Re: How to ruin an afternoon

muddy cat wrote:

> I will have to spif it up a bit.

I think I have to go back to Specsavers[1] and have a word with them
about my glasses. I read this as *spliff*.

>
> Sighting down the forks it appears there is a twist somewhere in the
> forks. I guess[1] I can loosen the triple clamp bolts and see if it
> comes out and retighten.

Worth a try IMHO before coughing up more cash for parts.

[1] They've got a rather cute optometrist there...

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In article <xn0f9a8kub1rd3005@nermal.unix-consult.com>,
"Timo Geusch" <tnewsSPAMMENOT@unixconsult.co.uk> wrote:

> muddy cat wrote:
>
> > I will have to spif it up a bit.
>
> I think I have to go back to Specsavers[1] and have a word with them
> about my glasses. I read this as *spliff*.
>
> >
> > Sighting down the forks it appears there is a twist somewhere in the
> > forks. I guess[1] I can loosen the triple clamp bolts and see if it
> > comes out and retighten.
>
> Worth a try IMHO before coughing up more cash for parts.
>
> [1] They've got a rather cute optometrist there...

When are you coming back? This time you pick the place as apparently I
got it wrong last time[1].

[1] Too feking noisy, eh?

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muddy cat wrote:

> In article <xn0f9a8kub1rd3005@nermal.unix-consult.com>,
> "Timo Geusch" <tnewsSPAMMENOT@unixconsult.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > muddy cat wrote:
> >
> > > I will have to spif it up a bit.
> >
> > I think I have to go back to Specsavers[1] and have a word with them
> > about my glasses. I read this as spliff.
> >
> > >
> > > Sighting down the forks it appears there is a twist somewhere in
> > > the forks. I guess[1] I can loosen the triple clamp bolts and see
> > > if it comes out and retighten.
> >
> > Worth a try IMHO before coughing up more cash for parts.
> >
> > [1] They've got a rather cute optometrist there...
>
> When are you coming back? This time you pick the place as apparently
> I got it wrong last time[1].
>
> [1] Too feking noisy, eh?

It was a bit, yes. I SAID IT WAS A BIT NOISY...

Well, I'm in Vegas in September if you fancy coming over - was/am
planning a tour[1] through the Southwest, up to the Black Hills but not
sure if exactly which way we're going. Ann's never seen Bodie or Mono
Lake so maybe we go up that way.

[1] Two-wheeled tour that is.

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In article <xn0f9aajqdm0tc008@nermal.unix-consult.com>,
"Timo Geusch" <tnewsSPAMMENOT@unixconsult.co.uk> wrote:

> muddy cat wrote:
>
> > In article <xn0f9a8kub1rd3005@nermal.unix-consult.com>,
> > "Timo Geusch" <tnewsSPAMMENOT@unixconsult.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > > muddy cat wrote:
> > >
> > > > I will have to spif it up a bit.
> > >
> > > I think I have to go back to Specsavers[1] and have a word with them
> > > about my glasses. I read this as spliff.
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Sighting down the forks it appears there is a twist somewhere in
> > > > the forks. I guess[1] I can loosen the triple clamp bolts and see
> > > > if it comes out and retighten.
> > >
> > > Worth a try IMHO before coughing up more cash for parts.
> > >
> > > [1] They've got a rather cute optometrist there...
> >
> > When are you coming back? This time you pick the place as apparently
> > I got it wrong last time[1].
> >
> > [1] Too feking noisy, eh?
>
> It was a bit, yes. I SAID IT WAS A BIT NOISY...
>
> Well, I'm in Vegas in September if you fancy coming over - was/am
> planning a tour[1] through the Southwest, up to the Black Hills but not
> sure if exactly which way we're going. Ann's never seen Bodie or Mono
> Lake so maybe we go up that way.
>
> [1] Two-wheeled tour that is.

Ah, we're just back from Washington then and I doubt I'll be able to get
more time off.

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muddy cat wrote:

> In article <xn0f9aajqdm0tc008@nermal.unix-consult.com>,
> "Timo Geusch" <tnewsSPAMMENOT@unixconsult.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > muddy cat wrote:
> >
> > > In article <xn0f9a8kub1rd3005@nermal.unix-consult.com>,
> > > "Timo Geusch" <tnewsSPAMMENOT@unixconsult.co.uk> wrote:
> > >
> > > > muddy cat wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > I will have to spif it up a bit.
> > > >
> > > > I think I have to go back to Specsavers[1] and have a word with
> > > > them about my glasses. I read this as spliff.
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Sighting down the forks it appears there is a twist somewhere
> > > > > in the forks. I guess[1] I can loosen the triple clamp bolts
> > > > > and see if it comes out and retighten.
> > > >
> > > > Worth a try IMHO before coughing up more cash for parts.
> > > >
> > > > [1] They've got a rather cute optometrist there...
> > >
> > > When are you coming back? This time you pick the place as
> > > apparently I got it wrong last time[1].
> > >
> > > [1] Too feking noisy, eh?
> >
> > It was a bit, yes. I SAID IT WAS A BIT NOISY...
> >
> > Well, I'm in Vegas in September if you fancy coming over - was/am
> > planning a tour[1] through the Southwest, up to the Black Hills but
> > not sure if exactly which way we're going. Ann's never seen Bodie
> > or Mono Lake so maybe we go up that way.
> >
> > [1] Two-wheeled tour that is.
>
> Ah, we're just back from Washington then and I doubt I'll be able to
> get more time off.

Fair enough - I don't think we'll be going much further west this time
as the original plan was to ride up to the Black Hills via Yosemite and
circle back through Colorado (Ann's mother has a cabin there) and the
north side of the Grand Canyon.

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In article <xn0f9b4ykdxo9000@nermal.unix-consult.com>,
"Timo Geusch" <tnewsSPAMMENOT@unixconsult.co.uk> wrote:
> Fair enough - I don't think we'll be going much further west this time
> as the original plan was to ride up to the Black Hills via Yosemite and
> circle back through Colorado (Ann's mother has a cabin there) and the
> north side of the Grand Canyon.

Sounds like fun.

I think we'll come back down the coast on Hwy 1. We've not ridden the
Oregon parts yet.

Next year we'll go to Colorado and check out the rancho.

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On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:41:59 -0700 muddy cat wrote:

>Next year we'll go to Colorado and check out the rancho.

Let me know and we can have a beer.

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In article <3a3ta31afpqu26rintce4jm1j9oamd3dem@4ax.com>,
vulgarandmischevious <vulgarandmischevious@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:41:59 -0700 muddy cat wrote:
>
> >Next year we'll go to Colorado and check out the rancho.
>
> Let me know and we can have a beer.

WILCO

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muddy cat wrote:

> In article <xn0f9b4ykdxo9000@nermal.unix-consult.com>,
> "Timo Geusch" <tnewsSPAMMENOT@unixconsult.co.uk> wrote:
> > Fair enough - I don't think we'll be going much further west this
> > time as the original plan was to ride up to the Black Hills via
> > Yosemite and circle back through Colorado (Ann's mother has a cabin
> > there) and the north side of the Grand Canyon.
>
> Sounds like fun.

That was the plan

. Unfortunately I've just realised that my passport
expires a few days too soon so I now have to get a passport in four
weeks. I doubt that the German bureaucracy is geared up for that...

> I think we'll come back down the coast on Hwy 1. We've not ridden the
> Oregon parts yet.

Sounds good...

> Next year we'll go to Colorado and check out the rancho.

Da weed patch?

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Timo Geusch wrote:

> That was the plan

. Unfortunately I've just realised that my
> passport expires a few days too soon so I now have to get a passport
> in four weeks. I doubt that the German bureaucracy is geared up for
> that...

*snort*
it never fails

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On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 06:39:31 +0100, "Timo Geusch"
<tnewsSPAMMENOT@unixconsult.co.uk> wrote:

<US trip>

>That was the plan

. Unfortunately I've just realised that my passport
>expires a few days too soon so I now have to get a passport in four
>weeks.

It actually expires while you plan to be there, or six months later?
In case you weren't aware of it, they insist that passports are valid
for that length of time after your stay. As a result UK passport
agencies will now renew passports six months or more before expiry but
still give the full ten years validity from expiration date.

>I doubt that the German bureaucracy is geared up for that...

The brits in CH manage it, I can't see why the krauts can't.

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Ace <seesig@virgin.net> wrote:

> As a result UK passport
> agencies will now renew passports six months or more before expiry but
> still give the full ten years validity from expiration date.

That is *well* worth knowing, as mine expires in March 2008. I'll renew
it as soon as I get home.

Don't the new biometric passports come in sometime in October? Before
then sounds like an excellent scheme....

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On Jul 31, 1:21 pm, chateau.murrayTAKETHIS...@dsl.pipex.com (The Older
Gentleman) wrote:
> Ace <see...@virgin.net> wrote:
> > As a result UK passport
> > agencies will now renew passports six months or more before expiry but
> > still give the full ten years validity from expiration date.
>
> That is *well* worth knowing, as mine expires in March 2008. I'll renew
> it as soon as I get home.
>
> Don't the new biometric passports come in sometime in October? Before
> then sounds like an excellent scheme....

the passport I got last month is sort of biometric insofar as it has a
chip in it that has your details and picture encoded on it - on
arrival at Faro two weeks back, the 2-or-3 of us on the flight with
such passports were ushered to a seperate - empty - area, and made it
through passport control in about 30 seconds: swipe your own passport,
look into a camera - the software then compares your face with the one
on the chip, and if it's a match, you're through.

on the way back into the UK, no seperate queues for chip-enabled
passport holders, and processing time was around 3-4 minutes per
person cf. 10 seconds for old-style passports.

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Ace wrote:
><US trip>
>
>>That was the plan

. Unfortunately I've just realised that my passport
>>expires a few days too soon so I now have to get a passport in four
>>weeks.
>
>It actually expires while you plan to be there, or six months later?
>In case you weren't aware of it, they insist that passports are valid
>for that length of time after your stay.

It expires precisely two weeks too early - trip is until September 25th,
passport expires on March 11th 2008...

> As a result UK passport
>agencies will now renew passports six months or more before expiry but
>still give the full ten years validity from expiration date.

Ah, that's a good point - I would expect that I'll get a passport that's
valid for exactly 10 years. Supposedly you can get an express passport (only
a few days turnaround) in Germany but I haven't found out if the embassy in
London can do that also.

>>I doubt that the German bureaucracy is geared up for that...
>
>The brits in CH manage it, I can't see why the krauts can't.

Because they don't have a Dienstanweisung for it. I try to minimise my
contact with the Boxhead bureaucracy but as a colleague of mine also found
out, there's a good reason that the glass between you and the official in the
embassy is bullet proof.

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The Longhaired Boxhead wrote:
>><US trip>
>>
>[quoted text clipped - 5 lines]
>>In case you weren't aware of it, they insist that passports are valid
>>for that length of time after your stay.
>
>It expires precisely two weeks too early - trip is until September 25th,
>passport expires on March 11th 2008...

Actually, according to the US embassy in Germany, as a German citizen my
passport only needs to be valid for the duration of the stay and not for
another six months after that. *Phew*.

But I guess I should get my skates on anyway and get a new one.

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Ace <seesig@virgin.net> wrote:

> The brits in CH manage it, I can't see why the krauts can't.

Why not just write 'Switzerland' ?

Imagine if every time I mentioned France, I wrote 'RF' ...

D.

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On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 14:21:56 +0100,
chateau.murrayTAKETHISOUT@dsl.pipex.com (The Older Gentleman) wrote:

>Ace <seesig@virgin.net> wrote:
>
>> As a result UK passport
>> agencies will now renew passports six months or more before expiry but
>> still give the full ten years validity from expiration date.
>
>That is *well* worth knowing, as mine expires in March 2008. I'll renew
>it as soon as I get home.
>
>Don't the new biometric passports come in sometime in October? Before
>then sounds like an excellent scheme....

Not sure why you want to _not_ have a biometric one, but you're out of
luck anyway. Mine, which was issued in March, is already the new
style.

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"The Longhaired Boxhead via MotorcycleKB.com" <u33672@uwe> wrote:

> But I guess I should get my skates on anyway and get a new one.

Why not give up entirely and apply for British citizenship?

I'd love to see how the bureaucracy copes....

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darsy <darsyx@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Jul 31, 1:21 pm, chateau.murrayTAKETHIS...@dsl.pipex.com (The Older
> Gentleman) wrote:
> > Ace <see...@virgin.net> wrote:
> > > As a result UK passport
> > > agencies will now renew passports six months or more before expiry but
> > > still give the full ten years validity from expiration date.
> >
> > That is *well* worth knowing, as mine expires in March 2008. I'll renew
> > it as soon as I get home.
> >
> > Don't the new biometric passports come in sometime in October? Before
> > then sounds like an excellent scheme....
>
> the passport I got last month is sort of biometric insofar as it has a
> chip in it that has your details and picture encoded on it - on
> arrival at Faro two weeks back, the 2-or-3 of us on the flight with
> such passports were ushered to a seperate - empty - area, and made it
> through passport control in about 30 seconds: swipe your own passport,
> look into a camera - the software then compares your face with the one
> on the chip, and if it's a match, you're through.
>
> on the way back into the UK, no seperate queues for chip-enabled
> passport holders, and processing time was around 3-4 minutes per
> person cf. 10 seconds for old-style passports.
>
>
That's also worth knowing. Ta. I've actually got the form and as far as
I can remember it makes no mention of biometrics.

That said, it's my experience that no matter how long the queue is to
get through passport control, you *still* have to wait for your luggage
on the other side. When I fly short-haul, if it's just for a few days, I
don't take hold baggage at all.

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Ace wrote:
> Not sure why you want to _not_ have a biometric one, but you're out of
> luck anyway. Mine, which was issued in March, is already the new
> style.

Mine, issued in 2005, was I believe towards the end of the machine
readable, but not biometric, editions that they had for a while. It's
good enough for access to the US under the Visa waiver agreement
apparently, so that's fine with me.

The Older Gentleman wrote:
> "The Longhaired Boxhead via MotorcycleKB.com" <u33672@uwe> wrote:
>
>> But I guess I should get my skates on anyway and get a new one.
>
> Why not give up entirely and apply for British citizenship?
>
> I'd love to see how the bureaucracy copes....

Shut up you silly punt. It would be a year before they got the chuffing UK
passport system running again.

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darsy wrote:
> the passport I got last month is sort of biometric insofar as it has a
> chip in it that has your details and picture encoded on it - on
> arrival at Faro two weeks back, the 2-or-3 of us on the flight with
> such passports were ushered to a seperate - empty - area, and made it
> through passport control in about 30 seconds: swipe your own passport,
> look into a camera - the software then compares your face with the one
> on the chip, and if it's a match, you're through.

where, apart from the uk (and a few of its former colonies) does it take
more than 30 seconds to validate a passport?

> on the way back into the UK, no seperate queues for chip-enabled
> passport holders, and processing time was around 3-4 minutes per
> person cf. 10 seconds for old-style passports.

just put your passport in the microwave for a few seconds. job done.
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In article <xn0f9cjxs138fz000@nermal.unix-consult.com>,
"Timo Geusch" <tnewsSPAMMENOT@unixconsult.co.uk> wrote:

> muddy cat wrote:
>
> > In article <xn0f9b4ykdxo9000@nermal.unix-consult.com>,
> > "Timo Geusch" <tnewsSPAMMENOT@unixconsult.co.uk> wrote:
> > > Fair enough - I don't think we'll be going much further west this
> > > time as the original plan was to ride up to the Black Hills via
> > > Yosemite and circle back through Colorado (Ann's mother has a cabin
> > > there) and the north side of the Grand Canyon.
> >
> > Sounds like fun.
>
> That was the plan

. Unfortunately I've just realised that my passport
> expires a few days too soon so I now have to get a passport in four
> weeks. I doubt that the German bureaucracy is geared up for that...

I thought they were efficient?
>
> > I think we'll come back down the coast on Hwy 1. We've not ridden the
> > Oregon parts yet.
>
> Sounds good...
>
> > Next year we'll go to Colorado and check out the rancho.
>
> Da weed patch?

Yep, count the deer and antelope.

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Hog <hogSPAM@freenetCHIPS.co.uk> wrote:

> The Older Gentleman wrote:
> > "The Longhaired Boxhead via MotorcycleKB.com" <u33672@uwe> wrote:
> >
> >> But I guess I should get my skates on anyway and get a new one.
> >
> > Why not give up entirely and apply for British citizenship?
> >
> > I'd love to see how the bureaucracy copes....
>
> Shut up you silly punt. It would be a year before they got the chuffing UK
> passport system running again.

I have this vision of the entire immigration computer system going up in
smoke and a shower of sparks.

"I'm sorry, Minister. The last word we saw on the screens was 'Geusch'"

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In article <j0iua392nellbei0vq78iqbintp1jiu0cj@4ax.com>, Ace
<seesig@virgin.net> writes
>On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 14:21:56 +0100,
>chateau.murrayTAKETHISOUT@dsl.pipex.com (The Older Gentleman) wrote:
>
>>Ace <seesig@virgin.net> wrote:
>>
>>> As a result UK passport
>>> agencies will now renew passports six months or more before expiry but
>>> still give the full ten years validity from expiration date.
>>
>>That is *well* worth knowing, as mine expires in March 2008. I'll renew
>>it as soon as I get home.
>>
>>Don't the new biometric passports come in sometime in October? Before
>>then sounds like an excellent scheme....
>
>Not sure why you want to _not_ have a biometric one,

Because foreigners don't believe that a simple paper one signed by one
of Her Glorious Maj.'s lackies is real enough to be worshipping us.
They want incontrovertible proof for that. It has nothing at all to do
with British wogs being checked doubly by the immigration before being
let back into the country they call home and maybe even were born in.

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We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "The Longhaired Boxhead via
MotorcycleKB.com" <u33672@uwe> saying something like:

>Supposedly you can get an express passport (only
>a few days turnaround) in Germany but I haven't found out if the embassy in
>London can do that also.

It's worth enquiring. I did a lot of embassy passport runs during my
time as a courier and most of those were urgent cases.
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Teach a man to fish and he and his pikey mates will have the
river cleaned out in a day.

Grimly Curmudgeon <grimly4REMOVE@REMOVEgmail.com> writes:

> We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
> drugs began to take hold. I remember "The Longhaired Boxhead via
> MotorcycleKB.com" <u33672@uwe> saying something like:
>
>>Supposedly you can get an express passport (only
>>a few days turnaround) in Germany but I haven't found out if the embassy in
>>London can do that also.
>
> It's worth enquiring. I did a lot of embassy passport runs during my
> time as a courier and most of those were urgent cases.

I'll try to - the last time they fobbed me off with a temporary passport
that wasn't valid long enough to get into the US, and the regular
one. And the temporary one isn't exactly cheap.

That said, if I can get an "Express Passport" made in Germany I don't
see any reason why the embassy can't do that as well...

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The Older Gentleman wrote:
> Ace <seesig@virgin.net> wrote:
>
>> As a result UK passport
>> agencies will now renew passports six months or more before expiry but
>> still give the full ten years validity from expiration date.
>
> That is *well* worth knowing, as mine expires in March 2008. I'll renew
> it as soon as I get home.
>
> Don't the new biometric passports come in sometime in October?

Not that you'll care but the price also goes up in October. Again.

On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 17:57:26 +0100, steve auvache
<dont_spam@thecow.me.uk> wrote:

>In article <j0iua392nellbei0vq78iqbintp1jiu0cj@4ax.com>, Ace
><seesig@virgin.net> writes

>>>Don't the new biometric passports come in sometime in October? Before
>>>then sounds like an excellent scheme....
>>
>>Not sure why you want to _not_ have a biometric one,
>
>Because foreigners don't believe that a simple paper one signed by one
>of Her Glorious Maj.'s lackies is real enough to be worshipping us.
>They want incontrovertible proof for that. It has nothing at all to do
>with British wogs being checked doubly by the immigration before being
>let back into the country they call home and maybe even were born in.

WTF you been drinking tonight?
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On 31 Jul 2007 15:42:23 GMT dog wrote:

>where, apart from the uk (and a few of its former colonies) does it take
>more than 30 seconds to validate a passport?

Loads of Arab states.

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vulgarandmischevious

On Aug 1, 9:40 am, "Hog" <hogS...@freenetCHIPS.co.uk> wrote:
> darsy wrote:

> > [1] I was pleasantly surprised how "un-Brit" Praia de Rocha was in
> > general, and the hotel I stayed in - the Oriental - was great.
>
> I certainly prefer Portugal to Spain, away from the main tourist hole at
> least.

Well, Praia de Rocha is a touristy area, but it's much less tacky than
any equivalent place in Spain that I've been to. It helped that we
were staying no-where near the main nightclub area (right on the
Beach, as it happens), and the only "obviously drunk in the morning"
people we saw were a bunch of stripped-to-the-waste frenchmen with
"Allez les Bleus" written on their chests in paint.

--
d.

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember darsy <darsyx@gmail.com> saying
something like:

>a bunch of stripped-to-the-waste frenchmen

Arseholes?
--
Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a

Teach a man to fish and he and his pikey mates will have the
river cleaned out in a day.

	#1
Timo Geusch	Re: How to ruin an afternoon muddy cat wrote: > I will have to spif it up a bit. I think I have to go back to Specsavers[1] and have a word with them about my glasses. I read this as spliff. > > Sighting down the forks it appears there is a twist somewhere in the > forks. I guess[1] I can loosen the triple clamp bolts and see if it > comes out and retighten. Worth a try IMHO before coughing up more cash for parts. [1] They've got a rather cute optometrist there... -- Morini Corsaro 125 \| CB450K4 \| XL250 Motosport x2 \| 900SSD Triumph T-Bird chop \| K1100LT BOTAFOF #33 TWA#10 The UKRM FAQ: http://www.ukrm.net/faq/index.html "Je profite du paysage" - Joe Bar

	#2
muddy cat	Re: How to ruin an afternoon In article <xn0f9a8kub1rd3005@nermal.unix-consult.com>, "Timo Geusch" <tnewsSPAMMENOT@unixconsult.co.uk> wrote: > muddy cat wrote: > > > I will have to spif it up a bit. > > I think I have to go back to Specsavers[1] and have a word with them > about my glasses. I read this as spliff. > > > > > Sighting down the forks it appears there is a twist somewhere in the > > forks. I guess[1] I can loosen the triple clamp bolts and see if it > > comes out and retighten. > > Worth a try IMHO before coughing up more cash for parts. > > [1] They've got a rather cute optometrist there... When are you coming back? This time you pick the place as apparently I got it wrong last time[1]. [1] Too feking noisy, eh? -- Mike DL1000 Black with extra black bits. UKRMMA#22 Skype: mikebothe I must belong somewhere

	#7
vulgarandmischevious	Re: How to ruin an afternoon On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:41:59 -0700 muddy cat wrote: >Next year we'll go to Colorado and check out the rancho. Let me know and we can have a beer. -- vulgarandmischevious

	#10
Hog	Re: How to ruin an afternoon Timo Geusch wrote: > That was the plan . Unfortunately I've just realised that my > passport expires a few days too soon so I now have to get a passport > in four weeks. I doubt that the German bureaucracy is geared up for > that... snort it never fails -- Hog '03 ST4S '96 Bastard12 '89 R100RS '81 XS650 '78 RD400

	#11
Ace	Re: How to ruin an afternoon On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 06:39:31 +0100, "Timo Geusch" <tnewsSPAMMENOT@unixconsult.co.uk> wrote: <US trip> >That was the plan . Unfortunately I've just realised that my passport >expires a few days too soon so I now have to get a passport in four >weeks. It actually expires while you plan to be there, or six months later? In case you weren't aware of it, they insist that passports are valid for that length of time after your stay. As a result UK passport agencies will now renew passports six months or more before expiry but still give the full ten years validity from expiration date. >I doubt that the German bureaucracy is geared up for that... The brits in CH manage it, I can't see why the krauts can't. -- _______ ..'_/_\|_\_'. Ace (brucedotrogers a.t rochedotcom) \`\ \| /`/ DS#8 BOTAFOT#3 SbS#2 UKRMMA#13 DFV#8 SKA#2 IBB#10 `\\ \| //' `\\|/` `

	#12
The Older Gentleman	Re: How to ruin an afternoon Ace <seesig@virgin.net> wrote: > As a result UK passport > agencies will now renew passports six months or more before expiry but > still give the full ten years validity from expiration date. That is well worth knowing, as mine expires in March 2008. I'll renew it as soon as I get home. Don't the new biometric passports come in sometime in October? Before then sounds like an excellent scheme.... -- K1100LT 955i 750SS CB400F CD250 CM200 SL125 GAGARPHOF#30 GHPOTHUF#1 BOTAFOT#60 The bells, the bells.....

	#13
darsy	Re: How to ruin an afternoon On Jul 31, 1:21 pm, chateau.murrayTAKETHIS...@dsl.pipex.com (The Older Gentleman) wrote: > Ace <see...@virgin.net> wrote: > > As a result UK passport > > agencies will now renew passports six months or more before expiry but > > still give the full ten years validity from expiration date. > > That is well worth knowing, as mine expires in March 2008. I'll renew > it as soon as I get home. > > Don't the new biometric passports come in sometime in October? Before > then sounds like an excellent scheme.... the passport I got last month is sort of biometric insofar as it has a chip in it that has your details and picture encoded on it - on arrival at Faro two weeks back, the 2-or-3 of us on the flight with such passports were ushered to a seperate - empty - area, and made it through passport control in about 30 seconds: swipe your own passport, look into a camera - the software then compares your face with the one on the chip, and if it's a match, you're through. on the way back into the UK, no seperate queues for chip-enabled passport holders, and processing time was around 3-4 minutes per person cf. 10 seconds for old-style passports. -- d.

	#14
The Longhaired Boxhead via MotorcycleKB.com	Re: How to ruin an afternoon Ace wrote: ><US trip> > >>That was the plan . Unfortunately I've just realised that my passport >>expires a few days too soon so I now have to get a passport in four >>weeks. > >It actually expires while you plan to be there, or six months later? >In case you weren't aware of it, they insist that passports are valid >for that length of time after your stay. It expires precisely two weeks too early - trip is until September 25th, passport expires on March 11th 2008... > As a result UK passport >agencies will now renew passports six months or more before expiry but >still give the full ten years validity from expiration date. Ah, that's a good point - I would expect that I'll get a passport that's valid for exactly 10 years. Supposedly you can get an express passport (only a few days turnaround) in Germany but I haven't found out if the embassy in London can do that also. >>I doubt that the German bureaucracy is geared up for that... > >The brits in CH manage it, I can't see why the krauts can't. Because they don't have a Dienstanweisung for it. I try to minimise my contact with the Boxhead bureaucracy but as a colleague of mine also found out, there's a good reason that the glass between you and the official in the embassy is bullet proof. -- Message posted via MotorcycleKB.com http://www.motorcyclekb.com/Uwe/Foru...cycle/200707/1

	#15
The Longhaired Boxhead via MotorcycleKB.com	Re: How to ruin an afternoon The Longhaired Boxhead wrote: >><US trip> >> >[quoted text clipped - 5 lines] >>In case you weren't aware of it, they insist that passports are valid >>for that length of time after your stay. > >It expires precisely two weeks too early - trip is until September 25th, >passport expires on March 11th 2008... Actually, according to the US embassy in Germany, as a German citizen my passport only needs to be valid for the duration of the stay and not for another six months after that. Phew. But I guess I should get my skates on anyway and get a new one. -- Message posted via MotorcycleKB.com http://www.motorcyclekb.com/Uwe/Foru...cycle/200707/1

	#18
The Older Gentleman	Re: How to ruin an afternoon "The Longhaired Boxhead via MotorcycleKB.com" <u33672@uwe> wrote: > But I guess I should get my skates on anyway and get a new one. Why not give up entirely and apply for British citizenship? I'd love to see how the bureaucracy copes.... -- K1100LT 955i 750SS CB400F CD250 CM200 SL125 GAGARPHOF#30 GHPOTHUF#1 BOTAFOT#60 The bells, the bells.....

	#19
The Older Gentleman	Re: How to ruin an afternoon darsy <darsyx@gmail.com> wrote: > On Jul 31, 1:21 pm, chateau.murrayTAKETHIS...@dsl.pipex.com (The Older > Gentleman) wrote: > > Ace <see...@virgin.net> wrote: > > > As a result UK passport > > > agencies will now renew passports six months or more before expiry but > > > still give the full ten years validity from expiration date. > > > > That is well worth knowing, as mine expires in March 2008. I'll renew > > it as soon as I get home. > > > > Don't the new biometric passports come in sometime in October? Before > > then sounds like an excellent scheme.... > > the passport I got last month is sort of biometric insofar as it has a > chip in it that has your details and picture encoded on it - on > arrival at Faro two weeks back, the 2-or-3 of us on the flight with > such passports were ushered to a seperate - empty - area, and made it > through passport control in about 30 seconds: swipe your own passport, > look into a camera - the software then compares your face with the one > on the chip, and if it's a match, you're through. > > on the way back into the UK, no seperate queues for chip-enabled > passport holders, and processing time was around 3-4 minutes per > person cf. 10 seconds for old-style passports. > > That's also worth knowing. Ta. I've actually got the form and as far as I can remember it makes no mention of biometrics. That said, it's my experience that no matter how long the queue is to get through passport control, you still have to wait for your luggage on the other side. When I fly short-haul, if it's just for a few days, I don't take hold baggage at all. -- K1100LT 955i 750SS CB400F CD250 CM200 SL125 GAGARPHOF#30 GHPOTHUF#1 BOTAFOT#60 The bells, the bells.....

	#20
ginge	Re: How to ruin an afternoon Ace wrote: > Not sure why you want to _not_ have a biometric one, but you're out of > luck anyway. Mine, which was issued in March, is already the new > style. Mine, issued in 2005, was I believe towards the end of the machine readable, but not biometric, editions that they had for a while. It's good enough for access to the US under the Visa waiver agreement apparently, so that's fine with me.

	#21
Hog	Re: How to ruin an afternoon The Older Gentleman wrote: > "The Longhaired Boxhead via MotorcycleKB.com" <u33672@uwe> wrote: > >> But I guess I should get my skates on anyway and get a new one. > > Why not give up entirely and apply for British citizenship? > > I'd love to see how the bureaucracy copes.... Shut up you silly punt. It would be a year before they got the chuffing UK passport system running again. -- Hog '03 ST4S '96 Bastard12 '89 R100RS '81 XS650 '78 RD400

	#24
The Older Gentleman	Re: How to ruin an afternoon Hog <hogSPAM@freenetCHIPS.co.uk> wrote: > The Older Gentleman wrote: > > "The Longhaired Boxhead via MotorcycleKB.com" <u33672@uwe> wrote: > > > >> But I guess I should get my skates on anyway and get a new one. > > > > Why not give up entirely and apply for British citizenship? > > > > I'd love to see how the bureaucracy copes.... > > Shut up you silly punt. It would be a year before they got the chuffing UK > passport system running again. I have this vision of the entire immigration computer system going up in smoke and a shower of sparks. "I'm sorry, Minister. The last word we saw on the screens was 'Geusch'" -- K1100LT 955i 750SS CB400F CD250 CM200 SL125 GAGARPHOF#30 GHPOTHUF#1 BOTAFOT#60 The bells, the bells.....

	#25
steve auvache	Re: How to ruin an afternoon In article <j0iua392nellbei0vq78iqbintp1jiu0cj@4ax.com>, Ace <seesig@virgin.net> writes >On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 14:21:56 +0100, >chateau.murrayTAKETHISOUT@dsl.pipex.com (The Older Gentleman) wrote: > >>Ace <seesig@virgin.net> wrote: >> >>> As a result UK passport >>> agencies will now renew passports six months or more before expiry but >>> still give the full ten years validity from expiration date. >> >>That is well worth knowing, as mine expires in March 2008. I'll renew >>it as soon as I get home. >> >>Don't the new biometric passports come in sometime in October? Before >>then sounds like an excellent scheme.... > >Not sure why you want to _not_ have a biometric one, Because foreigners don't believe that a simple paper one signed by one of Her Glorious Maj.'s lackies is real enough to be worshipping us. They want incontrovertible proof for that. It has nothing at all to do with British wogs being checked doubly by the immigration before being let back into the country they call home and maybe even were born in. -- steve auvache A Bloo one with built in safety features

	#26
Grimly Curmudgeon	Re: How to ruin an afternoon We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "The Longhaired Boxhead via MotorcycleKB.com" <u33672@uwe> saying something like: >Supposedly you can get an express passport (only >a few days turnaround) in Germany but I haven't found out if the embassy in >London can do that also. It's worth enquiring. I did a lot of embassy passport runs during my time as a courier and most of those were urgent cases. -- Dave GS850x2 XS650 SE6a Teach a man to fish and he and his pikey mates will have the river cleaned out in a day.

	#27
Timo Geusch	Re: How to ruin an afternoon Grimly Curmudgeon <grimly4REMOVE@REMOVEgmail.com> writes: > We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the > drugs began to take hold. I remember "The Longhaired Boxhead via > MotorcycleKB.com" <u33672@uwe> saying something like: > >>Supposedly you can get an express passport (only >>a few days turnaround) in Germany but I haven't found out if the embassy in >>London can do that also. > > It's worth enquiring. I did a lot of embassy passport runs during my > time as a courier and most of those were urgent cases. I'll try to - the last time they fobbed me off with a temporary passport that wasn't valid long enough to get into the US, and the regular one. And the temporary one isn't exactly cheap. That said, if I can get an "Express Passport" made in Germany I don't see any reason why the embassy can't do that as well... -- Morini Corsaro 125 \| CB450K4 \| XL250 Motosport x2 \| 900SSD \| K1100LT Triumph T-Bird chop \| CB400/4 BOTAFOF #33 TWA#10 The UKRM FAQ: http://www.ukrm.net/faq/index.html "Je profite du paysage" - Joe Bar

	#28
Higgins	Re: How to ruin an afternoon The Older Gentleman wrote: > Ace <seesig@virgin.net> wrote: > >> As a result UK passport >> agencies will now renew passports six months or more before expiry but >> still give the full ten years validity from expiration date. > > That is well worth knowing, as mine expires in March 2008. I'll renew > it as soon as I get home. > > Don't the new biometric passports come in sometime in October? Not that you'll care but the price also goes up in October. Again.

	#30
vulgarandmischevious	Re: How to ruin an afternoon On 31 Jul 2007 15:42:23 GMT dog wrote: >where, apart from the uk (and a few of its former colonies) does it take >more than 30 seconds to validate a passport? Loads of Arab states. -- vulgarandmischevious

	#31
darsy	Re: How to ruin an afternoon On Aug 1, 9:40 am, "Hog" <hogS...@freenetCHIPS.co.uk> wrote: > darsy wrote: > > [1] I was pleasantly surprised how "un-Brit" Praia de Rocha was in > > general, and the hotel I stayed in - the Oriental - was great. > > I certainly prefer Portugal to Spain, away from the main tourist hole at > least. Well, Praia de Rocha is a touristy area, but it's much less tacky than any equivalent place in Spain that I've been to. It helped that we were staying no-where near the main nightclub area (right on the Beach, as it happens), and the only "obviously drunk in the morning" people we saw were a bunch of stripped-to-the-waste frenchmen with "Allez les Bleus" written on their chests in paint. -- d.