mike1949

Cheers Merv.

Same here Kev, my dad was in Burma in the army during WW2 and I never even knew until he died in 1977 when my mum gave me his medals (which I still have) As a lot of Far Eastern Veterans he just wouldn't speak about it.

Totally concur Cynic, also from experience I've learnt not to use the front brake at all. Just take your time and cruise slowly up to roundabouts/lights/junctions etc.

Brill Drewps, Brill.

Hi Terry, just north of Brum? Black Country?

As the surgeon said "Incisions, Incisions"

I've got twenty tatts. the first nineteen collectively cost £8.00 done between 1965-1967. Number twenty cost cost £50.00 about fourteen years ago. My worst nightmare was when my daughter said to me about six years ago she was going to have "Arbeit macht frei" tattooed on her because it meant "Work sets you free" After explaining to her what it signified she changed her mind thankfully.

Well done Sacha, that's what I call "Interdepartmental cooperation" but in you case "International interdepartmental cooperation" Well done you Sacha.

Brill intro and fantastic pic.

Hi Ashley, welcome to the forum but I think you will get more response if you posted this in the workshop section for obvious reasons. Mike

In all honestly, I do think that the MOT "results" come down to where you take the bike to be tested. If you take your bike/car to an MOT Centre where that's all they do, my thinking is that they don't make any profit by the MOT alone so need afterwork (labour). I am very lucky as living in rural Wiltshire I have came across an MOT station in the middle of nowhere and the examiner has said from the beginning that he's not interested in after work if the bike fails, and consequently my bike hasn't failed in the last fifteen years whereas previously my bikes always had to have something done to it to get through the MOT.

You must of went to the same college as my son, he's got a degree in splitting hairs also.

Your bringing back memories from the early sixties, there was a song from Lonnie Donegan, can't remember what's it called but went something like this................. In 1880 I took a little trip. Any ideas?

Lonnie Donegan, Yeah!

Bit early???? Only two weeks today.

In all honesty it might be better to replace both. It's up to you if you want to take the chance but the examiner only looks at the forks and if you have cleaned them up and as I said put some clear varnish on the pitting he might ok them. I think if you presented your bike for the MOT and there were rust trails going down the fork where the seals are it would be obvious. At the end of the day I think it's all down to the examiner though. Mike

As long as the pitting is on top of the fork and doesn't travel through the seal it should be ok to get through the MOT, but what I have done in the past is rub the pitting with a fine scotchbrite then put a dab of my daughters clear nail varnish on it, it lasts months. Also this helps for little chips in the paintwork. Hope this helps Mike

Happy Christmas to you Mr Tone and all on this forum. Although I don't personally believe in Christmas, as I said wheeling a trolly full of booze out of Morrisons "I'm only doing it for the kids"

Have you clicked on to why you haven't had a reply yet?

Amazing video clip. Very very clever man.

If you don't want to get in to it about the subject what's with the essay and phot It's not that I don't want to get into the subject but I don't think that this bike forum is the place to do it. Maybe my generation of the armed forces think different than yours.

OK, I don't want to get into apposing discussions on the subject on here because it's not what this forum is about. But when I was in the RN in the sixties stationed in Singapore I met a few yanks on R&R and heard a few harrowing stories. But the most harrowing in the news at the time was a photograph of a young girl (approx ten years old) running down the road naked after being burned by napalm. So, at my age (67) just the word napalm brings horror to me. You say napalm is a handy substance, in which way?

Well, I don't know where you are from or how old you are but during the Vietnam war the US Air force sprayed Napalm onto villages and literally burned alive innocent civilians including children. Napalm is jellied petrol. Just look up Napalm on Wikipedia.

Hi Scotty, welcome to the forum. Not too happy about your choice of the word napalm after your name though.