2013 - New-Year's Biking Resolutions?

[Teflon-Mike]

Every Year I promise to 'Get the bike on the road for this Summer"
The VF1000 has rotted before my eyes, on such promices for the last decade. The CB750, has been toyed with in fits and spurts but never really 'happened' for the last four years. The DT I bought three years ago as a 'quick scrubber upper' for that summer never happened until last year, then got nicked before I got to ride it. I never seem to keep my New-Years resolutions....
SO!... THIS YEAR, I resolve.....
1/ to continue watching the old VF rust away
2/ to tinker with the 750 and not ACTUALLY do more than ride it up and down the drive
3/ To buy more 'scrap'.... 'project-bikes', rather than get the ones I got going some-where.
Well! At least if the inversions don't work, I'll have kept a resolution for once!

What about you lot?
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[JP7]

Quite simply, use mine more! I disappoint myself every year by not finding enough time to go out and play. Hopefully this year I can get more use out of it by keeping it at home now I've moved, rather than having to go elsewhere to fetch it.

[1cyl]

1. Buy a stomp road legal pit, and avoid having it nicked.
2. Do at least one track day on the smc.
3. Tape my horn buttons down, strap a siren to my helmet, and do all I can to keep my rubber side down and point myself out to the blind arrogant dingbats out there.

Slim
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[CarlosCBR]

I've thought long and hard, and decided on my new years resolution... 1024x768.
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[pork6156]

As JP7 said, I must use mine more this year! I don't think I even put 300 miles on mine last year. However I was diagnosed with a pretty shit disease last year, and I have had four operations since August, and I am still receiving treatment. But I will get out on the bike more this year.

[anthony_r6]

No more accidents. Ride more.
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[Gavsta88]

Go out and start touring the UK and maybe an sneaky visit across to France.

Only done about 300 miles since i got my license in October and not stretched further than a 20 mile radius of Chester

[DonDino]

Stretching a bit further out than the North West. And wash the bike more often
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[Flatbadger]

I sorted the main one a few days ago, finally got a replacement left mirror and clutch lever after the last owner dropped the bike and broke them - now it looks a bit better for examiners!

Pass my test has to be up there, as well as know how the thing works. It's slowly sinking in

update - the mirror thing might have worked!!
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[gaffa]

Passed in August last year.

More of the same really, to get out on the bike every opportunity i can and do a bit of touring round the UK. Child and Mrs permitting!
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[andy_uk]

Mine is to continue selling various items of crap I have until I get enough cash together to get myself something bigger than my 125
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[AlexW]

Avoid potholes, Continue not crashing.

Did 13k on it since May (when I got my full license/SV) so no need to use it more.

[Spudly]

It was supposed to be a new years resolution, but I got a chest infection in mid December, so took the opportunity and gave up smoking.

Haven't had a cigarette since the 20th of December, which is a good thing, because smoking was costing me an average of fifty quid a week, which is insane.

So, to drag this back on topic, I'll be saving the cash and buying my next bike with it.

In the meantime, I want to a) get better at maintaining the bike; b) get better at riding the bike.

I still don't have the confidence to lean the bike on wet surfaces, which bothers me. Wet roads are pretty much the default here in the uk.
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[Polarbear]

I want to buy myself an old stroker, An old H1 or H3 would be ideal, but in reality I expect I will have to make do with a Suzuki 380 or 550 for the money I will have .

I will also have to get rid of my daughters CBR400RR which has lived on my bike table since she gave up riding. It hasn't started for over a year, had the end can nicked off it for our Fazer and is looking very sad covered in dust. I also need my table as my back isn't into grovelling around on the ground doing oil changes etc. anymore.

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Before the end can got nicked, half an inch of dust had accumulated and I got totally fed up with working on it.
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[miles]

Put my perfectly good cbr f3 back together
Get a license
Ride

[stevo as b4]

TM your post did make me smile a bit, probably because i can see a bit of myself in the situations you described with your projects status.
For me it has to be:

1, actually start doing up this bloody KMX project that will have been in my head for 7years. There's no way id put a time scale on it now, but i'll be happy if i can get it as far as my saved up funds will take it, wether that's a finished bike or a 50,70,90% finished machine. Putting a budget figure on it would just be silly now IMO. If i find enough cash to finish it this year that would be awesome, if not i'll do a bit and save a bit until one day it's done!

2, Get my car back on the road and again do all the essential mechanical jobs and get all the running gear brakes,suspension, wheels and tyres in good shape. After that i'll probably spend a few quid on service items and a dyno session. After all that i'll probably be too broke to run it for the rest of the year.


The unlikely projects/resolutions, but you have to have them, and the next project/s that fill your head etc, for me are:

1, Re-landscape the garden (doesn't sound as good a use of £1000 as buying KMX parts though!) A get a big shed for the next project!

2, All the KMX related junk i've got, and there's alot of it, could be used to put together a tatty cheap field bike, or maybe one with a daytime MOT, so that i can go play in all the off roading but not always legal spots i've happened accross over the last year.

3, I wouldn't mind an abroad holiday with a bit of trail riding, the hotter and dryer the place the better!

[jjdugen]

Get back to the Nurburgring this summer. Get my lap times comfortably under ten minutes. Manx GP, BSB at Oulton and Donnington.
Starting the year as I mean to carry on with a visit to the Newark Classic Bike Show this comong weekend.
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[kestrel]

I'm going to build an XS650 Flat Tracker this year. I've been collecting parts for ages now but work commitments, work on other peoples bikes and improvements around the house for the past few years have left little time for my bikes. This year will be different and I'm going to make the time for this project.

I have 3 good engines and enough parts to build the bike up to rolling chassis stage and will hopefully complete it some time before the end of the year if it kills me! The build will include a monoshock conversion using a GPZ550 swingarm and ZX9 rear shock, and FZR600 forks in TT500 yokes. Wheels will be 19" spoked XS650 twin disc front, and the rear will be a one off 18" spoked, possibly using a Suzuki GT750 Kettle front hub that I have, with carriers made for the sprocket and disc. I'm still looking for FZR600 front discs and a pair of Brembo 4 pot calipers if anyone can oblige at the right price. The only engine mod will be to replace the generator flywheel with a permanent magnet one from an RD350 and stator coils from a cbr600, this setup will allow for kick start only operation without a battery.
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[andys675]

finished work for christmas on the 22nd and couldn't smoke over xmas because the kids would be upset if they knew, so its back to work on the 2nd after 11 days without, will be saving £100 a month

if I can stay off them a new full race system for the bike arrives for my birthday in april from the money not spent on cigs

gave up before for 6 years, full cold turkey, no patches, no gum, no support

oh yea, I'm going to ride my bike a lot more for pleasure if the weather permits, I have to commute on it anyway no matter the weather
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[LordShaftesbu...]

Go on more rideouts.
Do a trackday.
Go on at least 3 tours, at least one of which must be to a foreign country.

[Spudly]

[waffles]

Clean my bikes more often.

Ride my bikes more often.

Head over to France on the Chunnel and get my head around riding on the wrong side of the road.

I would love to be able to pick up another dirtbike but perhaps I should focus on getting on the property ladder first!
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[P.]

Ride to Plymouth and ferry it to Spain.

Slim the collection down to 2 on road and 1 off road.

Buy 2 stroke 125, fix and sell to some chav.

Buy off road bike before February.

Get road registered by May.

That's about it

[J.M.]

Make it to 2014 with no incidents such as breaking down, crashing or coming off. Once I get the bike back on the road, that is.
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