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  1. Hope this means we can start to get spare parts
  2. Took the MV to the dealer yesterday for a service and some warranty work today. Didn't hear from them today, so I can't pick up the bike tomorrow morning, which means they're going to have to keep it until after the weekend. With the DRZ, the first date I could get for an MOT was Tuesday. So it's a Bikeless Weekend ahead.
  3. I think they look great. When I rode a scoot I had nighttime fantasies about owning one
  4. Sorry for your woes!
  5. bonio

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    Hey and welcome
  6. the Varadero is probably the best 125 for someone who clocks in at 6'3". I hear that they're getting hard to find, though.
  7. A YBR is one of the zippiest 125 out there. And to me, zippy = good; so, zippiest = best. But I'm a simple soul.
  8. I don't think I have a continuous joint.
  9. I'd avoid the Benelli and the Husky. Huskies are legendarily fragile bikes - they can take a fair bit of spannering and fettering to keep them on the road. Benellis have been produced to a sadly poor quality recently - like in the last 10 years or more. Also both have the issue that parts can be harder (sometimes a lot harder) to find than for the Yam or the Honda.
  10. I guess you haven't anyone to take along with you.... This is what I would look for Is it well cared for? I mean, if the tyres are worn or the horn doesn't work, or there's a rip in the seat, then it's been bit short on love, and that can mean it's packaged up with more serious problems. What's it like when it starts. It should start on the button and the exhaust shouldn't smoke. You need to check that the engine isn't warm before you start it; sellers can sometimes get the bike started before a buyer visiting, which helps to hide problems. Once it's been running for a few minutes, open up the oil filler cap, and look at the inside of the cap and around the rim of the engine. What colour is the oil? Ideally it's a pleasant luminous caramel colour, but it could be blacker than that, depending on when the oil was last changed (ask about its service history, but be prepared to take the information with a pinch of salt). If the oil's at all creamy or buttery, walk away. Is this is kind of information you were after? If so, I'm sure others will add more useful stuff than I can give you!
  11. The MOT says something about 90db or something, but when I've been chatting to the tester fellers, they've told me that none of them have the kit to measure how loud an exhaust is. So given yours has got the magic BS stamp, the only way they'll fail it if its so obnoxiously loud no-one would believe it's anything less than 120db. My old gixxer used to pass every time, even with its after-market jobbie that had no stamp and no baffle.
  12. This. A battery can show a full 12.8 volts straight off the charger but be so dead it won't even attempt to turn a starter motor.
  13. That's like me and new Multistrada. If someone can tell me how truly shite it is, I can relax when I next go past the dealership.
  14. bonio

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    Welcome in. Please post some bike pics! We're suckers for that kind of thing
  15. Great review! I don't believe you're under any obligation to pay that invoice. If it were me I'd write to the dealer and say that the problem clearly is one between them and the manufacturer and that it is completely unprofessional and unacceptable of them to try to draw you into it. Even if they got you to sign something to say that you were liable for costs there's an argument to say that the agreement has no force as it tries to take away the basic consumer rights granted you by their warranty. I don't if this argument has any legal force but it may make think hard before asking a lawyer to prepare a court summons
  16. What about going to a dealership, the kind of place where they have a load of secondhand bikes (Lings in Harleston for example), and trying the clutch on any 1050s they've got in stock. Could be the clutch cable needs lubricating? But searching on the internet seems to show others complaining about the clutch being heavy on that bike. People say they get used to it.
  17. Comfort is different from one person to the next. We're all different shapes and sizes, and we all have different levels of comfort we want to achieve. Only way to find out if its comfortable for you is to take it on a test ride - like a 2 hour + one, if you can (and if you can't, try a different dealership). I think it's a cracking-looking bike, plus it has that awesome boxer engine which is undiluted delight. I expect it has the standard rag-and-bones BMW gear box which sounds like it's made out of old tractor parts whenever you change gear (but I don't know, I've not ridden one). But if it has a quickshifter, you don't end up doing manual gear changes that often.
  18. I took the starter switch assembly apart, gave the inside a couple of shots of WD40 and happy days it's working. Time get the MOT rebooked.
  19. Since posting, I've been reading up on thumpertalk. It seems a common problem is dirt or corrosion gets into the starter switch, and this affects the operation of the relay that kills the headlamp when you start the bike. A number of people said they had the problem, so that's where I'm going to start. After that it's check the relay, then the wiring. The only has one fuse, so that's kind of checked already.
  20. Was working just fine. Then suddenly not. Now when I turn the key, just the little parking light comes on (yes, it has one; it's main function is to drain the battery when you leave it on "P"). But when I press the flasher switch (you can see why this is a great bike) both beams come on full power. So there's nothing wrong with the lamp or the wiring to it. There's no way to switch the dipped light off - the only light switch goes between dipped and main. Any ideas on how to hunt the problem down? PS For anyone who's just read my tail-light-rescue post, I found out this problem before fixing the tail lamp, so it's not caused by something I've cocked up in the repair.
  21. I took the DRZ out for its MOT a couple of weeks back, had the bright (pun intended) idea of checking the lights. Tail light not working, so cancelled the MOT. Today's the first day I had time to work on it. Found what seemed to be the problem. It didn't take a lot of fiddling about with it for another crimped connection to break so I thought the time had come to get the soldering iron and the heatshrink out and do a proper fix. Really delighted to get it all working. Gutted to find that the headlight now isn't working. Doh.
  22. Welcome in I think you just post in the For Sale area. You'll be all right; I'll put in a word for you.
  23. If you're in Needham Market, you might think about joining Suffolk Riders. Regular Sunday rides, usually leaving from Martlesham. Sometimes half day, sometimes full day. Monthly fish and chip runs on a weekday evening, leaving from all over Monthly club nights in Needham Other random rides Two or three tours a year, usually abroad They're a good group of people - although it's true that old blokes feature more prominently than in the general population - some very good riders among them, though. It's a RoSPA group, so they'll invite you to do the advanced training marlarkey which you might find worthwhile if you haven't already done it. They offer a lot of different kinds of rides, so chances are there's one there that it like what you're after. For all I know you're already a member If it's a more casual thing you're after then, if you're on FB (which is how the biking world meets up these days) check these out Suffolk Biker Family FTWUK - it has a strong Suffolk bias OTT East Coast Ride Outs Then these aren't ride outs, but I guess you know about the bike nights at Stonham Barns? Also Krazy Horse in Bury hold a few bikes nights in the summer - they're always popular. If you're up for a slightly longer ride, Two Wheel Tuesday, held all summer on Tuesday (who'd have thought it...) evenings at Old Buckenham; it's always rammed when the weather's good, has a nice vibe.
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