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She's hella busy right now! Hasn't had a moments peace in a couple of weeks aside from weekends but I'll pass it along

An engine will fall under a single part number if you can find a microfiche. If it matches that of the Zing it will fit as it will be the same engine and mounts.

Block the sender on all the junk e-mails. Most of them come from the same sender, who uses a different name to send it from so it looks like paypal or similar. I was getting literally 20 messages a day saying my paypal required "informations immediately". But after I started junking the lot, it has settled down to one every few weeks. My junk folder auto deletes every week so the mess stays out of my inbox.

They're the ones that throw themselves into that situation most of the time under the impression that because they are allowed to be there, they most certainly should be. Even though it doesn't register that it won't matter if they're dead Quite like that invention, I've seen it before and it's used more in countries like India where home made engineering is high on the list of priorities.

People are becoming more aware of autism so don't worry. It's an interesting topic, as me and my brother are very similar in how we think and process the world. But due to just a few differences he is considered to have Asperger's whilst I just shared some minor traits. Thing is that everyone on the ASD or otherwise all fall in their own spot on a scale. No two are the same, and everyone handles their situation differently.

What was wrong with the car? You don't mention it so I'm dubious

It will be a motorcycle engineer lecturer. Likely discussing modules like suspension and brakes, frame and engine, and aerodynamic design etc. Basically if you've worked in a design office for a automotive company and understand the various components and their impact on each other from a design point of view you've got the experience they want and all you need is a qualification to teach. Would be my dream job too! Other than actually designing the engines.

Only got a laptop, but I've got an Xbox one which I got during a black friday style day Argos had. Got a 3DS as well when I'm feeling like playing my old Nintendo 64 games as many of them got remastered for the handhold.

Florida has the same warm rain minus the acid you get in a lot of China's rain. I was out in it on Monday, full waterproofs, was more annoyed the bike would need another clean so soon. Really nervous about dipping the exhaust which runs under my bike into the flooded parts of the road though, as I've known someone get a cracked collector from the sudden cooling affect.

As you said that after seeing her pic holding the pass certificate, you will now be her best friend She's a 1985 vintage!

Global warming baby... It's going to keep on hitting you like a deranged hobo until you admit it exists

Bit of a pain to do but possible, you'd have to run a power supply from the battery to the fan power line, activated by a relay connected to a side light (so it only runs when ignition is on). One idea I have is flush the system and put "engine ice" in there. An American product but it really works. They use it in 30+ degrees places like California/Texas etc

Oosh, and it's never 100% that's what it is until you try it. Do you have any pics of the chinese rad, so I can compare to the OEM one? I'll be able to better judge what's going on. So long as the temp is bouncing up and down and not at random it looks more likely to be the rad. The thermostat is designed to fail in an open position, however a sharp jolt like a sudden deceleration and tumble could change this. You can always get it out, pop it in a clear bowl of water, look at it's state, then heat the water to boiling and it should spring open. Eliminates that at least, providing its not a total pig to reach!

http://sirius-c.ncat.edu/asn/country/ethiopia/esss.jpg Found this on the "ethiopian space society" page. They're a bit away from getting on the moon, but it's a space programme all the same.

Mostly they're ok, but on a high end bike like an R1 I wonder if it's more sensitive to changes. The more highly strung, the bigger the effect a small change has. A lot of people have no problems, others have some. A colleague has one on his SV, and he said it runs hotter but is still within acceptable levels. So not a problem, but a difference. It overheats when sat still, which is what mine was doing. It was good enough to keep the bike cool on the move but when stopped on a warm day the coolant reservoir would boil as the rads heat dissipation wasn't good enough. Easiest way to tell is see if he can score a cheap OEM rad on ebay, and swap it to see what happens. If the thermostat was bust it sounds like it would be stuck closed, as if it was open it would take forever to heat up and then it would keep on heating up. They are usually cheap components so might be worth changing that.

Ideally that's how it should be, but it's like the chinese cheap brake discs. Some people rave about them, others say they warp inside 5000 miles. Chinese kit is very hit and miss stuff, or in the case of most of their bikes, a solid miss

Just to throw this in there, I've used a non-OEM rad and suffered overheating on a CBR600 before. It was ok when being ridden, but the moment it stopped it didn't have the efficiency of the previous rad to cool itself. Those fins dissipate heat and if they aren't as good a material as the original, they will not do it as well. The sporadic change in temperature is ok so long as it falls a degree or two at a time down, and then again up. As it's measuring the coolant temp. Many sensors on bikes have dampeners so they read 75 degrees when in actual fact, due to the thermostat opening and closing it's bouncing between 75 and 80. My old SV used to climb to 90 degrees, then gradually fall to 80 degrees, and begin climbing again throughout the ride, in roughly 15-20 second cycles. My Hondas however told porkies and would seem to stay at 77 forever when you were riding, then suddenly start rising when the coolant got past a certain point. You probably have a buggered pump, or a inefficient rad. Or both! Swap out the coolant to "engine ice", it's american stuff and made for their climate if you want added performance. You have to clean the system out first before you put it in but it stops my Yammie being a pig. As you stop on that at the lights and it goes from 77 to 106 degrees in less than a minute. And apparently that's all normal as it only has a 2.6 litre oil capacity being an R6 engine. Keep an eye out on ebay for an OEM rad. Or an R1 that is being broken.

I've done this with a few people who are nice in person, but a bit OTT on facebook. Unfollowing them is a bit weird as it's like unfriending without wanting them to know, if it's annoying family fair enough but I prefer just to make them leave on their own terms. As mentioned in my first post, I like to wind up those who use facebook to push a political agenda. Mainly by posting contrary evidence to their claims which usually results in one heck of an emotional explosion and an unfriend. It spares you any awkwardness if you meet in person again as they outright avoid you or if they do approach you, you point out that their opinion earned them a debate, whereas yours earned you their scorn. When you see people posting anti-biker stuff, anti-cyclist, or digs and jibes aimed at a group you are in etc. Just be as indirect back in response if you do respond or leave it totally. If I dig back at something, usually I'm just having a sigh and trying to say I don't think it's right but does it matter? It's all emotional tosh, so there's no reason to it anyway. Funny one I'm having lately is with vegans. On my friends list someone does post a lot of vegan related stuff so eventually I disagreed with some bits and showed where I agreed with others, but they are like sith lords. You are either completely with them, or an enemy

To you both... Rohypnol is one *hell* of a drug.

This is turning into a facebook rant thread Text and call would cover it, but it allows mass communication, which has its benefits and disadvantages. Don't read too much into what facebook is about, there are studies showing mothers posting too many pics of their babies are secretly depressed, then there's studies on the people who read these studies showing they want to attach negativity to it to make them feel better about their situation, then there's studies on the people who read studies on the people who read studies showing some people have too much time on their hands All bollocks. In any psychology class they'd all be pulled apart for ignoring individual differences. In my household, sister/gf/mother are bubbly people, their base setting seems to be happy. Whereas the blokes me/brother/dad are reserved, generally quite neutral in appearance. So over on facebook the girls are always updating stuff, sharing pictures and so on. The blokes post diddly. Some study will say I'm basically a withdrawn, and depressed person. Whereas in actual fact, you'd have to be acting adversely to your real personality for there to be any truth in that. Like it or hate it, we are in the growing stages of a communication renaissance, information is flying around at an ever increasing rate. People are knowing more in general about the world than they did before, we just have to work on filtering out the crap

What a tosser... Pecs are best worked with triceps. I barely post on facebook, but because of Moo my life is broadcast on there as I'm continually tagged in things. I guess it's fair enough as that's what it is for although I keep more personal moments reserved for a printed photo album. But people can do certain things that will earn them an unfriend. If you spiel off nothing but political garbage as if a certain point of view is solid fact, that's a pretty quick way to get me to start winding you up. Same for sharing or posting "like bait", or ranting non stop as if the sun had gone and wasn't coming back Nothing too bad, some of the silly stuff is even funny to watch, like people who like to always play devils advocate or hate something no one else does. I can't tell if they think it's clever, or if they are trying to get at those in the know, but either way, it's quite a backfire on them in the end. Prepare yourself for the retribution. I've taken one or two people off my fb list and had a few angry e-mails some months later.

Thanks all! Just seen this, I've been off for a week pissing around on the old mans GS1200, looking after the dog, and an injured mother Had a belter, and have a big holiday coming up fast

Moo passed her driving test! Her bike test will follow some point in the near future, but for now, chuffed to pieces for her.

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I hope they didn't do anything too intensive with your bike! Last time I trusted my bike to a garage was for service history, they lost the bolts for the cam chain tensioner, put replacements that were imperial and ever so slightly too small in on a metric bike, fell out with said new tensioner and my bikes engine nearly pulled itself to pieces when the timing chain starting jumping around like a cat in a bath. Never again