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The ONEs are designed for cars. The Rider is designed for motorcycles. Aside from having a car adapter that also lets you use your Rider in a cage, I fail to see how the two really relate. Also, the ONEs seem designed to have purposely reduced software capabilities to keep the price down. Get what ye pay for, I guess. 'Avoid Part Of Route' is an option some units have - Once it's planned a route you view it in text form and then select which roads you don't want to travel down. It then plans a new route around that restriction. The 'Roadblock' function kinda works the same, but only for the 1-2 miles immediately in front of you. You have these on the ONE?

Happens all the time. Never anticipate anything. Always wait to see what they're actually doing, whenever possible. Had one altercation with someone who clipped me once, as he moved over into my lane. Pulled alongside at the lights and, as you do, unloaded a "WHAT THE MOTHER-*FUCK* D'YA THINK YER DOING??!!" at him. Says he *had* seen me, but expected me to move out his way because I'm only a bike... Decided if he was gonna drive like that, he wouldn't need his wing mirror...

TomTom Rider v2 does great for this stuff, is designed for bikes, is waterproof, bluetooths instructions direct to your headset as well as doing the phone as well, plus includes everything you need in the one box. Expect them to be cheaper now, as the v3 is on it's way, if not out already!

People have that choice. I just wish the mother-fucking retards wouldn't keep crashing and driving my insurance premiums up.

It's what you know, innit? I fix these things for a living and have several qualifications in such things, so I can give you the full low-down on what happens behind the scenes and the full reasons why it's never anywhere near as simple as the public always think. By comparison, I know fuck-all about investment baking, but I'm sure someone here could give you chapter and verse on the stuff.

Don't need one and it's expensive anyway. I don't even have a fuel light on my bike, so here's a method that only costs what you'd normally spend when riding around anyway: Most bikes can manage 120 miles before hitting reserve, so you just zero your trip meter each time you refuel and keep an eye on it. For a more precise measurement carry a spare can of fuel and go as normal until you hit reserve (refuel from the can at this point, just to be safe), then note the tripmeter mileage, round down to the nearest 10 and use that as as your benchmark. Then just refuel whenever you're getting close. Also carrying a spare fuel can is always a good idea when going touring or on long trips.

Some manholes also serve to drain the road of water, which go directly into the Foul or Combined sewer network. Those have to be of a certain type and cannot always be made non-slip. Use on ALL manholes, you say? I suppose you want all BMW drivers to use their indicators as well? Wave a magic wand and just make it happen, right? The real world doesn't work like that. Someone has to pay for all this and since our funding comes from water bills and is regulated by Ofwat... Well, I'd calculated some numbers for when you wanted them all relocated anyway, so: 1 manhole relocation costs £18,000. We have approximately 7 million manholes in our AO. Thus, at a cost of 126 BILLION pounds, we would have to spend your money on doing this, assuming Ofwat would allow us. In order to facilitate this relocation project, we would have to increase your water bill. The average bill for our 13 million customers is £350 a year. To cope with the increased work, your average annual bill would rise by an extra £9,600. Working 24/7 with all qualified gangs available - By the time we completed this you'll all be flying spaceships and your issue will be irrelevant. Just replace every cover, then? No problem, just adjust the figures: £3,000 per cover (which is why they get nicked so often). 7 million covers would cost 21 billion pounds. Adjusted for 13 million customers, your water bill would now only be an extra £1,600. Factoring in every available gang working round the clock, with approximate time for both travel and the amount of time taken to get traffic management and NRSWA permission from the Highways Agency, MoD and Network Rail, you're looking at about 2 years before you can feel safe riding on the roads. Or you could just watch out, read the road like the rest of us and not ride on slippery hazards while heavily banked over. I had to do this on my actual bike test in heavy rain with homicidal boy-racer traffic. It ain't that hard!

>I was wondering if there is an "off" position to the fuel tap. Yes, there should indeed be an 'off' position on your tap. Otherwise your fuel would all piss out when you take the tank off! Actually, most User Manuals state that you should turn the tap to 'off' whenever you switch the bike off and park up anyway, mainly to prevent fuel evaporation. Hope that helps, Tasky.

Bradford is outside my area, so I can't comment on that. London - You probably won't see them. The ones we use are essentially a deep tray, solidly packed with tarmac. You'd only see a very thin dark metal square or rectangle, with a couple of keyholes. They're designed to match a normal road surface.

Saw these a while back when they first came out. Still no mention of triple or even double stitching, though. Wouldn't mind a Tron set myself, but there's plenty other designs I'd want as well...

We already DO have perfectly good non-slip covers, as I mentioned above. We use them whenever we can, but again it's down to cost and how much of your bill money the utility companies are allowed to use for this. If we go round replacing every single cover we need to, there'll be no money left to fix anything and all the roads will be flooded anyway.

They market to whatever is most cost-effective. Simple fact is that leather doesn't stretch like lycra, so your pads will go wherever they can. Basic physics. You could always try modding them yourself.

Wow, 4-year necroposts! OK, since whenever I posted that, I now choose to ride alone, pretty much. I still meet with the cooler clubs, but my bike, my road, my whims, my terms.

About 2-3" high, just enough to scrape your pegs on if you corner tight/fast enough!

Mine have a strip of velcro on the inside of the pocket, with a corresponding strip on the pad that allows me to alter the seating height. However, ALL pads do this, pretty much. It's because they're secured to the trousers, not to your leg itself. When you stand, your trouser legs drop. The only real solution to this is to hoik your trousers up as/before you mount the bike to ensure the pads seat properly for riding... and just deal with them banging off your shins when you walk around. Happens to all of us, even those who are under 5'! If you want them to stay in place all the time, you'll need to lash them directly to your knee or affix them to something that doesn't move, like a pair of plate armour greaves

Are mostly due to people wanting extra fancy Infinity fire-optic cable installed, or (if it's the water company) because either some wassock has connected a block of 400 new flats to a line only designed for 200 properties without permission, or because someone has broken the sewer (usually by flushing cement powder down the flipping thing! Actually, we work on a rolling five-year budget. Chances are we booked any excavatory works over a year ago and this is the earliest the council would let us in there. Additionally, the exact details of which renovations we spend your water bill money on and how much we spend on each is decided by the regulator, not the water companies themselves. We also tend to have already completed our budgets about 8-9 months before the end of that 5-year financial period (which cuts off in February to finish in March). If ever we have to replace a manhole cover, it's usually the new non-slip variety wherever possible. Smaller covers can be lampholes or inspection chambers. The important ones are vent shafts, which are kinda essential... unless you *want* a build-up of explosive gasses (thanks to the horrendous array of things people put down drains, no matter how often they're told not to) or things like Hydrogen Sulfide which basically dissolves concrete! Fire service tends to be more in town. Also, many private connections to the public sewer have their own inspection chambers, which can be anywhere from within the property right up to the public sewer line itself. Nothing to do with us, until recently when the government transferred ownership of these often abysmally-built pipes to us. Top it off with gas, electricity, phone lines, fibre-optic cable, surface water drainage (unless you like fording all the way), water supply, relays etc and you have an awful lot to try and bury somewhere. You think Bradford is bad? Try London, where you have 13m diameter sewers with fourteen times the amount of buried services, all running between up to 12 different underground railway tunnels as well!! It's hard to even dig a 6" hole without hitting someone else's services...

As someone who works for one of the biggest water companies in the country, I got some news for you... The sewers would likely have been laid around the early 1800s, although we have sewer records from as far back as the 1520s. Many are deeper than 6 metres. Now, the roads would have been laid over the sewers after they were built, with the footpaths situated over the manholes. As time progressed, the ground moved and traffic increased, the road routes would have been moved and re-laid but the cost of re-laying the sewers is usually more than the council cares to pay. Think about where manholes tend to be on roundabouts - Many would have begun as crossroads, with the manholes on the corners of the footpaths. Whack down a roundabout instead and you have manholes right in the middle of a lane. Result - New road right along the manhole runs. Go blame the council's road planning department, not our guys!

XVS125 - Cornwall and back, London every Friday and everywhere I could.

Why is she not a mate?

Try out his girlfriend to check the fit.

There are so many variables, the only way to get a reasonable comparison is to mess about with comparison sites or do the leg work and ring around each insurer, getting quotes for each bike. I'd suspect a Honda CG would be high on the list, though, along with other such very common models.

eBay is probably your best bet. That and a lot of Googling.

I don't often give warning, I just grab the most appropriate weapon around and approach in the most threatening manner I can. Scared the fuck out of some big bloke who thought he'd try and impress his girlfriend!

Err... They stopped the 650 around 2004. They're onto the 950 Star now, mate.

Well, yeah... doesn't everyone know that? I'm also aware that a large number of sci-fi flicks (including my own fave) are filmed in Moab, Utah.