indicators look dangerous to me. Unlesss I am mistaken, are they ones like those designed for the side of cars, inwhich case the reflecting surface is pointing in the wrong direction for the back - and half of them are buried in the cowel too. And I am sure they are too close to the break light. How do you get that through the MOT.
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« on: 11 June 2021, 03:23:25 pm »
I remember when you first got that jacket. Very nice, and a 46 Euro, you truly are a racing snake. My RST is perforated, but not as much as your Spidi.
I can only get a thin t shirt under it.
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« on: 11 June 2021, 01:09:05 pm »
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« on: 11 June 2021, 12:59:02 pm »
The left seems to hate this country. If you fly the English flag at best you are sneered at by the likes of lady Nugent at worst called a racist, if you fly the union flag you are called a flag shagger.I want to see it on every government building.
"Patriotism is the Last Refuge of the Scoundrel" - Samuel Johnson.
Samuel Johnson ---himself a politically committed Tory. So you now agree with the Right. Left leg in  left leg out
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« on: 11 June 2021, 11:06:44 am »
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« on: 11 June 2021, 09:22:15 am »
Yes the flag shaggers
I find this trope perticually offensive. And find it perticually odd thing to say by someone who was paid by and continues to be paid by the crown. The left seems to hate this country. If you fly the English flag at best you are sneered at by the likes of lady Nugent at worst called a racist, if you fly the union flag you are called a flag shagger.I want to see it on every government building.
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« on: 11 June 2021, 09:03:11 am »
Took advantage of the overcast weather and had a pleasant 198 mile day out around the counties nearest to me.
Oooh overcast you say. Hmmm sounds like rain. Err Maybe tomorrow.
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« on: 09 June 2021, 11:02:46 am »
So we have been on level 3 since March and the 61 other countries have only just moved from 4 to 3 Nevertheless, they can go and we can't.
Yet same level 3.
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