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See what the weather is like closer to the time. Southport ain't it Ricky? All being well and good I could meet you at the tickle trout services, head up to skipton on the a59 then cut back down missing Bradford and coming round the back of Leeds?

Is this a come rain or shine thing? I'm in either way, if I'm going to come to the rally next year I may as well familiarise myself with a few of you lot. Anyone heading over from the north west, Bolton Manchester area? Don't mind avoiding motorways if there's 125's

I can make this one. Only taken me 3 years. I shall pay some point over the next few weeks, I've got another 4 hours tattooing on Wednesday and that's not coming cheap, I'm intending to pay the entire amount and roll my deposit over so I may be on the breadline for a couple of weeks.

In a car

70 for a car or a van with a car chassis 60 for a transit style van.

I've recently started going to the gym with a mate of mine who's a squaddie. I never feel like I've pulled anything, but my arms ache for days afterwards. Has anyone experienced this when first starting to lift weights. Is it true it subsides as your body gets used to it? I do a physical job, and although I want to carry on using the gym, I can't continue if this is the case as it's going to seriously affect my productivity at work. If it does go away, how long after starting would this take, not sure if my mate is telling the truth or blagging me so that he's got a gym buddy?

A badly maintained chain and sprocket will be knackered in a few thousand miles. Correctly maintained, adjusted, cleaned and lubricated it should last a lot longer. It will need replacing either when it's shagged, or when it reaches the end of its adjustment. I personally haven't ever had to replace a chain due to it reaching the end of its adjustment, but I've also never seen a chain through its entire life on a bike. I've always bought a bike with a partially worn chain, replaced it, and sold the bike before the one I put on has worn. It's not intentional, it's just how it's fallen.

Plus the counterpart is going in January. Is this the DVLA's attempt at going green?

Driving without insurance carries up to 6 points, driving without a licence can carry the same. This what you're doing, riding outside the confides of your licence, and as you're doing this, your insurance wouldn't be valid. Not only would you be banned, you'd feel it on your insurance for years. No point. Plus it's a bit of a kick in the teeth for bikers who respect the system and don't break the rules. Plus if you hit something, you'll be liable for all the damages. Especially if they claim off the MIb, they will take you to court to recoup the losses

I had a similar thing, I was caught a few years ago doing 67 in a 60 on the main A road from Barrow to the M6. I accepted the offer for the speed awareness course and waited, the next correspondence I received was a court date in Barrow. It was a good few months in between. In reflection, I should have chased the response with the courts. I left it too long. Should the same situation arise I would not wait to hear a response, I would give it a month at most the start chasing it. You might have to just take it on the chin and learn a lesson from it.

It's not restricted. It's a four stroke. It really is that slow. Try servicing it yourself, new plugs, oil, and oil/air filters. See if that improves the starting.

We are in between two vans at work. I put my sweeping brush along with armfuls of other crap on the other lads van. We split up the next day, so I'm on the original job and he's 50 or so miles away when the penny drops I haven't a brush. I explain all this to a delightfully backwards caretaker at the school I'm in, and ask if I could borrow a brush for a couple of hours. "Do you want a big one or a little one" "Well a bigger one would be better" "I've only got a little one" "......" Why give me the sodding option then?

Is it adjusted correctly? If so, back wheel off to check the brake shoes.

Did you change the oil? It doesn't say.

I meant would turn over but wouldn't fire hehe, was late when I typed it XD Either camera phone and take pictures before disassembling or sketch out where everything goes on a blank piece of paper. Look at the positives of the situation. There's only 2 carbs. For the price, I would be inclined to just purchase a carb refurb kit, you don't know if any of the rubber o-rings or gaskets will have dried out and cracked. Plus it will mean you don't have to clean the jets out as you'll just be able to put new ones straight in.

Large chap in a VW jetta on the M65 the other day. I had just come out of a traffic jam, I was in the outside lane, with the intention of overtaking a slow moving HGV (it's only a two lane motorway at this point) only problem was every other car had the same idea, so there's a rather large queue of cars in front of me crawling past this HGV. The chap in question was driving a few feet away from my rear bumper, swerving around in the lane like a mad man. Literally no where for me to go. This went on for a good couple of miles until the motorway opens up into three lanes again. I pull into the middle lane, still passing HGV's and slow moving cars in the left lane, with no gap big enough to warrant pulling back in. At which point this large chap drives alongside me with his passenger windows down screaming obscenities and demanding I pull over. I chose to laugh this off, which in turn made him madder, at this point he starts swerving around in the lane again obviously with the intention of unnerving me. Rather pissed off at this point, I reached into my pouch on my work pants, flashed my flooring knives at him and gave him a thumbs up. This had the desired effect, the knob saw his arse, and sped off into the distance at well over the national speed limit. Not so fast that I couldn't take down his reg plate. Proceeded to stop at the next services, phone the police and report it. I didn't omit the part about the knives, the policeman I finally got through to on 101 didn't take that part too seriously, other than to ask what I would have done if he had taken that as a green light to pull over and stop to which I responded I would probably have stayed on the motorway and rang the police. He said that was the right answer.

One of my stainless steel downpipes has sheared off where it meets the collector box. No corrosion, it's not even one of the bottom two that would get the most shite thrown up at it, although they haven't salted the roads in a few months. Cheap parts purchased by the previous owner I'm assuming. It's not able to be welded either. That's another £200 down the shitter

A braking system will hold more fluid with the pistons out than with them fully in. As you've pushed them in you've probably filled the reservoir, then the fluid had nowhere to go other than in between the two sets of pistons. You would have compressed all the air left in the reservoir, next time you do it just whip the top off if it then the air can escape.

They were moving freely so I doubt your seals were at fault, unless you could tell they were perished. Did you have the top of the fluid reservoir off?

I have a Frank Thomas aquapaq all in one over suit that folds away into a bumbag. The leg holes are big enough to get over boots, and the whole thing is big enough to go over whatever gear I'm currently in. It's reasonably waterproof. I mainly use if it's forecast rain but I don't fancy sweating away in waterproof gear on the off chance. Just stop under a bridge and put it on then continue off again. It can be a bit sweaty if it's a prolonged shower and is hot. Well worth £30 or whatever I paid for it.

6 points for driving with no insurance, and 3-6 for driving with no licence. A potential ban isn't worth it, I've been banned from driving before, it's really not fun, a stupid mistake and buses are flavour of the year. Plus think about the increase to your insurance premiums. It may be quicker than a 125, but it's an enduro bike, so although not as close ratio a gear box as a crosser, it won't be geared for the road. Plus knobbly tyres, not designed for road use, just a compromise to make them road legal. I very much doubt it would be that much quicker than a standard 125 on road tyres in the real world. To echo what's been said a million times before, get a jap 125, ride it around for a year, then take your test and get something better. It's the route everyone has to go down, your not alone in wanting a better bike, but you should not take your licence for granted, you never know when you might need it. I had to go through the embarrassment of disclosing my endorsements to my current employer, when I didn't even know them, they don't know you from Adam. From their perspective, why would they take a chance on someone who has that blemish when there's hundreds of people who don't. Luckily I fit all the other criteria they were looking for, and offered to pay the difference it made to their insurance, which in the end was only £100, but I'm not 17 and I've had my car licence nearly 10 years.

Cush drive rubbers?

There are three block connectors, one for each indicator and one for the rear light. I've wire brushed and given them a squirt of WD. Beyond that the loom is all wrapped up.

The rear left indicator packed in on my bandit. I know it's not the bulb as it was the first thing I replaced, so I took the seat cowling off, and hooked up the feed from the rear right indicator where it comes from the loom to the indicator that wasn't working and it worked. So I know the actual unit itself isn't at fault. I'm sat here looking at a wiring diagram with the intention of routing two new wires past the loom from a point I know works and just leaving the duff wires in the loom. Here's where it gets confusing. There is a black wire running from the front left to the left rear, that's the only one that joins the two, then a black and white wire that comes straight off the battery and runs round the wiring diagram attaching to pretty much everything. Including being the only other wire that connects to the indicator. So I'm assuming that's a live? So can I route a new wire from the front indicator in place of the black wire and try the live that's already in the block connector and hope there's just a break in that one? What if the live to the block connecter is knackered, I've no idea where that branches from the loom, and really don't want to start cutting it up, I also don't want to have to buy a new loom for the sake of an indicator. Any help appreciated. Cheers

I haven't personally done it, but I've seen a few before and after pictures of people I know on Facebook who have used medicinal charcoal tablets, you crush them up, add water to make a paste, then brush your teeth with it and leave it on for 10 minutes before rinsing it off. For £3/4 the results are astonishing. I think you can get them from holland and Barrett.