Blackholesun

Young scooter rider near me going along doing a wheelie with one knee on the saddle whilst wearing shorts and tee shirt...atleast he had his L plates displayed and had a helmet on !

Coolabulla 

Cool idea good on your boy for swerving the usual limo 

Good to see Batista not running away with it again this year. Watched a bit of the women's and two ended up in intensive care

Id imagine it's the cost as it'll probably be over £200 just for the days hire at a school 

Hope you shouted 'you can't park there mate '

4 hours ago, MikeyDorset said:

Thanks mate.

 

Would doing 2 years CBT reduce insurance premiums too?

 

I am tempted to follow your route despite wanting to get straight on something more fun!

Not sure but when I got my big bike after a year on a 125 the insurance was something like £200 for the year albeit it was an old Fazer which I still have

Did it similar age to you, cbt then rode that for a year although partly as Covid prevented any possibility to upgrade.then did my mod 1 and 2 separately and tbh best thing I’ve ever done.have sold my car now and go everywhere on my bike 

Keep going passed mine first time but failed mod 2 twice and was the expense as much as anything else . atleast when you pass you'll never have to do most of these manoeuvres ever again!

You won't necessarily fail for stalling as long as you take the precautionary measures start up and move 

Yes it sucks when you fail and it's not really your fault but any time the driver behind has to brake I think it's a fail 

I've seen a bloke with mt07 boy

Never heard of that term 

On 04/05/2024 at 15:00, RideWithStyles said:

to be honest the license saga is pretty much killing biking. 

Shame they dont do the same for cars, lets see how much that changes applications.

Is it though as a car licence is theory ,  20 odd lessons and test prob takes 6 months 

Bike is theory, couple of days learning than mod 1 then 2 probably takes a month

But having a 17 year old and being around kids that age none of them would ever contemplate having an old banger for a car let alone  riding a bike it's just not a thing in the UK imo

Happens to me so every six months or so I take them off and use hairspray and it glues them in place for about 6 months 

Give you mum and dad's address 

What about an old ybr or CBF? I haven't checked but you can prob pick one up for a grand or so 

To be honest I just ride wherever and sometimes going round a corner when I should be in position 3 I like to go in position one just to see how tight to the kerb I can get !

Is it just me or does it seem odd that they schedule wsbk and MotoGP on the same weekend ie this weekend ? With such a large gap between wsbk races wouldn't it seem more obvious to schedule races where there is no clash to get more bums on seats and TV viewers 

My bike was stolen so I reported it but later the same day I recovered it from a local hedge not too much damage to the bike but then when I called them to say it wasn’t stolen anymore they charged me an admin fee for daring to call and then made me up my premiums, promise to lock it in the garage with a Fort Knox type lock and ever since it’s down on my file as made a stolen claim so I pretty much have to stay with them …karnts 

If I can’t get my bike fixed I think I’m gonna leave it outside mine and  hope some karnt wheels it away again 

One of the worst things I did when my bike was stolen and recovered working was call the insurance company 

Split the karnting fuel hose when lifted the tank for another reason so the bike wasn't running before and it definitely isn't now

I'd probably risk it tbh have driven loads of times without an MOT 

Trying to figure out why the fecker won't start....so far have ruled out Fuses and battery