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Hope not - it's mostly dudes coming over!

Happy birthday Rob! My birthday twin

Ah thank you gentlemen! Nothing to be jealous about today Bender - I have friends round for dinner and cocktails, very civilised!

You can hire a pipe crimper it seems.

Welcome! Interesting username - how did you choose it?

Welcome! That's... A ballache! Hopefully it's at least sunny?! If never considered the possibility of being stuck if you can't get parts. Maybe a good reminder to people to stick eith a Honda in future? I dunno. Good luck mate, unsure what to do except complain loudly on twitter etc to head office?

Be an awful shame if it were to go missing or get damaged. I mean generally I think you should (in the words of Vincent vega, or is it Jules) never f with anther man's automobile. Generally.

Staying in a cabin in a field with the missus, a hot tub, some lego and no mobile phones. Looking forward to it

If forced to choose I would always recommend the big bike sooner option over experience in 125 after a brief cbt...

I hear you. Bmw called me during a service and said 'you have the wrong size tyres on your car'. I was like what? You fitted them. What are you on about? Guy was new, called me with incorrect info like 3 times. I was like no, speak to your advisor and call me again. Useless.

Happy birthday geeza!

Same as mv agusta a few years back but hey 'Italian spirit'

Don't think I'd want that. Although I don't like the idea of fake engine noise in my car, yet when I turn it off its too quiet! I hate myself every time I turn it on.

If electric bikes had good range, quick swap batteries, and were cheaper, faster and generally better than petrol ones I'd seriously consider one, sound notwithstanding. I like the exhaust note, but if electric was say half the price of petrol, in addition to the above, I'd swap in a heartbeat, exhaust note be damned.

Sold.

I know it's a ballache. I'm gonna do some more trackdays this year.

I love that my bike does 100mph in first gear. I hate the 186 mph limiter.

Happy Birthday! Hope you have a good one

Sitting in bed with a hellish flu bug (unless it kills me in which case nothing I guess).

Reading this crap almost gave me a stroke.

I'm just posting this to maybe help people understand and not just get so irate, because stress is a big killer. Insurers lost a TON of cash during covid (as in are still in the red), weirdly, I'd have thought everyone had the same premium but crashes were massively reduced, but it's true: https://www.ey.com/en_uk/news/2023/06/ey-uk-motor-insurance-results-analysis#:~:text=Following a profitable 2021 – when,inflation and low premium costs Also, if insurance costs more than your bike is worth then remember they have to cover third parties so if you crash into a ferrari they have to pay out the £1m. Suddenly your £2k a year doesn't seem so bad. Insurers are a necessary evil to protect you as well as everyone else. They pay out if someone knocks your off your bike etc. "yeah but they're still a bunch of c***s!!!"

I've seen people on YouTube use then to varying degrees of success if that's any use?!

Mostly this

I mean, if it takes off eventually you'll get more stations. Like the early days of petrol, or electric.