fastbob

That's unfortunate , but as you say , it dug into the earth with predictable consequences . The intended purpose of a crash bung is to erode away as it slides along the tarmack without creating too much friction .

I would strongly recommend R&G Crash Bungs because they don't compromise . No matter how unsightly or how awkward they might be to fit , and that can involve cutting a large hole in the bodywork, R&G bungs will always be designed specifically for the bike they are to be fitted to with the express purpose of hitting the ground before anything else does . ( I used to sell them )

A map of Scotland .

Manchester is down from Abington surely ?

If the one I went to last year was anything to judge by this should be great . Bike Night , Wednesday 16 / 6 / 22 6:30 onwards , Morton in Marsh . Lots of coffee shops and restaurants including the chippy staying open late . Loads of parking all in the main street . https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064337552483

A flask ! That's something I could really do with when I'm touring . It would save the hassle of getting the Jet Boil out to brew up .

Good result , scored an entire clutch pack with 4000 miles on it for £90 . That's a big advantage of having a Harley , people take off good parts to upgrade to aftermarket * . Now I haven't got to worry about my clutch for at least another 20,000 miles . * I can explain in more detail but not now if anyone's that interested .

If you've got to fill up , you've got to fill up . What can you do about it ? Well I suppose you could follow Mr Clarkson's advice and hijack a tanker . After all , according to Gezza , the driver has nothing to defend himself besides a rolled up Porn Mag . Once you have disabled the tracker , the next challenge would be hiding it . Well I've given it some thought and decided that driving it into a pre dug rectangular pit and covering it over with turf would work . It would be a bit of a faff using a bucket on a rope whenever you need some petrol so some affordable hand cranked pump could be installed and disguised as a shrub .

I forgot about the Daventry show . Do you know where I could park where I wouldn't have to walk too far to see the majority of it ?

I'm just going to trundle aimlessly around on the bike to make up for last weekend . I couldn't go to the big Sportster day because I was struck down with a wicked bout of Sciatica . F*****g agony it was . I'm a lot better now and I've just had new tyres put on the Harley so off we go . I find the roads are by far the quietest on Saturday evening , probably because everyone has had a drink or two , that's my theory.

If the weather is like today you won't even notice them . Just be prepared to move indoors as soon as the wind drops . Some friends have been in Skye all this week and it's been sunshine and total visibility every day . They actually saw the Cullin Hills ! What route are you doing?

Hang on there ! If you had the cams out without removing the tensioner then it would fully extend the second the cams were dislodged . You needed to have first removed the tensioner internals followed by the body . Install the cams with no tensioner then fit the empty body first followed by the spring , rod and end cap . Hope this helps . I'll PM my phone number so you can give me a bell for a chat about it . Oh yeah , the other bike has tight steering head bearings ..

An 883 Sportster ridden gently wouldn't be a bad option .

A GSXR 1100 will take you a hundred miles from home before you've decided where you're going . You can do a four day tour of Scotland and find yourself back at home wondering what happened and what to do with the rest of the holiday . Speed and power are mostly about marketing but I realized this 30 years too late .

I don't want to put a damper on things but a Race Track does not guarantee you protection from serious injuries . Somebody I know suffered life changing damage to a foot and a hand but it could have been much worse . Their Arai helmet was split in two . Probably if they had had more experience of kicking away from the bike in a slide it might have gone differently .

No personal experience , but I would endorse the idea of building a Track Specific bike and buying a trailer . There must be loads of tatty R1's and Blades out there .

One of the funniest things I saw was an elderly couple in a dinghy who had some kind of tiny electric outboard connected to a car battery by crocodile clips . Well it might have been ok for going ashore in dead calm conditions but these silly sods were heading out to sea by trying to battle against the Race at Teignmouth . This act of lunacy was performed right in front of all the Bass fishermen , including myself , that line the Race . When they eventually became swamped , the motor , which resembled an electric whisk , packed in and they were mercifully swept back into the safety of the harbour . Still makes me chuckle to this day .

I've spent the whole weekend so far with a really bad back . I can only get comfortable lying on my side . Needless to say I didn't go to the Sportster day at Donnington which was , by all accounts , a huge success .

Two days ago sitting in the filter lane to turn right at a big crossroads on the A45 in Coventry , a Lamborghini driven by a grinning idiot comes from the left also making a right turn . The car is very closely followed by a black BMW that's trying to turn inside it . Next follows the classic Supercar mistake , flooring it while still turning from a standing start . Vroom , screech , THUMP !! I look over my shoulder to see a growing cloud of dust and smoke and slowing traffic . Yep , another Lambo wrapped around a tree .I didn't stick around but the traffic was still moving slowly half an hour later . When are these idiots going to learn ?

Anyone seen Bob ?

This weekend I will be participating in something very similar to this . The Big One . Hundreds of Sportster owners will be riding with their local groups to form progressively larger groups before arriving at Donnington Park for a social and a ceremonial lap of the track .

Ironically , the kinder the weather , the more vicious the Midges become .

I clicked on the link and got something else called Rubber Side Down . Couldn't see content without joining and I've got enough FB feed already .