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The best way to do it is ask for a meeting with your boss about performance. Make sure he/she knows it's important to you. When you sit down, just say you wanted feedback on how you're doing at the company. You want their impression first as how you respond will depend on this. Once you have that, offer your own feedback. Say what you're happy with at the place, and bring it round to saying that you wanted to discuss job role/pay as the only gripe you have is that you are able to do much more advanced work than your equivalent peer, but your pay package doesn't reflect this. Let your enthusiasm show, say you would take on a different role to facilitate a raise in pay. Another important thing I'd do is explicitly say that you wanted to discuss this with the manager directly rather than look for other work. You want to appear loyal, and also it's a nice personal touch that you felt the manager was approachable. Similar happened at my workplace, I had empty promises from a department for a couple of years before I moved to a new position in the company. I made it clear I wanted to move up sooner rather than later but would do what I had to so I could prove myself. Saying this and my continued work meant it came much sooner than I'd expected. So it's important to ask. Good luck Mr Ricky!

From the sounds of it, he's saying link out the terminals 1 and 2, and the same with 3 and 4. He's using an old electricians trick commonly referred to as "When in doubt, link out" So open up the unit, you should have 4 terminals, and if the man from Datatool is right, they should also be numbered. Take a picture of the unit first so you can put it back if it doesn't work. Then disconnect the first two and link them together, and the same again with the other two. Then, providing his instructions were true, that should be it. You can of course trace the now joined wires back to where they break into the loom and repair the loom there. For reference, the alarm will probably break into the ignition line, and the indicator line. So it stops the bike from being able to start, and makes the indicators flash in an alarm situation.

As above really. Drop the oil into a clean pan and remove the filter. Shine a bright LED torch into both looking for any metal shards and debris of any kind. If you find any report what you find back here. The cam chain tensioners on Honda's are crap, they seem to be the weak point across most of the bigger CBR range. I had 2 go within 20,000 miles on my old CBR600F. One has gone on my Blackbird, and my old 2010 RR had one give up. So replace that and see if the rattle goes away before diving in with a cam chain replacement. Also rattles can sometimes be oil struggling to get places when the engine is cold, mainly due to carbon build up in the top end blocking some of the little passages. At that mileage it could do with a clean up anyway.

Such low mileage on an old bike could indicate the piston rings had time to corrode to the cylinder wall and are past their best if it sat around for a long time. The picture shows that deposits have gotten up the threads of the plug, so it suggests it's oil. But to be sure are the deposits on there wet and oily? Or is it dried on carbon? The latter means you've got a very rich fuel setup. If it's oily I'm going to guess it's a piston ring issue, caused by the bike probably being sat around for so long the rings and cylinder walls were too dry or just corroded to each other. Piston rings aren't pricey, it's getting the cylinder checked and possibly honed which is the sticky bit. But you can save a lot of money doing this yourself if you feel confident with a Haynes Manual. As a side note, I still have my fingers crossed it's just a new plug and possible carb clean job

The ground electrode has snapped off on the blackened plug. That's not good as it can do quite a bit of damage inside a cylinder of a running engine. Replace the plug and see what happens, might run fine and the last plug was blackened by improper combustion. But that's really just me crossing fingers for you and hoping it's nothing else!

Fresh fuel with a big dose of STP fuel system cleaner. See if that does it Also it might be worth cleaning the carbs and balancing them up.

The method I personally use was to put it in 2nd gear, sit on the bike and paddle it along until I'm going a few mph and then start quickly letting the clutch part way out so it doesn't fully engage, but it's enough to get the engine spinning. Pump the clutch in that fashion and work off the feel of it, the bike should spit and shudder as the engine tries to start. Once it goes pull the clutch in and let it idle in neutral for a couple of mins before riding off. I was able to get a CBR600RR started inside about 20 feet once with a big push and a quick flutter of clutch

SV's are easy to bump start. Stick it in 2nd and give it a go? If the battery is a dud it will either just not charge properly, die quickly when started, or doesn't start again even after a long ride.

If it's an RS125, it's probably seized. It's what they do. Seems like a mechanical issue. Probably seized. Seems like an electrical issue. Probably seized. Seems like its running just fine. Probably about to seize. I am joking obviously, but need to know what it's doing before we can diagnose it.

It should be easy, there are 4 bolts all undone. Are there any rubber grommets being used on it to locate it? That would hold it in. Put up some pictures so I can see, it should just be a case of flex it slightly off on one side and the other will come free.

Happy birthday TMBF! I was 16 just starting out on an RS50 when this place started up Well done for keeping it up, especially with things like facebook groups trying to pull people away!

Are the plugs getting wet? I had an SV650 that would drop the front cylinder out in the same way you describe. Fender extender, and grease up the spark plug caps and HT leads well to stop water running down them. Stops water being thrown up by the front wheel and working its way down the HT leads

I'd do the whole lot, all stem seals as they are cheap as chips mate. Change the rings in cylinder 1, and if you've got any spare cash, go to a good machine shop to have them check and hone the cylinder. Will ensure the life of the new rings.

why? they have as much a legal right to be on the road as anyone else? Should you ban those cart things being pulled be horses and say people can only ride the horse in single file? Also there is the argument that it is actually easier to pass than single file. Maybe not for motorbike but definitely for cars. If a car is overtake 4 cyclists in a line, and the length between the first wheel and back wheel is 20m. The car has to find a space where they can get out to the opposite lane for 20m and get back in safely. Now if the cyclists are 2x2, that distance is only 10m. So they car actually has less of a distance to overtake meaning they can be out and back in quicker, giving more chance to overtake. Being allowed to do something doesn't mean you should. I could walk very slowly in the middle of a busy path, but I don't as I don't want to hold people up. It's just about consideration. If you've done all you reasonably can to allow people by then that's fine. But often the case is a road is wide enough to allow us to pass single file cyclists (in the car) in the same lane safely. Which then can't be done when you're 2 abreast without going into the oncoming lane (which during rush hour isn't a good place to be). I don't mind cyclists broadly speaking. When I'm doing 17mph in a 40mph limit because of your choice of transport I can accept that and I'll overtake and go about my day. But make it noticeably hard to overtake as an unfortunately big minority of cyclists do, and I don't think about the legality, but how you're taking advantage of it. And the retort to this is often along the lines of "safety", but there's nothing safe about provoking people.

The contract lasts until the end of 2019, so it's all as normal up to that point according to Disney's CEO. Given that the production and scripting values are outstandingly high, and giving Disney shelf sales not seen elsewhere in the superhero genre, I'd be amazed if they decided to take it in-house after that point. But that's 24 months away and there will be far more things happening in the streaming market than simply Disney setting up shop. Netflix is busy acquiring rights to other potential series while major studios are wondering whether to reign in the influence Netflix has. Given that a contract can be cancelled immediately, I don't see all of this being a factor in today's decisions. I agree it's a long way off, which is why I gave reasons for prime and netflix. But I think it's worth bearing in mind as it gives some indication where the streaming market is heading, which is for increased diversity. I'm just glad you can freeze your netflix account, I don't like having more than 2 subscriptions, so I'll just hop from service to service based on which has the better content at the time. Providing they keep the ability to do that!

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Disney are going to bring out their own streaming service. Now that they own nearly everything! Word is they are going to pull the marvel deal with Netflix. So this Disney service will have the entire marvel universe, including the tv spin off shows, same with star wars etc. And they own a big part of Sky now so you can expect to see things like Westworld etc on there. But of the currently available, Prime I like as it has the Grand Tour. The second season is out and is improved over the first season. Netflix has things like Mindhunter and star trek discovery, which are both good watches. It also has better own made tv-series in general.

I hang it on a branch in sight of the path. On the walk I do with the family dog, there's 2 bins that are a couple of miles apart. If he goes when I've just passed one, I leave it nearby and pick it up on the way back to throw in the bin. Not sure what the point of flinging it into a tree would be? Most of the bags aren't even bio-degradable so they're not going anywhere. Why make your own home look like a run down shit hole?

A BMW tried to pull out on a car a couple ahead of me this morning in all the snow and ice. He span out! And the look of terror on his face when he'd stopped had that wonderful feel of someone tasting their own medicine.

Had one at the work gate where it joins the road. The road leading from work joins the main road via a T-junction. There are a couple of pedestrians who have stopped and are waiting at the edge of the path to cross the road when I'm gone. I'm turning left so make my checks, there's a cyclist on the path coming up behind the pedestrians. I figure he will stop and wait with them, and there's no room to cross in front of me anyway. I take one last quick glance to the right and begin to move off. As I go the cyclist doesn't stop and comes out onto the road in front of me. I hit the brakes suddenly and he hits the bonnet of the car shouting at me. I just flipped the bird, took a deep breath and carried on. But I don't know how he thought I was in the wrong. He was riding on a pedestrian path with no lights, he came onto the road where there was no crossing, and had to go into the road and go against the direction of travel for the lane to pass in front of my car which was emerging from the junction.

Overwhelmed in the "jobs to do" sense as the bikes don't have much to em, so it's a safer bet. But if you've got a lot of time to sink into it anyway then it sounds a goer I'm all for the RS125 project... I've rebuilt a few of them and occasionally I look at the ones locally to see if I can have a cheap project. If you ever see a Cagiva Mito going cheap you drop me a PM as I've always wanted one to compare with my previous RS125's.

Unfortunately not, the guy in the picture is the cyclist who only got 18 months for killing a woman. He was riding an illegal push bike with no front brake. He blamed the woman for stepping out as she was looking at her phone, and because he shouted for her to get out of the way. But witness accounts etc all state it was so fast she never stood a chance anyway. He was going too fast, and had little means of stopping.

They are good bikes, very reliable and quite simple too so you won't be overwhelmed. As with any project, doing it to make money is tough unless you get it below market price and can do it up to a high market price value without blowing potential profit on parts. I prefer to build a bike I like, and is tailored to my tastes. That way I get some value out of owning it, and when it comes to sell you just try to tweak it so it appeals to as big a market as possible.

I like your style I've always thought you get idiots in all modes of transport. But more recently I think there are different types of idiocy that gets drawn to a certain mode of transport. Bikers have their own group of idiots risking their lives just to get ahead of traffic by speed filtering. But idiot cyclists have to be the most petty. They seem to value being right (or at least feel so) over their own self-preservation. And I think your twitter experience sums it up, blocked for stating a fact. When you choose alternative facts to suit your narrative, you are in a whole new league of arrogance.

I actually quite liked the film. Sure it was a typical adaptation for the big screen, and Zooey Deschanel seems to be limited to acting the same character in every movie she's in, but I didn't think it was bad. But had you heard the radio series or seen the TV series or read the books. BBC radio 4 played the radio series some time back, and I watched some of the tv show so my scale of reference isn't as good as far of the show is concerned. But I read the books a couple of years ago! Still thought the movie was alright