SometimesSansEngine

Hey, he pluralised it, so it's not just me he was referring to

Bath is pronounced Baff. I grew up ten miles away and I know this to be an irrefutable fact. I'm sat in Baff right now, the only people who say "Barf" are posh wannabies. Oh, and @Magpie84 and are about to throw up Yup, another reason I think it's ridiculous when I hear people walking around going "oh I'm just in Barf"

Holy crap old thread revival Batman I need to reglue my left hand grip, under a bit of pressure it'll twist and I want to reglue it before it gets worse. Would just superglue work or would the heat cycles of the grip cause it fail? I'm not worried about the grips staying on forever but would want to be able to remove them without an angle grinder if they failed and needed replacing

No worries, you could probably get them on the tubular frame to the front of the horizontal plate if you removed the side panel but I can't remember if I didn't do that because there was another obstruction or because I couldn't be bothered to take the bodywork off

I read this on the way to the car park leaving work and thought by the time I got home someone else would have said it, but blow me down they haven't so I'll go for it: 1) Your bike.

You are 100% correct, but but but but... also 100% correct. It's like someone on a road bike with a mountain bike helmet on It's just not right

Looks crap but blow me, it worked brilliantly with no loss of vision. Rode home at 4:15pm doing several miles in a west/south westerly direction on country roads with the sun directly in front of me, worked better than I expected. I actually thought it would be no better but I could do with the electrical tape anyway. Now I've worked where the tape works I can probably smarten it up a touch.

Tagging [mention]Magpie84[/mention] in something then waiting to see how long it is before I get in trouble for what I said is basically my weird way of checking how often she is checking the forum

All ready to go, home time at the moment can put me directly into the sun so we'll see how it goes

If you can get away with using 'normal' ear plugs I definitely wouldn't knock them, even with them being consumable you'd still probably save money. I just can't manage the whole shoving something in my ear and it staying there thing (same with ear bud headphones). I assume though the standard ones like that would make use of an intercom hard [mention]geofferz[/mention]? (which, if you don't use one probably wouldn't be a problem)

I stand resolute that no-one in the history of the world has said "mummy, I'm just going to have a barf" So why on earth I'm called common for pronouncing the place the same as the cleaning tub I have no idea.

By my definition the North is anything above the M4. I can see a good chunk of your hot spots are above that, so I can see where they're coming from. True, most of my mates are from "inside the bubble" (M25) and so when I say bath and it doesn't sound like barf, they fall about laughing (laughing which also, does not have an "r" sound in it! ) Bath is pronounced Baff. I grew up ten miles away and I know this to be an irrefutable fact. I'm sat in Baff right now, the only people who say "Barf" are posh wannabies. Oh, and [mention]Magpie84[/mention]

Ah that's great, first pic of someone sat on what they cut their teeth on

By my definition the North is anything above the M4. I can see a good chunk of your hot spots are above that, so I can see where they're coming from.

Right, nipped to Homebase at lunch to try the tape at the top of your visor trick. Figured if it's terrible I can just rip it off. Need to remember to pack my sunglasses too, I feel they'll be more effective than the sun visor

Because my nature is I'll ride to the conditions. But it can still be hard to see where the road goes at times even when you slow right down, and be aware that there can be things you can't see because of the sun. The driver behind is likely to have the vehicle's sun visor down which will provide a great help to their vision and be hugging my exhaust pipe. Which in and of itself doesn't bother me, but I just don't trust other people not to make bad decisions. My point about the road being NSL is that the speed differential between the theoretical limit and the speed I will go is much higher than on a 30 or 40mph road.

Does the inner sunvisor not help? No not really, I don't think these things were ever intended to block out the full glare of the sun when it's dead ahead and low in the sky . They are more for resting the eyes when its a very bright sunny day . Also good for keeping bugs ( sorry , insects ) out of the eyes when its very hot and you want to have the outer visor up to keep cool. In my experience, sun visors are absolutely useless when the sun is in front of you. Which can be quite disconcerting on a NSL country road.

Well,it's one possibility. The only certainty as we sit 32 days and 12 hours from our expected exit date is this: Anyone - politicians, business people, your mates, anyone on a forum, pundits, journalists, professors, economists, someone ranting on social media - who tells you they know what the situation will be in 33 days time is lying. Which is totally and absolutely crazy, but there we are.

So I was filtering, right. And the road was a touch narrow, and a lorry was oncoming. So I pulled in. And the only place I could land the bike was in this big divot. Front wheel went in, and it felt like I was descending a hill. Came up out the other side. Came to a stop making sure that my foot didn't disappear into the mouth of hell. No bother. Lorry went past. Then a stream of cars. Sat waiting for a bit. Fortune favours the conservative when filtering I find. I can spot a nice gap after the last car, so here we go, a small angled start to get back out around the traffic..... Only by now I've somehow already forgotten about the moon crater that I'm straddling, and just as I dink the bike to the right the back wheel goes in, like Neil Armstrong bringing down the moon lander with only a few moments of fuel left I descend. My brain thinks the bike is falling so I let out the clutch a bit and both my legs flail out, waving away like an octopus has suddenly found itself on a motorcycle and trying to make sense of it all. And of course, in but a moment the bike has happily exited said abyss and wondering why on earth the stupid rider is doing so much to unsettle it, it's of course more than capable of handling such a minor cavity on the road surface, but the pilot of said machine takes a few more seconds to twig what is going on and that now everything is all OK as he wobbles and weaves down the road like St Nick's belly wobbling like a bowlful of jelly. I'm sure none of the drivers queuing witnessed the smoothness

I've told [mention]Magpie84[/mention] a few times "I'm not lost, I know exactly where we are. We're in the UK".

You're doing your usual thing of having zero experience and trying to tell others who have experience the way it is. I know from my time here that this forum is a great place to seek help, advice and guidance. The thing with advice is you can chose what you do with it: 1) take it on board 2) consider it, find it a bit interesting, maybe do something with it maybe not 3) disregard it From reading your posts from afar, you sit in camp 3. Every time. Believe it or not, I'm actually trying to stop you getting hurt. I'm not telling you *not* to filter, but you've sat and watched a load of YouTube videos and clearly already thinking "I can do a bit of that". From RJ's own website: You're watching the videos of someone with decades of riding experience and enduro motorbiking experience and saying "well they haven't come off badly filtering". And one more bit from his site... Are you definitely in the right mindset to know that once you sling your leg over a bike you are going to need to learn a lot? Only you can answer that.

Learning a lot from watching youtube then? You're going to take safe riding advice from people that post videos to YouTube with an aim of monetising them? And even if they haven't, you think you're them? If you like I could post a load of youtube vids where people riding like that come a cropper if you like?

1) Revving doesn't give you a right to filter 2) Filter like that and you'll soon meet the tarmac

I'm going to be humming that every time I see one of the local moped bois reving around the local high street now

I now have a small Oxford tank bag to put my mobile phone and a power bank in for navigation if I need it, but before I reviewed that I figured I should do a review of what I've used for navigation until now. Namely, a sandwich bag with some magnets Cheap yet really effective. In another life I've taken part in audaxes (long distance bike rides against the clock). They often use route sheets with basic instructions such as: TL SP Cheddar = Turn left when you see the sign post for Cheddar 2nd @ RAB = when you get to a roundabout, take the 2nd exit R@T = when you get to a t-junction, turn right R @ TL = when you get to some traffic lights, turn right SO @ The Royal Oak PH = when you see the Royal Oak pub, go straight on (pubs are good for navigation as they have easy to spot signs!) If you want to extend it further, places you actually travel through can be written in capitals, places you'll just see on signs in lower case. So you can mentally tick off the places you travel through, and if you happen to go through a place that's not in capitals... well... you've done a whoopsie somewhere. You'll be amazed how many miles you can do with these basic directions. Just think, if you're on an A road for a while you can just say TL SP A37 Follow SP A303 ...which may take you an hour down the road (if you joined the A37 in Bristol it would be another 33 miles before you found the A303) The sandwich bag was border line free. I mean, I had to buy the bags but I had them anyway. Totally waterproof, which was a bonus when I went to Taunton for a Biker Down course in pouring rain the whole way (the directions in the pic were for getting home from the session, from Glatonbury I knew where to go to get home). Magnets I also managed to get for free from a work colleague, but you can pick them up for a couple of pounds or just steal them from the ones on the fridge. Sure there are more swish solutions to the navigation problem, but if you don't have a sat nav (or it has gone kaput) then this may work for you. The only time it really falls over is in busy cities as it's hard to make the directions easy to follow. But a waterproof navigation solution for a couple of pounds max? Can't beat it (I did consider putting this review in the sat nav section, but decided that as it doesn't actually use satellites to help you navigate it didn't really count).