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SometimesSansEngine

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  1. Which picture were you looking at @bonio? Your reply wasn't overly clear
  2. I have a chest mount, but don't use it often. I'd say it's reasonable for capturing what you can see, but if you have an interest in action footage it doesn't feel exciting when you view footage back
  3. Yesterday so cheating a bit.... The head coach at the cycling club my kids go to asked me a few months ago about selling some old motorbike gear he had for when his daughter was younger. I said stick it on Facebook, it'll go super quick. Fast forward to a few weeks back and he tells me one of his old leather jackets had gone really quick but no one was interested in the kids gear. Then he says he'll just give it to me as he wants it gone. Says if I don't want it just toss it. I assume as this point as it's had zero interest it'll be crap. Heck, I put my youngest's gloves that she'd outgrown up the other day and they were gone in under a half day. Anyway, my wife tells me yesterday he'd handed it over and it was in the car. Didn't think of it until much later that day when I'm walking through the dining room... And spot a really nice Weiss jacket suitable for a teenager or small adult, as well as some decent Buffalo trousers (same make as my eldest already has). Amazed they didn't go!! But now grateful they didn't, it'll save me a few quid as my eldest grows
  4. Yeah, and you'd only have bounced off the kerb like a pinball
  5. Absolutely, you know you missed something but they may have even been checking their own mirrors etc at the time. Plus missing will only necessarily definitely be a fail if you do it consistently or you should have spotted something there/high chance that not doing it in that spot could have ended nastily
  6. Actually, here's another nomination... https://twitter.com/TaffMet/status/1390649687984812036?s=19
  7. Previously they just had limits on number of bags per week instead, eg 6 bags of hardcore. Even tyres will be £3.50 each. I've never littered in my life, can't stand it, but considering you also need to book your visit in advance now too you just know lazy feckwits will just take it to a hedge and toss it.... On that note, the council said "report fly tipping, it's jolly serious and can incur a £50k fine" but honestly, country lane, late in the evening... who is going to catch you? I genuinely couldn't bring myself to do it but you just know plenty will.
  8. Our local council, who have just announced that in two weeks time you'll be charged for taking anything that isn't garden or food waste to the local recycling centres. For example: £4 per sheet of plasterboard. Hello massive increase in fly tipping.
  9. You probably saw the footage of the attempted cash van heist in South Africa. Well some of the external footage has been released and the driver was even more cool headed under pressure than we first thought
  10. I've got the 350mm Delkevic and need to have a noise test done at the end of the month, if you're still waiting to buy then I can let you know how accurate their noise figures on the website are.....
  11. Yup I've been giving it a try after seeing a few of you on here mention it. I need to give it a proper try on some routes where I'm actually not entirely confident where I'm going - today I pretty much knew where I was going and had it just to make sure I didn't accidentally extend my lunchbreak. I don't think my (now old) GoPro quite picked up all the gravel in the Combe, you can see some of the patches there but in other spots there was just a nice central trail of them to avoid. And I wasn't joking about being sideways on some of the exposed parts of the Mendip today. It would have been quite amusing if someone was following me with a dashcam to see what I looked like, leaning into the wind then having to really push on the bar to get around a left hander. I saw a group of riders that very much looked like a CBT run, it definitely would be an education for someone on a 125 for the first time!
  12. Feel free to bore yourself with 90 seconds of me going down the wind tunnel that is Burrington Combe. Full of gravel and shit down the middle today making cornering... fun. Did hit one patch of gravel later on in the ride and had that fun 'floaty' moment.
  13. That was windy. Was sideways on the top of the Mendip at times
  14. Just booked a skills day at Castle Combe - really looking forward to it. Not a track day, but a day where you work on various aspects of riding (vision, body positioning, cornering, braking etc. My mechanic helps deliver it and just been waiting for a date that works. and availability has been like gold dust because of some pandemic thing. If the weather stays as it is for the next hour I might try and nip out on the bike at lunch
  15. I bought my first bike from a dealer knowing I was paying a bit more but was in a similar boat to you. In fact worked well for my wife who ended up with Trigger's Broom on her bike when the same dealer ended up changing the gearbox, whole wiring loom and more. But I have bought privately since as I got more confidence in the basics (but still wouldn't necessarily be as expert as some here in checking a bike over). Still also used a dealer though. Whatever you do, these vids will help https://youtu.be/HZbt9Dg1uXQ https://youtu.be/VKGZdsIkLog
  16. I much prefer my big bike for sure, but value my time on a 125. As others have said, there's no right answer... Although at the moment availability of training and test slots may mean the 125 route makes sense if you're keen to get going
  17. Weather for Bank Holiday Monday isn't looking the best, this means we should get an extra day off when it's sunny, right? #VoteForSometimesSansEngine
  18. Money saving expert cheap energy club. I used to also put in historic use into a spreadsheet as a secondary check but don't bother now as the numbers were always ok.
  19. Not as safety critical as brake pads (or as potentially expensive as the wrong oil), but had the wrong wiper blades (for the car, obvs) from the Euro car parts website, but the chap at the counter when I took them back got the right ones first time
  20. I'm pretty chuffed that I needed to nip to Fowlers to collect some service parts for the other half's bike, and I knew it would either be mostly dry or I'd get caught in a deluge... And other than a few spots on my visor the weather was fine.
  21. Personally I find doing it myself so simple I wouldn't want to restrict myself to the suppliers and tariffs these services use/offer
  22. You'll be fine, although if you try and execute some principles of Roadcraft on your test the examiner may actually give you some faults! The DVSA like a simple middle of the road position for your test. I'm guessing you don't have a training school booked yet? They're likely to be busy at the mo so get enquiring. But the type of course you're looking for is more than suitable. I'm not sure if any active members here are out your way for recommendations, if not the dreaded Facebook usually has some local groups
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