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I thought from the title that he'd stuffed it down the road, very glad it's a new bike for happy reasons!

You could always try taking vast amounts of anabolic steriods and just watch your problems shrink away?

It would have been a lot easier if I'd had time to remove the subframe and put it on the bench! As it was there was a lot of to and froing, trial and error to get it spot on. Even then, I'd worked with the side pods off, so had to "engineer" a couple of dents in the panniers so they don't foul...

Bought myself some cheap old panniers but couldn't bear the meccano set that came with them as a mounting kit, so I decided to make my own. The idea was for it not to look too hideous when the panniers are off, and for the frame to be easy to remove. It mounts on 4 bolts, with only 2 new holes...

Well, I did know a girl with some fairly special equipment, but she knew sod all about fixing boots as far as I know?

Maybe I was just really lucky with my instructor(s) but I don't see anything here that wasn't covered while I was learning a year ago. All of it is covered by asking "what if..?" constantly. Don't wish to rain on anyone's parade, and I'll support anything that helps save lives and limbs...

A combination of riding like an utter twonk, and being an utter twonk??

Oh I'm on PR4's which were great all summer, autumn and still great now. 5000 mixed miles and no serious wear yet, my previous battlaxes were dead at 6.5k (and crap on dirty roads)

On the trying to be perfect front, and inevitably being frustrated that you aren't immediately, I found the way to get round was setting smaller goals for yourself. Teaching friends to drive/ ski/ shoot etc it also seems that girls (in general) like to master the first step before they are...

Happy Birthday mate, have a good one :)

The brakes are just weaker than they were, not catastrophically, but weaker than comfortable. Still perfectly linear though, and the wheel spins freely enough, and they are bled properly (they weren't when I got the bike) The discs are more black than anything else, no sign of overheating -...

My front discs are a bit glazed, affecting braking. Pads and discs still have plenty of meat on them so I'd like to save them if I can - is this possible? My inclination is to scuff the discs and pads with some 800grit wet and dry, lube up the calipers and see what happens - feedback...

If we're all doing a sales pitch for our areas, here's mine - Wales is lovely to ride around; great roads (and the lack of police to enjoy them), amazing views, and plenty of destinations to justify the ride :) Happy to show you round a bit, or just buy you a drink when you're passing. Oh...

My pinlock stays in all the time - got caught out on a horrible night (in alleged spring) without it once, never again. The pinlock is very easy to scratch (using paper towel to dry it will scratch it), which I did slightly the first time I cleaned it, and it seems to benefit from being...

Re: October 2014 M.B.O.M. - uploads enabled I'm in - phone camera shot, and there's some very cool competition, but I'm in!

Back on topic - PLEASE tell me it's the cookie monster on page 41?!

Dark matter isn't "in sight" either - are you going to argue with the scientists whether that exists? Come to think of it, maybe the universe is actually 96% imaginary galactic spangly bananas (and a pineapple or two for fun)?

I don't see the problem? The rider is way left in his lane already, the police rider goes down the middle of the rest of the space available, keeping himself off the rumble strip and getting off the (no doubt dirty) hard shoulder. Sure, it would have been more considerate if he had gone round...

Brave woman to not just release the footage, but to take part in the film. I don't think anyone's trying to lay the entire blame with the driver, it definitely takes two to tango Even knowing how it ends, I'm still shocked how quickly that went from fun to ..not

Bugger analysing the crash - that was awsome!