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Just one more thing - there is a workshop area for workshop type queries....... and a New Members section for New Members. Youll get a lot more help if you introduce yourself first!

Good grief!! That's pathetic. :/

Hi thanks actually went back to where I got the bikes to pick up the last one and there was an extra cable , yes 10 all in various stages of disrepair , I did some work for the guy and he told me if I took them and took 500 bucks off the bill I could have em. Pretty sure all are from 71 to 73's . None ran when I got them , one running now

Welcome to the YOC, Blimey that was a bit of a deal then, hopefully they wont leave you out of pocket after they are built. Its quite rare over the pond in the UK to grab a deal like this now a days. Folk seam to always want big money for piles of crap that they have rotting in the bramble bush. Good luck with the builds, be nice to see some piccies too if you can

mystery caller at 5:45 woke mw up and it was a withheld number :/ never mind the sun was out, clear skies, time to get the FZ out and go the devils bridge in Kirkby lonsdale. Boy was it cold, salt on the roads and a bit of ice ice baby through Pendle. had to stop for a pee so took a couple of pickies. For some reason the tickover went to 4k revs, took on some fuel at a country garage where locals keep their engine running whist shopping (i kid you not) Went to start the bike and it was fine ever since. must be a bit of crud somewhere. met 1 biker at DB he was from Leeds on his new Honda, the one that has half an engine off a honda Jazz. nice ride back as it warmed up a bit more and back for 10:30

Woop woop, picked a new bike up today! Gone and bought myself a...... Well chuffed, rides a treat, nice n comfy. Planning on a tour with the Mrs in September so thought I'd get myself something more pillion/luggage friendly Sent from my E6553 using Tapatalk

Well... It's a bit blurry, but there are still four basic classes. Lower Class have benefit cheques. Working Class have manners. Middle Class have money. Upper Class have titles. Lower Class and Working Class used to be a synonymous term, but recent decades have seen the Lower sub-class become its own distinct and separate entity which people now place right at the bottom of the scale, somewhere below the dog shit you stepped in earlier... The media will spin differing stories, depending on the general mood of the population at the time, as to whether these people are lazy scum or just poor unfortunates who have been failed by our government. The Tory line is that these are lazy scum. The Labour line is that they have been failed and we must bolster them with our tax money... Guess who I voted for!! To stereotype the most frequent portrayal - Lower Class people are those who have never worked a day in their lives, don't give a toss about education, can't even be bothered to speak correctly (often not even coherently) or get dressed, yet know very well how to play the Benefits system that they get large houses and a lot more money coming in than the average person who works for a living. Stereotypically, they spend all this money on cigarettes, cheap alcohol and often other drugs, perhaps even supplementing this income by selling said drugs as a low-end dealer themselves, or through other crime (usually petty theft and muggings). Children born into such families are often destined to be in and out of prison most of their lives, many having never even been to school. NOTE: Do NOT confuse these people with those who are making use of the Benefits system for genuine reasons of hardship or misfortune in their perfectly respectable lives. There is a MASSIVE difference. Incidentally, I worked for the Benefits Agency and spent a number of years ascertaining exactly what percentage of claimants were genuine versus how many were just fucking the system... My own prejudices against the Lower Class come with statistics to back them up. Those hard-working people who drink beer - Them's the Working Class. A lot about the Class system has to do with what you do for a living - If you work with your hands and get paid very little, you're likely Working Class. Truck drivers, coal miners, milkmen, farmers, road labourers... all that sort. If you work with your hands and get paid a lot, you're more Middle-Class, but in other ways very much on the border. It depends what you do - Even rich bricklayers, plumbers and other skilled tradesmen are Working class, while sculptors, painters, surgeons and so on are more Middle due to having lots of education and/or an artistic nature to their work. If you work in an office and get paid lots of money for not very strenuous work, you're Middle Class. Whether you're lower, middle or upper Middle-Class depends on whether you have School, College or University education... or on how outright rich you are - Golfs and Polos and Corsas are usually driven by lower M-C. High-spec BMWs and Audis are the cockmobiles of choice for the middle M-C. Top of the line Bentleys, Jags and the like are upper M-C. Fully-specced Range Rovers are upper Middle, while the lesser lot have Chelsea Tractor things like a RAV-4. Thanks to education and technology, Middle Class covers the vast majority of people nowadays, which is why you don't seem to see that much of a divide any more. You can earn over £100,000 if you have the right technical qualifications, despite having left school with nothing. Upper-Classes are a laugh - They usually went to a prestigious university, only because that's where their family has gone for generations. They often have titles of some kind and own land, castles and so on. They always talk posh and have little grasp of modern culture. They follow many old traditions, such as serving in the Armed Forces as comissioned officers because their previous generations did. Very steeped in manners and being 'proper' too - The sort that will insist on having afternoon tea, only because "it's the done thing". However, they are often in old or threadbare clothing and drive crappy, ill-maintained cars - They own lots of land and lots of big castles, but these cost money to maintain. So while they're worth a fortune, it's all tied up in investments and property, so they have very little actual cash to spend. Of course, these are just the sterotypes and the modern UK has all manner of variations along the scales. I consider myself Working Class in a Middle Class environment.