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Is that Ratchet and DL, on their honeymoon in 1979?
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Not this year, but next Spring could be good, after the snow has gone. <_>
An informal ride about, look around.
If Baldini doesn't get himself out of deep Wales, I might have to go looking for him too.
There isn't anything like
in the Yorkshire moors, is there???Or giant boulders?
No more like this
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Helen and I could organise something- would you like this in addition to the Ulster 2009 and Denmark 2010?
No time this year for us! Money and time have already been spent in advance.
Maybe next Spring? Can think of a few locations where there is the choice of B & B or camping!
The Ducati owners club had 2 or 3 years at a Pub near Masham that was ok (in Fearby if I remember correctly)
I'm told that the Brewery tour is good
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Yorkshire
So you would think that after 45 years of living in Yorkshire, playing rugby for my school in York, working the land in North and East Ridings, forging steel in the Aire valley, running gangs of men building pipelines and motorways in the West Riding, sewers and a dam in South Yorkshire, worked with the hooligans in the inner city of Leeds I would now be a Yorkshireman. No chance! I open my mouth and they say 'you're not from round here are you' then sympathetically follow it with 'well you don't do bad for one of those southern softies', praise indeed.
Could be worse, a work mate was born in Rotherham but moved to London when he was 16 so now having returned to Yorkshire (Barnsley)sounds like he's an extra from Eastenders !!!
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Well, it looks like buggered-up Phillips, but I detect the remnants of the extra "teeth" in the bottom of the hole. It's not a tamper-proof head, but it does take a special toolhead; I forget what they're called, but they look like Phillips cut on too steep an angle [75deg included angle instead of 90deg] with little pointy indents at the end of the end of the normal Phillips' "teeth."
Like I said, I forget what they're called. Only time I recall seeing them was on a Ford of some sort. Take a left-hand drill bit in a reversible drill, and drill it out. If the left-hand drill doesn't take it out itself, then use an EZ-out. Toss that stooopid thing as far away as you can, & replace it w/ a proper Allen-head bolt.
Phillips head screws are fine for 1930s technology, but we're living in the new millenium, and owe it to ourselves to use proper fittings, like Allen-head screws, that don't bugger-up when you look at them cross-eyed like Phillips screws and that fool thing you've got stuck on your bar.
FWIW, it was probably used by mistake, thinking it was a regular Phi'ps... typically, those things are only used by themselves, so you only have to have the one tool (& you know that going in!)
I think its a rounded off "Posidrive" ?
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Not sure if your bike is the same as mine but watch the spacer as it can go either side but is only correct if fitted on the LHS(the previous owner/mechanic may have got it wrong !!!).
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If your stuck let me know, I should have an old one somewhere.
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Superb, simply superb
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Sorry, as a career pilot, I'd take the eurofighter.
And the db5 is ugly. and drives like a pig. and I can't afford one. and if the v12 db7 just drops alittle more in price, I'll tell you first hand why it's a better car!
Anyway, the 82 v8 vantage is the one to have. Unless you're Nick Mason.
Good answer, as a none pilot I'd still choose the WW2 plane but can see why the Eurofighter would appeal to you (the same way I imagine a racer would choose a GP bike over a Vincent, Brough etc ).
The DB5 is a pig in a party frock(more like David Browns other products !!) and the Vantage (flawed as it is)is the best "old" Aston.
So what makes us like Guzzi's ?
Did T.E Lawrence decribe it best "A skittish motor-bike with a touch of blood in it is better than all the riding animals on earth, because of its logical extension of our faculties, and the hint, the provocation, to excess conferred by its honeyed untiring smoothness" ?
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Well, I really hope that Obama does well and turns around the negatives of the Bush administration, HOWEVER, as my da once said, "The only decent person that ever went into Parliament House was Guy Fawkes"
Excellent film, like 1984 its slowly becoming reality !!
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A poll would be interesting, I suspect most of us would choose the older more involved technology instead of the more modern "better" alternative.
now a real test question.... Aston Martin DB5 or DB7
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I can feel a poll coming on
I suspect that most of us here would choose to fly in a Spitfire (or any WW2 fighter) to a flight in say a Eurofighter or even a ride on the footplate of the Flying Scotsman or Mallard rather than a Bullet Train ?
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A few dark teasers- I won't take any proper pics until she is finished= the work John at the Tank Shop has done is excellent- the Imola Seat looks good too. So many jobs to get her finished now. P.S. She is very very shiny!
Looks good
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139.81 mph in old money
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Not that new here, South Yorkshire used to have several unmarked Volvo T5's (when they were new) and at least one unmarked bike (a Gixxer 1100 if I remember correctly) and they currently have a helicopter.
(usually hovering over my house at at 2am
)A chap once told me how his wife got off a motorway speeding offence,she claimed in court that when the unmarked Sierra Cosworth pulled alongside and tried to get her to pull over she assumed the driver and passenger (who looked dodgy
)were going to steal her car (a Lotus Carlton)so she floored it He said she left the Cosworth for dead and the Police had to get their Lotus Carlton to catch her
!!At the time (late 80's early 90's) due to the very basic locks Ford fitted, and the fact that everyone wanted one,you were very lucky if your Cosworth was still parked where you'd left it when you returned so the Judge agreed that it was a valid defence
!!I'm not sure it would work today though
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Hi,
I had ordered a set of Woodcraft clipons and paid 250 dollars, about 160-170 Euros including shipping.
Today they called me from custom and they asked me to pay 150 Euros (almost the price again)!! The shipping company is the UPS.
I have received also other parts from USA, with national and I had never paid so much!!
What can I do,
can I sent it back to USA and ask them to send it with International company?
Can I buy woodcraft from Europe?
Thank you
In the UK all parcels from outside the EU are liable for import tax and VAT but most slip through ( I think you are supposed to declare any that are missed
)so if its the same where you are I think you've probably been unlucky and your parcel was noticed.
If you send it back you'd have to pay the postage , maybe lose out on the refund if the exchange rate changes and unless you can find a supplier in Europe any other parcel from outside the EU is just as likely to be noticed as this one so you could end up paying even more in the long run !!
If you often get stuff from abroad and you've never been caught out before then you owe more than the 150 Euro anyway so its best to just accept it as your turn, and look on the bright side that at least it wasn't a higher value parcel that was picked up !!!
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I am thinking about buying some wholesale water pipes from this company in China http://www.liangdianup.com/tobacciana_z.htm
but I am not sure if they are legal to bring in to the states? What are the laws on water pipes, bongs, and pipes?
I know some call Guzzi's "ditch pumps" but....?
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No, I have to agree with dlang. The rear tire is easier to break traction during decel not because the engine can develop more force on compression braking then acceleration (if that were true it would be sad) but because the rear tire unloads during decel and has less grip (further reducing the loads on the drive train).
I agree also rear wheel drive cars can easily lock up the rear during extreme down shifts,going from 4th to 2nd worked really well for my friend in his Opel Ascona
, but would almost certainly just over rev a front wheel drive car.But with regard to Guzzi's, I haven't had a problem with the V11 but my mates LM2 has caught me out a couple of times I think mainly due to the slower gear selection that the older bikes prefer(I needed to keep the revs up longer between the gears) and both times I wasn't on the brakes much but just slowing down.
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I didn't know that Ewan had a Cali. Fair play to him raising some good money for his favourite charity
I'm sure someone here posted pic's or a vid of him collecting it from the factory, it may have been last year?
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I asked this old rider about high speed headshake and how to ride out of it ? His response was..."don't get into it". :thumbsup:
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Exactly.
EU recently passed a law mandating companies to have a defibrillator handy. The stuff they keep on zapping people with in ER. Yes, there is a remote possibility that someone will suffer a heart attack at work, and even more remote one, that the punk operating the thing will bring the poor "heart attackee" back to life. Nevertheless, the law is there and with it all associated costs and profits...
And a greater possibility the operator will forget to yell "clear" and zap half his workmates as well
Whats the longest trip you've done on a V11?
in 24/7 V11
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If its a Sachs rear shock then check for corrosion and cracking of the lower "eye"(as you wouldn't want it to fail mid trip )the seals can fail but there isn't really any way to check this so if you have any doubts fit a Hagon monoshock (approx £250)and forget about it.
You could fit some heavier bar end weights to reduce the vibes but the only part I can think to carry is a spare "cam sensor" as this would not be possible to work around if it failed.
There is no reason I can think of that would make a well maintained V11 a bad choice for this trip !
I'm sure others will add their thoughts.
Have a good trip
Dave