Archive for October, 2006
Tuesday, October 31st, 2006
Why I should never buy a sportsbike
Really don’t ever let me buy a sportsbike
From Lee Harkers NEC 2006 Photoset on Flickr
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Sunday, October 29th, 2006
Motorcycle and Scooter Show – NEC 2006
Got back from the 2006 Motorcycle and Scooter Show at the NEC quite late on Friday night and have just started going through my swag bags. I’m quite pleased to say I managed to bag 8 side-stand pucks, 24 sweets, 12 pens, 4 key rings and a free poster of a topless girl on a [...]
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Wednesday, October 25th, 2006
We’re all in little boxes
Amid all my concern over my friend Ian buying another scooter it got me thinking about the boxes we put ourselves in.
I’m a mac using, real ale and malt whiskey drinking, Honda and BMW buying, IAM training, living in St Albans, London, cigar smoking, Biker. And you’d be surprised at how many others are too.
I [...]
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Tuesday, October 24th, 2006
My friend is a mod…
I really don’t know what to do about this… Ian Forrester is a mod… he’s just bought this.
Which frankly scares me – it’s 600cc and has ‘twin exhausts’ – I felt too bad to point out that they where both the size of a gnat and that it will still sound like a scooter… but [...]
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Wednesday, October 18th, 2006
Political might
Is the internet forum stronger than the lobbying group?
I only ask because over the last few days there has been a debate raging on londonbikers.com about what we can do to stop bike theft. That’s the actual aim… wipe out bike theft.
As ever with these things it was borne out of an emotional post on [...]
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Tuesday, October 17th, 2006
Crazy American Bikers… where do you carry yours?
Passed to me via londonbikers.com this is the funniest thing I’ve read in quite some time…
I’ve read alot about how and why people carry their sidearm with them on their motorcycle. Read all the arguments about smashed spleens or where is the safe place to have it, needing a lanyard, etc.
I don’t carry my [...]
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Tuesday, October 17th, 2006
Jeremy Clarkson in this months Bike
Just read the (very good) JC article in this months copy of Bike (nov) – and I must say it’s really rather revealing… whilst saying that he wanted to string cheese wire across the road to stop bikers, he also says he always moves over to let bikers pass – and likes the feeling he [...]
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Tuesday, October 17th, 2006
Jeremy Clarkson in this months Bike
Just read the (very good) JC article in this months copy of Bike (nov) – and I must say it’s really rather revealing… whilst saying that he wanted to string cheese wire across the road to stop bikers, he also says he always moves over to let bikers pass – and likes the feeling he [...]
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Tuesday, October 17th, 2006
Still no front brake
I’m getting more narked about the fact that Honda gave me the wront parts on Friday – appart from the fact I had to use my lunch hour on Monday to go back to Chiswick and get the part replaced – I also have to find an hour to do the work… sounds easy… but [...]
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Saturday, October 14th, 2006
My brakes
So today I did my own brake pads – it was actually quite straight forward with the shop manual – but the only issue was the fact that Chiswick Honda managed to give me 2 sets of rear pads and 1 front, rather than 2 front and 1 rear as the reciept said…!
So tomorrow I’m [...]