Joeman

Everyone is understandably sceptical as if something sounds too good to be true, it generally is. How do the organisers make any money?

It could work out a very expensive way to buy a bike! 1/49 is long odds. Better to take the money to the casino and place it all on a single number..

I actually didnt personally.. its actually a very long story, But of course, people wouldnt know, because, well.. i now know first hand, just how much news papers twist stories to make them sellable in their papers... When you read the news paper, you only hear half the story. but the story?? that took two court dates, before sentencing.... you either put a cat in a dryer or you didn't- nothing long about that. And if you did put a cat in the dryer, dont try to make it seem ok by accusing the papers of twisting the story to sell more papers. If you didn't put the cat in the dryer, why did you spend time in prison, and why not sue the papers for libel?

Animal cruelty makes me very angry. What kind of sick twisted individual would do that to a poor defenceless animal, and then brag about it by posting videos on the internet? And now the same person wants a shotgun licence presumably to shoot more defenceless creatures. People who do that deserve to get hurt... If he deos get a gun, I really hope it blows up in his face and takes an eye out or worse...

No, but if the OP has the front section of the pipe its hopefully just a matter of finding a slip on silencer that will fit to keep his neighbours happy.

Take some pics of what you currently have. If you just need a silencer it should be pretty simple to find one that fits, either from another bike or aftermarket. If you need a whole system thats gonna be more tricky. http://www2.yamaha-motor.fr/actu/IMG/jpg/05_ym50_doc_k-16-4.jpg

Very nice mate! great bikes.. its all about core strength. practice holding yourself up with your stomach muscles, not resting your weight on your arms... or just ride really fast so the air pushing against your chest holds you up!

104 isn't too high.

yeah it has up and down hall sensors. I think I saw somewhere that when you put the bike into neutral, it should overwrite whatever gear it thinks it's in and just display a zero. Once it displays zero, it resets position so it doesn't keep getting out of sync. Depends if your lever can still move up when it's already in 6th gear. Some bikes the lever doesnt move, others the lever will move up but obviously not change into 7th. If your lever can still move up whilst already in 6th, your display will go up a gear to 7th!

Just a cheap ebay one... http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/291010095671? ... EBIDX%3AIT Does it have a sensor above and below the gear lever?? if so, i bet you can get it to read a higher gear than that bike is really in i.e. 7th!

Clearly the truck driver's fault, but the bike had plenty of time to move out of its way... but instead he tried to hold his ground against a bigger vehicle that clearly hadn't seen him and got squished

No there not They are for everyone that doesn't drive an audi or BMW Like i said - for girls

I could write a much better scam email! These people are amatures.

With no way to connect a trickle charger, just disconnect the battery and take it somewhere you can periodically charge it up. Having said that, if its in good condition, it will likely be fine disconnected and left in the bike.

Indicators are for girls anyway

I've got a few purpose built rental flats. None have gas (its another hastle to do gas safety checks so easier for landlords to not have gas) All my flats were built within the last 8years so all are pretty well insulated. Two of the flats are heated entirely by electric underfloor heating systems, others have electric storage heaters. Modern insulation means they don't get cold so don't need huge amounts of heating. With a conversion you may not be able to achive the same levels of insulation, but what you could do is have a shared boiler that supplied hot water and heating to both flats. Downside is you have to pay the gas bill and charge it back to the tenants, but that can be useful tax wise

No idea of costs, but i do know that many new build flats are fitted with electric water heating. Guess it all depends how much hot water your need. if you're out at work all the time and just need a little hot water in the mornings and evenings, an electric boiler would be fine. If you need it all day, you'd probably find yourself out of hot water on a regular basis. you could also get an electric shower, that way you only need hot water for the sinks/bath, but they are not cheap to run.

Looks cool and not far from me. Wonder what it is about big tunnels that fascinates us??

Engine swap shouldn't impact its future value but make sure they do all the paperwork to get the new engine number recorded properly. If you intend to keep the bike for a while, use this as an opportunity to negotiate free extended warranty!

I normally pull up on the pavement right by the door... never been stopped or questioned about it. i do the same at motorway services stations too. park as close to the entrance as possible.

Thats not good!! I'd be going back there and explaining how if they couldnt repair it in the next week id want a replacement bike and if they couldn't deliver in the next two weeks, i'd want a full refund plus compensation for costs incurred and inconveniences. For some reason, people don't think consumer law applies to motor vehicles, but it most certainly does, and that one is clearly not fit for purpose. What bike is it anyway?? My old aprilia went wrong countless time which is one reason i've never bought another italian bike since.

frustrates me that in these cash-strapped times, with everyone concerned about geen issues and recycling, that the police think its appropriate to just crush a perfectly good vehicle just because its owner was and idiot. Surely they could sell them and generate some much needed cash!!

Rev her up and swing the back of the bike round to take his legs out.. Then ride over him on the way out of there

This to me is the thin end of the wedge - we live in financially frightening times. When I bought my first flat (2 double bedrooms, separate kitchen, allocated parking space) in 1998, it cost me £35K. A single graduate engineer on £16,500 (which was my starting salary) could afford a mortgage on that, plus I had minimal debts from Uni because I was one of the last years for whom Uni was free, and I got a full grant. 17 years later, the same flats in the same block are are selling for £180K. That's roughly a 500% increase in 17 years, while starting salaries in the engineering industry have increased by about 30% in the same period, and Uni is £9000 per year, and you can't get a grant anymore. It's patently insane; and it's not "real" money, because when you're on the housing ladder, you are buying and selling in the same market, so it wouldn't matter if the flats were £1.80 each or £180,000,000 each! It just fuels the debt culture which, one day will go BOOM in a very very big way - it will make the 1927 stock market crash, and the crash we've just had, look like penny bangers. that's why the BOE dont dare raise the base rate from its all time low... they know people are already overstretched and on the brink, so any rise in the base rate will bankrupt a large portion of the population.

2 Fast 2 Furious style Just squirt mayonnaise over the windscreen. The wipers just make it worse. The result is the same