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Love this stuff in principle. But follow it through: You get your JSA if you look for a job. If you, as well as looking for a job, get up off your arse to do these odd jobs and make some crap money, they will (probably) take your JSA away, possibly pound for pound if you declare it (and you'll be worse off than ever before as you've paid out expenses to go and do this stuff), and you're a benefits fraudster if you don't. This in itself is a major issue with the benefits system, the idea that doing the extra work will not actually benefit you. I think (hope) this is the problem that universal credit is intended to solve?

They tend to scretch more when they're new and when they're knackered.

16mm links is the ideal, if you can take the weight. Doesn't have to be expensive and well made like some of the well known brands as at such a size they won't fit in the jaws of most bolt croppers, and provide maximum deterrant value. They start to get more challenging to fit in the jaws of the ordinary size (smaller) croppers at 13mm and upwards so i've heard, so would say that is the minimum to be useful.

Start by just checking it. It may not need adjusting. It's really easy to check with the Haynes helping, and the feeler gauges. Never adjusted it myself, mine has shims

Those are the ones i've been through a few of. They don't last very long, but usually conk out whilst its still new enough to contact the seller and get it replaced

+1, even if you ultimately get a garage to do the work. At least you will know what needs/you would like doing, and rather than asking for 'a service' you can tell the garage what you actually want them to do and perhaps not do, and then they can give you a price that is meaningful. It'll also give you the chance to do the easier jobs yourself, and not pay for someone else to do them. POWDER (Petrol, Oil, Water(s), Drive, Electrics, Rubbers) alone would cover the safety aspect for such a new bike. And you can (should) do that yourself. TL;DR: There's a hell of a lot that *could* be included, or excluded in 'a service'.

Which Xena?

Greggs. As i implied earlier, i would use the Poundland coolant if it was safe for use in aluminum engines (i.e. if it met the spec). I wouldn't mix it with tap water though - There's ways to save money, and then there's just false economies (Besides which, this appears to be a ready-mix, not a concentrate). Assuming it's even compatible with aluminum engines, i would avoid it on the basis of advertising a freezing point of -12c, which isn't enough of a safety margin if you consider the idea of tolerances...

Hopefully they're honest as adjusting the clutch cable takes just a few seconds.

yep, wheel it into your living room, keep warm in front of the fire an spend the evenings taking your bike to bits Mmm, yes please

RD250? Sounds a little more like it, to my understanding the tighter 125 learner restrictions came in because of the fatality rate for learners riding those 250s To the OP: As someone who's finally managed to afford a car after 5 winters of winter commuting by bike, don't sell the cage!

+1.

Not sure, but i know sometmes the police give out section 59's based on 'concerned members of the public' reports, let alone on actual video evidence. Edit: Just remembered a conversation with my driving instructor - Yes, the police will prosecute based on footage and a report from a member of the public. Or even without footage, if there's another witness on top of the person reporting it and one of the witnesses is a 'professional'.

The solution is to 'hide' the camera in the fairing etc. Ideally wired into the ignition circuit, with the feature that once it fills the memory card, starts to overwrite the file again, from the beginning. Faff free - just need to remember to check once and a while that it's still working! (if anyone knows of a suitable camera for that, i'd be interested)

Why not '(post)graduates only'? No age specified, and not age specific, but anyone who has a degree under the age of 21 is someone who'd probably be a most excellent (nerdy, perhaps?) tenant. And everyone else will be 21+. Job jobbed, no?