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Old 23-06-18, 10:39 PM   #3141
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I've missed my old one so much. It was like seeing an old friend
i like that blue, very much like the VW blue they put on the Polo.
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Old 24-06-18, 06:29 PM   #3142
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Bumped into my neighbour this afternoon to get the skinny on why our power went out for over eight hours on Friday, why there were lots of National Grid vans around most of the day, as well as several plod cars and vans and a very large hole in the road/pavement/garden two doors up on the other side of the road. We also had by mid afternoon a massive diesel generator on a flatbed truck which has mercifully not run out of fuel or been nicked (by light-fingered people who don't live in houses) over the weekend.

Turns out it was an electrical explosion, quite a biggie according to the electrickery guys. Seems the people who had rented the house had just cultivated a big crop of cannabis and were ramping up for the next when they went too far and overloaded their jury-rigged supply. That means we'll be offline again for a few hours once they get the right cables to site and link us back up again.

Still, it's given us something to talk about and if the landlord decided to let to these people they offered two years rent up front in cash (hello!! Fraud red flag!!!) it's his problem. Apparently the place is trashed and his insurance will probably not cover it. Still find it amazing how she finds out all this gossip within minutes of something happening...
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Old 24-06-18, 06:41 PM   #3143
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Had a grow house down the road a few years ago, place was trashed too. If you're a landlord, it might pay to visit your properties once in a while
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Old 25-06-18, 09:59 PM   #3144
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A mate from Matlock is down south with work so we had cheap pizza and wine using my student discount, and had a good old gossip. He used to play for a Middlesex but since retiring I rarely see him so this was an unexpected treat four a Monday night.

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Old 27-06-18, 06:59 AM   #3145
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Strange smile this.

I was driving the car today and tried pulling out in front of a biker at a T junction, but then realised he wasn't going to pull in to the road I was exiting, so I ended up stopped a couple of feet out of the junction. The rider gave me the finger and yelled some very unpleasant names at me. I pulled out behind him at he continued to wave at me. Then he switched his indicators off. The waving and shouting stopped abruptly.

Did he then realise that he was indicating? Now who is the knobber?
Just after I got my new AL7 I wired up a couple of LED spotlights and also some bright blue LED for the indicators, I had seen quite a few bikes riding round with indicators still flashing away (unfortunately they don't self cancel like a cars do) - the blue LED (photos in this thread http://forums.sv650.org/showthread.p...=maplin&page=3) show up very well even in bright sun and you don't need to be looking at dash to see them, they are picked up by your peripheral vision. I had done this on previous bikes - the consequences of leaving indicators on can be catastrophic for a bike rider, people don't need an excuse to pull out on you.
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Old 27-06-18, 09:55 PM   #3146
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My indicators self cancel. I think it's pretty standard on the GS range.

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Old 27-06-18, 11:52 PM   #3147
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Some of my orger mates had a beautiful healthy baby boy today!
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Old 28-06-18, 07:36 AM   #3148
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Their cars do as well. Before the first flash.
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Old 28-06-18, 09:55 AM   #3149
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Took great delight in speaking my mind on the Autoglass customer service survey. The very helpful tech that replaced the screen after the month long wait said that I'd get one and it would be split into a section about his work on the day and the back office/call centre side. And it was. So I let rip about all the shoddy rubbish they'd put me through. I feel so much better for doing that!
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Their cars do as well. Before the first flash.
I never knew BMW indicators could flash assumed they were just for decoration.

I know Audi indicators do flash on the odd occasion but has anyone else noticed how tiny the rear indicators are getting on VAG cars (and not very bright either).
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