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Ishiwata 017 used to be a tester’s favourite for light weight in the early 80s

I’ve always found sgt motorcycles in Tooting pretty good for mots, indeed my 250 scooter is going there tomorrow after a massive 480 miles last year.

Ha I hear you. Fortunately it is very much a holiday home toy (aiming for the golf club thread), I have a Honda c90 there if I actually want to reliably get somewhere

I have a 1968 bsa bantam 175cc in road format. If you value originality, ie electrics from the 18th century then they are not really a bike that you can consistently wheel out of the shed after a few months of no use and ride away in - they require interaction and fettling.

If you’re happy to dump all that and fit modern electrics things are a bit easier. You are then just dealing with an old two stroke and bearings, pistons etc are available and modern 2t oils are a lot better. If you like tinkering and have dry space to do it, why not - you probably won’t lose money .
My bantam now has electric ignition and is set up with no battery lights, indicators or horn. It still is rattly, poorly braked and has a whiff of danger about it (and not the good danger).

There’s an awful lot of kit available to make bantams and triumph tiger cubs into very capable trials bikes, which also makes them desirable and pushes prices up.

http://www.progressiveclassicproducts.co.uk/

On bigger old bikes, desert sleds are a real trend at the moment also pushing prices.

Gratuitous bantam picture

Three in a row?

Yes I eventually had the ones on mine fitted with little cables so they weren’t smashed all the time :) aside from that the rs was a great bike. I bought a k1100rt years later and strangely that was the worst bike I ever owned and nearly put me off bikes forever,

I have a bed bound, slightly demented, 85 year old, dad who is now dying, the end of life care plan was agreed last week. They have been losing weight as they don’t want to eat and are now down to 49kgs. The home he is in were talking about increasing his dietary supplement but, realistically, is there any point? He won’t get better, get out of bed or walk, am I prolonging things or will I cause more pain to him? I thought stopping eating was part of the closing down process.

I've always thought they were thief-proof

I thought the same about my kwaker gt550 but it still went. Was being used by the local dealers when I found it. I’d go for an extra lock as a visible deterrent.
If it’s a k series can you not just pop the mirror indicator pods off and take them indoors?(the ones on my work k1100rs were always falling off!

Krishnan Guru-Murthy has just apologised to those using subtitles as it was transcribed as bullocks

A lady expert being interviewed from New York on C4 news about the market turmoil issues just said that JRM was “talking bollocks” when asked about his utterances.

Yes, completely agree.
I’ve just shouted “fuck off you cunt” and turned the radio off when he cropped up on the classic fm news bulletin.

What are your top five (or more) bikes you've had / ridden?

Not very cutting edge but bikes I’ve had;

Kmx200 - first bike
Honda c90 (got two of them)
BMW r100gs (shouldn’t have sold it)
Triumph t100 (shouldn’t have sold it)
Honda firestorm

The wife trying a few on at lhr this morning, no purchase made (her’s is the small one).

Any recommendations for Venice? Over at the weekend and would quite like to not be eating at the hotel every night.

Waning crescent day here

V65tt?

Had to look that up, the article I read did not give it a glowing recommendation !!!!

“The TT performed reasonably well, save for a few fatal flaws. The first was the worthless range offered by the weeny fuel tank, which limited the TT's appeal to globe-trotters or people who liked to ride further than the corner store. The second was the limited rear suspension travel which was hampered by the old-school dual shock setup and short swingarm from the V65. The third was a fragile final drive that wasn't suited to being pushed hard off the beaten track. The fourth was the utterly useless front brake, which might have been suitable for a featherweight off roader but not for a 400lb road bike masquerading as such. The fifth was the lack of support for the swingarm pivot, which led to a few instances of cracked transmission cases in hard use. The final nail in the coffin was the typical bugbears of anything slapped together by Italians: iffy quality control, substandard wiring, and crap electrics….”

Good job they made sure to securely pin his head to the ground (excellent use of gripping the hair) so he didn't shoot his eye lasers at the car

Getting someone to stay on the ground to get control of them - control their head and it’s very difficult for their body to get up and fight you.

Totally inappropriate

He was going straight towards the car containing the head of state, the lead motorbike is the guy doing al the whistling, SEG use whistles not sirens (I can’t stand the royal family but even I can see that would be recognised as a potential threat.) I think being stopped roller blading directly into a secure convoy with armed escorts by being bundled onto the ground , which is not a particularly severe use of force, is a reasonable use of force.

I remember reading an interview with those police bikers in a bike magazine years back, their job is to stop you getting at their high risk subject and the convoy won’t stop to discuss your roller blading choices. One was explaining how a biker had to hit a car that was coming towards the convoy to stop it in the past. If the copper hadn’t grabbed roller boy I suspect the bikers would’ve rammed him or worse.

Yes, the use of force needs to be reasonable (this is what PACE says) so proportionality and necessity and alternatives obviously play a part in assessing reasonableness. But it is proportional to carrying out a legal power, there does not have to be a perceived threat is my, possibly pedantic, point.

Use of force by a police officer has to be proportionate to a threat. It isn't obvious to me that someone running away is a threat to anyone.

The law allows the police use of force to carry out certain lawful powers, such as arrest, not just in response to a threat. S117 of PACE.

Couldn’t bother changing watch when I got up this morning thang.

British Gas, what a bunch of useless cunts.

I just want to pay my mother’s gas bill over the phone. Can I give them money? Can I fuck. It’s not exactly difficult to run an automated payment system.

First day back at work after nearly a month off so back wearing the good watch

Last few days of holiday so a bit of off road, out to visit relatives and then dual carriageway carving on the way home on the mighty Honda 90

Where’s good to get a dslr cleaned, Sw London / Vauxhall? It’s an old Nikon d50, few spots appear on the images. I leave it at our place in Ireland to save me lugging a camera over so it’s a bit of a nuisance if the images are spoilt