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Let's do a TMBF census 2021: What are you people?

I consider myself European and human.

Multiple choices are fine

You will love it. The bike is very light and sharp. When I have bought mine MT09 I test rode MT10, S1000R and Street Triple.

MT10 has more power but MT09 is more fun and sharp on bendy roads.

BTW change CO2 emmisions, factory settings are C1-0, C2-0, C3-0.. Change it up to 14 on all 3 Cyl' and this will make a differance, bike will be much smoother and Engine temp will be lower.

14 minutes ago, Stu said:

 

It's china's fault we have this virus it's the general publics fault the UK is screwed. 

No offence but that is pure BS mate: what is the point to have government at all then?

The only job of any government is to provide security for the country. During wars, pandemics etc.

General public know f**k all about pandemics and what they must do.

The facts are clear New Zealand has good governmnet that protected the people.

The UK has the worst government and the worst number of deaths in whole Europe.

I blame the orange clown Johnson - his utter incompetence and dittering has costed the UK more deaths (68 000) then the whole WW2 blitz civilian bombing deaths (41000).

7 minutes ago, Stu said:

 

I think brexit loses are way down on the list compared to what China has caused! 

Not sure what do you mean here it is not China's fault that the UK has incompetent government innit?

I mean the UK has 68 000 deaths and New Zealand has 25. You do the maths.

Ok people the UK has a deal with EU.

The job is done and from 1st Jan 2021 UK is independent country waiting for the new Brexit bright future to happen.

Give me your definition of it? How much time will take for the new Brexit bright future to happen and the UK to recover all the Brexit losses incured since 2016?

Mogg say the UK will need 50 years.

Some other people mention 2030.

Lord Digby Jones assure us that in 100 years everything will be great.

So tell me when you think the new Brexit bright future will finally come?

5 minutes ago, Swagman said:

Here’s another twat to nominate.

Too late If you bother to read my previous post I already have nomited all the twats writing here:

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I am doing a group nomination for all the twats that have posted in this thread.

You twat

On 13/12/2020 at 09:28, learningtofly said:

Is anyone else finding that there's almost too much choice for TOTY? 

Couldn't agree more. I am doing a group nomination for all the twats that have posted in this thread.

I have lost 30 minutes of my life reading your twattery here people

Hello people,

any feedback on Aprillia Tuono v4 1100 2020 ride?

Anybody that owns it or test ridden it give me your opinion

I love the look is it worth it?

I like how it looks. Only a test ride can reveal is it better then my MT09. I seriously doubt based on the fact that although it may be light for its class its still 10 kg heavier then the MT09 and the position of the bars and seat is too sporty for me.

My definition of better is relaxed position on a very light sharp agile bike with a lots of torque when doing legalish speeds

Obviously you don't want to do high speeds on a naked bike.

And add the price pretty sure 99% its not for me. I mean with this price tag I'd rather get Aprillia Tuono v4 1100 which looks better and maybe rides better?

Hello people,

TfL is doing 24h bus lanes.

IMO that is a good idea. What is not good is TfL completely disregards motorcycles.

You can drop them email:

[email protected]

Hello,

I think having 24h bus lanes is a great idea! You have said you want to hear about our experiences on bus lanes on the Transport for London Road Network.

There is a lot on inconsistency around allowing two wheels motorcycles in the bus lanes on the Transport for London Road Network.

Some London boroughs allow motorcycles in the bus lanes which is great for reducing pollution and congestion.

Unfortunately some London boroughs have restrictions regarding motorcycles in the bus lanes.

That is wrong and increases journey times, it is not safe for motorcyclists and increases London pollution and congestions!

Would you fix that please? Allow two wheels motorcycles in ALL of the bus lanes on the Transport for London Road Network.

A bit more fair is the all-time deaths per million, which is currently looking like this:

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This is about the best we can do for whose at the top of the league, but even this isn't a fair comparison, as different countries have very different ways of counting (for example, Belgium include everyone who died with any respiratory symptoms, and I'm not sure who Brazil and Ecuador are including - and nor are they).

I take your points. In order to avoid counting confusion the best way would be to count all excess deaths then?

For all the people saying, these are unprecedented times, Boris Johnson is doing a good Covid19 job protecting our lives and families. Give him a break. Who could have done a better job?

Literally anyone if we use excess deaths rates:

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Meanwhile, the UK has the worst death toll in Europe and more deaths because of Johnson sheer arrogance and incompetence (over 50 000) than in the whole 40/41 nazi blitz bombing (40 000 civilian deaths).

 

 

Sorry? When was it up to the government to make sure people stay clean and look after themselves!

What pisses me off is the general public will not take any responsibility themselves.

We literally pay taxes to the government to take care of our security and public health mate.

You are pissed off? To say I am angry will be a huge understatement here. Pissed off is not even starting to describe how I feel today about Johnson and Cummings!

Johnson just confirmed the morons (us all?) who keep Covid19 rules don't love their family enough. Rules are for little people only.

If you care for your children and love your family you will NOT follow any rules as confirmed by our leader Boris Johnson.

Follow common sense and f**k other people & NHS. Good news: the 14 000 fined for breaking the Covid19 rules can appeal now because of the PM decision.

https://bylinetimes.com/2020/05/24/14000-brits-could-now-appeal-lockdown-fines-thanks-to-dominic-cummings/

On top of that because of Johnson's sheer arrogance and incompetence, the UK is now the worst Covid19 affected country in the world!

Daily confirmed coronavirus deaths per million, rolling 7-day average.

May 25, 2020:

1. UK

2. Sweden

3. Brazil

4. US

5. Peru

6. Spain

7. Ecuador

8. Belgium

9. Mexico

10 Canada

11 Italy

12 Chile

13 Ireland

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/daily-covid-deaths-per-million-7-day-average

Sir Roger Gale today: "You can’t have one law for the Prime Minister’s team and another law for absolutely everybody else”.

Boris Johnson also today: "We have one law for the Prime Minister’s team and another law for absolutely everybody else".

Meanwhile, the UK has the worst death toll in Europe and more deaths because of Johnson sheer arrogance and incompetence (over 50 000) than in the whole 40/41 nazi blitz bombing (40 000 civilian deaths).

Johnson is not Churchill. Churchill never said f* your mum and dad let them die and take it on the chin.

But yeah let's clap for NHS tonight. What an utter BS. Nobody is clapping in Germany with a population 30% bigger than the UK and only 8000 deaths.

Probably not no, I'm sure we're all tempted to take our bikes out at the moment but please leave it tucked away until non essential travel is allowed.If you need to use it to get to work, or shopping etc then it's fine to use still.

How is it me riding my bike solo as one a day exercise any different than my neighbour cycling? If anything people cycling are more exposed.

INB4 fuel - well I use app anyway and pay at the pump.

Note I do stay at home now and don't ride the bike.

But my question is about the written rules - are there any rules written by the UK government about motorcycling now specifically?

Aussies say solo ride is legal once a day pandemic excercise:

https://motorbikewriter.com/pandemic-still-legal-ride/

What is the UK rule?

About the trust. I spoke this morning on LBC with Farage answering the question can we trust Johnson when he say: "MPs are holding the country hostage don't want GE"

tldr; We can't trust Johnson because there are at least 4 ways to nake GE and he wants his way only - to be in control!

Bonus I do made Farage to despair and give up ate the end

Later today LibDems/SNP proposed general election and James Cleverly rejected GE proposal on Andrew Marr show!

Means I am right - the only one who holds the country hostage is Johnson. He just wants to keep his job not a fair GE!

Me today listening on LBC radio to all Leavers cloud cuckoo land excuses after the loser Johnson lost the great Saturday vote:

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Today was a very good example of what is Brexit: on the one side we have experts, reality and Letwin on the other is Johnson beating his chest and incoherent babble blah blah ww2 blah blah the deal is great blah blah trust me.

The last one was really funny. Trust me?

Trust me? From the serial liar Johnson that lied everybody in the UK including the Queen. That sounded reassuring

The reality won.

Johnson lies today have been exposed - if he wants the deal he could have accepted the Letwin vote which is FOR the deal adding legal assurance that the said deal will happen removing No Deal option.

But is it logical?

If I had 10 years No Claims on a policy, buy a fireblade say and for whatever reason want to insure it with a different insurer, I have to get insurance for zero years No Claims??

 

If you negotiate, some insurers will match your existing NCD used on an existing vehicle on a new policy to get your business. I've done this with cars and bikes in the past.

I now have multibike and multicar policies.

So now I either have to:

cancel the insurance with Hastings, get no refund of premium paid because there are 3 months only still on the policy, wait and get a letter from Hastings confirming that when I cancelled I had 1 full year NCD and then insure both bikes together for more than the price I was quoted for the new bike , providing the NCD letter to my new insurer. (perhaps obviously but still, I have then lost out on a refund from Hastings and paid more than I was expecting for insurance)

Or

Leave the Honda where it is with Hastings and insure the new bike with 0 years NCD -not going to happen as they want a big chunk of money, that one year makes all the difference. I cant add the new bike to the existing policy with Hastings with the Honda, because it is a bit sporty and Hastings wont quote me for the new bike as I am a "new" rider, despite being 50 odd, car driver for 10+ years and RoSpa member and having NCD that Hastings know about!

Just seems bizarre to me, surely I am not the first to assume that the NCD I am building up on a bike policy can be used against another bike, on another policy, without needing to cancel the first policy.

Not exactly you can do what Joe has done, have 1 policy NCD applied to more then one bike. It's called mirrored NCB.

Leave the Honda where it is with Hastings and ask the insurers of the new bike to mirror your Honda NCB to the new bike too.

https://www.quoterack.co.uk/No-Claims-Bonus.aspx

"This is not the same as transferring your no claims bonus from one vehicle to another - with a mirrored NCB, you effectively enjoy the discount on both vehicles at the same time"

How can you smell the clutch??

I'd you don't use the clutch for downshifts it won't stall, but that doesn't cure the underlying problem of why your idle speed it too low.

If it does stall with the clutch pulled just release the clutch gently and it will restart,no need to the starter button.

Thank you Joe.

It stalls with the clutch pulled and no releasing the clucth gently works only in high gears in my tripple engine. Engine has a lot of stopping power and in 1st or 2nd gear will not start gently.

Anyhow the underlying idle speed may be fixed by bumping up my CO levels. I have done that lets see what happens

Hi All,

my mt09 is stalling when downshifting gears. It is very anoying the bike stalls in roundabouts when downshifting. I pull the clutch and frantically start it again whilst coasting - very unpleasant and dangerous.

Only way to avoid that is to give it plenty of revs and slip the clucth when downshifting a lot.

The smell of the clutch afterwards is not nice and pretty sure I am ruining the clutch that way.

I do have noticed stalling is more when the tank is at the end. It was not doing that with full tank now it stall with full tank as well.

Any ideas people how to fix it?

I test rode the 2019 triumph street twin last week and ever since my bike (Honda CMX500) hasn't felt the same. Before i commit to getting one any other bikes people would suggest test riding or reasons not to get the street twin i am all ears.

Try Triumph speed twin too. It looks and rides much better IMO. Has more power for the same weight. Better brakes and suspension. And it looks very cool:

https://www.motorcyclenews.com/bike-reviews/triumph/speed-twin-1200/2019/

If you get the ferry to Spain you don't need your UK license - you can get from your nearest post office IDP - International driving permit.

This is the driving license needed after 31 Oct when UK is 3rd country and not in the EU. You can get one a use it now too instead of your UK driving license too:

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/driving-in-the-eu-after-brexit-international-driving-permits#get-an-idp

Unfortunately the French law is different - they require drivers to get IDP and the home country driving permit. Means you need your UK driving license for France anyway.

Driving with expired UK license in France is risky. The worst that can happen if French to confiscate your bike.

So been in the UK we know its always pissing it down. I'm a new rider 1 month now and I've come off 3 times. Once gravel, lesson learned. Twice turning a corner in the rain and just sliding! I've figured out that the back brake seems to make the bike extra slidy but my question is the clutch, on my way home today I tried to not use clutch round corners and I didn't seem to slide. Am I misguided or does using the clutch round corners make the bike extra slide?

Please go easy on me I'm loving the biking experience but am learning thanks

What bike and what tyres you've got mate?

Educated guess: your tyres are made of pure horse shit, not right size and/or not inflated properly.

If you want to ride bike get a license and proper bike with good tyres

Try waving at Big Harleys when you're on a Sportster and you will learn the meaning of loneliness . I know my place .....

What is a Big Harley? Are they not all like barges