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New 42t sprocket and heavy duty inner tube fitted. Now off to test the difference

Sure does look good while I'm sat looking at torrential rain however I'm a ginger so can get sunburn in February so also firmly on Team Green. Not a fan of rain but it does make things look pretty

I'm not sure the footage is sexy enough to warrant the porno music

Well done mate. I don't think anyone likes the hazard perception because it's such a grey area. You can see things too soon as well as too late. A friend of mine who is an experienced HGV driver failed a couple of times because of this. Good luck with the rest of the tests

a big thorn in the knoblies isnt good Yeah lucky it was.only in my tyre!

Upgraded the CRFs levers today. Very pleased with the reach on them but can't report much more than that as when wheeling the bike out of the garage the smallest bit of very pointy twig went right through my tyre and through the inner tube. Fortunately for once this happened an hour before everywhere closed and I managed to pick up a heavy duty tube. This will now be the job for tomorrow and while the wheel is off I have a new bigger sprocket to go on. Bit of a pain as was hoping to get out early doors for a ride tomorrow but if I'm gonna get a puncture I'm glad it was on the driveway.

Alot of 4x4 drivers make this mistake. If none of them are touching the ground it doesn't matter how many are being driven

Sorry mate but if you're struggling with that you have no business doing it. There are only "small jobs" if you know what you are doing.

Same thing happened to me years ago on my way to the Lake District but I was in a car. Torrential rain, horrible visibility and an M3 came past me like I was going backwards. Hydroplaned right in front of me, several spins and then off into the ditch. My immediate thought as probably all of us would was to pull over and help, and had I been on my own I probably would have but I thought do I want to put my wife's life at risk from another idiot doing the same rhing right into our car to help someone that had no consideration for anyone elses life? We called the emergency services but didn't stop. It played on my mind for a while but I'm happy with my decision. We never heard anything from the police so I assume nobody was badly hurt.

My kinda host but you know you can eat in the pub right?

Couple of mods to the CRF. Zeta pivot levers, not so much because I need them to pivot but they are adjustable so hopefully my little sausage fingers will reach them easier. Then a new rear sprocket with a couple more teeth to make the gearing a little more muddy stuff orientated although have a feeling by Monday I'll be dropping a tooth on the front as well.

I hope you didn't get too badly hurt in the accident. Enjoy your new CBR

Wow! I would happily own any of those bikes, especially the speed triple. I've always wanted the dual bug from around 1999 (blame mission impossible 2). I had an Africa Twin and loved it. The DCT made me feel like Marquez over the mountain roads but did make it tricky off road. Dragging the rear break is no substitute for a clutch and it's really hard to pick up when you drop it (which I do a fair bit hence the name) especially if the top is pointing down hill. As a touring bike it was faultless. Comfortable all day long and as fast as I ever need a bike to be. Only changed it because my little riding group all started moving away from distance machines to little cruisers.

Yikes! You weren't messing about

Yep, been changing tyres for over 40 years, struggle now getting older!! Might invest some of my pension and get a tyre changer soon It's all about the lube I mean when you're changing tyres.... Not when you're a pensioner

You do it yourself?? Yep, been changing tyres for over 40 years, struggle now getting older!! Might invest some of my pension and get a tyre changer soon It's all about the lube

Nobody likes a grass Geoff

If you keep it somewhere where you can leave it connected to a battery tender when not in use I would recommend that.

Could just be knackered rather than a charging problem. How old is it?

Bit of a Mod back in the day then? No......I wanted a bike......but the Lambretta came up cheap for 22 quid! First bike as such was a 1965 D7 Bantam. It was also a POS and looked like this...... 2476d6702849161e5931c15d6f897c4c.jpg Then in Jan 72 I got a 3TA Triumph 350 (ex Welsh Water Board). That was also a POS and looked like this..... 10955.jpg But in August 1972 it all changed when I bought a Suzuki T250J Hustler....... 10446361.jpg From thereon it was birds, blowjobs, motoring offences, arrests, street battles with skinheads etc. The normal stuff young people do sort of thing! Time is a wonderful thing. They all look cool now and Triumph especially are making them all look like that again.

Bit of a Mod back in the day then?

Did my CBT ON A CG125 after my brother gave me a cheeky go "around a carpark" on his Virago which gave me the bike bug (bike zero). That dumb idea has been very expensive for the last 8 years. I've yet to ride the bike that didn't make me smile at least a bit

Yes I've definately made some mistakes that made me glad I was on a bike that was a bit more forgiving. I struggle to even wash a bike and check trye pressures so 2 stroke maintenance puts the fear of Christ into me although Ii do love them, especially the sound and smell.

And unless the first time you left Swansea was to leave the county then you know it's not all crack, smack and domestic abuse... No......lived in many different places in Wales. My favourite was Chepstow! The least was obviously Swansea! Where you are is quite affluent by South Wales standards. Like everywhere it has it good and bad areas but I do feel lucky. Where I grew up I had lots of problem neighbours. In Usk I am the problem neighbour

These are good. My brother had to get one of these for his Panigale in the London area just so they would ensure it at all (and so he could sleep at night). Then he moved it to my house and just drives up here to ride it at weekends.