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The Sub4 isn't as bad as it looks, it warms up and moulds to your back. I wear mine every time I ride. I don't bother taking it off when parked up at meets and suchlike as it's not intrusive at all.

Cracking review. Pretty much everything you say about the Mk2 can be said about the Mk1. For the record, the OE Dunlops are crap by all accounts.

Thanks everyone, just indulging myself with an extra cup of tea as I'm at WORK tonight!!

Yeah, they're testing the cheaper ones next month, which will be interesting to compare against the pricey one's.

I quite like the Rukka stuff but a lot of the 'vanish-up-their-own-arse' BMW cliques wear it simply because it's so expensive. They'll be disappointed to hear that HG's top suit, the Master V (£1400 complete) wipes the floor with every Rukka suit, but it doesn't have RUKKA in big writing across the back so they'll never buy it.

Schuberth.

Blue pill anyone?

There was easily 500 bikes at Washington, didn't see anything daft going on. The police set up a road block at the finish, the A1 was brought to an almost standstill at times.

I was looking for you, quite a turn-out eh?

A young mother was asked to leave a pub up this way after she breast fed her child, it was all over the news. It's looking like she's gonna get an out of court settlement under some discrimination law. I have a few female friends who breast feed their kids, they've all told me about times they've been made to feel uncomfortable for what is essentially the most natural thing in the world. Seems to me he just needs to lighten up a little bit.

By their own admission, most traveller families remove their children from all schooling (other than whatever their parents teach them) at age 13-14 to prevent them gaining any kind of alternative perspective. This was discussed at length on channel four, as well as countless other outlets, fairly recently in the wake of that Gypsy wedding crap that was on. Their way of bringing their children up was deemed to be tantamount to brainwashing, although all the mainstream religions are guilty of this as well.

If they were 'thinking of the children', they wouldn't bring them up into the lifestyle they lead. That may sound very close-minded but think about it, no proper schooling (in case the kids get some kind of perspective alternative to their parents), dragged around the country from one patch of grass to another (as long as there's room for a couple of malnourished horses it'll do) and bringing them up to think that a man 'chats up' a woman by doing what is widely viewed as sexual assault. It's like Catholicism in caravans.

I've had an X-602, the design is starting to show it's age compared to what's available now. The top vents can open by themselves with enough wind pressure. On a positive note, the visor mechanism is excellent, far superior to the Arai TourX 3 I use now. A friend of mine has an XR1100, he says it's a great lid, I don't know much about it, he works for Hein Gericke and had his pick of every lid they stock, so that's testament to how highly he rates the XR. My friend hates AGVs, hates wearing them, hates selling them and hates having to work through the mountain of warranty returns they generate. My girlfriend has a Stealth SV, she picked it herself, if I'd had anything to do with it she'd have had anything but that.

Done both. At my current place I earn average £600 - £700 a week (Closer to £1k if I work a bank holiday), after tax, class two (I also have class one but never use it), home EVERY night and a massive benefits package, including two bonuses a year.... It took me nearly two years of much lower paid agency work (quite often all the s**t jobs) at the same place to get my foot in the door, now, two years after picking up a contract, I pick my shifts most weeks and quite often step up to team leader. The good stuff is out there, you just have to be patient and keep your eyes peeled. As for buses, I lasted six weeks, I'm just not friendly enough...

Panniers, tankbag, touring screen, heated grips/seat, GPS mount... Perhaps even a trailer. I think your old blade got off lightly.