I’m a solid six foot and “robust” puts it best. I also looked at the Suzuki DR. I don’t expect a Ducati performance wise and has of the journey is long boring straight A road stuff, the other half is town.

Part of me thinks I should just get a banger of a car and keep the bike side of me for leisure rather than commuting and do the full test rather than pootling round in the pouring rain and hating it.

I enjoyed the albums of Counting Crows a few years back – went to see them live, bored off my face for the entire time

Seeing U2 on the Zoo TV tour made me hate them from then on

I can’t **** to that!

My pal was a car mechanic and would tell me stories all the time of people coming into his garage with insane cars and taking him out for a “spin”

One guy who had an M3, somewhat derestricted and the engine massaged a bit. He got caught up in a duel with a guy on an R1. The biker said there was nothing in it till they got to a roundabout and that’s when the M3 had him. The bike just couldn’t take corners like the car could.

Unfortunately the biker was killed a few weeks later on a blind hill. His own fault really, a car came out a side Road however the data logger had read 147 at the time of impact

Lately I’ve had pains in my shoulder through stress which also causes headaches, crap sleep, eye twitching and general anger.

All because of work.

Wife forgot our anniversary today and I went in the huff for an hour. Then my 3 month old smiled at me and everything changed….. It’s the little things :-D

My dog was given one when we had him neutered, up until then he barked us awake at 5am every day. He had the cone on, barked once then never woke us up at that time again.

We reckon the megaphone effect deafened him with his own bark

The garage I take my car to has a bucket full of them, they’re not as unique as you think

Homer: Hey, I earned that money. While you lounge around here doing laundry and putting up drywall, I’m at work busting my hump.
Marge: Oh, please. From what I hear, you waltz in there at 10:30, take a nap on the toilet, then sit around Googling your own name until lunch.
Homer: (gasping) Who told you that?!
Marge: You shouted it while we were making love!!

One of my personal favourites. Impossible Germany by Wilco is a lesson in less is more guitar playing

There is a new racing game on the way for PS4 and Xbox one, the name escapes me but Top Gears website had something about it yesterday, looks quite nice

I live in a street just down from a school. I have no issue with the school.

The oblivious parents pissing about on their iphones while driving their 4×4’s with complete disregard for anyone caught under their wheels is a different matter

Fake or not, get married, don’t have sex, sounds like a marriage to me

Nowt wrong with taking skateboarding back up, who cares if it’s a midlife crisis, as long as you’re enjoying yourself.

Not track car at all, but my daily driver up until 2 weeks ago was a 1999 VW Bora 2 litre that I paid 800 quid for, 3 and a half years ago. Paid about the same again in broken parts in that time, but all in all a solid motor for the money

According to Shibboleth, less educated people get tattoos. Coming from a man who has sat on the Internet for a few days arguing with strangers over a point that lost its way a long time ago

It’s like 10,000 spoons when all you need is a knife.

Incidentally, wasn’t Shibboleth the name of that massive cracking in the tate gallery posing as art? A fan of something useless that was only designed to be looked at and for people to comment on??

but basically, he’s a bit of a cockmonkey isn’t he?

Better than the cock-monkey they replaced him with

He’s worked for 3 fairly major magazines in the UK, he extols the virtues of being a good dad, he’s trying to do something with his life. Good luck to the guy

(and his wife isn’t too shabby)

Obviously the first thing that popped into my head was:

There was a thing on Jeremy Vine today about the state of cycling in London and a guy said he wore a hi-viz jacket that said something along the lines of “Polite notice, I am filming this” – He seemed very happy that he hadn’t been knocked off his bike in 2 years

About 30 minutes in this guy appears

Really?!

Yes, really.

This is just another case of polar opposites with the same “this is my bit of the road and **** everyone else” attitude that escalated into violence.

The cyclist is as much of a dick as the van driver.

My honest opinion going by some of his other videos. Sit and pick it to bits of you want.

Even if the drivers wearing the company livery of her business?

Does she use her wedding photos as her business logo? Naming and shaming’s all fine and well, but if it’s been dealt with by the police, then it’s between the police, the cyclist and the van driver. Trying to bring down the womens business is hardly in the interest of the case.

Having had a look at the other videos, the cyclist is not exactly sticking to all the laws of the road either.

Perhaps if cyclists AND drivers concentrated on being less confrontational during one of these incidents rather than having a willy waving competition to see who can get the last word in, they wouldn’t become violent or threatening

His behaviour was unacceptable. It could have all ended a lot worse.

To be fair though, you could have waited a second more for the parker to park rather than cutting on front of the van. And the guy in the van overtakes you so you slam on the air horn.

Both as bad as each other.

Also can’t see the point of dragging the van drivers missus into the argument?

groovy…….its a work thing and could be written into the program.

No backup program, just access to the server

I really didn’t take long, plenty of this years records on e-bay at over inflated prices……30 quid for the Bowie 7 inch

at the moment, completely…..the freehub is just spinning and the hub seems to be a non shimano size carry on, and no money to fix it, couple that with a shagged back brake.

Thinking of giving up this bikey lark altogether to be honest, seem to be going through parts at a rate of knots these days and spend more time stripping, greasing and oiling that biking

Anything called porche

that’s a bold statement:

But then, eye of the beholder and all that :D

I think the Ferrari would have looked tolerable if it didn’t have the tin foil stuck to it

I am particularly enjoying the hand bent window wiper:

i get that from time to time, i reboot, problem solved……have a look at running processes for Chrome in your task manager with a couple of tabs open, it’s almost laughable

You might regret selling it.

I certainly regret swapping my fender tele (like this)

for a GT Zaskar frame……that was stolen as a full bike about a year later. It was only a mexican tele but I miss it all the same. I will never ever get rid of another guitar.

Always had a soft spot for airport ground support vehicles.

Reminds me of the episode of Thunderbirds where they land the supersonic airliner on three flat topped trucks after the undercarriage is sabotaged.

I believe that, or something similar, was the basis of this from Aliens

yeah, they really do get in the way of the woodpile/look at my workshop/it would be better if TJ was still here/what car should I buy?/legal advice/which colour cotic/fat bike threads

Argos are doing this one for 65 if you can stretch that far

If search and rescue goes private, does this mean idiots in flip-flops being airlifted from Snowdonia in January will have to pay for their lift off the mountain?

I too have a free house, but only for two days…..tonight pizza, beer, rum, MY choice of film, lots of episodes of Cafe Racer (cheesy american motorbike programme, but lots of cool bikes)[/url] and a bed to myself……only bike maintenance will be trying to get a freehub to work as it should

is there such a thing as fruit free muesli? I’m not keen on fruit in my breakfast bowl

Little girl gets shot for trying to get an education and people get all uppity about it because tax payers are having to foot the bill?

Saying you are going to die because you ride a bike is just retarded.

Precisley, you don’t hear this much moaning when people are on here looking for a VRS or an Impreza, and I’d quite like to hear how many of the folks that go out looking for hot versions of cars take advanced driving courses.

I’m in the same boat as the OP, been wanting to get round to if for 37 years and decided this is the year for me.

Only advice I can give is take it easy (seems obvious) I’ve been around bikes all my life but never been a rider, but what I have learned is the following:

[*][list]Extra training is worth its weight in gold[/list]
[*][list]Buy the best kit you can (look for last years model to save shed loads)[/list]
[*][list]Buying something that looks like it’ll snap your neck, probably means it will – But your choice of bike seems quite sedentary, so you’re off to a good start.[/list]
[*][list]Everyone is not out to kill you, they just appear to be paying no attention to what goes on outside their bubble, but if you are then you’ll be safe – It’s like a sixth sense.[/list]
[*][list]If you already drive a car, start driving it like you would a bike, you’ll be amazed what you might normally miss.[/list]

Also, find a good training school, ie one that’s recommended, the guy at my work who just passed his sounds like he had a right old faff with the one he went with.

what about this?

I thought you had to replace the nozzle to the pump to end the fueling cycle to allow you to pay

how’re they going to make good after that?

That’s exactly what troubles me, looks bloody horrendous and we’re not in much of a financial position to take on building work