This sort of stuff boils my blood . http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/11/30/animal-trafficking-puppies-buckets_n_2216924.html?icid=maing-grid7%7Cuk-ws-bb%7Cdl1%7Csec1_lnk2%26pLid%3D139564#s1821936&title=Songbird_Socks Me too. 'fraid to say, I won't read the article. These sorts of things get...

Hi, Stumbled across this forum. I ride a 1997 Honda VFR750FV. I ride for fun only and did my first tour this year (2000 mile loop around Scotland). I know my VFR is no adventure style machine but it's MY adventure bike . Scotland gave me the bug and in September I took myself off on a short solo 2 ...

For context: "It makes absolutely no practical sense to have a waterproof layer as a 'middle' layer" I'm not saying that my perspective is more correct than any other, simply that the water-proofing materials have a different mandate to things like ballistic nylons, and the other tough ma...

Playing devils advocate for a moment... Re: "It makes absolutely no practical sense to have a waterproof layer as a 'middle' layer." My initial thought is that the primary purpose of the bike jacket is protection. Nobody ever died of getting wet* :evil: To this end, I can see that the wate...

trophydave wrote:Thanks for that.My Dad fought at El Alamein,I will watch that later.

Pleasure!

It's very good!

This is another one worth watching. Old Beeb documentary on the Paras:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0 ... 0_Platoon/

Shotgun wrote:You know this is so true - people think it was all in the past but it isn't. It's right now. Gaza for one.

Well said.

No lack of irony, either.

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farther zed... you`ll like this...they gave every foreign left hand driver a free lens convertor at the ports..he attached it to his window that improved his view.. ;) Then they made the uk lot fit them to their nearside :whistle: M25 was never the same again on a monday or friday night.. oh! Well ...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... Episode_1/


http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... Episode_2/

A while back now, but I recall a 'road safety' documentary thingy on telly... About the 'left hooker' lorries hitting cars on their 'off sides' as they had mirrors (from the factory) set up for Europe ---> meaning they had a blind spot ............... Curiously, while this is obviously flipping dang...