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S-Westerly

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  1. Sounds like an awful lot of fun. Enjoy yourselves.
  2. I think I've met him in Gloucestershire. The number of idiots who bimble along at 40-45 then when you overtake them try and catch you up or speed through a village so they can is quite high. You can play with them a bit though if you are in the mood.
  3. Glad I don't do spannering. Sounds like an open invitation to buggeruppery to me. Or at least for me.
  4. I find that at least when I'm talking to myself I can have a sensible conversation.
  5. Doesn't exactly come up in everyday conversation does it.?
  6. I was paying about £250 fully comp for the Multistrada through Bennetts. When I got the Guzzi I got a quote from them and it was over£1200 I think. When I asked why the jump in price I was told the underwriter for the Multistrada insurance wouldn't cover the Guzzi so it was some random outfit. I declined their off and went elsewhere. Still ended up paying a tad over £400 but a lot cheaper than first quote. Do feel ripped off though.
  7. Don't even know what a Voge is?
  8. Dunno. Maybe could be?
  9. Check your tyres. If they've still got decent tread after 5000 miles they may well be decent for your tour. Personally I've yet to get much more than 5000 miles from a rear tyre but it depends on how you ride etc.
  10. I truly do hate windfarms. I can just about tolerate the offshore ones but the ones on land I detest.
  11. I hadn't seen the news this morning. Now I have and I can't say I'm surprised. Large container ship loses propulsion power near bridge which means you have no control. Huge number of boxes on deck so a lot of windage. To steer at all this kind of ship needs to go relatively fast so when they lose power theyve got no control at all. Slide into a bridge support which had no protective barriers and that's going to be it. At close to 100,000 tonnes and travelling even as slow as 5 knots that's an awful lot of kinetic energy getting instantly transferred to the bridge structure. I'm a bit twitchy at the moment as we have 2 bridges to negotiate where the clearance is barely a metre. Hoping our calculations are correct!
  12. I may have gone but I'm due back to sea in mid August.
  13. Right now we are at sea. Heading to New York where I should arrive on the 28th. We then have to hang around for 2 days before they'll bring us in. What's happening in Baltimore?
  14. Is there a point to watching Buffy without lascivious thoughts? I thought that was the whole point of it.
  15. Absolutely. I want unlimited Pina Coladas too. Tonight we are off to New York to offload the rest of our cargo. Get there on the 28th if all goes well.
  16. Here in Nova Scotia it is nice and sunny but bloody cold. -1.
  17. Benelli is Chinese so avoid. Husqvarna is notoriously uncomfortable not that I have personal experience. Go for used Japanese brand although the small bikes are no longer made in Japan. Remember with CBT only you can't ride anything over 125 cc ever so until.you get some kind of proper bike licence you'll not be getting anything larger.
  18. I've ridden one briefly and I found it very uncomfortable but that was for me. Other people love them so I suggest you try one and see. The seat isn't imo very comfy. As I say try it and if it fits you go for it, if it doesn't try something different.
  19. Can quite understand why. I'd not be too keen either with that sort of runaround.
  20. Ultimate Addons have a decent website. I bought the mount for my GPS from them.
  21. An extraction pump works but if you've got any small metal filings in there they won't drain out.
  22. When I came back to biking after a long period out I found that the first couple of weeks my left hand used to cramp up but after a bit it stopped and these days ino longer have that problem at least.
  23. Entitled bitch I'd say. Not just nobs about.
  24. Exactly why as a spanner deficient person I take my bike to where someone who knows more than me does this kind of thing.
  25. I tend to stick to 2 and 3. 1 is close to the edge of the road where all the crap ends up and often potholes are bigger too. Depends on the road though and how well I know it. As to revs / gear my current bike is quite torquey and will pull away in a higher gear. I don't really think about it too much - if the bike is doing what I want it to without complaining then I'm happy.
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