Motorcycle Forum / Country Specific / UK Group / August 2007

Following a fairly unsuccessful day trip out to site in MK on Friday I
was in the Botheth offithe today all researched up to make my plea for
them to spend a few bob on a pair of halfway decent walkie talkies for a
return trip tomorrow.

I've seen a set of Givi luggage going cheap, but it's been painted a
horrible peeling-off-in-scabs bright blue, is there any paint that won't
peel straight off the plastic? I'd quite like to try colour-matching to Sir
Nigel (the Kwak metallic grey from '97) as they might look a bit ...

If anybody is interested, I've just put the latest speed cam databases for
Garmin (POI) and TomTom (Home & OV2) Zips on the Gmail drive.
If anybody wants something different, let me know and I'll download it.
HTH

Two riders tried to overtake a couple of cars, whilst the lead biker
made it, the second had a head on collision with on oncoming bike.
The paper says "it's understood the lead biker could face charges".
http://tinyurl.com/363ouc

What am I doing wrong when taking pictures outdoors. I always seem to lose a
lot of detail in shadows etc. Here is a link to a couple of examples.
http://www.photobox.co.uk/album/thumbnails.html?c_album=6364935
Camera is a Fuji s5000.

Could someone email me or txt me DanL's contact please.
hog at freenet dot co dot uk
or
07nine29 40227six

Young lad on the Zephyr group wants £400 for this.
http://www.zephyr-zone.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?num=1187802675/0
What do you reckon?
(also posted to UKRMC)

And now it's on Fleabay.
Item number 130146955431
Cosmetically, it's not bad. Starts instantly and runs sweetly. What
the seller isn't telling anyone is that the charging system is FUBAR'd

Just bought some brake pads for the Bird, front and back.  How easy should
they be to fit?  Do I need to do anything special with the linked braking
system, or is it just a simple(ish) job of remove calliper, wind back
pistons, replace pads, replace calliper and tighten bolts?

Right, I picked up the new scanner, which even seems to be working.
Bonus. So, who of you wants first dibs on my old scanner then?
I quick peek on fleabay suggests that they're going for more than I
thought - price range seems to be 155-250 quid for Scan Dual IIIs and

I'll be going on a track for the 1st time next week [1]. Just wondered
if anybody had any spare sliders that they'd part with for minimal
tokens - or even nowt?
[1] Not a track day as such [2]

Well, sort of...
Vicky came back from the USofA today, having bought Harry Potter & the
Deathly Hallows over there.
We bought a copy in the UK.

Looks like your favourite MP3 is coming back to life.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6967172.stm

Just received my eBay purchase Xena Disc lock
which I knew had a flat battery.
So, I have the lock and a key, but I cant see for the life of me, how to get
at the battery

<http://www.reuters.com/news/video/videoStory?videoId=64523>
While downloading a load of Podcasts on my Nokia n95 this evening I
noticed story two from Reuters "Oddly Enough" And Finally podcast.
The story I'm talking about starts at about 1m04s - there might be an