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Re: Interesting little facts...
Posted: Mon Jun 17, 2024 4:11 pm
by Whysub
I seem to remember Tony Pond took a TV reporter out for fast drive through some country lanes, when he came round a bend to find a car blocking the lane. I'm sure he hit iy as one moment it was not there, a split second later, there it was
Re: Interesting little facts...
Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2024 8:48 pm
by KungFooBob
Interesting fact (for BMW R-GS LC owners)...
The base of the onboard screwdriver (under the passenger seat) fits the oil filler plug. There's even a hole to slot the screwdriver shaft into to provde addition leverage.
Which makes you wonder why there's so many tools for sale on ebay, I bet 80% of owners don't know this!
Re: Interesting little facts...
Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2024 8:53 pm
by mangocrazy
It's a bit like a pudgier version of the 3 legs of Mann (IoM).
Quocunque Jeceris Stabit
Re: Interesting little facts...
Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2024 8:54 pm
by Mr. Dazzle
KungFooBob wrote: Tue Jun 18, 2024 8:48 pm
I bet 80% of owners don't know this!
Or they've lost the OE toolkit

Re: Interesting little facts...
Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2024 8:57 pm
by KungFooBob
Mr. Dazzle wrote: Tue Jun 18, 2024 8:54 pm
KungFooBob wrote: Tue Jun 18, 2024 8:48 pm
I bet 80% of owners don't know this!
Or they've lost the OE toolkit
There's five parts and they all clip separately into the underside of the pillion seat. I bet 80% of owners don't even know how to get the seat off!
Re: Interesting little facts...
Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2024 9:18 pm
by Count Steer
KungFooBob wrote: Tue Jun 18, 2024 8:57 pm
Mr. Dazzle wrote: Tue Jun 18, 2024 8:54 pm
KungFooBob wrote: Tue Jun 18, 2024 8:48 pm
I bet 80% of owners don't know this!
Or they've lost the OE toolkit
There's five parts and they all clip separately into the underside of the pillion seat. I bet 80% of owners don't even know how to get the seat off!
Do they still include the puncture kit?
Re: Interesting little facts...
Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2024 9:19 pm
by KungFooBob
Count Steer wrote: Tue Jun 18, 2024 9:18 pm
KungFooBob wrote: Tue Jun 18, 2024 8:57 pm
Mr. Dazzle wrote: Tue Jun 18, 2024 8:54 pm
Or they've lost the OE toolkit
There's five parts and they all clip separately into the underside of the pillion seat. I bet 80% of owners don't even know how to get the seat off!
Do they still include the puncture kit?
Nope.
But I have a stop'n'go with a couple of the gas bottles in the top box.
Re: Interesting little facts...
Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2024 9:23 pm
by Mr. Dazzle
I remember my old BMW E30 (car) had a neat little plastic grabber/tweezers/pliers thing which sat in the fusebox,
exactly the right size for pulling fuses out.
My current German wagon has a branded HiVi which packs away into a perfectly fitted little pouch in the glovebox and a first aid kit which is flush with the boot floor. Oh and the electric windows slow down at the last moment just before they shut so it's quieter.
I do enjoy a neat design touch.

Re: Interesting little facts...
Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2024 9:26 pm
by KungFooBob
Mr. Dazzle wrote: Tue Jun 18, 2024 9:23 pm
I remember my old BMW E30 (car) had a neat little plastic grabber/tweezers/pliers thing which sat in the fusebox,
exactly the right size for pulling fuses out.
My current German wagon has a branded HiVi which packs away into a perfectly fitted little pouch in the glovebox and a first aid kit which is flush with the boot floor. Oh and the electric windows slow down at the last moment just before they shut so it's quieter.
I do enjoy a neat design touch.
My E92 did too, and a rechargeable torch in the glove box. Apparently the fuse box on my Ovlov is under the passenger side carpet and you have to take half the car to bits to get to it.
Re: Interesting little facts...
Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2024 9:26 pm
by Count Steer
KungFooBob wrote: Tue Jun 18, 2024 9:19 pm
Count Steer wrote: Tue Jun 18, 2024 9:18 pm
KungFooBob wrote: Tue Jun 18, 2024 8:57 pm
There's five parts and they all clip separately into the underside of the pillion seat. I bet 80% of owners don't even know how to get the seat off!
Do they still include the puncture kit?
Nope.
But I have a stop'n'go with a couple of the gas bottles in the top box.
That's a shame. My local dealer used to run a sort of evening club and one of the things they put on was a demo of how to use the kit to best effect and you got a chance to have a go.
(They did other stuff like an evening with Charlie Boorman and organised ride-outs and France trips too. Then they changed ownership, stopped doing stuff, shut the café....then shut the business).
Re: Interesting little facts...
Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2024 9:35 pm
by Horse
Count Steer wrote: Tue Jun 18, 2024 9:18 pm
KungFooBob wrote: Tue Jun 18, 2024 8:57 pm
Mr. Dazzle wrote: Tue Jun 18, 2024 8:54 pm
Or they've lost the OE toolkit
There's five parts and they all clip separately into the underside of the pillion seat. I bet 80% of owners don't even know how to get the seat off!
Do they still include the puncture kit?
In ye good olde days, there was a tyre pump, first aid and cable lock (which was hinged to fold in half and stowed in the frame 'spine' tube.
Even the earlier K bikes had a decent toolkit.
Re: Interesting little facts...
Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2024 9:58 pm
by cheb
Mr. Dazzle wrote: Tue Jun 18, 2024 9:23 pm
I remember my old BMW E30 (car) had a neat little plastic grabber/tweezers/pliers thing which sat in the fusebox,
exactly the right size for pulling fuses out.
My current German wagon has a branded HiVi which packs away into a perfectly fitted little pouch in the glovebox and a first aid kit which is flush with the boot floor. Oh and the electric windows slow down at the last moment just before they shut so it's quieter.
I do enjoy a neat design touch.
So did my 1986 Renault 5 Extra van. And it had the giraffe hatch, very useful. I've not seen one on a van since.
Re: Interesting little facts...
Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2024 4:32 pm
by katana
Horse wrote: Mon Jun 17, 2024 9:48 am
katana wrote: Sun Jun 16, 2024 8:01 pm
Yorick wrote: Sun Jun 16, 2024 7:58 pm
Wasn't it summat like 99.9 mph?
First one to brake 100mph. Only one to beat it has been a fully tweaked saburu rally car. The 827 that he broke the 100 in was not that modded just him in the car and his memory of the course.
A few minutes of in-car video. Full recording available to buy.
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Amzingly standard road car.
Re: Interesting little facts...
Posted: Fri Jun 21, 2024 6:10 pm
by MrLongbeard
The only recorded British shark attack in the year 2000 was in Worcestershire, 60 miles from the nearest sea. The Fountain pub in Tenbury Wells had three sharks in a tank, and one bit a chef’s hand when he fed it some prawns.
Re: Interesting little facts...
Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2024 2:23 pm
by Taipan
Alligators can live up to 100 years. So there's actually a pretty good chance they will see you later...
Re: Interesting little facts...
Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2024 2:25 pm
by KungFooBob
Taipan wrote: Tue Jun 25, 2024 2:23 pm
Alligators can live up to 100 years. So there's actually a pretty good chance they will see you later...
Iirc they're like Lobsters, the cells don't age/degrade so it's not old age that kills them, it's disease/fighting/getting so big the environment can't support them, etc...
Re: Interesting little facts...
Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2024 2:58 pm
by Mr. Dazzle
Is it true sharks can't get Alzheimer's? And that if you genetically modify them to learn about that they'll swim backwards and eat Samuel L Jackson?
Re: Interesting little facts...
Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2024 3:02 pm
by KungFooBob
Mr. Dazzle wrote: Tue Jun 25, 2024 2:58 pm
Is it true sharks can't get Alzheimer's? And that if you genetically modify them to learn about that they'll swim backwards and eat Samuel L Jackson?
Only if LL Cool J is the cook.
Re: Interesting little facts...
Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2024 3:35 pm
by gremlin
KungFooBob wrote: Tue Jun 25, 2024 2:25 pm
Iirc they're like Lobsters,
Unlike lobsters, I've found crocodilians to taste like muddy, shit-ridden fish.
Re: Interesting little facts...
Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2024 3:40 pm
by Mr. Dazzle
And my lobster skin shoes were awful.