Gerontious

Are they outsourcing to China perhaps? The factory in Slovenia is big, but perhaps no longer big enough particularly since the started building exhaust systems for cars.

I don't care. I'm well stocked up on weetabix.

sell the fazer. buy the Beemer. its a far more modern bike and much more suited to commuting, also it doesn't have a choke. so no need to worry about such archaic stuff, it will also have other things that are seen as important nowadays, like ABS (particularly important if you want to ride in the winter). Is it an A2 license you have? if it is then you can ride the G straightaway. I may be the only member of this forum to say this. hey ho.

ooh.. a bend comparison contest. is there a prize? "my bend is tighter than yours" - well, how can you answer that?

One of my reasons for changing bikes was corners like that, they are abundant in the Alps and so having a bike that is impossible to stall, removes at least one worry.

what happened to @Joeman did he become a bitcoin bilionaire and retire to the Virgin Islands?

https://www.fca.org.uk/news/news-stories/mce-insurance-company-limited-enters-administration remains to be seen what will happen to MCE UK

There is only one mark that matters unless or until the UK comes up with its own (post Brexit) And that's the ECE mark. ECE 22.05 Any helmet you buy in the UK made for road use will have this standard. the exceptions are helmets specifically for off road use. and "Chinese Knockoffs" (which are cheap copies at prices too good to be true from dodgy unregulated sellers, like aliexpress - or sometime quick buck stores on markets) That ranges from the £50 helmet you occasionally see sold in Aldi.. to the absolute top of the range special edition.. Arai. at £1000+ It doesn't matter.. they all have this. Obviously the Nolan you point at does too... its so well understood they don't bother saying it sometimes, you have to do a little digging.

They do lay-bys rather better in Austria, this next to the Plansee on the truly wonderful L255 one of my favourite non-mountainous roads ever. (we will return) And a mini-me lay-by on the Pustertaler High road in Austria ( this is 4 miles from our campsite next June @bonio )

One of those rather dodgy lay-bys the Italians are so fond of.. that you don't really want to pull over onto.

I'm fairly sure that's what I said

easy answer is to look at the law. side reflectors can be red/orange front can be white or orange. rear can be any colour you like. with just a few limitations that aren't important. its all laid out in the The Road Vehicles Lighting Regulations 1989

It's because Visa is increasing transaction rates now the EU cap no longer applies (post B-word).

Just had an email and they are ending acceptance of Visa cards!! Cant see me using them much now as I tend to use my Visa card a lot for larger purchases. buy just after statement day and then Ive two months to pay it off without paying interest. (I hate paying interest) seems a bit idiotic for such a wealthy company.. but it is how it is.

I don't know which excites me more. you possibly, maybe (ish) having the AZ... or the little known but possibly crucial fact that there are 868 Aldi stores in Norway. but, who's counting eh?

oddly enough, if you manage to escape from your kafkaesque merry go round. its highly likely that you will have ample opportunity to point and laugh at one of those really quite gaudy Guzzi wotsits. there's a very high chance that one will be accompanying us to the dolomites. lets just hope the owner has good European rescue cover. as well as a thick skin. isn't happenstance simply marvellous? and that.

It balances out the empty space inside of the (average) crash helmet. now, where's my mirror.... oh, of course, its on the wall. I need to practice being vacuous morer and morer... try gazing vacantly into space, thinking about ferries to Norway. and that.

I started to fit a hugger. then it began to rain so I stopped. covered the bike and went back inside. and looked at it through the French doors. monsewer. I did do a little victory dance though as the job interview I had this morning was a resounding success. and the new place is a 10 minute walk from my front door. which makes me feel all warm and gooey inside. Bit pointless even cycling to work now. nice pay rise too. I shall have to start looking at Ohlins. and stuff.

Don't claim... it will make life very expensive for you in the future, for a while. https://www.keeway.co.uk/parts-spares It might be best contacting them direct. .

Bizarre isn't it.. but nothing shocks me anymore. who would have ever believed that BMW would produce a bike that has sports bike riders (under retirement age) drooling. That happened. I sometimes wonder if I kinda tripped into a different quantum reality. slipped between the interstices of an 11 dimensional tesseract while thinking about my collection of iPhone boxes.

Get your chequebook ready @bonio

No thanks.. I don't need either. But, you can have another photo. free, gratis. Amazing where you can get to with a sat nav. (and the phone safely tucked away) .

Indeed. Different. how about a nice photo to lighten the mood. .

It would be a disaster. absolutely it would. In the short term until I got home again. Which is another reason I don't put it at risk, I have no need to, I use my Zumo for navigation. Obviously you are talking about yourself and not me. We appear to be quite different. shops? yes. shops that would sell me an iPhone. (assuming I could afford one - which is hard to imagine.) probably not.. without a major journey. Free wifi? never seen that.. never. aside from when I stopped at a MacDonalds and that was more than 50 miles from where I was staying. I was in Italy last year. 4G coverage.. even that's a rarity. the amounts of times I got the phone out to check it, no signal. the one time we needed a signal it didn't exist, we had to go find a landline. All this is a side effect of the sorts of places we go to, when we go further afield than our usual haunt, on the western fringe of Germany. so, you can talk about yourself, that's fine. But, I'm betting that there are a few on here who would feel rather queezy about the idea of losing their phone. iOS or Android in a foreign country. which was not only their primary internet/phone device but also their means of navigation. The fella I mentioned was forced to return home immediately. Have no idea of what type he had. but losing it meant the end of his holiday. For him it was a total disaster, but he isn't you either.