My mate rides a *cough* restricted bike that is some how the same speed as the other non restricted bikes and had a few close calls like that, so I’d rather do things properly from the start.

Id love a 2 stroke TBF but as you say expensive,unreliable,potentially illegal… Sounds like a lot of my recent Jap cars haha

Probably just get a 600 as I’d like to think I’m sensible enough, not gonna be riding around thinking I’m invincible like I would of 10 years ago. Lots of bargains about if you don’t mind doing a bit of work which I enjoy doing and bikes are a lot more space friendly for having one hanging around etc

No practical reasons for buying a bike just want it for fun so I think money spent on a 125 would be better spent on the DAS… I’ll probably buy some ropey 90’s Japanese bike keep myself busy making it work while I’m sorting the rest of it. As tinkering with things is half the fun for me anyway

Maybe a slightly early to this one (not quite 30 yet!) But moving house soon and will have my own garage for the first time. So obviously want a bike..

Been cars for last few years with a few fun rwd jap cars but needed to sell to buy the house and new job requires a more sensible car so having bike as a toy make a lot more sense than a 3rd car being squeezed in somewhere

Never had a bike, but my dad had them when I was younger and a lot of my mates have 600 sports bikes…

Deciding atm whether to do CBT and get a cheap 125 for a year then do the big boy test or just go straight for a ‘big’ bike and get something 600ish from the start…

In my (non Porsche) experience Toyo sports or similar exhausts are just loud with no tone/quality to the sound…

Was horrible on my car and changed for a cobra exhaust instead which was also loud but no raspy/droning noises and complemented the cars sound.

Just noticed karcher have the K4 compact (older model) new for £125 so think that’s my best option. Longer warranty than the refurb ones and I don’t mind buying the accessories as I need them

Thanks guys had a look and the nilfisk seem decent, so do the Bosch so opens make my choice harder….

The Macalister ones have some really bad reviews for terrible parts availability of something really simple breaks so not so keen on that.

For Android tablets/phones you can download family link app and control screentime limits bedtimes etc and all app downloads get sent to you for approval first. No idea on the gaming I just turn the Xbox off!

I have a collie/lab cross (I think) I can’t let him off a lead and he’s nearly 3…

He will do anything for a treat inside but doesn’t care the second he’s outside everything else is too interesting. He will play fetch etc for a while no problem but if he gets bored or you say it’s time to go he will just leg it!

 I can donate a stem and bars to start you off if you want them?

Thanks very much for the offer but actualy have several parts of bikes and a crappy hybrid bike so not entirely bikeless but don’t have the time at the moment anyway between work and the kids. I still have all my bike clothes/shoes so hopefully one day!

Sounds like me!

Stayed on at school for final year just about scraped 3 A levels and not enough to go to uni as I wasn’t really motivated/interested as didn’t know what I wanted to do.

Had a bunch of jobs since but still not settled into a career at 27…

My brother is 18 and left school after poor results at 17 went to college instead did a specific course to go to uni for a radiography has come out top off his class with several offers from uni’s.

In hindsight definitely the option I should have taken, college just suits some people better than school

Went to haldon today and had a good (bit eventful) time, did the green in less than half hour but then kids followed me j to the pump track and the eldest went straight over the first burm and landed upside down in a 2 foot deep drainage ditch….

Then we went to the skills area for a bit and decided to do the blue (Spicer’s) kids were flying off ahead but my GF was lagging behind (more on the downhill/twisty bits that uphill)  because she hasn’t roddera bike in years and never really off-road…

I eas trying to keep eyes on the kids and her and ended up riding into a tree stump while looking behind… Went OTB into a bush and had about 200 thorns in my forearm… Was a soft landing just spikey.

The kids rode off ahead I caught the oldest one up but his brother had gone ahead on his own so we chased him down only to get back where we started and he wasn’t there… So started to panic about a 5 year old being on his own in the woods! I raced off around the trail again full speed panicking but found him about half way around another lap! He thought his brother was in front of him so was frantically trying to catch up.

Cheers guys haldon looks like a good shout.

My boys are 5 and 7 both confident on pedal bikes so should be fine if we take it easy.

Me and the Mrs only on hybrids mine cost me £70 last week and I have slapped some spare parts on it and not tested it yet so won’t be pushing it much!

I want to go punch them seems reasonable to me

Also silver parts are usually clear anodised to keep them looking good without this they will oxidise and end up looking crap

saw a guy running towards me from a distance wearing weird skin coloured lycra the as he got closed I could see something flapping about… Then I realised there was no lycra

First step of attach parts stash to bike… Didn’t want to use the hope stem on this bike but the brake hose was too short for a longer stem haha

£70 I’ve had cheaper (free bikes) but this is the cheapest I’ve actually paid for

Problem solved by stw again 8 speed shifters sorted so hopefully running better shifters and hydrolic brakes before I go away so hopefully works alright

My kids have frog 14″ and 16″ bikes but the budget for the 20″ is smaller this time and I managed to pick up a giant xtc 20 for £40 2nd hand rigid forks and lightish swapped to some new tyres and brake pads and it’s like new and should still be worth £40 when they are finished definitely some bargains about

Does anyone know if a sram x4 8 speed shifter will work with a Shimano mech? I can’t remember if it’s only 7-8 or only 7 that both worked the same

Bike

Still can’t figure out pictures on the new forum but there is the beast… Have some avid db3 brakes to upgrade to hydraulics and hopefully getting some shifters off here because it has the integrated shifter/brakes got some grips and a better saddle here to fit and hopefully should make a bit nicer to use

£350 for a modified RX8 – 27 with 2 (non fault) claims in the last 2 years.

Which isn’t bad

I can’t remember the figures but I remember the small print in the corner of s porridge advert saying it “lowers cholesterol” said you had to eat the equivalent of about 4 bowls a day iirc

As someone who suffers with mental health problems I completely understand how people make unusual/poor decisions at times but my point is people seem to be unable to separate being sympathetic towards that to being critical of drink driving. As northwind said they are mutually exclusive you can be someone suffering from an illness but also a **** for drink driving at the same time….

I was fairly ambivalent to the whole situation…

But just seen a post on Facebook which used him as an example about people dealing with depression/addiction aren’t always the people you think and the comments are just an outpouring of sympathy and saying they agree…

Which is ok, apart from the fact he got in a car drunk at that point you are a **** regardless of mental illness or addiction IMO

But because he’s a generally well know likable chap everyone is just sympathetic, if it was Dave down the road that got pissed up and smashed a few cars up and a kid has to be taken to hospital I doubt people would be feeling sorry for him.

They stole it so now you will buy it off eBay because you need it.

Supply and demand 😉

<span style=”text-decoration: underline;”>same here </span> on the typing problem and also pop-ups and redirect pages making certain threads inaccessible. Doesn’t happen on other sites

I use veredstein ultrac sessantas on my slightly-less-powerfull-but-same-weight-as-a-boxters-s RWD “sports car” think they changed the name of the newer version but good tyres for around £120ish

As above try the opposite end of the numbers before anything else…

It’s probably degrees rather than 1-5 in coldness

So because I dont want to people to be killed im a “hand wringing do gooder” ?

You`d think so but tyres are made in mm widths and rims are made in inches and people say bike industry standards are silly ;)

Nickewen – you might be right just don’t have the information to know for sure is all I was saying. Assuming the wheel is perfectly matched to the tyre you are but if he had a wheel that is already a bit big for a 235 then a 225 might be more of an issue

I’d still say that by definition killing someone when you mean to is murder even if you are an armed police officer… However if you killing is going to immediately stop them killing Someone else that would be justified, putting them on death row and executing them decades later isn’t going to change the events that happened and the person is already locked up so it’s not protecting/saving anyone.

As far as Fred west, he killed him self so nobody can really change that can they… I don’t think being locked up is worse than death but as a civilised society I think it is the worst punishment that is acceptable.

“An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind” as the man in sandles once said

He hasn’t mentioned the rim width so how do you know that?

On the back of the wheel it should have a with marked as “8J” etc which is 8″

It might be ok but in general a narrower tyre will have a lower load index so you would need to check that as well as fitment.

So if a doctor turns off a a patient’s life support, thus killing them in a premeditated way = murder? Euthanasia clinics where people with terminal degenerative illnesses chose to go to die = murder ? Soldiers planning to attack an enemy location? Also murder?

First one is no because that’s stopped keeping them “alive” rather than killing them.

Euthanasia clinics make it so the patient usually has to press a button/drink something themselves to actually kill them. Also the person dying is consenting and wants it to happen so hardly comparible to cold blooded murder…

Third one it is murder through isn’t it? Running into somewhere and killing someone? However if they are going to do it to you if you don’t do it to them it makes things slightly more understandable

flawed analogy playing devils advocate, we wouldnt be murdering them as it would be lawful.

I don’t believe it is… In my eyes killing is killing and just because you decide to do it out of revenge in a state sponsored way you are still killing someone on purpose in a premeditated way = murder. Some murders are worse than others but imo still murder

Was really good, about the cars and less gap filler.

Apart from what happened to that poor FD 😥

There was a judge (who didn’t believe in the death penalty) who put it quite well by saying something along the lines of

“We don’t steal from theives, we don’t rape rapists, we don’t torch the house of arsonists, so why do we murder murderers”

How is “rich energy drinks” a company I have never heard of and never seen their products in a shop about to stump up £200M for force India?

Still don’t really understand how red bull have so much money is the energy drink business just a giant money laundering scam or something?