Thanks everybody for the responses. The engine is indeed a marine version of BMC 1500 and I am a happy owner of my first narrow boat B) 4mph speed limit is not for fainthearted :evil: The engine was unfortunately under water, but the whole engine compartment looks reasonably good and engine looks in...

Hi, from electric cars/bikes of the future to the dirty old diesels of the past. I might need to revive an old bmc 1500 diesel, which was under water for a bit due to flood damage until I get it under it's own power to the garage. Anybody have experience spannering them? Would changing oil, diesel, ...

Right I am going to call it out, all this press coverage on electric motor cars and now motorcycles, what has the world been smoking!!!!! Electricity, produced mostly by burning fossil fuels and nuclear power, so what is cleaner petrol powered cars/motorbikes or fossil/nuclear powered cars/motorbik...

Cost me £40 K for the pleasure of becoming CE registered. That's for steel fabrication. Had no option. No CE marking. No orders = no business. A bit off topic, but I was intrigued to see the number of sellers about last year when I was pricing a steel portal frame building* who were NOT CE register...

fact ,not fiction , one of my clients has had too Reg with every European country they deal with in VAT , also they have too have apoint a lawyer with power of attorney in each euro country they deal with . So very sad and unavoidable .& Fact . a lot of this whining is about safety of equipment...

Thanks all for the replies. Please do not mix the "CE marking" which is self compliance to safety directives and standards with so called CE certification etc, which does not really exist and is just a marketing bull droppings. I am familiarising with directives and other paperwork, but as...

Hello, thinking of manufacturing and selling a product, which I designed in uni a couple of years back. But am a bit bewildered with EU directives and wonder if anybody here deal with such things? Would be great to hear some practical/real world experience side of things. Especially with low voltage...

engineering wise it looks a bit of rushed together bike. and you expect more refinement in such price range bike. did not get the chance to ride the bike, so maybe the riding outweighs all the short backs.

got the ticket already

looking forward to seeing bobber and new aprilia dorsoduro.

heard the rumour that Triumphs' bobber preorders are filling up quickly and will keep them busy turning out bikes for a while next year (thumbs)

Scott has a very nice new line of their clothing, which imho is how all the riding gear must be made: 1. internal thermal layer can be taken out and used as a normal inversible jacket, which looks good. 2. the outer jacket/trousers material is tough, light and with plenty of ventilation zips for var...