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3 hours ago, Pedro said:

 

Bullets flying around? Couldn't care less, tea is getting cold. That's one badass lady.

Apparently it was cider!

16 hours ago, Saul said:

Heavily modified 900cc big bore TriBSA triple in hill climb trim.   The closer you look the more you see.   Was very fast and sounded awesome. 
 

I guess that it must have a T160 Trident motor in it, with the cylinders tilted forwards slightly, same as the BSA Rocket 3 motor. Nice!

Most of my lids over the years have had Double-D ring fastening chin strap, but my newest lid has a Micro buckle. I don't know, but I'm not liking this buckle. I find that it digs into my neck and Adam's apple, making it pretty sore after a couple of hours riding. I never had that with any of the Double-D ring straps on previous lids. 

But, it seems that finding new lids with a Double-D ring fastening is getting pretty difficult!

How do you guys get on with the fastening on your lids?

My weekend! Carbs choked up on Mandy's Bonneville due to lack of use!

2 hours ago, busabeast said:

I have to agree, yes it's a cleaner interior with just having a switch but it's like they tried to reinvent the wheel and in fact they have gone backwards with it

I've had electronic handbrakes on my cars for the last 20 years, never any issue with them! Hill starts are a doddle! I've had Stop/start on my cars for probably 15 years too. No issues with that either.

The car I use mostly now is an Audi Q2 1.6 Tdi. Mandy got it as her company car when it was about 3 months old, ex-demo. It's a 2017 model and has 140000km on it now, although it does fewer miles now, since she got her new car. This last year has been the most expensive,  as it needed tyres and brakes all round and the battery died a couple of weeks ago! Other than that, it's just needed routine servicing. It's a damned sight  more comfortable than the Toyota Yaris Cross that she's got now! 

Good advice! 

Interesting?

17 hours ago, XTreme said:

Russ Ballard is a great songwriter. 

Not really related to the subject, but a good illustration on how quickly things were developing at that period of time!

3 hours ago, Marcel said:

So what's the longterm outlook if it's not malignant...medication for the rest of your life  ?

Depends on the healthcare service there. If it's non malignant, then it could be that he has Green Light Laser surgery, to remove some of the excess prostate material. There are other treatments too, so he may be offered them instead. My urologist here was dead against just leaving it and trying to treat it with drugs, as he said that it could eventually damage the bladder muscles. It could also lead to kidney damage and other infections. My surgery was one year ago now and I wish that I'd had the opportunity to have it done sooner!

19 hours ago, Clive said:

Brother in law has the same, can't piss, or has to go several times per night, they have tested his PSA (high) and taken biopsies,  he is on drugs, they test him quite regularly though, his doc says he is fine at the moment, they also do not want to operate because it could leave him incontinent. 

I'm not a doctor,  but I had the same thing and my doctors and specialists in the UK were quite happy for me to keep getting up to pee several times a night and keep taking a mixture of drugs, which helped, but not completely.  On seeing my first doctor here, he immediately referred me to a Urologist. The urologist sent me for an MRI and a couple of ultrasound scans and monitored my PSA over a year or so, then suggested that I should have the laser surgery to remove some of the prostate material. His warning was that trying to pee past the restriction caused by the enlarged prostate was likely to cause damage to the bladder muscles, which was likely to result in urinary incontinence eventually. So, leaving the swollen prostate was more likely to result in incontinence than removing some of the excess prostate material. But, operations cost money...............! 

1 hour ago, alfalfa said:

 Computers were huge and had low capabilities.   

When I was working in electronic design and development at my first company, circa 1984, someone donated an old DEC PDP 11 computer to us to play with. It was the size of a small wardrobe,  with the magnetic reel-to-reel tape reader. It had a pcb which had 1kB of ferrite core memory, which was about 12" square! It was a fairly early one, from about 1974!

17 minutes ago, Marcel said:

So I went down sat to check out the bikeshops with two riding buddies ..John and Albert ..2.5 hour drive..we stopped to grab a coffee for the drive...we stopped for a breack hallway up for a piss..Albert during the entire day was running to the washroom and couldn't piss..on the way back me and John were hungry we stop for lunch..by that time Albert was starting to feel bad and we must have pulled over 4 times for him to use the washroom...and still couldn't piss....been having this problem for a few years now and hasn't gone to get check out...anyway by 1030 pm he couldn't stand the pain anymore and went to the hospital...he sent me this pic this morning...

 

Yeah, he really should have got seen to a bit sooner. They should test his PSA!