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100% true.

Oh no.. wishing you better weather today.

Would someone tell mister essexboy that I had Anakees on my GS when I first had it. I found them noisy, though and when I finally swapped them out for pilot roads the bike became a lot more surefooted. I've currently got Dunlop mutants on the drz and I'm very happy with them. They seem to do well on all kinds of surfaces. Not sure how they'd fare on a heavier bike but it would be worth checking out the reviews. https://www.tyrereviews.com/Tyre/Dunlop/Mutant.htm

@Gerontious I love the pic. Very evocative. I still remember that feeling of agog from my first time at Dasburg. 9 years ago almost to the day.

Clutchless changes saved me when mine snapped. Only issue was red lights: I somehow managed to stall the bike and start it again in gear. Not ideal but it got me home.

Can't give you any suggestions as I've never been seriously off road. The wr450 is a well respected work horse. However I've read a fair bit of advice saying to start out with a 250 or under. Plenty of people ignore this mind and do fine.

This channel was made for you Born A Goon - YouTube

Happy birthday

Happy birthday mate.

That is one very funny clip. In fact, it's completely brilliant. The set up is perfect: it starts with the phone call, and the "four days before I was leaving" with the left hand waving in front of the lens, just to make sure that we, the viewer, understand that TUI have screwed you over, and that it shouldn't take this amount of effort on the phone for them to sort you out. But you hardly get that out your mouth before our attention is pulled to the left, where this guy is coming up on your inside, his car slowly growing into the screen. It's an Audi; the casting is spot-on. Immediately the roundabout comes into view. And the left-only lane. At this point we all know exactly how the story is going to pan out, but - you see the dramatic skill - it's right here that you get into the full flow of your argument - we sail along with you on the flood of words, through the amber lights and onto the roundabout knowing for sure what's going to happen and when it's going to happen , but no way would stop it or say, Joe watch out on the left, because if the ending lives up to what we've seen so far, it's going to be good. And sure enough, it doesn't disappoint: first there's a dramatic pause: the bike revs, the talking stops. Suddenly you're having a go at Audiman, but, in the spirit of the best farce, TUI boy thinks you're speaking to him, so now you're have two completely different conversations at once. The genius is that we never hear what either of the others say, so we're left to fill in the gaps with our own words. The finger from Audiman is the climax of the whole piece. It's the bit that tell us he actually knows he was in the wrong all along. Anyway thanks for posting mate. As for your question, the guy was 100% in the wrong, but we all saw what was going to happen ways off. Really hope you got your refund.

@Allanmania I know what that one feels like... I wasn't at all sure about the U turn, so when I nailed it, I thought: that's it, plain sailing now to the end. Did the final manoeuver, stopped squarely in the box but I just nudged the side of the cone with my foot. It rocked to the right, then back upright, then to the left, back up again, then to the right and ... over on its side. First time I'd ever touched a cone. Worse: I had mod 2 booked for the afternoon.

Fact. Welcome in!

Do you go easy there boy. Count to 10 now....

Yeah, I've tried that too. And "just out for a bimble". Not had much success.

That's the problem with your bike: it doesn't matter what intentions you have when you get set off, hooligan mode somehow auto-activates.

I miss my CB500. A bit underpowered on overtakes but other than that a great all-round bike.

Happy birthday mate!

Thry also made it clear that xxl was the right size for you...

Perhaps I'm just a nob, but why not go back and speak to the person in the shop and ask for a free exchange, on the basis that he mis-sold it? Perhaps a bit late now though if it's been mummified in sticky tape

Suzuki DRZ-400SM . They also did a 650 if you want something that big. Then there's the Bimmer funduro, the F650, although they stopped production in 2007, so perhaps it's getting harder to find.

Top of the morning to you all.

On Rossos? That would be nice to hear.

90 minutes for me, but I'm off to London that night.

If anyone's interested in going, you can find more details here: https://www.thebikerguide.co.uk/motorbikeeventsseptember

@AstronautNinja sounds like it's in Waterbeach, just to the north of Cambridge. Bit of a ride from you mate. Bit of an aside: your bike is new new new, as in brand new? So will it need running in? One tip I heard for the running in period is don't sit there at constant speed for long: arrange your rides so you cover all the gears and the all the allowed rev range, and you're not suck just doing 70 on the dual carriageway. I don't know if makes a difference in reality, but it made sense to me, so that's what I did when I first had the MV.