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JBM
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PostPosted: 19:59 - 02 Feb 2022    Post subject: New to the forum… Reply with quote
Hello everyone from sunny Shocked northern Cumbria. To get started here’s a pic from the stable (my bikes actually do live in a stable, it’s the best workshop space I’ve had in over 40 years of m/c ownership!)

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50591009793_5b9f809937_c.jpg
My daily rider

And here’s the ongoing project, basically built from bits Thumbs Up

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Bhud
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PostPosted: 20:41 - 02 Feb 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote
Welcome.

I like your XL600R! How long have you had it? Do you use it a lot?
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JBM
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PostPosted: 20:49 - 02 Feb 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote
Bhud wrote:
Welcome.

I like your XL600R! How long have you had it? Do you use it a lot?


Hi Bhud, I built the XL6 from an incomplete wreck in 2011/12 (long painful story Very Happy). I’ve only just finished rebuilding the engine again (another long painful story Shocked) but it doesn’t get much use TBH. Mainly short treks around the Lake District and SW Scotland. It’s a hoot to ride though, especially when the second carb kicks in Laughing

https://live.staticflickr.com/3800/9342583902_5eb7994610_c.jpg

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JBM
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PostPosted: 20:51 - 02 Feb 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote
Double post deleted Rolling Eyes
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MarJay
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PostPosted: 20:57 - 02 Feb 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote
Ulysses... Great taste.
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Bhud
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PostPosted: 21:09 - 02 Feb 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote
Looks good. Bet you've got some nice trails around those parts.
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Keithy
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PostPosted: 22:08 - 02 Feb 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote
…and an eye with a camera.
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Honda434
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PostPosted: 00:27 - 03 Feb 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote
Sorry guy I’m in the states so I haven’t heard of Cumbria. I just looked it up man is that some beautiful country side and some of the old buildings wow. We just don’t have that kind of preserved history.
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c_dug
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PostPosted: 08:24 - 03 Feb 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote
Nice pics.

I think I've been to this pub, it looks very familiar, where is it?

JBM wrote:

https://live.staticflickr.com/3800/9342583902_5eb7994610_c.jpg

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Freddyfruitba...
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PostPosted: 11:05 - 03 Feb 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote
MarJay wrote:
Ulysses... Great taste.

JBM wrote:
another long painful story Shocked

You're not kidding
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PostPosted: 17:36 - 03 Feb 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote
c_dug wrote:
Nice pics.

I think I've been to this pub, it looks very familiar, where is it?

JBM wrote:

https://live.staticflickr.com/3800/9342583902_5eb7994610_c.jpg


Kirkstone Inn at the top of the Kirkstone Pass, near Ambleside.
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JBM
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PostPosted: 18:16 - 03 Feb 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote
chickenstrip wrote:
c_dug wrote:
Nice pics.

I think I've been to this pub, it looks very familiar, where is it?

JBM wrote:

https://live.staticflickr.com/3800/9342583902_5eb7994610_c.jpg


Kirkstone Inn at the top of the Kirkstone Pass, near Ambleside.


Correct!

PS are you the same Chickenstrip I remember from the old XRV forum?

JBM (ex xrv_jim)
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JBM
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PostPosted: 18:21 - 03 Feb 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote
Bhud wrote:
Looks good. Bet you've got some nice trails around those parts.


We do indeed, though we lost rights on many miles of trails in 2006 thanks, mainly, to the Ramblers Assoc.Despite that Cumbria County Council has done a good job of publicising where you can ride. Trail descriptions and maps can be found here -

https://www.cumbria.gov.uk/roads-transport/public-transport-road-safety/countryside-access/hotr/hierarchy_of_trails_routes.asp[/url]
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chickenstrip
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PostPosted: 18:26 - 03 Feb 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote
JBM wrote:


PS are you the same Chickenstrip I remember from the old XRV forum?

JBM (ex xrv_jim)


No, I'm chickenstrip with a small c Laughing
But there are millions of us out there!
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JBM
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PostPosted: 18:27 - 03 Feb 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote
Honda434 wrote:
Sorry guy I’m in the states so I haven’t heard of Cumbria. I just looked it up man is that some beautiful country side and some of the old buildings wow. We just don’t have that kind of preserved history.


No need to apologise! You’re right though, we do have some beautiful countryside in Cumbria (and I live north of Hadrian’s Wall, about 6 miles from the border with Scotland) but we don’t have the acres of acres of off-road riding you have over there. I’m very jealous of that!

If you’re interested you can see more of my home territory on my thread on ADVRider - https://www.advrider.com/f/threads/jimrides-from-northern-cumbria-in-the-uk.1130177/
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GettinBetter
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PostPosted: 19:32 - 03 Feb 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote
WOW! That's one mean front brake disc. Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 20:14 - 03 Feb 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote
GettinBetter wrote:
WOW! That's one mean front brake disc. Thumbs Up


Perimeter Disks, the Objectionable Northerner has a video on this:

https://youtu.be/rzfikdtTbxc
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JBM
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PostPosted: 20:14 - 03 Feb 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote
GettinBetter wrote:
WOW! That's one mean front brake disc. Thumbs Up


This one?

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51677403823_01982287fc_b.jpg

Buell (Nissin) ZTL 6 piston caliper and perimeter disc. I love the engineering design that went into Erik Buell’s bikes. Shame Harley pulled the plug Crying or Very sad
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MarJay
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PostPosted: 20:39 - 03 Feb 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote
JBM wrote:

Buell (Nissin) ZTL 6 piston caliper and perimeter disc. I love the engineering design that went into Erik Buell’s bikes. Shame Harley pulled the plug Crying or Very sad


My thoughts exactly. I've had 3 XB12's over the years, and I do miss them, but parts supply is a bit of a pain and I just didn't have a use for the last one so it had to go.


Here's my first (with another 'one that got away' bike):

https://www.bikechatforums.com/download.php?id=85392

My second I wrote off in a crash which also triggered a lot of changes in my life, not least of which the end of my marriage (it would have happened anyway, it would have just taken a lot longer). Here it is with another Lightning:

https://www.bikechatforums.com/files/dsc01409.jpg


and here's the last one I had which was written off a week after I sold it.

https://www.bikechatforums.com/download.php?id=103674

Erik was great but HD F*cked him over, as did Hero corp too... He's a great engineer but not such a good businessman it seems. Fun fact, he's exactly 30 years older than me to the day, we share a birthday.
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Honda434
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PostPosted: 23:55 - 03 Feb 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote
Man what’s the story on the rgv 250.
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JBM
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PostPosted: 10:07 - 04 Feb 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote
MarJay wrote:
JBM wrote:

Buell (Nissin) ZTL 6 piston caliper and perimeter disc. I love the engineering design that went into Erik Buell’s bikes. Shame Harley pulled the plug Crying or Very sad


My thoughts exactly. I've had 3 XB12's over the years, and I do miss them, but parts supply is a bit of a pain and I just didn't have a use for the last one so it had to go.


Here's my first (with another 'one that got away' bike):

https://www.bikechatforums.com/download.php?id=85392

My second I wrote off in a crash which also triggered a lot of changes in my life, not least of which the end of my marriage (it would have happened anyway, it would have just taken a lot longer). Here it is with another Lightning:

https://www.bikechatforums.com/files/dsc01409.jpg


and here's the last one I had which was written off a week after I sold it.

https://www.bikechatforums.com/download.php?id=103674

Erik was great but HD F*cked him over, as did Hero corp too... He's a great engineer but not such a good businessman it seems. Fun fact, he's exactly 30 years older than me to the day, we share a birthday.


Love the Firebolts, probably my favourite XB model. That black one looks absolutely mint. Shame it got totalled by the next owner.
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MarJay
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PostPosted: 10:17 - 04 Feb 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote
Honda434 wrote:
Man what’s the story on the rgv 250.


I bought it in about 2007 to replace a TZR250. I think it cost £1600 at the time, which is ludicrous in hindsight. It was great I rode it for a year, took it to track days and things, and then it blew up. I started to rebuild it but lost interest, and they weren't worth a great deal so I sold it for a low amount of money.

I later replaced it with a KR1S (after owning a bunch of RD350s, two YPVSs and an LC) which also cost £1500. I still have the KR1S now...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYY23j1utL0
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