Me and my old FJ. multi coloured FJ.jpg Love the colours. Do you remember the cover of Which Bike magazine - about 2004 - where good old Chris Dabbs ragged an FJ1100 knee down ? Back then Yamaha marketed the FJ as a pure sports bike, up against the GPZ900R etc. It didn't take long for buyers to rea...

"Je suis vraiment désolé. Je ne comprends pas. Je ne parle pas français" Just sit it out. I'm sure plod would get bored before you While we can't speak French....unless we are poofs...the French can speak English. And they will take you to the nearest cashpoint so you can pay the fines. T...

https://www.carandbike.com/news/germany-looks-to-ban-noisy-motorcycles-2235575 In my view, BMW is to blame for this...Some BMW motorcycles have long had a flap baffle in the exhaust that deploys when the engine is going through the parameters of the noise test. It's similar to VW 'gaming' diesel eng...

Depends on the markings on the system. You won't pass MoT if the system is marked 'not for road use' by the manufacturer.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... lorry-park

I wonder how many of these people voted Brexit, thinking it would 'get rid of the lorries'?

It's a sad fact that many women who are single in later life are single for a reason.... I'm sure my wife would say the same about men. We are both just so lucky that we knew each other from a long time ago. As I said to one of Kate's daughters: "If we could love each other as grumpy, awkward t...

I hear there's a convoy of Scottish refrigerated lorries heading for London with their fridges switched off...I wonder what happens next?

Can't offer specific advice, other than someone had an issue with a knobbly of the 'correct' size fouling the swingarm...so check the true width across the widest knobs. With such modest output a wide tyre probably wouldn't be the best choice anyway. This may be obvious, but security bolts and the a...

Self-sufficiency in food is an impossibility for the UK.

Brexiteers have been saying that oranges etc should be sourced from the Americas instead of Europe...how local is that?

The Nazis were keen on 'German food for German people' and tried to fob them off with carrots carved into orange segment shapes and coffee made from acorns.