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Good tips there, thank you @Steve_M. @wastedyears1981 When you check in they give you a hangar (a piece of paper showing your departure letter) and tell you to hang it on your rear view mirror. The blue tac is to stick it to the inside of the screen.

Hi @Rohan. Welcome to the forum. I agree, that patent from Honda looks interesting. Not every patent ends up as a product, but it shows the amount of effort they're putting into the problem. All the best with your biology exam. If you've been studying for it even half as much as you have on safety products, you'll breeze through.

@wastedyears1981 Puncture repair kit, tyre inflator. Bottle of engine oil if your bike is thirsty (a mate's is, and he's found it was hard to buy oil in rural Germany). Small blob of blue tack for the tunnel. WD40, duct tape and cable ties (my bike is Italian). A couple of allen keys. Tail bag (especially useful for days out without luggage).

Like @husoi says, less is more: don't try to go too far to pack too much in. As a rough guide 150-200 miles a day is enough. Here are some other tips: I'd say know what the top thing is that you want to get out of it: is it to see great landscapes? Schlep around cool towns? Visit local markets? Or ride the hairpins? Each one requires a different plan. Avoid large towns and cities completely - unless of course it's your plan to visit them. There's not much fun to be had riding through Aachen or Marseilles or wherever. Consider using motorways at the start and end of the tour to get you quickly to where you want to spend your time. But don't bother with them otherwise; the fun is to be found on smaller roads.

He wrote to cancel the contract, but somehow they never carried his request out, so the contract never got removed from their system. It was their mistake, but he couldn't ever it corrected, even though he had proof he'd written to them to cancel. So you're right, they have no power to keep you on a non-existent contract. Equally, he had no power to make them correct their mistake, no matter whom he spoke to, or how many times he contacted them. Meanwhile, Vodaphone sold his debt at 10% face value to a debt collection company, who kept up the stream of letters threatening the bailiffs. In the end, he coughed up the £170 pounds they said they wanted rather than continue to carry the stress of it all.

Morning all.

Not sure about that. You just get the threatening letters. My son tried to cancel a contract with Vodaphone. In fact, he had evidence that he had cancelled it - confirmation emails and so on. But the letters promising a visit from the bailiffs still came. The whole saga went on for two or three years. In the end he coughed up what they said he owed as it was just too much hassle for him to chase it through legal channels.

A 250 will struggle on the motorway - you won't want to do more than a mile or two - and it will really, really struggle 2-up. A 750 is likely to do a lot better for what you want.

@rob m. I like that mate. Thank you. Will grab myself one and give it to Santa to take care of until Christmas.

What are the dimensions of your Skeufy thing, @rob m? I could do with one that's smaller than the brick I've got now.

I knew a guy who had a crow as a kid. He told me that this crow used to fly off from their house in the middle of the morning, wing it over to the school, have a bit of a lark (or a crow) with the kid and his friends in the playground during break landing on their heads and mucking around, and then nip back home when break was over. Then years later I used to my GSXR to a place in Waterbeach for its MOT (they were very relaxed about exhaust noise ) and they had rook that had fallen out of a tree when it was just a fledgling. The rook would be hanging around the shop, perching on a paddock stand and looking into tool boxes, or else sat on the receptionist's arm, checking over the upcoming appointments. Clever birds.

Great countryside there @Bender

Early entry for next weekend: just gone and booked myself onto a mx try out day. Really ought to be old enough (and unfit enough) to know better.

Perfect outcome. I like the hot carb theory. But I kind of suspect you've blown some grot out of something or eased something up and the thing is now working more like it should.

I love that smoke machine effect. Makes a great statement for a few minutes. Welcome in

Welcome in. All the best with the tests.

A lightweight running or cycling jacket underneath your bike jacket should do the trick.

Tell them what you like, it makes little difference. If you get pulled, the police know exactly the speed you were doing - that's why they went to the bother of pulling you. They're not a jot interested in what your speedo says, unless perhaps it's underreading (and personally I've never come across any vehicle that does that). The reason they ask you what speed you were doing is to see if perhaps there's an additional charge of driving without due care and attention - if you're miles out, it supports the case that you weren't pay due care to your speed.

Beginning to hanker after a mid-weight go-any-distance-anywhere bike like a Tenere perhaps or an F650GS. Trying to unhanker tho.

Sorry @rennie. Hoping tomorrow works out.

Any particular bit in mind?

What a legend. Roses, mate, for sure. The ones with the shiny green wrappers are best.

Looks amazing @Mawsley.

Colchester Kawasaki is a big loss for us. There were the to go-to Kawasaki place for the whole region.

Me too.