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I am sure its been said before, its just to make us bikers easier to find in the undergrowth after we have been knocked off the bike by other road users!

Had a similar problem with my McCulloch. Took off the carb and blew through the jets in the carb body with my portable air compressor, worked fine after that. Do it on a clean surface to make sure you can see any small pieces that may fall out.

I have an HTC Hero which I bought second hand from Ebay then got an SFR contract, 21 Euros a month. HSDPA 3g, unlimited txt, 200mb high speed down load from internet (rest unlimited), 1 hours telephone calling and two free 1 hours call to two other SFR numbers (an offer for under 18s to encourage them to ring their parents as the phone is for my 14 yr old!!). SFR now do "combine" cheaper packages if you have their internet service with them. My 16 yr old is with Bougues for his own Iphone (not on contract with them). 500mb downlod limit, unlimited txts etc. He never rings anyone up and is now re-selling his phone credit to his paypal account (dreadful rate but the credit is capped and if he does not do this its lost anyway). 14 yr old son's pal has an excellent Samsung Galaxy on his parents contract with France Telcom which was a good deal. We let our eldest chose his own phone, second hand, then got the contract he wanted afterwards. Coverage is good for both contracts. He has jailbroken three Iphones so make them unlocked for the rest of the family. Personally I prefer the HTC Android as you are not tied to Apple. A rebel sim card is another way round a locked phone without flashing the ROM.

May be stating the obvious, but if its a new installation, you need to allow the water which comes out to drain away somewhere. If this is not possible, I think an air loaded accumulator (red cylinder to absorb the pressure) is available.

1. Yamaha TDM 900A 2. Ditto 3. Kawasaki 175 4. MT01 5. RD350LC 6. 2800km trip last year down to South of France and back up half the RN.

100% with Bugsy on this one, changed mine after somebody walked out in front of me at Granville.

Southsea to Normandy. I changed the exhausts on my Yamaha TDM, too quiet (MTC cans at the moment). Now my wife can hear me coming home over a KM or two away. Never had any problems, a friend is a Gendarme and he never mentioned the volume; just the nice noise.

Strange. Put one up for a friend in the commune of Isigny (same DDE) a few years ago. Did the same thing, took in the Brico catalogue, asked the Mayor's office if a delcaration was required. They said yes and approved it in a couple of weeks. Two windows in the front and two in the doors, in a rural garden next to the road. Have you been through your local Mayor, or direct to the DDE?

We too live in Normandy and have put two children through French schools, we have one in 3ème and the other in Premier. The eldest was mocked and bullied in maternal and we sorted this out by confronting the teacher (small village school). Although the problem was sorted, we thought of taking him out of the state school and put him in the private college to avoid "going up" with the same troublesome children. Thankfully, for various reasons, we did not. All the troublesome children went off to the private school. The logic here is that many parents in our area consider the teachers more strict in the private school and sent their wayward children there in the hope they will be better disciplined. We know one french family that actually sent their son there as a punishment, letting him go back to state school when he had improved. Our youngest son is small for his age, academic and studious. He was only bullied once and the staff came down swiftly on the offender and he has never been troubled since. Perhaps you could speak to parents with children in the state school?

So glad I got back to biking, got years left in me yet judging by this video!

I realised my comment may have been redundant after I re-read the original post.  We have every official form we have completed since we came here 14 years ago - suitcases full of them!  We keep the blue form with our figures in it to make sure we use the same figures when we complete the forms for the CAF and CMU.  We have had one Tax control and one other, both 18 months after we submitted the figures, so we were glad of our original drafts so we could see what we had done. Not "anal", just used to dealing with the Civil Service in the UK for many years [:D]

If you complete your Tax return on line, the blue  CERFA form No 10330 "Declaration Préremplie" has your No. Teledeclarant in a little box on the bottom left hand corner of the first sheet (or at least mine does for 2009).   Hope this helps. 

Of course this is obvious from the simple  .......................My computer...........View system information

Do you mean Control Panel>System and Security>System which gives "View basic information about computer"?

The is a handy little programme called SPECCY www.speccy.com which shows in an easy to understand form the RAM, CPU HDD etc contents of your computer.

Am currently helping two British families sell their houses in France. They have both been subject to this new law that came into effect in January. One signs for the sale today (Friday 28 Jan 2011) and the Notaire asked for the certificate two weeks ago. Luckily their SPANC inspection was done less than 3 years ago so the inspection paper is valid. The other has never had a SPANC inspection, am getting it done next month for the sale. We bought our house 21 years ago in a village and were told that mains sewer will be available "in 5 years". We were eventually connected last year. It will take the village 30 years to pay off the loans to have the work done. We paid 500 Euros as our participation towards the connection.(everyone in the village who has the connection availabler has to whether they are connected or not) Then an extra 1,6 euros, rising to 2.0 extra per cubic meter of water used. We then did the work ourselves to physically connect the toilets etc (easy work as we had prepared everything). Our neighbour opposite in a new house has had to destroy his patio, lay pipes 20 meters down his garden to connect - all at his own expense, plus the 500 euros etc Our local water board is considering a possible financial aid towards the installation of new septic tanks where the SPANC inspection shows one is needed. Even if there are plans to put in mains sewers in the future, you will still have to have a septic tank installed. The new houses in our village that were constructed just 2 years before mains sewers came in had to have them installed. The advice is now to uses them to store water to water the garden! Although the principals are the same, every commune will have a different interpretation of what to do. The best thing to do IMO is to talk to the Secrertary/Mayor in your village and the water board to find out exactly what the future plans are.

11.99Mbs down 1.03 Mbs Up ISP Manche Telecom Ping 32 ms Distance 150 Miles 18/01/2011 0756 gmt

[quote user="Nick Trollope"]Don't assume that you will be allowed to connect a UK-supplied boiler to the French mains. Find out from a registered fitter if he is willing to do it. They should also be able to give you a price for the connection.[/quote] Or even a French bought one. I put in a simple gas boiler central heating system a couple of years back. To be connected to the gas tank, it had to be a registered French fitter certified before the company would fill the tank. He almost refused to connect it as he could not initially find the NF sticker. I pointed out the CE sticker and showed him the bill from a local French supplier, but he insisted CE was not as good as NF. After the certification was competed, I took him to see the Butaz Gaz gas tank - made in Peterborough, no CE or NF in sight! The connection cost 400 euros, nearly as much as I had paid for the boiler. (end of range Lambo)

If an answer to the original question is still relevant, I put a lamborghini in myself 12 years ago, its still going strong. I remove the burner unit and clean it out twice a year and replace the spray head annually. It comes on for 3 hrs in the morning to take the chill off the house, then goes off when the wood burner takes over.

I have actually used them, for my motor bike tyres and was pleased with the result and the service. If this is the right tyre EAGLE F1 GS-D3 255/40 R17 94Y VSB BSW, 123pneus.com have them for 171 euros

Why not just order one from someone like allo pneu, have it delivered to one of their fitters and turn up with the wheel?

Thanks, that makes sense as my wife has also got two years on her licence too.

I have used my SFR La Carte phone from the UK to ring France. I had to subscribe to SFR Monde (as I remember it was free), then I could use the phone in the UK with La Carte

Wishful thinking, well past both these dates!

We have just been through this hoop. Downloaded the forms, got all the bits of paper, took them to the sous prefecture in Avranches who told us we had the wrong form. Gave us another one for St Lo. Rang St Lo to check we had everything, they told us we had the wrong form!! Did not need a bill with our names on it. Sent everything off and in a week got a letter saying they needed my wife's birth certificate (not stipulated on any of the three forms!!) to confirm her maiden name. Sent a certified copy off and got the licences the next week. As an aside, does anyone know why the C, D and E categories run out 2 years from date of issue of this new licence?