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Thanks for the advice. I've left it plugged in because I could definitely do with it starting tomorrow a.m. and I will investigate further over the weekend

The biffer wouldn't start today at home. Just fizzed a bit when pressing the start button, engine never turned over. So I left it with the battery connected to the Optimate that I don't normally use. I've come home and tried it and it starts. Hmm I'm thinking, I don't want a repeat of this if I'm miles from home. The bike is used daily year round so I've started it before now on colder days though it was a bit nippy first thing today. At weekend I put over 100 miles on it. Monday to Wednesday this week it's done the 4 mile each way commute to work. It's a 2007 bike but I don't know if the battery is original or a replacement, I could have a look later. Is this non-starting today significant or should I just see how it goes? Should I be ordering a new battery? Thanks in advance

I'm happy ish to proceed with caution around the outside of queued traffic. Far less so between two lines of traffic

I was wondering about swapping the Biffer (Honda CBF1000A 2006) for a Honda CBR600F, the older one - CBR600F4i (2001–2006) to be precise, cos it looks a little sportier and I like the way it looks with that humungous exhaust. I have a short commute to work that I do on the bike (5 miles each way), plus weekend rides, but I haven't yet had the urge to go on tour or anything. I'm a new-ish rider with little mechanical nouse and looking for a reliable do it all bike. Anyone on here got recent experience with them? [mention]Fozzie[/mention] , are you there? You did a review https://www.themotorbikeforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=56&t=41371 Given that manufacturing of them ceased in 2006 apparently, should I be concerned with the availability/price of parts?

This is word for word my experience too Apart from "I'm lucky that I can generally chuck a bit of money at all this"

Hi Matt. Welcome to the forum. Why don't you say hello to the rest of the people on the forum?

Thanks Mike I am ok. I am a couple of hundred quid worse off (top box and mounting plate) I think you know the roundabout, I cannot believe that they made the carriageway of a roundabout out of glazed brick, so its like riding on wet ceramic tiles in the rain. https://aseasyasridingabike.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/dscn9936.jpg I should have done what the van is doing in this picture and gone straight over

I know, Holy thread resurrection ya but I find myself asking this very question, having bust off my givi top box on poynton roundabout earlier today having slid across it.

I much prefer paper to online, nothing seems to sink into my brain if I read online, probably my age. But the last time I bought a magazine it had an ogri cartoon in the back? Who remembers that, what mag would that be?? As a kid I got every single edition of On Two Wheels, does anyone remember that? I had the binders and everything like this https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F123592546643 Used to lust after the laverda jota..ah times were simpler then

I've found exactly the same with the battlax I've got on the biffer, but plenty of user reviews saying the opposite My mot is almost due, if tyres are a concern then I'll be looking to put michelin on

I've been living in a cave and meditating on the subject. I think it is because I can only have one bike for everything.

Well yes, Mike but always the bigger ones. Crazy cc thing. Them groms just don't appeal. Maybe I'm trying to make up for some inadequacy Perhaps it is because I've come later in life to motorcycling

So glad it's not just me

Every so often I think about trading in the cbf1000 and getting something, well, smaller, lighter and more suitable for a 5-mile-each-way commute. Realistically I'm not likely to be going off touring anytime soon, having anxiety means I'd rather not, so my trips tend to be days out and home (at weekends). And then I spend all my time on auto trader ogling things like the Yamaha fjr1300ae, or a BMW r1200rt.

Glad you are ok. Seeing the rainbow spots of diesel or oil on the road on a wet day in particular shits me up something rotten. And I seem to see it an awful lot. Does anybody know *why* there's so much diesel on the road given the price of the bloody stuff? Do lorries not have filler caps or something?

I have no idea what this bloody thing is worth, in that respect eBay is the right place, just the robbing sods ask for too much. I paid 2.5 grand six months ago but it was in unscratched condition then. Sadly as a newb I have scuffed the mirror casings and scratched the paint on the right fairing

I'm considering selling my 2006 Honda cbf1000 and getting something a little different. I'm old and only have a limited time to ride as many bikes as possible. ☺

Maybe. Sold my 125 on here so it does work. Really don't want to give eBay 10%+ of very little.

What becomes of those old motorcycles like mine, 12 years old that, whilst 26k along with the mileage and scuffed and scratched, still have lots of life in them? I presume no dealer is going to touch it re trade in. And it can't be economical to get the paint touched up and the scuffed mirrors replaced. But there's so much bike with many tens of thousands of miles left in it. What can I do? EBay is the only thing I can think of. Or an advert in the window of a newsagent.

Thank you for the prompt reply gents

Electrical stuff is just magic to me. I really can't get my head around it. Can someone assist? I have an Optimate lead fitted to the bike's battery. I currently run my heated gloves from it. I'd like to be able to run the gloves at the same time as charging my phone. Can I buy an sae splitter to have 2 sae sockets, then the gloves from one and the phone from another? I mean obviously the bits exist for me to do that, but will the battery stand it and put out the necessary power? And would it mean that the battery is not getting charged? Many thanks

So I hear you but of those of you who said that they wear them in work, surely you have unamoured ones?? And I am not sure if motorcycle riding with no leg armour is sensible

What's the selling point or purpose of jeans designed for motorcyclists? Is it that you can walk around whilst still wearing them with some appearance of normality? Or is it that, whilst riding the bike you look "" cos you are wearing jeans? If the former, how wearable are they? Couldn't imagine how you could wear a pair at work all day, if they have armour in.

I must be missing something here. Why not just stick the opimate lead on the battery and have the charging port in it's waterproof rubber cover hanging out wherever you want it ? As previously mentioned, why buy a converter when you could avoid all this hassle by simply buying the correct lead ? It started out as me wanting to charge a phone whilst riding. I was caught out with a phone that went flat using Google maps. So I got told that the existing socket on my bike was an optimate, but with an old-style TM plug. I then googled tm to usb and the optimate lead such a search returns is in 2 parts: TM to SAE, which we're discussing here, then SAE TO USB which I have to say is lovely and watertight. Exhibit A: https://www.optimate.co.uk/products/o100-tm-usb-charger It didn't dawn on me at the point of ordering said lead, to wonder if the TM/SAE end was also waterproof. With the benefit of hindsight... It then, upon receipt and fitting, did occur to me to question the robustness of this. It seemed an innocent and reasonable thing to wonder, if the TM SAE connection, because its so solid, is also able to survive exposure to the elements. Rather than finding out the hard way when my phone wouldn't charge, say, I posed this question instead to the assembled lynch party here in all good faith. I was hoping for a "yeah its good enough to last as it is", with a worse case answer being "get some heatshrink/tape/etc over it" I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition but I take full responsibility for the situation and having discarded the package I guess I have to make the best of it. . My bad.

Because I just bought a converter, mike