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Okay mate, think I'm off the following sunday too so gimme a shout Yes please. K. Thanks. Bye. So that'll be 29 July? Its 3hrs from me but as I didnt get to the rally this year I'd be up for a ride up t'poob to at least say hullo

had them over two years and they've been fine up to now

I was told if you dampen the material first, then spray the waterproofer on, the material drying out helps to draw the spray in giving better results Never had to do it myself yet as my textiles don't leak

Or.............. I was parked behind this Ferrari when my bike lurched forward...............

congrats

We will be in the car Missus isn't too keen on this motorcycling lark

Using these at the moment Wearability They are comfy I find they get dislodged easily if you don't push them in far enough and are a bugger to get out if you over do it Noise Reduction Depends how much noise you expect or want an ear plug to cut out really I immediately swapped the coloured inserts for the yellow ones as the green ones didn't cut enough sound out for me The CB I have is a LOT quieter than the gixxer I had, so I'm not sure how they would have stood up to the gixxer

Eventful journey home Sue. Ended up in Shrewsbury. Don't ask me how O_o Chucked the missus off the bike AGAIN!!! in Kidderminster. Some moron on the roundabout by MacDonalds changed his mind and didn't want the turning he was indicating to use and swung his wheels to continue on round. I grabbed a handful of brake and went to put my left foot down. Trouble was it was straight onto a the biggest manhole cover in the world. The ones with the two triangular plates. My foot slipped, off we tumbled and Karen bashed her ribs on the kerb. We are now waiting to see if they are bruised or broken. Doc says if the pain eases over the next couple of days they are bruised, but if they are broke it will get a whole lot worse

Checking in. Back home but not without incident This whole biking as a couple thing ain't off to the best of starts and is in the balance at the moment. Top weekend though Was good to see you all Thanks Sue and Ian for opening up your home to us

I was ignoring you Haha Looking forward to meeting up again

Just thinking of TC

Are there any bus shelters along the rode out route?

John, you have a message on FB Got it thanks Sue I tend to write the route down on a scrap of paper and memorize it, using the scrap pf paper if I forgets on the way, but I think I'll bring the twat nav along just in case We are planning on starting off early morning as its near on 4 hrs for us Karens up the hospital at the minute waiting on the arrival of our latest grandchild She's getting excited about coming along

Boots bought Sat the moaning bitch missus down and made her try everything they had that fitted her, even the ones she she didn't like the look of She settled on some waterproof Alpinestars SMX 5's As soon as she put them on I got the look of approval I needed some new boots as well as my old ones leaked like a seive Not wanting to be outdone or do the tweedle dum and tweedle dee thing I tried a few of the others on making extra special effort to avoid the ones the missus chose Ended up with the same though as I found them snug and very comfy All kitted out now ready for the soash at Ian and Sues next weekend

will be this time next year we get the pictures at the rate this weather is going then Think positive, Steve, POS....I....TIVE!!

Great Thanks all for the input and for the link I couldn't find linky when I was searching, so got fed up and reinvented the wheel Figuratively speaking of course Off out in a bit to see what we can find

I am going to be buying some boots for the missus and I've noticed is recent years more and more ladies boots becoming available On a practical level, fashion/styling aside, does it really matter? Obviously women have smaller feets (in most cases O_o) so is it just about the length of the foot?

NEVER use helium canisters in these

Someone do us all a BIG favour If you know or live near Essbeebee hog tie and gag him/her We most definately don't want them doing a sun dance for us Reasoning please see last post in http://www.themotorbikeforum.co.uk/view ... 4&start=15

Daughters in Labour so the sprogg should be here any time soon so missus will be coming along I'll need your address/postcode Can you pm me in facebook? Travelling up from Portsmouth and planning to use the A34 but I'm flexible if others wanna meet up along the way, so long as it doesn't mean hundreds of extra miles Directions as follows from gogle maps. Haveny worked out how to post the complete thing Portsmouth UK 1. Head south on Old Commercial Rd toward Victoria St 75 ft 2. Take the 1st left onto Victoria St 0.1 mi 3. Turn right onto Nelson Rd 453 ft 4. Turn right onto Wingfield St 269 ft 5. Turn right onto Church St 213 ft 6. At the roundabout, take the 2nd exit onto Mile End Rd/A3 0.3 mi 7. Continue onto M275 1.8 mi 8. At junction 12, exit toward Southampton/Fareham 0.4 mi 9. Merge onto M27 17.0 mi 10. Slight left onto M3 10.2 mi 11. At junction 9, take the A34 exit to The Midlands/Newbury 0.2 mi 12. At the roundabout, take the 2nd exit onto Winchester By-Pass/A34 Continue to follow A34 62.5 mi 13. At the roundabout, take the 1st exit onto the M40 ramp to The Midlands/Northampton/Banbury 0.4 mi 14. Merge onto M40 44.5 mi 15. At junction 3A, exit onto M42 toward M1/M6/Birmingham (E, N & C)/Solihull/N.E.C. Airport 10.6 mi 16. At junction 7, take the M6(N) exit to Birmingham (C&N) 0.5 mi 17. Keep right at the fork and merge onto M6 20.3 mi 18. Slight left onto M54 17.6 mi 19. At junction 5, take the B5072 exit to Telford © 0.3 mi 20. At the roundabout, take the 3rd exit onto Forge Gate 0.2 mi 21. Continue onto Lawn Central 0.1 mi Like I said, we would love to meet up with anyone who is going and their route meets or is close to ours

Based on the weather perhaps not such a good idea then

Never used main dealers I've tried this in the past with my cars and always found them horrendously expensive so had no reason to suspect they are any different for bikes I've tried a few places that only offer service and repairs services and ended up with a one man band for my bike (Marc Patterson) I've ended up with Marc because he is the only one I've felt completely confident in and totally at ease when he has my bike (very rare to find someone like this) The others I've tried were probably OK TBH, but for me if I get even slightly suspicious about them, that's it, I won't go back When I move the search will be on for someone local as I don't fancy the one hour ride I may even have to consider getting my tool kit up together and doing it myself, but its been a while since I've done any mechanics

Thanks guys All sorred and the Bike's now gone, as of yesterday Now the proud owner of a 2008 CB1300SA with SW Motech luggage system Looks good, I'll take some pics when the weather turns

30th is a Monday and I will be working as I have a regular 9-5 job On the Satruday I'm picking up the CB and then going shopping for bike gear with erindoors What about Sunday 29th? Following weekend we are away to Ian and Sue's in Telford