Archive for November, 2006
Tuesday, November 28th, 2006
3 wheels… it’s a bike… well a scooter
Not one to post about scooters very often but this caught my eye http://www.mp3.piaggio.com/index_eng.html Essentially it’s a scooter, but, it has three wheels! No news at the moment about how it rides or what it costs but tomorrow is it’s launch day and one of our members over at londonbikers.com is test riding it – [...]
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Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006
My old boss and my new bike
I’ve resisted posted this for some time because it was a real accident and my old boss felt dreadful about it – he was exceptionally sorry and made sure everything was paid for and repaired. But it’s still quite funny.
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Monday, November 20th, 2006
Users prefer moderation
I run a website for bikers in London called londonbikers.com – it’s a pretty cool site that has an amazing forum and collection of users losley defined by a standard internet forum. It’s been pretty noisy lately, with the very vocal majority, pointing out what they see as problems in the way the site is [...]
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Monday, November 13th, 2006
France
Got back very late last night from a mid November jaunt across the channel to France! All the photos here What a fantastic day, every time I go over I’m amazed at how polite all the drivers are, how good all the roads are, and how much warmer it can be than the UK! We [...]
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Friday, November 10th, 2006
Oversized Hairdryer
I was going to write something nice about Ian’s new bike – a Honda Silverwing I was going to point out that it doesn’t look half bad, that it is rather comfortable, that it does sound quite good, I was even going to go as far as saying I wouldn’t be too embaressed to ride [...]
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Monday, November 6th, 2006
Garmin Zumo – Initial Review
I promised a short review of the new Garmin Zumo after my visit to the NEC and the 2006 Motorcycle and Scooter show. I was really looking forward to getting my hands on this device, not least because I was expecting something special – a year after Tom Tom released the Rider Garmin had the [...]
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Saturday, November 4th, 2006
The importance of a decent garage
I can’t stress enough how much I’m looking forward to getting to my new house, and more importantly my new garage. The one on the far left is mine – my new flat is above it – and there’s another garage out to the right you can’t see – we own the whole building but [...]