billysugger

Thank you to all on here. Unless I get them back I think my biking days are over. I'm just over 65, so should be on a pension next December, so have no idea if I'll find another job. A disciplinary hearing against me won't help, despite the fact I did what I did to get work out of the door, despite us not being set-up to do such work, but altering company property is a serious action and my handling of the matter, (Iwas not very diplomatic, to say the least) didn't help, so no glowing references forthcoming. I have a private pension income, and that paid the necessary bills (insurance and tax etc), so I did not have to worry about that. Unfortunately, I lived off that income ,on top of UC, so had not insured the bikes for 14 months, and,as they were on private land were OK not taxed, so there is no chance of a payout. Due to current financial circumstances I can no longer afford to buy another bike, so I'm hanging up/selling all my mc gear,I don't realistically think I'll get them back.

Northampton, in what is now called the cultural centre (Derngate)

#aide2001 I'm not on FB, but info can go on here anyway. Honda cb500r green, reg M414LBC. Hat box and tank cover fitted plus fly screen and tank bag ring and set-up for sat nav Honda CBf600sa8 red, reg YS57EPL. again hat box and tank cover fitted, plus anti slip seat mat and tank bag, plus sat nav set-up and crash cam on front screen. Will look in mcn pages in case listed

My reasoning was the second bike was a back up in case main bike breaks down and you need to get to work

What really irks me, and that's an understatement, is the managers of the retirement complex where I lived knew about the keys situation because I've been pestering them about how they managed to move two bikes locked together from one part of the car park to a more "out of site" area if they didn't have the keys to the padlocks, and I didn't have the keys to be able to move them off their property and would they find out what has happened to them

Cheers David tavern, reported it to police yesterday evening, don't hold out much hope of getting them back though as they have been gone a while

That's my thinking, but how to prove it. Whoever took them must have had the keys to both chains/padlocks, a well as the ignition keys, else the other residents of the block would have noticed somebody with a angle grinder

As in title. just learn both my bikes have been taken from the parking area of my old address. I lost my flat after losing my job after a disciplinary hearing, so moved into temp accommodation, and the ex landlord ended up having to store my property. some how all my keys went missing, both to my garage and the bikes. For weeks i have been trying to get answers to where the keys were without success. I have been pestering the housing manager of the ex flat to find out how they managed to move two heavy bikes chained together from one part of the car park to another. today I get a message both bikes were taken by a black van weeks ago from the car park, and they just thought it was me shifting them

Yep, snake pass. I must be getting old

Probably got my roads mixed up. Which place was partially closed to traffic for a long period due to landslides, yet cyclists thought it didn't apply to them?

The ponderosa cafe on horseshoe pass is shutting the doors for good wonder if all the road closures over the past couple of years has led to this

My 1980 125 t2, 17 bhp 12.4kw at 11500rpm

@Granty, that's the reason I went for an older 125 for my CBT and MOD1/2. The 1980s Hondas were twin cylinder, but had maybe 18bhp, that meant i could do motorway speeds without much effort, and I proved that they were legally able to be used for the tests as they did not break the 16kw ratio rules. As to a another topic on this forum, it was ideal for the speed/ swerve test

Get another one and you can have a pair of slippers in front of the telly

MAGA, (make America go away)

Vroom vroom noises are optional

These bloody infernal e-scooters are killing bikes for today's youth. I hate the dam things with a passion, worse than mamils

They are powerful enough to cut into tarmac on the narrowest setting, but absolutely great for cleaning your bike

There's a scary face in that route

The distance from your starting point to the speed trap is quite short, and having two bends in it doesn't help. If it was a straight line then it would be fairly easy. If you have a short gear ratio then you may hit 3rd gear, but Honda 125s are fairly well spaced so your not up and down the box in heavy traffic, so as you leave the 2nd bend hit 2nd and open the throttle. You don't have the power to try a higher gear, it will just bog down so your basically going to have to give it some welly. Most school bikes end up knackered from hitting the rev limiter to reach acceptable speed

Road pilots

I used to have a product called Bob heaths' anti fog, it worked on visors as well as glasses

PS, remember to look where you need to go, and you should automatically follow that direction and don't hit the cones

Stick it in second as you enter the first part of the bend. By the time you have gone through both bends you should be at 50kph/32mph by the time you hit the speed trap

This bloody temu site/adverts is doing my head in