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I can relate to that one... "damn fly"...... that fly is yellow and black...... WASP...ahhhhhhhhh... Sh!it Sh!t sh1t.... most distracting while lining yourself up for a corner!

haiax0 wrote:I can relate to that one... "damn fly"...... that fly is yellow and black...... WASP...ahhhhhhhhh... Sh!it Sh!t sh1t.... most distracting while lining yourself up for a corner!

Got in the shower 15 mins ago to get ready to go into town and discovered I was sharing the shower with a wasp Thankfully she must've been on her last legs and was able to squash it with the bottle of shower gel

Getting a wasp in your lid on the move.........

Happend to me last week.

Whats that crawling past my nose? Yellow? Black? OH SH*T!!!!

20 yards of rubber on the road. Helmet off in seconds. Took me 5 minutes to find me ruddy glasses again. They were lying in the middle of the road.

Home for a clean pair of drawers

Don’t you just hate...

Road tax...feeeeeeeeeking hated everything about road tax

I hate the fact that we need to pay road tax, considering the amount of tax on fuel...the more fuel you use, the more tax you pay...like paying road tax twice

I wonder the cost of administering the handling of tax discs cost

I hate the fafing about with fitting the road tax disc to a vehicle...pissy Plod and the traffic warden vultures know if your vehicle has tax (and insurance, and MOT) via the number plate...so why do we have to faf about displaying a tax disc

And the colour of the current disc...it just does not complement the colour of the bike

Dave wrote:Don’t you just hate...

Road tax...feeeeeeeeeking hated everything about road tax

I hate the fact that we need to pay road tax, considering the amount of tax on fuel...the more fuel you use, the more tax you pay...like paying road tax twice

I wonder the cost of administering the handling of tax discs cost

I hate the fafing about with fitting the road tax disc to a vehicle...pissy Plod and the traffic warden vultures know if your vehicle has tax (and insurance, and MOT) via the number plate...so why do we have to faf about displaying a tax disc

And the colour of the current disc...it just does not complement the colour of the bike

I concur... My tax disc was half the price of what my car is valued at...

By having so many different taxes it's easier to hide the fact that about 3/4 of your total income heads back to the government. Putting it all in one tax would be far cheaper, but also far more obvious.

Gazza wrote:By having so many different taxes it's easier to hide the fact that about 3/4 of your total income heads back to the government. Putting it all in one tax would be far cheaper, but also far more obvious.

only 75 %...I thought it was more

Dave wrote:

Gazza wrote:By having so many different taxes it's easier to hide the fact that about 3/4 of your total income heads back to the government. Putting it all in one tax would be far cheaper, but also far more obvious.

only 75 %...I thought it was more

You're probably right.

Don’t you just hate...Jesting about the p1ss being taken by our government and the taxes on taxes on taxes...only to realise that you ware stating fact

#Waits till Dave realises that there's duty AND tax on fuel...

Found this tax disc holder on another forum

Dont you just hate the devil that sits on your shoulders...

My mind has been in overdrive all night trying to convince the conservative me to get a new toy and bankrupt myself.. The toy I speak of is a duck 848 / F848..

I have envy so bad, I just might not be able to sleep...

haiax0 wrote:Dont you just hate the devil that sits on your shoulders...

My mind has been in overdrive all night trying to convince the conservative me to get a new toy and bankrupt myself.. The toy I speak of is a duck 848 / F848..

I have envy so bad, I just might not be able to sleep...

My devil is telling me to ditch the old K and buy an nice even older old r100rt...

That tell tale sign when the mornings get crisp, temperatures drop and your fingers get really cold when on the bike...

It is time for heated grips me thinks

Wet windy nights with strong winds...also when the weather is not so nice when Autumn kicks in

Heated grips.......wusses....

(although I did nave mine on this morning )

haiax0 wrote:That tell tale sign when the mornings get crisp, temperatures drop and your fingers get really cold when on the bike...

It is time for heated grips me thinks

I wouldn't go for the Oxford ones again - mine stopped working on about the 3rd or 4th use. They now work intermittently - I'm not sure if water has got in or if it was just a duff set.

I looked around on the net and it seems to be a common fault with the controller. Just my own experience with them.

Tonster wrote:

haiax0 wrote:That tell tale sign when the mornings get crisp, temperatures drop and your fingers get really cold when on the bike...

It is time for heated grips me thinks

I wouldn't go for the Oxford ones again - mine stopped working on about the 3rd or 4th use. They now work intermittently - I'm not sure if water has got in or if it was just a duff set.

I looked around on the net and it seems to be a common fault with the controller. Just my own experience with them.

If you have the receipt Oxford will replace the controller. It also depends on what revision of controller you have as well as they are on about Mk.10 of the design by now.

I have Oxford "Sport" hot grips on both my bikes and are excellent. On the Monster I didn't bother with the controller and fitted a simple on off switch with the grips wired in parallel to a 5A fuse. Keeps the installation simple and minimalistic.

Big Kneed Al (master of the emergency stop & "stand up" comedian).

Big Kneed Al (master of the emergency stop & "stand up" comedian) wrote:
... and fitted a simple on off switch with the grips wired in parallel to a 5A fuse. Keeps the installation simple and minimalistic.

Big Kneed Al (master of the emergency stop & "stand up" comedian)

A fine idea


I had a faulty Oxford controller on one of my previous bikes.

The grips still pulled power even when the controller was "off".

They were installed by the previous owner straight to the battery (with its own fuse), so when the engine of off the battery was being drained.

The previous owner always had the biked parked in a garage and connecter to a battery conditioner, so when he tried to start the bike the battery had full charge.

Dave wrote:I had a faulty Oxford controller on one of my previous bikes.

The grips still pulled power even when the controller was "off".

They were installed by the previous owner straight to the battery (with its own fuse), so when the engine of off the battery was being drained.

The previous owner always had the biked parked in a garage and connecter to a battery conditioner, so when he tried to start the bike the battery had full charge.

That's how Oxford recommend you install them in their instructions. I would suggest that if you do follow those instructions that you wire them through the contacts of an automotive relay with the relay powered off the tail light circuit.

Alternatively look at the bike wiring diag to find a suitable switched circuit to splice into

Definately wouldn't wire directly from the battery.

I also have a set of Oxford Sport grips on the Tuono. Very toasty.

Zathos wrote:Alternatively look at the bike wiring diag to find a suitable switched circuit to splice into

That's ok for the relay but I would avoid doing that for powering accessories.

I've got them wired through a relay and when they do work they are great.

The controller still 'Danger' Powers on every time, it just stays in the minimum setting and won't move to the higher settings when I press the buttons.

I'll hav a hunt for the receipt and see if I can get a new controller from them. Did you go straight to Oxford or through the shop?

Tonster wrote:I've got them wired through a relay and when they do work they are great.

The controller still 'Danger' Powers on every time, it just stays in the minimum setting and won't move to the higher settings when I press the buttons.

I'll hav a hunt for the receipt and see if I can get a new controller from them. Did you go straight to Oxford or through the shop?

~On two of my bikes they'll come on then just go off again after a while, on the other bike with the old style dial never had a problem, their push button controllers are 5h1te

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