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This is the plate. You can see the oil screen bolt through the largest cut out. Thats what I need to enlarge. Looks like raw aluminum but the description from the KTM powerparts catalogue says "hardened". Poor design as they only needed to change the cut out a little to save some grief. Sent...

How much do you have to spend for a decent one really. For a given size they range from $500 up to $3k.

Hmmm. Thanks for the advice about grinding wheels etc. I have room to manoeuvre a drill as the hole enlargement I need to make is at the side of the skid plate, not underneath. Between the plate and any bike bits there’s a decent amount of space too so I'm not overly concerned that I'd do...

I want to cut into my skid plate to enlarge a cut out that currently partly covers one oil screen bolt, everything else is accessible with the plate on for an oil change. Taking the skid plate off to remove this one bolt is getting tiresome as it’s fiddly with multiple screws/bolts etc. This...

This fully synthetic Motul stuff is currently on sale in Crappy Tire for $68 for 4L. The equivalent 100% synthetic ester Motul for motorbikes is around $20 more in most places. This is JASO MA wet clutch rated. I believe that means it should be ok in a bike (I’m no expert on oil so do your...

Anyone have any experience with permanent/semi permanent greenhouses? Things like Canopia or Planta with 6-10mm double walled rigid poly panels? We have a cheapie small greenhouse with a plastic cover which is great but always wanted a proper greenhouse that I can put grow lights and a heater...

We plant Brandywine every year, it’s an Amish heirloom variety I think. Big beefsteak style and very tasty. Our favourites recently have been the purple tomatoes like Black Krim because they taste amazing. I got some Chocolate Cherry seeds for this year to try, these are a dark cherry style.

There’s some super early varieties. We are trying a few this year. Early Girl has always been OK but variety is always good to have. Cherry tomatoes ripen early and fruit until late too. It's the big beefsteak ones you need to wait for.

Yes. Usually comes back bigger every year. I think the damn rabbit in the garden gnawed on some of it but it did ok last year. If you get out this way anytime I could see if I could take off a paddle for you to plant up. Depends what it looks like from under the snow we still have.

Picked up a new addition to my weird plant collection today. In the last few years I've seen more and more of these crop up for sale in nurseries/garden centres etc. They are actually surprisingly easy to grow if you take care of their needs. This one is the biggest one I have, the pitchers...

Unfortunately a minority are likely to put a big spanner in the works for more oversight and laws… https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/19/theyre-fast-pedestrians-are-furious-fat-ebikes-divide-australian-beach-suburbs

Not seen it yet but apparently there’s a Peaky Blinders movie that’s just come out. The TV series was awesome. Cilian Murphy stars as a Gypsy gang leader in Birmingham for anyone that hasn’t seen the series. Definitely recommended.

I was hoping they hadn’t just thrown together a bunch of names expecting it to be great. I'll give it a go. Guy Ritchie stuff is usually OK.

Just started Mobland with Tom Hardy, Piers Brosnan and Helen Mirren. Looks like a well made gangster series about two warring crime families in London. Hardy has the “quiet menace” thing dialled in.

I had a look at Mosco Moto stuff recently but looked elsewhere when the equivalent prices per gram looked like they belonged to a precious metal instead. Nuts level prices.

I'm using the “649” plan for my retirement.

I somehow missed the last series of Slow Horses back in September. This newest one is still excellent. Gary Oldman was born to play this role.

When I had money in mutual funds they just seemed to be a vehicle for making my bank money and not me. Since I dissolved them and reinvested the cash myself (following sensible advise) the difference has been immense. Well, so far anyway.

Accommodation in Paris isn’t cheap and I'm not sure the Euro is great for CDN exchange either.

It’s very popular with Germans and they definitely don’t speak a lot of Spanish. What do the kids like? For me a foreign holiday is all about experiences that you can’t get back home. Seeing a sloth or an iguana, surfing on a tropical beach, learning a new language, eating different food...