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Thaat would depend if it's on the same day or if you have to comeback another day. Booking onto another day will stop them getting a news customer and costs would have to be covered.

I did my training also with Phoenix but I was at Sidcup. My initial training they paired me with someone who had been riding a 125 for a few renewals, so he kept disappearing whilst I was a little more cautious. They then sent me on a loop of their internal circuit which would not normally be given to beginners. I dropped the bike on moss which they hadn’t cleared.

Would I recommend them…. Not the Sidcup but Croydon gey good reviews. 

I don’t think there is a ‘cheap’ DAS course nowadays though.

21 hours ago, RideWithStyles said:

Was the 765 shod with what looks like pr4 tyres? Yes normally RS is on the firmer side of their range but the last owner probably softened the crap out of it including putting pr4 tyres.
Well the suspension can be firmed up.

 

so the opposite of the kwak, it most likly started soft (std set especially the rear) and the owner turned the knobs in.

shod with bridgestone roadsports which are stiffer and less winter than the mich.

Doing a zoom in on the pictures they could well be PR4's, which are decent rubber, but not something I'd be expecting on a bike of this style. A mate came to the dealers and when he sat on it, he even mentioned it 'felt' soft, not barring in mind he's a good 15+ kg lighter than me did make me think if what I was thinking was right. 

The dealer does have a new model, but being that extra cost is making me think this might not be the right bike for me.

If next weekend is dry and warmer I'll see about taking both bikes back out again, but this time would be the newer model.

Not mine, but took this for a ride today. 2019 765RS, found the suspension quite soft, being shod with road rain rubber and the temps being cold made a few corners a bit skitish on the road. I was aroun 15-20mph but the rear just felt like it was sliding a little. I might be tempted to extend my budget and go for a later model 

I then took a 2022 Kwack Z900, which just as I left the dealers the rain started, nothing heavy but enough to make me a little more causious. They had a 2018, which when I sat on it was much smaller, so the 22 was the bike for the ride. I found the suspension much harder and I really didn't enjoy the ride one bit. I will go back once we get a dry spell and have a better ride. One this was that this had only basic suspension, which was almost at it's softest at the rear. You could certainly feel the extra 24kg weight in the bike though. I wasn't sure about the Delvic exhaust, but it sounded nice with the baffle in.

Taking a test ride on a Street Triple 765 RS, purely for research purposes

I guess you have to know the area, and as a shooter I'm more than happy these two are off the streets.

The (long) weekend starts tomorrow. Off to buy some sloe gin from a small distillery, might sample the spiced sloe before passing over my hard earned. Saturday will be wiring the workshop up. Sunday will be the final clay shoot of the year, then Monday is a funeral for an uncle that wasn't really an uncle. We're going more for an aunt than anything else.

Yes, they take a little longer to warm up but do retain the heat a little better

The throttle side on my OE Yam died and got replaced with the Ultimate Addons grips. Not bad after a few mins to warm up, and not to mention no stupid extra controller box having to be mounted on the handlebars

On 08/12/2023 at 18:38, S-Westerly said:

Much like Joe I was shocked by my insurers.  I was paying a tad over £300 for the Multistrada. For the Guzzi Bennetts quoted me firstly over a £1000! They then negotiated down to £850. I went elsewhere and got it for just under £500. Bloody blood suckers.

Would you mind sharing who you went with in the end?

Working tomorrow and we have the Chrimbo clay shoot on Sunday

Well the Optimate didn't help me, so went and got a new battery. 

Received the Optimate 4 to keep the battery in condition over these colder moments

Currently in Valencia for the boys on over revving mopeds going round and round in circles.

In the current age of mobile phones having internet, if he was the be unlucky enough to get pulled on the way home from the MOT, those kind officers might just ask home to do it online in front of them. MOT's are live updated, so he's be able to pay for the tax within minutes of the MOT being completed.

19 hours ago, megaross said:

 

Nothing like the feeling of fibreglass in your skin and eyes

Long sleeves, gloves, PPE3 mask other than that not much of an issue. Just made sure I had a shower as soon as I was finished.

Starting to re-lag the loft and board it out whilst I'm at it. What an existing life I have 

What chargers are you wonerful lot recommending? I keep looking at the Optimates, but not certain which one to go for.

I have dislike for anything Oxford as the few item's I've bought over the last couple of years simply do not last. So are there any other brands worth looking at?

On 06/11/2023 at 19:52, bonio said:

Wanna do a swap? Your energy for my back pain?

you think I got energy.... Shooting is for stress relief, wallpaper stripping is because we've just finished a full house rewire. The shed didn't quite go to plan, got a call at 9 this morning with 'there's a little issue'..... They didn't follow the plans and only put a single 4 foot door on it, so explained that as they had already delayed once and I had to reschedule to work from home today they had to resolve and still arrive today. They appeared at lunchtime and the boys who did the bolt work did a decent job. 

Jost got to hoover it out, seal the concrete, go get a board for the consumer unit to attach to, run the armored cable and wire it up. Also got to arrange a security light and decide if I want to insulate it or not.

An adventure lid is what I'm tempted with for riding into work (London), slow traffic and better vision are my aims.

Stripping wallpaper ready for the plasterer to come around and fill all the channels left from the full house rewire, then a little shooting and back home to empty the old shed which is being replaced tomorrow. 

The only question I think Ride missed was budget, also allowing for the fact you'll need to buy helmet and other protective clothing into that budget

Like Fiddlesticks the Virgin box is in modem mode as the security is poor. With that in mind I have the Amplifi Gamers edition, but for normal use I'd recommend the Amplifi-HD https://amplifi.com/amplifi-hd

You get to tweek the settings per device for either normal, throughput or gaming. 

and whatever you do, DO NOT TRUST CHECKATRADE!!!! biggest scam site short of facebook marketplace

Workshop base being concreted on Saturday, otherwise nothing planned