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You need a narrower boat....

Nor mine yet, looking forward to it as I know everything the misses has got me as I told her what to blumin get!!!!

Apparently my MT07 is a wheelie machine, I gave it a go in 1st after watching YouTube "power wheelie" which is, speed up in first, roll off and then give it a flick of throttle and it literally lifted by.......4mm but it was off the ground!!!! WOOOOOO

not many posting days left tho if royal mail go on a 5 day strike like they are threatening to Isn't it the post office rather than Royal Mail? If that's right parcels will still be sorted and delivered and apparently main stream post offices won't be affected. Still be cheaper to go via myhermes or someone anyway, despite them being quite shit.

Maybe he's learnt his lesson now, any of your stuff on YouTube?

Honestly mate take the hit of looking stupid, I put a pair on my MT07 this week and wow made huge difference. It just stops the wind chill hitting your hands. Heated Grips won't do that all on their own. I will be adding heated Grips too but the £10 bar muffs are by far best value item that has made huge difference.

I am more likely to be able to make a weekend evening rather than weekday but understand if that isn't possible for all.

I'll try to come along to this if goes ahead, was good to meet Steve last year.

I'm in! My best memory of this was in my previous job when a colleague grassed loads of us up for taking too long on our break. So when my mate got her as his secret Santa, he literally wrapped up a piece of turf, was literally the best moment ever watching her open it and hit the roof!

And like Tango said, try them all. That's the way found the MT07, had numerous 600s including the Hornet, CBR, Fazer but nothing hit the same fun factor as the MT. (Has to have the akrapovic system fitted though!)

Ha brilliant! Proper shits you up doesn't it! Had something similar when my 3 year old boys pretend Ipad thing sprung into life! Luckily I wasn't eating cheesecake.

Literally if you want a fun bike to learn on that you can either keep beyond your restriction or upgrade, then the MT07 is perfect! Very affordable too!

Pretty cold out there, most likely already had a crack and when you politely tapped on his window it just broke into tiny pieces, was good of you to offer your sincere apologies and both wished each other a pleasant evening and went on your way.

It was a joke as you said it was free, nothing is free in life. Someone has to pay to get the bikes there or hire bikes, then there's the accommodation, fuel, etc etc

Very good question

Sounds good, I'm in!.......if it's free

Good work! Is the bike he's on a balance bike? Looks good, want to get my soon to be 3 year old something similar.

You did well there! I too needed to change to something warmer, I bought an RST textile "Tundra" which said numerous good things about waterproof etc main concern I had was will it dry after getting soaked on outside on my commute to work. Yesterday in all the rain, stayed warm and dry. And the jacket on the outside was dry after a few hours in the office. Pretty happy with it so far especially as bought it new from someone on eBay who changed their mind for £40, cheapest with other sellers was £130 new.

No meetings???? What is this line of work!!! I'm in!! I'm willing to put up with bit of poop for better paid work but currently I'm losing lots of sleep over current job, I feel pretty depressed about it all. I'm struggling to switch off from the work and the people I work with. It's a professional level of wage so is basically the wage you would get as a new qualified Physio or Nurse so isn't anything major, 23k. I used to be on 21k with less responsibility and much nicer people to work with. I've certainly learnt recently the increase I'd get for doing next step as a manager isn't worth the extra hassle in current setting.

I've moved into telecoms, still within supply chain/logistics (I'm a forecaster/analyst), the majority of my experience is in retail (fmcg) but redundancy initially forced me into healthcare (orthopaedics) and a brief spell in another fmcg manufacturing environment (which was truly awful) before moving here, all of the roles have been along the same theme, the only difference has been the company and the people I have worked with/for and tbh they are the ones that make or break a place of work in my opinion. doesn't really matter what you do, but if you are doing it with/for a great set of people, you are likely to enjoy it!! Oddly telecoms is one of the areas I have looked at and researched what sort of role might interest me. I initially thought I would like to be outdoors more rather than stuck in an office but to start on around 10k a year for an apprentice engineer which is closed now anyway for recruiting wouldent be possible with a family to support. Ill certainly look out to see if could transfer my current skills to a position in telecoms. There's a lot in this. About 10 years I had a whole series of jobs that I really hated and I thought seriously about changing career: plumber, teacher, doctor, I looked at them all. Now I'm still doing pretty much the same job and I'm lucky in that I enjoy what I do. The difference is working people you can have a laugh with. That is one major thing lacking in my current job, they really are on a completely different wave length to me, I cant go into too much detail just yet as never know who is on here but if I do get another job I can explain more. Some potential avenues have arisen which Ill follow up, certainly despite another crap day I do feel more positive as reminded myself I always do my best and work hard and I can transfer that anywhere.

I used to feel like that, so I changed industry, similar role just different things in the boxes. The two industries are a world apart even though I'm doing pretty much the same thing, the outlook and attitude of my seniors in my current role is just 'different' and it really makes a difference. What industry did you move into? Think I have come to the realization the NHS is not the industry I want to stay in, especially when comes to the management side of it. Work wise I am not sure anymore. I guess out of the jobs I have had since graduating the most enjoyable job, as in the workload, was more direct involvement in patient care so maybe Ill try looking in that direction. It was fortunate that the team was really good to work in too. Looking back I wish I had not left that job but that's life. I do know something and that is the degree I did isn't the route I want to go down which was Management. Obviously I have found this out the hard way but if I was true to myself I would admit I knew it was never the way I wanted to go. I did the degree at the time because I thought University was the right next step and I had no idea what to do and chose that. So for anyone considering university really think about what you want to do and really make sure it will lead to what you enjoy e.g a doctor, I.T, engineer etc etc. I always wanted to be a Police Officer but due to issue with eyes that wasn't possible. So that leaves enjoyment in motorbikes, music, film, sports and technology. Thanks for all the responses by the way, good to see it got lots of different views and experiences. I

Well it's Sunday night and I have the same feeling had since joined my current job, that feeling of really don't want to go in again tomorrow. I've only been there 3 months, it's in the NHS working on improving services, cost savings etc which sounds rewarding but it's quite boring and have to work with some very power hungry people. I've learnt since being in it that's not the way I want to go career wise. I want a job I can switch off from and leave on time most days. I know I am lucky to have a job but I want to have a job I actually enjoy, I enjoyed my previous job in another healthcare setting more than this. Wondering whether to have a complete career change? Anyone know of anything where don't have to start on apprentice wage, can't afford to do that with a family, also at 32 I'm probs too old anyway for an apprentice!

Well spotted! Nice review Mr B! There seems to be a fair few variants of the 690? I really like the look of the one I put the link up for, the latest versions not so keen on, they look like been squashed length wise.

Nice write up! I'm looking at changing the XJR for an older Duke 690 like the link below, I've read elsewhere they do good mileage which is what I want as be using it for daily commute on country roads and city traffic. But yours wasn't from sounds of it? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/361729226269" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Cheers

All I saw then was "my abs is pukka"