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RoSPA do observed rides (where you get feedback on your riding) and all you pay is £10 or £20 a time to cover your observer's costs. You can opt to take the test, for about £60 or £70, but you don't need to. Of course, nothing's happening at the moment...

Nope. I was going to fit my cardo onto it - apparently it can be made to fit reasonably ok. I've read some complaints in the reviews about the SRL controls being awkward to use with gloves, so you're not alone. I've been making my mind up what to do with it, but I've decided now to return it. It doesn't fit right, and I really want to go into a shop and try out how it feels with different pads and stuff. Can't really do that online.

I'd be quite a nice guy if I wasn't such an ar*ehole.

Cheers fastbob. I've just been looking at some unboxing videos on youtube, and - you're spot on - they all have a bit of wrinkling on the visor protector. The helmet is a tad too large. I might phone them up and have a chat to see if they can swap the inner lining for different sized one.

The Summer Isles. Achingly beautiful. 58°00'28.0"N 5°23'59.7"W

I've just ordered one from Helmet City... and when it came it looked like this: It looks to all the world that the visor film has been taken off and replaced without much care. This isn't what I'd expect to buy in a shop, so I wrote back to them, and they replied saying Is this true? Would you buy a new helmet like this? Have you bought a new helmet in this condition?

At last I can get my front tyre scrubbed in - two months after fitting it. A record?

Bonkers, of course. And brilliant too. In this instance, the bonkers bit is eclipsing the brilliant bit.

[mention]Mawsley[/mention] Helmet City are offering 20% on all full-priced items. The discount is only added when you put the thing in your cart. I've just ordered a Neotec 2 from them (sorry Stu) after trying a C3 Pro from Sportbikeshop and finding out that the S is too big and the XS is too small. But Sportsbikeshop are brilliant. Top service, easy returns, no quibbles. I've given up buying from Europe: returns are too expensive.

A bucket and a brush? Works well for me

Had it happen to me too. Pretty much the same thing - came back to find a bloke holding his young kid up on the seat of my bike. I told the bloke calmly, politely and firmly never to do this to any bike ever again. I was probably a bit over the top, but he was a kindly bloke and didn't punch me in the face.

Saw this today

[mention]onesea[/mention] - don't worry too much about the advice of the moral brigade or the super-correct. Just follow the NHS advice: even if you're infected, you get out in the open air for exercise. Just don't get any closer than 2m to other people. And I would add don't touch stuff (like gates) with your hands (but of course you can touch the dog, the lead. the ball )

Nice result mate. Just in time for the good weather too!

I miss my CB500!

There's nowhere where you're asked for your details - not even an email address. When you complete it, you'll see that it's completely legit. And it's interesting, too.

We've had a number of surveys posted here over the years. My view is that this one is the first one written for grownup people.

Rumours are being passed on even faster than the virus

I used to live in OK, up north of Tulsa near the Kansas border, and there are still parts of the old Route 66 in place between Tulsa and OK City. My experience is that, to get the best out of the mid-west, you need to get off the interstates and major state highways - they are very, very dull - and find the roads that take you the back way into the heart of the smaller communities, and have enough time to linger and bump into the local folk, even if its just to stock up on root beer. Don't rush it or try to cover crazy distances*. Stay in small towns or in state parks. The experience is unlike anywhere else on earth. Of course you'll want to visit the big sites too, but I'd suggest looking for a tour that offers more than just a chance to check things off the bucket list. *A friend and I once did a weekend trip to in Santa Fe, NM - 1500 miles round trip, leaving Friday night, back by Sunday night. It was the kind of trip you have to do once, but never want to do again. I clearly remember running over an armadillo on the last mile before getting home - <> it went under the wheels of mile half-ton Ford Mercury. The next morning on the way home, I looked out for its remains, but there wasn't anything there - it had just got up from the road and wandered off home. Of course, given how exhausted I was, I could have just imagined the whole thing...

I tried carrying 2 bottles of milk in this topbox in 1976. Didn't end well! I've had a similarly bad experience with a half case of wine.

I used to stick mine in a small rucksack, and put the whole lot in the top box. Worked a treat. Now I've got panniers, I put the laptop in a silicone sleeve, and pad out the remaining space with some over-trousers so it doesn't flap about too much. I've also dropped the laptop several times on the floor. Now they've understood I'm clumsy, they've given me a solid state drive.

... until you actually try one. Then they're just plain fun

Nice one, mate. Those bikes are insanely fun

I've converted from Maybe to No. Feeling so much better . Still not allowed out of the house until Thursday tho.

2002 Honda CB500S [/attachment] . 2019 Triumph Tiger 800 XRx Low