How have rising fuel prices changed your behaviour?

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Paul Corfield

You also live in London. It is not possible for me to get to my job 25
miles away by public transport and arrive before 9. And if I leave after
5:30 it is not possible for me to get home at all, unless I walk the
last mile or so.

Not "expensive". Not "uncomfortable". Just not "possible".

 

**** me, they'll tax anything these days.

 

*Snort*

 

It's a 1050, same as mine? I do 120 miles a day, at up to 85 mph (or
down to 30 if I'm filtering) with HID bulbs, heated grips, heated gloves
and a heated jacket, oh and two fully laden panniers.


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I would suspect that those were shite. The one I am using are quite
bright but a different colour, they are a bit more blue rather than a
yellow tinge of white.

 

http://www.greenshop.co.uk/

They are "Kosnic" branded LED replacements.

 

On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 22:33:20 +0000, Wicked Uncle Nigel

Okey doke Mr Snurge. And I won't mention the lube job either.

 

On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 09:52:19 +0000, Paul Corfield

Unless you live in a big city, public transport is useless. If it
takes as long to walk to the bus stop and wait for the bus as it does
to just drive to work, why would I want to use the bus?

When I lived with my folks, and worked in Cambridge, I used to have to
get the bus in. To get in before 9am, that meant catching a bus in the
village at 6.15 to the next town, standing in the town centre for
20-30 minutes watching the bus driver sit around doing **** all ( how
could he be late away _every_single_day when he was there still amazes
me). Bus into Cambridge centre and then 20 minute walk out to the
office, unless the bus driver was one of the ones that would let you
get off at the botanical gardens. And going home was a nightmare. Mix
bus X? Well in that case you had to find a different bus altogether
and go to the other town and get a bus from there back to the village.

Driving, even when the traffic started getting bad, still took less
than half the time of all that palaver. I also didn't get travel sick
- there are very very few people I can even travel as a passenger with
without feeling sick - but that's a different kettle of fish.

Train from here to my folks. Well, doesn't really exist as their
nearest station is 5 miles away but if I go via Birmingham involves at
least two changes (three coming back) and even the quickest time is an
hour longer than the slowest journey I've had in the car to date.

 

Depends on whether the switch is a mains switch or not. On my TV I'm
pretty sure it is, so it makes no difference which switch is used.
Basically, if it's a mechanical-feeling click and it can't be switched
on with a remote then I'd expect it to be a proper mains switch.

The real culprits for power consumption are things like set top boxes
which don't really turn off: there's always a micro-processor running
somewhere to detect and interpret the IR remote control signals, not
to mention real-time clocks that have to run for recording programmes.
These RTCs aren't necessarily digital watch-type logic, especially if
they're integral with the main CPU but they can be pretty efficient.

Some STBs don't have an auxiliary micro to handle IR signals, so have
to leave the main micro-processor running for IR detection. These ones
can really draw quite a lot of standby curent. Sometimes efforts are
made to save power: some parts of the circuit are slowed or powered
down to save energy.

As for fire risks, I was once told that (in the office) CRT monitors
and photocopiers are high fire hazards. Dunno whether standby makes a
difference or not here.

 

So do I, mainly because these are usually multiple-choice questions
that /never/ have a specific option for 'none'.

 

They only appear to be selling Megaman fluorescents, now. And they are
too long for any GU10 application I've ever seen.

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Surely either a flat cap or a Homburg is required?

 

My old Triple was one of them. Cost virtually the same and rather less
aerodynamic.

Cos I don't (virtually) ever do that. If memory serves, about 160 miles.
Simple maths though:
Last fill was £11.68
104.9 pence per litre means 11.03 litres
I did 117.something miles
10.5ish miles per litre

OTOH your Tiger seems to be doing less than 8.




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It may be worth sending them an email. I found the chap there very
helpful, but haven't spoke since last autumn.

 

I think a lot of this is historical

20 years ago, yes, but I think that these devices are designed for much
lower standby currents nowadays

I'll bring a meter home next week and test the standby current of a few
devices.

Of course, it's much more important that you FEEL you're doing something

 

probably not much difference

The same question goes for replacing your boiler for a more efficient
one, or your washing machine or car

heat rises,but convection currents disperse it

 

Yebbut try finding one at a dealership.

When I was buying I tried every dealership within 50 miles and nobody had
one that I could look at or test ride. Fowlers in Bristol claimed that
they could get the Honda within 6 weeks if I paid a 50% deposit.

Like I was going to agree to buy it sight unseen - no chance.
I also figured that spares were likely to be a bit thin on the ground for
a bike that they never bothered to stock.

The GS500 was an easy compromise, a bit heavy for town traffic but
economic and well proven reliability.

 

Private sale? There are loads around.

I don't disparage your choice of the GS500, but I do think you are
rather exaggerating the "I can't find anything else" angle.

 

(SteveH) wrote in

No - it was replaced by the DOHC, single cylinder CBF250 in 2003. Erk,
£3.5k for a new one.

 

Get a horse