Had you tried these - https://www.latoplast.com/products/howard-leight-max-1-uncorded-nr33-foam-earplugs-box-200-pair-orange ?
Not those no but any other foam ones I've tried come out after a while.
Not sure what's the story with my ears but ear buds and most plugs won't wonstay in.
I think city spares are open on Tuesday. I was in there yesterday and one of the lads was showing his worklist for next week. He had stuff booked in for Tuesday.
Yes thread was deleted because to me it felt like I was grilling the mechanic too much but that wasn't my intention, I was frustrated to say the least. I am extremely thankful to him for getting me back up and running.
I got a 2nd hand engine from Italy on Ebay, whole thing cost around 450 Euro shipped and he charged me 400 for fitting it which I thought was quite reasonable.
Sadly I was without the bike from the Middle of June until around the middle of August.
This engine is a lot quieter and the noises I was hearing from the old engine are gone, had I been familiar with the engine I would have immediately noticed something was wrong.
The rear cylinder was completely toast, the mechanic reckons it got starved of oil because he found a piece of gasket sealer in one of the oil holes.
Anyway, it was a badly neglected engine, and there was evidence of someone being in there before.
Definitely don't neglect valve clearance checks, not saying this was the ultimate issue but the exhaust valves were definitely way too tight, an engine blowing up at 50 Mph is f1cking some scary ass sh1t. I can't imaging that happening at 70-80 Mph.
Was it chain slippage causing timing to go off ? was it the valves too tight, was it oil starvation or all 3 ? it was not a good engine when I got it.
Anyway, it's great to have the bike back, I've gone on some 100+ mile runs the last couple of weeks.
Those are by far the best I've tried.
Now branded as Honeywell. Available cheap in bulk on Amazon.
Yes, I still have a box of them I bought there before Brexit. I couldn't go out on the bike without them, and use them for sleeping as well.
My Oxford Beast 22mm Chain 2.0 metre chain arrived, its a bit of a beast! Each link is like 1kg in weight!
Whats the total weight?? Where do you store it? Top boxes and panniers usually have a max weight of 10kg!
I think its 20kg for the chain, the lock is another 1.5kg. Its staying at home! I stopped lads a few weeks stealing my bike, dont think the shite aldi bolt cutters would have got through the existing 14mm Mammoth chain but I am not taking chances
Where is a good place to buy fairing screws? OEM Honda one is coming to 20 quid
I hear there's a new film out called Pillion 😉
It's a gay BDSM film apparently
Solid State battery motorcycle with claimed 600km range...
meh, whine around on that, not a hope. i'll stick to a scooter.
that yoke will be about 30k euro lol. then try selling it down the road. not a hope.
Whatever about price part.
I would definitely pick something like this over a scooter twenty times a day.
Marc was here riding a Verge last year…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE4m5iOwlig
Lot of shite talk in the Irish Times letters page in the last few days about compulsory hi-viz, the letter writers (more than one) want it for cyclists, motorcyclists and pedestrians!!
God forbid car drivers would have to bother to look where they're going, put all the responsibility onto the people they hit instead.
Never mind that any bike with AHO is permanently lit up as well or better than any car. But still "sorry mate I didn't see you"
They'd then probably get target fixated on the hi-vis 🥴
Cars move out of my way with the strength of the BMW pro LEDs set to normal light
Fact, then get immune to seeing them "because everyone has them" then we're back SIDSY syndrome
I want lights that melt cars that violate my right of way.
Frickin' lasers
In the IT letters page today, some pushback against the morons
Debating safety and cyclists
Sir, – Mary O’Sullivan (Letters, January 21st) and Alison Fergusson (Letters, January 23rd) call for the mandatory donning of high-vis by vulnerable road users.
I wholeheartedly disagree with their position. Scolding individuals for how they dress will do very little to improve their safety. The evidence just does not support such a measure.
The biggest killer on our roads is excessive speed and distracted driving. There is inadequate enforcement of the existing rules of the road in this country. Sensible measures that would have reduced fatalities such as a 30kmh speed limit in urban areas and the introduction of static red light cameras, were rolled back in the past few months. It seems that any measure to improve road safety but which may inconvenience drivers cannot be considered.
We will not see a reduction in deaths until we accept that every road death is preventable and start enforcing our existing legislation and improve our inadequate public transport and active travel networks. – Yours, etc,
Dr JOHN LEGGE,
Sandycove,
Co Dublin.
Sir, – It seems that mandatory hi-vis clothing for pedestrians, cyclists and, even more bizarrely, motorcyclists is now firmly established as the latest road safety panacea on The Irish Times Letters page.
No doubt its popularity is at least partly because it imposes no responsibility or inconvenience whatsoever on car drivers.
If one does not look, one does not see. I frequently encounter this despite my motorcycle being as well lit up as any car, day or night. – Yours, etc,
EOIN KIRWAN,
Dublin 22.
Sir, – The call from Alison Fergusson (Letters, January 23rd) for mandatory high-visibility clothing for cyclists, pedestrians and e-scooters reflects a regrettable but all too familiar pattern in our public discourse on road safety, namely the displacement of responsibility from those operating high-powered vehicles to those who are most vulnerable on our roads.
The notion that ever more garish clothing will compensate for distracted driving is a convenient fiction. No amount of fluorescent fabric can counteract the motorist scrolling on their phone or the driver travelling too fast.
What is required is not legislation mandating luminous attire, but a credible commitment to roads policing. Only last year the Crowe Report found members of An Garda Síochána openly acknowledged that roads policing had not been treated with sufficient seriousness within the organisation.
Without systematic enforcement of existing laws on speeding, dangerous overtaking, drink driving and mobile phone use, no additional burden placed on vulnerable road users will achieve meaningful safety gains.
Perhaps a compulsory module placing learner drivers on a stationary bicycle while a van passes at 50kmh would communicate, far more effectively than any pamphlet, the acute vulnerability experienced daily by those who travel without the protection of a steel shell. – Yours, etc,
SOPHIE McDERMOTT,
Dalkey,
Will anything be done about the scramblers/ robbed bikes now that a young girl has died?
No. This happened a few years back and nothing changed: https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/man-seriously-injured-by-scrambler-in-horror-park-accident-calls-for-change-in-law/38828364.html
the only thing that needs to be done is enforce existing laws. Pure off-roaders are already illegal, and licence/insurance requirements already exist.
It's all about enforcement. These guys ride with impunity because a) they're unlikely to be challenged/stopped and b) even if challenged AGS are loath to engage due to the perversity of being liable to charge/sued if the muppets get hurt or hurt others.
AGS need immunity from that risk and then comprehensive enforcement.
Well it seems AGS already have immunity for getting family and friends off speeding tickets. Apparently because this is the 'culture' of the force, it wouldn't be 'fair' to convict them. What a country.
They can get friends off drink driving too!!
I used to work in Dublin in the early noughties and used to drive past Lucan Motorcycles every day on the way home. They had an absolutely stunning silver 2002 VFR 800. It was before I had done anything with bikes but it really put me onto bikes! There's always a few just like it on theparking.eu so I'm always tempted.
Has anyone had one of those bikes? Just like this one here:
https://www.theparking-motorcycle.eu/used-motorcycles-detail/honda-vfr-vfr-800/800-vfr-abs/A2H5T4Z.html
Had a little spat on facebook with a couple of lads.
You try to be helpful and then get called a troll and a moron that knows nothing 😂
I blocked my name to spare my blushes 😀
in fairness he admitted to being wrong. There’s a lot of people who’d just leave the conversation and not admit it.
Yeah, but he was still a dickhead up to that point!
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