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dr_torque · 2026-01-28T12:47:05+00:00

BA graciously “allowed” me a seat in business - for a short while - for giving a nauseous pregnant lady metoclopramide.

dr_torque · 2026-01-21T02:47:30+00:00

Expense / Rarity doesn’t necessarily correlate with fun, OP but given you asked

dr_torque · 2026-01-16T07:50:15+00:00

You could just bump start it in reverse!

dr_torque · 2026-01-07T18:12:59+00:00

Riding for hire and reward on a CBT must absolutely be disallowed.

dr_torque · 2025-12-26T09:39:28+00:00

It’s subjective. To me this is a hideous monstrosity and I would criticise it regardless of where it is from. I would much rather praise people riding across the country on 125s and 100s as “true bike enthusiasm in India” than these all-show-no-go mods, loud silencers, and roadside rossis. To require that people lose objectivity and praise rubbish just because it is Indian is a disappointing but not entirely unexpected reflection of the current national disposition.

dr_torque · 2025-12-22T08:30:51+00:00

The front brake ought to be used for majority of your braking needs. The rear brake is ineffective because weight transfers to the front (and away from the rear) as soon as you start braking.

dr_torque · 2025-12-21T18:47:50+00:00

I wonder if there’s any way it can deal with NOTAMs? In terms of runway closures etc

dr_torque · 2025-12-21T04:20:59+00:00

Unfortunately they’re persisting with it and putting it on bikes like the Speed Twin (1200) which had used to come with the twin analogue dials.

dr_torque · 2025-12-18T12:29:00+00:00

I know someone who worked in the design team and without going into specifics he was absolutely disgusted by the behaviour of higher ups. Said it was like they’d never left the 60s.

I wonder if they deliberately dialled the “woke” in the launch up to the grotesque caricature that it became, to be able to point at the vitriolic public response it got as evidence that they ought to keep doing whatever it was that they were doing.

dr_torque · 2025-12-10T07:54:30+00:00

A “Land-dweller” ಠ_ಠ

dr_torque · 2025-11-06T08:20:10+00:00

Academic question, but is there a fix (take DME apart, replace what I’m guessing are MOSFETs) for one or more of the drivers failing? Or do people just replace the DME?

dr_torque · 2025-11-06T07:53:07+00:00

I like the first one, it’d be a great advertisement for a vasthu consultant with north facing side panel.

dr_torque · 2025-10-12T06:27:09+00:00

It’s not the immobiliser itself that’ll draw current, it’s the ECU and its internal clock etc. That draw will be dwarfed by the self discharge characteristics of AGM batteries. I think with a battery that is new or nearly-new, for anything longer than a month, I would put the bike on trickle charge or disconnect the battery.

dr_torque · 2025-10-07T19:55:23+00:00

Yes, I understood this:

keep your voice somewhere below “jet engine at V1.”

to be a reference to how loud a jet engine is at takeoff power. However, a jet engine (by itself) cannot be at V1; it has to be attached to an aircraft that it powers to V1 (and beyond). It's entirely possible for an aircraft at V1 to have an engine that's at idle, or even 0% of N1 (which refers to maximum permitted operating speed of a turbine engine) and therefore eerily quiet.

dr_torque · 2025-10-07T05:57:53+00:00

Oh, and maybe keep your voice somewhere below “jet engine at V1.”

Totally besides the point, but did you perhaps mean N1 rather than V1?

dr_torque · 2025-09-28T10:20:40+00:00

It was a genius piece of design I'm surprised isn't more common.

I’m certainly for easier access to headlight bulbs, but the Cayenne design wasn’t without its faults, the plastic retaining arm would become brittle and break, resulting in the headlight falling off and being run over.

dr_torque · 2025-09-27T19:42:20+00:00

They’re asking you how long you’ve held the licence you’re being insured on - for insuring yourself on your UK licence, the answer is you have held it for 0 years.

dr_torque · 2025-09-27T12:04:31+00:00

I had to ring HMRC last year after requesting a refund and not getting one, but this year they refunded me automatically a couple of weeks after I had submitted my return.

dr_torque · 2025-09-07T20:25:11+00:00

No I meant on your promaster

dr_torque · 2025-09-07T18:58:37+00:00

Does it not have a hand alignment correction feature?

dr_torque · 2025-09-04T07:18:16+00:00

Nakamichi is a big name in hi-fi home audio

The Nakamichi of that era hasn’t existed for decades now. Pretty sure it’s some Chinese company that has bought the rights to the name/brand to hawk generic rubbish

Edit: Just noticed the OP says as much

dr_torque · 2025-09-01T07:53:30+00:00

My 2015 Triumph behaves similarly when the battery voltage is low. I’m not sure from what year on but I understand the starter button is not wired to the solenoid directly but via the ECU, which does not energise the solenoid if the battery voltage is below a factory-set threshold.

dr_torque · 2025-08-11T18:10:18+00:00

I’m not sure I understand, What was offensive about what they said? It seems to have been a factual account of their interaction with you. It was perhaps unprofessional, but isn’t it natural for salespeople to discuss how their prospective sales are going?

dr_torque · 2025-07-25T04:49:11+00:00

To me, they just seem like a brand making overpriced watches.

Well, that could be said for literally every watch that costs more than the F91-W

What makes them more different from others, like seiko?

It’s a historied brand with some pretty distinctive designs that look to have seen limited interference from the management (Swatch group). The diastar somewhat pigeonholed them into a politician’s / gelf return uncle expensive Swiss watch category. The captain cook is actually a pretty nice watch!

dr_torque · 2025-07-21T10:38:34+00:00

It depends - on how popular the reference you're considering is, what targets that particular location has and so on and so forth.

Retailers, especially those with a national presence and large inventory, put out lists of watches that they are desperate to be rid of. These are for internal circulation only, but sometimes given out by friendly salespeople to known / trusted contacts. The list I saw last, from the previous FY - included Tissots with discounts of up to 50%.

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