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Raining here in New York too and has been for days. Combined with a gale so the harbour pilots aren't working to take ships to sea. Delayed from 0430 yesterday until 1400 today. No rush though.

Rural Gloucestershire, Somerset and Wiltshire is the same. 40 mph regardless of the posted limit. Annoying on the bike but infuriating in a car. Actually had idiots overtake me in a 20 mph zone only for me to catch them up a mile outside the village.

Sorry.

409B Electrosolve although it does come in 20 litre drums. Really cleans crap off.

Bennetts Bike Social has an interesting video rebutting Fortnine's and is quite technical. They are basically saying he's wrong politely.

Still entitled to f**k things up and no obligation to get it fixed. Not planning on sticking a coke can on the end.

Knock on wood but the only off I've had at anything other than really slow was long ago when I had a helmet, gloves and boots but otherwise just had regular clothing on. Armour wouldn't have made any difference as the only injury I got was the bar end digging into my thigh. That said I now have decent gear with mostly Ghost D30 armour. I'm not planning on removing it any time soon.

I could see them properly last night. Was quite taken with the house stuck on a navigation marker on the river ( not a chimney methinks!) and the house that looked it was about to fall in.

I've looked at getting an after market screen and if I do I'm looking at possibly a Givi or a Calsci one. The trouble is they are by definition big and not very attractive to the eye. This is where vanity comes into play. Also I've done long motorway ride with the OEM touring screen and survived so do I really need to be in a bubble of silence (relatively).?

There are various colour restore potions on the market. I used one from Muc-Off to restore some faded black plastics on my previous bike and it worked quite well.

Assuming I'm home I might do bit of that as on the 5th I have to do the naughty boy course.

Haircuts are no longer an issue for me as I've not got much left.

No, really?

The one I'm thinking about is a Mistral version which is sold by a Guzzi specialist and according to the blurb doesn't need re-mapping. So I'm guessing it should be OK but.... I really like the bike just not too keen on the end can. Bloody ugly imo.

I'd actually written scrote but the wretched spell check changed it and I didn't notice.

Absolutely agree and I'd forgotten about plain white being usually the cheapest. Certainly not going to pay an additional £100 just for graphics.

Some little scooter apparently took a potshot at my wife's car while she was on a quiet section of the M5. Hit the windscreen which now needs replacing. A bit peeved.

Yesterday in an owners forum I happened to mention that I was thinking of changing the end can of my exhaust. I would leave the hideous cat unit but swap out the end can. The responses I got made me somewhat irked. Basically I got called every kind of idiot known to man for even thinking about messing up this finely tuned instrument blah blah blah. I make no claims to being any kind of expert in this field so if its a potentially damaging thing to do then obviously I won't. If its harmless then I will. Any opinions on the forum? Not that I'll necessarily listen to them mind!

Yesterday in an owners forum I happened to mention that I was thinking of changing the end canof my exhaust. I would leave the hideous cat unit but swap out the end can. The responses I got made me somewhat irked. Basically I got called every kind of idiot known to man for even thinking about messing up this finely tuned instrument blah blah blah. I make no claims to being any kind of expert in this field so if its a potentially damaging thing to do then obviously I won't. If its harmless then I will. Any opinions on the forum? Not that I'll necessarily listen to them mind!

I wear a white helmet but purely because in warm weather its cooler to wear and for me more comfortable.

Still don't like the 2CV so there. However I did learn to drive in my dad's Citroën DS. Now that was a car worthy of the name.

I thought they'd just about banned parades unless it meets a suitable degree of political correctness?

I didn't know they were designed. Thought they were someone's 3 year old drawing a "car".

Its the movements made in the final 80 minutes of the procedure. Its not exactly rapid. Think kerbside parking on steroids.

I wish I could. Serious surgery would be required.