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cordura m/cycle jacket. what is the best stuff to use?? I've machined washed 2 jackets so will need proofing.

not sure were to post this so ad/men feel free to move it etc. cheap as chips.this was put on the FOC Forum and the guy who bought it seem very happy with it... http://foc-u.co.uk/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=20415.0;attach=25163;image http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/38-51mm-Motorcycle-Carbon-Fiber-Exhaust-Muffler-Pipe-Removable-Silence-DB-Killer-/301933030140?hash=item464c9c6afc:g:U70AAOSwSWJXRRPw" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

ok thanks for now I'll leave it as is . till he contact me coz I can't do anything till he does.

he was on the left at the roundabout and from what I can remember we both pull out at the same time so in theory I had right of way. he stopped because he couldn't go any further as there was a queue and he left a gap so for those on coming his left wanting to go right at the roundabout. there was a lot of traffic and a big queue at the bottom of the bank going up,at the top there was road works which cause all the tail back in all direction apart from mine.wife said she saw him pull out as I was moving off and yes I did stop and then pulled out when all is clear. everything happened so quickly. anyway thanks for the replies... got a phone call this morning through answer phone as we were not in. he shopped around found the cheapest respray £204 and said that if doesn't hear from me he will then call the insurance. now I'm not trying to avoid anything but why withheld his no?? I cant contact him as I've lost the card with his details.and if he does go through with the insurance what are they going do?? so the question is the insurance how and what can they do?? from what I can gather they'll just write to me.

it was roughly 15 yards or so maybe less,short distance so no time to get out of the way. if I had been careless with my throttle and open up to go quick I would've come off but I kept the bike upright. its one of those mini roundabout. driver came from the left of me and I already started to move when he to moved. very busy road and tail backs etc due to road works at the top of the bank going out of whitby. it looks as though he stopped and left a gap for cars turning right on his left,thus partially blocking my path. my understanding is that the driver shouldn't of entered in the area unless it was clear.? it was a supper facial damage most of it could be polished out but no doubt he'll want a full respray of the bumper. also there was some marks on the other side of the bumper which wasn't done by me. yes I know no excuse but there ya go shit happens.

which MP wants in and out! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-35616946" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

so none of you make mistakes eh? I stop and waited for him to turn around and followed me. we just exchange names and address ,that is it.(insurance is not involve.) no witnesses etc so its his word against mine. I could of rode off but didn't.I dont mind paying as long as it is reasonable. by the way its an old jag but not classic so no doubt he'll want a full respray of the bumper.

yesterday I had an unfortunate incident. I was approaching a mini roundabout as I wait to go straight a head. a car on the left cross in front of me(nothing wrong in that) but he stopped right in my track I couldn't avoid him so clipped his rear bumper. just scuff marks on his bumper and my crash bare dented in by about 10mm. I was traveling at about 15mph so we didn't come off. this was in whitby and I was going towards the train station a popular bikers cafe. who would you say is at fault. personally I think it was 50/50 but the bloke was adamant that it was mine. I said you blocked my right of way and if you couldn't make it all the way then you shouldn't of crossed.

taken from facebook. please read! Pete Giles 7 June at 21:19 · OK,.. here's a short list of financial and industrial FUBARs from the EU then,.. (it was longer, much longer, but really tough reading) Cadbury moved production of several brands to a factory in Poland 2011 with EU grant. Despite promising the workforce they would not. Ford Transit moved to Turkey 2013 with EU grant. Jaguar Land Rover has recently agreed to build a new plant in Slovakia with EU grant, owned by Tata, the same company who have trashed our steel works and emptied the workers pension funds. They have not yet said what UK plants will lose out. Peugeot closed its Ryton (was Rootes Group) plant and moved production to Slovakia with EU grant. That move was not wanted by Peugeot, it was forced on them by EU blundering and cost then dearly. British Army's new Ajax fighting vehicles to be built in Spain using Swedish steel at the request of the EU to support jobs in Spain with EU grant, rather than Wales. (Just assembly) Dyson gone to Malaysia, with an EU loan. (I didn't believe this till I checked Financial Times) Crown Closures, Bournemouth (Was METAL BOX), gone to Poland with EU grant, once employed 1,200. M&S manufacturing gone to far east with EU loan. Hornby models gone. In fact all toys and models now gone from UK along with the patents all with with EU grants. Gillette gone to eastern Europe with EU grant. Texas Instruments Greenock gone to Germany with EU grant. Indesit at Bodelwyddan Wales gone with EU grant. Sekisui Alveo said production at its Merthyr Tydfil Industrial Park foam plant will relocate production to Roermond in the Netherlands, with EU funding. Hoover Merthyr factory moved out of UK to Czech Republic and the Far East by Italian company Candy with EU backing. ICI integration into Holland’s AkzoNobel with EU bank loan and within days of the merger, several factories in the UK, were closed, eliminating 3,500 jobs Boots sold to Italians Stefano Pessina who have based their HQ in Switzerland to avoid tax to the tune of £80 million a year, using an EU loan for the purchase. (Now sold on again) JDS Uniphase run by two Dutch men, bought up companies in the UK with £20 million in EU 'regeneration' grants, created a pollution nightmare and just closed it all down leaving 1,200 out of work and an environmental clean-up paid for by the UK tax-payer. They also raided the pension fund and drained it dry. (Joint CEOs charged with financial trading fraud, insider trading) UK airports are owned by a Spanish company. Scottish Power is owned by a Spanish company. Most London buses are run by Spanish and German companies. The Hinkley Point C nuclear power station to be built by French company EDF, part owned by the French government, using cheap Chinese steel that has catastrophically failed in other nuclear installations. Now EDF say the costs will be double or more and it will be very late even if it does come online. Swindon was once our producer of rail locomotives and rolling stock. Not any more, it's Bombardier in Derby and due to their losses in the aviation market, that could see the end of the British railways manufacturing altogether even though Bombardier had EU grants to keep Derby going which they diverted to their loss-making aviation side in Canada. New trains contract awarded to German company. 39% of British invention patents have been passed to foreign companies, many of them in the EU The Mini cars that Cameron stood in front of as an example of British engineering, are built by BMW mostly in Holland and Austria and those parts assembled in the UK. His campaign bus was made in Germany even though we have Plaxton, Optare, Bluebird, Dennis etc., in the UK. The bicycle for the Greens was made in the far east, not by Raleigh UK but then they are probably going to move to the Netherlands too as they have said recently. Anyone who thinks the EU is good for British industry or any other business simply hasn't paid attention to what has been systematically asset-stripped from the UK. Name me one major technology company still running in the UK, I used to contract out to many, then the work just dried up as they were sold off to companies from France, Germany, Holland, Belgium, etc., and now we don't even teach electronic technology for technicians any more, due to EU regulations. Yes some companies are in the UK with EU funding, but have you noticed that many, like Tata, are planning to shift the production away again, as soon as they will not have to pay a penalty to the EU for doing so. Hundreds already did, just using British skills to develop products and then opt for lower labour costs, often with a serious loss in quality too like Bosch alternators. Many employ staff only on a part-time basis, minimum wage and even those sent by DWP to work for nothing, those get just their benefits. I haven't detailed our non-existent fishing industry the EU paid to destroy, nor the farmers being paid NOT to produce food they could sell for more than they get paid to do nothing, don't even go there. I haven't mentioned what it costs us to be asset-stripped like this, nor have I mentioned immigration, nor the risk to our security if control of our armed forces is passed to Brussels or Germany. The way companies abuse the EU commercial assistance system is not doing the EU, Britain or any other country any favours. It has massive loopholes that are simply exploited and no-one in Brussels has the wit nor sense to change it. Change in the EU is slow at best and in most cases, next to impossible due to the intense lobbying by companies with a vested interest in abusing this very broken system. I know Margaret Thatcher was not many people's favourite person, but she did get a number of measures agreed that have now been completely eroded and sadly, by her own party. Mr Junker has said that any more 'special status' for Britain will be difficult and will face legal challenges. In other words, we will not get most of them, if any. If the EU may break up in the event of Britain voting to leave as suggested by both leaders of the Bundesbank and European Central Bank, then in all honesty, we have as a nation been propping up a failed system for too long, It will probably fail anyway, taking anyone still 'in' with it. Thus, this vote you have is not exactly 'remain' or 'leave', it is more an issue of jumping off the sinking ship while we have a chance to swim ashore now, or waiting till it is in really deep water and going down with it. Find something that's gone the other way, I've looked and I just can't. If you think the EU is a good idea, 1/ You haven't read the party manifesto of The European Peoples' Party. 2/ You haven't had to deal with EU petty bureaucracy tearing your business down. 3/ You don't think it matters.

http://thisisengland.org.uk/video-7-years-ago-this-day-david-cameron-said-the-uk-needs-to-be-independent-from-the-eu/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; http://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/659163/David-Cameron-ADMITS-Brussels-BLOCKED-bid-rescue-UK-steel" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Let's have a banter! If you don’t understand what all the fuss is about. Here is the EU put simply. A son goes to his Dad having saved up some money from his weekend job. Son “ Dad I’ve saved up £350 pounds to buy the new laptop I need for my college course” Dad “Well done son, give the money to me and I’ll help you” Son “Ok now what?” Dad “I will allow you £185 pounds back less my handling fee of £5 so £180 which you may only spend on a new phone” Son “But I need a laptop!” Dad “No, we’ve decided you can only buy a phone and you may only buy a phone from Germany and it must be pink. You must also source the phone within 2 days otherwise I will not release the money” Son “But it’s my money!” Dad “I’m afraid you are a member of this family and you must contribute to everyone else’s needs. I will decide how the money is spent” Son “So what happens to the £165?” Dad “Well your sister needs a new dress” Son “She has already had many new dresses” Dad “We’ve put it to the vote and I’m afraid you’re outvoted” Son “But I need a laptop to continue my course!” Dad “My decision is final” Son “But that’s not fair, will I ever have a say in how my money is spent” Dad “No, and by the way we’ve got a couple more people moving into your room and you’ll have to pay for their keep” Son “Well I’m leaving then” Dad “Don’t be like that lad, we need your money. And if you leave you won’t be able to buy a pink phone from Germany you’ll have to buy one here instead” Son “I NEED A LAPTOP!”

this was copied off FB. I'm not into politics, and I dont pretend I know whats going on, politically, half the time, but, I know whats right and whats wrong, and I think I'm pretty good at judging people. I always voted Labour, because that was the thing to do, living in the North East. My dad was North East secretary for the Transport and General Workers Union, and the Shop Steward for the TGW at Tees Dock, where he worked. He was staunch Labour, and if they were good enough for him, they were good enough for me. Years passed, my dad died, and I carried on voting Labour, UNTIL Tony Blair became the leader. Never trusted him. He was Smarmy, and definately not representative of the working classes he was supposed to represent. Then we got Gordon Brown, then Milliband. All cut from the same cloth. Now we have Corbyn, a joke of a man who refuses to sing the national anthem, but wants to serve in her majestys government. Since Blair, I never voted Labour again. Actually, I never voted at all. Could never vote for the Tories or LibDems. Could never trust a Tory and the other mob were just making up the numbers, but had no real policies because they themselves, never actually believed they'd get in, but were too busy trying to satisfy everybody. I, like the rest of the country, just plodded on, whoever was running the country. I never benefitted from them, even under Labour, who were supposed to look after me. Now this referendum has come up. I remember when we went into the EU, sort of. We had to do a project at school about it. Back then, there were 7 (or 9) countries in it.... and thats as much notice as I took. Now, we are being told we are better off staying in. If we leave, jobs will be lost. House prices will fall. Inflation will rise. The country will be at risk from attack etc etc etc. This is where all the previous stuff I wrote is heading..... Since joining the EU in 1973, the Dock Labour scheme has been scrapped (this would have guaranteed me a job when I was 21, on fantastic wages) The docks were privatised, and the dockers are on just above minimum wage. The whole of the British coal industry has gone. Nearly all of the shipbuilding has gone. ICI has gone, sold off to Americans (who ran it into the ground and laid off thousands) British Steel has gone. Sold off to far eastern companies. Again, thousands laid off year after year until there wasnt the workforce to make it viable. All our power companies, and possibly the water companies as well, are foreign owned (Even British Gas) Coachworks, that build our trains in Derby and York, have had to close or lay thousands off, because our governments gave the work to foreign coach builders (they said they had to put it out to tender. EU rules. We are now living in a country were no job is secure. Workers rights dont exist (dont believe the governments spiel about we are better off in the EU to protect our workers rights). If you want to claim unfair dismissal nowadays, you need to have worked at that company for 2 years (unless you are claiming for discrimination). There are more people working through agencies now than ever before, and, whereas in the past, agency workers were on good money, they aren't anymore. Agencies are killing the economy. You cant get a mortgage, a bank loan, a car or credit to buy goods, if you work through an agency. Zero hours contracts ! Where did these appear from ? Where were the EU workers rights that day ? Why are they still being allowed to be used, and why are the government allowed to sanction people who refuse to take these jobs ? Housing. Young couples cant afford mortgages nowadays, unless they are both in well paid, secure jobs (as secure as jobs can be nowadays) God help those living down south. Prices are bad enough in the north. Those with money, like investors, businessmen etc, will buy these cheaper house and make a killing when the prices go back up (which they will) Inflation will rise. Thats why its called inflation. I have recently found out the EU control what price we pay for petrol. Our National Security is at risk outside of the EU. Really !!!! European countries opened their borders to thousands, if not millions of migrants, allowing them to pass through wherever they wanted to go, unchecked. We are more at risk being part of the EU than we'll ever be if we leave. We will still have the back up of NATO, should we ever need it (they'll need us more than we'll need them) as we will still be part of Europe. Lets also not forget, that the EU banned punishment in schools. Ive always said, since that happened, we, as a country, have gone downhill. Kids now have no respect for teachers, for the police, for their elders. They are practically feral. National service should be brought back, to at least give them a chance in life. The European Court Of Human Rights. Oh yeah. This is the court that lets hate preachers, foreign criminals, rapists, muderers and paedophiles waste our money by us wanting to deport them, and they say, no, you cant. The accused has a cat that wont be looked after if hes deported. It would be laughable if it wasnt so serious. The NHS. The jewel in the UK's crown. Being run into the ground by successive governments, in order for it to be no longer cost effective, so that it can be sold off to the private sector. Currently bursting at the seams, because the whole world wants a piece of it. Why suffer when you can come over here and be treated for free, even though you have never contributed a penny towards it. I know everyone has their own mind, and will vote however they want, but I just hope the majority of this country see sense on referendum day, and do the right thing for past, present and future generations. We managed well enough before we joined, and we'll manage well enough if we leave. Rant Over

we rode to middleton in teesdale on the B6277 after we then turn back on to the same road and turned off onto the B 6276 . stayed on the same road to kirkby stephens.head onto nateby village and turn left onto B6270 towards thwait and turned right onto the road to hawes. not a particularly fast road but ideal for pottering..lovely scenery.

I'm from stockton.

sorry posted in the wrong place

weather was very nice last sunday as usual we avoided most of the bikers rout/coppers are every where.lol we did a 147 mile run ,beautiful scenery pictures doesn't do it justice. enjoy.... http://nc700-forum.com/forum/attachments/nc700-general-discussion/29600d1462810542-2016-what-did-you-do-your-nc700-today-dsc03261-jpg http://nc700-forum.com/forum/attachments/nc700-general-discussion/29602d1462810559-2016-what-did-you-do-your-nc700-today-dsc03263-jpg

think I have said enough on here I'll be glad when its all over the in or out is all over the place and it starting to get my goat. bottom line is I'm voting out.

I know a lot about history so dont kid yaself. if that cameron moron can use scare tactics which aren't true so can I .

so I guess that your voting in eh.

all news papers are sensationalist .you take your pick !they are all bad as each other and that is why I dont buy papers. whether we stay in or out make no difference to me personally as I no longer work for anyone ,self employed for now.will retire in november of this year. what I am concerned regarding in or out is my grand children future. our forefathers fought and died for our freedom dont let it be a waste. make no mistake the Eu want to control every aspect of your life. all the money not just ours that goes in no one is accountable or signed off. so we dont know for sure who get what or where it goes. the EU ..refuse to do this .can we really trust them to look after us. a definite NO in my opinion. every body make their own choices in life. this maybe the last chance we get to vote so make it count.

do you want be ruled by the Krauts? http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/politics/7138226/Germany-sabotaged-David-Camerons-EU-renegotiation-and-he-let-them-explosive-claims-from-IDS.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; what a tosser...

self castration my ass. it doesnt matter whether UKIP get donation from express newspapers or other. all political parties get donations ..Tories from the Rich labour mostly supported by unions the list goes on. do you rely want to be ruled by foreigners because that what will happen if we stay in. Here's some comments from the Civitas think tank (which is not affiliated to any party) which bust a lot of the myths about the EU. http://www.eu-facts.org.uk/the-referendum-debate/arguments-by-topic/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

perhaps this'll change your mind for those who want in. http://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/667908/Jean-Claude-Juncker-EU-referendum-Brexit-democracy-UK-Britain-Cameron" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;