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I think the Mongolians and Genghis Khan weren't to far off.

A man found in possession of a stolen horse must return it to its owner, add nine horses of the same kind. If he is unable to pay this fine his children must be taken instead of the horses. If he has no children then he must be slaughtered like a sheep.

Could they be slaughtered like pigs instead, coz you can't educate pork

A wheel of fortune style punishment system would work for me, and the victims get to spin the wheel, should be televised though, this would be some proper reality entertainment

Then I would have been a big a dick as him!

I was polite and asked to go through - he could therefore see I was being sensible. I could have just gone through straight away and easily at that!

However, I thought asking (and making sure he was aware of me - He could have informed the two wide load drivers as well) was the correct thing to do.

This has not changed my attitude - If faced with the same situation again, I would do exactly the same and ask politely.

Shame there were no cops around (they never are when you would like to see them).

My apologies GOG, now that you have explained your initial intentions, then you were perfectly in the right, but the way you made it sound in your first post, was that you moved to overtake regardless of the situation, and got miffed by the drivers actions for blocking you, now that that's been cleared up, happy days

You could just do lessons, but just out of curiosity why didn't you do the CBT on a geared bike, the instructors would have given you the basic training needed

What material is it made from ?,

Get a sack of carrots from a farm shop, string them together and hang them up on the hedgerow, the horses will smell them and want to stop to eat, that will get them horse riders frustrated without causing damage to anything, can't be prosecuted for feeding the wildlife

yes - He was doing his job but.,.... With a little bit of consideration, he could have let me go past without any bother!

You could apply your logic to filtering and the cars in front deliberately block you - After all, they are just out driving.

Filtering through traffic is totally irrelivent to the scenario of being prevented from passing by an escort for a wide load,

the escort is there to stop idiots like you endangering yourself, that is why they are there, FOR YOUR SAFETY

Have you had the speedo calibrated, there is a good chance that the sprockets have been changed, and the speedo will not give a true reading of your actual speed

 

Isn't the Speedo connected to the front wheel and worked off revolutions ?

Yup, had a bit of brain malfunction, was thinking how a car's one is connected through gearbox

still worth checking the sprockets though, could well have been changed and geared down for better low gear response, and sacrificed some of the top end speed

Have you had the speedo calibrated, there is a good chance that the sprockets have been changed, and the speedo will not give a true reading of your actual speed

If they took out all the crap from the cells, chairs,tables, tv's etc, they could have more beds in each cell, and be like a prison should be

take out the beds too, let the fekkers sleep on the floor

Yesterday on the way back from The Stag Cafe (tag), there were two 'extra wide' loads with an escort van behind them taking up both lanes of the A14 with a huge double queue of traffic behind them. So after (safely) filtering to the front I moved over to the right rear corner of the van with a view to passing the wide loads. However, the van driver also pulled over to the right, blocking me. So, I had a rethink and pulled across to the left and drew level with the nearside window of the escort motioning that I would like to go through (there was plenty of room for a bike but not a car). He shook his head at me and then got on his mike. Obviously, he was taking to the load drivers as the rearmost moved over to the left a little (blocking that 'filter lane') and the lead driver moved right - totally blocking the lanes. I just waved (kindly) at the escort driver then, approaching the Cambridge junction, took the M11 slip - powered past and back in front of the convoy.

So my nomination is the escort vehicle driver for being a totally inconsiderate knob-head!

I think you should nominate yourself, he was doing his job

pass test get bigger bike, you won't get much more out of it than that

I think this is why people end up hoarding, people would rather keep their stuff than let it go for stupid money

Happy Birthday

I use baby wipes then wipe over with a dry cloth

This where they have by the short and curly's regarding the licensing, a 125cc bike is just that, you can restrict the power output, but you cannot physically reduce the engine size, and as the CBT and A1 restricts you on both the engine size and power output that is what we have to abide by

My Xena is Chinese made, i bought her new nearly 4 months ago, it has been nearly a month since i last rode her, took her out today, and she started on the button, did all the pre ride checks, tyres,oil,water,lights etc, all 100% as they should be, in short Chinese bikes do get some bad press, but then there are some nice gems out there to be had

To legally ride the minimum is full car or provisional licence with motorcycle entitlement plus CBT, the theory is only required when progressing further to a full motorcycle licence

Fancy a bit of extreme surfing

release the clutch handle, ease off the throttle and gear up without using clutch, then clutch in and gear down

The next time i'm in that situation, i will peddle with my feet whilst doing a paddling motion and hum the theme tune from Hawaii five O

Not sure if Spain have anything like this, but France might be an option,

https://ukfrancebikers.com/2011/01/22/7-hours-compulsory-training-for-all-125cc-riders-in-france/

I was pootling about today, and i was quite happy sitting in the line along with some others, but plenty of others though were filtering, like anything else there is a time and a place

 

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No not me, but i do like those moves, i will have to practice them

Have you changed the fuel filter if it has one, is a carb or efi model, if carb it cound have some crud in it,

copied from MCN,

Build Quality & Reliability 4 out of 5

Both mechanically and cosmetically, the Yamaha XV535 Virago is a highly regarded motorcycle and has the longevity of successful sales figures to prove it. Gripes are rare but include carb icing and corroding regulator/rectifiers but, on the whole, the Yamaha XV535 Virago is a solid motorcycle to buy. But keep that exposed V-twin and all that chrome in good nick to maintain value.

certainly looks like a fuel filter, but the arrow usually indicates direction of flow, this one seems to indicate the orientation of the filter itself, as above check for smell of fuel, good luck