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anth_85

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  • Birthday 27/09/1985

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    VFR800
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    North East UK

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  1. I have just completed it. Insurance lapses on June 9th, SORN from today. Pretty painless. My bike is in my garage, the front wheel is fixed to a ground anchor. As extra insurance, I'll remove the rear wheel, which I am tempted to refurb while it's off anyway. If someone wants it that badly to get into the garage, bust the chain attaching it to the ground anchor, bring their own wheel in order to move it, then manage to squeeze it past the car on my drive then they are welcome to it.
  2. Anyone else considering taking their bike off the road in the current situation? 99% of the use of mine is for commuting and already hasn't moved for 10 weeks. I am now not doing that commute and won't be, likely for quite a while. My insurance expires on the 6th so I might save myself a few quid and not renew until I actually need to. I may do the same with the VED, but that will require a refund since I paid a year upfront, it's only £88 for the year so I am not sure if it's worth the hassle.
  3. i posted about making a diy one of these a year or two ago. I still have the charger coil but haven't got round to fitting it to my X grip. The idea of putting my phone in the holder and it automatically charging with no cables is great. I believe in 2021 the iPhone will be released with no ports, it will be slammed by the media, then slowly everyone else will do it. Exactly the same as the headphone jack. To be fair I cant remember the last time I used the port on my phone so I wouldn't miss it.
  4. I've just created this on the maps.google.com page, Untitled.jpg Looks pretty similar to me. I didn't need to add any destinations, I just dragged the route where I want to go. Obviously I can add upto 10 places during that but If i wanted to go places where I didn't know where I was going, I could use the suggested route as a baseline then adjust the route if I want something more scenic. There is then a button on the left to sent that route to my phone. The argument for cost depends on what phone you have already, I am a bit of a geek so I usually have the latest iPhone, I'd have that regardless of whether I used it for a sat nav. It seems pointless spending another £300 every few years on a sat nav where the maps stop getting updated. The sat nav built into my XC60 costs £180 from volvo to be updated, which has took me wrong a few times trying to go along roads that are no longer there and I've had to fallen back onto google maps, so updates are pretty important. If you have a phone that is only capable of calls and texts it's a different argument. The lack of signal or data allowance argument also comes up, but that falls down when you learn google maps lets you download the whole area around the route your taking so you have a local copy before you leave the house, you don't need to use any data while you are out. Similar but not the same! and as you have found out you can only add upto 10 places! some of my routes have had more than 100 shaping points! I tried to create the route using my phone and it was a pain in the arse to be honest! maps on the computer are much easier but still limited. If you want to talk about the cost of sat nav then bear in mind that my old tomtom rider cost £350 new (I only paid £100) and it lasted 10 years so thats £35 a year (or £10 for mine) My zumo 590 cost me £423 and if it lasts 10 years then £42.30 a year is a good price for me! it's similar because I don't know the route or area you want, the point is it can be done just as easily with unlimited 'shaping points' when you are sitting on a computer then just send it to your phone and you are away. You can even look on street view to check places out in advance. For the cost the important thing was that tomtom gives you 2 years of map updates, then what do you do? You either put up with out of date maps that could take you wrong, or you spend another 350/423 on a new one. With google maps, it's always updated for free.
  5. I've just created this on the maps.google.com page, Looks pretty similar to me. I didn't need to add any destinations, I just dragged the route where I want to go. Obviously I can add upto 10 places during that but If i wanted to go places where I didn't know where I was going, I could use the suggested route as a baseline then adjust the route if I want something more scenic. There is then a button on the left to sent that route to my phone. The argument for cost depends on what phone you have already, I am a bit of a geek so I usually have the latest iPhone, I'd have that regardless of whether I used it for a sat nav. It seems pointless spending another £300 every few years on a sat nav where the maps stop getting updated. The sat nav built into my XC60 costs £180 from volvo to be updated, which has took me wrong a few times trying to go along roads that are no longer there and I've had to fallen back onto google maps, so updates are pretty important. If you have a phone that is only capable of calls and texts it's a different argument. The lack of signal or data allowance argument also comes up, but that falls down when you learn google maps lets you download the whole area around the route your taking so you have a local copy before you leave the house, you don't need to use any data while you are out.
  6. do people still buy sat navs these days? I thought everyone used their phone with googlemaps or waze.
  7. I'd be checking the rear tyre pressure first and then making sure the nuts holding the wheel on are tight.
  8. I don't see a problem with this. In one regard we've come a long way in the last 30 years at improving the effect we have, in another regard we are far worse. Plastic is one of the things we've got far worse at, reducing usage right down can only be a good thing. I have a friend who is travelling around Asia at the money and showed me a photo of the beach where loads of little bits of multicoloured plastic had washed up, if that is what had washed up on that little stretch of beach that the amount that hadn't must be huge. Anyone who says climate change isn't real or we aren't having an effect, just go back 60 years to 1952 for the great smog of London.
  9. new front tyre needed after 7k miles all good apart from that. I thought a set of michellin road 5 would last longer. I can only guess the issue I've had with the sticky front caliper has had some effect on it.
  10. it depends on the size i guess. Blackcircles list them as £85 to £115 depending on size. So the extra on top is the charge for the labour. If your size would have been on the lower end I think it's expensive, but if it's the £115 one then £30 for them to come out, remove the wheel from the bike, fit the new tyre then put the wheel back on is probably about right.
  11. fixed, the guy in the tyre place said the hole itself was tiny.
  12. factory spec is 42psi rear, i figured with some coming out having an extra few psi would help me get home.
  13. I work not that far from westgate road so usually drop it off at Armstrong’s then walk upto work and pick it up on my way home. Where at Boldon? Could be handy for me to go there since it’s a couple of miles away rather than 12miles. I use barkers just off north road by Asda's in boldon cant fit it in until Thursday or Friday
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