|
|
| Author |
Message |
| Howling TerrorOutOfOffice |
This post is not being displayed .
|
Howling TerrorOutOfOffice
Super Spammer
Joined: 05 Dec 2008
Karma :  
|
|
| Back to top |
   |
You must be logged in to rate posts |
|
 |
| Rogue_Shadow |
This post is not being displayed .
|
Rogue_Shadow
World Chat Champion
Joined: 10 May 2012
Karma : 
|
 Posted: 00:11 - 14 Jan 2013  Post subject: |
 |
|
|
|
| Back to top |
| |
You must be logged in to rate posts |
|
|
| c-m |
This post is not being displayed .
|
c-m
World Chat Champion
Joined: 12 May 2006
Karma :
|
| Posted: 08:30 - 14 Jan 2013 Post subject: |
|
|
|
|
| Back to top |
 |
You must be logged in to rate posts |
|
|
| Knightsy |
This post is not being displayed .
|
Knightsy
World Chat Champion
Joined: 21 Jun 2012
Karma :  
|
| Posted: 08:40 - 14 Jan 2013 Post subject: |
|
|
 Want.
____________________
09' Versys 650 | 07' FJR1300A |
|
| Back to top |
| |
You must be logged in to rate posts |
|
|
| trevor saxe-coburg-gotha |
This post is not being displayed .
|
trevor saxe-coburg-gotha
World Chat Champion
Joined: 22 Nov 2012
Karma :
|
|
| Back to top |
| |
You must be logged in to rate posts |
|
|
| G |
This post is not being displayed .
|
G
The Voice of Reason
Joined: 02 Feb 2002
Karma : 
|
|
| Back to top |
| |
You must be logged in to rate posts |
|
|
| trevor saxe-coburg-gotha |
This post is not being displayed .
|
trevor saxe-coburg-gotha
World Chat Champion
Joined: 22 Nov 2012
Karma :
|
| Posted: 09:17 - 19 Jan 2013 Post subject: |
|
|
Yes - but only just. 
____________________
"Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent."
Mobylette Type 50 ---> Raleigh Grifter ---> Neval Minsk 125 |
|
| Back to top |
| |
You must be logged in to rate posts |
|
|
| instigator |
This post is not being displayed .
|
instigator
Super Spammer
Joined: 19 Oct 2004
Karma : 
|
| Posted: 09:36 - 19 Jan 2013 Post subject: |
|
|
Where is the option to read it from the oldest posts to the newest posts?  |
|
| Back to top |
| |
You must be logged in to rate posts |
|
|
| Howling TerrorOutOfOffice |
This post is not being displayed .
|
Howling TerrorOutOfOffice
Super Spammer
Joined: 05 Dec 2008
Karma :
|
|
| Back to top |
| |
You must be logged in to rate posts |
|
|
| Howling TerrorOutOfOffice |
This post is not being displayed .
|
Howling TerrorOutOfOffice
Super Spammer
Joined: 05 Dec 2008
Karma :
|
|
| Back to top |
| |
You must be logged in to rate posts |
|
|
| WheresMurph |
This post is not being displayed .
|
WheresMurph
Derestricted Danger
Joined: 27 May 2013
Karma : 
|
Posted: 11:58 - 27 May 2013  Post subject: |
|
|
Hello all and thanks for the interest about me, I appreciate it.
I usually take a look see at where my traffic is coming from, so that's how I came across BCF.
Instigator brought up a question about the option to read older to newer posts.
It is a problem with the Blogger format, sorry, but for now you have to either go down to the very bottom of the page and click on "Older Posts"
down on the right of the column. OR click the picture that says "Blog Post #1" here: https://wherethehellismurph.blogspot.fi/2010/04/benini-sculptures-near-johnson-citytx.html
Any questions you have I'll gladly answer if I can. I may be over in the UK in Sept, so there's a possibility of me trying to do a meet up with any groups that are interested.
Cheers,
Murph.
____________________
Live Life Like You're Dying.........Murph.
www.wherethehellismurph.com |
|
| Back to top |
| |
You must be logged in to rate posts |
|
|
| sidewinder |
This post is not being displayed .
|
sidewinder
World Chat Champion
Joined: 24 Aug 2011
Karma : 
|
| Posted: 12:16 - 27 May 2013 Post subject: |
|
|
You sir have my full respect  .why the car tires compared to bike ones? |
|
| Back to top |
| |
You must be logged in to rate posts |
|
|
| Zen Dog |
This post is not being displayed .
|
Zen Dog
World Chat Champion
Joined: 11 Aug 2004
Karma :
|
|
| Back to top |
| |
You must be logged in to rate posts |
|
|
| WheresMurph |
This post is not being displayed .
|
WheresMurph
Derestricted Danger
Joined: 27 May 2013
Karma :
|
| Posted: 14:12 - 27 May 2013 Post subject: |
|
|
| sidewinder wrote: | You sir have my full respect .why the car tires compared to bike ones? |
Sidewinder, thanks for that, appreciate it.
There are a few reasons for the car tires on a sidecar outfit :
1.A sidecar outfit doesn't ¨Lean¨into turns like a motorcycle does, so you just don't need a curved profile MC tire anymore.
2. MC tires wear down quicker, much quicker on a sidecar outfit, car tires last much longer.
3. A sidecar outfit handles much better with flat profile car tires than regular MC tires-
4. Car tires are cheaper.
Even though a sidecar outfit is a Motorcycle sidecar, it stays flat on the ground and doesn't behave like a MC anymore. There's a lot of debate as to whether it's still a MC, people comment all the time about just ¨getting a miata and taking off one wheel¨. But it's still a MC, you still feel the wind, smeel the spring, get wet when it rains, get cold riding in -20 and still need MC gear to ride it, unlike a car.
Sorry for the long answer 
Murph.
____________________
Live Life Like You're Dying.........Murph.
www.wherethehellismurph.com |
|
| Back to top |
| |
You must be logged in to rate posts |
|
|
| WheresMurph |
This post is not being displayed .
|
WheresMurph
Derestricted Danger
Joined: 27 May 2013
Karma :
|
| Posted: 14:15 - 27 May 2013 Post subject: |
|
|
|
|
| Back to top |
| |
You must be logged in to rate posts |
|
|
| Knightsy |
This post is not being displayed .
|
Knightsy
World Chat Champion
Joined: 21 Jun 2012
Karma :
|
| Posted: 14:25 - 27 May 2013 Post subject: |
|
|
I've got few:
1. How do you manage to finance such trip? I'm sure quite few people wouldn't mind going full motorbike nomad like you did, but the question of money always comes along at some point.
2. How's GS doing? I imagine you went through two bikes worth of spares by now 
3. What was the most memorable place you've been to thus far?
4. What was the most difficult part of your journey thus far?
____________________
09' Versys 650 | 07' FJR1300A |
|
| Back to top |
| |
You must be logged in to rate posts |
|
|
| WheresMurph |
This post is not being displayed .
|
WheresMurph
Derestricted Danger
Joined: 27 May 2013
Karma :
|
Posted: 14:41 - 27 May 2013  Post subject: |
|
|
| Knight wrote: | I've got few:
1. How do you manage to finance such trip? I'm sure quite few people wouldn't mind going full motorbike nomad like you did, but the question of money always comes along at some point.
2. How's GS doing? I imagine you went through two bikes worth of spares by now
3. What was the most memorable place you've been to thus far?
4. What was the most difficult part of your journey thus far? |
Well, financing a trip like this is something I didn't plan out, I never planned this trip to begin with, it just sorta started happening the longer I spent on the road. In all honesty, I feel that these sort of trips can't be and shouldn't be planned out. ' Cos if you do add it all up, you'd never do it. And you just can't anticipate for what's going to happen in 6 months time, no way. It's like seeing into the future, you can't do it. I just got sick and tired of living life in a fucking hamster wheel of bills, mortgages, electricity rates, cable tv bills, and just said ¨Fuck it¨, I'm done with this shit.
In reality I live cheaper and happier on the road with no house and bills than I did when I HAD a house and bills. If you add up what you spend each month on going out, cigs, beer, cable tv, cell phoine and incidentals, there's your Round the World trip right there.
GS is actually going fine, I've only put oil and a new reaar shock in it and two sets of top coils, other than that, no issues at all. Now I've friggin jinxed it...... 
Most memorable place would have to be here in Finland, I love winter, real winter, and the Finns are really great people.
The most difficult part I think is camping in -20, not easy, but not impossible either. Oh, and finding internet to post my articles and photos 
Murph-
____________________
Live Life Like You're Dying.........Murph.
www.wherethehellismurph.com |
|
| Back to top |
| |
You must be logged in to rate posts |
|
|
| sidewinder |
This post is not being displayed .
|
sidewinder
World Chat Champion
Joined: 24 Aug 2011
Karma :
|
| Posted: 14:56 - 27 May 2013 Post subject: |
|
|
| WheresMurph wrote: | | sidewinder wrote: | You sir have my full respect .why the car tires compared to bike ones? |
Sidewinder, thanks for that, appreciate it.
There are a few reasons for the car tires on a sidecar outfit :
1.A sidecar outfit doesn't ¨Lean¨into turns like a motorcycle does, so you just don't need a curved profile MC tire anymore.
2. MC tires wear down quicker, much quicker on a sidecar outfit, car tires last much longer.
3. A sidecar outfit handles much better with flat profile car tires than regular MC tires-
4. Car tires are cheaper.
Even though a sidecar outfit is a Motorcycle sidecar, it stays flat on the ground and doesn't behave like a MC anymore. There's a lot of debate as to whether it's still a MC, people comment all the time about just ¨getting a miata and taking off one wheel¨. But it's still a MC, you still feel the wind, smeel the spring, get wet when it rains, get cold riding in -20 and still need MC gear to ride it, unlike a car.
Sorry for the long answer
Murph. |
Cheers murph make sense when you read it hope the gs keeps going for many more miles.whats on the clock now? |
|
| Back to top |
| |
You must be logged in to rate posts |
|
|
| WheresMurph |
This post is not being displayed .
|
WheresMurph
Derestricted Danger
Joined: 27 May 2013
Karma :
|
| Posted: 15:03 - 27 May 2013 Post subject: |
|
|
Cheers murph make sense when you read it hope the gs keeps going for many more miles.whats on the clock now?[/quote]
Only 80K miles sidewinder, I've slowed down in my travels, staying longer in places than I used to. I have no schedule or time frame to do my RTW, so I feel like that I should take the time to get to smell the coffee...
____________________
Live Life Like You're Dying.........Murph.
www.wherethehellismurph.com |
|
| Back to top |
| |
You must be logged in to rate posts |
|
|
| c-m |
This post is not being displayed .
|
c-m
World Chat Champion
Joined: 12 May 2006
Karma :
|
| Posted: 20:32 - 28 May 2013 Post subject: |
|
|
| WheresMurph wrote: |
If you add up what you spend each month on going out, cigs, beer, cable tv, cell phoine and incidentals, there's your Round the World trip right there.
Murph- |
That's not really the case is it, because you're working and earning when at home.
Once you hit the road, you've lost your income and only got whatever your last month's salary was, say £2,000, and whatever you've saved up before you left.
____________________
Motorcycle headlight bulbs and HIDs
Blogging about my bike and trips
https://ridershandbook.com/
Last edited by c-m on 20:52 - 28 May 2013; edited 1 time in total |
|
| Back to top |
| |
You must be logged in to rate posts |
|
|
| Clanger |
This post is not being displayed .
|
Clanger
Stirrer
Joined: 27 May 2004
Karma : 
|
| Posted: 20:49 - 28 May 2013 Post subject: |
|
|
I met a adventure biker type much like yourself in Tenerife over Christmas, he was from Russia (I think), he was dropped on his head as a baby and as a result left mute and deaf...he basically stops and parks his bike up in a busy shopping area, and displays his map of where he's been and people give him money. He's chartered himself around the world on his GS too.
____________________
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter won't mind - Dr. Seuss |
|
| Back to top |
| |
You must be logged in to rate posts |
|
|
| WheresMurph |
This post is not being displayed .
|
WheresMurph
Derestricted Danger
Joined: 27 May 2013
Karma :
|
| Posted: 11:12 - 29 May 2013 Post subject: |
|
|
| c-m wrote: | | WheresMurph wrote: |
If you add up what you spend each month on going out, cigs, beer, cable tv, cell phoine and incidentals, there's your Round the World trip right there.
Murph- |
That's not really the case is it, because you're working and earning when at home.
Once you hit the road, you've lost your income and only got whatever your last month's salary was, say £2,000, and whatever you've saved up before you left. |
Well, I don't spend anything on incidentals, don't drink, don't smoke, no bad or money draining habits, I really have zero monthly incendentals since I don't own, have or live in a fixed abode or home, and don't ¨go out¨on the weekends. Thats why I'm ahead of the game than most since thats usually a big chunk of money for most people, they just dont realise it.
My income derives from merchandise, article and photo sales, not much but it keeps me in gas and food....barely. But I get to travel the world. Travel costs money, but the experiences are priceless, thats why at the end of the day, my ¨loss¨of a salary I feel is made up for in my frugal lifestyle.
Cheers,
Murph.
____________________
Live Life Like You're Dying.........Murph.
www.wherethehellismurph.com |
|
| Back to top |
| |
You must be logged in to rate posts |
|
|
| WheresMurph |
This post is not being displayed .
|
WheresMurph
Derestricted Danger
Joined: 27 May 2013
Karma :
|
|
| Back to top |
| |
You must be logged in to rate posts |
|
|
| c-m |
This post is not being displayed .
|
c-m
World Chat Champion
Joined: 12 May 2006
Karma :
|
|
| Back to top |
| |
You must be logged in to rate posts |
|
|
| WheresMurph |
This post is not being displayed .
|
WheresMurph
Derestricted Danger
Joined: 27 May 2013
Karma :
|
|
| Back to top |
| |
You must be logged in to rate posts |
|
 |
Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 12 years, 210 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
 |
|
|
Help & FAQs
Search BCF
Members
Groups
Events Calendar
rating
rating