15 years, that's really good. The hardness of your water makes a massive difference to how long they last too.

Tonight - meal out with the missus
Saturday - staying with granny. 96 years old and sharp as a tack
Sunday - same, but she's by the sea so no hardship.

... are far worse for human health than a petrol engines because of the particulates. We should have gone small capacity petrol turbo/super chargers years ago. Much much cleaner and getting to diesel mpg and above in some cases. There are now millions of diesel company car users, myself included ...

A washing machine.

Can't complain last one was 15 years old and still working so can't complain. Hopefully this new one will be good for another 15 years.

Looks like the nutters are up to it again, next years attempt will be for 1000 mph (fubar) http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/09/25/bloodhound_1000mph_rocket_car_unveiled/ The bit that really made me go (shocked) is the fact that they are using a ...

How many bikes do you know that have a flat spot at about 4k??

I remember hearing about a Ferrari that would shut down half the cylinders if you held it at a specific RPM..

This has been going on for years, just nobody has made a furs about it until now.

IMO obviously.

If they committed to building (and selling obviously) a thousand of these over the next two years they could race it World Super Bikes in 2016 Good shout Monty (y) . TBH no reason why they coudn't race it next year and pull out in 2017 and hopefully enter a new CBR1000RR ...

If they committed to building (and selling obviously) a thousand of these over the next two years they could race it World Super Bikes in 2016

My friend crashed his brand new panigale there a few years ago... expensive place.

Your right Jack and it's a great feeder fot the international class. The current sharp end of wsbk is bsb from 6 or 7 years ago.

Great to see the top 4 riders in the wsbk championship are all Brits

Had to look that up, 1 is 0.0000116 inches! Yup I knew it was pretty extreme (22 years ago I was doing that) The lapping plate got sent away for a calibration check every year, but we just checked under a 40x microscope and when the components looked like polished ...

... much tougher than Euro 3 and noise tests includes mechanical noise testing of the engine too. In terms of loud and raucous bikes, i suspect next years may be the last...and with VW being caught out by fixing their cars to pass the legal requirements only whilst being tested and not whilst in ...

Blade wrote:Congratulations to Kawasaki on their first Wsbk Manufacturers title in 27 years of world supers.

Should be me and Perks on those big Ninjas

... much tougher than Euro 3 and noise tests includes mechanical noise testing of the engine too. In terms of loud and raucous bikes, i suspect next years may be the last...and with VW being caught out by fixing their cars to pass the legal requirements only whilst being tested and not whilst in ...

... much tougher than Euro 3 and noise tests includes mechanical noise testing of the engine too. In terms of loud and raucous bikes, i suspect next years may be the last...and with VW being caught out by fixing their cars to pass the legal requirements only whilst being tested and not whilst in ...

Wondered why you'd gone so quiet! Congrats and best of luck, first 6 YEARS is the hardest so don't despair! You'll be a seasoned pro in no time. You been drinking Monty or are you not feeling well again (giggle) Fixed for you. ;) Congratulations D6. (y) Go ...

... with his "bliss" comment ;) (sweat) Hope you manage to juggle all those aspects, sounds pretty fraught at the moment.! Anyway, sixteen years isn't very long. You'll soon have time to say to yourself " well that's done, now where did I put my old motorbike .." (nod)

Wondered why you'd gone so quiet! Congrats and best of luck, first 6 YEARS is the hardest so don't despair! You'll be a seasoned pro in no time. Fixed for you. ;) Congratulations D6. (y) Go easy on him, ignorance is bliss! D it's great fun, dead easy and you'll ...

kiwikrasher wrote:Wondered why you'd gone so quiet!

Congrats and best of luck, first 6 YEARS is the hardest so don't despair! You'll be a seasoned pro in no time.

Fixed for you.

Congratulations D6.

Tbh I reckon Dunlop has got a lot smoother in recent years. He still rides it like he stole it and is exciting to watch but I don't think he is anywhere near as reckless as he was only 3 or 4 years ago.