Joeman

Controversial view - society is getting too soft and the youngsters want air conditioned cars not motorbikes. When I was a kid I'd ride my DT50 to school in just an old ski jacket and school trousers. Try that these days and the pile on about wearing all the gear will be deafening!! Do any kids even ride to school?? The bikes these days are getting soft too to match the soft society. don't get me started on the new breed of "sports bikes" that only have two cylinders instead of a proper inline four!! .

What's the back horse doing to to the front horse?? front horse looks bored whilst the back horse looks happy...

Did anyone else buy one of those Chinese diesel heaters that were all over social media a couple of years back? I got one, it's great for heating my mancave!

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problem with airtags is that you get a notification on your phone to say there's an unknown airtag travelling with you, so when the thieves nick your bike and take it away, they get a message to let them know there's an airtag following them...

until the cost of electricity comes down significantly, they wont make sense for many households. People rave about their efficiency because heat pumps output somewhere between 2 and 4 times the kWh that you put into them as electricity - that sounds great - free energy right!? The problem is that electricity costs around 5x the price of gas at the moment and its due to increase again with the next Ofgem update. So unless you have solar panels or some other access to cheap electricity or a passively heated house, for most homes heat pumps will work out more expensive to run than a gas boiler. You also lose the benefits of instant on heat and nice hot radiators to warm your hands or dry your wet biking gear!

yeah, he loves it, wants me to get him a KTM85 next, but his legs aren't long enough! Got to say the TTR50 is great fun to ride, I've ragged it around a few times - the suspension is totally bottomed out and my knees are touching the handle bars, but its proper good fun and feels a lot quicker than it really is! I've seen a few guys in the US upgrade them for adult use which got me thinking... could I make it road legal in the UK!?

Cheers Stu, I dropped off Twitter a while ago when I got sucked in the TikTok trap.. Also I started to think I was about to get arrested for tweeting hurty words - seems that's the kind of world we live in these days!

Cheers, bonio! Still got my old S1000RR that I never seem to have time to ride, and got a little TTR50 for my son who rides more than me!! Planning to get out once the roads dry off so thought I'd best rejoin the forum to find some riding buddies.

Hi guys gals, it's been a while.. I didn't realise how long I'd been away for! Looks like the forum has changed quite a bit since I was last here, good to see Stu's been keeping the place tidy whilst I've been away. Loads of new names who won't have a clue who I am, and great to see some of the old timers still here who might remember me So, what have I missed?? What's everyone been upto?!

Interesting. Who are these specially trained people and what are their abilities? I'm genuinely interested as I'd like to learn some special abilities. As a human being I am mostly relating to sight, sound, touch, hearing and taste. They tend to work for me, haven't let me down yet. For the record, I've listened to music through earphones while riding and haven't killed myself yet. Close your eyes and learn to ride a bike using your ears....

Perfectly fine. What do you hope to listen out for over wind noise and exhaust noise?? you should have ear plugs in to save your ears so they might as well be playing music!

That's one of the reasons I bought a folding electric bike.. Also so that if I ride it to the train station and it's raining when I'm coming home I can fold it up and sling it in the back of the taxi home

I've got an electric push bike. UK law is stupid. Limited to 250w with assistance upto 15mph. Doesn't mean it's limited to 15mph so if the ground is flat you can go faster than 15mph with little effort. Not cheap though.. You can buy a 125cc honda scooter on finance for 50quid a month with a 50quid deposit and hand it back three years later for another one so no worries about MOTs.

these are the ones i fitted... https://misanomotoimports.co.uk/collections/strada-7-levers/products/strada-7-racing-3d-short-cnc-adjustable-levers-with-carbon-fiber-inlay-brake-and-clutch-motorcycle-levers https://www.themotorbikeforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?p=884016#p884016 First ride out, about 50m from home, first time i pulled the brake it got stuck!! had to run home to get some tools to allow the bike to move again.. took it off, did a bit of fiddling and it was fine since. so yeah, just be careful the brakes release after you pull them!

thats normal.. it stays there until its read. Oops, in that case @joeman may receive two the same yep! i got two

When I swapped the exhaust on my s1000rr the low speed torque suffered due to eliminating the various exhaust valves but the top end bhp increased due to free flowing exhaust with no catalytic converter. Dropped a tooth off the front sprocket to move the gearing to be higher revs at lower speed and the bike became ballistically quick all the way through the range. Extra wheelie happy too

Congrats. Remember, you don't need to buy half the stuff the shops will try to convince you to buy. Save your money! Buy nappies and baby wipes in bulk. Try to get scent free nappy bags - the smell will make you want to puke after a while. And when changing nappies, open the nappy bag and nappy and get a few wet wipes out first. Don't do what I've done and get half way through changing a nappy, go to open the nappy bag, find you can't get it open so without thinking lick your finger to make opened the bag easier!! The taste of baby poo takes a while to get out your mouth.

All the people saying Boris is impossible to like because he's lied... They must never have lied ever in their lives else how do they expect people to like them??

Well he could have tried it would have started mass riots I think the labour manifesto had so many hidden new ways to tax people it would have been disastrous for everyone, not just billionaires and people earning over £80k as the labour propaganda machine was trying to suggest. thankfully the country saw sense and basically abandoned labour. I think it's great the Boris has a motorbike, it shows he's not against bikes unlike the Labour mayor of London Sadiq Khan who seems to be doing everything he can to kill off motorbikes in London. the sooner Khan is gone the sooner London can get a mayor who will see motorbikes as excellent urban transport that will reduce congestion. Labour's Sadiq Khan wont even allows motorbikes in bus lanes despite studies showing its much safer for motorcyclists... Thankfully Boris hates Khan...

so many Boris haters... the alternative would have been Corbyn who would have taxed most of you off the road...

Lidl ratchet spanners are good.

From an era when sports bikes had armchair like seats big enough for an entire family to sit on. I'd be looking at getting a modern race fairing, a front end of an newish R1 for the upside down forks and brakes and doing someone about the massive arse end. Maybe also see what swing arm will fit to replace the boxy stock swing arm.

Merry Christmas you lot. I'm spending the festive season in Copenhagen drinking lots of beer I can't pronounce the name of!! It's 5.6% so does the trick nicely

Be a shame if this happened to him.. https://road.cc/content/news/269353-oxford-teens-penis-degloved-his-bikes-handlebars-freak-crash-doctors-urge