Joeman

Motorway designers don't help. Instead of proper slip roads, they often designate the left two lanes as the turning off lane, so that makes people reluctant to use them as they will have to move right to avoid leaving the motorway! The new smart motorways are a joke too. They converted the hard shoulder to a new lane but nobody uses it!

What annoys me is if you try to do the right thing and stay in the most left lane you can, with the cruise control set so youre at a constant, predictable speed, other drivers do not anticipate that you are going to need to pull out to get around slow traffic and will happily pass you without any consideration thus boxing you in and causing you to cancel the CC. This I believe is one of the reasons people hog the middle lane because they can pretty much set the cruisecontrol and stay there. But doesn't bother me as I drive an Audi and ride a BMW and both are allergic to anything other than "the fast lane" lol

When I passed my bike test, I ripped off my L-plates and made a point of riding home on the motorway, because I could. I remember thinking how uneventful it was. That was back in the day when I did my full test on my own 125cc bike which at the flick of a switch went from 12 to 34bhp..

Maybe when they say biker, they actually mean cyclist.

Or the ones who attempt to merge onto the motorway doing 40mph. I make a habit of getting as far away as possible from people like that as clearly they have zero speed awareness!

Amazing sunshine her in Kent, hope you guys at the rally are having the same. Gutted I can't be there this year

Exactly. Nothing you could have done under normal use could cause a well built engine to fail so soon.

K1300S looks great in that colour.

That's confusing! Cuz the tank is in the back of the bike it's not a tailpack it's a tank bag! Lol

@Joeman Are those bags waterproof? No idea. They look like they would be. Mine has never seen rain.

Lol pmsl idk wtf is going on but the forum seems obsessed with acronyms atm. VM, AA ITT, DDC and ESA on another. Getting BTT, IMO they F'ed up. Bikes shouldnt break like that. They can't fob you off and try to say it's all your fault for not RTFM.

ESA is old school now, DDC is the new kid on the block!

Tell them fix it properly or you'll take them to small claims court. They can't prove that you've caused the problem but it's easy for you to claim they didn't do the work properly as clearly it shouldn't fail again so soon.

It's looking less likely that I'll be able to make it this year thanks to family and work commitments certainly not the Friday, but working on getting a pass for Saturday so I can come and get smashed with the rest of you! negotiations still ongoing.

Did you rub them down and prime them first? What paint did you use? Too late to say now, but should have tried a small part first rather than everything at once.. Take off all the paint and vinyl wrap or plastidip all the parts

Fix the gate then smear dog poo over the top of the gate so if they climb it again they get sticky fingers.

Oh really? Lol, my work desktop has 6x27inch screens

Only problem I have with my mb-pro is the letters wearing off the keyboard! But what bugs me about them is the lack of RAM. Even the new ones dont have much ram so I don't really know who the "pros" are they are aimed at. That's why I'm hanging only my 2013 mbp retina with i7. I've installed a larger SSD and it's fine - not perfect, but way better than any windows laptop.

My macbook pro is the only Apple product I allow in the house and only because I haven't found a Windows laptop of the same build quality.

Congratulations on the new job! It's the best combination as you get to work with the users to see how they use the software and then write code to actually fix real problems and make the users life easier. Coding fun plus loads of gratitude from the end users. Not like pure Dev roles where youre locked in a dark room pumping out code that's some generic IT- illiterate BA speced out. Pretty much what I do. I'm a systems developer at a hedgefund. Developing new stuff and supporting/rewriting old stuff.

Start practicing big turns and work smaller and smaller until you're doing a regular sized U-turn!

If we get a scooters chasing us, are we allowed to outrun them? Or will the law not take that as an excuse to break the speed limits and jump red lights?

Are there enough tech nerds on here to start a geek thread to talk about the geeky techy stuff we get upto?? Tonights geekyness for me comes in the form of an old touchscreen shop EPOS system that i've acquired (Legally!). Its running Windows7 and MySQL so i've just cracked the MySQL Root password and i'm currently poking about in the database whilst drinking cider and blinding myself with the laser scanner What geeky stuff are you lot upto - or am i alone?

"On a tricycle" lol

Get one that fits snugly to the disk so it's harder to get tools on the locking part to cut it off.