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On Christmas Day instead of mince pies my Missus served up something called 'ecclefechan tarts'. Well, all I can say is that with a dollop of brandy butter, they were eccleFECHAN good :lol:

This morning was the first chance I've had to test some winter gloves I bought a few weeks back, as until now I've been wearing summer shorty gloves as the weather's been so warm. Early this morning I had to ride 70miles in freezing fog, on country roads as well as dual carriageway. My hands...

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This might be old hat to some people, but the NHTSA (US version of our VOSA more or less) have finally published their report http://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/cars/probl ... mmary=true on the possibility of the right hand fork (made by Showa for the model year 2000-2004) which can fracture just...

Next weekend http://www.classicbikeshows.com/event/t ... nics-show/

. . . . just replace your standard exhaust with an aftermarket product. This is a recent statement from Ian Birch of Pipe Werx 'When you make an end can, all you’re really doing is tuning the noise'. He should know.

This week's insert 'MCN 2014 Awards' - p08 Yamaha MT-07 wins Best Naked Middleweight with the Honda CB650F in second, and on p14 the MT-07 wins Overall Machine of the Year. Fast forward to MCN Local and p07 'All the bike you'll ever need' triple test the Yamaha is soundly beaten into third place...

Is anyone else going on the Ride to the Wall next weekend? 5,500 registered so far - you can still sign on but hurry as it closes tonight http://www.rttw.org/index.php Nigelphoto starting from Wolseley Bridge, Staffordshire

New Jawa trailie with the Yam 660 Tenere engine and built by Minarelli (owned by Yamaha) looks useful, but is £700 more than the G650GS. I doubt they'll sell that many because everyone over a certain age will remember the terrible, slow, badly built, unreliable, terrible (did I say that...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-29170640 He should have his feckin hands cut off and be forced to eat out of a dog's bowl for the rest of his life.

I've been paying £5 a month for a get-me-home add-on on my bike insurance, and I'm wondering if I'm wasting my money. Most things I can fix at the side of the road (like rear brake calliper fires - see previous post!) but I can't be Rsed to mend punctures. I wondered if anyone had experience of...

I am getting really peed off with the hopelessly inaccurate weather forecasting from the Met Office. Its so bad that this morning it was made into a comedy slot on Radio 2 with people texting/emailing in to say what had been forecast and what the weather was really like at their own location...

Just returned from a short-break to the Island. Went to do laps of the TT course and the Southern 100. Sally had a bit of a struggle to get on and off the bike as she has a bad hip - difficulty in getting your leg over has a totally different meaning when you're an OAP! Once on, we had some...

I was thinking of buying myself a new jacket with CE armour, back protector etc etc but then I saw this and thought - why bother?

This might be of interest to 'history buffs' - a book signing by John Bradshaw, author of 'The Six Day Affair' and ride-in for ISDT and classic trials bikes on Saturday 2nd August at the National Motorcycle Museum http://www.jrbpub.net/2014/07/the-nmm-i ... -bradshaw/

I am going to the I-o-M on 5th August to stay 2 nights B&B and do a couple of laps of the TT course and also the Southern 100 course. The ferry is £108 from Liverpool and the B&B at Sulby has off road parking and is £42 per night. If you'd like to come please PM me asap as B&B has only 2 rooms...

Some technical advice please - MOT advisory yesterday suggesting I replace the front disc on my 1997 BMW F650ST, sharpish. The choice is BMW £188 (lol!) Brembo £108 (which is actually the BMW OE disc) PFM cast iron £84 or Armstrong wavy disc at £82. My questions 1/ does the Armstrong, which...

At last – I can actually navigate! In a previous thread Sat Nav advice please I asked for advice about using a TomTom One car satnav on my bike and Boris kindly came up with this http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/QZO-12V-to-5V ... 1e7b7b279f as a much cheaper and better solution to fitting a...

Did anyone see John McG or Bruce Anstey bite another rider at the TT? I don't wish to be offensive - err, yes I do on second thoughts - but I've always thought football is for big girls.

. . . . Angela Merkel at the D-Day 70 celebrations. Still, they did come second, got to give them that.