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Car Fest in full swing down the road from me, listening to the music in my living room (window open) as I type this. Had fun turning petrol into noise (on 4 wheels ).

Im surrounded by motorway roadworks hell. Seems everywhere has these Highways England career roadworks which take 3 years to complete and cause bloody chaos for miles around as everyone tries to find ways to get round them. And when you do get stuck in them there is no bugger working. Im riding to work as much as possible to try to get through it and spending so long on the frigging motorway my tyres are going square.

Yeah, I should make the effort to get up there, it’s a bit of a hike from the south coast tho. Does look like great fun.

It will reduce the performance of the bikes engine too, at least a little bit. Never been to Santa Pod but id like to go watch. Can any one race or do you need a racing licence? What sort of times did you manage?

I have a dash cam on one of mine. To many retards unable to follow the lanes around a roundabout or look before changing lanes. I wouldn't say it's brilliant, software isn't as stable as the one I have in my car but the picture is reasonably good forward, resolution on the rear is lower for some reason.

Are you going to board out the inside?

Sorry to hear about your buddy Marcel. I rode my bike to work earlier this week as the shitty constant roadworks around here mean getting in by car takes a half hr longer than by bike. Filtering down between the lines of standing and slow moving traffic the number of people with their heads down staring at a phone was unbelievable.

I have both, both on Shoei helmets. I prefer using the DD type but the fixing points for the latch type are higher up in the lid and therefore hold it on my noggin more securely, at least that what it feels like. Thankfully ive never had to test either.

Went to the vets to get Barfo’s prescription, doing 75 ish on the dual carriageway coming home and an orange BMW came past at a good 40-50 mph faster than me. I use my mirrors quite a bit, straight road and I didn’t even see him coming.

Thanks all, bit of a surprise, especially as it's probably the only photo I've taken of it whilst out riding in the last 6 months.

It’s showing as all four sensors, so going to be the ABS control unit. Going to be an expensive month …

My son's little Hyundai is showing an ABS fault and an immobiliser fault. Got to see how serious the latter is by taking it to Hyundai, either one of those could be costly enough to write it off. Might have to buy him a new one .... as in new (used) sigh, another month I have to work ...

Two things I refuse to eat, lobster and swordfish. I love the taste of both but I also love diving and each looks better in the sea to me.

It does depend to some extent on the point at which the bike is able to produce max power, because it will be a specific rev range, and the riders ability to keep it in that max power band whilst working up through the gears…tho if it’s 0-60 yours prob easily does that in first gear

It always depresses me how poor a choice of fish we get here in most places. The supermarkets have cod, salmon, mussels and two or three other things whereas you go to a shop in France or elsewhere in Europe and they have a choice of 25 things half of which I’ve never seen before. I just buy stuff at random when I’m there, just to try it. I do love sardines or sea bream cooked on a grill.