Does he or she have a part time job??simple question. and as I said my lad was happy to wear Tescos own clothing brands and save a few quid. He also only had hand me done mobile phones not state of the art. Sorry but there is no way any student should be racking up £50k in debt going through Uni.
When my lad was thinking about getting married  he mentioned how Liz was talking about how they would have to pull together to help clear her student debts £28k , my advice was to tell her they are her debts not theirs , thankfully he took that on board and went their separate ways.
Call me what you want but todays youth want everything on a plate , I see it with my Grand daughter and nieces & nephews children. get things far to easy in life and want mum & dad to pay for it.

Don't disagree Lew
Yes the person I know had a part time job but the point of my post isn't a debate about the person I know compared to your son, its the fact that very many students are coming out with very large debts and politicians are now suggesting that fees can be stopped.
It is inevitable that three or four years living in London with no help with accommodation costs plus £9k yearly tuition fees plus living costs travel etc that debts will accrue. I don't have a problem with that. What bugs me is that politicians can offer to end it at a stroke!
How can that be correct for the few years of students that have accepted the debt?
Imagine if you or I had paid heavily for our education only to be told that subsequent years would be free but your debt would remain.
Not that I'm expecting any of Jeremy's bribes to come to fruition! 

Quote from: dickturpin on 23 May 2017, 09:47:14 am

Really pissed about the tuition fee saga....if they are now ended then there is a band of about four years of students that carry debts of around £50k that students either side do not have....how can that be fair?
That's one hell of a burden to go into adulthood with....and they wonder why home ownership is slowing!!

£50 k student debt how are they managing to run up those debts. Most likely because they are on the piss and partying , designer clothes. Funny how my lad did a 4 year course, a year of which was spent in France and came out of Uni with absolutely no debts what so ever. Let me see now did he live at home while at Uni? no he shared a rented house with 5 mates  he met at Uni. Did the bank of mum & dad fund him all the way through Uni, no not entirely, we paid 50% of his tuition fees. Did he miss out on his social life while at Uni ? , no, because if it had tits he shagged it. Did he go hungry and have a crap diet?no, as he always was interested in cooking and was a foodie.
So you may ask how did he come out debt free. Simple before he even left school he had a Part time job in Sainsbury's and banked everything he earned, also  while at Uni he worked two part time jobs. Most students spend on average 12.5>14.5 hours a week in class so wtf are they doing the rest of the time, okay they will be doing home studies as well for a couple of hours after finishing Uni for the day. If my lad wanted clothes he went to Tescos or Asda , the designer gear was binned as he reckoned a £6.00 pair of Tescos own brand jeans covered his arse just as well as a £30 pair of Wranglers or Levi's, as he explained to me, you see dad   the £24 I saved on the jeans is my beer money or groceries etc! He did have one mate who came out with £37k debt and he was doing the same course. My lad got a Double 1st in French & European Business studies from Liverpool University. He then wanted to do  his Master degree which he did at Bordeaux University, they paid him €1500 a month while he studied there, he was being paid as he was teaching the French English as a foreign language for 6 hours a week. His mate who ran up£37k debt passed his  degree gaining I think the term is a Desmond as in 2.2. So as far as I am concerned running up£50k in debt is only achievable  if one is a party animal and also a lazy fecker.

Unfortunately not true Lew
Someone close to me in this situation...not a party animal at all. 3 years in London with no student accommodation and £9k annual tuition fees plus accommodation plus living costs and occasional travel home puts them into this situation.

Bike and kit all in stone built garage with concrete floor. No leather kit, all textile. No problems here.

Great pictures....thanks for sharing.
Trying to see a positive from the poor weather your having...at least the waterfalls are spectacular.

After early failure of my motobatt i bought a numax battery from Tanya.....Cheaper but too early to comment on durability.

Quote from: dickturpin on 13 April 2017, 05:24:40 pm

Camping for me every time....Small stove....Small tent...A few clothes... Compressible sleeping bag....Led lights wired from bike battery....Can't beat it 😁😁

You can....... with a nice hotel room haha
Steam shower, Jacuzzis spa tub, king size bed, flat screen tv and most importantly... heating.
Sorry but I really don't get the appeal of sleeping in a nylon sack under a tarp in the middle of a field. Not my cup of tea at all

All sounds a bit girly to me! 😋

Why not just support the swingarm, remove the bolt and regrease it then replace. That's what i have done for the past 13 years no worries so far........

That sounds like a cunning plan....👍

Yes ....Slow here too 😞😞

Graphics don't look right on the fairing if mine is anything to go by...Also it's missing the plastic protectors on the forks so maybe not original front end????

Optiglanz... Google it or YouTube...Not tried my bottle yet

Did some yesterday on a plastic spatula in the kitchen! Never tried the copper pins in it though. It's never going to be the neatest finish but ok for hidden repairs on the bike.
As stated above....Try rubber pad beneath the fairing infill panel to reduce future cracking.

Yet if we try to post something to China it'll be more than £2.50 postage!!!

Wasn't someone on here recently praising a firm in Glasgow for an excellent repair service???