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Steve_M

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  1. Whichever, don’t buy one that transmits all the time, but is voice activated. My current Sena system is a whizz-bang techno-miracle of design and features but I can hear everything my pillion utters while riding. Since she hates it when I filter I can hear the full “oh, for feck’s sake” and “shit” (when I pass through a narrow gap” etc as we rode along. With the Cardo we had previously I never heard any of this - or, at least it until she’d explicitly made a sound to cause it to transmit.
  2. Tool kit? The few bits that came with the bike and sit under the seat, a puncture repair outfit, a small container of engine oil (about a cup full) and my Green flag contact details. I used to carry chain oil and spinners to adjust the chain until I went back to shaft drive.
  3. Edit. I also advertised this to a local bikers group and have had three people contact me, each willing to collect it tomorrow. So it looks like it’s no longer for sale. I’ll leave this here just in case none of the three show. have a Clark foot operated Motorcycle Lift for sale. £350. It would need to be collected from my home, postcode CA8. I bought this with a view to renovating my Honda VFR800 in my spare time in retirement. Unfortunately two things made this unfeasible, one of which is my unfortunate incompetence when wielding spanners. The VFR has been sold and someone else has made a fine job of getting it back on the road. The lift, then, is now surplus to requirements having barely been used. I think this is the same model.
  4. Standard for me, too. The bar end mirrors make it look like it’s trying to do a body builders pose
  5. I was passing Devil’s Bridge on Sunday on my return from a little bimble when I got snapped. Not a bad day for a ride. A bit chillier than forecast but dry.
  6. I once a Ducati Monster M1200 for a test ride. It came complete with obscenely loud pipes. I passed through numerous small Norfolk villages and felt embarrassed that I was spoiling their quiet places.
  7. I’ll just fill the cattle grid with water… I’ve put in a request for a quote for the dwarves to Dwarf hire… sourcing the armour might be tricky, though.
  8. It appears that I’m babysitting the guy doing some work on the house instead of taking the grandkids out to the Glasgow Science museum as planned. The upside being I get control of the television.
  9. I was lucky in Norfolk. There’s a guy in Acle who I’d trust with all and any bikes regardless (except Chinese - he won’t go near them). There’s a distinct lack of independents within easy ride around here so I’m stuck with main dealers. It was almost tempting to get him to service the bike while I was in Norfolk on my way to Harwich last year.
  10. A relative of my good lady works for the Halo trust.i’m not sure he’d approve. Also, with my memory, I’d forget where I put them.
  11. I tried to hide it with the Norton. There was a rather nice Guzzi V100 there (no photo). I rather like the look of them but I don’t know where I’d get it serviced should I buy one.
  12. I test rode a Goldwing. I forgot to ask how the stereo worked on it so no idea how to turn it off. That was half an hour of some god-awful music I had nightmares about for days after.
  13. Just a passing thought. If you chose to give it an ICE motorbike sound which would you choose? Imagine choosing, say, a Ducati. Turn up to your local bike meet, heads turn and… what a disappointment. And how much ribbing would you get? This, though, could be an option.
  14. I have stones on the side with the drainage ditch - we allow that to run a bit wild and I run the strimmer over it from time to time. The other side I need to mow - even a small wall / stones (quarry? We have a great pile that we’re keeping to build a retaining wall along one bank of our stream) would add to the hassle when mowing.
  15. I’ve ridden a selection of electric bikes and really wasn’t bothered by the different sound they make. However… The sound from the air box of my ZXR 750 when the revs hit 10,000 rpm was practically musical - and potentially licence shredding. Something I wish I’d explored on a track day - the A47 Norwich by-pass had to do (in first gear only, honest officer). My VFR 800 (and the 750 before it - keep forgetting I owned the 750, too) had, for want of a better word, a growl as it was revved reasonably hard - and, yes, I did explore that on numerous track days. My other bikes were MEH (down with the kids there, eh? ). Until this one. I will admit to the exhaust sound being a bit of a selling point on the R1200GS. The tale is a long one and I’ll try to précis. 1995 - Brands Hatch, Carl Fogarty et al on Ducatis with that glorious bass exhaust note as I sat and watched - and listened - as they hurtled down from Paddock Bend. 2018. We were having a picnic by the side of a stream not too far from the road on the Maloja pass. Several BMW R1200GS bikes came past and their exhaust note brought back memories of Brands Hatch. Not the same note but a resonance. My good lady also mentioned they sounded better than the dreadful FJR1300 we were on at the time, I’m not sure if that helps…
  16. It’s a lovely day here so far. Time to clear the drive of leaves and other debris. This is quite a task given that there’s a lot of trees surrounding it and the drive is long and not well surfaced - part has been compared to a rally stage. It’s quite hard work and I’m both knocking on I years and suffering from last night’s judo training session. I’ve cleared around 30m so far and I should do another 20m this afternoon. However, I’m constantly bugged by the fact that a few delivery drivers seem incapable of negotiating the drive and keeping their tyres on the tarmac. The verges either side are soft and their tyres just cut a deep groove into them. I’m repeatedly having to tidy (as far as it ever will be tidy) up the verges, filling in the ruts made by these so-called professional drivers. Venting over… back to the grindstone.
  17. I really can’t think of a worse choice of holiday - perhaps going on a cruise with my ex-wife… I will make an exception for a boat trip / cruise around the Norwegian fjords as long as I don’t have to mingle or partake of the ship’s entertainment.
  18. I get lost in Brum and I spent the first 38 years of my life living in and around the city. Mind, a lot has changed in the intervening 30+ years.
  19. Good morning. Ish. Once again we seem to be heading for disappointment in a tradesman. Said he’d be here on Saturday then cancelled last minute because “his apprentice had to go to a wedding and only told him last thing”. He then said he’d be here today “about half past eight” and it’s now…9.30. I blame Tony Blair…
  20. My first day out on the bike since returning from our tour in September so I joined in with the local RoSPA group ride. The weather was a bit “fresh” and some of the road surfaces were … interesting. We stopped, briefly, at Route 59 cafe, near Skipton, but there was a long, slow moving queue for refreshments so we continued to Goat Gap cafe for a cuppa before wending a route home. Interesting to spot the Norton at Route 59… in lovely nick. Probably quite rare now.
  21. Manufacturers who sell a “comfort seat” as an upgrade. Just make the original comfortable, for crying out loud. Lack of easily accessible storage for (for instance) toll tickets / credit card/Mars bar . My ST1100 had a neat little cubby hole suitable for just this (see photo) High level exhausts making one pannier smaller than the other to accommodate the end can.
  22. Very nice, though I can feel my joints seizing up from just looking at the photo.
  23. That happened to me in France in 2022. The bike was fully laden, complete with pillion who, after the event, found it amusing that she could just step off the bike due to the engine bars preventing it falling right on its side. She didn’t find having to help lift the think back up quite so much fun. Back to today. I’ve washed it and taxed it (yes, from the start of January after putting it on SORN from October - hand injury and house renovations meant I haven’t ridden it in the intervening period). Tomorrow I ride (a local RoSPA group ride - to see if re-joining RoSPA is something I’d enjoy).
  24. What a morning. Two hours on the phone to Vodafone trying to sort out my phone contract. A great result, though, halving my mobile phone bill.
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