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PostPosted: 21:43 - 12 May 2018    Post subject: Re: 12.05.2018 Reply with quote

chickenstrip wrote:

Oh right, yeah, know about that cafe. A6 is a bit of a boring way in for me though. I tend to go in from the north via the A595/591.


one of the groups i get invites off will be usin instead of hartside .. primarily as the price and location suits ... Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 22:15 - 12 May 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's just 9 miles from me. I might as well just have a bacon butty at home Laughing
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PostPosted: 20:56 - 13 May 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

Day 2 of being a Gixxer fanboi. Today was dry!

Started out cursing my decision to buy a sportsbike. Painful riding position and enough power that I doubted I'd ever get out of third gear ever again.
What I love about the Striple is the hustle, its involving. The lightness and all day comfort (relatively).

Anyway, couple of friends came out to play and we did 100 miles around some of the best roads in the South. Stopped at Rykas and Whiteways for a brew and giggle. Triumph and BMW were doing promo days.

A really good day and the bike grew on me. Very Happy

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Weather looks grey in pics, but we had plenty of clear blue sky and sunsheeeine!
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PostPosted: 21:19 - 13 May 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

Pigeon wrote:
Day 2 of being a Gixxer fanboi. Today was dry!

Started out cursing my decision to buy a sportsbike. Painful riding position and enough power that I doubted I'd ever get out of third gear ever again.


Colour me surprised!
Did you test ride it first, or was it just an impulse buy?

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A really good day and the bike grew on me. Very Happy


Just as well really Laughing
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PostPosted: 19:13 - 14 May 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

Took this out for a test-ride around Thame/Stokenchurch at the weekend.

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Totally get why everyone raves about it. Blown away. And that induction roar is just fantastic. Wub
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PostPosted: 20:27 - 14 May 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

^^^Late birthday present?


I'm back after gently spanking the duke and got followed by a supermoto , I know they were following as nobody but a lost idiot or somedody doing a bike shakedown on their local testrack route would do left-left-left and left. I showed them my best lines then thundered off best I could.

Clutch behaving itself, but after riding the other bike it felt slow in every way. Predictable but slow..yes, just like the rider. Very Happy
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PostPosted: 21:14 - 14 May 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

chickenstrip wrote:

Did you test ride it first, or was it just an impulse buy?


Did not test ride mainly because I've been talking/thinking for months/years on it and enough was enough. Shit or get off the pot so to speak.

Bikes are not staying unsold for long and this one was a bit of a steal. It was discounted due to being non ABS 2014 pre-reg of a 2015 model with only 4k miles......which turned out to be 2.7k miles due to someone having the ODO in km mode.

I wanted a 750 and have been looking for a low mileage 2-3 year old bike for about 2 years, but especially the last 6 months. I umm and ahhh and then they are gone. I ring and book a viewing, then get a call a day later saying its sold. One large shop locally won't even offer test rides as the bikes just sell.

I did test ride a BMW RR and found it pretty comfortable. And according to cycle-ergo, the layout on the Suzuki is virtually identical. So I took a bit of a punt that it would be ok. But it is different I think.

Felt I had to scratch the sportsbike itch. The Suzuki was less than half the price of the BMW, and while likely "not as good", I won't notice.
And crucially, it was in a colour scheme I liked. Mostly black with just enough red bits that it had garage door grin factor.
AND unlike the BMW, it doesn't have a million stupidly small buttons. It's basic. I like that.

I wanted the 750 as its lighter, better handling (apparently), less power. But in the end, there are more 1000's and the price was good. As long as I don't spanner it, can probably trade it in next year for a Street Triple RS (which I suspect is probably what I want really) and won't lose too much.

Thing is, really enjoyed the Suzuki yesterday, so will see.
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PostPosted: 21:08 - 15 May 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

Howling Terror wrote:
^^^Late birthday present?

Not quite, just seeing what's good for when i get my compo...i'm hoping it'll be enough to afford one Praying

It's either that, or a Ducati Monster 797, but Ducati never rang back to book a test ride to compare. Not a good start for a potential customer relationship really. The Triumph dealership were excellent.

Triumph - 1 Ducati - 0
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PostPosted: 08:15 - 18 May 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

Pigeon wrote:

Thing is, really enjoyed the Suzuki yesterday, so will see.


Yeaaahhhh GSXRs for dat win yo!

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When we doing a day in Wales?
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PostPosted: 18:32 - 20 May 2018    Post subject: Dirty Harry`s cafe Reply with quote

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open this time ... will go again..
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PostPosted: 13:55 - 21 May 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

Not today but yesterday a few of us rode down to Rye via the twisties

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On the way home we stopped off for refreshments at Goudhurst pond

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PostPosted: 13:58 - 22 May 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ciao

Haven’t been around for a while; lots of reasons, but primarily because I wrongly assumed the gender of the hooker I was sniffing toot off the belly of whilst grappling with some - now I come to think of it - rather oversized labia, and (s)he(z) reported me to the Po-Po for being totes raciss about LGTBIQUCWAYZ and called me out as an alt-right Jordan Peterson loving bigot. This had knock on implications for my work, resulting in them pulling my corporate card and meaning that I had to fund my own prostitution and drug related binges; which of course put pressure on the relationship with my wife as I had to steal from her, occasionally kicking her down the stairs to do so as it just made it easier than her just carrying on and on and on about it like birds do.

As a result of all those stresses my Heterosexual Life Partner Pigeon and I decided to get away from it all for a while and go somewhere rocking, hardcore and manly to get absolutely on it; so we went to the Amalfi Coast and drank wine whilst staring at each other of an evening.

Anyway, where was I? Oh, yeah that’s right – onto biking. Yeah we did some of that. We became bare honorary members of the Bykelaff Italy Krew. Could have hired Ducatis but thought that was a bit old hat and played out, so we decided on Piaggio scooters instead cos we’re wellard. Problem is that they’re built for dinky little Italians not chunking great examples of Great Britain’s finest beefcakes and as such, we couldn’t fit on that shit. So what does BCF say about Chinese scooters? Uh-ohh….

Here was my steer – affectionately nicknamed Sad Ken:

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I’ll let Pigeon show you his Chink Chonk Scoot of inevitable Doooooom later.

The Amalfi Drive was absolutely 100% ballistically balls out bob on butcheringly bastard awesome:

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And the Mountain Roads ain’t half bad either, with bends around scenery like this:

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We visited Pompeii – which getting to was, errrr, interesting through the towns Laughing

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And the only bike related drama that we had, really, was my top box exiting its mounting at about 50mph downhill Laughing Luckily, somehow, it fell into my back and stayed put.

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Top trip. Props to my HeteroLP Pigeon for being a properly decent riding buddy and for persuading me to buy far more wine and Parma ham than was ever humanly possible to consume.

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PostPosted: 15:12 - 22 May 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

^^ That's nothing. I rode the bike to Tesco to do the weekly shop today Mr. Green
Sorry, no pics, as was too busy taking in the awesome scenery.
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PostPosted: 23:03 - 23 May 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

Had a bit of a potter around this afternoon, out to Coalport, nice weather & scenery, what more could you ask for..

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I really should take more piccies when I'm out and about !!
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PostPosted: 20:36 - 24 May 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

Italy. Beautiful country and wonderful people. However, completely batshit crazy! Quite how myself and Arry are still alive is a mystery that baffled us and the person we hired the peds off, as he repeated "what, you no crash at all!??!" when we returned them.

We got them crossed up, sideways and scraped stands on many occasions, but never actually crashed. Smile



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Mine is the black one

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A splendid trip and 10bhp + tiny wheels was a recipe for hilarity......although I guess the location helped. Probably wouldn't have been the same in Slough.

Cheers Arry. Good times Thumbs Up *




* except my shit navigation skills and a hangover that lasted 4 days after return to UK.
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PostPosted: 11:16 - 26 May 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

Pigeon wrote:
Quite how myself and Arry are still alive is a mystery that baffled us


That, along with how much wine we managed to drink in 4 nights Laughing

Pigeon wrote:
a hangover that lasted 4 days after return to UK.


Somewhat less surprising, given the half pint measures of gin that waitress was pouring for you down at the beach front.


Haven't had a chance to look through vids yet but I'll get them all on that memory stick and sent to you, mate.
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PostPosted: 09:58 - 28 May 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

Busy biking weekend. Left my flat at 6am on Saturday morning, rode from Dundee to Lochgilphead via Loch Earn, Tyndrum and Oban. Then decided to get on a boat to Arran. It was a gorgeous day, a return ticket was £14 and there was a ferry leaving shortly, so why not?!

Arran was glorious in that weather. The roads weren't made for scratching but the coastal scenery was superb, as was lunch at Brodick castle. Spent a few hours taking the views in.

Back home via Inveraray etc. 14 hour day, ~400 miles. Looong day.

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Then yesterday I spent the day at Knockhill at the KMSC bike racing in tropical heat (the colour of my arms today tells the story...). My friend's son was racing his RS125 so I went along to help getting things prepped and to show support. Great day, the young lad (number 12 ) got a podium finish in his final race of the day Thumbs Up

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PostPosted: 12:06 - 28 May 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nice Tuono, had no idea they did them in that colour, looks tasty. Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 12:21 - 28 May 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sunshine in Scotland! Shocked

Looks like you had an enjoyable time, just one question, why do the bikes appear to going the wrong way at Knockhill?
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PostPosted: 13:55 - 28 May 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

MattJ wrote:
Nice Tuono, had no idea they did them in that colour, looks tasty. Thumbs Up


Thank you Thumbs Up . It started life yellow with black wheels - the previous owner added the red tail and wheels from an RSV4 factory, along with millions of other bits!

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why do the bikes appear to going the wrong way at Knockhill?


The full day was in reverse direction. I prefer it that way, both to spectate and ride. Watching the big bikes come into the hairpin at the end of the straight is beyond mental Shocked
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PostPosted: 14:29 - 28 May 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yesterday I met up with a couple of fellow Enfield owners for a run through the Essex countryside. Started around Tiptree, then down to Tollesbury, then onto Mersea Island for a final stop before working my way back through the Maldon lanes to go home.

We were making some great noises Cool

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PostPosted: 15:05 - 28 May 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

Not today, as everything is still drying out, after getting caught out in yesterday's downpour, rode home through it, just in time to see the garage flooding !!!

I have to say, in the worst conditions I've ridden in for quite some.time, the ST7, held up very well indeed. No pics, as by the time I got home, absolutely everything was soaked, plus our electricity had gone, and even now we still don't have broadband !!
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PostPosted: 20:33 - 28 May 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

Just got home from 3 days in Ireland, awesome roads, 750 miles covered, 3 days was no where near enough time to explore. For someone like me who gets off on bombing around single tracks it's heaven Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 21:42 - 28 May 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

Irn-Bru wrote:
Just got home from 3 days in Ireland, awesome roads, 750 miles covered, 3 days was no where near enough time to explore. For someone like me who gets off on bombing around single tracks it's heaven Thumbs Up


Any maps / pics you can share at your leisure very much appreciated fellow KTM dude.
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