Saul

I agree it is sub optimal, but is not something limited to Royal Enfield from what I have read. More related to the use of LED's in the instrument housing rather than any big change in the manufacturing process, so no heat from incandescent bulbs to dry things out. That's the straw I am grasping at

My Himalayan has been suffering with condensated clocks. Do any sort of reading or web browsing and you get the answer; they all do that sir answer. I saw a video on Youtube by a chap called Wee Jaunt who fixed the problem. He was a diver so knew a bit about preventing condensation. Anyway today I hopefully sorted my clocks but stripping them down, wiping the inside of the lenses with a weak dish soapy mixture and squeezing a small pack of silica gel in the bottom of the clocks. Time will tell how effective my efforts have been.

Yeah not really my thing nowadays Bob. If I was to go along that route I would buy something substantially lighter to do it with. My bike was bought as a commuter first and bit of a toy second. If I was to change my mind it would only be 4 screws and 10 minutes to change back to standard.

You'll know when mate. I played regularly until I was 42, but just didn't recover in time to train and play, I still turned out now and again until I was 45, but had to find another interest, just to old and brittle. Luckily my Mrs didn't mind, in fact she enjoyed going up the club now and again.

I have found that to be a common sentiment in terms of good walking boot brands nowadays. I must say that the Hagloffs I have, have been very robust. Not much tread left on them now but that have covered a long distance.

I don't think that sounds like a very healthy relationship from the outside looking in. I am lucky that my Wife doesn't stop me having a bike, although I know she is not that keen, I would imagine if I wanted to borrow money on the house to splash out on something big and expensive she would have something to say about it, but I wouldn't do that. In return I am not a big fan of horses although she and my daughters spend a lot of time and money on that. I understand that is their thing and I wouldn't want to spoilt it for them. You can't just shut downs someone's interests unless there is good reason, that hopefully you both accept. On driving I don't enjoy riding with my other half, way to leaden footed and ragey for my liking. She doesn't smash the cars up but they bleddy well work for a living when she is behind the wheel.

Thanks but no thanks.

Those sleeves also keep water in as well as keep it out from what I have read.

Yep I would say it is. The shock is still pretty clean and that was what I wanted preserved and protected from the salt when it comes.

To be honest I may have been a bit tetchy when I wrote that. It does work a bit but not the result I was expecting.

Was it or was Doom the first ? I also fondly remember TOCA touring car and Colin MaCrae Rally.

Yep spot on.

A cautionary tale. After getting stents done last January I started walking regularly. Like all daft blokes I thought I was training for some sort of walking competition walking two or three hours a day every day. If you do that you would be surprised how many pairs of boots you wear out. Anyway I coughed up for an expensive pair on the recommendation of one of the action men Paramedics I work with, ex marine,. They were and are still great but you need more than one pair because when you get them wet it takes a few days for them to dry out. Having coughed for the Hagloffs I couldn't afford another pair right away. So the inner tight ass thought get some cheap from FaceBook market place. Long story short I found a pair of Regattas that were worn once apparently for £10. Great, went and got them and they did look new, from a young beardy who had the cheek to push some weird religious materiel on me with the boots, in case I was interested. The boots had a hint of Fabreeze about them and a small whitish type stain on the toe, but I though for a tenner I couldn't go wrong. Wore them for the first time and it was pissing down, when I got home I left them in the porch to dry. Couple of hours later the porch absolutely wreaked of cat piss. The dog wouldn't even go out there. The beardy hipster bastard saw me coming big time. My fault for being a tight ass I suppose, I mean who sells practically new £80 walking boots for a tenner. Obviously some body whose cat had pissed in them. I still have the cat piss boots and do wear them on rainy days, now months later there is just a hint of a tint of cat piss when they are wet. I have nearly worn them out but won't bin them until they are knackered. So I still haven't learnt really. I have six pairs of walking boots, some cheaper some more expensive, and another pair new in the box. I have learnt something though, not to walk so far and I have cut my walks back to a couple of hours two to three times a week on medical advice.

Yes I remember all of them, loved Wolfenstein, A few year ago when the kids were smaller I used to play Minecraft with them. Bleddy loved that, could lose a few hours Minecrafting now if I had the time to do so.

First hand experience today, not very effective. The shock is still pretty clean but the rest of the back of the bike is shit high as normal. So works a bit but I had expected more after reading a lot of stuff about them.

Shit day, first the oldest child dropped his bike, youngest child had to be picked up from school after a mega meltdown. Third thing I discover the fecking hugger I put on my is a pretty useless waste of time and money. I am actually looking forward to going back to work out of the mad house.

That building is about 1000 years old. It was the Duchy Palace and later became the seat of the Cornish Stannary Parliament. The Black Prince, the first Duke of Cornwall used it as his meeting hall. It was originally part of a much larger complex of buildings. The small door is sort of short human size. I doubt anyone really knows now. Its being used as a museum now.

Went out for a short bimble today before the dramas of the day. Set out to go for a decent ride but ended up just going to the next town up river from where i live. Lovely ancient Town of Lostwithiel. Love that place, it was where I started work for Royal Mail many years ago. Many beautiful old buildings there and still has a real strong community. Not many places I would move to but Lostwithiel is one.

Twat.

To be fair to the caller she said he was more shaken up than hurt, although it was a stressful trip until I got there and completely understood the situation.

It wasn't my choice he wanted a twist and go. I would have prefered something with gears.

I thought you had people to do that for you now.

No mate, they are all embracing.

I had the call the morning that no parent wants. It went: "Are you Cody's dad, he has just fallen off his scooter". Luckily it was low speed and apart from some scrapes he is fine, if pretty shaken up. He managed to drop the scooter right outside of our Doctors so by the time we got there the Doc had checked him over and gave him the all clear. My Mrs and I drove to pick him up and I rode the scooter home for him. To be fair to him he did say that he would have picked the bike up and rode it home but witnesses saw everything and took over, shepherding him into the Dr's and calling me. For which I thanked them profusely. He is 18 and pretty inexperienced, even though I have talked to him and tried to advise, but at that age they just don't listen. I bought him a new jacket, helmet and gloves as what he was wearing before offered no protection, the jacket and gloves saved him today. He still argues the toss over wearing boots, even though he has a nice bit of road rash on his foot today. The scooter is okay too, it road fine the 4 miles home from the scene of the fall. A couple more scrapes on the bodywork and a damaged mirror are the extent of the damage. The pics below were taken the day I bought it for him, not quite so nice now.

Ok that is interesting, I am part of a Jack Russell forum and that what was I thinking of with the comment in terms of appropriate place. He is a Jack Russell cross Border Terrier, but luckily for me he has a border terrier temperament, much calmer and less serial killer than a Jack Russell. I have had 4 JRT's over the years before him and he is the best behaved by quite a margin.