Perfect - that's no great distance at all!

The stupid thing is I remember them from my despatch riding days, but had completely forgotten!

I need a bit of work done over the winter, so I'll give 'em a call.

“However, there are individual risks within their operation that could be further reduced to improve safety and public confidence. We are determined to do all we can to make our roads as safe as possible, and we will take forward the measures set out by DfT ,” said the annual report.[/i] Luckily, t...

More lanes = more opportunities to pass obstructions? What a lovely simplistic model. Have a think about these issues: 1) If we assume* that the break-down rate is equal on dual carriageways and motorways and that ALL vehicles that brake down actually come to a halt on the carriageway itself, then ...

Skub wrote: ↑Tue Sep 15, 2020 10:17 pm
People do such a thing in this civilised day and age?

Yep. Bike trainers and commuters for example.

I prefer to work in dry weather - everyone learns better - but I can't entirely avoid a rainy day.

I live near junction 36 of the M1, that 34-32 section is very heavily cameraed. It's gonna make someone a shed load of cash. If people already know the cameras are there - and judging by the number of cars I see braking to 70 in just the right place - then how so? Won't they just do exactly the sam...

There's nothing there that would encourage me to use a smart motorway. How many more dead do there have to be before they are seen as utterly ridiculous and beyond sense? Do you ever travel on dual carriageways, the ones with a mix of traffic from cyclists and tractors up to HGVs and cars, no refug...

Horse wrote: ↑Tue Sep 15, 2020 12:24 pm in ‘most ways’, smart motorways are at least as safe as, or safer than, the conventional motorways they replaced.

The implication is that in some ways they must therefore be less safe.

Realistically, how many punctures do you ever get? I've been riding on the road for about 40 years and probably had 10 puncture tops? It really depends where you ride. I only had a couple when I was back in Kent but now I'm in London again, I've had 4 in the last two years, including one in a brand...

Skub wrote: ↑Tue Sep 15, 2020 6:52 pm
Having said all that,unless you are doing big miles or touring,a chain oiler is a bit non essential.I just clean and drop a bit of oil on my chain now and again,but I like cleaning stuff anyway.

Or riding in the rain.

Taipan wrote: ↑Tue Sep 15, 2020 11:48 am Never had any luck with scottoilers. I liked the loobman for its simplicity, but the tutoro was the best I've had and probably the only one i'd buy again.

https://www.tutorochainoiler.com/

Bloody hell, they've gone up a bit...

weeksy wrote: ↑Sun Sep 13, 2020 7:07 pm https://m.facebook.com/Innocentengineering/

I know the guy through another forum, but wasn't aware he was based there

I can see me using him for stuff

Got any recommendations in NW London?

The only time I had the rear wheel alignment adjusted with a proper tool, the bike didn't ride in a straight line afterwards. :?: Rider error :( :roll: I can ride in a straight line... well, usually. I had a dodgy back so took the bike in for a rear wheel removal / new tyre. They made a big thing a...

I talked about this platform concept on my Elevenses webcast back on 5 September.

I've actually spent quite a lot of time looking at electric bikes - there are some rather interesting utility bikes around, which have some modular elements such as luggage racks.

The only time I had the rear wheel alignment adjusted with a proper tool, the bike didn't ride in a straight line afterwards.

Hi I'm hoping you can throw some advice at me :) I'm a car driver - I did attempt to get a bike licence a long time ago - I rode for around a year - before life got in the way and I had to give up! I've decided i'm going to try again - how likely am I to remember what I was doing ?? If you were in ...

Yorick wrote: ↑Fri Sep 11, 2020 6:21 pm

Harry wrote: ↑Fri Sep 11, 2020 10:52 am As a track bike then maybe, but as a road bike for any of us?

Fifty year old blokes with pot bellies on race reps looks so naff it's embarrassing.

Not as naff as a young kid who can't ride the fucker

Particularly when the young kid also has a pot belly

It's aimed at the same market as the R6, and I haven't seen one of those on the road for a long time, the CBR650 is more road biased and I haven't seen many of those on the road, most bikes I see on the road these days are adventure tourers, I think the race replica market has died. CBR650? Had a t...

When RiDE was still doing something akin to investigative journalism, they had an annual 'best dealer' item, where they took a carefully doctored bike in for a service, then checked what had been done against what was billed. Wasn't unusual to find that the valves hadn't been touched, but were bille...

Thats a cyclist going round a marked parking bay. With the driver hidden by the headrest. Why? It's empty. It is from the beyond the viewpoint what's to the immediate left of the viewer? If you took a left turn from that far out on a motorcycle test, you'd get a driving fault... ...unless someone t...

Another vote for Helmet City... I've been to the Biggin Hill branch a couple of times, from Canterbury and from NW London to buy new helmets and they were helpful unboxing stock from the store both times. One store lost interest almost as soon as I didn't buy the first one out of the store room. Som...