Mississippi Bullfrog

First spring honey. I extracted one super for a little lad who has horrible hay fever. Local honey makes all the difference.

She knows how to get rid of you for a while.

If you want real vitriol and hate then join a beekeeping forum. The self righteous arrogance and intolerance is unbelievable. The "grand masters" think they are the sole possessors of the truth about bees and anyone who dares think differently is a heretic. The thing is that no-one ever really understands bees, they are as near an alien species as you can encounter without leaving the planet (or visiting Yorkshire).

That's brilliant.

Anchoring and colregs are good for heated argument even on professional sites. Chuck in twats with sails and it gets really heated. Have been known to stir the shit on that one occasionally. Typical motor boat crowd. Chugging along drinking gin with no idea they're buggering up a windward mark.

So I asked him why he was emailing me I eagerly await his reply This is my fight for the day hopefully Great, while you're at it there's a bike goes up the hill outsiide our house at 06.20 every day with pipes loud enough to disturb my beauty sleep. Could you sort him out as well?

Do you have a towbar? Last time I hired a bike trailer and picked it up. Made a good day out.

Look, it's all very simple. We know Covid 19 means people have no sense of taste so anyone with one of these needs our sympathy and understanding rather than being persecuted for being poorly.

Seriouly? You went out in public with those attached to your bike! That takes some balls.

The only justification for Dominic Cummings to need to travel to protect his family is that in the area where he lives there is no-one available to assist if both he and his wife get ill. Now so far as I recall London is a fairly big place with lots of people. Just over 9 million people at last count. Let's assume just 10% of those people are honest, kind and willing to lend a hand to a neighbour in need. That's still 90,000 people willing to assist someone in difficulties. Unless of course the person needing help is so universally disliked and mistrusted that no-one would be willing to have anything to with them. OK - I can see that. Maybe his journey(s) was/were justified.

Just remember that if you let the insurance expire and don't renew then you'll need to SORN it. If it's taxed but not insured the DVLA will be in touch with a fine.

The most important thing with masks and gloves is to wear them for days on end if it makes you feel safer, and then either leave them in a supermarket trolley or drop them out of the car window. The roads round here are strewn with them.

So in theory you'd arrive at your destination in 2007?

I'll be checking my bees. Two local families have kids with huge hay fever issues so they're after some local honey. Last week the frames weren't sealed so it wasn't ready. Hopefully I'll have a super (about 30lb) ready this weekend. Also need to check on a new queen I'm raising from splitting my best colony. And then it will be out on one of the bikes.

You're probably on the ball there, but I bet it has also got something to do with how we generally treat things as disposable these days. People used to keep bikes for longer, now they're swapped more often than some people change their socks. Manufacturers know the sales pitch doesn't need to focus on long term ownership. I suppose it must also be linked to the finance options now available, it makes more sense to keep chopping and changing if you can avoid the balloon payment on a pcp deal by upgrading to a new model. Is it a change in sociatal mores - wanting the newest and best thing immediately - driving the change, or more a case of manufacturers and salespeople teaming up with the banks to convince us this is what we want and thereby driving up their profits? You're probably right about the PCP deals influencing how this is going. I hadn't thought of that. I'm very prehistoric on that score. I pay cash for what I buy.

If you're buying a spray gun buy a good one and get one specifically designed for spraying panels rather than whole body jobs. With a decent quality gun you can get good results. But for bike work you might be better of with a good quality airbrush, and I do mean a good one. Cheap airbrushes are useless. I used to spray model aircraft about six to nine foot wingspan so easily bigger area than motorcycle parts. You can run them off canned air or a compressor. I have a neat little mini compressor for the airbrush. Easier to get a good result with an airbrush than a spray gun.

I never trust the alerts anyway. Round N Wales just assume there's a camera round every bend. Most of the time you'll be right.

This is a common sense bit of presentation by a guy from Bennetts. Basically anything that slows thieves down will put them off and you don't need to spend a fortune. I do like the locks that can double as a disc lock and a chain lock - two for the price of one. The other thing with the disc locks is to use the pin type on the front wheel and the hasp type on the back wheel through the rear sprocket and over the chain. That way both wheels are locked so they can't lift one end and wheel it away. Nor can they as easily remove the rear wheel.

I've never ridden in a suit but a mate used to wear his cassock rolled up under his leather jacket, get to a rural village church for evening service and just take off his jacket and launch into things. He used to belt round Oxfordshire on an old Norton so they heard him coming and knew when to be ready to start.

I've never seen a vent tube blocked with putty. A photo would help. Are you sure something hasn't got into it by accident? Any instructions with it? Or contact the place you bought it from.

That's the vent tube. Leave it on. If you're not using a battery either charge it something like once a month using a conventional charger. Or invest in an intelligent charger. I use CTEK chargers to maintain the bike batteries over the winter. They do a 0.8A bike specific one which I use on one bike. I have a 5.0A version which has a bike setting which I use on the other. You can get a remote lead which allows you to connect without needing to get at the battery. A very flat battery often won't take a charge off a conventional charger. It depends on the voltage the battery is at. If it's below 10v most chargers will just refuse to charge them. You need to input a very low amp (about 500Ma) for a couple of hours to bring them back to 12v before connecting the usual charger. But a battery left for 2 years will be toast. Batteries are really 6 batteries connected in series. So one cell always fails first and then the rest try to reverse charge it - then the whole lot is scrap.

Think that’s what I’m going to go for with a decent lock, won’t take much room in a tail bag. Cheers everyone I have those for my boats. Last year I changed cars and arrived at the club without the key to the lock. It took less than 5 minutes with a very blunt Junior Hacksaw to cut through the cable. They look meaty but the cable inside is very easy to cut.

Bought from Amazon for £160 (RRP £200) 16mm chain with protective sleeve. 16mm double action lock. 2 metre version. This is a very heavy chain that is probably best used in the garage. You'd certainly not want to lug it about much. The lock is also sold separately as a disc lock so it can serve a double purpose. Gold security rated. Whilst nothing will stop a determined thief I reckon this would certainly deter and delay them. I'm using it in an alarmed garage with CCTV and additional alarmed locks fitted to both bikes. Shorter options are available but I went for the 2 metre one as I link the bikes together with it.

Hello. Re. the tank, don't do what a mate did back in the day. About '76 it was. He mixed some epoxy, poured it into the tank and then swilled it round to coat the inside. He then spent weeks trying to get the bike started. He'd only gone and forgotten to drill out the fuel feed before refitting the tank.

A few years back I had an enforced break from bikes for family reasons. So when I wanted to get going again I bought a 125 to get back into the groove, I very soon realised that if you can ride something a bit bigger then it is a lot safer to do so. You've got better brakes, better tyres, better suspension, and more presence on the road. A 500 is safer than a 125 and just as easy to move around tight spaces. You can keep up with traffic better and have enough power for when it is needed. A lot of newer bikes aren't built as well as older stuff - corrosion on frames and fittings is a key niggle. I ended up looking for an old Honda CB500 and ended up with the CBF500 - basically the same bike with a few tweaks. Or as Fastbob suggests - the ER5. Having been down a similar route I would totally recommend an older Japanese 500 rather than a new Chinese 125.