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You took a chance and sadly it did not work out. You take a chance buying anything mechanical. It is sad about Sinnis as the whole point was a UK company promising Chinese bikes with proper quality control and back up service. That is where they have let you and themselves down.

I will be there, both nights. Not sure if I will go to the rally and then do the Wales tags or the other way around, but I will be coming with my big tent Please let me know if payment went through as paypal misbehaved as I was using it and it seemed to jam.

That was a really good right up Best of for the Mod 2.

I carry my clothes in a bag and change at the office.

Though there are parts of Argyll where even removal of the keys is considered unnecessary!

If you have wired it such that the little LED stays on all the time, then I would not think it would be enough to flatten a battery. But if your battery is on its way out anyway, it may be enough to hasten its demise. Better to wire the USB so it goes on and off with the ignition. Here is how I (with help) fitted one on my Versys http://www.versys.co.uk/index.php/topic,16829.0.html You can see the little blue LED when it is on. http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3705/13384115865_e2ea5670fb.jpg

This thread viewtopic.php?f=3&t=52570 in the link to the BBC Fake Britain programme shows a fake and real AVG helmet being tested. Being dropped at speed onto various shaped pieces of metal to replicate hitting your head on a kerb or such like is a good test. The difference between the two helmets is staggeringly large. So I would regard Sharp as a good indicator of what is more likely to protect you and what is not. I look for certain essential to me features, a sun visor, ratchet strap, comfort for long journeys and big visor opening. Brand means nothing.

A simple cover is an effective security measure. The bike looks less interesting and deters kids or someone unscrewing a mirror and taking that. I use Datatag on my bikes. It is a visual deterrent to an acquisitive bike thief as they know it will be harder to sell the bike or the parts on. Joyrider thieves are best deterred with a stout ground anchor and chain. I gave up with an alarmed disc lock as it would go off with the slightest of breezes and no body bothers with alarms anymore.

The vents are the best of any helmet I have used. You can actually feel the air flowing through. Other helmets (the Caberg V2R being the worst) have vents which I have my suspicions about as there is no difference whatever way the vent is.

I have bought a K3 with the Simoncelli colours and the SV, so a flip down sun visor. I like the little tab at the front to push the visor up slightly for demisting. It was bought including the pinlock (£170 from J&S), so between the two, no misting problems (so far). I find it is quieter than my other helmets, especially since the noise seems outside the helmet and not inside with me. So far, inpressed with this helmet. http://www.jsaccessories.co.uk/media/catalog/product/a/g/agvk3svsimocilli.jpg

I did go round the block and stopped where I did when I saw a really nice cafe.

Gog, are you going for the whole lot? I went to park where you did for the Spurn Lightship, but a dodgy looking guy on a bicycle appeared and insisted I give him my phone to take the photo of me and my bike. I had visions of him riding away with it, so I buggered off instead. I am sorry to the people of Hull, but the place has a bit of a reputation

Bumber and without being there it is so hard to know exactly how the examiner viewed it. It sounds like the car you thought was parked was not and it was waiting, so it could have moved forward trapping you on the wrong lane.

I have used Halfords high temp engine enamel paint for touch ups with no issues. It is about £7 for a small tin. Not sure about painting a whole engine though.

I find my phone charges OK, but when the sat nav is on, it will not charge any more (though it does not discharge either). Is that a sign it is not working on full power?

I use a RAM mount with a £20 waterproof soft cover that if I angle so it is upright there is no glare and I can see the screen.

North East England completed Spurn Lightship USAF memorial Thornton Abbey Hawaiian Eye Gayton Pump Engine The Jolly Sailor, Skegness Batemans Brewery Crosskeys Bridge Belvoir Castle (through the smog that covered most of my trip!) Mount Pleasant Windmill

Sorry, this is Scarborough cliff tramway

The North of England completed Centre of Britain Hotel Langley Castle Transporter Bridge Stump Cross Caverns Cliffe Castle Big Ds Sandal Castle York Minster Craven Collection Scarborough

Part of the North West done Keswick Honister Ashness Bridge Ambleside Lanercost Old Bridge Ellenroad

Thats the north east completed and by the end of the day the north as well. But fickr ain't working, so I can't upload the photos

Scores are GOG 410 priest 150 Bonniebird 120 Roxyy 90 CB999 80 Throttled 60 Darkest-Star 50 rennie 30 CGD217 30 Dynamo Dellboy 20 MarlcO 10 RigsVille 10 Deso 10

I start my next batch on Tuesday. I am doing the North West Lake district tags, then across to Northumberland and start the North tags. Over night camping near Acomb then more North tags finishing off near Wakefield. Then into Lincolnshire to spend two days on all the north east tags, finishing off back in Yorkshire to do the final tags for the North. I will be camping at the Rose & Crown campsite near Spalding. My dream type of site with camping next to a pub! So that will be two areas completed and six out of the ten for the North West. I plan to do the rest of the North West when I go and do Wales in August.

I love restoration threads, especially bikes which do not necessarily attract much attention. It is a beautiful machine.

I used the WD40 chain wax. It goes on messy, makes the chain look dirty, but it works and there is no fling. The spray cleaner is excellent, only serious grease can resist the instructions of spray on and wash off, but a brush helps. The chain cleaner is pretty much the same as any other I have tried, so it works.