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Help Make Motorcycling Better
Being a motorcycle rider usually goes hand-in-hand with having a rather subdued voice when it comes to policy making and how we are treated. But now here is your chance to have your say. First we have the annual Rider Power survey carried out by Ride magazine and the results should be available in their…
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Heron Soars
Ubuntu have released the first updated release to Hardy Heron LTS, this being 8.04.1. As with the last LTS (Long Term Support) version of Ubuntu there were releases along its life to include all relevant security updates and upgrades. Basically so that once you were finished installing your brand new OS you then do not…
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Intrepid Dates
Here are the dates for the testing & release schedule for the next release of Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex. June 26th – Alpha 1July 10th – Alpha 2July 24th – Alpha 3August 14th – Alpha 4August 28th – Feature FreezeSeptember 4th – Alpha 5September 18th – Alpha 6September 15th – Beta FreezeOctober 2nd – Beta…
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Old Friends for Sale
Well Karma is gone… I have never owned a motorcycle for such a short period & she was the first motorcycle I bought ‘new’! So I better make clear that it was I that changed and not her (but could we still be friends?). Overall she is an excellent package which is very hard to…
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Day Dreaming Rides (But What If?)
While Karma (my Kawasaki Er-6f/Ninja 650r) was being repaired and I had the hire bike it gave me a couple of weeks to think about what if she had been written off? What would I consider as a next bike? So over the weeks I drew up a short list of what I considered to…
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Be Sharp & Live to Ride
It is well past that time of the year again, bikes have been rolled out of garages and uncovered at the backs of gardens after the long winter lay up. Now the average biker (40+ years of age, covers less the 5000 miles a year) can pull on his work wear, a helmet then jump…
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EU Standards for Crash Barriers
Just to add to my previous post some very positive news relating to motorcycle safety, new crash barrier standards are on the way from the EU! For further reading please look here:MCNBikes in the fast lane This is very positive and certainly better then the Vision Zero idea of just banning motorcycle use all together.…
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Motorcycles Sales & Beyond
Well to the bikers amongst you this will not be a huge surprise, but, motorcycle sales are up! Now sales have been rising generally year-on-year for most manufactures while the flood of cheap Chinese models have also helped. Yet this year will probably see an even greater boost thanks to the rising costs of fuel…
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Firefox 3…Rise Of The Fox
After 3 long years of development and being in beta testing since last November, while introducing some 15,000 improvements we finally will have the latest release of Firefox! Firefox 3 is due for release on June 17th and they are hoping to break a Guinness World Record by having the most downloads of new software…
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Ireland Says No
Well it is official, Ireland has rejected the Lisbon Treaty with 46.6% saying Yes and 53.4% saying No. Overall a difference of some 110,000 votes. They keep saying that we are in ‘uncharted waters’, can not help but laugh at that…as nothing has changed. Surely by bringing in the undemocratic reforms they desired would have…
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