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I was gunna put a £50 bet on him loosing but i couldn't get to the bookies due to work and helping teach Karate, bit pissed off that he did loose as i could have won a bit of dosh.

Revert back to your childhood days when riding your push bike and go no hands for a bit like Jessy James here O and this vid has my all time favorite bike builder Indian Larry Skip to 4:15 Naked on a bike? i guess thats why they call it the Elephant Rally!

I have to agree with The big super markets watering down their fuel, i fill up at my local Texaco garage with about £20-£30 in the car and that will get me about 150-170 miles driving with out my lead boots, but if i will up with the same amount at ASDA or the like (giving that its cheaper and thus you get a bit more liter to the pound) and i will only get 120 miles if that driving the same way.

Stick your hand/s on the exhaust or the cylinder head when stopped at traffic lights or stop signs, its a free and easy way to warm your hands up. i do it all the time

Its the bike an import? ie are the dial on your speedo in KMH and has had a MPH conversion? my bike is an import and has a little gold cog thing on the speedo cable near the wheel that whines

Yer i always put super unleaded in the XVS, because i have short ram filters and straight through pipes with bigger main jets she runs like poo on standard unleaded, I have heard that Tesco's super unleaded is some thing like 99RON but ive not tried that yet. What RON in the V-power stuff?

Thats what i done with my TV at Bovvington Garrison, when ever i heard they where doing a room inspection id either throw it out the window (i was on ground floor) or get it in the car as we where supposed to show proof we had a TV license lol you could always give me the bike and i will hide it for you lol

God i wish i could bring the draggy in the house! Think the wife would go mental if i did lol you could always strip her right down and hide all the parts away like some sort of demented mass murderer and deny all knowledge that it was there if you get a surprise inspection

Welcome Jonny

Hi Steve, Welcome to the club im only down in Yeovil so if you ever wanna meet up for a bacon butty n a cuppa just give i a shout, my bike will be off the road soon as i need to do some work on her but i also have a cage that i can still make meets with.

I try to do as much as i can my self, normal just read the Haynes manwell the night before, then when the day comes to do the work i have my tool box, trusty Haynes book, bottle of JD and my tobacco and just get cracking. At least then you learn some stuff and it gets you away from the wife for a few hours

Na never got the pleasure to baby sit the nation on it proudest day. But i can see why you lot got fecked off with it, and personally i would have gotten a mob together to linch G4S (other security company's available)

I think i should back step a bit and apologies to Dowdy for the abrupt first response to his time of need. Its just i personally approached this forum and many others with a polite and informative introduction (like many others have done) just so that Jo Blogs etc knows who / what i am and where im from. There for feel that if any new member that joins can learn from example and not just jump on here rushing for an answer or demanding a helping hand with out even saying hello. Ive just been brought up with some manners and still to this day live to the Military core values and it bugs the hell out of me when people (not just forum based) show utter lack of respect & manners. to all

Welcome Rowlyd, Fire away with any questions you have mate there are lots of very brainy folk about on here.

I think a Rocket 3 would one day be a classic. such a sexy bike and British too.

welcome Luke congrats on passing the test dude. Now a long life of learning can start lol

Welcome to the Club mate

Hello and welcome to the YOC

Yes i do agree, but its come up on more than one occasion that new folk just jump in on a convo or start a new thread asking for help with out saying Hi. yes being a biker is massive grounds to help out, i have done so on more than one occasion when i have seen said biker on the side of the road and ive always puled over to see if they are ok and if they need help or a smoke (if they do smoke that is)

So your saying that if your sat in the pub talking to your mates and some stranger sits down next to you and joins in your convo with out saying hello and introducing them selves is good manners to you? I'm more than happy to help folks out but a little hello and some thing about your self goes a long way and takes less than 2 minutes. Yes its a free site to some folk and i personally don't like to give out free info to some one that can't be bothered to just say hello first but as a paying member (like a lot of guys and gals here) we do provide a service (as such) and help A LOT of guys out that are polite and introduce them selves the correct way. Correct me if im wrong

Cool i think i will be there. Although betty wont have her new style till 2014 so might not enter her into the show part, will just be there to look at other bikes and spend some cash at the jumble!

I do filter quite a bit but the only down side to me filtering is that i have 43" wide handle bars so i need to be very careful when doing so. one tip i could give you to gain a bit of confidence in doing so is to find a quite car park or similar and ride on a line at less that walking pace to gain slow moving control. Just remember to keep your head up, look at where your going and not whats in front of your front wheel (use peripheral vision for that) and use your clutch to move the bike with minimal throttle. Before filtering be shore to do a life saver, take in to consideration road conditions etc (as stated above) also if the gap is getting really tight then your just have to bite the bullet and stop till the cage drivers start to move again so you can get by. Remember your on a bike so you have less weight to get moving so you can pull away a lot quicker. All in all stay safe and ride with your head and not with your ego

O yer! didn't spot that. lol

I love it how at one point he is just sat on one with another trying to bite him and he is just sat there like nothing is wrong

Congratulations mate! glad to hear that she is on the road! but as Sacha has already said. WE WANT PICTURES TOO!