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It's Monday! (My powers of observation are legendary, n'est pas?). How did you get on?

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"Hey, can you take the wheel for a second? I have to scratch myself in two places at once!" --- Homer J. Simpson.

If only everything in life was like that eh? Two words spring to my mind ... "sausage" and "alley" ...

The ones that make your bike look like deputy dog. Are they any good? Are they easy to get your hands in and out of? (I have visions of a horrible accident where I take my left hand out to scratch myself, then can't get it back in again ...).

Lol! It's not just a £2.99 ASDA vest, it's windstopper. Very sophisisis ... sophophistica ... soph ... Ah, fuggeddit!

You are familiar, I'm sure with the price of Windstopper undergarments ... £49 - £69 is standard price for a long-sleve windstopper vest from most bike shops and online vendors. *WELL* I had a rummage through Google and I found a gem of a site! My order of two t-shirts and a windstopper vest came through today and the windstopper is EXACTLY THE SAME as the Hein Gericke one, but 1/3 of the price! Without wishing to fall foul of the advertising laws cast by Unsere Reichsfuehrerin (Vicki), I invite you to do a Google search for "cosalt shop" and click on the first link. Explore, and also do a search for "t-shirt" - they do heavy cotton t-shirts at a fraction of high st prices. I don't work for them, just mighty impressed!

Simple answer - leathers or kevlar jeans! I wear kevlars myself.

Check this out: English site: http://www.hein-gericke.co.uk/shop/prod ... ts_id/6666 German site: http://www.hein-gericke-store.com/wShop ... er&x=0&y=0 (Look at the price difference!). Weirdly, though, the windstopper pants are about the same price - perhaps even a few pennies more expensive from Germany. The delivery charges from Germany are only a couple of pounds more than from the UK. The only downside is that if you don't speak German, you may have trouble navigating the German site. The ability to speak two languages does have cost benefits!

I'm not sure they're really worth it though because you still need to get to the nearest repair place.

Kettenreiniger by Wuerth, followed by a spin through the Kettenmax Maschien ... gets the chain very clean!

You can't get puncture repair kits for motorbikes like you can for bicycles! The reason is that because of the much higher speeds/forces involved with a motorbike, it would be dangerous to put a rubber sticking plaster over a hole in the tyre. Also, motorbike tyres are typically tubeless. If you repair a bicycle tyre and the repair fails, the most you get is a big *pppfffft!*, combined with the tyre going all flappy and you slowly coming to a halt. If the same thing happened on a motorbike (i.e. sudden and complete loss of pressure in the tyre), the likely result would be ground/sky/ground/sky/hospital ...

Lol! I have indeed been reading your HID thread ... I've seen HID conversion kits on EBay for about £50, whether they're any good or not, I dunno ...

I want to stick extra headlamps on my bike, with a separate switch on the handlebars so I can switch them on when it gets dark. I don't want a HID kit though. I know you can get a PIAA 910 kit, but they are fooking expensive! So, I plan to build my own. Equipment as follows: Twin H4 unit from here: http://www.motorcycle-parts-accessories ... ights.html A pair of 30A SPST or a single SPDT automotive relay(s) from Maplin, or somewhere like that (a few quid). Handlebar headlamp switch from here: http://motorcycleproducts.co.uk/catalog ... 83114.html Wires, connectors and heat-shrink also from Maplin (pennies). Wiring as follows: http://www.humanspeakers.com/audi/headlight-simple.htm Now the question is ... is that gonna work and be road-legal? Or is there more to it than that? If my little plan here works, it will give me a decent extra lighting system for about £80. I know HID conversions are cheaper, but I want separate halogen lights. Plus I can upgrade the main lamp to a Phillips Nightbreaker.

Hmmm ... they aren't *that* cheap! e.g. Bridgestone BT021 can be found at least £20 cheaper per pair elsewhere.

Yep, they are bloody loud! Mine is a naked and it fits nicely under the headlight. I put mine to good use today! Fücktard woman in a huge mercedes slowed down and stopped at the side of the road, no indicators, nothing. I started to pass her, then she just started pulling out without looking! Quick blast on the horn right beside her window (which was closed) ... and she actually jumped in her seat and slammed on the brakes! The horn has the desired effect.

Y' don't say! I was wondering which particular horn it was So thanks for the link

What is that?

The food at Loomies is damn fine. I can highly recommend the chilli con carne. Also, another excellent place to go is the George pub on the junction of London Rd northbound and Portsdown Hill Rd eastbound. They do a thing called a "chilli bad" - it is plate the size of two normal plates, with a full portion of chips, then a full portion of chilli con carne on top of that, then loads of cheese on top of that - all for a fiver! You will need to be taken out to your bike in a wheelchair after having one of those ... they are f*cking amazing ...

How big is your head??!! Also, with the front flip helmets, I have read somewhere that they are incredibly noisy at anything over 60mph. I don't know that though, never had one.

You might like this: http://www.themotorbikeforum.co.uk/view ... 12&t=23407 I haven't been yet, my mate Gary told me about it (not you Gary, another Gary!).

Coming up on Wednesday ... and the forecast looks ok too!

Today the weather allowed me to fit the new horn. It is a little bulky (although nothing major) and so wouldn't fit where the old horn is, plus it is directional, so it must point forwards. I made a little angle bracket for it and attached it under the headlamp mount on the bottom yoke, and so a few spade connectors, a couple of bits of cable and some cable-ties later ... it was installed! I left the old horn where it is just in case ... Anyway ... my f*ck, it is LOUD!!!

What size are your tyres then? "weird size"? Lol!

Many thanks for that! I will be needing some new tyres at some point (although not for a few K's yet). And after some rummaging through Google, I found a place that does a pair of 120/60 + 160/60 for £95! Clicky: http://www.thefastone.co.uk/products.asp?cat=117 Perfect for me on a budget