James in Brum

@Trooper74 perhaps they will get better sooner because I am further diluted! @Slowlycatchymonkey I don’t generally speed. It is all my fault I don’t excuse it. I was mega stressed at work and trying to be in early all the time those few weeks to keep up with learning a new role and managing COVID. It impacted my driving on empty roads, plus I was in the car rather than the bike which I had become used to. The car just seems slower at higher speeds than the bike.

Update, I took a speed awareness course for 1. the solicitor advised waiting to see about the other four. Because there is four I will have to go to court if they follow through on prosecuting. I have been hoping that they would just get lost in the system with COVID etc, sort of the universe looking after me. I was about three weeks from being able to believe they had vanished and I have have the notices that the courts have been advised. who knows from here. We shall plead hardship because some of what I do I would not be able to do and it would not just disadvantage me but also the people I homeopath for the NHS (when I am homeopathing as opposed to leading the homeopathy). @Slowlycatchymonkey

I’ll see if I can find the post and update.

Might lose my licence is the long and short of it.

I had five arrive all on the same day from my journeys into work during lockdown one week. one has gone to a speed awareness course, I was hoping to make it to dec without hearing any more about the other four but have had court notices for all.

Oh and @fastbob I have this button and use it for what you are wanting.

Yeah I shall play at some point. The past six months have really taken it out of me with work/COVID and the speeding tickets. Just need to find some headspace and then I can play a bit more.

C’est la guerre de les poissons. we are about to see half the country proved correct. Still we find ourselves not discussing facts or expert opinions but calling names, gammons/remoaners belittling the people rather than the arguments. it’s going to be interesting that is for sure. I was reasonably neutral about in or out but siding with remain. One thing I was not ambivalent about was I would not trust those in power not to line their own pockets at the expense of mucking everything up for the rest of us.

It’s probably just getting used to it now Stu. It’s working for me in that I mostly check active and new posts. I can find the menu. I prefer the old but understand that there was an opportune moment/reason.

I am struggling to get used to it too Rob, I persevere because I have been nominated for a prize

I’m sure you’re as soft as shite really @XTreme The decision I have to make as head homeopath in the nhs require a degree of spinal fortitude. Not knowing any of you on here with the exception of @Fastbob whom I have met I choose not to behave as if we are mates in the pub who know how far we can push it. Rae owned his own twattishness in his response so seemed reasonable to weigh in. Maybe Mark should have a nomination because he is clearly finding the kind words in the MOTY thread uncomfortable.

It’s an easy thing to mistake a person having sensitivity as having a lack of backbone. can I nominate myself or at least be put back on the list. I cannot remember why I was nominated but a few weeks ago I had won this whole competition I thought

I was initially highlighting the behaviour as twattish, i am throwing my voice behind the perpetrator and joining in with nominating Raesewell. If it is the first thing you say to a person and you have not offered any niceties in it so it is the only thing you are saying it is twattish and rude.

I’m not worried about them knowing it was me, I don’t like to hurt feelings unnecessarily if I was confident it would not corse a fence eye wood nominate but enviting other’s Votes without noing that I shalln’t.

There is a particular forum member who corrects spellings and grammar with very little generosity in how they do it. I don’t have a relationship with them to know how they would react to being nominated. Was I confident it would be taken in good fun so to speak I would nominate them for my vote.

Member of the Year for me is probably @MarkW, I think there have been times I have not necessarily agreed with what he is saying but I have always enjoyed the way he says it. I think he takes the time to write something and seeks to make it witty. In addition his bravery in talking about his experiences in the ‘how are you feeling thread’ started by @fastbob prompted me to also share and to face the vulnerability/exposure that offered. Bob is still held in my high esteem but I voted for him last year.

Play with the revs, i’d put money (imaginary internet money) that you can make it pull in an exciting way. My ZZR600 is less pokey in lower revs, although good enough at lights etc, but when I get into the magic band of revs it feels like warp in engaging.

I’ve only had a licence 16 months and bikes for 3 years. I think you are a biker if you ride or have risen a motorbike. Tribalism is fine when you feel in the tribe and bullshit when you use it to exclude others. As for the mechaniccing bits, what a brilliant thing to be able to do, I try when I have time and opportunity with help from here but i also pay experts where I don’t have time or confidence.

Paging @fastbob Fastbob to the help zone

There may be correlation but that does not mean cause. Again I think that is a straw man. car licenses are hard to get now with the average spent being pretty huge.

I fail to see how checking that prospective riders have the skills to handle their bike safely is a bad thing. it is of course possible to fail the mod one despite being proficient but you cannot pass it without being proficient and handling, slow riding turning, swerving and stopping suddenly. All good things to be able to do. the argument it does not make you a good rider is a straw man argument. The point of the modular test is to seek for people to know how to safely ride their bike and not allow them on the roads with 100+ bhp

If they are nice bikes sell them or secure them somewhere else and buy a bike that looks pointless to nick, an ER500 looks rough but works?

Yes, one of those.

I would but I worry about it being safe.

We knew that from the original post. The solutions weren’t adequate is what I understand and then the social media posts disappeared (we are told).