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Steve_M

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  1. It’s been over 23 years for me. I’d previously graded in 1973 They say you shouldn’t have regrets but having a 22 year judo hiatus is mine.
  2. Congratulations. The difference between a red belt and a black belt is that the black belt didn’t give up.
  3. All the best with your grading. Shame it’s not judo, mind.
  4. I can’t see the wear indicators - they’re in the tread pattern - check them. As a leisure rider I usually replace the tyres when they’re around 1mm from the tread. Not sure if that is a good description of what I do.. I used to let the tyre go all the way to the wear indicators when I was commuting as well as leisure riding as I was doing around 12,000 - 13,000 miles a year so I needed to get full value from them.
  5. Tyres square off through lots of motorway / straight A road riding with little lean.
  6. Just from my experience, some bikes are affected more than others as their tyres wear and square off. My VFR800fi would readily squirm over slightly raised white lines as the tyre wore, while my R1200GS doesn’t feel in the slightest affected until just before I replace them at around 2mm tread depth. I did a day at Cadwell Park on my FJR with tyres that were nearly ready to be replaced and quite squared off - made little difference on track. As a bike that was bloody awful in the first place it wasn’t a whole lot worse - just needed a more of a push to get it to lean and was stable once leant over.
  7. What a tosser! Good to see you holding your hands up on this. I’m sure most of us have skipped / forgotten checks at some point. EG. I don’t check tyre pressures each time I ride the bike despite advocating regular POWDERS checks.
  8. Suspension settings. Oh the joy of ESA and mode settings.
  9. It’s simply an automatic response to make the bike turn - we learn to do that on pushbikes (assuming you rode a pushbike) and instinctively do it without consciously making the effort. Not being aware of it is not unusual. I first learnt about it while doing a machine skills course. I’ve just noticed your location. You might want to consider Essex Firebike training. Some of the instructors are the same as did the courses I attended. They call Counter Steering “Postive Steering”..
  10. I would recommend attending a i2i machine control course.
  11. I’d forgotten the IAM publication. It wasn’t around when I took my IAM test.
  12. Banham? They’re a load of animals I recall from visiting once. Ah, sorry, that’s the zoo.
  13. That came up in a “Highway code / Roadcraft” quiz session that I took part in as member of an IAM group (car section vs bike section) way back in the 1990’s and, I seem to recall, the answer being 1.5m at that time. Which is either an indication that my memory is poor - probably true - or the figure has changed.
  14. Incidentally, I also have a copy of A Twist of the Wrist by Keith Code which, though track biased, provides some useful information about how a motorbike responds to inputs from the rider. I last read that a few years ago, too.
  15. That’s what I’m currently using to refesh my memory.
  16. My first contact with Roadcraft as 1992. I had more fun reading a COBOL manual. The later editions are much easier to work with - not a fun read, mind.
  17. Our “list of jobs when we retire” runs to several pages and isn’t getting shorter. It wasn’t helped with our relocation where we were to “downsize house - small project, upsize garden” turned into “same size house - big project, enormous and neglected garden”. “Big Project” is also susceptible to scope creep - I never envisaged the building of a rope bridge, for example, yet here we are mid-build.
  18. Not off topic… it highlights how people may have heard of the rule but not fully understood it and how it affects them and others. Perhaps (and this, I suspect is a forlorn hope) if it was made part of a periodic test then people might actually read the darn thing.
  19. It could have been separated out to make it more explicit, though it is covered in H1.
  20. I do have the occasional challenge with the more local offspring (local 100 miles away) asking me to do little jobs. I’ve, probably foolishly, agreed to coach at a local judo club for which I need to become a qualified coach, as well as other existing commitments.
  21. Good afternoon. You know those old codgers who are retired and then say stuff like “I don’t know how I had time to go to work”. They used to really annoy me. Guess what I’ve just said. I think I may have somewhat overcommitted my time. Thankfully, two of the items on my todo require me to ride on the motorbike.
  22. A question, probably not for the recently qualified. When did you last read / refer to the Highway Code for information / guidance respectively? For those who are IAM / RoSPA, same question but for Roadcraft - the motorcyclists edition. Supplementary question. Was it the current edition? I’m currently refreshing my knowledge of each of the above (yes, yes, I’m a fully paid up member of the Dull Men’s club) and realised it’s been around 6 years since I last referred to either and I’m wondering how much I can recall.
  23. Two of the grandchildren are visiting so that’s playing with Lego, swimming, having them jump on me, digging the toy Gator out from one of the outbuildings and supervising them crashing it into various obstacles, etc.
  24. That was my reason for going Sena - the SRL2 is designed to go with my Neotec. We bought a cheaper Sena (SMH.) for my pillion - also Neotec - as the total cost would have been exorbitant for two SRL2’s. Next time will be Cardo for us, too.
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