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he's got my sockets, misc. wrenches, mallet and was using my torque wrench as a breaker bar, all without my knowledge or permission. I guess he thought if it was OK to take my daughter's virginity, borrowing some tools wouldn't be a problem. I'm waiting to see how I handle my daughters losing their...

I use a Fog City anti-fog insert that reacts to light as well, and it's the absolute dog's b*llocks. On my second now. I use it with a Foggy Respro face-mask and basically ride in town, through the winter, with my visor down all the time and never fog up. In less demanding circs. you could do withou...

On the other hand, consider the advantages of a seriously squared off tyre: eventually the bike will stand upright on its own and you can do away with the kickstand.

Your tyre wears more on the left than the right because of the road camber - your bike is (mostly) more or less upright on a bit of road that slopes away to your right - wearing the left side of the tyre. In the UK they'd wear more on the right.

Well, it's a theory.

I vote left. I always wondered if it was because my first beautiful fast road was a coast road with the sea to the left. So in l/h turns I could see where I was going, r/h ones not so. (Up the Adriatic coast of Yugoslavia, when it was still called that.) I thought it might have been a formative expe...

You can easily get road-legal aftermarket exhausts - unless there's something about the Spanish laws that I don't know. Or you can do what everyone else does - run whatever you like normally, then just pop the original on at testing time. It seems unwelding a welded exhaust is a pretty specialised j...

Wow. Everything you always wanted to know about packing exhausts. It makes me think I'm definitely in the wrong business. The prices these sports exhausts cost - then you look inside and it's a two-bit perforated tube inside an old baked bean can (ok, a big one), packed with fibreglass. And the less...

So what do you know about what should be packed in there? I picked up a beauty of a race exhaust off Ebay but so far as I can tell, there's no packing in there at all and various internals are rattling around. I thought I'd open it up, see what's up and pack it. But I don't know what with... I do kn...

8 foot long, 4 foot wide, handles like a truck, stops like an oil tanker, costs more than three better bikes - but worst of all, in this town everyone would just assume you work in advertising: more money than sense, an obsession with style over substance, and an unbearable smugness that frankly jus...

Mmm. 310 klicks = 192 miles per hour. Sheesh.

And at an average of 300 kph or 186 mph, he (or she) travelled over 13 miles in the 4 1/4 minutes of that vid.

There's nothing like a stand that lets you mess with the swing arm and shock and the front end as well. Mine's an Abba stand (red, appropriately, cos I always fancied the redhead) and they come from here http://www.abbastands.co.uk/ though ebay helps too. Easy, simple and rock solid. There are other...

Mechanical Repairs Rule #2: Take it apart, clean it, put it back together again.

By the skid marks at exactly the point where they pass the car, it looks like they're not the first.

These Harley guys love their rear brakes, don't they?

Would someone care to explain the string method? Being British, there's just something about string that pulls at the heart...

And yamaweezle, you want to re-link to that picture?

i find that in general, 99.9% of the population is made up of idiots.

Yeah. And the other 10% just can't count.

I found a plastic bottle with a lid with a narrow spout (think shampoo, dishwashing liquid, whatever) which plugged into a length of fuel hose. Plugged the other end of the hose into the carbs, and hung the bottle upside-down, full of fuel, on the mirror, in a cradle made of a coat-hanger. Didn't ne...

Same thing happened to me once, in a deserted car-park at night, and left me baffled. Got out the roadside mechanics (known as the AA here in the UK), which was kind of shaming. But not as shaming as when he simply tightened the screws clamping the leads to the battery. They didn't look loose, but i...

I'm so shit at computer games. Which is embarrassing, as my best mate makes them for sony...

I think the little patch of repaired tarmac to remind you about the turn-in for the gooseneck is very cool.

Slip, can you actually get airborne over the mountain, like your pic?

Can anyone tell me if it's possible to mess up the assembly of upside-downers so that the stanchion gets scratched up - even 18 months later? I had a fork seal replaced a bit over 18 months ago, and immediately afterwards the leg got scratched up bad enough to make the leak much worse than it had be...

Sorry to be the one - the last frame's a composite. You'll find each element - groups of people, cars, boats - in earlier frames.

Of course in a larger, more important way (the kind of way that appeals to governments looking for reasons to go to war, for example), it's perfectly true.