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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.

I had a young Swedish woman with a placard marching up and down outside my house every time I started the thing. The stand on the other side minimises the smoke cloud and eco protestors …

I rode it on the trip to Bosham on Sunday. Can't say I noticed any undue vibes but then again the FTR is very vibey so anything else is rock solid by comparison. Every car ive had has been large displacement and lots of low end torque so that's what I am kind of used to and I find it difficult to switch to using the revs to get the ooopfh out of a bike, and that's exactly what the s1000 needs. I owned the MT09 for several months before I noticed that the rev counter went green once you wound the revs up enough . The BMW really is a lovely engine. I have raised the bars by 25mm which weirdly makes a huge difference to the comfort/riding position - I need to decide if I think it would be further improved but bringing them up a bit higher but that would require altering the brake lines. Im somewhat bigger than the average rider so all I can see in the stock mirrors are my shoulders - new bar end mirrors to fit tomorrow which will improve things.

Didn’t expect that ! Thanks all, I’ll have to work on my acceptance speech

Anything Italian looks beautiful, but it’s going to be in the shop a lot.

By some miracle I actually have a picture of my frankenbike ... you can all wash your eyes out later if you don't like that style.

I could accept that, if the roads were ever resurfaced, but it’s 10 years since anyone has done that …

Bloody 20mph limits are a nightmare, they are popping up everywhere. What’s next 10mph limits?

I was tempted, I’m fairly tall ( although not as tall as Marcel or Bucky obviously ) and probably the XR would be a better fit with a bit of fiddling, but for some reason I do enjoy the naked bikes.

Black, what other colour is there?