Boothy

I've always been told its 80% front brake 20% rear, unless the road is damp/wet where it moves towards 50/50. In an emergency situation your back brake hardly gets used at all as the rear wheel is nearly off the ground so little braking force can be put through the tyre without locking up....

Ian Hutchinson. Serious respect. I remember seeing him and Jamie Whitham give an interview at CMC last year.

His leg was a right mess and still not fixed!

Interesting one, I suspect a lot of people are going to say Guy Martin.

I'd go for Michael Dunlop because I love the all or nothing attitude.

deisel engines work because of the deisel effect. this is when a fuel ignites because of pressure and heat. petrol engines rely on a spark to ignite the fuel.

deisel fuel has a low octane by design so that it will burn in a deisel engine. petrol has a much higher octane so you can control the ignition.

the higher the octane of the fuel, the higher the resistance to the deisel effect. this means you can control exactly when the spark ignites the fuel; so you can tune the ignition retard/advance for power etc.

putting deisel in a petrol engine means that it will ignite, but not precisely when you want it to. it'll pre-ignite, hence very rough running, low power. and it will smoke like a bast*rd.

putting higher octane petrol into a diesel engine means that the fuel will resist the ignition(based on pressure,not spark) and the engine will not run.

neither is desirable for your engine. both will need draining. neither will do much damage as you cant run the engine properly so the potential damage is limited.

deisel engines are more complex to drain as you will need drain it completely and then have the deisel fuel system primed.

You know all of that.. but not how to spell diesel

Happy Birthday!

I hope you got the bandit you deserved

New series tonight... don't know if any of you watch it but thought I would put up a reminder. 8PM Channel 5.

Wait till Bex see's this...

RIP XmisterIS.

Tent share may also be available (especially if Neil 'loses' his again!")

I like the 'may' part of that sentence. You probably won't get a choice, Neil will just join you in your tent at some point during the night.

Go home zod, you're drunk.

Bollocks.

A sheep... middle of the day was just in the middle of the road when I came around a corner.

Ouchies! Were you/the sheep ok?

I didn't actually hit it I think both parties involved shit themselves.

Can't really blame him.. his bike is so much slower than the factory bikes on the straight, it must be completely demoralising to do all the work to get on the back of a bike to keep a bike behind you on the corners to then just have it all eaten up on a straight.

A sheep... middle of the day was just in the middle of the road when I came around a corner.

A fox... riding back quite late at night and it just stood there in the middle of the road, was so close to hitting it.

Just seen this. UK number 1 is now Ding Ding! The Witch is Dead.

http://i.imgur.com/KWV0Z3r.jpg

http://www.nme.com/news/various-artists/69699

It depends on sizing. Just because one helmet is good for somebody doesn't mean it will be good for somebody else. Go and try some on.

Probably worth mentioning.. bandit engines rattle quite bit anyway, its normal.

I want some new summer gloves so will probably be going.

I'm up for ti.

great little bikes!, my gf has one

Bike has no centre stand, and the engine won't start while the side stand is down.

 

my gf's starts with the side stand down

 

I can say with 100% certainty that mine doesn't start with the side stand down, clutch or no clutch. Perhaps the design has been revised recently?

You sure its in neutral?

Don't go for the TMBF Penis tattoo.. according to TC, Stu's looks terrible.

My college has a Costa, 2 restaurants and a 3 shops in

Although all the old of my old schools were the same as described.. just crappy garden furniture and terrible canteen food served by some old hag (sure they are lovely people really)

Happy Birthday Terry!

When did Wales last win the World Cup? Wales have a big problem against the SH teams.

I'd like to see a few rule changes in rugby.

They should allow the forward pass, which would make the game flow a little more. And perhaps use a round ball which would be easier to control. Then stop players from using their hands, it would make the game more skilful if they had to control the ball with only their feet. And it's ridiculously easy to score at the moment with players allowed to carry the ball over the touchline or kick it through those high posts, so why not just have smaller goals which the ball must go into for a point. They could have nets at the back so there would be no doubt as to whether the ball went in or not.

And I'm sure everyone would agree that cutting the number of players to 11 a side would make the game a lot faster too.

Yeah and all the players should fall over and role around on the floor like they have been shot when somebody touches there hair. That would improve it.