Joeman

Online prices are not always the best once you factor in postage costs. Go to a store, try on a load of gear, take it to the counter and then ask for your discount. Most stores will give you some money off if you're buying a load of stuff.

Just means your next bike will have to be a GSXR

The chance of all of that fitting you properly, is virtually zero!! why not go and visit a store to buy your gear?

What about all of the other gear you will need?? why not make a special trip to your nearest bike clothing dealer and get the lot all in one go? afterall, you're going to need a whole lot more than just a helmet!! If you've already been to a shop and tried a few on, and none fitted, then buying one online is a recipe for disaster IMO.

Mines just a pop up cover thing. And yes I would, pay for it might as well use it well having used the AA a few times for my car, i hope you have a better experience than me.. I once had a water leak on my car - just a tiny hole in the top hose that i could have patched up with hose repair tape. I called the AA, waited 2 hours for them to arrive. Eventually someone arrived - not a proper AA man, but a local recovery company. It was dark by this point, the guy didnt have a torch, and when i told him i had a water leak, he took the lid off the screen wash bottler and said "you still have plenty left, why dont you drive home?".. At this point i realised what i was dealing with, and polity gave him a lesson on car cooling systems. He then wanted to sit in my car in the oiliest overalls I've ever seen to guide it up the back of his truck. No way that was going to happen! 1hour slow drive home having to listen to his idiotic babbling, I called the AA to complain... Their adverts brag about fixing 80% of breakdowns at the roadside but that's only if they send a properly trained AA man, and not some local hill-billy recovery truck driver, so don't expect the AA or any other recovery company to be your 'knight in shining armour' and save you at the roadside.. its certainly not been my experience! As for the water hose, i taped it up with repair tape, topped up with coolant, and drove the car until the new hose arrived. 5min job to replace

Not many, but sometimes stuff can come lose, and its handy to have some tools to tighten it back up, or if your fuses are under the seat, and you need an allen key to get to them, might be an idea to at least carry an allen key! Or would you call the AA man to come and change a fuse??

Wont be able to help anyone else out either... if you see another biker stuck at the side of the road, they might just be missing one tool from their kit. if we all carried a few tools, we might save someone else a slow ride home in an AA truck.

Yeah i could, but for the sake of 12 quid, can I be bothered? Its Oxford's loss, not mine as I certainly wont be relaying on their reputation again. They've clearly dropped their standards, and seem to have forgotten entirely about quality control! Maybe i'll post them a link to this thread and give them the chance to explain.. lets see if they can be bothered to respond..

Exactly! i was planning to add a few other bits and bobs, and sling it under my seat for emergency use only only. Big let down from Oxford's on the quality front.. basically paid 12 quid for a tool pouch.

I purchased an Oxford Toolkit at the weekend for 12quid, it was a total impulse buy, but I thought Oxford were a good brand, so it would be ideal to keep under the seat of the bike. I opened it up yesterday to take a look, and wasvery disappointed. Difficult to see from the photos, but the quality is really poor. So much for being “High Quality Carbon Steel” – the pliers look like they have already been used, and the side cutters have damage to the cutting edge, and the little spring designed to make the spring open fell out! The plastic screwdrivers are really cheap, and the sockets look like they will break if you apply any force. Cheap tools = poor quality, but I really would have expected better from Oxford… Then I read the back of the package “Made to the OXFORD design and specification in China from high quality materials”… I wonder why the print the word “China” in bold letters? A warning maybe? Anyway, sticking it under the seat, hopefully will never need it! Oxford Tool Kit Mad in China....

Can just see him now... get out of car and pushes it backwards into the parking space and tries to put a disc lock on the front wheel...

And dont try to counter-steer!!

LOL, so you just convicted me for Fraud based on a misread accusation! Cheers!! http://reason.com/assets/mc/psuderman/2012_01/judgedredd_i-am-the-law.jpg

Im going to answer the question, as you asked it, and the answer is yes. It would come under Fraud. Whether or not any legal body would instruct a prosecution, is a different question, however It is dishonest, and is being done for your gain, so yes is the answer to your question. Ah, well you see im not sure it would be. For a prosecution to be viable, there would need to be a legal definition of the term "own bag". Also the machine doesnt specify a time period in which my "own bag " must be used, or even for what purpose. So Lets assume i purchased a single item (say packet of chewing gum), and instead of using a plastic bag, i chose to place the item in my pocket, but said i used my "own bag" would that be fraud? Compare this to a woman who purchases the same item and places in her handbag, but only after she got out of the shop... has she commited fraud too? Also, what about a mother who purchases an item and places it in her child's school bag... not techincally her "own bag" either. would that be fraud?? As for the question of personal again, it would all depend on the vendor's motive behind providing points for using my "own bag". If it was an incentive for not taking a new bag, then clearly by not using a new bag the reward has been earned, regardless of if i actually have me "own bag" or not. Or maybe the cost of the bag is already factored into the sale price, so the extra points are a refund for not taking a bag and the vendor is not charging for a bag i did not take. So......Not as clear as you might initially think is it!

it arrived as promised http://www.themotorbikeforum.co.uk/view ... =3&t=45180 insurance sorted but DVLA not come through with tax and V5 yet so not taken it on the road. I keep checking their site every few mins lol Poor show from Norton, not to have sorted out a V5 for you after keeping you waiting that long!

Just sounds like one of those bad days that comes along once in a while.. Dont let what happened put you off biking - remember you have the ZZR600 to look forward to once you pass

Congrats on the mod1 Whats all this talk about speed gates?? no such thing when i did my test many years ago... wonder how many of uss "old timers" would pass a mod1/mod2 these days!??

LOL, or use other vendors bags - im sure the posh people in Waitrose and M&S will get a bit upset if you start loading their finest products into knackered old Tesco bags

LOL, yes, my evil genius plan to steal 1million nector points is working well....

The points quickly add up to real money. I collect them, but never get to use them, as just when the balance starts to get to a useful figure, my partner gets herself a free tank of fuel or a load of shopping.. LOL

- You can with the sainbury's ones, it asks you at the end, and i always do it whenever i only have a few items and dont need a bag.

Trains all messed up so forced to go to the pub..

So when i use one of those automated checkouts in Sainsbos, and it askes me "did you use your own bags?", would saying "Yes" (to get the extra necta points) be classed as dishonest if infact i didnt use any bag at all, and just carried the items out of the store?? (can you tell im having a busy day)

LOL, possibly, but there is no way on earth i would have giant speaker stacks in my living room, and with all that black equiptment, it just looks like something out of a '70s batchelor pad! Value for money wise, the CA speakers are pretty good (5 star review from WhatHifi) http://www.whathifi.com/review/cambridge-audio-minx-s215-new Much better than spending £450 on just two speakers, and perfect for my occasional audio needs, and its proper surround sound, so you hear detail in movies that you wont here from two large towering speakers either side of the TV. Why have 3D TV, if you dont have 3D audio??

just like colin said You don't always get top quality for top price stuff B&O make some pretty nice looking stuff but it isn't any where near the quality of products you can get elsewhere for less. I think most B&O stuff is just Panosonic gear stuffed into a shiny looking box, designed to appeal to people who dont know what they are buying.... its fun going into a B&O shop and questioning the sales people about what features their products dont have, and then asking the price!! B&O closed down in Sevenoaks after people stopped buying their overpriced crap