Joeman

Im no expert on cafe racers, but I reckon your chain might be a bit lose.. Looking good though!!

Share the map, we might be able to offer some tweaks to the route.

Was quite amusing to watch though. I saw it about to happen but nothing I could do.

I asked myself the same question before buying a new one, but I grew up using air tools, so feel strangely at home [strikeout](and manly)[/strikeout] when working with them, but as you say they are not much use when working on bikes unless you're painting! They are useful to have about, but only if they hold the air and you don't have to wait for them to fill up, in which case they are a nuisance! I've used mine for blowing dust/water away when cleaning my bikes (not that i clean mine often!), inflating tyres, and i use the impact wrench when swapping wheels on my car from Winter to Summer tyres as its more fun and quicker than using the tyre wrench. I also used the impact wrench when i changed the brake pads on my Audi as there wasnt a lot of room to get a big breaker bar onto the caliper, and the bolts were bloody tight! but of course, for the cost of a compressor and impact wrench, you could just buy an electric impact wrench and a small compressor for your tyres

i recently bought a cheap compressor... its noisy as hell and the tank is too small, so its seems to always be starting up to refill the tank.. the noise drives me mad! My advice - get one with a big tank!!

If you'd come with us on the ridout yesterday we could have showed you

cut up an old bath mat and glued it on?? just kidding..

After we left the Route 1066 Cafe and parted ways with Megawatt, Phil and myself stopped off at the White Hart pub in Sevenoaks, sat out in the beer garden, and enjoyed a couple of soft drinks in the sunshine.. Heres a pic i took just before we left:

Stylish?? Do you want to look like a member of an 80's boy band!!??

Awesome rideout chaps!! Thanks to Megawatt for showing us some great roads! And well done to Phil for popping his first wheelie!!

So he's done this to you before?? Why did you use him again?? The bloke sounds a real idiot. Would be careful making threats - no telling what he might do!

Will do mate - thanks for the heads up. Not sure I still have the receipts so hope mine are OK!

really?? when the SMX6 are better boots? (all the review say so)

These are cheaper than the Sidis.... Fully waterproof? No idea - ive never got them wet... lol

I've got the alpine star S-MX6 boots. Love them. Very comfy from day one. I would certainly recommend them..

Yep, natural for me too. Growing up riding bikes with no electrics meant no neutral light so rather than kick the gears about to check for neutral, I always just pull the clutch. Same on my KTM - no battery so no neutral light. Safer just to pull the clutch before kicking the starter.

Useful for when you stall and need to restart without finding neutral first. Just pull the clutch and press the start button.

Welcome to manhood

Weathers looking good for Sunday and I'm back in the uk by then too. Ive got a few jobs to do Sunday morning but hoping to be free for the afternoon. All going well I'll tag along too. You're riding past sevenoaks from London so I'll see if I can catch you on the way.

I rigged my faglighter socket to plugs into my optimate charger socket under the seat. That way i only have one set of cables connected to my battery and one fuse to worry about.

Bridge is free for bikes, but you have to go through a gate with a person giving change (not an exact change gate) as the person needs to open the gate for you... Learnt from experience!! Lol.

Good call - just do the CBT. If you dont like it, park up and go home! But you will love it

No bike time for me today.. We'll have to get a group meet sorted soon though. Building up quite a few bikers in the London/kent/Essex area.

Redlined it yet? Or still not quite got there??

Nice bike! You're gonna have great fun with that..