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Humour / Re: Electric vehicles
« Last post by Athame57 on Today at 03:44:38 PM »


Always surprised me as a kid that the birds knew there was something to eat in a non natural container.

We've seen a big resurgence in small birds here in our immediate surroundings, with a "reduction" in squirrel population the bird eggs survive.

Although last week a sparrow hawk came and took a small bird as it tried to get desperately into some bushes right outside rear door of house.

Think it was sparrow, as primarily brown with banding on tail feathers, and of that size too. Considerable speed and dexterity in hunting and quite something to watch.

A fair few owl and woodpecker in wider tree cover around this location.

No, no...squirrels hardly ever eat eggs! I've had reared young squirrels and have adults coming into my home all the time to eat. They will eat the most weird things too, soap, cheese and candles included but both hen and little quail's eggs get ignored. Once in a while a squirrel will take over a nesting hole but the masses of rose ringed parakeets that are taking over London are the real problem there. Crows eat out of date hens eggs I sometimes put out, and fast. Cats people find convenient to put out kill, kill and kill anything they can. Sparrowhawks are and even Peregrines recently around here cut into pigeon populations!
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Misc / Open / Re: Posting pics.😡
« Last post by McCabe-Thiele (Ted) on Today at 03:34:42 PM »
I've never used Tapatalk & my pixel 6  phone is still a mystery to me TBH I should have stuck with Samsung.
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Humour / Re: Electric vehicles
« Last post by McCabe-Thiele (Ted) on Today at 03:24:53 PM »
It's now colloquially known as Smackworth for obvious reasons.
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Humour / Re: Electric vehicles
« Last post by Rozabikes Tim on Today at 03:15:56 PM »
On my old foot beat in Derby West was a Co-op garage where all the Milk Floats were charged up overnight.
Believe it or not an empty  Milk Float would be occasionally stolen then dumped on the nearby Mackworth Council Estate.

Sounds about right knowing the "estate" Ted.  ;)
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Misc / Open / Re: Posting pics.😡
« Last post by SteveD CB500K0 on Today at 03:06:08 PM »
If you use Tapatalk you can load photos straight from your device into the body text and it gives you the options of size.

I always use the one that’s closest to 250-300k


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Personally I see little justification for using anything other than the original set up for normal road use  - a short metal brake pipe & a normal hose.
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CB500/550 / Re: Leak in front brake switch and by the caliper
« Last post by alexdecker on Today at 02:15:16 PM »
Does anyone know a good place in Europe to get braided lines for a CB550F2 from 1977? I am getting lots of google hits from the US and UK, but none from Europe.
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How often would one replace braided steel lines?

I would expect a good quality normal flexi-hose  to last betwwen 10-15 years/100K miles  unless damaged in some way during use. Good Quality Braided hose should be similar or better I would have thought.

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CB500/550 / Re: Leak in front brake switch and by the caliper
« Last post by alexdecker on Today at 01:43:59 PM »
How often would one replace braided steel lines?
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Misc / Open / Re: Posting pics.😡
« Last post by McCabe-Thiele (Ted) on Today at 01:24:22 PM »
This is the link for BBCodes  - http://www.sohc.co.uk/index.php/topic,29228.msg279861.html#msg279861


One benefit of this is you have an easy to access back up set of photos - not sure what the free limit is - I've never had to pay as yet.
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