mervin

petition to get cheaper fuel for people in areas that have no public transport, the guy that has started it is a friend of mine, came from the Doncaster Area now living in devon, and is a biker these are his words Government policy cut rail services in rural areas to save money. Bus services were liberalised so that companies cherry-picked the best routes and dropped the poor payers. Rural dwellers should be compensated by discounting road fuel as cars are the only transport many of us have. A smart card used to pay at the pumps would ensure that only those who qualified got the discount. This system is used in N. Italy based on post code. http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/notrainsnobuses/ mervin

sign up too South west bikers mate you will be able to keep up with the everything form penzance to bristol there Mind speedy though he can be a bit of a handful at times :D :D Good bloke though there is a charity bike jumble/show at southmolton pannier market on the 25th march organized by the north devon british motorcycle owners club merv www.southwestbikers.com

Welcome Stevie from the other end of the country, but i love Scotland just the boss has not got any work for me up there recently Merv (truck driver)

I am told a dishwasher is good, mind the missus is out though when you do it Merv

or Bernard Matthews maybe looking for somwthing different to turkeys Bernard Matthews, Rabbit roll, Rabbit joints Merv

www.repairmanualclub.com there are several r6 manuals on there i see plus a parts fiche

got my laser alignmaent tool from soundistribution a lot cheaper than m&P and exactly the same thing, but they do not seem to list them any more www.speedycom.co.uk list them for £39 search profi cat on their website Merv

Unless you can strike lucky and find an old log book or someone who knew the reg it will be very difficult to get the original reg number, the best bet is to get a dating certificate from the VJMC or yamaha then you will be issued with an age related plate look on the VJMC website for miore details merv

Looks like a 400D as you say i think the 250.s had drum rear brakes Merv

Jiro macwilson is this you mate merv

Hmm seems like a lighter fork oil may help, or some lighter/progressive springs in the forks, not over sure about the suspension setups of modern bikes, but i would seek expert advice before doing anything tooo drastic Merv

Proof of what can happen if a wife or girlfriend drags her husband or boyfriend along shopping This letter was recently sent by Tesco’s Head Office to a customer in Oxford: Dear Mrs. Murray, While we thank you for your valued custom and use of the Tesco Loyalty Card, the Manager of our store in Banbury is considering banning you and your family from shopping with us, unless your husband stops his antics. Below is a list of offences over the past few months all verified by our surveillance cameras: 1. June 15: Took 24 boxes of condoms and randomly put them in people's trolleys when they weren't looking. 2. July 2: Set all the alarm clocks in Housewares to go off at 5-minute intervals. 3. July 7: Made a trail of tomato juice on the floor leading to feminine products aisle. 4. July 19: Walked up to an employee and told her in an official tone, "Code 3" in housewares..... and watched what happened. 5. August 14: Moved a 'CAUTION - WET FLOOR' sign to a carpeted area. 6. September 15: Set up a tent in the outdoor clothing department and told shoppers he'd invite them in if they would bring sausages and a Calor gas stove. 7. September 23: When the Deputy Manager asked if she could help him, he began to cry and asked, "Why can't you people just leave me alone?" 8. October 4: Looked right into the security camera; used it as a mirror, picked his nose, and ate it. 9. November 10: While appearing to be choosing kitchen knives in the Housewares aisle asked an assistant if he knew where the antidepressants were. 10. December 3: Darted around the store suspiciously, loudly humming the "Mission Impossible" theme. 11. December 6: In the kitchenware aisle, practised the "Madonna look" using different size funnels. 12. December 18: Hid in a clothing rack and when people browsed, yelled "PICK ME!" "PICK ME!" 13. December 21: When an announcement came over the loud speaker, assumed the foetal position and screamed "NO! NO! It's those voices again.” And; last, but not least: 14. December 23: Went into a fitting room, shut the door, waited a while; then yelled, very loudly, "There is no toilet paper in here." Yours sincerely, Charles Brown Store Manager

this came from saddler on the RD forum for those of you in other countries Daventry is on the M6 motorway about the same distance in the opposite diretction to liverpool from her starting point Can we add the longest journey in the wrong direction to that list? My mates missus worked for TNT on the admin side and had to travel from Walsall to Liverpool for a meeting. She was a bit nervous about driving on the M6 motorway, so after an hour or so my mate rang her to see if she had arrived safely “Not yet she replied, I’ve just passed the Daventry exit though”

CAR PARKING The smallest kerbside space successfully reversed into by a woman was one of 19.36m (63ft 2 ins), equivalent to three standard parking spaces, by Mrs Elizabeth Simpkins, driving an unmodified Vauxhall Nova 'Swing' on 12th October 1993. She started the manoeuvre at 11.15am in Ropergate, Pontefract, and successfully parked within three feet of the pavement, 8 hours and 14 minutes later. There was slight damage to the bumpers and wings of her own and two adjoining cars, as well as a shop frontage and two lamp posts. INCORRECT DRIVING The longest journey completed with the handbrake on was one of 50.4km (31 miles) from Stranraer to Holyhead by Dr. Julie Thorn (GB) at the wheel of a Saab 900 on the 2nd April 1987. Dr. Thorn smelled burning two miles into her journey at Aird but pressed on to Holyhead with smoke billowing from the rear wheels. This journey also holds the records for the longest completed journey with the choke fully out and the right indicator flashing. SHOP DITHERING The longest time spent dithering in a shop was 12 days between 21st August and 2nd September 1995 by Mrs. Sandra Wilks (GB) in the Birmingham Branch of Dorothy Perkins. Entering the shop on a Saturday morning, Mrs Wilks could not choose between two near identical dresses which were both in the sale. After one hour, her husband, sitting on a chair by the changing room with his head in his hands, told her to buy both. Mrs Wilks eventually bought one for £12.99, only to return the next day and exchange it for the other one. To date, she has yet to wear it. Mrs Wilks also holds the record for window shopping longevity, when, starting September 12th 1995, she stood motionless gazing at a pair of shoes in Clinkard's window in Kidderminster for 3 weeks and two days before eventually going home. JUMBLE SALE MASSACRE The greatest number of old ladies to perish whilst fighting was at jumble sale in 1998, at a Methodist Church Hall in Castleford, West Yorkshire on February 12th 1991. When the doors opened at 10.00am, the initial scramble to get in cost 16 lives, a further 25 being killed in the crush at the first table. A seven-way skirmish then broke out over a pinafore dress costing 10p which escalated into a full scale melee resulting in another 18 lives being lost. A pitched battle over a headscarf then ensued and quickly spread throughout the hall, claiming 39 old women. The jumble sale raised £5.28 for local boy scouts. TALKING ABOUT NOTHING Mrs Mary Caterham (GB) and Mrs Marjorie Steele (GB) sat in kitchen in Blackburn, Lancs and talked about nothing whatsoever for four and a half months from 1st May to 7th August 1978, pausing only for coffee, cakes and toilet visits. Throughout the whole time, no information was exchanged and neither woman gained any new knowledge whatsoever. The outdoor record for talking about nothing is held by Mrs Vera Etherington (GB) and her neighbour Mrs Dolly Booth (GB) of Ipswich, who between 11th November 1983 and 12th January 1984 chuntered on over the fence in an unenlightening dialogue lasting almost 62 days until Mrs Booth remembered she'd left the bath running. GOSSIPING On February 18th 1992, Joyce Blatherwick, a close friend of Agnes Banbury popped round for a cup of tea and a chat, during the course of which she told Mrs Banbury, in the strictest confidence, that she was having an affair with the butcher. After Mrs Blatherwick left at 2.10pm, Mrs Banbury immediately began to tell everyone, swearing them all to secrecy. By 2.30pm, she had told 128 people of the news. By 2.50pm it had risen to 372 and by 4.00pm in the afternoon, 2,774 knew of the affair, including the local Amateur dramatic Society, several knitting circles, a coachload of American tourists which she flagged down. . . . and the butchers wife! When a tired Mrs Banbury went to bed at 11.55pm that night, Mrs Blatherwick's affair was common knowledge to a staggering 75,338 people, enough to fill Wembley Stadium. GROUP LOO VISITS The record for the largest group of women to visit a loo simultaneously is held by 147 workers at the Department of Social Security, Longbenton. At their annual Christmas celebration at a night club in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne on October 12th 1994, Mrs Beryl Crabtree got up to go to the loo and was immediately followed by 146 other members of the party. Moving as a mass, the group entered the ladies at 9.52pm and , after waiting for everyone to finish, emerged 2hrs 37minutes later. FILM CONFUSION The greatest length of time a woman has watched a film with her husband without asking a stupid plot-related question was achieved on the 28th October 1990, when Mrs Ethel Brunswick sat down with her husband to watch 'The Ipcress File'. She watched in silence for a breath-taking 2 mins 40 secs before asking "is he a goodie or a baddie, then, him in the glasses?", revealing a staggering level of ignorance. This broke her own record set in 1962 when she sat through 2mins 38 secs of '633 Squadron' before asking, "is this a war film, is it?" SINGLE BREATH SENTENCE An Oxfordshire woman today became the first ever to break the thirty minute barrier for talking without drawing breath. mrs Mavis Sommer4s, 48 of Cowley smashed the previous record of 23 minutes when she excitedly reported an argument she'd had in the butchers to her neighbour. She ranted on for a staggering 32 minutes and 12 seconds without pausing for air, before going blue and collapsing in a heap on the ground. She was taken to Radcliffe Infirmary in a wheelbarrow but was released later after check-ups. At the peak of her mammoth motormouth marathon, she achieved an unbelievable 680 words per minute, repeating the main points of the story an amazing 114 times whilst her neighbour, Mrs Dolly Knowles, nodded and tutted. The last third of the sentence was delivered in a barely audible croak, the last two minutes being mouthed only, accompanied by vigorous gesticulations and indignant spasms. TRAFFIC LIGHT COSMETICS The longest spell spent oblivious to traffic lights whilst applying make up was one of 1hr 51mins and 38secs by Miss J. Dobson at a road junction in the centre of Preston on the 1st August 1995. Miss Dobson, a piano teacher, beautified herself through 212 cycles of the light, creating a tailback of irate motorists stretching 28 miles towards Leeds.

well there are some very competent bike out there, whatever you choose just be careful, I do not have much experience of modern bikes but having only a couple of old RD,s and a modern trailie/supermoto type job all i will say is do not try to run before you can walk, you can have a lot of fun on a smaller bike, and the roads are not a race track you have cars coming the other way, my 650 single with only 40 bhp will pull 80 mph very easily, and is great fun you can take to the lanes with it, but it is horses for courses, if you intend only to ride on main roads then a good 600 or even 400 is a good way to learn if like me you ride in the country lanes a nice light single with a bit of punch I:E XT etc is much handier, they are narrower higher so you can see better than crouched over the tank, and resonably economical, then having said that my other bikes RD250/400 are seventies hooligan machines, so anyway be careful choose well and stick around with us and let us know how you get on Merv

Anyone in leicester, go knock on thir door , Hotbikebits Limited Knights House Main Street Normanton le Heath Leicestershire LE67 2TB United Kingdom had the same problem with a firm in Rotheram called pro custom, a fellow aircooled club member living in rotheram went around to the address found a private house no inhabitants and a neighbour said he had not seen anyone in weeks

Dunno but some of the aircooled Rd lads me included hopefuly wil be there no stand but intending to meet up for a chinwag Merv

Looks as though VJMC may be slippping since Don Leeson departed this world on the isle of man a couple of years ago Merv

Cheers If i find his addy again will let yuo know Merv

Ah well he had a good innings, RIP Len Merv

Hey welcome, i get over to france most weeks with my truck delivering crabs, my mate Dennis Bond retired too somwhere near Redon recently, Ihave lost his addy must contact his son and find it again Merv

well best of luck, you had a nice collection there would not mind a squariel myself i have a 650 honda trailie and that is actually lighter than my sons 400 bandit but it is very tall to swing your leg over, but i hope i am still biking at 82 years old, Len Vale-Onslow was still riding a bike at 100 years old and was stilll breathing when i contacted his son a couple of years ago merv