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Bill T

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  1. rather sweeping statement :(...is this just the 1's at the cafe or bikers in general? have seen ridiculous driving & riding whist being out on the road be it either when riding or driving...not sure its the transport the "knobs" are using, if you are the type of person that has no regard for other road users & can't see potential dangers then you are an accident waiting to happen whether on 2 wheels or in 4 :(

    Yes without a doubt a sweeping generalisation.

    However I do get jarred off with the MC lobby constantly criticising the motorist. In London I get cut up by motorbikes more than cars, there are a hell of a lot more cars on the road than bikes. Where I live we have some lovely fast roads over Salisbury Plain, apparently riding at 130 plus... plus plus is entirely acceptable.

    In my experience there are a higher proportion of nutters amongst bikers than other road users. If riding a bike is as dangerous as the MC lobby would have us believe perhaps a few more bikers should take a little more care before delivering lectures to the rest of us.

    I actually cut bikers lot's of slack because I know if they get killed or injured anywhere near me it will be my fault regardless.

  2. Biofuels aren't used to save oil per se, it's simply that to replace biofuel you drag CO2 out of the atmosphere (carbon neutral) whereas crude doesn't afford that luxury. And you don't need new cars to run from biofuel, Old chipfat is biofuel, and there are some clapped out old taxi's running on that. Wood is Biofuel and you can run 19th century steam trains on that.

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    it's all bullshit in anything other than a jap import turbo nutter bastard car tuned to the high teeth.

    What he said.

    I kept a spreadsheet for a year on my 140 fuel consumptiion. Pretty much a consisitent 36mpg no matter what fuel was used. As for all the good the additives do, well in over a million miles of majoring on supermarket swill I am yet to have a fuel related issue with a car.

    However if you feel better it's worth the money.

  4. You're reading this completely wrong.

    The Gen 7 was introduced on a V plate about 1999. In about 2002 they redesigned the car using the same bodyshell. Quite a few minor changes.

    I had a Gen 7 pre facelift (2001 on a 51 plate). I then sold it and bought a Gen 5 facelift (1994 on an L plate). The Gen 7 was facelifted from 52 plate onward.

    You can do a few mods to make you're car look like a facelift but ultimately it's either a facelift or it's not.

  5. I've gone through a couple. The trouble is they are all vrry old and very knackered, so you get one from a breakers and voila you have just fitted an Ariel a heartbeat away from the one you just binned. I am considering a steel mast like the one on our MX5 that simply stays up, on account of it not being retractable.

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