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http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/267240_2076156858384_1078830700_32049218_2691205_n.jpg The Motorcycle Action Group 1st National Classic Bike Show Time : 02 October · 10:00 - 16:00 Location: Jack’s Hill Cafe, A5 (Watling Street) NN12 8ET, Towcester, United Kingdom Created by: Classic MAG in association with Royal Enfield Classic bikes of all ages welcome, from the 1940s to the 1980s. Trade stands, Autojumble, Raffle. Royal Enfield test rides will be available. Please bring your driving licence. Just turn up to enter your bike in the show. Camping near to Jack's Hill, available Friday and Saturday nights. Blues Rock band at camp site bar 8.30pm Saturday - for campers only. Full camping details via Graham on 07828 547369. http://www.mag-uk.org Tel 01926 844064 [email protected] Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=238573436166116

Hopefully, I'll be back at work then - so, sorry, no I'll not be able to make it.

As I lie here reading your post I'm full of drugs to control the pain from my ruptured kidney and spleen. I don't reckon anyone can tell anyone else what or what not to wear - but I'll be wearing a kidney belt in future.

I think I speak for all chicken owners when I say that you are a sick man. You should have chosen a different subject hentirely. I shell not be reading this thread again.

Welcome mate - cracking first post, (ignore the resident troll)

That would've been brilliant, you don't know how annoyed I am that I've only just seen this reply and I'm now home.

I have the owners manual on pdf if that is of help to anybody - pm me if so.

Awww nuts. Virtually next door, good weather likely, free that weekend - and yet not allowed to ride and certainly not allowed to get pissed & fall into my tent. As I said, nuts.

There is something so wrong about soft toys and bikes - I find it unbearable.

Three sets of boobs gawped at today. I apologise to anyone offended by such base behaviour but as I approach a week in the ward I'm taking my kicks where I can get 'em. Wifey was in tonight. We've been married 20yrs and were going out for ten previous to that and I still reckon she's smokin. And I can't be with her. F******g f*** it.

Bloke in Bed 6 has no legs, no home, a drug addiction, is alcoholic and mental. He spends his nights jabbering nonsense and shouting out. Bloke in Bed 1 moans. No idea what's up with him but he never leaves it and looks shit. New bloke in Bed 2 is Polish. He's spent the night chatting and laughing on his mobile. He is SO annoying I have simply guessed as to why he has two broken legs. New bloke in Bed 5 has effectively annexed my space with his chair so that I can't move in my bay. He is watching movies or playing music or something. Bed 4 has just released a torrent of noxious effluent all over his bay. I so, SO want to go home. Fudge it.

My Mum and Dad drove up from Devon to visit me in hospital this lunchtime - it took them seven hours because of holdups...but they never saw any accidents. "Really?" I said, and innocently looked out of the window.

RADMAG are going to have to carry on without me as I'm still in hospital

Never saw the point to begin with - but now they're asking for ABS on all large bikes I like them even less.

Heated grips is the way to deal with cold hands. I wear summer gloves all year round with my grips on lowest setting in the winter and never get cold hands Min wage is less than £6per hour? Pitt could afford to have someone one the back with long arms to hold his hands and keep them warm.

If you're getting I to this through finance then don't do it on a 125. If/when you pass you'll want a bigger machine - use your credit on that. Hold off for a little bit on kit - sales will soon start all over the shop. You'll be able to get onepiece rainsuits for £20, gloves for a fiver and a jacket for thirty. Lidl currently have bike gear on the cheap. Boots - buy workboots on eBay, less than half the price of bike boots and do the same job. Lid, you should be able to get one for 30/40 quid online. Go into a shop first to get your size by trying them on. Spend up to a grand on a 125 and you'll sell it for the same money you paid or turn a profit. When you get your machine spend 10-20% of it's value on decent security - and use it - to bring your premiums down. My ten-penneth

I thought they only had them for a little while, you got a link? Sorry - was in Lidly and they were there tonight. Bummer if you aren't near Kettering or, like me, come in any of the pixie sizes on offer I guess.

Bike boots in Lidl for something stupidly cheap (as long as you are a size 7, 8 or 9 if in Kettering) And waterpoof one-pieces & bike covers.

Just saying there's no research to support their claims and a lot of science to question them all. It's a free world and people will make their own choices

Nitrogen offers no benefits over air (which is 80% N2) which I pump into my tyres for free. Thermal expansion difference is negligible as is the rate of gas escape. This was debated on the HDRCGB site last year and every scientist was in agreement. Do it if you feel like it but it is no better than using go-faster stripes or painting your bike in BRG.

http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x90/lemond_pix/th_IMG_0694.jpg http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x90/lemond_pix/th_IMG_0697.jpg http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x90/lemond_pix/th_IMG_0698.jpg http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x90/lemond_pix/th_IMG_0702.jpg http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x90/lemond_pix/th_IMG_0689.jpg Letters are important. The bike I wanted most when I was 17/18 was the GS1000ET; what did I have? A 1980 XL125S. Letters, see? My life was incomplete because I had the wrong set of letters. Well, that and the fact that I couldn't communicate with everyone else at home without all of us screaming at each other so I now spent most of my time staring up from the floor at the Suzuki range poster in my mate's bedroom. He had owned a GSX250 to take his test on and then quickly progressed through a GS550E, a GS750E and onto the GSthou. All because his step-Dad was a banker and had set up a bloody trust fund for him, the lucky sod. The main reason I fought with my parents? Letters from my bank manager asking for his money back and for me to pay my HP on the Honda. More damn letters. Many years went by and, in 2003 we were living in Caracas and I was riding about on my beaten up and naked R900S (custom or road bike, it had to be stripped down for my liking, I simply can't be doing with all the plastic guff on race-reps). The civil insurrection made the 2011 UK riots look like a picnic; we were shipped off to France while everything cooled down. There, in the window of a bike dealer in the centre of Lisieux, was a GSX1400K2; the second iteration of a bike that built on everything which made young men go hard in 1981. When it was time to chop in the Harley FLHTCU (and never are letters as important as when talking about Hogs) it had to be one of these. But Suzuki in all their wisdom stopped making them - the line finished at the K7 model in this country, the FE designating it was a Final Edition (replete with a colour scheme and an aftermarket Yoshi Dual Oval). Now I reckon the XJRs are simply too feminine in appearance, too smooth and swoopy to be a proper machine. The Kwack ZRX is more my cup of tea if I had to have an alternative - but the Suzuki, in blue, is sex on a stick from where I look. The MCN Head2Head test gave the 14 the most weight but also the most power. They said the ZRX would be best for travelling but I struggle to see how. I've had many bikes and this one is as good as any of them go for long distance as the seat is SO comfortable, the bike is planted and the little fly-screen I added does the job of preserving your neck. My 2008 model had just 2950 on the clock and was the make-weight as I part-ex'd the Glide and I've put on another 2K since then. Where MCN reckoned the ZRX went around corners better I'd say that might have been the case on the OE rubber - but with my PR2s I can crank the lump down to the ground with utter confidence. The adjustable suspension means that it copes with my waif-like physique and also when the lard-arse wife hops on the back. It will even maintain a good line while she's belting me around the head for commenting upon her weight. I'm 5'9" and my feet are planted on the floor, it's a big bugger but Kate Moss-like in comparison to my Harley. Coming up the sizes you'll notice it. The wife refuses to ride it, it's size scares her: "It's too big for me" she says. At least, I think she's talking about the 14... They have a forum, the Org. Unfortunately there's a high % of dickwads on it - and I don't know if it is the forum or the bike. There are many people who'll be helpful about the bike itself but it is only a refuge for nutters, racists and keyboard warriors if you wanted a general chat. Mine didn't come with the FE Dual Oval, I have the Triple Oval. To be honest I don't have a clue about the difference but this sounds well rorty with the baffle in, I may try it out shortly. The light is well bright for night riding, the chain and sprockets are bearing up well, the finish is only just starting to go on the forks and engine fins - not bad for a 5yr old Suzuki I reckon. The chain can be tensioned on the sidestand - fortunate because the centre stand is in my garage along with the original pipe. Keeping the two of them off takes the weight to below that of the XJR. http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x90/lemond_pix/th_IMG_0690.jpg http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x90/lemond_pix/th_IMG_0688.jpg http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x90/lemond_pix/th_IMG_0691.jpg http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x90/lemond_pix/th_IMG_0703.jpg http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x90/lemond_pix/th_IMG_0705.jpg http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x90/lemond_pix/th_52fbf38a.jpg Costs: Fuel - consumption is, let's not beat around the bush, shit if you are in anyway ham-fisted. Using extreme self-control you might manage to eek low 40s out of it. Insurance - £130 fully comp with three years NCs (I'm mid-40s). The OE tyres lasted up to 4900 before going bald at the rear. I lobbed on a set of PR2s which, with the MOT, came to £285. Rack - £20 on eBay but that was lucky, all GSX14 kit seems to go for a real bomb. Screen - £20 from a 14 owner of their forum. So do I like it? I didn't for a while, it just didn't grab me. The change of rubber has seen me ride it much more and enjoy each outing. Will I keep it? I want a Thunderbird 1300 and went through the process to get one...but failed. It feels like I wrote a Dear John letter and ended up still stuck in the relationship. It does Sunday speedy grins brilliantly, but that's not the most important thing to me. It looks great but I prefer customs. I carries stuff, but not enough. But I'm tied to it for another 24 months. http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zB4_VmjLB3c/TdLbFxP3BDI/AAAAAAAACGk/lNitenonHFU/s640/IMG_2678.JPG

Six days, seven migraines. Never had the like before and it has knocked the stuffing out of me. The pills have minimal effects and I've not done/eaten/drunk anything different to usual. I'm not stressed out apart from wanting to be in work doing a decent job - but I cant ride on meds or work when blind. Grr. F**k It.

I agree - the brakes are shocking. I ran the wife's in by taking it off to Holland for a week's solitary camping holiday and quickly discovered that if you need to decelerate in a hurry you might as well just jump off the thing and take your chances. The finish on her black '98 wasn't any better or worse than most Jap bikes for the period to be honest and still looked OK after a couple of winters. The thing I hated the most was the way the seat tiled forward and ended up crushing your nuts after 10 miles or more. On its standard tyres, I've no idea what they were, it would lean and then some on the twisties to Burnham on Crouch. Very entertaining. I'd have one in a snap for her again. It'd never last me as a sole bike in the shed but it's more than she ever needs. http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_y625j9uagyk/S65PFLjuAaI/AAAAAAAABjs/ngzt9mcsCsM/s400/kwacker5.jpg http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_y625j9uagyk/S65PFkFlxQI/AAAAAAAABjw/3XLdreC7f64/s400/sooz.jpg http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_y625j9uagyk/S65PEJEHTTI/AAAAAAAABjo/n0ZBym31PJU/s400/sooz2.jpg

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_y625j9uagyk/S65PGx-ytoI/AAAAAAAABj8/HOS8NBkiUFQ/s400/cg125.jpg Swapped it for my old GPz305 (which I adored) so the wife could take her test (and stop headbutting me on my Tiger900). She passed, got an ER5 and it became my all-purpose garage bike. Want to go into Southend for some shopping? CG. Weekend away camping? CG. Commute to work in Burnham-O-C through snow drifts and nutters on the A127? CG. Tour Europe? C...oh hang on, that's idiotic. Not to say I wouldn't but the thing blew up. It'd had a very tough life and would have survived a strip down but we ran off to South America and I gave it to a mate. Would I have one again? Hell yeh! It's more frugal than a stereotyped Northern person and it'll carry luggage galore if you learn to bungy properly. In winter you can ride it with feet down - and feet like mine means it has skis either side for stability. And when the inevitable slide comes there's nothing to break and no weight to cause a problem. Loved it. Rode it. Broke it. http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_y625j9uagyk/S65PBWjbeXI/AAAAAAAABjI/4o5bl0gHIaQ/s400/crash.jpg