Confidence? Today the Whorehouse of Commons is to meet and discuss a vote of no confidence on its speaker, Mickey Mouse. (AKA Michael  Martin)  Why do they waste time and energy on this when the entire House of Commons is lacking in public

to be rusty, and the bike had only done about 20 wet miles since new tyres, so they needed to be scrubbed in a bit on a nice dry road. Anyway, magically over the winter I seem to have aquired confidence in the bike, roundabouts are fun now, and I am happy

How long did it take you to become confident on a new bike after changing from an old one or getting on your first bike Depends on the bike. Took me about 3 days of ridinga round to feel at home on my RS.What new bike have you got? lemmings999 wrote

, of course. Then probably delete it soon after, having realised what a daft idea it'd been. I don't have a confidant. If I had something that I had to discuss with someone, I'd come on here with a brief outline of the scenario and take it from there

Can you tell the difference ? Is there a difference ? Why is being confident such a bad thing ?Oh yeh I'm a confident person that is regularly mistaken for arrogance A fine line, matey!Confidence can be expressed without arrogance, but it takes

Where do you think the boundaries lie between arrogance and confidence?Reading some of the posts on here, some of the posters come across as arrogant to me, but could just be that they are very confident in their abilty.Does this change with context

Q: Can lack of confidence translate through to how the bike handles?Explain. Tim. OK - I'll have a go at a couple of aspects... If you aren't confident you get tense (because if you aren't confident you think you are going to fall off). If you

Approximately 4 days after buying my new (to me) bike I binned it on a roundabout. The cause was losing the back end on a previously unseen streak of diesel and lowsiding, thankfully at low speed. Since then my grip confidence has gone to rat shit

Hello all, just wandered in from General for a look-see. My name is jenkins and I ride like a woose in the wet. There I've said it, but I don't feel better.Any effective suggestions for boosting confidence when wet-weather riding? It's corners

I'd like some advice please.My brother has a real problem with his confidence going into corners. It doesn't matter whether it's a gentle bend or a 90 degree sharp corner, he always bottles it and slows down before the bend.We're not talking break