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Rustydog

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    Yamaha YBR Custom
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  1. Music streaming services like Spotify have revolutionised peoples access to huge amounts of music. However, for me there’s a problem. I’m obsessed with owning my music and playlists. As soon as you stop subscribing to these streaming organisations all your music/playlists disappear into thin air, don’t they?
  2. Good on yer-I bet you get a real buzz out of it
  3. Many years ago during ye olde days of policing the law would have you for a lot of things: coughing without due care and attention, or wearing a loud shirt in a built up area to name but a few. Much more accountable these days though
  4. “Out of the blue and into the black”- reminds me of a song somewhere
  5. It certainly is price fixing and daylight robbery too. How come the bike sat navs are three times as much as the car equivalents ?. Yeah I know they have to be made waterproof over and above the car versions for obvious reasons, but there just isn’t the extra material or manufacturing in them to justify that sort of hike on the prices.
  6. I’ve noticed a fair bit recently about tail tidy stuff. Is this quite common for people to swap things about if things are aesthetically carp or are there practical reasons too ?. Why don’t the manufacturers take note that the back end on some of their bikes are not very nice looking and improve the design or am I missing something ?.
  7. and you all know the song that charlie drake sang Blimey-Charlie Drake, I’d forgot all about him, must be my age!
  8. Thanks for the good pointers everyone. It does seem if you’ve been driving for years all the hazard awareness formulas seem to be embedded so if you’ve got a relatively accident free driving history you must be getting it right. However, getting through the on-screen exam is a slightly different ball game but it does get you to think about or bring out any inner knowledge. Probably more helpful really to a completely new road user, although I think there’s a couple of video clips that are a tad ambiguous. The key thing and max point scoring is to flag up the developing hazards as soon as you spot them although there’s actually potential hazards all over the videos that don’t earn any points as they’re just ‘static’ and not a ‘developing’ hazard.
  9. Thanks for your encouragement!. All the multiple choice stuff is fine it’s just the hazard perception videos that seem tricky but I reckon I’ll get the hang of them. It just feels odd that having been on 4 wheels for many years, all the on-road hazards you deal with is second nature but then spotting them on screen in a test situation seems a different ballgame.
  10. Hello everyone-I’ve just subscribed to the online theory test tutorial by the DVSA. The hazard perception videos that you have to click on/flag up form a big part of the test and in the online practice tutorial they give you a hundred of these video clips to practice and get scored on. Question-Has anyone practiced these online hazard perception videos and if so do any or an amount of these videos appear in the actual test or do you get a completely new set for the test-ie am I practicing on what will be the actual videos that will be used in the test?. I actually think they’re quite tricky and would be difficult for anyone to be confronted with them in the test without ever having seen them before. I know they’re supposed to represent real life road situations but to get through them seems more like a passing an exam peculiarity. Cheers for any insight here.
  11. Everyone do have a very happy and safe new year and many more thereafter too. If ever you pass me do give me a nod !.
  12. Tools are very addictive, even ones that you hardly use or need regularly. Having the best or the right tool for the job can’t be emphasised enough. When you find and use the exact tool needed for tackling a particular job, wow what a buzz. Non ‘toolies’ just don’t understand us.
  13. It used to be that if anything toolwise was Chrome Vanadium that would be your good quality benchmark but I think that no longer stands.
  14. A bloke goes to the ticket office at his local railway station-bloke-“I’d like a return ticket please”. Station master-“yes and where to sir ?”. Bloke- well, back here you fool!”
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