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My first army unit still had centurion ARV's which have a rolls royce meteor engine - basically a merlin engine without the supercharger and they ran through a (bloody huge!) carburettor rather than using fuel injection. Used to sound frickin awesome when we had the engines out on a run-up stand for testing, made the ground shake too!!

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ahhh sorry, I didn't realise! just kidding, I've done it loads of times!

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aether Damn firehawk - you must have pipped me by a nano-second! and lizzie - Umm!! you used a word that had already been put down!

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I'm a winner! My ZZR still has the original battery from 1993!!!!!!!! now that's reliability!!!

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Ahh! that reminds me of my army days , when I joined my first unit we still had Centurion ARV's with Rolls Royce Meteor main engine and Moggie minor GUE, everything was either BSC or Whitworth - I had a complete seperate toolbox just for them!! - but I loved it!

lifes a journey mate,just follow the right road a satnav would come in handy life rarely goes according to the plan you create, something unexpected always happens - sometimes good, sometimes not so good - the thing is to accept whatever does happen, as it inevitably will! and grow from it

Yeah - alright Zohan As to the question of employment Airlock, tell me something about your hobbies and interests - I know that everybodys life experiences are different, but you sound like a hands-on outdoors type, much like myself. I left college having pretty much squandered my education if I'm honest, got an A level and 6 O levels, but could have done much better!!, anyhew I eventually found my way into the army and it turned out to be the best time of my life, I was in the REME so I got a trade out of it but it gave me so much more as well. Anyway - the long and the short of it are I would recommend trying to find a job that is related to but not actually your hobbies, because in my experience you will enjoy it more, do better in it, actually look forward to working rather than see it as a chore, and you will feel so much more fulfilled as a result - and, you will still enjoy your hobbies instead of them becoming tedious and boring

You see peeps, ze problem is that the planet has it's own unique fluctuating rhythm, and we puny humans have decided to ignore it and impose our own rigid calendar system because in our little world everything has to run like clockwork!!, so there are occasions where the pattern of seasonal change is at variance with our little scraps of paper that say it's such and such time of year!! Indeed I would go so far as to say that a huge proportion of the modern human society is totally oblivious to the world around them!! - except for a few of us country folk - you know who you are!

personally I used to boogey to this, among others http://youtu.be/Nm1g8FFRArc

or they'll collapse under the weight of snow

Maybe they should re-introduce the cane into schools too - for the worst offenders!, I lived in south africa for a number of years when I was young and they had the cane there - I can absolutely guarantee that ALL the pupils in every school I attended were of exemplary behaviour , it's this whole bs thing with "human rights" and "political correctness" - our government has gone bonkers with it all to the point that if someone breaks into your house and you beat the sh*t out of them, you get arrested for assault while they get tea and biscuits at "victim counselling", or if you accidentally brush against or bump into someone in the street, you can find yourself in court being sued for injuring them!! ,as for political correctness gone mad, I remember the good old days of BLACKBOARDS and GOLLIWOGS etc - because of all this "softly does it" crud nobody has either any respect for, or faith in authority anymore and certain people think they can get away with blue murder!!, I think it's a bloody good idea personally, it would clear a lot of space in the prisons for proper crims and those punished for their misdemeanours with the cane would also have to live with the shame of their visible punishment which would be a very effective deterrent to other potential offenders - as long as they don't apply it to speeding in rural areas cos I'd have a very sore bottom!

If you don't have any joy elsewhere, you could try OutdoorWorldDirect.co.uk as they have a lot of deals on at the moment and you could get something quality that would usually be above your price range! I would say take a look at Gelert tents as they are usually very good quality and in my experience are quick and easy to erect too!

I saw this on another forum too, however it is doomed to failure because when you read the regulations regarding epetitions it states that you have to include precise reasons and reasoned arguments to back up your case otherwise it will simply be disregarded, so a simple "we protest" will be swiftly binned!, what it needs is a re-written petition that explains in detail the detrimental effect that anti-tampering laws will have on the biking community, and the potential loss of revenue due to motorcycle businesses failing and after-market businesses being bankrupted. Not to mention that if the government insists on following the legislation to it's letter, then all the police motorcycles in the country will become illegal vehicles!!

It's at times like this that I wish we still had national service!! if they want to kick off let's send them to afghanistan and see how long they last then!!, this is a result of too much government interference with our everyday lives! we the public, and the police force have had too many individual powers legislated away from us to keep everyone "safe"!! so when something like this happens we are powerless to stop it without putting ourselves on the wrong side of the law. and all of this kicked off because the police "wrongly" shot a man, even though he was suspected of being involved in gun crime and an unlicensed gun was found in his home!! they're damned if they do and damned if they don't!! Quite frankly I think our society is doomed to chaos and anarchy as long as we live in a democracy where "political correctness" has gone out of control!!

I had a cx500!! - it was the custom model but I took the up and overs off and put a set of rxs100 bars on, it pulled very well, shed loads of torque for a 500!!, the only iffy bit with them was they had a rep for eating camchain tensioners mine did go through one while I had it but other than that it was fine and I'm sure that honda came up with a fix for it eventually. don't know about the xs500 I'm afraid, but I'm sure whichever you go for it will be fun!!

FFS! what's all the fuss about?? - I've done that loads of times!! - although I've usually parted company with my bike by then

I would be inclined to go KMX mate, I had one as my learner bike back in 198* (sorry, date to protect my dignity ) very comfy to ride, easy to de-restrict (no silly power valves etc!) and plenty of go too, used to go everywhere on mine, including lots of green laning

I'm guessing that the clue is in the title, and it's german ergo flugtag maybe something like "fly day" and I think it's like the bognor birdman type of thing - at a guess! Oops - I was beaten to the punch but at least I was on the right track

Being a big fan of 90's bikes it'd have to be something from that era, but I'll never get rid of my ZZR as long as I can still ride it - of all the bikes I've owned it's the first one that perfectly matches my riding style/ability, although I wouldn't mind adding an early zx6 or cbr600f to my collection for scratching and trackdays

Nice bike matey, there's some lovely roads down there too, I used to live in Swaziland and we regularly went on holidays down into s.a. - usually around Durban and the Transkei area but once or twice we ventured as far as cape-town too. Beautiful country!