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[SV650rules]

The weather has now warmed up and I had a nice ride out on Saturday. So why the flip have I now got a sore throat and dripping nose when it's over 20 degrees outside?

Hay fever ? Warm humid weather makes plants go into overtime producing pollen, not to mention the horrible yellow peril (oilseed rape) that has taken over our countryside.

Bane of my life in summer, all the 'non-drowsy' antihistamines make you want to go to sleep.

[Bibio]

bike is all back together and was supposed to be going for mot today but cant get out the house :-(

[andrewsmith]

Naked or faired mate

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[Chris_SVS]

Being eaten alive inside for the past 9 days. Bike is being collected on mon/tues and delivered to me wednesday

[DarrenSV650S]

bike is all back together and was supposed to be going for mot today but cant get out the house :-(

I wouldn't worry about it. The weather looks pish this weekend anyway

[Bibio]

started clearing out my caravan (used as shed) and found a silly load of spare SV parts that i have just hoarded through greed, its like every box i open has parts in it :smt119

[andrewsmith]

eBay

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[DomP]

What have you got and what do I 'need?'

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[Bibio]

eBay

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forum :)

What have you got and what do I 'need?'

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ermm tooooo much. as an example i have 2 full sets of pointy lower fairing brackets and 3 part sets. pointy lower fairings, pointy mudguard, 2 pointy rear brake levers, two pointy CNC comfort kits :(

i haven't even started on the lockup or attic :confused:

[andrewsmith]

No full bikes lol

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[Bibio]

No full bikes lol

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my names not Malc :rolleyes:

[DomP]

I'd take a full gixxer front end or an upgrade rear shock but I don't suppose you have that or I can afford it right now

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[Bibio]

I'd take a full gixxer front end or an upgrade rear shock but I don't suppose you have that or I can afford it right now

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those ore on the bike so not spares ;)

[DomP]

You don't need them if you aren't riding it yet😆

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[andrewsmith]

my names not Malc :rolleyes:
Touche

I think we should go down and try and see what insane thing we could build in a weekend

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[Bibio]

well there's a nice surprise. i have been wanting to put a drive in my front garden for a good few years as it will be easier for Mrs B to get in and out the house/car. i was under the impression that i needed planning permission to do, so i gave the idea up, but i have just found out that i dont :-)

https://www.planningportal.co.uk/info/200130/common_projects/45/paving_your_front_garden

i was looking for the rules about putting a concrete prefab garage in the back garden and stumbled on the above. i never realised that prefab garages were so bloody cheep.

[DomP]

I'm looking at the potential of building a larger workshop so I can speed up some jobs and have more than one job on the go at once plus be able to store more timber(maybe a bike or two). Seems you can build a shed upto 30sqmts with a pitch height upto 4m with an eaves height of 2.5m with no planning as long as it's 2m from boundaries and doesn't protrude further than the front line of your dwelling.
Think my neighbour should sell me a piece of his field!

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[Bibio]

i'm going to look a bit further into the garage as it might just end up a non access extension. my dining room will be getting turned into a wet room for Mrs B in the near future so my plan will be to brick up the window and extend out from there which will give me a huge garage/workshop :-)

[DomP]

I hope I can make mine a reality otherwise I'm going to end up having to rent workshop space. As much as anything I look forward to the building project

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[Bibio]

i hope you can Dom as workshop space is not cheep.

[Viney]

Morning Megathreaders :)

[maviczap]

Morning

[Sir Trev]

Flip. Stuck between junctions on the M25 thanks to a rather spectacular vehicle fire. Hope we get released soon or daughter dearest will be cross at having to wait around at Gatwick waiting for me to pick her up.

I think the whole of the Surrey Force is attending from the number of blue lights down there...

[littleoldman2]

Morning peeps. Sun's shining cannot wait to get on the bike.

[Bibio]

Flip. Stuck between junctions on the M25 thanks to a rather spectacular vehicle fire. Hope we get released soon or daughter dearest will be cross at having to wait around at Gatwick waiting for me to pick her up.

I think the whole of the Surrey Force is attending from the number of blue lights down there...

that sounds rather inconvenient

Morning peeps. Sun's shining cannot wait to get on the bike.

ditto.. :cool:

[DarrenSV650S]

Well I am burned to a crisp :sunny:

[andrewsmith]

Got taxi driver tan

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[DarrenSV650S]

Taxi driver with his sunroof open.

Unfortunately I had a T shirt with long sleeves on, so have a very low tan line on my arms

[andrewsmith]

Lol
Should have put sun cream on

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[DarrenSV650S]

I should yeah but I never normally get any sun so I thought I would make the most of it

[andrewsmith]

I should yeah but I never normally get any sun so I thought I would make the most of it
Factor duffle coat

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[maviczap]

Went out with my mates from work last night for a few beers.

Got home at about half ten, sat down on the sofa watching the Last Resort next thing I knew it was 0130 and I was sitting on the sofa. Never done that before :D

It's been a long long week :(

[littleoldman2]

I do it every night:p

[garynortheast]

If I'm not careful I'll be doing that in this chair. I really should go to bed

[Sir Trev]

I am so tired. Brother, wife and two munchkins arrived late last night from Australia via Manilla and thanks to jetlag and time zone confusion the six and eight year olds were awake again after three hours. So, so tired. Nice to see them though.

[maviczap]

I forgot to add I was still wearing the wireless headphones we use to listen to the Tv later on at night.

Sir Trev, I'm in the same club. Woke up at about 4 this morning, couldn't get back to sleep. Got up just before 5.

Only had about 6 hours, which its not enough after the weeks exploits

[Sir Trev]

They've gone out for the afternoon to visit an old friend who lives nearby so we've got a couple of hours rest. I am not ashamed to say I have had a kip and feel a bit better now.

[DarrenSV650S]

I got 10 hours sleep. I feel great :thumright:

[maviczap]

Well I've been cooking on the beach and it's done me no good

[munkygunn182]

I went out for a beer on Thursday to toast a friend who passed away. I got home at 6am today....

[chris8886]

I got 10 hours sleep. I feel great :thumright:



lucky bar steward! I haven't a nights sleep like that for about 5/6 years! :smt022

[DarrenSV650S]

Have you tried alcohol?

[littleoldman2]

I have and very successful it is. However the problem then changes to one of being unable to wake up.

[andrewsmith]

I have and very successful it is. However the problem then changes to one of being unable to wake up.
Or falling asleep at random.
Don't deny it as there is pictures lol

Need to catch up soon mate

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[DarrenSV650S]

Looks like I need a new Virgin Media hub. I think this will be the 4th or 5th in one year. And they are refusing to just send out another one. So another engineer is coming to visit and confirm the line is still fine.

I would switch to BT but they want an extra £10 a month for a slower line

[Red ones]

I'm on my third Virgin hub in a year. I think they have started throttling download speeds but don't want to admit to it.

[DarrenSV650S]

I don't think mine is being throttled. I'm getting 111Mb just now and this is probably peak time. I think their routers are just crap

[Red ones]

I separate out some devices onto a WiFi network that runs from an airport cables back to the router. They performs the same as the super hub. Sometimes I only get 1 meg down but I always get 10 up.

[Bibio]

had my VM hub for IIR three years and not a problem, the one before that was about 10 years and again no problems. yes virgin throttle bandwidth as do every other ISP. BTW downloads are dependant on who is uploading and nothing to do with your ISP. checking your speed using one of those speed check pages does not insure that you will receive the same speed elsewhere as its dependant on the other ends upload speed.

think of the traffic that is on the main pipe and its a miracle the internet works.

[ophic]

had my VM hub for IIR three years and not a problem, the one before that was about 10 years and again no problems. yes virgin throttle bandwidth as do every other ISP. BTW downloads are dependant on who is uploading and nothing to do with your ISP. checking your speed using one of those speed check pages does not insure that you will receive the same speed elsewhere as its dependant on the other ends upload speed.

think of the traffic that is on the main pipe and its a miracle the internet works.

True, but p2p programs tend to download from many locations at once. Therefore you should still be able to saturate your download bandwidth, although you might have to fiddle with the default settings on the client.

[DarrenSV650S]

I get my full 100Mb on p2p downloads

[SV650rules]

Talking about internet - anyone been affected by this photo bucket change.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-40492668

[Sir Trev]

Talking about internet - anyone been affected by this photo bucket change.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-40492668





I've noticed it on a few forums I wander around. Very annoying.

[Bibio]

I get my full 100Mb on p2p downloads

so why do you think you need a new hub?

[DarrenSV650S]

Talking about internet - anyone been affected by this photo bucket change.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-40492668

Apparently it will happen to all accounts eventually. Such a shame. I've got loads of old threads from years ago that I like looking through now and then



so why do you think you need a new hub?

It sh*ts the bed randomly and the whole thing crashes and has to restart. They're usually fine for a few months then it starts happening.

[Bibio]

It sh*ts the bed randomly and the whole thing crashes and has to restart. They're usually fine for a few months then it starts happening.

that sounds like a heat issue. do you have the router in a well ventilated place away from radiators and such?

as said i have had no issues with mine.. none, zero, nada. only time i have to reset it is when virgin start messing.

[DarrenSV650S]

It's sitting on top of my desk so heat shouldn't be a problem.

[SV650rules]

It's sitting on top of my desk so heat shouldn't be a problem.

We had a new virgin hub in March this year - not because the old one had failed (it was 6 years old and never given a problem) but because they said our old hub would not be able to be used on the system after end of April.

New hub has needed re-booting about 6 times since we have had it, and it smells 'hotter' than the old one - hope its not made by Beko and liable to set the house on fire. I was expecting wi-fi range (only used on Kindles) to be better than old hub, but just the same. I use homeplugs to distribute broadband around the 240 volt mains outlets in the house and they have been absolutely faultless, and very fast.

[DarrenSV650S]

Yeah mine throws out quite a bit of heat. Homeplugs are brilliant! I got my parents some and they are so good.

My PC uses ethernet, which makes it more annoying when I tell them the hub keeps crashing and they suggest changing the wifi frequency.

[DarrenSV650S]

Line tested fine. He said he doesn't think it's the router. He changed all the "old" connectors on the line and said there was a splitter under the floor feeding an unused line which could cause intermittent noise. He also said the routers sometimes crash when there is a lot of traffic on a wifi frequency and the hub tries to change to a new frequency, so it might be worth putting it on a set frequency.

It all sounds like guess work to me

[ophic]

If it's heat, my old virgin router actually logged it. Might be worth looking in the logs. But that was an old superhub II. Not sure the newer ones do the same.

[DarrenSV650S]

So the wheel that was damaged by Loch Council Crater has now developed a split spoke too which means it's toast and not repairable. Oh and Suzuki say they no longer sell it.

What are the chances of the council paying for a new set of alloys?

[andrewsmith]

If you can prove it their fault they have to pay a vast majority

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[Geodude]

Would have been the box mans birthday today :( still miss him xGx

[Sir Trev]

We all do Geo. That sense of humour only comes around once in a blue moon.

[Geodude]

True Sir Trev he brightened my day.

[garynortheast]

Still definitely missed on this forum. His wacky posts made me grin regularly.

[andrewsmith]

Still definitely missed on this forum. His wacky posts made me grin regularly.Here here

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[maviczap]

Yep it's a sadder place without him

[DarrenSV650S]

Ok this rain is depressing me now. It feels like winter is setting in and we haven't even had summer

[Sir Trev]

Ok this rain is depressing me now. It feels like winter is setting in and we haven't even had summer



I do hope the weekend is nice. It's been mainly OK through the office windows all week so if it hurls it down on Sunday, which I've set aside for a run to a huge bike shop to see if they've got any luggage on display, I'll be miffed.


Last week when we were on helliday with my extended family it rained pretty much every day and last night the wind and rain in the trees around Trev Towers made it sound very autumnal. I want to get out and ride my new bike and will all the chrome on it I don't want to spend as long or more cleaning it afterwards!

[DarrenSV650S]

You've picked a bad country to have a chrome bike in ;)

Pretty much every day for the past 2 weeks have been showers

[Bibio]

You've picked a bad country to have a chrome bike in ;)

Pretty much every day for the past 2 weeks have been showers

get used to it as its set to continue for the rest of the year.

[garynortheast]

Ok this rain is depressing me now. It feels like winter is setting in and we haven't even had summer
I've just lit the Rayburn. Feels more like October than August. :(

[Sir Trev]

I've just lit the Rayburn. Feels more like October than August. :(



I fished out the warmer duvet last night - it should have stayed in the cupboard for at least another two months.

[SV650rules]

I fished out the warmer duvet last night - it should have stayed in the cupboard for at least another two months.

I would rather have our present weather than the droughts, +40 deg C and forest fires a lot of Southern Europe is getting.

We lived in Australia for best part of 10 years and had our fill of hot weather, droughts, floods, flies and forest fires - how we longed for a nice cool rainy British day.

Last spell of hot weather we had in UK earlier this summer everyone seemed really tired and short tempered because no-one could sleep properly.

[Sir Trev]

Last spell of hot weather we had in UK earlier this summer everyone seemed really tired and short tempered because no-one could sleep properly.



Agree with you there. I don't mind getting the warmer duvet out as long as I don't have to wake up shivering* in the middle of the night to go hunting through cupboards in the spare room to find it.






*slight exaggeration bit I did feel cold

[Chris_SVS]

I've just lit the Rayburn. Feels more like October than August. :(

Had the heat on twice this week :confused:

[Bibio]

pffft shandy drinking soft southerners. i still have a single thin blanket with the window open.

[littleoldman2]

I'm assuming by "southerners" you mean all of us south of the Forth;), we all drink shandy down here.

[andrewsmith]

He means anyone that drinks brewdog

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[Heorot]

Got beaten away from the lights by a car last night and I was on the bike & trying. An immaculate 1987 AC Cobra.

[Bibio]

seen a very old bentley 4 seater convertible earlier toady, it looked like a barn find and in need of some tlc.

[andrewsmith]

I need a project!!

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[Sir Trev]

I need a project!!





My lawn needs a cut if you're bored.

[andrewsmith]

My lawn needs a cut if you're bored.Lol
Gsxr1000 powered one should do it

Rather been cutting mine over reseeding it

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[Heorot]

This is the first year for several years that I have been in the UK in the summer. I normally spend up to 3 months in the summer in Turkey. As a result, my lawn is now 50% weeds, mainly dandelions. I need to make a concerted effort to get rid so I have bought some lawn weed killer. Probably will need to reseed in the spring then.

[Sir Trev]

If you use the weedkiller soon you should aim to reseed in September. Weather is still comparatively warm and the moist/dewy evening will both aid germination and growth before everything slows down for winter. The new grass will get a better start in spring that way. At least that's the theory. You can always overseed any patchy bits in spring.

[DarrenSV650S]

I'm cold. I want to put the heating on

It's August

[garynortheast]

I shall be lighting the Rayburn again tomorrow I think....

[Bibio]

i'm sitting here in my boxers with the window wide open

[andrewsmith]

Standing at the back door with no shirt on and beer in hand. It's lovely up north

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[Sir Trev]

The "beer in hand" bit was fine but we all draw the line at boxers! Mental images none of us need.

[Heorot]

As referred to above I went to spray weedkiller on my lawn. Only for the sprayer to explode as I was pumping it up. Luckily it broke on the far side from me so I just got wet rather then being lacerated by shattered plastic.

[DarrenSV650S]

Grenades are a bit overkill for weeds. Just grasp them firmly and pull

[andrewsmith]

Flamethrower is more effective

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[Sir Trev]

As referred to above I went to spray weedkiller on my lawn. Only for the sprayer to explode as I was pumping it up. Luckily it broke on the far side from me so I just got wet rather then being lacerated by shattered plastic.



Go for a watering can with spreader bar instead, partly because it's safer.


I have a cheapo pump sprayer from Wilko and it just deformed madly when adding pressure. I binned it straight away!

[munkygunn182]

Grenades are a bit overkill for weeds. Just grasp them firmly and pull

Is good advice for more than just weeds ;)

[DarrenSV650S]

Is good advice for more than just weeds ;)

https://media.giphy.com/media/zx0UHhJlPFao0/giphy.gif

[andrewsmith]

Petrol is very effective on weeds...






Grass, soil and insects

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