S-Westerly

As I said disputatious. Helmets - I change them roughly every 4 years because after about 20000 miles it gets pretty rank even with a washable liner. Counter steering - is there any other way? Chocolate Hob Nobs are still the best.

Horses for courses really. I'll filter and lane split if I feel it's safe and if it's going to save me enough time to make it worthwhile. When I can legally use bus lanes I do especially if the traffic is otherwise very slow.

I dunno, think of the discussions about chain driven vs shaft with the Liberal equivalent of belt drives. Then you've got V-twins (the best) Vs horizontal twins or triples or (gasp) 4 cylinders or even singles. Oh and the real weirdos with 6 cylinder 2 wheeled buses aka Gold Wings. I think a parliament of bikers would be probably more sensible (couldn't be less) but it would still be pretty disputatious. As to biscuits - chocolate Hob Nobs.

My Dad - 89 in August was about to buy a new car. Finally persuaded him not to as his driving is truly awful these days. (Not that it was ever brilliant). However he's carrying on with his current jalopy until it's MOT in August. If you drive / ride anywhere near Morpeth, Northumberland - be afraid, be very afraid.

It's called a catheter and piss bag but they are not usually worn out of choice. Google Texas catheter. I thought it would be a good idea but SWMBO thought it was disgusting and vetoed it. Would save having to be familiar with a lot of lay-by trees.

This made me chuckle... alot! I can't even do it ! Thank God they don't make bikes!

Quite often it's the middle finger

Three more tags today: Touch Down Café British Motor Museum Court Barn Museum

I think you've missed my point probably because of the way I wrote it. What I was trying to get across is that in heavy traffic that is being speed restricted (and managed motorways fall into this category) other drivers are not going to expect someone to be ducking and weaving at silly speeds so the rider in question is more likely to be involved in an accident. A general biking community as you rightly say does not exist per se.

Actually all the ones I noticed were reading the back plates so he may have got caught.

Today while in the car I was on the M27 in the road works area with the mandatory 50 mph. I was trundling along at about 55 mph and in cruise control. All three lanes were doing more or less the same. I heard him before I saw him and realised that somewhere near there was a bike. A hero on a sports bike came haring past splitting lanes and weaving left and right probably at 80 or so. My point is that as a biker I realised he was around but how many other drivers would have especially if they had music playing etc? They certainly wouldn't be expecting him to be at that speed and if someone changed lanes and he ends up being in collision I'd say he'd be entirely to blame. Also a good candidate for the Darwin Awards.

That would be leprosy surely? Be memorable I suppose.

Lancashire has always been bad in my experience for speed traps. Cumbria much less so.

The A683 from Kirby Lonsdale through to Sedbergh and beyond is a popular biker's road. The old bridge over the Lune (Devils Bridge) has loos on one side and a typical cafe caravan on the other. The cafe side has a small parking area where bikers can often be found.

Often stop there when I'm riding up to my parents and take the scenic route through the North Pennines. Good enough bacon butties and handy for a pee stop.

Miserable at the time and made for a memorable wedding anniversary! 20 odd years later though we laugh about it. All these folks scrabbling around on the carpet looking for the diamond which was not exactly the Kohinoor...

Many years ago Mrs S-westerly and I were dining out at a rather nice restaurant with the usual subdued lighting. Half way through the meal she realised that the diamond was missing from her engagement ring. Cue massive panic and the staff switching on all the lights and them, us and the other customers crawling around on our hands and knees looking for the damned thing. Never found it though.

A few months ago our IT department decided to change all the passwords and are now obviously using random words connected with a few numbers and symbols included. Nobody can remember them so each PC on the network has a dymotaped password attached to the screen. Bear in mind that this is on a ship with a total of 24 people on board usually in the middle of sodding nowhere.

I think there's a lot of BS going on here. Why would I need an IDL when for example I don't need one currently to drive in New Zealand, Australia,USA, Canada, South Africa, Norway etc.? The only place I have ever needed one was South Korea. If EU countries are going to make this a thing it's yet another example of giving us a punishment beating.

Indeed, I'd installed a new TomTom 550 this morning so then I just had to test it out. Plus I needed some engine oil and I can't get 15W50 up here so went to my dealership to get some. When I actually got the bike on flat ground it only needed 100ml but better to have it than not.

Firstly wagon wheels are NOT biscuits. They are (bad) chocolate confectionery. Secondly since Cadbury got taken over by Kraft their chocolate has gone right down the pan. Their cream eggs are not the same and I find I prefer Galaxy chocolate or even (shock horror -its European!) Ritter Sport. As to Brexit we're all f**cked whatever happens and our politicians are all sh**heads. That's my contribution to the great Brexit debate.

Should have been Haynes Motor Museum as well but managed to lose the pics

I might be wrong but I think Marino was being a tad sarcastic, ironic even.

My current bike has ABS & TCS. If you wanted to you can switch either / both off. The nearest I've been is selecting Enduro mode on a gravelled track. That switches ABS off from the rear wheel only. Other than that it's great, particularly on the crappy roads so many of ours have become.

More than one today - all the Sunday drivers in Gloucestershire, Herefordshire and Powys who seem incapable of driving more than 40 mph on any road. What is wrong with these people!?