Author Topic: Question for my UK friends (Read 1498 times)

qts · « **Reply #15 on:** August 02, 2001, 03:26:00 PM »

I would not recommend driving in London.

If you want to drive, I would suggest that you stay out of London completely and you stay in a different place each night - if you're visiting Duxford, stay in Cambridge; if you're visiting Windsor Castle, stay in Windsor etc. Otherwise you're going to spend several hours a day in the train.

Swoop · « **Reply #16 on:** August 02, 2001, 03:54:00 PM »

For anyone that doesnt know, Jenga is my girlfriend.......which is why I'm wanted back in Blighty.

Betown, nah matey I moved out here over 2 years ago. I keep coming back though.....1) to see Jenga and 2) to get cheese and onion pasties (damn Cloggies dont know what good food is). When ya coming over BT? I'm close to Amsterdam, bout 1/2 an hour south in a town called Amstelveen (tram 51 from central station), you GOTTA drop by.

And bring some king size Rizla with ya, they're 3 times the price out here.

[ 08-02-2001: Message edited by: Swoop ]

Swoop · « **Reply #17 on:** August 02, 2001, 04:00:00 PM »

P.S.

Charon,

dude, if ya wait til May then you're gonna see rain, rain and more rain. Late september should be fine in GB, after all.....the Germans found the weather perfectly ok to wage the Battle of Britain in september.

Serapis · « **Reply #18 on:** August 02, 2001, 04:24:00 PM »

Quote

dude, if ya wait til May then you're gonna see rain, rain and more rain. Late september should be fine in GB, after all.....the Germans found the weather perfectly ok to wage the Battle of Britain in september.

Swoop

So true Swoop...I can be dense at times! I already joke that I'll always remember my anniversary, because September 15 was the day the RAF turned the tide in the BoB. A certain person fails to find the humor in that thought

Charon

[ 08-02-2001: Message edited by: Charon ]

Betown · « **Reply #19 on:** August 03, 2001, 03:33:00 AM »

Well, if you consider that "Gear" is like god knows how much more over in the UK, and illigal. Then who do you think has the better deal?

But yep,
When it gets closer to the time I will catch up with ya. Collage and getting a job is priority at the moment so I have enough money to buy my bike

Bike Laws in the UK SUCK!

CyranoAH · « **Reply #20 on:** August 03, 2001, 05:04:00 AM »

Hey Charon, if you really want to know what's good weather, take the time to visit one or two days the mediterranean basin... Here in Barcelona the weather is at its best on September and up to mid-october (not too hot but not chilly yet, either).

In any case, have fun!

Daniel, aka Cyrano

Swoop · « **Reply #21 on:** August 03, 2001, 11:28:00 AM »

Bike laws suck?

Why?

(background: As well as being an MCSE, CCND & Ju-Jitsu instructor I'm also a fully qualified motorcycle instructor)

-dead- · « **Reply #22 on:** August 03, 2001, 03:06:00 PM »

Hmmm Amersham - well thinking about it, it must be 4 years since I last turned up in Amersham... Must go back again soonish and see how much it's changed (well - you never know, it might happen

)

I suppose it'll be coming up for Mushroom season over there - now there's something I miss... *sigh* that and going out drinking with tall people in all those short pubs in the old town. Ah the simple pleasures of life in leafy Bucks.

Hehe.
<Nostalgia>
Does the Bucks Exaggerator (oops err Examiner) still rave on about gypsies and travellers ruining our countryside? Do crop circles still turn up on the hill up to Beaconsfield? Is Amersham still electing Tories, or did the last election get rid of them altogether?
</Nostalgia>
My word, quite brings a lump to throat - permission for bottom lip to wobble, sah!

<S>

-dead-

Betown · « **Reply #23 on:** August 03, 2001, 06:15:00 PM »

Great Swoop,
Get your bellybutton back over here and teach me how to ride!

Well, personaly. Apart from the (scuse my language) F***ING STUPID LAW ON DARK VISORS!

It's also a bit of a farce trying to get your licance in the first place, then if I actualy get my licance, I am limited to a 125 for 2 years? WTF's up with that? I mean honistly. Biking is in my family, my grandfather rode, my father rode and I am planning to ride. My Dad has a Honda CBR600 which is a sweet bike, hopefully in just under 3 years I will be riding something similar (or the exact same bike if things go to plan)

I think it's a really bloody stupid idea for a 17 year old who has passed his test to jump straight from a 125 onto a superbike. But I don't think that limiting us to a 33bhp bike for 2 years is any better. Fine, limit us to something that actualy goes a bit, 60bhp would do me fine! Then I could get my nice shiney Aprillia RS250, throw a nice arrow can on it and be sorted!

Untill then, I am stuck as a pillion

But come on 33bhp?

That, to be honest is why I think bike laws suck in this country. It's my own personal opinion and if you don't agree then I understand.

When i do finaly hit 17 we decided that we where going to get one of these for me

Swoop · « **Reply #24 on:** August 03, 2001, 10:32:00 PM »

Blame the Germans.

And thank your lucky stars we dont have leg protectors or laws involving suits of armour.

The law on dark visors may be changing......eventually. A study was commissioned bout 6 months ago, the gov have the results but now wanna try even more tests in adverse conditions. The BMF has responded to the gov with "Why the shreck would anyone leave a black visor on in the rain at night? what's the point in testing it?" to which the gov have replied "Bollocks".

33 Bhp aint so bad (not that I'd know, went straight from an AR80 to an RGV, never even ridden a 125), ya can ride a restricted CB500.....they aint *that* slow.

Betown · « **Reply #25 on:** August 04, 2001, 02:26:00 AM »

It's still a put put. Yes I can ride a restricted CBR6 if I want to but what the fun in that? Would I even get out of 3rd gear?

The other important factor that has to be considered is Insurance. At 17, a brand new Aprillia RS 125 which costs me about £3000 to buy new will cost me £1525 to insure. I laughed and put the phone down.

Well, yeah I guess the Germans have a talent for going over the top on things like that sometimes. But you really have to be a bit barmy to ride without some sort of leg protection (ie. Leathers or at least jeans) After reading the Horror Stories in MCN it's scary stuff. I know what happens to peoples legs if they come off at 30mph and slide alone the road. Let alone 60 or 70.

Can be funny though, my friend wrapped his brand new 996 round a barrier at a race day up north. We spent the next 6 months trying to dig the tarmac out of it and get the frame in a position where is was able to except the rest of the bike

You have any idea how much a new set of fairing is for a Ducati 996???

Swoop · « **Reply #26 on:** August 04, 2001, 06:00:00 AM »

At 17 I aint exactly shocked.

lessee here.....

at 19 on a AR80, TPFT was £180
at 20 on an RGV250, TPFT was £650
at 22 on a ZXR400 TPFT was £780 the 1st year, they wanted £840 the second but I changed insurers and got it for £440, changed again the next year and got it down to £260.
at 26 on a YZF-R6 fully comp was £650, then I hadda change insurers to get a longer allowed period abroad (3 months up from 30 days) and it went up to £700 for TPFT. Bastards. I'm expecting a big drop next year cos I'll be 28 and apparently it gets much cheaper then (wtf the diff is from 27 to 28 I dunno).

ha! tried to insure my R6 in Holland......"Ja, is not possible". Got a quote for a Dutch registered R6.....bike was 28,000 NLG, insurance was 18,000 NLG (exchange rate is about 3.8:£1).

When I say "Leg protectors" I dont mean jeans, I mean dirty great plastic sleves mounted on the bike that trap you to it if ya fall off. That was a great German idea that (thankfully) the Brit gov said "Bollocks" to.

Betown · « **Reply #27 on:** August 04, 2001, 07:49:00 AM »

Bugger that!
Yeah my dad insured his CBR6 for about £250 fully comp this time round. Some weard insurance company let him transfur most of his no claimes bonus from the car over to his bike, which was pretty cool of them.

What are the biking laws over on the mainland? Same as over here?

Swoop · « **Reply #28 on:** August 04, 2001, 09:15:00 AM »

Dunno mate, I totally ignore these wierd Cloggy laws over here. Long as they cant catch me (and they cant

) then I'm happy.

Betown · « **Reply #29 on:** August 04, 2001, 10:59:00 AM »

He He He He He.... Silly Cloggies!
My Dad is getting a new MV Augusta F4 Senna inported into the country at this very moment. Now, you wanna outrun someone, that is what ya wanna do it on!!
Whooo HoooO!