Mr Fro

Well in theory, it's entirely possible to convert a petrol engine to diesel. "All you need to do" is bonk up the compression, fiddle the ECU, adapt the throttle body, work the cam a bit and up the final drive ratio. A turbo would be good too. I've seen a chopper with a generator engine in it. It worked well as it had a discrete belt driven gearbox rather than an integral unit those of us in the modern world are used to.

Game on mate!

Shit planning son. Just got the exams to get through now. We had mocks last week - when we got the thermodynamics paper the class as a whole went "Aaaaaaaaah... shit".

Modern diesel is better in terms of power consumption from primary fuel given the efficiencies of EV chargers and losses in energy production. EV however has lower net carbon emissions per unit distance but not by much. It's only something like 36kg carbon per year in it. A modern diesel car with brake energy recovery and exhaust energy recovery would dick all over EV in both cases. Happy motoring y'all.

I finished up my dissertation. If anyone wants to know anything about diesel ICE hybrids vs electric vehicles, I'm your man.

f*kin weird isn't it. I caught a peg on a cat's eye while riding a Golding and it bent the thing back. Imagine twatting your foot on one!

I don't think CBT is enough by any stretch however, I do remember the deep joy at being able to ride after a day of passing about on bikes. I see loads of yoofs riding scooters round and about my uni and almost all of them put their foot down when going round corners GTA style.

Preload reduces the initial load on the springs - reducing it will lower the bike a little when you get on it. Leave the compression & rebound alone to start with - they have no effect on ride height. It's better to change one thing and see what happens than do it all at once and not know what did what.

@onesea @Stu - yes, it's very good, cheap too! I used it on the turbo project and it didn't harm the aluminium, magnesium or paint on the engine. Recently I've been using it to clean up the sminge from some 40 odd year old machinery. No damage to any paintwork there either. The only thing to note is that it does take a bit of washing off - a quick dribble from a watering can won't do it, it needs at least a blast from the hose.

Screwfix no nonsense degreaser. You'll know it's good because it'll knack the skin on your hands.

I went through quite a few different makes until I had a Shoei which fit me really well so I've stuck with them.

It's all in the name of eco mate.

However, if you had some abortion of a 125 'cafe racer" then they would likely welcome you with open arms.

You're thinking too small mate, I've got my eye on a £100k/year gig.

Don't forget that we can cream off a nice chuck for ourselves for "administration" purposes.

Tweed, heavy cotton shirt, waxed beard and probably a neckerchief... Sounds like the kind of person we were warned to avoid as kids. I understand that they want to appeal to the trendy fuckwits but is there any reason we can't have a normal person's charidee rideout?

The only reason we have the TV on here is for the kids or background noise. There's very rarely anything on that either of us want to watch.

That sounds like a challenge to me Bob.

Have you got much space between the tyre and mudguard/frame?

I used one of those bottles on my old V70. The condenser let go at some point in the process and dumped the lot in a big chuff of a cloud. Scared the shit out of the neighbours kids. I put a new condenser on it and had a bloke come and fill it up. I think it was about £40. It lasted a few months before it leaked out so I didn't bother again.

No catch. It was my track bike so it's got a race fairing, snazzy suspension, nicely tuned etc.

You can have mine for £1700. I'd even put an MOT on it!

Fair go or dirty go?

My nomination today goes to my local garage. I picked up a massive screw in my tyre this morning so went straight there to get it plugged. Unfortunately, the f**kwit who mounted the tyre scratched the rim to bits. All the wheels were stripped and recoated last year so I was quite pissed off. the garage guy said "oh yeah, well run flats can be difficult". I told him that if he wasn't confident then he shouldn't have attempted the job! Anyway, they agreed to have it re-done. What made then £30 ended up costing them £70 because of a kak handed ape.

Throttle locks are turd. I had one on the Golding which needed constant fiddling to maintain a speed. Any change in the environment such as road level or wind meant it needed adjustment. As has been said, try relaxing a bit. I barely grip the handlebars at all unless I'm giving it the beans and even then it's still a light touch.