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I agree with you, crossing the line is usually a good indication you have given enough room, it was your statement I disagreed with. I have enough issues with cyclists completely ignoring the fact we are sharing the road without planting the idea in anybodies mind I am breaking the law and doing anything wrong because I happen to go past them in a safe manner but I dared to have a wheel on the same side of the road as them. It is a shame that the favour is not returned in traffic when it seems acceptable to squeeze through any existing gap between the kerb and my car, and as the traffic moves off again and they are trying to wobble around my wing mirror, it again becomes my responsibility to ensure we have a safe clearance.

While I don't doubt your description of the place, and I can even agree that it may be tougher to pass there than elsewhere, 33% means nothing in the context of how few people are in the statistics. Some test centers had 100% pass rates with 1 or 2 people in a month taking the test, some had a 0% pass rate with the same numbers. With low numbers like those seen on that spreadsheet, a few donkeys constantly failing, or a few Pedrosa's passing with no issues in an area will wildly skew the results. If you want to use statistics to prove stuff like this, you need lots and lots more test subjects, and you would also need to split out the Mod 1 and Mod 2 results. For better accuracy and better conclusions, you would also have to look at who trained as well as who examined and if that made any difference.

Nowhere does the law state you must cross the white line to overtake anything. I don't need to if I decide I can safely overtake a car without crossing it, so I certainly don't need to if I can otherwise give a cyclist a safe amount of room. I am not tarring all cyclists with the same brush but there do seem to be a large proportion of them that act as though they are in a tank (well they certainly seem to ride as though they are invulnerable) as well as those that act as though all courtesy should be directed at them, while they are free to ride in the most obnoxious manner that they can. Sorry to say it mate but a gaggle of them in Lycra tend to be the worst offenders.

Yep, all I originally wanted it for was to reset the service light and put it onto condition based servicing rather than mileage based. Played with it a bit and turned on some options my car was never even offered with (simple stuff like anti hijack door locking etc) I had not used it for ages and had to download VCDS about a week ago but I am sure the old 409 version I used to have did loads more?

you flashing VAG ecu's with that setup or something? I have VAG-COM well VCDS as they have now been forced to change their name by VAG group!! No The EPROM programmer is used to convert kilometres to miles on imported cars with digital dashboards, or at least it used to be. I have VCDS as well now but am looking for the old VAG COM 409 as that had some functionality that the free version of VCDS does not have. Saying that the car is being given to my parents and I am off to somewhere where VAG cars are very expensive so I probably should not bother.

I am not quite sure what your problem is? I may be getting the gist of your argument wrong but it sounds like you are berating a commercial company for acting in a way which will be profitable? Of course they want you to buy and use their shiny new product, no money in it for them if you just carry on using the old one! They all do it as well, even Apple (I am an Apple user by choice) Take the iPhone 4, when you update it to IOS6 you don't get all the functionality, Siri for example does not work unless you have at least a 4S, however the 4 is perfectly capable of running Siri, because if you Jailbreak one you can instal it and it works fine. Microsoft will act in whichever way will make them the most money in the long term (that means they have to act as though they care otherwise long term a lot of people will stop using them) If they could make every copy of XP in the world stop working right now, with no comeback to them at all they would do it. I have one old laptop in this house which runs XP, I use it for the very few programs I need to use which will not run on OSX, Basically VAG-COM to plug into the car and and eprom programmer which as well as needing Windows also needs a serial port. Microsoft have not made any money off me for years and won't as long as XP continues to do the job. Obviously they would change that if they could, that's business!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... fined.html Obstructing the Police in the course of their duties. The funny thing is, the official line on speed traps is that they are not there to catch and prosecute speeders, they are there to slow people down and make the roads safer, that's why they publicise where they will be and they have warning signs up all the way along roads where they might be. By flashing your lights, you are also slowing people down and so assisting in the stated aim of speed cameras. They can still nick you for it if they want though.

Completely depends on the situation, I have had 2 in the last few months and I warned in one and giggled in the other. 1, Driving along in a built up area which is a 30 for a good reason, tool driving towards me overtakes another car (the other car he overtook looked to be doing about the 30) and accelerates up to at least 50 as he crosses lazily back onto his side of the road and while he did not cause me to brake, I did have to come off the throttle and mutter some unkind words as well as realising that there is a fixed speed camera he is just about to go through way too fast. 2, 50 MPH limit road which used to be a 60, and has no logical reason to have been dropped to 50. Mostly bendy road with no overtake opportunities apart from one straight uphill bit where it is nice and wide and you can get past lorries doing 40 to make some progress. Mobile van often stops at the top of this hill and catches people accelerating to a safe overtake speed. If the van is there I always warn people coming up to the bottom of the hill.

It's not illegal, if it were then so would all the adverts for room mates and tenants who specify 'female only' 'Bangladeshi only' or 'Muslim only' It might be a university rule though, to get round it simply advertise the place and any applications from anybody who is not a Grad student goes straight in the bin. She can be all smug and happy that you have complied with their brilliantly thought out rule on age discrimination, you still rent to who you want to. The only losers will be the younger lot who may have applied for a place they will never get, but can't be told that because of a stupid rule. They waste their time, you empty the bin slightly more often.

The huge majority of online retailers don't actually take the money from your card until they ship the item you are buying. It is done that way to prevent them having to honour prices that they have put up by mistake (like when they accidentally advertise an ipad for £3.99 instead of £399 etc) The second they take your money that have formed the contract with you, so your 'right' is to get what you paid for, or get refunded. Why are you asking about rights? Have you already spoken to them and they have fobbed you off? Because any normal company will just sort out the cock up without any fuss or you needing to start shouting about your 'rights' (I just checked Blockbusters T&Cs, they don't form contract until they send you an email saying they have shipped, even though they may have taken the money, still, they will just sort out the error if you ask I am sure)

Don't bank on it. The British Military has been involved in conflicts other than Afghan for quite a while now. Before Afghan there was Iraq (actually they were concurrent for quite a while) That was at pretty much the same intensity as Afghan, it is just further away in the memory and there was not so much film footage. Keep going backwards and you get other conflicts, these may not have been quite so punchy as Afghan and Iraq but if you were involved they were interesting enough, Sierra Leone, Kosovo, Bosnia, Gulf War One. And along the background to a fair bit of that time Northern Ireland. I was in the Military for every single one of those (did not go to every one) and while you are right, you will make friends for life one thing you learn is the Military becomes very adaptable. Nobody will look down on you because you did not make a tour that they did, something else will happen and things will carry on as normal, probably another conflict in another area of the world and Afghan will slowly start to fade from recent memories. The only divide that will grow up is a lot of people will leave, and those that stay will mostly get promoted and have responsibilities of leadership towards the new guys. But that is not tour dependent, that is Military life. I am not meaning to pee on your bonfire either but if you are just joining, don't be banking on an Afghan tour, we are pulling out and you will *probably* not make it. Like I said though, something else will pop up. Don't bank on living and patrolling out of a FOB as a Gunner either. Best of luck in your new life though, make the most of it and above all, enjoy it

Yea, it's 12 points on your licence before you lose it but the OP is asking about the 'new drivers' rules where they are only allowed 6 for the first 2 years, and have to retake the test if they get banned. Fortunately for the OP the answer is no The new drivers act states '2 years after the first full test is passed' If you passed a full bike license more than 2 years ago then the Act does not apply. Who told you you would lose your licence? EDIT; The only way it would apply is if you had a bike license from abroad and had it swapped over without doing a UK test and then did a UK car test. It is triggered by you passing your first UK test, and can only apply once.

I would let him calm down (yes, shouting at you is not good but hopefully it was a momentary lapse due to his bike being broken and a bill coming his way) His answer of 'We will see' tends to lead me to believe he had already started calming down. Don't go in demanding, just see what he says when you go to see him next time, apologise for crunching into gear (although to be fair, you should not really be able to snap a chain by being a bit violent with the clutch) and see what he says. If he then says 'you have to pay' then you have grounds to argue, odds on though he will just sort you out as long as you don't swagger in shouting the odds about your 'rights'

Have you had the battery disconnected recently? I have seen a similar issue on a moped which had had the battery disconnected and put back on with the ignition switched on. To try to fix it, turn the ignition on and look for the twitch, if you have one you then need to disconnect the negative terminal of the battery, ignition off. Then touch the negative lead to the negative terminal. Switch on the ignition and as the needle does its little twitch, when it is at the lowest point, whip the negative terminal off. Then ignition off and start again. You should be able to very slowly edge it back around to the right place. At no point connect the battery with the ignition already on!

You at Brize working shifts? That is cheap as well, I decided to take my test just after moving out of Cartoon Town and it was a lot more than that!

You need to let your provider know you are now using a blackberry. The configurations for various phones (iPhone, Blackberry, Android etc) are different and just because everything worked fine on one phone, does not mean it will work on another. Let them know you are on Blackberry, they will swop everything over and you should then be good to go (and have BBM as well)

My lads got one and it works on that It is pretty much cross platform, iPhone, Dangleberry, Android, Windows phone the lot. It does come up free now and again (which is when my lad nabbed it last time and as he was using my Apple ID at the time it was then free for me) but it is only about 99 cents anyway and worth every penny.

If you have smartphones, you can get an App called 'Whatsapp' which basically works just like texting, including pictures and stuff but it uses the Internet, not your text allowance. I just spent 4 weeks in New Zealand (where they have excellent 3G coverage) and sent literally thousands of messages chatting with my wife and it all came bundled in with my NZ SIM cards data plan.

Ok, lets say they are. I see your number plate, and apply to the DVLA for your details (which is legal if I have good reason such as you have parked in my car park and broken the contract) That costs 3 quid. I could do that if I put a sign up in my drive saying 'parking here costs a tenner, I have also set ANPR cameras up to monitor entrance and exits and if you don't park in a properly marked bay you agree to pay £500' I send you a letter saying my ANPR camera picked you up driving on to my drive, so you owe me a tenner. Is that enforceable? Councils can issue fines for parking on the public roads. The Police can issue fines. Courts can issue fines. Randoms who have a bit of land which they have designated as a car park, whether or not it is set up as such and they have spent money on it can not issue fines. They can enter into a contract with you which if you break they can take you to court for recompense, that's it. What they do is they send you this letter saying you have broken contract and they imply that it is a fine, and they put scare tactics in my saying pay quickly or the cost will go up. If they did by some miracle take you to court, then they would have to explain how you deprived them of £50 by parking as you did, they would also have to explain how that deprivation suddenly became 80 quids worth because you took longer than 14 days to pay. Seeing as you would not have had to pay being on a bike, your deprivation to them was £0, and there own parking regulations will agree with that. You may have broken contract (if it is displayed in the legally approved manner which it sounds like it is not) by parking outside a marked bay. They will then have to prove that £50 is an acceptable cost to breaking said contract. (It's not)

And? They are not the Police, they are not the government. They are a private company who have told you that you breached the terms of their conditions. Now if you were not made aware of these conditions that is hardly your fault. Is it a pay and display car park? Are their nice big signs everywhere? Did you enter a contract by parking there as you would have been informed about on said nice big sign? Did you breach that contract by parking outside a designated parking bay, also detailed on aforementioned big sign? No they cannot. If you are parked legally and they see you and think 'this bloke owes us some money because we issued an unenforceable ticket so we will nick his bike' then that is exactly what they would be doing, nicking it. They could remove it if it was parked dangerously or illegally, they cannot just take it because they reckon you owe them money, a court would have to agree with them that you owe them money, and even then they could not just waltz off with your bike because you owe them a few quid. Also a 50quid penalty is excessive (note, it is not a fine, they have absolutely no powers to issue a fine, just like you don't, and just like I don't. They are a private company, not an official arm) They can only ask for sufficient money to cover their losses. What loss did you cause them by parking where you did? That loss is all that a court would award them if it ever got that far. IE if it is a pound an hour to park there and you did not pay, and were there an hour they could charge you the pound, the 3 quid it costs them to find your address, and a couple of quid admin. Saying all that I do believe that people should park properly, and would not encourage anybody to abandon cars and bikes all over the place just because they can. The trouble is the parking companies have done themselves no favours by being anti-social, over charging, threatening, demanding money with menaces scumbags, so it is socially acceptable to ignore them if you can and widely known you can just tell them to poke off. Parking on yellow hatchings is wrong, M'Kay.

It's just Tarmac with a high friction coefficient. Not sure which method they use but if you are interested in high friction tarmac? then Google Shellgrip or Calcined Bauxite.

No, if you do mod 2 under the new rules and mod 1 under the old rules, you get a new rules licence.

Presuming you had the same in the tank at the start and at the end, so the whole 320 miles was the £45 you spent, and the average price of a litre was £1.35 ish, then you bought and used just over 7 and a quarter gallons. That makes the calculations about 44 MPG. Which is not brilliant but not bad either? What is it supposed to get? All this of course is rubbish if you started with a full tank and used that AND the £45 worth.

Not sure about you guys doing it on a 125 who have to have the engine wound right up, but on a 500 you can change up into third as you exit the corner, waft the throttle open a bit and just drift through the speed trap at well over 50 KPH, I know because that's what I did. No need to wind it all the way up in second and have that frenetic feeling transmitting itself into how you ride. On a 500, go round the bend in second, as you start to sit the bike up give it a little squirt then change up. Keep the throttle open to give yourself drive, but you are not trying to smash it through the stops, no need. There is not even a swerve 'out' You can line up from out of the corner, see the speed trap cones and the blue cone you have to go round the outside of and if you take the right line it turns it into a gentle bend. As soon as you have made the blue cone, shut the throttle, swerve back into line and brake to a halt. I found if you think you are struggling to make 50 so have everything wailing and thrashing away in second, you also wail and thrash away and feel unnecessarily hurried. Do it in third with just a bit of revs and it all seems so much less effort and easier. For the actual swerve back bit, where you do actually swerve, my instructor got me to practice swerving around the 30 MPH signs they paint on the road (check no traffic around and the road condition is right etc) It seems to give you the right amount of bar pushing and hip wiggling required, but as I said, when it is not all frenetic you have loads of time to pop the bike back in line and brake to a stop.

Similar to the one in the picture, it needs to be a nice tight fit.