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Good news. After doing my first tyre repair, I was pleased to see that pressure has been maintained overnight.
Is world travel on a bike still possible?
The "wrong way round" doesn't make sense atm but what about the "wrong way down"?
Do you really need an office and fixers to make such a journey on your own?
Idle thoughts after a s***ty week :/
I‘m following a couple of couples on Instagram that are doing it. One of them left the U.K. a few days ago hoping to be the youngest couple to circumnavigate the globe two up.
I lost interest after "Instagram"...
This is the 21st century!
I used my new video camera today for the first time. I think I’ll be having fun with it.
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Where is that mounted?
2 booked in for MoTs next Saturday and new battery fitted to the other one. Despite almost no use for the past year, the one with the new battery started first push of the button (after a whirl to get some oil pumped round). Cue the weather changing for the worse...
How do you go about making sure you get the right size?I sold my Ruroc helmet. It was the most expensive one I’d bought, but I just didn’t like it.
However I couldn’t have a gap in the helmet all so I replaced it with this Viper.
It arrived today. I’m liking it!
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Anybody know what the feeling on the street is regarding the Triumph brand and the latest Bonneville range?
How do you go about making sure you get the right size?
Where is that mounted?
Anybody know what the feeling on the street is regarding the Triumph brand and the latest Bonneville range?
Whats unique about Triumph and whats the coolest thing about the Bonneville range.
(Its for an advertising strategy)
Cheers
Do they manufacture their own engines again?Slight disquiet over them being made in Thailand rather than being "British" but it doesn't seem to put many people off (and the same goes for other manufacturers - look at Royal Enfield's success with their Indian built range!)
What's unique? Nothing really, they're parallel twins that look like those built in the '60s and '70s (and beyond!), with added oil tightness (well, not 100% but they don't sign their names at every halt these days!) which is the cool part! They're fast enough to be fun but not so fast that you try to beat your "lap time" on every ride... Oh, and the sound of a largeish twin.
Oh yes they always have although the early ones were very similar in design to Kawasaki engines internally apparently they are now their own unique designDo they manufacture their own engines again?
I was out today in north wales was a nice day and roads weren’t too busyQuick 100 miles for breakfast in North Wales today, New tyres so took it easy..so so good to be back on the bike, got my grandsons birthday party tomorrow bit il be out for another short run Sunday to a bike show, then probably have a bigger day out Tuesday or Wednesday, get myself match fit for Scotland in 3 weeks
A shame , I know what you mean though it can be hard work getting a heavy bike out of and back in the garage, I’ve always liked the idea of a Harley big twin but I think I’d struggle with the weight now , my Suzuki bandit is as heavy as I want to manage nowWell my big bike riding is over ( I hurt my back ) so will be selling my Harley in the next week or so, to be honest the weight of it has been a probelm from the start it's easy to ride but hard to move around when not riding .
Rob
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Years ago I used to scrub in new tyres with a wire brush, too bloody expensive now to waste a couple of hundred miles!
Years ago I used to scrub in new tyres with a wire brush, too bloody expensive now to waste a couple of hundred miles!
I've never confessed to anyone that I used to do that too!Years ago I used to scrub in new tyres with a wire brush, too bloody expensive now to waste a couple of hundred miles!
Well my big bike riding is over ( I hurt my back ) so will be selling my Harley in the next week or so, to be honest the weight of it has been a probelm from the start it's easy to ride but hard to move around when not riding .
Rob
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I think tyres have improved nowadays, the releasing agent use to be like glass. I remember blueing a brand new rear tyre having a spirited race on my 1000RX against a GXR back in the 80'sI've never confessed to anyone that I used to do that too!
Years ago 1980's I bought a brand new Suzuki sports bike, collected it on a rainy day and the staff came to watch me ride off into the distance on its Japanese tyres that weren't any good on the dry, let alone in the wet, let alone brand new. I got about 3 metres before it went over and straight into the repair shop. Nothing major, just a bunch of expensive plastic fairing bits...