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  1. Started by barkwindjammer,

    A Yorkshireman' s wife dies and the widower decides that her headstone should have the words "she were thine" engraved on it. He calls the stone mason, who assures him that the headstone will be ready a few days after the funeral. True to his word the stone mason calls the widower to say that the headstone is ready and would he like to come and have a look. When the widower gets there he takes one look at the stone to see that it's been engraved "she were thin". He explodes - "Bloody 'ell man, you've left the 'bloody "e" out, you've left the 'bloody "e" out!" The stone mason apologises and assures the poor widower that it will be rectified the following mo…

  2. Started by Tango2,

    Anybody else going on the Yorkhill Easter Egg run. It's on the 8th of April in Glasgow and last year there were thousands of bikes involved (8k according to some estimates!) I reckon it'll be a great laugh and a good cause: http://glasgoweggrun.mag-uk.org/Main.php

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  3. Started by Sammyt80,

    does any body know if the Yosimura exhaust for the honda c90 will fit a yamaha townmate, i think the cubs down pipe is 32mm.

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  4. Guest Tomg
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    i thought as the weather was nice. why don't we have a look at the bikes we love as well as us! so come on lets see you on your pride and joy. Note: pride and joy refering to your bike not your missus. but the latter will not be disqualified! here are my two... Honda Hornet Yamaha TZR

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  5. Started by alfresco,

    Hi everyone. I want to let you all know about a bad experience I´ve had with a north american second hand bike parts dealer (www.cyclesalvage.com in California) so that you don´t have the same problem or at least you think twice before buying from them. A month ago I began looking for a Kickstart SHAFT, this company gave me a quote with shipping included and I decided to buy from them. I sent an email with the exact details of the part (kickstart shaft for a Yamaha xt250 from 1980). The company then sent me their paypal details and I waited for the part. When it arrived the package contained a kickstart LEVER. I got in touch with them by email and complained. They said I …

  6. Started by Str.,

    Goodevening fellas. I was first hopeing im writeing this in the proper place of the forum and second hopeing somebody could maybe coach me along a lil bit on some things in here seems im the new guy. Like something simple as posting a pic. Seems i can go thru all the motions but the pic just wont load on the page... anybody else seem to have issue with that ? I believe the pics im attempting to load are to big cuz it says here 0.49mb max size for what ever the hell that means

  7. Started by drewpy,

    All the power of the Shadow Prime Minister liesat your command, with this great click-and-speak site http://www.speechbreaker.co.uk

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  8. Started by newkbusa,

    iv just picked up complete and running 1977 honda cb 550 , been stood over 20 years and is in not the best of states , now then you decide do i 1 restore to standard 2 build a cafe racer 3 other options ?

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  9. http://www.livevideo.com/media/playvideo_f...0EDCE43E260BFCC

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  10. Started by mervin,

    Mujibar was trying to get a job in India . The Personnel Manager said, 'Mujibar, you have passed all the tests, except one. Unless you pass it , you cannot qualify for this job.' Mujibar said, 'I am ready.' The manager said, 'Make a sentence using the words Yellow, Pink and Green.' Mujibar thought for a few minutes and said, 'Mister manager, I am ready' The manager said, 'Go ahead.' Mujibar said, 'The telephone goes green, green,..........green,green, and I pink it up, and say, 'Yellow', this is Mujibar.' Mujibar now works at a call center. No doubt you have spoken to him. I know I have.

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  11. Started by Alex,

    Well this is my latest adventure and it was truely amazing. I had an aerobatic flight is this little plane, a Pitts Special 2A. I got to do barrel rolls, loops, snap turns, stall recovery, inglerom manauvres and every other type of manouvre you can think of ! Unfortunatly though it wasnt the slightest bit scary, i thought being such a little plane it would be jumping all over the place. But to be honest the plane ride was so smooth it felt completly normal whilst doing all the aerobatics. The only annoying thing was that i really wanted to know how much g we were pulling in some of the manouvres but it was waaaayy to much to get my head forward to see the …

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  12. I parked up at work this morning and was walking to the office. Got stopped by someone looking for a particular clinic. I gave them the directions to which they replied "it's too far". I did point out that I couldn't move the building for them - which didn't go down too well!

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  13. ........when aliases start turning up! :roll: Are some of you thinking the same as me? 8)

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  14. Started by wild foamy,

    Hi peeps. I'm still trying to find parts for the FUCR, mainly the top yoke, the dimensions I need are 35mm stanchions, with 19cm between their centres and 5cm from the stanchion centreline to the stem. I already tried XS400 ones but stem fell about 1cm short of what I needed. Sorry for the crude diagram, but it gets the point across, I'd be very grateful if any of you peeps can measure up yours (giggity) and let me know if any of them would be likely to fit.

  15. Started by mervin,

    You Think English is Easy? Can you read these right the first time? 01) The bandage was wound around the wound. 02) The farm was used to produce produce. 03) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse. 04) We must polish the Polish furniture. 05) He could lead if he would get the lead out. 06) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert. 07) Since there is no time like the present , he thought it was time to present the present. 08) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum. 09) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes. 10) I did not object to the object. 11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid. …

  16. Started by drewpy,

    this is a real invoice form a fellow poster on the chopper underground. it was a heart attack, luckily he had insurance and only had to pay the smaller amount!

  17. Started by Tommy xs,

    After reading Dirty DT's post in the for sale thread, "Squires for sale" it got me thinking where would be the ideal place for our own Biker cafe, as dirty said there's lot's pubs closed down which could easily be converted to a biker cafe, it would be good to be pretty central so no one at least in the UK has to ride stupid miles to get there or we could have more than one, one in the north and another in the south then we could have ride outs between them so just for fun unless I win the Lotto where would you put your's and why ?

  18. Started by matasdad43,

    Loving being able to tinker with my mx400, sooo theraputic and brings me back to the good old days. Hope I can get all the bits sorted to make it road legal............. got some good help on here Thanks

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  19. Started by meatloaf,

    Here is my eldest with his friends 2 year old who just loves bikes, as soon as I arrived at the camp site he couldn't wait to get on my bike, he would have stayed on it all day long if we let him. To his dads dismay when he was asked if my bike was better than dads he replied yes its much better but then his dad does ride a Pan European.

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  20. Started by slice,

    HI all, Now first of all I AM NOT offering cheap insurance so read on and find out why you should be careful of those that do! I am a LOT older than some of you and as such when working on the bike in the garage I listen to the wireless (radio to you youngsters) and today I heard that there is a new scam out there young riders should be aware of, if you look for cheap insurance and find a cracking deal be aware that some scum bags are offering really low rates for young driver/riders who are in fact NOT registered with the insurance bureau (THE MIB) that's not men in black but "Members of the Insurance Bureau", it's really important that you check that your broker/de…

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