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Took it apart today to fit guards on the rad and the oil rad, put it back together and didn't have any bits left over. Sadly couldn't find anywhere interesting to take a photo so its by the side of the road in Basingstoke

I don’t have an error message. All looks normal to me. If it needs some dosh to set up something new I’m happy to weigh in.

Cheers, I actually remembered to take some when I was out just now so all good.

Does it have to be a photo taken this month?

Everyone has ancestors going back 500 or 5000 years You are lucky you can trace yours back so far.

That sounds rough for a teenager. If she has the op is it a guaranteed fix? My eldest broke an assortment of things paying rugby, he had the ops to fix them but still has residual discomfort sometimes.

If there is one thing that pisses me off it's going to undo a screw/nut/bolt and finding the thing has rusted to the point you have to get the angle grinder out. The reflector on the number plate on my Indian is held on with a mild steel nyloc, which, as it gets all the shit the rear wheel flings up, is completely rusty ... on a 4 year old bike. The extra cost for a stainless M5 nyloc has got to be like 2 cents so why the fuck not use one. Checked it over and there are various other bits where the same applies so ive just ordered £30 of A2/A4 replacements ... My old Yamaha MT07 had a mild steel swing arm, with a crappy thin coat of paint on it which got shot blasted by all the crap kicked up off the rear wheel and went rusty. It was still in warranty when I noticed it so I had it replaced. When I asked if they were going to replace it with something better the answer was no, just the same crap. When the replacement came in to the dealer I arranged to pick it up and take it off to get powder coated. Took it back in to them and they then fitted it. Why is everything so shit ... rant over, as you were...

Happy birthday both of you.

You are responding to things I didn't say. Im not into covering the world with anything, I just prefer to breath clean air than air filled with crap. As per my post above the choice to grow maize is an economic one, nothing else. It's bloody hard to turn a consistent profit here growing wheat, oats, rape etc. Why would you choose to generate power using coal or oil if it's economically viable to use wind/solar/tide/hydro? We need oil for manufacturing all sorts of things and providing energy for aviation and other things where the energy density of batteries is never going to cut it. Why waste it. The figures on renewables vs fossil fuels are available online. Or if you prefer we have web sites which show real time (ish) usage - https://grid.iamkate.com

FFS, just spent ages typing a reply and it’s vanished. Last year the UK got over 50% of our electricity from renewables ( yes I know windmills and solar panels or whatever use energy to make ), but it’s got to be the way to go. Spewing less shit into the air we breath, wherever it comes from is a good thing. The less gas we have to buy from Putin and Trump the better. Im currently talking to a farmer down the road from us about growing maize that he can put into his fermenting tank thing for generating electricity. He grows maize and feeds it into a digester tank thing he runs and he supplies enough power for about 1500 homes. It’s not a choice based on “eco” anything for us, it’s a way of hopefully limiting the losses we make some years on growing wheat and other things. One of the biggest positives for us is that the sludge that comes out of the digester thing is used as next years fertiliser. The cost of fertiliser is horrendous and our lovely govt is slapping a tax on it next year just to make breaking even as a farmer a bit more difficult. Im always surprised the UK doesn’t do more with tidal, we have plenty of opportunities. But im sure the eco mob would be moaning that the fecking billions of seagulls we have here might not like it.

Don’t remember anyone saying CO2 was poisonous, just that it and other things contribute to climate change. Global warming was a crap term for it, climate is a complicated thing with lots of variables, but no one can deny that the proportion of CO2 in our atmosphere has gone up from 250 or whatever it was 100 years ago to 425 today. what effect does that have, I don’t know, but the Royal Society says that it’s at a higher level now that at any time in the last 800,000 years, and we have managed to do that in just 150 years or so. As well as CO2 we spew all sorts of other crap out too. If not for any other reason I’d rather be breathing clean air, not affecting the climate is just a bonus.

I’ll give it a shot. I use fixmystreet which is good because you can see all of the problems others have logged too.

Shit roads, blocked drains, pot holes, areas of the road surface just breaking up, metal inspection chamber covers 2 inches plus out of level with the road surface ( if there is one)… two big pot holes about 15 feet apart in our village been there for so long the white spray paint lines the highways chap paints around pot holes for repair had worn off, some helpful soul put a traffic cone in one of them, after 3-4 weeks of being hit and driven over the thing falls apart and another one gets put in the hole, 4 cones later someone spray painted petals around the hole with the cone and drew a stalk making it into a flower … Along comes the highways contractor and fills in the hole with the petals and ignores the other one the same size 15 feet away. After a few sarcastic comments online about council efficiency I got an email explaining that the one that got filled was considered dangerous so they filled it in. It was just as dangerous for the 4 months they ignored it as is the one next to it they have also been ignoring. Walking the dog today I saw the second one has now been converted into a flower. They just piss away the money we pay in taxes … Marcel, Canada isn’t the only place going to the dogs. I bet you don’t pay the equivalent of almost £2/litre for fuel

Kudos to Canada for telling Trump to shove it where the sun don’t shine.