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i got a screen for my YBR 58 from hein gericke think it was about £30 and took me 15 mins to fit. Its a very good screen had it over a year now and never had any problems.

I have exactly the same problem with the boots I brought; when I tried to ride with them I was just catching the side of the gear lever so gave up with them. I also ride a YBR

Anyone going tomorrow night want to meet up?

you will be 10 mins from Bassetts pole from alot of bikes there on a weekend when the weather is nice! Just look for the pub and mcdonalds.

yea i would be up for a meet on saturday!

hein gericke Try there!! Say hello in newbie bit too

Thanks GB that would be great!

Might go over next tuesday if anyone wants to meet up?

I would like to go as its only 10-15mins from me; we go to the car boot there some weekends. It’s always busy when the sun shining and I feel so left out lol! I am just "SCARED" as I have L's and I am 30!!!

Just got back from lidl, got a tank bag and some long johns, the tank bag fits nice on my little YBR, quite good a lot of space in it. The long john seem bit big my advice would be buy a size down from what you normally would!

Hope it's ok if i tag along too!!! sue philgale korben dan + TheWife timr ( see i can actually read unlike the two above this post ) ( not pg & sq) vicki plus 2 kids rennie Techno Keithg24 plus 1 (he not voted yet) Taz Rick + 1 nman1 WalneyFrankie (anyone from the north west want to meet up and ride down together?) Yorbandit Jase Fazer Pete and Lynne Houdini Carleen and Josh SRAD Willow & Akeface Sheepy poss plus 1 + 1/2 slugworth Synroto +1

My aunt sends me stuff all the time from USA and I normally don’t have to pay any duty, but if you are unlucky it can be a bit steep! We got our son some trainers they cost $100 thought we were getting a good deal until we had to pay import duty of £40.00. Would have cost nearly the same to get them in UK! If you do buy from abroad ask the seller if they would mark the item as a gift less likely to have to pay import duty.

Ok a bit fuzzy and long but here is my CBT story. I arrived at Streebike all kitted out in my new Berik jacket, shark samurai helmet and 661 gloves. Nervous as hell but have no choice but to pass, all the new stuff you see and paid £2000 for my YBR. I sit in the car with my wife who is trying to push me out, there is a guy in the car next to me I wait for him to go first he walks in seems to know where he is going so I follow. He stop to speak to a big guy getting bikes out of the back of Streebike the big guy getting out the 125cc CG looks to me and says “you here for your CBT?” I say “yes” and points me to the stairs at the back. I walk up the stairs by now thinking I am never going to pass this i don’t even know where the gears are! i walk into a small office, where a guy is making tea he asks if i want one i decline, he looks at me with all my kit and says you won’t need our stuff most of it smells anyway, he laughs, i sit quiet (crapping myself). Then three men enter,the big guy who was pushing the bikes around, the guy i was stalking and another all of them in their 50’s. The big guy says “I’m Mike your instructor for the day they called me 50 cent you know why?”(Well he is not black) so i say “only 50 percent pass?”He smiles. The guy I was stalking leaves to get his bike ready to do his DAS. Leaving Mike, me and this new guy; Mike and the guy start chatting i sit there not saying a lot. Mike asks how the guy’s boat is and if the stuff he gave him fits ok (they know each other) turns out they have been friends for a long time. All i am thinking now is i have no chance 50 percent pass and his best mate is one of us! We have a very informal chat about what’s going to happen and safety then he asks to see our licences both of us have old paper ones he looks at his friends and says “that’s fine” he looks at mine and asks if i have any photo id i pull out my passport he starts looking hard at my provisional licence. He says there is no cat A he turns to the other instructor getting his stuff on and says “look at this what do we do” turns out i can only ride a 50cc! My heart drops i paid for my bike now, Mike says “you watched me pushed the bike around, i got to put it away now and get you the chicken chaser.” I ask “what about doing it with gears” he say “no problem do it on the 50cc and apply for the new photo licence when you get it, it will have cat A on it.” The three of us go down to the car park. I get on the chicken chaser the other guy gets on the 125CG Mike tell me where the accelerator and brakes are that take a minute, then he runs though the CG. Ten minutes later we are going around the car park it’s like been on a two wheeled go cart. The guy on the CG having problems he can’t get the hang of the gears. It comes to the emergency stop I get some speed up and Mike steps out! I stop and I haven’t killed him, now the guy on the CG didn’t do so well he pulls in his clutch and hits the fence few more attempts and he gets it. The figure of 8 is next on the 50 its easy round and round i go the guy on the CG drops it again and again, I feel so sorry for him. We get told its lunch time and we go back up to the office where Mike breaks the news to us “Royston you will be going out on the road.” he then turns to his friend and says “you won’t be out today” the friends quite happily says “I don’t want to go out I’m far from ready.” We go to lunch. After lunch i meet up with Mike and the skies are going grey we get ready with headsets so he can shout at me. We walk back to the bikes and he explains to take my time and if i lose him just to wait. Ok we are off i pull out and then the shouting starts “LIFESAVER!” we go on a bit further. And he starts shouting “OWN THE ROAD!” after been out for 20 minutes the rain starts the heavens open i think we will have to go back soon. But no, one more hour of riding in the rain around and around the same 5 streets and being told every two minutes “TO OWN THE ROAD!” Then we get a bit further into Halesowen, traffic lights and islands still hearing the yell of “OWN THE ROAD”. an hour later we come back to the big island by Streetbike, I come down the left hand side of a bus that is in the middle lane, i can see he is indicating to go right so away i go across the island, then i hear that shout again “pull into the car park” on the car park he says “you were doing so well” i ask if i passed he says “yes but be careful around buses.”

thanks all been a bike novice i went to my local yamaha dealer to get one, he looked at me like i was stupied and said they only come in jackets or for jackets! so i left confused and unsure if he was right.

Are there any back protectors that don’t need to be fitted into a jacket? Some help on this would be gratefully appreciated. Thanks