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this is a distraction. You only need one of these if you intend entering any of the following cities and pass one of these signs. Paris, Lyon, Grenoble, Lille, Strasbourg, Toulouse, Chambery, Marseilles and possibly Bordeaux and Rouen. autoroutes that pass through these cities aren't part of the scheme. so, every year we pass through central Lille on the A25 and we don't need one.

you're only going to find second hand for £300. top opening panniers are only available as far as I know in aluminium. and are usually fitted to frames that are 'permanent' is that what you want? I can see why people want top loaders. but i treat my panniers as 'suitcases' which i remove from the bike to load and unload. anything I need to get my hands on quickly. I do not keep in the panniers. so.. for £300 or less you are going to have to move your goal posts somewhat. and even then the bulk of that cash will need to be spent on the frames to hold them. even before you start looking for the panniers themselves. your only aternative is to set up a search on ebay for a full set, frames and panniers for your specific bike. and hope for the best. one of the cheaper pannier makers is SHAD.. and frames for rigid panniers from them start at £130+ https://tinyurl.com/y2s82lqq an alternative is this from Givi £385 the pair. plus the fixtures.

I would try and get as far south of Paris as quickly as possible on the first day.. and then slow right down, taking each day as it comes. decide where you want to cross from France into Spain and aim for it roughly, using autoroutes only as a way of cutting the time between points of interest (cutting out any boring bits I mean). Thats it really. If it were me, I would head for the uplands of the Massive central and cross into Spain on the Mediterranean side (languedoc).. and avoid as much as possible the french med coast. When we went to the south of france a couple of years ago.. our first overnight was at Avallon in Burgundy. a loveely little town. on the northern edge of the Morvan.. from there we headed south and east towards our goal, Millau. But for Spain.. or that direction i would head next towards the Volcanos in the Auvergne. we saw it from a distant and it looked great.. maybe one day we'll go there.

There are a ton of bikers who do this to their bikes, make filtering next to impossible. And without any real benefit aside from "looking the part" outfitting their bikes with oversized corn beef cans on scaffolding. Looking like Ewan and thingy ready for the long way round before a ride down to Waitrose for croissants. Standing up for the speed humps, (obviously) and if they can go over the kerb they get extra kudos for going "off road". Spray on mud, anyone?

Only bike I can think of and recommend as a lightweight tourer with a 200 mile tank. And my measure of a tourer is the ability to carry full luggage. Good seat comfort. Screen. Good instruments that will give a you good indication of the state of the fuel tank. No chain to worry about. Low centre of gravity and exceptionally light feeling, because all the bikes weight (except the battery) is below the seat, including the fuel tank. Centre stand as standard. Top speed 124' so will happily sit at 80+ for hours on end. Popular bikes that have been around for 12 years now and are way past the usual "new BMW model problems" phase) F800ST or the newer GT.

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That sounds one very good alternative. I actually found this: https://www.sportsbikeshop.co.uk/motorcycle_parts/content_prod/403863?r=GS&gclid=CjwKCAjw96fkBRA2EiwAKZjFTRr4nb0_nOjQi7WEBe8AKLctFBE8tFv_McO2YXbgqDxPEAf_PqY59xoCTN8QAvD_BwE That kriega (or 3 kriega bags attached to each other) is smaller in volume to the bag I have bought and larger in width. It's also £180 more expensive. My bag is 49 litre and cost me £58 and fits perfectly lengthwise from the front edge of the pliion seat to the end of the luggage rack. All I had to add was a cargo net for £6 and I'll probably give it a bit extra security with a bungee. Other difference is my bag can double up as a holdall. and I can fit a pair of size 12 shoes across its width. Which is important to me as I don't want to spend an entire week away wearing bike boots... especially at night chilled out in the bar. https://tinyurl.com/yyhlnvnt price has since risen now the sales are over.

if the breakage is down to "little bits" as you mention keep falling off, I probably wouldn't waste any more time on them. I certainly wouldn't trust them again. I rather like the original panniers for my Honda.. but at the same time i know from reading owners experiences that they are fragile. they don't cope well with side impacts. So.. carefully does it. The main plus from my point of view is that they do not require frames and do not add anything to the overall width of the bike. Thats important to me and why I will be getting them in due course. in the meantime a dry bag will have to do. you have on advantage over me.. your bike can carry throw-overs without risk of contact with the exhaust. and in your position I would be looking into them, with a suitably cavernous dry bag across their top.

snip from a more recent update. (2 hours ago) however they also say this So, I would guess that for some reason he was accelerating and just kept on going. through the fence and straight into the wall opposite.

I remember VOA as a teenager, listening to them on shortwave. There was them versus Radio Moscow and all they ever did was basically describe how awful the other was. But, the funniest of all was Radio Tirana who slagged off everyone (except China) and had some very strange ideas about what life was like here in what was then "the west" despite them broadcasting to "the west" in English. Being told regularly that we were starving each winter always made me laugh.

Went for a little ride today.. about 210 miles into the Fens. (for a change) And fulfilled a bit of a strange Ambition. passing through two strangely named villages, went from Four Gotes in Cambridgeshire. to Three Holes in Norfolk And made a bit of a discovery. Ive heard of the place but never been there: Oundle in Northants. unbelievably twee. I was so overcome with its tweeness that i didnt stop.. just ooh'd and aah'd (abit) Nice day for it 13c and a bit of a breeze...

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not due to surgery.. but a similar effect. I had a very rare pneumonia. (which nearly killed me), I thought it was some sort of flu and had been feeling too ill to use the bike for a couple of weeks, I finally went to see the GP.. and the next day I was in the HDU and stayed there for 5 weeks because just to add to the fun i then had liver failure as I had a very bad reaction to one of the exotic antibiotics they tried on me.. in hospital for just over 3 months. Came out and I had yet another reaction which didn't put me back in hospital but it did make me housebound because i was effectively incontinent and I was too weak to climb the stairs. All the while the bike sat outside. went into hospital at the start of march and didn't get on the bike until the middle of September when i was strong enough to lift the bike off its centre stand. I rode round the block. Got home and was so worn out I went to bed. I didn't ride the bike properly until the end of November. so, mid February to the end of November. about 10 months. The reason for your delay is purely down to having major surgery.. this is why they try their best to avoid it and use keyhole wherever possible. bad luck.. but it was probably the only way they could do the work.

it doesn't normally happen because different varieties normally live in different environments/locales... with only small amounts of crossover at the margins. But.. if they are of the same species but differing varieties and are artificially put together and breed. this happens. In the wild the two varieties might normally exist a 100 miles apart. or 10 miles.. but with a barrier between them and haven't been separated long enough in time, to have become different species that cannot interbreed. In the example of the snakes. you could have one variety that had a certain appearance that gave it an advantage in the rainforest... and another variety that at some point moved out of the forest onto grassland.. or the forest vanished and over time its appearance changed to one that gave it an advantage in hunting or preventing it from being eaten. The snakes from the forest do not cross over to the grassland because they are likely to be eaten. and those in the grassland stay where they are because if they were to enter the forest they might starve to death.

A lot of owners had the same problem early last year with my bike. Either the insurer refused to offer a quote outright, or the quotes given were significantly higher.. more often than not triple the usual amount for the new bike compared with the standard. and all because it was a new model with zero history or any kind of risk assessment. Sometimes it can pay to play a waiting game when a new model is released, not just because of insurance but also, i believe, its often best to allow other new owners to be the guinea pigs if any major fault appears and the bike is recalled.

By having one parent 50/50 and the other parent pure bred.

What's an "Ed entire" bike ? Adventure.. with a little bit of interference from the spell checker (gone wild)

21st century problems eh.. gotta love em. My phone is a £9.99 Alcatel with buttons and is I think in its usual place and condition, A pocket in my rucksack, turned off. Ludd is not my middle name, i just don't want to turn into one of those morons who spend all their time communicating and have forgotten how to communicate. or watch where they're going.

never seen an africa twin quite like that before, however everytime i go to the Honda dealership the one bike i spend most time looking at is a scooter. a scooter, but not as we know it. I didn't test ride it because i had the sneaking suspicion that i would end up buying one.

The most obvious difference between a sports bike and a sports tourer is that the tourer has the ability to carry full luggage and usually the pillion seat has an emphasis on comfort. (as does the riders seat) The engines might be identical with just a different state of tune.. the gear box will very likely be far more motorway friendly.The tourer will also have more weather protection. and a more comfortable riding position.

Ferry Newcastle to Amsterdam. Ride 130 miles from Amsterdam to Dusseldorf. arriving at Dusseldorf on a friday From Dusseldorf the overnight Urlaubs-Express Motorail service to Verona. from Verona ride 160 miles to Pisa That could be either the outgoing journey or reversed for the return. and is probably the only way to do a trip like you are planning in 8 days without it being a slog from hell. If you do it as a return the train from Verona to Dusseldorf runs on a Saturday,

yes. for the money asked it should be a minter,, and it wasnt so you were right to walk away. if you liked the bike then i would suggest you forget the 1100 and look instead the the 1150 which had a hydraulic clutch (rather than cable) and its known that the hydraulic clutch has a much longer life than the previous cable version. these bikes had a 5 year lifespan and were merely a continuation of the 1100.. a new lease of life so to speak. in almost every other respect the underlying bike was identical.. just a slightly larger by 47cc (I think) engine. Things to bear in mind... and i mentioned this already. miles DO NOT matter. its all about the bikes condition,. condition is everything. There is only one thing that I would probably avoid in these bikes and it is those that came with the servo-assisted brakes. that came with bikes from 2003. It was at the time a bit dodgy and its very common to find bikes where this was removed. if those bikes also had ABS too, then that was disabled as well as a side effect. Removal/conversion is relatively simple and inexpensive. The PLUS of servo.. is that you can brake hard with just one finger. no strength required. And I have to say that if the SERVO still works perfectky after all these years then there is no reason why that should continue to be the case going forward. Another bike to consider was the RS version. That is an R with slight sporty edge. you could call it a sports tourer. but its not a sports bike. Under the slightly different aesthetics, a bit of a fairing being the main difference, lies exactly the same bike as the R which is itself just an upgrade of the bike you looked at the r1100r This is the R1150R that did not have the Servo. you can immediately tell by the spark plug cover which is a 'stripe' of plastic. This is the version that "may" have the servo.. see the spark plug cover is a tadpole shape. There was also a 'special version called the Rockster.. which looked like this. and i believe was lower that the standard bike. and finally, the curveball... RS. which again can be differentiated. servo or non servo by the shape of the sparkplug cover.

The difference is, this isn't something you can choose. It comes with the bike. If you specifically don't want radial brakes or any other innovation. Buy a different bike. It's a bit like ABS, there are people who just don't ever want it. The time is fast approaching where any nearly new bike is going to have it and it won't always be possible to remove. So... If you want a new.. Or nearly new bike you get ABS too.

Don’t be so hard with me I just propose one of the solutions for speed cameras, I don’t need it as I am usually 1 or 2 miles below the limit. Even my wife call be grandpa driver. I'm not being hard with you at all. A speed flip definitely is a solution, but it's one that if you use as you pass a speed camera it will result in a whole world of pain, most if not all cameras are high definition. The police will be able to see what bike you are riding, what colour, what brand of clothing you're wearing and helmet and you can expect to see your photos in the local paper under the title, "do you know this biker?". Police want to talk to him about a serious offence. Or if you have used it repeatedly, a string of serious offence. You could easily end up in prison. You will definitely end up with fines in the £1000s. It's not worth it, the risks are massive and the results can be life changing.