Motorcycle Forum / Country Specific / UK Group / November 2007

We had our workstation posture (or whatever) audit today.
Question:
"Do you spend extended periods of time at the screen and keyboard?"
Yes

I appear to have won a 1st bike for my daughter to use
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110195235123
She's 16 next May so I have some time to sort any probs with it :)

There's hope for bad kids yet....
It's ironic that Eva Pope has the part of head teacher at Waterloo Road. I
think I'm correct that in the distant past - when she was in Coronation
Street - giving an interview, which she said that she was expelled from

http://www.champ.org.uk/images/funnypole.jpg
I took this from the car in the summer, shortly after it was erected.
Anyone have the faintest idea what it might be?  

... I just scoffed twelve Cream Crackers with cream cheese and hot chillis
sprinkled on them.
Delicious so they were.
D.

If my business buys me a bike, does anyone know the tax implications? I
know about cars, but the info seems a bit thin on the ground.
I know it counts against your tax etc, but what %?
I'm thinking of a Ducati 1098s

I've just bought a job lot of new spares , mostly for the shims and a speedo
cable , so if there's anything you need let me know.
And one of my chain adjuster bolts has snapped so if anyones got a decent
swingarm let me know.....

would you buy one?
case in point
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=230197259977&ssPageName=ADM
E:B:SS:GB:1123

Anyone doing it on any of the current loony sportsbikes?
R1, ZX-10R?

As there are quite a few Network people reading the NG it's worth
highlighting something I learned today.
With the creation of Openreach BT has isolated the engineering arm from the
Retail side of the business.  Thus when you order new telecoms or data

Would rock wool be ok for 2 smoke baffles? I can't remember what I used
to use on my old 2 stroke. Last time I used this fiber glass stuff, and
I think most of it went out the exhaust.
Must be some better, cheaper stuff out there?

It's not often that I find something nauseous in The Daily Telegraph
so I thought I should share it with you.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/11/26/nbug126.xml

Offer leaflet just dropped out of this months IAM mag.
All of:
Serif PagePlus8 (DTP)
Photoplus 7

Now it wont go very well.
It rained on it while I was going along and then it started to cough. I
thought it was the petrol so I twisted the tap onto reserve, like my friend
in India told me to, to see if I was low on petrol.

http://www.ecossemoto.com/index.htm
It was the ES1 model (not on their website) which caught my eye:-
http://www.redferret.net/?p=9654