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Two bikes, a Triumph Tiger 955i and a Kawasaki KLR 650 on knobbly tyres for a bit of green lane riding.

Hi Jon, there are a couple of really good shops not far from you in Farnham, Heine Gerrick and Infinity, both have a really good range of helmets and the staff at both are really helpful as well especially Infinity as they are an Arai 5 star dealer and do custom fitting work for Arai helmets, I'm sure they would be able to advise you even if you don't want to splash out on Arai lid. good luck

All weather, no car licence so no choice, ( could use public transport but would rather ride in a blizzard ).

Didn't know they did hip armour pockets so haven't got that on my jeans but it is the area that you are going to probably hit the road hardest with so makes sense to have it if you can.

Hi Alison, I wear both depending on where I am riding, long journeys I wear leathers or textiles if it is really chucking it down but around town on sunny days I wear draggin jeans as they are just so much more practical, downside is no fitted armour which as they are cut baggy would probably not be very effective in an off anyway but I have had a small off wearing them and just got a bit of friction burn through the material, the jeans didn't suffer at all though, I am pretty sure normal jeans would have just ripped and I would have had more rash from road contact, but if I had been wearing leathers I probably wouldn't have had any rash at all.

Exactly the same post left by chris12 on another forum, word for word.

I agree with what Chrisb6 said, if it was a component or battery problem he should be able to put a meter on it and know definitely if that was the cause, from what you say it seems he is just guessing and your paying for every guess he makes.

I have Oxford disc alarms and chains on both my bikes, I run the chain through the back wheel and lock it to the frame, the older of the two locks is almost four years old and still on the original batteries, It is used even when the bike is garaged so that's whenever I am not riding it 24/7 for almost 4 years, recently I had to leave the bikes for a couple of months parked in Central London along with my mates bike which had an ordinary but very tough lock, drunks leaving bars and clubs used to get on the bikes and muck about and several times I came out in the morning to see bikes on their sides with smashed levers, mirrors, screens and fairings but luckily both mine got left alone, my mate wasn't that lucky he had to replace a mirror one night, a mirror and indicator on another, his screen mirror and indicator on a third and finally caught two lads trying to nick the bike even though the back wheel was chained, I was lucky and got a place to park off street but as he still has to park on the road so he bought an alarm lock 3 months ago and hasn't had any problems since.

Korben, test ride a Tiger 995i, might not be the bike your looking for but then again it just might be, great photos.

If it has the bike mount then you can plug your headphones into it and play mp3's with the directions over the top of the music.

0 points and very very last, in the words of captain slow, OH C**K !

Team Tonto pending

I've got a Tour X, it's a good helmet but not good for fast riding as the peak isn't very aerodynamic, you get head weave and buffeting or it can pull your head backwards, however it has fantastic wide peripheral vision and it isn't too noisy, the distance from your nose to the visor is big so you don't mist up as easily on wet days or get the feeling of being trapped if you suffer from claustrophobia,( I don't suffer from claustrophobia but it just made me think of that when I first put it on), changing the visor though is a lot slower than other Arai helmets as you have to undo four plastic screws with a twenty pence piece or other handy device and then get everything back in place and do them all up again, easy on the kitchen table but not so easy in a windy rain soaked services car park on the M6 as it's getting dark and you drop a screw on the ground and spend twenty minutes on your knees looking for the damn thing. Other good things are you can wear goggles without taking the visor off for going off road and it vents really well in summer, the whole lining comes out and is washable and the peak makes getting blinded by low sunshine almost a thing of the past. One other bad thing is that if it's raining it doesn't shed the water off you visor as well as other designs do, I have to move my head around from side to side in the blast to clear it.

Can you imagine the shame if you pulled up at a meet, got off of the bike and all of a sudden you had a lovely little pair of fairy wings on your leathers

Rev'it Cayenne jacket Rev'it Dakar pants or dainesse leather trousers Sidi courier boots summer gloves alpinstar mx air winter glove frank thomas aqua something Arai Viper or Tour x helmet Buff

you could allways try Wrynose and Hardknott pass they're a lot closer to home.

I am working on Sunday but I am going to try and get some of the boys to come up and welcome you at the Ace, between two and five bikes depending on how persuasive I am.

Whereabouts in South London? North London I know really well as I've lived there nearly all my life but anywhere south of the Thames and I get completely lost, I used to keep having to stop and get the a-z out but with the sat nav I just glide through the traffic, always getting in the right lane when I need it and if there is a road blocked off or closed it recalculates and gives me a new route.

I use a sat nav if I am riding in cities I don't know or down in south London, ( I can get lost for hours down there without one ), and listen to mp3's on it through ear buds which double as protection against wind noise on the fast run up to town and back again, I don't find it distracting and don't have it so loud that I can't hear what is going on around me. but I do have to watch what I listen to as some music does make me ride a lot faster.

I've hit a couple of birds, the last one was a couple of days ago, a wood pigeon that came out of nowhere and literally exploded all over my left pannier covering me and the bike in blood, guts and feathers, but the bike didn't wobble at all, but I saw the following car in my mirrors and it almost left the road as the feathers and stuff went all over their windscreen. Also had a close one at night a few months ago when a deer ran onto the road ahead, I slowed down and dipped the lights, it turned and leapt into the bushes so I put the lights back on full and open the throttle except the deer bounced straight back into the road off a fence that it hadn't seen, only just stopped in time and bambi went back the way it had come.

Unfortunately I am working till 4.30 in London so I can't make it.

Vicki I am a bloke but Stu was calling us southern fairies and I've never heard of bloke fairies !!!

Where did you find that photo of me Pid ?

looks like all the good seats for the Wembley gig have sold out, anyone know whaat the other venues are like ?

I would love to do it but at the moment I am on days on the 10th and nights on the sixteenth, if you get really stuck p.m me and I will try and get some time off.