Smokin Joe

I had the same trouble with my car, as suggested WD40 cured it.

As a lifelong Hammers fan I share your pain. The days when supporters of "Ordinary" teams could hope that this could be the year for ultimate glory disappeared when the megabucks started flowing into the coffers of the lucky few. Now it's just a constant fight to stay in the top division.

Fair enough.

I don't claim any expertise on this, but will there be consequences? I've managed to do it in the past and got away with it and I know when this discussion came up somewhere before the consensus seemed to be that petrol needed a spark to ignite it. Not claiming it wouldn't or couldn't, but...

What a strange race, fantastically exciting because of Bridgestone's tyre cock-up and it's kept the championship alive. Lorenzo and Marquez were both lucky to stay aboard after their coming together and the latter made a real howler with his late pit stop. Moto 1 and 2 were both as good though it's a great shame about Scott Redding. I hope he turns out to be ok for Japan.

Seven year itch on the way, then?

Buy a Haynes manual and find it's been written by some clown who hasn't been within 100 yards of your bike.

Agree 100% Along with dancing on Whatever and every stupid cookery and reality programme ever shown. The more channels we get the more crap we get.

Yet costs more I could easily do without either, in fact we don't have either in the house. I'm a tea addict, God knows how many cups I get through each day. I blame it on my time working on a local council, being mobile and with little to do my day was spent travelling from depot to depot where invariably the kettle would go on when someone arrived.

Superman is flying through Metropolis when he sees Wonder Woman lying in the grass in the park, stark naked with her legs open. He thinks if he drops down at supersonic speed and gives her a quick one she'll never know who it was. So down he goes, has a lightening shag and then zooms off again. "What the hell was that", cries Wonder woman. "I Don't know, but my arse is killing me", says the Invisible man.

Some people would pay good money for that.

Just a bit of headline grabbing. It will never happen.

I've never been a fan of top boxes. Apart from being pig ugly they upset the balance of the bike if you put anything remotely heavy in them. Tank bag or throw over panniers would be my choice.

Mine was £29 full comp on a 175. And you could get hammered for a fiver and still have enough for a Chinese on the way home and we didn't have mobile phones and computers and we were happier because of it and rant moan whinge etc etc ..................

We bought a sausage dog last week. We took it back after a couple of days, the sausages it made were revolting.

He appeared on here 15 days ago asking advice on a first bike as he wants to do his CBT, now says he's quitting biking. How can you quit something you've never even done?

Is this thread some sort of lovers tiff being played out online? Maybe Selene is heartbroken because her beloved Zod has been giving her the cold shoulder?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ-FYVm3kwk

As someone who up until recently was a life long club cyclist the worst thing that ever happened was when the eco warriors got into it and started demanding cycle lanes and other facilities that anyone competent on a bike wouldn't go near. They think the rules of the road apply to everyone else and not to them and their anti motoring stance gets up everyone's noses and made cyclist hating a national sport, spoiling it for the rest of us. Just pray they are all wiped out jumping red lights before they discover motorcycling and f*ck that up too.

And boring everyone to death going on about this new bird he's seeing.

They're quite sensible and overdue increases in my opinion. Unless I get done for one when it'll be "Why aren't they out catching murderers and rapists instead of picking on innocent.....Blah blah blah blah etc etc

You wouldn't. I sent 20 years as an ADI and during that time the DSA conducted around 1.6 million L tests a year with an average pass rate of around 43%. There are around thirty million licence holders in the UK and to re-test every five years would mean an extra 5.75 million tests have to be fitted in - that's without retests. It would cost an absolute fortune to increases the number of highly trained and constantly monitored examiners to meet that demand and a huge rise in the number of test centres. And what would it achieve? Absolutely nothing. You know that nobber who sat an inch off your number plate at 85 on the motorway, then undertook, gave you the finger and cut you up when he pulled back in front again? He'd piss the test, because although he drives dangerously and frightens the life out of others his standard of car control and understanding of it is up there with the best. That's how he gets away with it. He just happens to be an aggressive prat who doesn't care about anyone else, but if he had to take a test he'd be sweet as pie for forty five minutes and the examiner would thank him for a lovely drive because the guy has bags of confidence and doesn't get nervous. Then he'd drive off and revert to type. Case 2 would be the courteous driver who is as safe as houses. His job depends on his car so he's a bag of nerves when he gets to the test centre. It's sh1t or bust, fail and the job goes along with his house and everything else. Remember how you felt when you took yours? Even though it didn't matter? You had nothing to lose but another test fee. Remember the waiting room where your nerves were in shreds? Now put youself in the position where you have EVERYTHING to lose. Just one little fecking mistake and you have to walk home from the test centre because you've lost your licence. Think you could drive like you normally do with that on your shoulders? Now I could pass the test 99 times out of 100. I know everything the examiners want and I was teaching it for so long I could do it in my sleep. But what about time no 100? I'm on a bad day, I make one misjudgement at a critical moment or the examiner takes a dislike to me (it happens) and it's good night Vienna. Wouldn't be possible and wouldn't do any good. The reason BRAKE want it is because they're a well known minority of assorted Greens and other nutters who want cars off the road and everyone queuing for buses or cycling' Be careful what you wish for because it might not be what you want.

I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.

An simple error on the insurer's part I should imagine. Get them to sort it out for you.

In general I think they are about right.