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The Chotovelli arrived on the 9th and it's a monster. Would probably look better on my right wrist, as the left one is considerably thinner after a bad break some years ago (motorbike accident involving an uninsured 911 turbo!). But I just can't wear a watch on my RH. Adding the cost of all my...

Word is Alpinestars and Dainese are researching the material used in Clarkson's trousers.

BBC iplayer. Don't get too excited about the bike aspect, it really wasn't about the bikes. You'd have to be a weird bike fan to get excited about a C50, a two-stroke Russian 125 and a Vespa.:) One funny comment from Clarkson, when going down a twisty hill. "I have my knee down (he didn't), I am...

We're currently 'enjoying' maternity pay, and will be for a good few months yet. After that, although the wife will go back to work, we'll have childminding costs. So our disposable income will be quite severely curtailed for around 3 years, until the wee one goes to (free) nursery. Still, as...

You could hardly call it a programme for bike fans though, given they were riding utter sacks of crap. It was about the trip, the commeraderie, the adventure. Saying you had to be a fan of bikes to enjoy it is like saying you had to be a fan of wintersports to enjoy their polar adventure. Their...

TBH, I think it was deliberate. Common sense would have had them all on 'proper' motorbikes, like Hammond's. But there wouldn't have been any variety/fun in that. Even my wife, who normally despises Top Gear, loved the programme. In fact, she commented "oh god, you and your mates will do that...

It was brilliant. Clarkson was soooo wrong to choose a Vespa as his first foray into biking though. Those things are inherently unstable, I know experienced bikers that would struggle!

I buy most of my watches from www.creativewatch.co.uk They've managed to get me Tissot MotoGP watches where others have failed, and at very competitive prices too. Much as I like the Tissot MotoGP watches, I think they're too small and I'm going for bigger bezels. I have a 44mm Nautica, but my...

I followed one of my biggest pet hates this morning. People who cut right hand bends.:gun2: Woman in a Fiesta. Seriously dangerous around any right hand bend. Not just straying over the other side of the road by a few inches, I mean right over the other side of the road. Head-on waiting to...

Would you support a 'shoot on sight' policy?:laugh: I'd apply for that job.

You're probably right, actually. Better to restrict their speed, regardless of what they drive. I believe Ireland has a graduated licence scheme where 1/ Drivers must display 'R' plates for a year 2/ Are restricted to 45mph 3/ Have restricted night-time driving Anyone accruing 6 points in...

That's a whole other debate, but one I'm interested in nonetheless (and it is my thread...) Whilst I don't know if I'd raise the minimum driving age, I would restrict the type of cars they are able to drive. Bikers are restricted to 33bhp for two years, for example. They have to pass a further...

Whereas you sound exactly like the sort of person I'd like to see stopped. You're in the minority here, I can assure you. The huge majority of the popluation want an end to noisy cars/bikes on public roads.

It's actually a new EU law that new cars must not make more than 80db in a drive-by test as well, with the MOT failure for going over it just being a spin-off. So if any sporty cars are making more than 80db off the production line, they better get their act together pretty damned sharpish...

That's equivalent to a loud personal stereo, a jet taking-off or a rock concert. Thank god I don't live next door to you.:wtf:

Weren't they discussing making the MOT every other year? That seriously scares the hell out of me. Every single day I follow cars with defective brake lights etc.etc. These are just the visible defects too, god knows what horrors lie underneath. It annoys me that incompetent owners need the...

In that instance, fair chance it genuinely didn't need anything. It's not as if any warranty work comes out of the dealer's pocket, meaning it would be in their interest 'not' to notice anything. They would just bill Audi UK, albeit at a lesser rate than they charge you.

Clearly, if a business wants to retain it's testing cert they are going to have to buy the equipment involved. I'd actually prefer to see the whole MOT thing shaken up. I'd prefer it if we went to government run MOT stations. It's always struck me as strange that a garage, which will stand to...

That's always been the problem, the law has been too 'loose'. I read it in a car mag this week, I can't recall which one. I'll rake through them tonight, see if I can find it. It really is about time, car exhaust noise is officially one of the most common complaints made to environmental...

Any car making more than 80db in a drive-by test will fail it's MOT. About ****** time!:yahoo: Of course, two downsides to this. 1/ Three years of noise before the twits are due an MOT, on a new car. 2/ They could just put a standard exhaust back on for the MOT. With regard to point two, I'd...