Fish

Got to replace the starter motor on the brother-in-laws car then Sunday will be driving up to Bradford for work on Monday. So tempted to take the bike, but don't trust our weather at this time of year.

My car is with Green Flag, but I wasn't sure about bikes so thought I'd ask. There's never a dumb question, just the answers you receive

After reading about a members issues and having to get recovered, got me thinking which is bloody painful. Who are you covered by for what level cover?

Starting in Maidstone, a colleague and myself went out for a wee ride today. Off the Bewl Waters for stop #1, down to Hastings, along to Rye for a stop #2 then down to Dungeoness, Dymchurch and into Hythe then back to Maidstone. Circa 6 hours of good company and decent(ish) roads. One empty tank of fuel. He appears to have the same issue around the fuel tank mis-reading. Dash flashing empty, only to put a little over 8 ltrs into his ER6F (16 litres). I waited until I got close to home and put 12 ltrs in.

A lot depends on the value of the orders being bought here. Anything below a certain value doesn't require VAT and duty being paid, however anything over will be liable for the punishment.

Once we've got a proper grip on the issues that the planet has, then we should be wasting the billions in sending passengers into the upper atmosphere

Never knew there was a 12st

Most of central London is already 20 and when you're not stuck in the gridlock due to all the under-used cycle lanes taking up valuable road space, you'll find that no one keeps to the 20mph limit. Not even the police follow it! They killed the city some time ago by making the Bank junction no go for anything other than pedestrians, cyclists or buses due to the ignorant few who decided to jump traffic lights and get themselves either seriously hurt or killed. And those who haven't been hurt or killed are still jumping the lights. Once in a blue moon the police decide to watch and pull them over and give them a stern talking too.... Which they don't care about.

There's still a few stations around me that are closed for petrol. Seems regional now more than anything else

Alan Milliard described the Tracer 700 he was riding in a show as boring..... I bow to his knowledge as an engineer but I'd take boring over having to fix it at the side of a road

It's that time of year when the weekly wash also includes some ACF50 along with giving the plastics a coating of sealant.

I was queuing the other evening to fill up and when the guy managing the forecourt saw me he waved me in. I stayed where I was as I didn't want to be pushing in and even the guy behind me was telling me to go for it. I just thought it was wrong, as said we're all in the same issue. Filled up today and was waiting behind a complete twat in an Range Rover Evoke who put £10 in! These are the morons we need to fix.

Bloody naughty websites.... No not the usual ones that @Stu would be visiting but those deceiving gits who say and look like a UK company only to find they are in Greece! TPL Parts, I was looking to purchase a nice Akra exhaust for the bike and thought I'd confirm they have stock before ordering on the site. They come back with that they are basedin Greece not the UK as per all the look of the website!

that's handy

As this is to replace a Richa (replaced under warranty), I decided a little upgrade was in order and ordered one of these. Alpinestars Ketchum Gore-Tex.

I've got a pair of Richa which are meant to be water proof, but aren't. It looked like I had pee'd myself. I ended up buying some Alpinestars Andes V2 (Clicky) which work a treat, but when the heavens really open up I put a pair of cheapo waterproof's on top of them. The other option is to look like a giant melon/lemon with one of these bad boys Everything is only waterproof to a point.

So my Richa Infinity 2 jacket recently went back under warranty due to the waterproof inner not working as it should. I have just had a call from the store who tell me that they have replaced with a brand new jacket and would I be interested in an 'upgrade' As this replacement is new they can put it in stock and I get the chance to pick something different than before..... But what to go for? I have recently purchased Halvarssons Walkyr which is a decent enough goretex jacket only complaint would be the arms are a bit too long. So what others are recommendations to look at? Thanks Fish

I might hve to change to my winter gloves if this keeps up.... I had to put the heated grips on this morning

Even using super u/l mine doesn't take £50, so that thinking would screw many an owner.

I'm due to get the car serviced and MOT'd but I'll have to go for a ride on the bike to find a petrol station with some fuel as it's down to a range of 45 miles. Still the bike has fuel so that should cover the week ahead

Send me the key and I'll look after it for you.

I passed a Texaco which had queues around the one way system..... Not bad they'd only increased the price by 10p/ltr And I'm almost certain that the two young lads out for a ride without helmets on, the passenger had a jerry can and spyhoning kit was just nipping round to grannies to make sure she had enough fuel in her micra.

Quoting the insurance is misleading to be honest. Some get ultra low prices and some get quote like mortgage prices.

Yes I am tempted to get a box for it so I don't go taking too many cyclists out on my way to work

After recently having the pannier frames re-powder coated I decided to make sure they fitted ok...Does my arse look fat now