A nighttime pedal in the peaks this evening with porter_jamie Paused at Hope Cross... https://imageshack.com/i/pmDFdt60j ...to smoke a superb monte cristo number 4... https://imageshack.com/i/pnBaXrHvj ...and a nip of Laphroaig from the trusty hip flask. Before rattling back down for a swift pint in...

Torrential rain and wind stopped any plans for a pedal this morning, so took the opportunity to nip over to JE James in Chesterfield to find a new open face helmet as I've given up on convincing myself that I've got a POC shaped head and need to find a new lid from a different manufacturer. They had...

On holiday, so i downloaded a Kindle Unlimited series to stave off the ennui of endless beaches, bikini clad lovelies, swimming pools and surf... Its called the Drop Trooper series by Rick Partlow. If you liked Marko Kloos' Frontlines series, you'll find it's ok. It certainly keeps the ball rolling...

A couple of hours work and we're here.... https://imageshack.com/i/poiPuCBNj It appears that riding a highly strung special, made of a variety of Italian marque's parts, through the winter is not conducive to long term reliability. I'm pretty sure the pink stuff should only be inside the radiator......

8 months or so since the last update on the multi... The bike has been awesome, everything I wanted and more. The power above 7,000 rpm is epic, picks up the front and holds it in any gear. Handling is as it was before, very fast steering, falls on its side, a bit flappy at higher speeds, equally at...

220 front and back. Standard sizes on the Focus, using Hope floating rotors and V4 E4 brakes and not lacking in braking power in the slightest even though I'm a fat fuck and the bike isn't even in the same postcode as light, probably knocking on the door of 25kg.

Hi there, first time caller but long time habitual speeder here....and also a former member of a county accident reduction steering group. The way it works is that any appointed officer of the court, relevant to speeding this would be a police officer (and that's any police officer, not just TrafPol...

I had a Trumpet 955i (T595) that I used to do trackdays on. Overweight and ponderous (bike and rider!) but loved riding it. PeterWilemanPhotography-MozillaFirefox_2013-10-14_08-58-03_zpsb5f79fa9.png When I was racing my 748 in the Roadstock series the guy who was clearing up all the trophies was on...

Gary mason was another. Didn't he loop a ZX9 getting off the ferry? I do believe so yes. No, the looped ZX9 was ridden by Craig Tinsley and it was at a peage booth, not the ferry. I was standing about 50 feet away from it happening BITD. Can't remember if it was when Pulp Friction or Mach 1 was bei...

https://amplifisports.com/en/collection ... /etrack-23

One of them, can't rate it highly enough.

Crikey, 9 months since the last update. Not riding the Focus anywhere near as much as I'd like to. Lots and lots of travel with my job means time for hobbies has taken a bit of a back seat, and wanting to ride the Ducati where possible and also maintain some semblance of a marriage doesn't help. Any...

MingtheMerciless wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2024 2:07 pm New lower headset bearing in the Epocalypse as the original was getting graunchy.

Top bearing was fine, but both lubed with @millemille ”super grease”.

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How are you and the others (@weeksy?) getting on with the Fuchs grease? Seen any improvement in bearing life?

Teeny, tiny, super powerful, very light Shorai Lithium Iron battery LFX09L2-BS12. https://imageshack.com/i/poNgjDwVj https://www.mdsbattery.co.uk/shorai-lfx09l2-bs12-12v-9ah-lithium-battery.html Unused, as new condition, bought for sizing up on a past project, regularly charged and kept on store on ...

From Blazing Saddles Waco Kid: You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know... morons. Mel Brookes said in interview I saw a few years ago that Gene Wilder ad libbed it and that's why Cleavon Little's reaction, bu...

My username comes from having owned several RSV-R's BITD and also having a side hustle buying RSV-r's and breaking them as there was a demand for the R parts (Ohlins, Oz, carbon bodywork etc.) from standard RSV owners and the rest of the parts from all folks.

Ditchfinder wrote: ↑Sat Jan 13, 2024 7:53 am Yes but I don't think the carbon frames are UK made. We're orange still making their fresheners in the UK or had that been outsourced abroad?

I've seen videos on YT of the Hope frames being made and they were definitely Hope employees in the UK doing the layup.

Ditchfinder wrote: ↑Thu Jan 11, 2024 5:26 pm I wonder if Hope might have a dabble. The owners were very keen at one point to have a fully UK built and equipped bike....

Hope already have their own bikes...

https://www.hopetechhb.com/bikes

Supermofo wrote: ↑Sun Dec 10, 2023 5:16 pm Good news on the bike.

Not so good news on the car. Can't get my head around the cost of parts nowadays, but there you are.

HID and intelligent dipping and wavelength/colour adjustment and steering, more processing power in each headlight than was used to get man on the moon...or something....

Cooked Sunday roast at work. IMG_0788.jpeg That brings back memories of when I was still on the tools at Slade Green depot and if you were working a Sunday day shift one person would volunteer to cook dinner for everyone on shift, normally about 15 people. The cook's train repair work would be shar...

Having rather carelessly, the week before last, punted my Mercedes into the back of a VW Tiguan on the M4 link road at Heathrow airport and my insurance company rather unsportingly declaring it a write off* and having a supplier meeting I needed to attend in person last Friday the Ducati was pressed...