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I believe they do a rather nice shoulder holster to go with this one

I still have an old iPhone 6, bought 2nd hand. Admittedly they no longer do updates for it, apps are limited, and over these past 12 months it seems to be going slower at loading stuff than JSO taking a leisurely stroll down a London Street! But I'm fooked if I'm gonna spend over £1500 on a new one! Not that I'm tight, but I read that Apple are taking 30% profit from every sale, and for me, a cheap phone, that I usually end up dropping, bashing or losing anyway, does exactly what I want it to do .... And as an added bonus, no one really wants to nick my heap of crap, out of date tech .... Happy days!

Happy Birthday, have a good one

Happy Birthday

Have a good one

+1 for earpeace .... Just be careful with them, I find them easy to lose. Buff pulled up over my ears tends to help stop me losing them when taking my lid off.

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All the best

Happy Birthday Stu, have a good one

I found the manual that came with the jacket and took a photo of the CE label inside, hope this helps?

Thats a well made video and it was really interesting, informative, and enjoyable to watch, Cheers.

I don't think it's rated, but as fullscreenaging says, it has level 2 elbow and shoulder protection, and I fitted the level 2 back protector. For warm weather riding I personally feel that this is probably as good as it gets, I personally love it, and it's certainly going to give more protection than the T-Shirts that I seen a few bikers wearing this past week

Definitely changed since the 80's, and I certainly recall those days that skyrider alludes to, especially being stood outside the original Bushy's bar watching all the motorcycle high jinx, with the local plod not only tolerating, but sometimes joining in, much to the crowds amusement. Still a great venue, and you'll always remember your first time. Road racing is second to none, I love it, along with the NW200. As RAYK47 says, the mountain road is one way for the duration now, however, it gets closed at the drop of a hat. Even minor spills will see the mountain road closed for 2hrs or more. That then forces all traffic down the coast road, where they've introduced a lot of temporary speed limits all the way for TT and MGP. You do need to watch your speed on those roads as well, unmarked Police bikes and cars, and they will book you, the days of giving you a ticking off seem to be long gone. The atmosphere in general is great, very little trouble and your bike is pretty safe wherever you leave it. There are one or two incidents but very rarely do you ever see or hear of bikes being stolen. One other thing I would mention, is be careful on the minor country roads. Big farming community and a lot of farm vehicles frequent them, you also get some riders who forget the roads are two way, and one or two foreign riders who forget which side of the road to be on, trust me I know from experience. Book early, especially accommodation, even camp sites get bunged. Arrive with the right, laid back attitude, and you'll have a ball.

Just bought one of these jackets from SBS, not cheap, but money well spent. Best summer jacket I've ever owned.

FFS, you just put me right off my lunch time baguette!

I've attached the TT page, but accommodation is the same, MGP page also below. Where to view from is subjective, so many good places. I always aim for somewhere on the outside of the course, that way if I want to move on somewhere else it's pretty straight forward. Go on the inside and you're stuck. I personally like viewing from the Creg-Ny-Baa, great place to watch the bikes plus a good pub. If you want to see full on speed, then Cronk-Y-Voddy is good, the bikes are doing 200mph along that straight! In field parking, and you can spectate from the outer fields, again, not getting stuck inside the circuit. Evening entertainment for MGP seems to have been scaled back a lot compared to TT, and there are a lot of calls for something more to be done, there may be a little bit more put on this year though which will hopefully continue. Most of the Evening entertainment that is on though is mostly around the Douglas and Ramsey areas. Occasionally with bands at the Villa. Links below that may help, if you get stuck, or indeed need any help when you're over, give us a shout. Really helpful, group of local riders here. I love the TT but I prefer the MGP, the roads aren't as manic, a bit easier to get around, and I love the classic bikes that the Grand Prix always attracts. Hope this helps https://www.iomttraces.com/visit/page/where-to-stay/ https://www.manxgrandprix.co.uk

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Yes, it's the MRA screen that I changed it for, I changed it to the sports screen though. Wind hit me in the chest, and I could live with that, still had to wear ear plugs but it was night and day different to OEM screen, hardly any buffeting either.

The Tracer 900GT is a really good bike, great engine with lots or torque, and very capable. The downsides I found for touring were, the OEM screen, buffeting and wind noise are horrendous. The seat gets uncomfortable after about 40 miles. I found the suspension wasn't really up to two up, fully loaded touring. The bike would always seem to run wide on fast bends, mainly due to rear suspension sag. If you're just looking at touring on your own, then sort out the minor niggles, and it really is a great all rounder. I did a review on the bike for a more in depth personal opinion.

I had exactly the same issue with the Schuberth. I had the chance of buying a nearly new one reasonably cheap. I got some opinions from this forum but ended up going to a dealer and trying a couple of them for size, just in case, and I'm glad I did. Whatever configuration / size I tried, it was just uncomfortable and wouldn't fit properly. I currently have the Neotec 2, and TBF it's probably one of the best helmets I've ever had. The dealer I went to, in fairness to him, said that I probably have a Shoei head .... wasn't sure how to take that! lol, but apparently Shoei fit longer heads, he said that Schuberth, in his experience, tend to fit Arai heads better (rounder heads) .... I live and learn.

I must admit my experience of IAM seems to differ somewhat from pbassred. My observer was a Police motorcyclist and he was 1st rate. I was never encouraged to push myself outside of my comfort zone, and as Steve_M said, everything he taught was related back to the Roadcraft manual. Every observed ride started with a discussion on what he wanted to cover and ended with a debrief, highlighting any observed weaknesses, and also giving positive feedback on the good points. I would say, in my experience, it was all aimed at riding safely, with a lot of emphasis placed on road positioning , forward vision and vehicle empathy. In fairness, having completed a couple of different course, they all seem to teach pretty much the same sort of stuff, but the one thing I would say that remains constant with all of them, is that they encourage you to make safe progress, but not to the extent where it becomes dangerous for you or other road users.

Sadly you're right. A lot of people go out and try to emulate the professionals, sadly, they tend to run out of talent pretty quickly on some of these roads, as your man last night nearly found out. I also love the GP, as you say, better mix of bikes and riders. Thus far, the week has been going well, and there's been some blistering times set during practice sessions. Forthcoming races should be really interesting, just hope the weather stays kind

Brown pants moment for this guy (see poor quality photos), not really sure how he didn't see two trams crossing in front of him till the last minute, but probably gave him a bit of a wake up. I felt sorry for him, really embarrassing thing to happen with hoards of other bikers looking on. I had a near miss myself yesterday on the bend in the photo below. Heading towards Ramsey on the coast road, bike coming in the opposite direction overcooked the corner and ended up on my side of the road. We both got a bit of fright to say the least. My missus won't go on the back anymore during TT now, we avoided a head on with literally a couple of inches to spare.

I have an INNOVV fitted to my bike which is pretty good if you want something you can fit and forget about. Other than that I would choose GoPro for Clarity of footage and ease of use. I used to use a Drift 4k, but the sound quality, unless you used an add on microphone, was crap. With the Drift, you can switch off front or rear built in mikes but it didn't make any difference.