Mr Fro

Pretty Little Ditty - Red Hot Chili Peppers.

The officious bi-atch in Thomas Cook in Cambs. Popped in just before 4 to book up a holiday (they close at 4:30) and she said she didn't have time to serve us but she could book us in later in the week if she wasn't too busy. Needless to say I enjoyed telling her how much business she'd missed out on and how much I was looking forward to giving it to one of her competitors.

Cheers Bob! My ZXR750 is pretty good on track. Pretty nimble and leaves most things behind. Pretty cheap too. I picked mine up cheap and expected it to be slow and generally crap but I've been really pleased at how well it performs. I only spent about £1200 on all the bits I needed to get everything sorted - including getting a trailer.

Used this stuff on the plenum of an old Essex engine - still looked pretty good after 5-6 years.

What I did: http://i760.photobucket.com/albums/xx246/Mr_Fro/IMAG0292-picsay.jpg

Cunning, simple, ingenious. I like it!

Two Little Boys - Theodore Morse

Think I'll swing by the touching sock on the way over next time - see what the crack is there too.

So why didn't you share it with the rest of us mere mortals? The USB in the V40 is pants too - bluetooth zaps the battery quicksharp, even if it's plugged in.

On long GPS guided rides I've had a problem with my phone; being that when it's plugged in, it gives a message along the lines of "You're not charging me enough son". Ultimately leading to a flat phone battery and guessing the way home. No longer I say! I've found that (on android at least) unless your USB charger has the D+ and D- pins connected then your phone will only charge at a rate as if it were connected to your PC (~50%), not the full tickle it would get from your proper manufacturer's AC charger. Being too cheap to fork out for a couple of new chargers and too lazy to split the ones I have in half to solder the connectors up, I've merely put a tiny bit of aluminium tape over the middle two pins of the USB lead and I now have full charging capacity! Check it out yourself - plug your phone in and look at the battery level - it'll say "Charging (USB)" or something. Then use a doctored up lead and it'll say "Charging (AC)". Obviously, don't do this on your computer lead as you'll not be able to transfer data.

Blame it on the Boogie - Big Fun

Fine, vehicle default rectification form (= re-MOT), contrary to Construction and Use regulations therefore no insurance therefore points. All in all a silly idea. Why do you need to run without anyway?

Nice idea dreamy but it was pretty murky by the time I got back. So much fuel posses over the place that the chain is squeaky clean (it actually squeaks). I didn't hear any fire engines in the night so I assume my garage is still there.

You could try a solar panel but they have to be pretty big to get any meaningful amount of juice out of them.

Just went to fill up the 750 at my local garage. I'd stuck about 14 litres in it before I noticed fuel pissing all over the floor, on my shoe and all up my leg. f**king main fuel line had split before the fuel tap. Managed to get it kinked and zip tied before the place went up in flames luckily. Got it home with fuel sloshing in the undertray, all over the nice hot exhaust and only salvaged just over a gallon from the tank. I'll be fitting a new bit of pipe and drilling a hole in the undertray tomorrow...

I think the obvious thing here is that you should have bought a Kwak - 8 years of abuse and mine still runs megasweet. On a serious note, it sounds like they've had enough opportunity to sort it out and it needs to be banged up a notch.

Yep, completely standard. I'll have a prod about and see if there's a dodgy connection somewhere. Edited to say: Thanks chaps!

Hello! My speedo has been a little on the optomistic side for a while which I put down to scrubbed out tyres - I thought it would go away once I put new rubber on but it hasn't. I've not done a full data log but so far it looks like 10% out at 50mph and 20% out at 70 (reading 55 and 85mph respectively). Since it's probably a non linear shift, do those in the know reckon a speedo healer will remedy this problem or do they only handle an x% change? Cheers, Fro

Team green! Ricky - I'll talk bollocks at Joeman for 20 mins or so while you TWOK his bike...

FYI - Halfords is doing ground anchors at a hefty discount at the mo.

I say it every week but I'm going to try and make it over - I'll be the tall bloke on the green thing.

This is true - my place is Cambs is somewhat smaller than my place in Margate was...

Not my bag. Only got bungs and a USB on mine. It's good enough as it is.

I had an Goldwing and the ZX6r at the same time - I used both equally. The ZX6r is great for a blast but doing Margate to Cambridge was best on the 'wing.

Apparently so. Just as well because my 12 year old 1/4" ratchet is losing it's pizzazz.