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FZS600 Fazer / Re: Project Fazer: The build thread
« on: 18 March 2014, 11:53:46 am »or wear surgical gloves while doing the mechanics and remove at piccy timeThus is a good idea anyway, you can pick up a box of 100 for a fiver.
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or wear surgical gloves while doing the mechanics and remove at piccy timeThus is a good idea anyway, you can pick up a box of 100 for a fiver.
Are there proposals to make all cars have ABS? Thought not.It's been mandatory for cars sold in the EU for 7 years now.
If there's one silly urban myth that tops all others in the motorcycle world it's definitely this one. Don't waste your time with it, it does nothing, it's just bad science. Anyway, after an initial placebo effect of thinking the bike is smoother etc you'll be taking it all off again within a few weeks because it does look a bit silly.I imagine you'd get a better result by just balancing them. I reckon the claimed 7lbft (which is almost 10%) might be a bit optimistic
Try a different ignition advance/retard(sic) plate if you want a 'smoother' bike, it does work. But most of all make sure the bike is properly serviced before messing with any engine 'improver' mods.
I have an idea. Build the standard fazer, and enjoy itThis. I reckon you're going to build it up and then not be able to insure it because it's highly modified.
Anyone else sitting at their desk at work itching get on the bike at hometime and enjoy the ride home in the sun...... 32 minutes to go.......Yes, but I'm in the car today
"....it seems to work sometimes and not others...."Smartarse
Does it go "on/off/on/off/on/off....."
Once you've paid the tax on the 5 quid, what you've got left will buy less than the £1000 you had at the start of the year, thanks to inflation. Yes you've got more money, as in more pounds, but less wealth, which ultimately is the important thing, and what we mean when we say we're making money. We are getting less rich.Yes, which is down to the pony interest rate. Once that starts to go up again then savings will be making money. Until then it's as you say.
So what you are saying is we would be better off spending our savings now on things we will need in the future... things like a new bike.Exactly
Unfortunately that £1005 can by then probably buy you less than the £1000 you saved and then you pay tax....But that's down to inflation, not tax...
Making money? Hardly, with the way interest rates and inflation are sitting!Hardly, but you are. If you stick £1000 in a savings account for a year you'll have £1005 at the end so you pay income tax on the £5 you earn.
I do resent paying tax on my savings as I have already paid tax when I earned them.But you're paying tax on the interest earned on your savings aren't you? Which is income tax as you're making money?
Isas were intruduced to encourage people to save, but now what this country need is people to spend
Removed the Beowulf exhaust on my 600 and polished it up then remove the Fuel can on the thou and attempted to fit the Beowulf... only to find that the link pipe is about 4-5mm larger for the Fuel system so it won't fit... in fact, the link pipe has the exact same internal and external diameter as the connection on the BeowulfCould you not cut a slot in it and open it up a fraction to fit over the can?
Going to have to either find a connecting piece of metal, or buy a new link pipe
But still, refitted the Fuel can and went for a spin around the South of Bristol and North Somerset
No, a system, based solely on emissions, doesn't take into account the wear and tear a vehicle causes to the road, nor the congestion that it contributes to.And how do you quantify those? As someone who filters at pretty much every opportunity, should I pay less tax than someone on the same bike who sits in a queue of traffic?
Any reasonable system should take both pollution and road wear into account.
We have a staged system of vehicle taxation in this country where the most polluting or most damaging vehicles pay the most tax. All I'm asking is that that "staging" be applied to motorcycles as well, not least because they cause less congestion which is a positive benefit to road use.
Never personally received a penny in state benefits and while in part I agree with your sentiment it is really up to the individual how they spend their payments if not specifically paid for set purpose like rent allowance etc. The annoyance comes imo when the individual spends it on sky tv, beer and fags and motorbikes then moans about getting a pittance and not enough to survive on.This is pretty much it. I'd prefer it to go on education or healthcare or something useful.
I agree and I think most would agree that its not the tax that is the issue, its how its spentThis. I don't really have a problem with paying the £75 ish VED but I'd prefer if it wasn't paying some dole-scroungers Sky bill and cigarette habit
But what if you're someone like me who sometimes only uses the bike a couple of times a month? I might only ride it for eg 30 days in a year, but I have to keep it taxed for the other 335 days.I use mine every day and do 20k+ per year. It's fairer and cheaper (for me) to pay tax based on engine size.
It would be fairer and cheaper (for me) to only pay tax on the petrol I use. YMMV (quite literally!)
My bike has sat in the garage since Christmas eve by has used 2 months of tax whilst not going near a road.There's already a system in place to save paying tax on vehicles like this. If you don't want to tax/insure it if you're not using it for months at a time then SORN it.