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It's a cracking deal. Bike is a '91, but very tidy. Only drawback is it's purple with a pink seat! The lad already has a black seat cover and the rest can all get a liberal coating of matt black, job done.

+1 best reply ever. I should be getting a new motorbike (KLE 500) at the weekend practically free. I've just gained a new flatmate and the deal is I get the bike in place of 1.5 months rent. Seemed rude not to.

Generic internet picture until I can get home on Friday. I was going to fit it on the flange between the mid-pipe and the cat-back and route the cable through the tranny tunnel. But thinking about it, it would probably be better to fit it after the first cat and route the cable through the firewall presuming it's long enough. TBH, I didn't get very far into looking at it as my old exhaust collapsed before I got chance to fit the ECV.

No worries mate, I'm working away and won't be able to post until Friday afternoon. If you could do a bank transfer, that is the easiest for me, let me know and I'll pm you my details. I don't think it would cause any harm, it would be no worse than having a restrictive silencer fitted, and you could leave it open most of the time, just close it (fully or slightly) when you need to be quiet.

£50 should do. I don't know how much of a ball-ache they are to fit - it goes on the middle flange and would need the cable routing up into the car.

I've got an unused Apexi exhaust valve (the manual cable version) knocking about somewhere if you want it.

Happy birthday

I picked up a second hand N/A motor for £250 as mine had been abused and was drinking oil. The new motor is probably close to 150k by now and besides throwing the crank pulley (seems to be a common failure around 70-80k) hasn't missed a beat and I rack up at least 300 miles a week all year round.

sometimes sideways, and, occasionally backwards

Bloody hell, that could have been so much worse. Glad your okay, don't give a monkeys about the other driver, hopefully they're feeling pretty sore and get the book thrown at 'em.

Brilliant. Is 'Full Stop' for threads like a different brand of Loctite?

Good luck with that..

My mate gave me a demo of his 3D tv a while ago and it gave me a bad head after about 15 mins. He stuck on a full 3d film which was very impressive, but I was struggling to focus on the whole picture. Probably not helped by the fact that I was barely about 6ft away from an enormous wall mounted screen. I found my eyes were constantly flicking to different areas of the screen every few seconds, very tiring. Then he put on an ordinary film to show off the upscaling to 3d and that probably wasn't as bad as you could visibly see the parrallax points and didn't constantly feel like you were refocussing on different bits. Then he stukck GT3 on his PS3 and that was not set up right and was truly horrid. I only managed one short lap before I had to urn it off. No experience of 3d films at the pictures as I can't justify spending damn near £40 for me and Lucy just to watch a film. Definately not a technology I'd be rushing out to buy in the near future.

Just renewed my policy and it was a good £100 cheaper than last year 37yo, carbon fibre N/A, all mods covered, high yearly mileage - £685, quite chuffed with that.

I'll send you a variety of comedy backgrounds to overlay Matt onto for our general abusement, too.

I had an ST and a Jaguar (although there were very few games for the Jag. Doom & AvP were cool), the 1040 ST was a good piece of kit that wasted many an evening.

Will bum for fuel /vbb/images/smilies/bbcode_sad.gif Thankfully, not.

I'd just like to point out that any reference to me is purely coincidental and I have never employed anyones family.

Ha ha A yorkshire man goes into Th'alfords and asks for a set of spark plugs "Are they Champion?" asks the salesman "Nay, they're fooked - that's why I want new ones" A tourist out for a walk through the Yorkshire countryside spots a farmer wrestling with a sheep and says "Are you shearing them sheep?" to which the farmer replies "Nay lad, you mun get your bloody own"

Cheers. Its been annoying me all weekend - its like the news services are wishing for another Chernobyl - all the references to a "nuclear explosion" and "meltdowns". Compared to the devastation and loss of life suffered across the country, the problems at Fukushima don't amount to much. The explosion was more than likely a build-up of hydrogen gasses in the outer pressure vessel of the reactor and would have caused very little damage to the core itself. There is still a risk of a meltdown if the rods remain exposed to air, but again, the the containment systems are designed to cope with such events. [edit] http://bravenewclimate.com/2011/03/13/fukushima-simple-explanation/ this is a very worthwhile read...

On the nuclear side of things, the media seem to be doing their best doom-mongering (no surprise there). It appears this event is a level 4 event according the IAEA International Nuclear Event Scale (i.e. an accident with local consequences). On this scale Chernobyl was a level 7 event, Three Mile Island and the Windscale fire were level 5 events. Whilst the coming days will still be tense, the actual risk to the public looks like it will be minimal (the doses received from Three Mile Island were equivalent to having a chest X-ray taken). The reactors were all shut down prior to the quake, so a Chernobyl-like explosion is very unlikely. The evacuation and the venting of steam from the stack (which is heavily filtered) is standard operating procedure to relieve pressure from the secondary containment vessels and permission had to be granted prior to carrying this out. (this is based on what I know/hear from the industry)

Who had it before you, then?

I stopped as soon as I thought about "packet-sniffing"