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For those non-bikers out there check out this battery powered 2 wheeled death machine. It does 0-60 in 1 sec and a standing 1/4 in 8 s . Marvel how the geeky mad inventor Bill Dube (gotta be a yank with a name like that) stuffs it while showing off to the TV cameras .

I doubt even that. There's currently a court case on the front page of the local Cheltenham newspaper where a lorry driver pulled out of a side road and ran right over a motorcyclist and carried on. He never saw or heard him but strangley did see the lorry that was following the biker. The lorry driver claims he's guilty.

I know how you feel. I was on my carbon racer pedalling along at 25 mph. I'm approaching a group of school kids heading home and a lad decides to step out and cross the road. I shout look out. He turns round and freezes like a startled rabbit while I skid into his ghoolies. He falls flat on his back and grasp his nutsack preventing his sweetbread from rolling out of each trouser leg. I extract my £2.5K racer from the human bike rack and pick the kid off the road. He apologises for not looking. But then the Grange Hill rejects all round up on me and start blaming me for the eunuchfication of their mate. :aggress:Then the kid changes his tune and has a go at me. Fortunately I managed to make my escape before they stabbed or shot me.

There's nothing special about the elastomer used for petrol hoses. It's usually a standard grade of nitrile (aka buna) or viton which both have excellent chemical compatibility with petrol. Trouble arise when it's an incompatible elastomer like natural rubber or EPDM or silicon. To the untrained eye you wouldn't be able to tell the difference and with braiding you've got no chance. Stuff like teflon is just about the most chemically resistant material there is for most day to day chemicals.

I do a triv quiz every Tuesday. They have a snowball question round at the end. Last night it was worth £250. And amazingly our raffle ticket was the first out of the hat so numpty here gets 'volunteered' by the team to go answer the question. It is the Apollo 11 crew were Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and who was the third. Easy with a Wikepedia. I knew it was Collins but couldn't make my mind up whether it was Andrew or Michael. So I figured Andrew cos Michael Collins was the Sinn Fein leader aka Liam Neeson. Quack quack oops. Bye bye £250. GUTTED!!!

I BPU'd a ham sarnie by sticking in some spinach off my veggie patch. One particular mouthful was very chewable and odd with a peculiar aftertaste. It was a slug. Good for sparrows and hedgehogs then good for me. Now I never was wash my veg. Waste of water.

It's a ham sandwidget everytime but it's gotta be the ham from those impossible to open cans which you need a key. It's gotta have the jelly!! The can says chill before opening but I like the jelly to be dribbling not hard. You cut the ham so it's at least an inch thick. The bread is just there to hold the ham and jelly. Yum yum food of gods.

You obviously don't watch the series.

Ideal wife material. Get back home stressed out after a hard's work beat the crap out of her and then kick her off to the kitchen to cook yer meat n two veg!

Spiders, moths, crane flies, daddies with very long legs ... they're all fair game. Me and my BB gun. STOP YER GRINNIN' AND DROP YER LINEN. IT'S A BUG HUNT!!! Eat plastic! It's what my pyschotherapist recommended as aversion therapy for my rehab into modern society.

I've learnt to love the huge spiders you get running into your house in Autumn. It's bug hunting season. I get my MP5 auto BB gun and mow them down in a hail of 6 mm plastic death. Once I had a near death moment when during a magazine change the spider turned round and decided attack was the best form of defence. But I rolled out of the way and nailed it with my manual Glock 17 sidearm. Never go gardening without it.

Longlevens and Longford got hit really bad. More so than last month. Some friend in Longford only just moved back in to be washed out again. Now it seems the latest news bulletin says the one remaining power sub station in Gloucester serving 500,000 people will get knocked out as the flood level peaks at midnight. Tap water is no more. It's going to be a very interesting in the next few days/weeks/months.

It's amazing the difference a day makes. Only Wednesday I took the motorbike out for a spin past the Mythe Bridge pumping station they keep showing on the news. It's a great stretch of road. Further up is Jn 1 of the M50 with a double roundabout I use to scrub my tyres. SOB. It's under 10 ft water. Can you believe it people are scrambling over bottle water in all the supermarkets. Bread and milk has all sold out and now they're queuing up for petrol! It's tap water!!! Not Perrier, bread, milk and petrol.

Not so far from you. I'm in Benhall. Only minor disaster is Hatherley Lane has collapsed. I heard the threat of power loss is lifted but the big worry is NO DRINKING WATER FOR TWO WEEKS. That means no pubbing, clubbing, work (health and safety), eating out etc. Welcome to the stone age.

The part of Cheltenham I'm in is bone dryish today. But Friday afternoon was another story! It was like the end of the world. Loads of mates in Tewkesbury (as advertised on the news) and surrounding areas have all be evacuated. Worse still are looters are hitting empty houses and abandoned cars. Still got running water here but this will go off tomorrow. Fortunately power is ok.

I've heard you should snort cigarette lighter fuel and then set fire to your nose. That'll clear your sinuses. And your eyebrows, top lip, back of your head, infact anything else that may be causing a blockage.

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Hi Claire, I've put out the info to my lot. I'll give them two weeks to stump up and deposits to you by 7th July.

I've got about a dozen guys here in Chelt/Glos who are interested. What's the maximum number of punters they can take?

The CBR600 RR is very nice and it won't bite your head off like an R6 or R1. The CG125 was just a cheap 'emergency' run-about (which bizarrely I bought brand new cos it was so cheap). I'll ride it while deciding whether it would be a Honda Hornet, Triumph Speed or Street Triple or a Bandit 650.

Your car licence will act as a bike provisional. You do your CBT about £120. It only takes a morning, 2 hours classroom theory, 2 hours in a courtyard and then 2 hours on the public roads. Then you're licenced to kill yourself on a 125 for 2 years. After that you have to do it again. A 125 will only do about 60 mph and be 11 kw (3 electric kettles) about 14.7 bhp!!! If you want to ride bigger bikes then you have to do a classroom theory multiple choice test and a hazard perception video clips test at a special test centre. £26. And then it's direct access which is only for 21+. If you're younger then you do the A2 and only allowed to ride 33 kW (10 electric kettles)!! And after 2 years you ride anything. Never regretted it. Riding a motorbike is a life skill. It's like flying 2feet off the ground. Love it! I love my Supe but love biking better. Sorts the men from the boys. You need more skill and concentration but it rewards with exhilarating fun. You are infact more at risk on a push bike. And the environ-MENTAL-ist greens want more of us to pedal! I've had more accidents and more vulnerable cycling my time trial racing bike. Over 70% of motorbike accidents are not due to car drivers but because the biker got it all wrong. Usually corner entry speed and not reading the road conditions. It's slow in and fast out. Got a Honda CG125 if you're interested. Does 100 mpg!!! £15 road tax and bugger all insurance (if you've passed your test).

Great thumbnail but wot the firkin 'ell is it?

Thank god you told me that! [sHOCK][/sHOCK] Tomorrow I'm going to the local Suzuki dealer to take out a Bandit 650. I quite like the Triumph Speed Triple but the Triumph dealer in Cheltenham are quite stuck-up like everything else in Cheltenham. Really waiting to get on the new Street Triple. I'm off to Gloucester next week to look at a Hornet. Nice to hear you guys rate Honda.

C'mon tell us what you reckon I should get for a new motorbike. And what colour. Don't want a sports bike cos I get back ache and my feet go numb cos your knees are pressed upto your rib cage. Anything upto £8K. Desparate to get out there and enjoy this 'typically English' summer we're having. Have I got the right forum? [GRIN][/GRIN]