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Accidents like this are treated as 50/50 by the police because both side failed to anticipate the presence of another vehicle. The bike is expected when filtering to anticipate other vehicles will leave or make gaps to let traffic through. The driver is expected to anticipate filtering bikes (pedal and motor) when crossing through the gaps. The police do that because that is how they were taught and they expect others to do the same. But also there has to be a clearly careless or dangerous act to make a prosecution and the work that requires worthwhile. The police and courts do not have the resources to cope with disputes over fault for what is a relatively minor accident.

Oh the poor thing , it should be rescued from this life of back breaking toil and be allowed to spend the remainder of its days in a YBR sanctuary. Please help ,for just £3.00 a month we'll send you a cuddly YBR ...... It was 4 years old with 4000 miles on it when I got it. I traded it in 18 months later with 8000 miles on it, for only £400 less than I paid for it.

Loaded up for some touring, with a 16 stone rider, going up the Dukes Pass, the top speed of a YBR125 is 25mph.

I see Stu joined the forum that start day, but you joined 2 days later, which makes you a youngster.

I too prefer to 3 point turn than U turn, unless there is tons of space to do the U turn.

Unless it is seriously cold and will stay that cold for extended periods of time and you do a lot of riding, I agree with summer gloves and hot grips or winter gloves.

The battery should last more than 2 weeks idle without needing a charge. If it is in storage, I do not see how solar charging would be practical. What about taking the battery out and keeping it on charge elsewhere?

This is the first time in years I have not got anything bike related.

I suppose that is where tribute bands come in. The first one I saw was The Australian Doors in a pub in Edinburgh in the early 1990s. I thought the sound and how they dressed up was amazing. I have seen a few since then, some who also dressed up, like ABBA Arrival who played at this years Christmas Night Out my wife and I went to with friends. Others did not, but were still good to listen to, such as Mac Floyd and Pearl Vs Jam. The effort and musicianship the tributes do, I think makes them worthwhile seeing.

Off today and then on for the next five, including Christmas day, doing the meals on wheels deliveries. Then a weekend off and off again at New Year.

Best, as in most memorable; Whitesnake (first gig) Neil Young with Booker T and the MGs Sigur Ros (first time) Mogwai (second time) The Who PIL The Rolling Stones (second time) Robert Plant and Jimmy Page (second time) King Crimson (first time) Peter Gabriel (all four times) Iggy Pop A Danish double header of Efterklang and Slaraffenland Deep Purple (final tour) Blur (T in the Park) Devin Townsend (first time) Best supporting act; Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros (played lots of The Clash) Most unusual; A performance of Terry Riley's "In C" by Ars Nova from Denmark. A Peter Gabriel free gig at the UN in New York. I just happened to be there! Regrets; turning down a chance to see U2 touring their first album turning down a chance to see ELP (as in "and Powell") Looking forward to; Massive Attack (which will be my 93rd gig according to my Songkick gigography)

I know it seems extreme, but if it got that bad where I live, I would either move or not have a bike at all.

It must have been a not fastened, or incorrectly fastened helmet, which I have managed do do a couple of times. I realised when there was a tapping on my neck as the strap flapped about.

Can I have 52 and Throttled Jnr number 17.

I am working Christmas day, again.

I saw a bike like that in the Paisley area a couple of days ago, don't suppose it was you?

You don't want to do it anymore? Ok if this posts gets more than 5 likes so I know there's interest I'll do the locations and scoring Going by previous years, around half of those who register will go out and do some tags and around 10 people will rack up some pretty impressive scores. Then an old person, with plenty of time on their hands will get the most tags

The police have now been put into an impossible situation. It is wrong to approve the tactic and then charge someone with doing that very same tactic. If the charge related to a cop who had rammed a slow moped at 60 mph and then repeatedly driven over the youth, then I would understand a charge. But that did not happen. As Joe85 pointed out, the officer concerned had not been sufficiently trained / tested to go over 20mph above the speed limit, and over stepped the mark. All of us have to stick to rules in our working life and there can be dire consequences if we don’t, including the police. Don’t get me wrong. I have no sympathy for the skag involved, and the paltry size of the compensation is probably due to the officer acting outside of the law in the pursuit rather than the consequences of the actual stop. If the officer had been trained to perform this tactic then it wouldn’t have been an issue. OK, so that officer had not been authorised to use the tactic. I missed that, it was not in any news report I read.

And volunteer to do the scoring. I just do not get out as much as hoped and now want to fill in the gaps and go to places that the challenge has not been, or places I previously missed and want to go to.

Unless you buy goretex or the plasticised material overtrousers and jackets are made of, anything else "waterproof" is a limited use. Motorcycle kit should have a hydrostatic head rating as used with a lot of camping gear. A tent with a HH of 3000 will be pretty water proof. My main tent is 7000 and has never leaked, same with a jacket I have that is 7000. Goretex has a HH of 20,000. https://www.outdoorgear.co.uk/hydrostatic-head.asp

The police have now been put into an impossible situation. It is wrong to approve the tactic and then charge someone with doing that very same tactic. If the charge related to a cop who had rammed a slow moped at 60 mph and then repeatedly driven over the youth, then I would understand a charge. But that did not happen.

I think something simple, around 5-600cc, no big fairings to make it easier to keep clean and Japanese.

The bike is the same as the car and you must have instinctively reacted.

Some Kurust and Hammerite painting and replacing the screws and bolts with new ones will make a big difference and stop the bike from ending up where it is just scrap.