oldgreg01

Assuming your properties are residential, how about selling them to increase the stock available to first time buyers and then investing the proceeds in something that is beneficial to yourself and the economy.

If you're getting 30 quids worth for every tenner then that's 3:1.

So they would have to drop by 66% before you lost any of your original investment. Doesn't sound very likely, but I don't know the company.

What's the restrictions on you selling them.? There must be something to stop you putting in a grand and then flogging them all for 3k straight away.

I recently got an asus transformer and love it. Not as quick as an ipad 2 but quick enough. The problem with ios devices is the restrictive software.

No points for speeding, just a £60 fine... If they repeat offend constantly then add in points as some rich arse will gladly pay the speeding toll. So caught twice in a week and you can get points.

If dangerous driving is involved then 3 points

No insurance will be a 1 month ban at least and 6 points, same no license holders, missing tax wont get bothered with if its only a month out of date...

But it would mean no more speed cameras as i bet revenue would go up if it was American like with police pulling up and measuring speed.

You think you should ban someone who's not allowed to drive anyways? And put 6 points on a licence they haven't got?

No insurance should be a much bigger punishment. Too many would risk it if that was all they got. A 6 month ban should do it. And prison for a second offence.

I'm all for stopping speeders in the towns and around schools, I stick to the limits here, but out on the main roads there's no way I'm sticking to 60. Or 70 on the motorway.

Sorry to hear it mate.

Like fozzie says, how did they get your money without your pin?

No. Lock them up for life and make prison hell.

I wonder how many people are in favour of it as they think prison is easy nowadays.

On the DSA website you can get the course layout and the measurements between all the cones.

The stories in MCN attacking the new test, often quoting MAG, always talked about the drop in numbers taking the test since it was introduced

It was a rhetorical question but you're spot on. They're more concerned with keeping up the number of people taking their test.

It's harsh on those that would be sensible though.

And if they are serious about reducing KSI's then why have they just made the test easier again.

They're the colours that Yamaha originally used

Personally I don't like red or white & prefer the blue - they're just trying to confuse us!

It confused Lorenzo. Did you seen him miss his pit garage in practise. He had to go round and do another lap. They should of kept his crew kitted out in blue.

Some, all, or none of these may be important to you when buying your helmet:

Is it quiet (wind noise)

Does it have removable padding for easy cleaning

Good air vents for summer

Replacement visor costs

Ease of removing visors

Can it take a pinlock insert (stops fogging)

Probably missed something off the list. Fit is definitely the most important though.

For other gear if you're commuting then you will need waterproof kit if your planning on riding in all weather.

Also will you have separate summer and winter kit or removable thermal linings. One thing I've noticed with starting early is it can be cold in the morning and red hot going home, so having removable layers is helpful. You can also just use extra layers underneath of course.

lol. Same boots, same problem.

Keep meaning to try a bit of vaseline or something on the plastic bits at the back but not got round to it yet.

Nice one

Well, it is the cornering bible.

 

It wasn't that bit I meant

When they pull up at the bike stop? Everyone has a different solution?

this thread is just like the start of "twist of the wrist 2"

Well, it is the cornering bible.

I would say push down and out slightly, to push your knee into the tank. And not too hard.

I found the same and think it is down to being right handed. I find I am in more control going left as my right hand is pushing the handlebars and is leading the left hand. On a right hand bends my weaker left hand is doing the leading. Now I know that I find it easier as I make my right hand do more work on right hand bends.

If push with your right hand you will go right, not left

 

Sit on your bike with the front wheel straight forward, then push with your right hand and the wheel will turn to the left.

Very true.

But ride along and do it and the bike will tip and then turn right. Counter steering lesson number 1.

Sounds weird, but its true. Check out the numerous you tube vids on counter steering. Or for the best explanation, get hold of a copy of twist of the wrist 2.

That's how I did them last year, May and September. You will come away with lots to work on for September.

Have fun.

I think I kind of have that problem. My tyre chicken strips have begun to wear off on the left side of the rear tyre but the right side is untouched! I'm hoping that the i2i courses I've booked will help improve my confidence.

A mate and I have done the i2i courses. Well worth the money. Learnt loads and Tom the instructor is great. By the end of the second day when you start to put all you have learnt together you feel way more comfortable on the bike.

We have the i2i track day coming up in a couple of weeks too.

I found the same and think it is down to being right handed. I find I am in more control going left as my right hand is pushing the handlebars and is leading the left hand. On a right hand bends my weaker left hand is doing the leading. Now I know that I find it easier as I make my right hand do more work on right hand bends.

If push with your right hand you will go right, not left

I've figured it out! This evening, on the way home through the twisties, I decided to experiment with different techniques ... and I have it cracked!

Strangely, it's a completely different technique to the one that gets me round left-handers.

With left handers, I let my arms do all the work of steering.

With right handers, I've discovered that if I grip the tank with my knees, push down hard on the right-hand peg and let the front wheel turn where it wants to (to the right), I suddenly find myself getting the correct line through the turn!

So - left handers I steer with my arms, right handers I steer more with my legs and bodyweight.

Why it works, I don't know, but it just does ...

I was well satisfied with the result.

The twist of the wrist 2 DVD pretty much shows that body weight and peg steering are myths. It's more likely that as your uncomfortable with rights your subcontiously stopping the bars moving where they want to with your arms. By locking on to the tank your loosening your grip on the bars and letting the bars do their stuff.

I've always wondered about this. I don't ride anywhere near the limits of the tyres, so I wonder how much easier I need to take it, if at all.

But then I see things like this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9zNUPDmnz4

Hell it's funny, but how gutted would you be.

You should be able to get 59 out of an SV easily.

Are you riding in too high a gear? Having to open the throttle more to compensate?

A lot depends on the type or riding you do. If you do a lot of town riding in start stop traffic your mpg will come right down. I can get 55 out of my cbr without trying. I'm no Rossi but I don't hang about either. But then all my riding is out on flowing A roads, apart from the 1 minute it takes me to get out of town.

The dial on the wrist pops up, then you can adjust it.

Great looking pair of gloves those and very comfy too

pull the dial so it pops up. And loosen the velcro strap on the underside of the wrist