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Real sorry to hear that Emma. I remember reading your review for the YBR. I too am a YBR rider and to some folks they may be just little tiddlers but to me it is great as it is my first bike and I love it. I hope everything works out for you in a positive way.

An honest mistake and no big deal. I have many transexual and trannie friends and we are all cool with whatever... it is only the narrow minded bigoted dickheads who we don't particularly like, but they tend to be in the minority and as long as they don't physically assault us then they are safe from having their limbs broken. Don't worry about it mate, it is fine

Acoustics are much more than just for chordy stuff matey! I do a lot of fingerpicking on steel string acoustic, all kinds of stuff from classical, blues, jazz etc through to Celtic stuff. That is why guitars are amazing, the versatility of them. By the way, that telecaster you posted a link to is a lovely colour! I love telecasters. They are like a blank canvas and they feel so comfy. Mine is a standard blonde one with the black pickguard. Oh I shouldn't start talking about guitars or I won't shut up!

Asbo, how is the neck on the SG? I bought one new a few years ago but sent it back as the neck was seriously bendy. The slightest pressure and it change pitch drastically . I heard a lot of similar tales from Epiphone SG and ES335 owners. Maybe it was just a batch from that period which were dodgy. How is yours? It's not too bad. I know what you mean though it didn't take much to shift the pitch. I struggled with the heavy head. Neck drop. But Velcro inside the strap to grip my t shirt sorted that though. It has some serious tones. My mate has the gibson and there's not a lot in it. Certainly not enough to warrant to extra cash. What do you have now? I tend to play acoustic mainly these days, have a couple of nice Yamaha acoustics, but I still have a Fender Tele and a Squier Jazzmaster and a 1990s Danelectro U2 and a lovely Ibanez copy of a Gretsch style semi. My brother has an older Epiphone SG and it is fine, no neck trouble but it is a much older one than mine was and you're right, they sound damn good!

Thanks mate. At the moment my main guitars are a PRS Santana and a Epiphone SG. My main amp is a Marshall JCM900 through a 2x12 cab. I've also got a hughes and K ettner for smaller gigs. How long you been playing? Asbo, how is the neck on the SG? I bought one new a few years ago but sent it back as the neck was seriously bendy. The slightest pressure and it change pitch drastically . I heard a lot of similar tales from Epiphone SG and ES335 owners. Maybe it was just a batch from that period which were dodgy. How is yours?

I am yet to find a decent bulb for my YBR. It is ridiculous that my bicycle light is miles brighter than the YBR headlamp. If you find a better replacement I'd love to know!

Good to see some fellow musicians on here. I play guitar mainly and also fiddle. I prefer jamming and recording with friends these days. I can't be bothered with being in a proper band anymore. Or maybe I'm just too tired and cynical with old age

Great stuff. Thanks for the info and glad you are back on the road

Forgive my ignorance of techy stuff but what does a helmet with Bluetooth actually do? I keep seeing it on helmet adverts but I don't get what it does.

Good point. I hadn't thought of that but he has changed just about everything it could be so a bad earth is probably the only remaining problem. I had a car like that once, which fired when cold but wouldn't start if the engine was hot. It turned out to be very slight corrosion between the terminal on the starter motor earth strap, and the car body. The terminal and earth lead looked fine but underneath the terminal it was really bad and caused a high resistance when the engine was warm, just enough to stop it starting. So easy to miss.

I'd love to know what the problem was once you get it sorted, in case I get similar trouble with my YBR.

Have you checked the HT coil?

Currently listening to the awesome Mendelssohn violin concerto in E Minor. Blows my mind every time. Well heavy man.

Crikey I remember betamax. My uncle Henry used to get betamax films off the ice cream man who came round in his van. Henry said not to tell my mam about them. I think he referred to them as "blueys". Oh the good old days...

I was about to say I have poked a pot of melted cheese with a lot worse things than bread...

I didn't know you could buy cameras that fit to the bike. I thought helmet cams were the only option. I would have thought bike mounted ones would suffer from vibration but your videos look fine, apart from the resolution, though even that looks good enough to get evidence if someone causes you to have an accident.

Two piece textile. No leather for me as I am one of those weirdo perverted dirty vegan types

I do not post on here much and there are sometimes weeks go by without me looking at the forum due to my work and travel and family issues etc but I would hate to be deleted as after trying out several other motorbike forums, this is the only one I feel comfortable on and the members on here are decent helpful folks who do not give sarcastic answers to the type of daft questions a new lad like me would ask, as certain people on other forums do. I love this forum even if I do not get the chance to visit much. Please don't delete me

Sorry Six.. that was probably my fault; about three pages back I was talking about the old Northumbrian/Scottish tradition of First Footing. I think I was also responsible for the entire Thatcher thread after mentioning me dad's NCB kneepads. Somehow the mention of dad's NCB kneepads instigated discussion about Thatcher. I seem to be a bit of an unintentional troublemaker round these parts... my apologies no worries , never head of first footing , just googled it , them Scots are a strange bunch , keep up the unintentional trouble making Nae bother lad.. but as a Northumbrian,.. I am either Scots or English.. depending on which side is winning..

What ?? Sorry Six.. that was probably my fault; about three pages back I was talking about the old Northumbrian/Scottish tradition of First Footing. I think I was also responsible for the entire Thatcher thread after mentioning me dad's NCB kneepads. Somehow the mention of dad's NCB kneepads instigated discussion about Thatcher. I seem to be a bit of an unintentional troublemaker round these parts... my apologies

Aw man I really enjoyed reading your post and how it all went. Really chuffed for you man! I can't wait to do my big bike test. Well done lad

Firstly, very well done for getting there mister. I had never been on a bike until last October and I did not get my CBT first time. I just wasn't confident enough on the road and had to go back the following week, which I got through fine. And I have been driving a car since I was your age. It must be much harder for folks who have not got any previous road experience so well done to you for getting through it. Many congratulations to you, and once you have had a wee bit of time on a geared 125 you will soon get used to it. I was terrified at first but now it just seems natural. Just takes getting the brain and physical side to get that co-ordination but once you have it it sort of clicks. And my brain is older and therefore more decrepit and slower to learn than yours so have fun and enjoy it

This manifesto has to be a joke. I can't believe this is at all genuine. Or perhaps i am just a bit naive. What is his problem with disabled people? My old man didn't fight in the war so he could have his blue badge abolished. Well... he didn't fight in the war at all as he was only 2 in 1944 but you know what I mean.

Beamish is good. And Tanfield railway is too if ye are in that area. I used to explore abandoned lead mines in the North Pennines/Cumbria/Durham, mainly Nenthead in Cumbria.. not tourist mines, but mines which were literally abandoned and forgotten.. and not open to the public..(H&S would have a fit actually) often we would spend many weeks digging out the collapsed entrances...old mines that had been closed and abandoned in the 18th/19th centuries.. it was amazing to find stuff that had just been left when the mines closed, still intact as if the workers had just finished their shifts... cases of unused dynamite,. old newspapers from the 1800s, old bottles, old tallow candles, amazing bits of Victorian machinery, old oil lamps, all kinds of stuff.. walking into a mine like that was a real time capsule. I would love to be doing it again but it aint something you do on your own.

builds character! or that's what they tell you I may plan a trip to the black Country museum haven't been in years and was a fun day out as I recall (maybe less so if you lived through it!) they have an awesome sweet shop there too! forum ride out anyone?? Also "forum rules" ha! ha! hahahaha Oh aye.. builds character! And gives ye a fear of massive spiders at 1am when there is a huge monster killer spider dangling above yer head by the guttering fitful light of a hurricane lantern, making forbidding arachnid shadows large enough to send hideous tremors of chilling fear down the shivering spine of any 9 year old... Sorry.. We were recording an Edgar Allen Poe book of short stories at work today and got a bit carried away... worst thing about the outside lavatory was the bliddy frozen cistern.