Triumph has also given a wider handlebar on the Speed Twin which makes you reach out for it only slightly but gives great leverage for manoeuvring through city traffic. On the highway, though, you would face wind bursts at high speeds and I wish there was some kind of wind protection on offer.

Yes & No. “It is sometimes found, particularly with butt joints stressed in tension, that joints with extremely narrow joint gaps have a tensile strength greatly exceeding the U.T.S. of the brazing alloy in the as-cast condition. This effect used to be attributed largely to the change in the composition of the brazing alloy, caused by alloying with the brazed components, it being held that the effect of inter-alloying would be more pronounced in joints with narrow joint gaps, owing to the relatively higher concentration of the parent metals or their constituents dissolved in the brazing alloy” — p9, second column, http://www.jm-metaljoining.com/french/pdfs-uploaded/Design%20and%20Strength.pdf

What I didn’t wish for was the grip from the tyres because there is just so much of it on offer. The Speed Twin wears the Diablo Rosso III’s which allows for great grip even when leaned over. Then, comes the brakes which have great feedback and bite, no complaints in that department.

In other cases, a single hide will pass through two or three different tanneries before the tanning process is complete. Some tanneries only process raw hides to the “wet blue” stage, or to the “crust leather” stage, before selling on these hides to other tanneries which then complete the process.

Yes, the front suspension is not adjustable and the ones on the back can only be set for preload, but I never really felt the need to tinker around as I found the setup to be just fine for both city and highways.

[103] World Health Organization, International Agency for Research on Cancer, “Arsenic, Metals, Fibres, and Dusts: A Review of Human Carcinogens, vol. 100(c),” 2012, pp. 317-354 http://monographs.iarc.fr/ENG/Monographs/vol100C/mono100C-13.pdf (accessed August 22, 2012).

More proof that Renault Sport’s engineers aren’t just among the world’s best, they also know how to finesse a serious car for everyday use. The 227bhp R26.R might just be the greatest of all: on a dry road, with decent temperature in the tyres, this gets very close to replicating the sensation that you’re surfing a wave of infinite and gorgeous grip. Its front end has astonishing bite, and it just goes where you want it to go. Telepathy, innit. Keener dampers and supple spring rates help, but the key to the R26.R is that it wears (optional) track-spec Toyo tyres. They’re not rubbish in the rain, either. 

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I’d like to mention that the LED strip is probably using a normal adhesive, which is not rated for heat-sinking.

[64] Human Rights Watch interview with Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh, member of parliament for Hazaribagh, Dhaka, June 10, 2012.

Come to think of it, for demo in chem lab they used a half grapefruit sized crucible full… where you’d think they’d use the smallest amount possible for safety.

Some research, discussed above, shows that tannery contaminants have reached groundwater supplies, while other research has found that it has not but that the risk is imminent and that the government needs to monitor water supplies.[180] Despite publication of research identifying health problems among Hazaribagh residents as early as the mid-1990s, the Bangladeshi government does not regularly monitor the neighborhood’s air, soil, and water.