Motorcycle Forum / Country Specific / UK Group / August 2006

I need to replace my VCR.  I plan to get a hard-disk recorder but I still
want to be able to play my tapes so I want to buy a cheap VCR.  (I
actually only need to be able to playback, but apart from those built in
to portable TVs I think everything's a recorder these days.

Well...
http://abcnews.go.com/International/popup?id=2342131&content=&page=1
Sorry lads, but a tent a few binliners bungied on isn't going to cut it
in the International Overloaded Motorcycle stakes.

Anyone after a trailer?  I've got a 3 bike trailer in good nick for sale
if anyone is interested.  Located near Hinckley in the frozen midlands.
Got a couple of crappy pics of it - looking for about a ton.
I can be contacted in the usual ways - but email is best to simes at

Is there a decent website for searching for flights? - I need to be able
to try all combinations for flying from Cardiff / Bristol to Guernsey
and Jersey.
So far I've only been able to find flights that will take me to one

At low revs run lumpy terribly even stalled at t junctions ,roundabouts
etc.New plugs ,oil battery.cleaned fuel pump injectors still run
terrible at low revs.put in fuel injector cleaner stalled ,now won't
start at all.Any ideas please.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/berkshire/5297600.stm
Home Office Minister Vernon Coaker MP said: "Such material has no place
in our society but the advent of the internet has meant that this
material is more easily available and means existing controls are being

Set off at seven-thirty (in the morning!) and was through London in a
trice. It would have been quicker, but for the pita MX5 driver who
kept trying to barge their way through, along the embankment.
M4 was duly dispatched, with a fill-up at one of the services ( I

Just won a fuel tank in the right colour off eBay £ 75
So provided its as good a condition as stated, thats £ 1500 all
told to get the bike back to the condition when I bought her
(excepting the miles I've done)

Timo in "buys sensible Japanese motorcycle" shocker:
http://www.unixconsult.co.uk/bike/pictures/vfr-1.jpg
http://www.unixconsult.co.uk/bike/pictures/vfr-2.jpg
TOG's most likely running a book already as to how long that one will

Right then you lot, I'm a pretty keen wine drinker, but generally only
have experience of New World stuff and Rioja, which seems to form the
bulk of what gets recommended on here. The problem is that I've
recently developed a taste for red burgundy, and fantastic stuff it is

"ICE arrests 15 aliens in Roswell..."
http://www.ice.gov/pi/news/newsreleases/articles/060829roswell.htm

Had to take emergency avoiding action today for the first time in years.
Two lanes of traffic comming up to a set of lights, lights change to red,
I've got a clear road up to the stop line, there's a line of slow moving
traffic on my left.

I will be racing at Snetterton in Naaarfuk this Sunday, 3rd Sept,
entering both the Ducati DesmoDue championship (in which
I'm currently 4th) and the SV650 class, #111.
Qualifying from 9am with racing around 11am onwards. Come

Wainfleet, Lincolnshire, found this
http://www.flickr.com/photos/35295373@N00/227967591/in/photostream/
Lightning just stood there in a golf course car park.  No plaque or anything
describing it, why it's there, what it's there for etc.  I assumed it was a

Oh dear.
Just had a call from Platy and Statto who are at South Mimms with a dead
'Wing.
Apparently its charging circuit isn't.