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Sir Trev
18-09-21, 12:28 PM
Impending bike / space rationalisation :-( (Although, could become a good thing)
Too little info there Adam...
Too little info there Adam...I suspect one of his bikes is getting a P45.
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Adam Ef
18-09-21, 03:58 PM
Trying not to let the Street Triple go. I've had an offer though and need to shuffle some things about financially. Also had an offer for two bikes for one that would put me in a better financial situation and leave me with another bike I'd like.
Really struggling with parting with the Triumph though, even though it's the one that's more of a toy for me than the others and it's probably going to hibernate for a few months soon. I know I'd be trying to buy another next year though and it would cost me more than I'm getting for it now. They seem to have risen in price quite a bit since I got it and the RS is the sought after version. I do love it. Even just to look at and it rides amazingly too. Isn't that what bikes should be about? Not just practicality and sensible choices? I'm struggling with being sensible here.
garynortheast
18-09-21, 04:09 PM
Don't be sensible. You need to keep Viffer, Striple, and Drizzle.
Trying not to let the Street Triple go. I've had an offer though and need to shuffle some things about financially. Also had an offer for two bikes for one that would put me in a better financial situation and leave me with another bike I'd like.
Really struggling with parting with the Triumph though, even though it's the one that's more of a toy for me than the others and it's probably going to hibernate for a few months soon. I know I'd be trying to buy another next year though and it would cost me more than I'm getting for it now. They seem to have risen in price quite a bit since I got it and the RS is the sought after version. I do love it. Even just to look at and it rides amazingly too. Isn't that what bikes should be about? Not just practicality and sensible choices? I'm struggling with being sensible here.
I think you should step back, take a break and then read what you have written looking more at the feelings behind the words rather than the words themselves.
Those feelings are shouting: "I don't want to sell the Triumph". None of us want to read another GotD that starts: "I wish I hadn't sold the..." Regret is one of those emotions that won't go away.
Space rationalisation should be about finding space for another bike :)
Adam Ef
18-09-21, 04:34 PM
You lot are what got me into this mess and made the garage so packed full in the first place. Thanks. :-)
The thing that has sparked it and added pressure to be sensible is insurance renewal time too. Maybe I'll just not insure one of them for a bit.
Adam Ef
20-09-21, 07:04 PM
Very mediocre waste of a day ride. Ever have one of those rides where everywhere you go there's gridlogged traffic, temporary lights, detours etc? I did today. Wish I hadn't gone out. I gave myself a few hours off work and would have been better off working. Insurance expires tonight too.
Very mediocre waste of a day ride. Ever have one of those rides where everywhere you go there's gridlogged traffic, temporary lights, detours etc? I did today. Wish I hadn't gone out. I gave myself a few hours off work and would have been better off working. Insurance expires tonight too.Yep, been there more than once.
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Chris_SVS
20-09-21, 10:18 PM
Dibs on the DRZ
Sir Trev
21-09-21, 05:51 PM
Very mediocre waste of a day ride. Ever have one of those rides where everywhere you go there's gridlogged traffic, temporary lights, detours etc? I did today.
Sounds like my ride home from Spannerman's yesterday. I avoid motorways on the bike normally but took the M3/M25/M40 option to keep it simple (I was a bit knackered) and found the M25 like a carpark. Not the climate protesters but a simple two vehicle shunt that everyone was having a gawp at...
Dave20046
24-09-21, 07:26 PM
Long week, long day ; go to supermarket later on to get some tea and do a shop - cannot even get on the street due to the idiots panic buying petrol causing gridlock so leave my car half a mile away. Half way round with the trolley it occurs to me my re-usable bags are in my car and I'm going to have to buy a plastic bag, try 3 auto-tills all kept freezing so went to an express one...notice there are no bags, turns out the whole store is totally out of bags .I have to abandon the trolley and take what I can carry on the walk back to the car. Almost had a full on 1st-world mental crisis.
Long week, long day ; go to supermarket later on to get some tea and do a shop - cannot even get on the street due to the idiots panic buying petrol causing gridlock so leave my car half a mile away. Half way round with the trolley it occurs to me my re-usable bags are in my car and I'm going to have to buy a plastic bag, try 3 auto-tills all kept freezing so went to an express one...notice there are no bags, turns out the whole store is totally out of bags .I have to abandon the trolley and take what I can carry on the walk back to the car. Almost had a full on 1st-world mental crisis.The idiots were queuing for fuel around here too! Brexit is going so well.
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garynortheast
24-09-21, 09:02 PM
Yeah but sovrinty. And we stuck it to the French, Boris sed so.
Craig380
25-09-21, 07:47 AM
That's the same French who we're paying billions to for the endlessly delayed construction of Hinckley Point C, along with the shady Chinese government. We're really hitting them where it hurts!
Dave20046
25-09-21, 10:34 AM
I bet Tesla owners have an excuse to be smugger than usual today!
garynortheast
25-09-21, 11:07 AM
I bet Tesla owners have an excuse to be smugger than usual today!
......and all those Nissan leaf drivers. Friends of mine have a 5 year old Leaf, still going strong.
Luckypants
25-09-21, 11:17 AM
Trying hard not to be smug as about to be stung by the electricity price rises. VW ID.4 here. (No Tesla smugness)
Sir Trev
25-09-21, 12:26 PM
Lady Poppy has just got back from Marlow and said all the petrol stations she passed were out of fuel or had stupid queues. As the supplies are only slowed, not disrupted, it should mean most outlets will hopefully be back up and running by mid week or so. I'm still working from home so I won't be using any fuel except for one planned trip on Tuesday. Fingers crossed.
Dave20046
26-09-21, 11:05 AM
Trying hard not to be smug as about to be stung by the electricity price rises. VW ID.4 here. (No Tesla smugness)
Yeah I spoecifically picked on Tesla owners - feel there's more of that group that bought for bragging rights over caring about green...but it was tongue in cheek none the less.Lady Poppy has just got back from Marlow and said all the petrol stations she passed were out of fuel or had stupid queues. As the supplies are only slowed, not disrupted, it should mean most outlets will hopefully be back up and running by mid week or so. I'm still working from home so I won't be using any fuel except for one planned trip on Tuesday. Fingers crossed.
Yep, someone cut across me in the buslane from a traffic jam on the right thinking I was 'jumping him' to the petrol station, he went straight into a cordon and I sailed on past enjoying the lane they all should have been using.
I get the impression we're all dry round here.
svenrico
28-09-21, 12:06 AM
Many problems seem to have been created by Brexit but no apparent benefits. Somebody said something like
' the vote for Brexit - to take back control of what you hadn't lost and lose what you already have'.
ps Moderator will no doubt need to close this topic before it goes too far !
SV650rules
28-09-21, 07:58 AM
Many problems seem to have been created by Brexit but no apparent benefits. Somebody said something like
' the vote for Brexit - to take back control of what you hadn't lost and lose what you already have'.
ps Moderator will no doubt need to close this topic before it goes too far !
It took UK 47 years for UK to be dragged down by EU, now you guys expect everything to happen overnight, despite all the bad will and total lack of cooperation from Macron, Mutti Merkel et al...... and Theresa May was batting for the other side as well - wasted so much time.
But it may help if stuff that is also happening in other countries did not get blamed on Brexit, USA, Poland and Germany especially short of lorry drivers as well - and most other European countries have shortages.
No need to close the thread but we need to get back to mainstream moaning!
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svenrico
28-09-21, 06:45 PM
It took UK 47 years for UK to be dragged down by EU, now you guys expect everything to happen overnight, despite all the bad will and total lack of cooperation from Macron, Mutti Merkel et al...... and Theresa May was batting for the other side as well - wasted so much time.
But it may help if stuff that is also happening in other countries did not get blamed on Brexit, USA, Poland and Germany especially short of lorry drivers as well - and most other European countries have shortages.
No mention of the benefits then ! Was UK dragged down by EU anyway ?!
Hardly overnight when referendum was in 2016 !
Dave20046
28-09-21, 08:42 PM
Were the benefits clear 47 years ago? And if so, after how long?
Oops regular moaning...erm , how polarising everything in the UK/news seems to be. Brexit, Vaccines , there's probably loads more examples...or maybe it's just those two topics!
chris8886
28-09-21, 09:31 PM
No need to close the thread but we need to get back to mainstream moaning!
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Here here!
Brexit has happened and there is nothing that can change that now, as the people voted for it, whether by fair means or fowl (depends on your point of view), but it's done now. So can we all just park it and finally move forward please? I'm just damned sick of the moaning and bitching from both sides of the fence.
Off out for a spin on the bike today. Not been out since early September and what a change in the weather. Vents on helmet and jacket closed and jacket liner installed. Brrr.
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Chris_SVS
29-09-21, 10:19 AM
Just put the heating on
ethariel
29-09-21, 10:47 AM
Just put the heating on
Lol, just got round to not having the windows open 24/7. close them up about bed time.
Yes it's getting 'not as warm as it was' but it's fine for me :)
Lol, just got round to not having the windows open 24/7. close them up about bed time.
Yes it's getting 'not as warm as it was' but it's fine for me :)
...but isn't London practically on the Equator? :) - in NE Lincs we're approaching the Arctic Circle and I think Bibio is at the North Pole.
Just put the heating onActually the heating came on by itself this morning.
Ride was cool but I dressed for it, got as low as 8°c but despite no rain forecast we got dumped on in Whitchurch. [emoji24]
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Craig380
29-09-21, 01:42 PM
Whitchurch seems to be one of those microclimate places where forecasts often don't seem to apply. I've been caught out there when the forecast was dry & sunny the whole day. It was literally a black rain cloud a couple of miles across hanging over the town: the rain was like stepping into a shower cubicle on one side, and emerging from the cubicle on the other.
The same's happened to me around Northwich as well, must be something about those towns on the Cheshire / Shropshire plains.
Whitchurch seems to be one of those microclimate places where forecasts often don't seem to apply. I've been caught out there when the forecast was dry & sunny the whole day. It was literally a black rain cloud a couple of miles across hanging over the town: the rain was like stepping into a shower cubicle on one side, and emerging from the cubicle on the other.
The same's happened to me around Northwich as well, must be something about those towns on the Cheshire / Shropshire plains.That was exactly the case today. I went out again this afternoon, south this time to Much Wenlock and got caught in another light shower!
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timwilky
29-09-21, 08:44 PM
Downside of having a poorly missus.
House refurb underway. So halls/stair landing stripped out big style, No skirting/architrave radiators gone. Howling gale through gaps in floor where skirting was.
Plasterer came to give quote 3 weeks ago, weekly reminder that we have not received it. Today he says he will do it this weekend but is fully booked until mid November.
Wife is complaining of cold despite thermals, gas fire on etc. I now need to buy/fit the replacement radiators to remove when the plasterer finally turns up.
Me still in T shirt, but did put on a wooly jumper for an hour this morning until the sun came up.
svenrico
29-09-21, 09:55 PM
Here here!
Brexit has happened and there is nothing that can change that now, as the people voted for it, whether by fair means or fowl (depends on your point of view), but it's done now. So can we all just park it and finally move forward please? I'm just damned sick of the moaning and bitching from both sides of he fence.
I think you are probably right ,this isn't the place to squabble about Brexit.
Best to leave it with your summing up.
svenrico
29-09-21, 09:58 PM
Lol, just got round to not having the windows open 24/7. close them up about bed time.
Yes it's getting 'not as warm as it was' but it's fine for me :)
Just the same here, slept with the bedroom window closed last night for the first time in months (but that's the seasons !)
Dave20046
30-09-21, 10:11 AM
Downside of having a poorly missus.
House refurb underway. So halls/stair landing stripped out big style, No skirting/architrave radiators gone. Howling gale through gaps in floor where skirting was.
Plasterer came to give quote 3 weeks ago, weekly reminder that we have not received it. Today he says he will do it this weekend but is fully booked until mid November.
Wife is complaining of cold despite thermals, gas fire on etc. I now need to buy/fit the replacement radiators to remove when the plasterer finally turns up.
Me still in T shirt, but did put on a wooly jumper for an hour this morning until the sun came up.
I've no roof on at the moment - feeling it!
Can you fille the gaps with thermal sealant or construction foam until you're ready?
svenrico
01-10-21, 11:38 AM
In my local paper, a professor and doctor is saying 'the way patients see doctors will never be the same again and that is a good thing - we could never continue seeing all our patients face to face. '
He says 'we weren't happy with general practice before the pandemic and were demanding change.'
I don't think not being able to see the doctor face to face was the change people wanted !
GP's have been useless for years. Mine are never on time (usually at least 10-15 minutes late) for appointments, which makes it a nightmare when having to get one during work hours or even at lunch.
And when you do get in there, you have to push for something extra to be done for the tests, x-ray, physio you need. Rather than get handed some pills to walk out the door with . . . .
Next time I would pay to go private and get seen in a timely manner, and get the right outcome than have to wait weeks to get an appointment, and a disappointing outcome. Thankfully i have private healthcare through work and would do anything through them instead and avoid the NHS queues.
My Gripe is the media pretending they've not made the Petrol fiasco worse and the Government saying things are *ok* (not 100%, but mostly good) - yet multiple forecourts are still dry, and not receiving full deliveries/normal fill ups.
I know it is worse in the South East/London area, where the is a high percentage of clowns, selfish morons & SUV's.
It's probably me but I can't watch any sport on TV without my finger over the mute button. The reason is screaming commentators. It seems way over the top these days. A good example is the guy who's taken over from Ben Edwards on ch4 F1. Ben was fine, as was Martin Brundle and Murray Walker. It's probably Just me as I'm a fully qualified Grump Old Man.
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SV650rules
01-10-21, 12:31 PM
It's probably me but I can't watch any sport on TV without my finger over the mute button. The reason is screaming commentators. It seems way over the top these days. A good example is the guy who's taken over from Ben Edwards on ch4 F1. Ben was fine, as was Martin Brundle and Murray Walker. It's probably Just me as I'm a fully qualified Grump Old Man.
Same for me with MotoGP commentators, BSB folks much better.
Never watched F1 for years, normally a procession except when Hamilton decides to take a championship rival out......
Same for me with MotoGP commentators, BSB folks much better.
Never watched F1 for years, normally a procession except when Hamilton decides to take a championship rival out......Agreed with the itv MotoGP coverage, another screamer. I miss Keith and Julian.
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garynortheast
01-10-21, 01:15 PM
I've solved the problem by just not having a television!
I've solved the problem by just not having a television!You're not missing much.
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garynortheast
01-10-21, 08:56 PM
You're not missing much.
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Exactly that. The only things I watch are Gardeners World (!!), Doctor Who (when it's on) and recently, Chris and Meg's Wild Summer. I have a TV licence so I watch them on catch up, or sometimes live, on the computer.
redtrummy
01-10-21, 08:59 PM
I usually watch Moto GP muted, cannot stand the constant loud drivel. K & J in my opinion were just as bad but Whitham and Burnicle in a totally different class.
Same as the shouting on Eurosport cycle commentary - not a patch on ITV4s
(Grumpy old man)
Chris_SVS
01-10-21, 09:06 PM
Jack Burnicle, James Haydon, James Toseland, Neil Hodgson, Sean Kelly, Carlton Kirby, Rochelle Gilmore
Collectively my GOTD. Ned Boulting and Michael Laverty/Niall Mackenzie are superior at their respective roles as are the various guests of GCN+ Adam Blythe, Dani Rowe etc
svenrico
02-10-21, 10:14 PM
GP's have been useless for years. Mine are never on time (usually at least 10-15 minutes late) for appointments, which makes it a nightmare when having to get one during work hours or even at lunch.
And when you do get in there, you have to push for something extra to be done for the tests, x-ray, physio you need. Rather than get handed some pills to walk out the door with . . . .
Next time I would pay to go private and get seen in a timely manner, and get the right outcome than have to wait weeks to get an appointment, and a disappointing outcome. Thankfully i have private healthcare through work and would do anything through them instead and avoid the NHS queues.
The thing I noticed as well was the doctor saying 'we could never continue seeing all our patients face to face '.Who decided that ? Why not train more doctors then !
As far as private goes, I was in a company private healthcare scheme once and when I needed to wait for an angiogram on NHS I contacted private company and they said that I should bear in mind if you want any follow up treatment on NHS they can be a bit 'sniffy' if you have had private treatment ! So I waited for NHS treatment.
A sign of things to come? As I indicated in a dedicated thread until it meandered into a climate change hole, I'm with Bulb energy.
They only have one tariff and it's variable. I've been paying £54/mo for a while and I'm £94 in credit but they just informed me that I'm using more energy than I'm paying for (don't forget - I'm in credit), because of this they need to increase my monthly debit to £71 (a 31% increase).
Some Bulb customers are facing an 80% rise:
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2021/oct/02/energy-firm-bulb-under-fire-for-monthly-bill-rises-of-up-to-80
just to recap - Bulb are losing money and may go under, they have 1.7 million customers. I hadn't realised but within your energy bill is a deduction to allow you to be transferred to another supplier if yours goes bust (but that fund is running out of money because of the increasing energy company bankruptcies).
I'm not too concerned about the Bulb price rise because the old energy price cap has ended (Oct 1st) and Bulb did this once before only to reverse it when my credit soared (and I have the option of requesting a reduction, anyway). Finally, my new fridge/freezer arrived on Monday and I've noticed already that it's using less energy.
The thing I noticed as well was the doctor saying 'we could never continue seeing all our patients face to face '.Who decided that ? Why not train more doctors then !
As far as private goes, I was in a company private healthcare scheme once and when I needed to wait for an angiogram on NHS I contacted private company and they said that I should bear in mind if you want any follow up treatment on NHS they can be a bit 'sniffy' if you have had private treatment ! So I waited for NHS treatment.
I think they can't continue it, as they waste so much time with people who don't have issues but continually get appointments.
I think they should have a triage nurse to asses a patient before a Dr's appoint is made. They could quickly identify what's needed, and issue a remedy there/then, or approve an appointment. Whilst that may create a bottleneck it could solve small issues quicker, preventing a GP appointment being 'wasted' and ensuring those who require further investigation get the appointment needed.
They should also address those who regularly miss appointments, by having them on a cancellation list, rather than having priority over those who turn up.
Adam Ef
03-10-21, 02:39 PM
I think they can't continue it, as they waste so much time with people who don't have issues but continually get appointments.
I think they should have a triage nurse to asses a patient before a Dr's appoint is made. They could quickly identify what's needed, and issue a remedy there/then, or approve an appointment.
They already do. The reception staff are expected to do this job. My sister in law works reception and take a lot of abuse from people as part of that job that she's expected to do.
But a receptionist on a phone can't diagnose a physical injury or issue Medicine . . .
I'm on about something similar to what you have in A&E - a quick assessment of what's wrong, with the next action decided swiftly.
Adam Ef
03-10-21, 04:42 PM
Our local reception decides if you should have a phone call from a doctor and then the doctor decides if you need an appointment. Takes about a day to get through this system to then be possibly booked an appointment a couple of weeks later. Or you're refered to a pharmacist etc.
SV650rules
03-10-21, 05:38 PM
They already do. The reception staff are expected to do this job. My sister in law works reception and take a lot of abuse from people as part of that job that she's expected to do.
My wife used to work on reception sometimes for a dermatologist practice ( she was practice manager ), the doctors often ran late as they did small ops on the day to save people coming back if they had traveled a long way ( this was in Sydney Oz, and many patients traveled hundreds of miles ). The receptionist got the flack but when the doctor came through the grumpy buggers were a nice as pie. My wife instigated a plan that when the doctor was running late, the number of Jelly Babies on the plate that came in with their tea or coffee showed how late they were running, 1 jelly baby = 15 mins, 2 = 30 mins etc....
svenrico
03-10-21, 11:45 PM
But a receptionist on a phone can't diagnose a physical injury or issue Medicine . . .
I'm on about something similar to what you have in A&E - a quick assessment of what's wrong, with the next action decided swiftly.
The procedure you seem to be advocating already exists. You don't just get to see a doctor by ringing up and asking to see one like you might have done at one time. The receptionist may refer you to a nurse or arrange triage, or whatever it is when you speak to somebody on the phone, and if that doesn't work you might then get to see a doctor.
But it had got more difficult to see a doctor even before Covid.
SV650rules
04-10-21, 08:22 AM
No wonder A&E is always overloaded - it is easier to go there than to see your GP, and most GP's will send you to hospital anyway.... I am struggling to think why we need GP's any more.. When I was in Aussie they were opening more and more 'drop-in' medical centres in busy areas, with peoples medical records available online it made sense.
Dave20046
04-10-21, 10:03 AM
The procedure you seem to be advocating already exists. You don't just get to see a doctor by ringing up and asking to see one like you might have done at one time. The receptionist may refer you to a nurse or arrange triage, or whatever it is when you speak to somebody on the phone, and if that doesn't work you might then get to see a doctor.
But it had got more difficult to see a doctor even before Covid.
The GP System is geared up for pandemics/an overwhelmed setup and always has been for as long as I can remember - it doesn't really put care first, just survival. Here, you have to ring between 8.30am and 9.30am and stay on hold for around 30 minutes or more. I think the thinking is, the most ill will ring earliest - but obviously everyone rings at the same time. Usually they'll answer about 9.35am and say 'sorry it's past 9.30am try again tomorrow' so if you're not dead by the next day ,and it's important, you'll call again, if it's minor you'll be too fed up to try. The thing I've always found odd/lacking is the approach to diagnosis; there's no follow up or plan it just seems to be led by the shortsighted triage system 'get them out of the practice ASAP'. When I want to fix something I usually use process of elimination and I'm pretty sure doctors do too to some extent, however when I try a troubleshooting step I check it's worked before settling it as resolved. If you ring a doctor with with a trouble they might go 'hmm it's either constipation or deadly bum cancer, we'll try you with some laxatives first' so you trot off to get laxatives and while there's a chance the doctor was wrong and you've withered and died - if you don't call back they assume you're all fixed.
I suppose with the service being free, if they checked back in with customers a good number would just keep leading the doc on a wild goose chase but I'm not sure it's quite the right balance we have.
Don't forget that the UK population is aging, the average age is now 40.5 years and 22.5% are 60 years and older. An aging population and fewer GPs means it's harder to see one. GP numbers started to decline in 2009 but it's not an even distribution - a bigger decline in poorer areas.
https://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-item/is-the-number-of-gps-falling-across-the-uk#the-headline-trend-in-gp-numbers
The media seem to want to blame the GPs themselves but it's another case of underinvestment.
https://www.bmj.com/content/374/bmj.n2234
Boris' recent comment hopefully doesn't reflect Conservative healthcare thinking (Oct2021):
“I’ve given you the most important metric – never mind life expectancy, never mind cancer outcomes – look at wage growth.
redtrummy
04-10-21, 03:22 PM
For a civilised country we have got a lot wrong, just read this;
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/jacob-rees-mogg-confronted-by-man-with-cerebral-palsy-over-shameful-fit-for-work-tests/ar-AAP7GqC
garynortheast
04-10-21, 04:30 PM
Grease-Bogg doesn't give a flying fart about people like the poor chap in that report. He and his crooked cronies need dropping off in some remote, uninhabited location where they can do no more damage. Or prison.
Grease-Bogg doesn't give a flying fart about people like the poor chap in that report. He and his crooked cronies need dropping off in some remote, uninhabited location where they can do no more damage. Or prison.
Spot on! Wouldn't do the prison thing... more to burden the tax payer with!
garynortheast
04-10-21, 06:56 PM
I'd suggest an island inhabited only by Kimodo dragons would be ideal. Bare hands only as defence.
svenrico
04-10-21, 10:23 PM
Riding home this evening after a trip to the coast ,the sun was getting low in the sky and as my eyes suddenly started to sting and water for some reason ,and as my visor misted up the sun hit me full in the face and I couldn't see a thing. I stopped at the side of the road and hoped a car didn't ram me from behind. Setting off again after lifting the visor I continued slowly home getting ready to shield my eyes with my left hand when the sun came full on which it did a few more times. I have experienced it before but never as blinding as today, it was very scary. Maybe a helmet with a peak might be some help but it was a very alarming and dangerous motorcycling experience.
Riding home this evening after a trip to the coast ,the sun was getting low in the sky and as my eyes suddenly started to sting and water for some reason ,and as my visor misted up the sun hit me full in the face and I couldn't see a thing. I stopped at the side of the road and hoped a car didn't ram me from behind. Setting off again after lifting the visor I continued slowly home getting ready to shield my eyes with my left hand when the sun came full on which it did a few more times. I have experienced it before but never as blinding as today, it was very scary. Maybe a helmet with a peak might be some help but it was a very alarming and dangerous motorcycling experience.I have a strip of tape across the top of my visor for that reason. It's not low enough to interfere with my vision but acts like a sun visor in a car
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Riding home this evening after a trip to the coast ,the sun was getting low in the sky and as my eyes suddenly started to sting and water for some reason ,and as my visor misted up the sun hit me full in the face and I couldn't see a thing. I stopped at the side of the road and hoped a car didn't ram me from behind. Setting off again after lifting the visor I continued slowly home getting ready to shield my eyes with my left hand when the sun came full on which it did a few more times. I have experienced it before but never as blinding as today, it was very scary. Maybe a helmet with a peak might be some help but it was a very alarming and dangerous motorcycling experience.
welcome to the dry eye club. yes its a weird name for yours eyes watering:smt022
carry sunglasses (preferably photochromic) or a dark visor. i personally splashed the cash and got a photochromic pin lock, this coupled with the drop down visor on the shoei and it dont matter how bright it gets :cool:
some helmet manufacturers make full photochromic visors but they are eye watering expensive. see what i did there :-)
svenrico
05-10-21, 12:00 PM
I have a strip of tape across the top of my visor for that reason. It's not low enough to interfere with my vision but acts like a sun visor in a car
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Yes, thanks, I did that on my old helmet but haven't done it on my new helmet. Will do.
svenrico
05-10-21, 12:06 PM
welcome to the dry eye club. yes its a weird name for yours eyes watering:smt022
carry sunglasses (preferably photochromic) or a dark visor. i personally splashed the cash and got a photochromic pin lock, this coupled with the drop down visor on the shoei and it dont matter how bright it gets :cool:
some helmet manufacturers make full photochromic visors but they are eye watering expensive. see what i did there :-)
I did drop the dark visor inside the helmet but it was all still blinding, but I wasn't wearing my anti refelective sunglasses which might have helped.
I don't know but sometimes when the sun hits you full on low in the sky it just blots out everything.
redtrummy
06-10-21, 08:17 AM
Low sun is a real problem. Sister turned into it head on, and ran straight into a parked plumbers van. Luckily he was inside the back, it broke his arm but had he been outside it would have been curtains for him
ethariel
06-10-21, 09:01 AM
I watched an accident yesterday, I was coming up on the 5th petrol station in a hunt for the elusive and mythical Unleaded, I noticed 2 vans on the forecourt and an employee taking the out of service off some pumps so smartly indicated, slowed and pulled in.
The cage behind me must have been half asleep, soon as he realised i was pulling in, he hammered his brakes in order to make the slip onto the forecourt...... the cage behind that had no chance......
What's annoying was hearing the driver who stopped dead say to the person who went into the back of him 'I had to stop, im almost down to 3/4 of a tank left!'
svenrico
06-10-21, 09:23 PM
I watched an accident yesterday, I was coming up on the 5th petrol station in a hunt for the elusive and mythical Unleaded, I noticed 2 vans on the forecourt and an employee taking the out of service off some pumps so smartly indicated, slowed and pulled in.
The cage behind me must have been half asleep, soon as he realised i was pulling in, he hammered his brakes in order to make the slip onto the forecourt...... the cage behind that had no chance......
What's annoying was hearing the driver who stopped dead say to the person who went into the back of him 'I had to stop, im almost down to 3/4 of a tank left!'
and it would be considered the fault of the driver who ran into the back of the other car for insurance purposes !
SV650rules
07-10-21, 08:17 AM
and it would be considered the fault of the driver who ran into the back of the other car for insurance purposes !
If the accident happened on private property ( owned by oil company or franchisee )- could get messy, same with accidents on supermarket and private carparks - both parties could lose their no-claims if they go through insurance.
eBayers, again . . . .
In my listings for bike parts i always put the manufacturer part number, and the Bikes they say it will fit to. Yet still, daft people message asking will it fit XXX - my response is always 'read the listing, if your bike is not there - probably not'
Adam Ef
11-10-21, 08:56 PM
BlackCircles.com
Ordered 2 tyres for the van as the fronts are at legal limit. Two emails confirming booking with time at local garage. Went for the appointment this morning. No tyres delivered. A waste of a morning off work and then hours trying to get through to customer services. When I did get through they put me on hold for about 40 minutes trying to work it all out and came back to me saying one was delivered a couple of hours after my appointment. Did I get this one fitted? !!!? I orderd two!! No I didn't have one fitted a few hours after I was there?!!
Now waiting for them to escalate an investigation and have questionably legal tyres on the van until they sort it.
If I hadn't needed to use my Paypal to pay I'd have gone direct to the garage as I usually do.
Very unimpressed and will definitely be avoiding BlackCircles in future. Not just for their incompetence, but also for the appalling way they are handling the problem and their dire customer support.
It could have been a mix up between the courier confirming the tyre was delivered to the garage - or maybe they used what they had for you, for someone else and their delivery was for stock fitment :confused:
I've used them a few times and never had any issues. Although i've not had to deal with their CS, so can't comment on that side of things.
garynortheast
14-10-21, 05:03 PM
X-ray on my knee today, but I'll have to wait a couple of days for the result. What ever it is I've done to it made my whole lower leg hurt on the extended ride back from my MoT (http://forums.sv650.org/showpost.php?p=3132588&postcount=5496) in Newtown
Craig380
14-10-21, 07:37 PM
Hope you can get it fixed quickly, Gary.
garynortheast
14-10-21, 08:13 PM
Me too Craig. It's driving me mad, not allowed to go running, too painful to ride the bike very far. :-(
Greedy b’stards on eBay.
I got a phone call gone midnight this morning, sons phone but when I answered it his mate was on the other end, said my lad had gone off a 90 degree right hander on his bike and smashed it up.
He was ok but where he went off was someone’s grass verge that they have put concrete blocks on to stop cars parking (like I said on a bend and bit of height difference from road so unnecessary IMO) and probably would have got away with it if they were not there but lucky he didn’t hit his head on one.
Anyway, looking for parts on eBay and 4 items I could find on there came to nearly £115 for used, marked and scratched panels.
I’ve been on the manufacturer parts website and ordered them for £83.21 for brand new parts.
When I put the items in my watch list I got a message pretty quick to say I could have one of the used items for £20.40 instead of the £24 listing price. The item I bought new for £16.56!
hope your son is ok and mends quick rowdy. just goes to show that if you put a well known Japanese badge on things that the price rockets even though its all made in china. yes ebay has become a nightmare and is no longer the cheep priced place it was, its by and large still cheeper than amazon though.
Thanks Bibio, he is ok clobbered one of the concrete blocks with his knee, and told me and his mother he was knocked unconscious momentarily so maybe he did hit a block, been back to look for his earbuds and 3 of the blocks had been skittles.
The irony is it’s a Chinese bike, not a Jap one. Anyone have any recommendations for a decent but reasonably priced replacement headlight, one thing I can’t source is the binnacle/headlamp shield so may have to fashion something myself.
Dave20046
16-10-21, 10:42 AM
Hope he's ok Rowdy , maybe warn the owners if he had been seriously injured they may have been culpable by intentionally altering the landscape.
https://www.chinesemotorcyclepartsonline.co.uk/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIkebkld_O8wIVlx4YCh1VCw1MEAAYASA AEgI27_D_BwE
any help? I know a delaer that just uses that site for most things
Or street fighter it and buy a lamp that universally fits on the stantions
Hope he's ok Rowdy , maybe warn the owners if he had been seriously injured they may have been culpable by intentionally altering the landscape.
https://www.chinesemotorcyclepartsonline.co.uk/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIkebkld_O8wIVlx4YCh1VCw1MEAAYASA AEgI27_D_BwE
any help? I know a delaer that just uses that site for most things
Or street fighter it and buy a lamp that universally fits on the stantions
Thanks Dave. I have been thinking maybe popping a note through their door, explaining the incident and questioning whether they really need to be put there. At the end of the day it’s their land and it’s up to them what they do with it, but I certainly wouldn’t want to be responsible for a serious injury to happen to anyone by placing lumps of concrete in close proximity to a road.
Dave20046
16-10-21, 02:53 PM
Thanks Dave. I have been thinking maybe popping a note through their door, explaining the incident and questioning whether they really need to be put there. At the end of the day it’s their land and it’s up to them what they do with it, but I certainly wouldn’t want to be responsible for a serious injury to happen to anyone by placing lumps of concrete in close proximity to a road.
In England I think a grass verge is rarely the home owners property, it's usually council land.
I remember a member on here having a fairly serious accident and the farmer saying something like 'I'd just reinforced that roadsign/wall because cars kept knocking it over with ease' - always wondered if he would have got off more lightly if it had have collapsed on impact.
svenrico
17-10-21, 09:55 PM
In England I think a grass verge is rarely the home owners property, it's usually council land.
I remember a member on here having a fairly serious accident and the farmer saying something like 'I'd just reinforced that roadsign/wall because cars kept knocking it over with ease' - always wondered if he would have got off more lightly if it had have collapsed on impact.
As far as I know ,if it is a council owned grass verge, which they usually are between the road and the front garden of a house ,or between the road and an adopted footway, you aren't allowed to place any obstructions , which would prevent the grass being mowed for one thing.
Adam Ef
18-10-21, 04:23 PM
We have one outside our house. We are responisble for it's upkeep but have no right to it or to modify it without permission. The previous owner had to get permission to put gravel on it so she didn't keep having to mow it. Took a while to get permission but it was allowed in the end. We can't put anything on it without seeking the same permission from the council.
svenrico
18-10-21, 04:38 PM
Easy to say on here but I would be tempted to have a word with the council (could be town, district or county )
to check ownership of the verge and claim for repairs to the bike caused by the concrete obstacles - or would insurance company do that if a claim had been made - or would somebody try and claim driving without due care and attention ?! On second thoughts -------!
Adam Ef
18-10-21, 05:30 PM
I'd imagine that there might be rules that prohibit the person putting breeze blocks there, but also rules that you're not meant to "drive" on it too.
I ordered a jacket from SBS which arrived today, and it's the wrong size. So that's being returned and have just re-ordered the right size again . . . . let's hope they get it right this time.
I wouldn't think it to happen on something that's a bit pricey, as you would think to double check what you are packing was correct!
svenrico
18-10-21, 11:30 PM
I ordered a jacket from SBS which arrived today, and it's the wrong size. So that's being returned and have just re-ordered the right size again . . . . let's hope they get it right this time.
I wouldn't think it to happen on something that's a bit pricey, as you would think to double check what you are packing was correct!
Trouble with ordering any clothing online is you don't know if it will fit anyway until you try it on.
I ordered a jacket from SBS which arrived today, and it's the wrong size. So that's being returned and have just re-ordered the right size again . . . . let's hope they get it right this time.
I wouldn't think it to happen on something that's a bit pricey, as you would think to double check what you are packing was correct!
Was it a Furygan jacket? The sizes marked on the jacket differ from what you ordered but are correct (insisted SBS to me) in the way they fit. It fitted only if I stood up and never moved :(
I went to Scott leathers and had a jacket made for a less expensive price.
Trouble with ordering any clothing online is you don't know if it will fit anyway until you try it on.
Most places are better at getting decent measurements in place for arm length, waist, chest etc.
The correct size one arrived today and it fits as i hoped it would (with some room for a thicker jumper & base layers during the colder months)
Was it a Furygan jacket? The sizes marked on the jacket differ from what you ordered but are correct (insisted SBS to me) in the way they fit. It fitted only if I stood up and never moved :(
I went to Scott leathers and had a jacket made for a less expensive price.
Nope, it was Klim. The fit is good on the correct sized one which arrived today.
Furygan is small as it's made for French who are a smaller build generally. I bought a Furygan summer jacket and had to go up a size or 2 for it to fit comfortably without looking like half a gimp suit.
garynortheast
24-10-21, 08:55 PM
GotD is my blydi knee. Still swollen, mostly fluid. Can't run, hurts to ride the bike any more than a few miles. Not ligaments and x-ray hasn't shown anything. Got someone from the muscular/skeletal dept phoning me tomorrow to sort an appointment. Hope they can get to the source of the problem. Fed up. :-(
Chris_SVS
25-10-21, 05:26 AM
Guarantee it's a foot or hip/lower back issue
garynortheast
25-10-21, 05:49 AM
Guarantee it's a foot or hip/lower back issue
I suspect it's cartilage in the knee actually. I should find out soon I hope.
Adam Ef
25-10-21, 08:01 AM
I know that frustration Gary. I've had bursitis on my knee twice and it's not fun. Hurts a lot and very boring to be stuck with it too. Made worse as it stops you getting out and lifting your mood / taking your mind off it with a bit of exercise. Hope you get it sorted soon.
i've had housemaid's knee for a week now. its bloody annoying. its not that swollen but i stuck a pin in it last night and some fluid came out so squeezed more out till it was blood. seems to be a bit better today but still annoying. cant kneel down but i can walk about. hope it gets better soon as i have 18 boxes of laminate to fit in a few weeks.
Sir Trev
25-10-21, 05:57 PM
GWS Bibs and Gary. I suffer with sore knees frequently as I'm double jointed, according to the quacks when I was a nipper, so know it is not much fun. If I know I'll be on my feet a lot these days, or riding the bike more than an hour or so, I wear stretchy tube bandages on both knees which helps a lot but feels very restrictive.
svenrico
25-10-21, 10:12 PM
Guarantee it's a foot or hip/lower back issue
Why do you think that ? My left knee in particular started hurting and aching. My main exercise is walking, about an hour a day in the countryside, and it was starting to be a concern if it got worse. I wondered about arthritis or cartilage
A doctor would of course say lose weight.
Because most pressure you put on other joints is due to compensating from an injury elsewhere. So bad posture, or a sore foot would cause you to limp or not walk with the correct stride would put more pressure on other joints to compensate.
Sir Trev
26-10-21, 05:09 PM
Because most pressure you put on other joints is due to compensating from an injury elsewhere. So bad posture, or a sore foot would cause you to limp or not walk with the correct stride would put more pressure on other joints to compensate.
Very often true. My mother's knackered hip (now replaced) was down to a botched bunion op on her opposite side foot. Caused her to walk a little lopsided and, in her case, hip damage.
garynortheast
26-10-21, 07:05 PM
Rest of me is fine, no aches, pains, or twinges. It's just the knee.
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