Hardcore bikers beat insomnia... by getting very cold *Video

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Bit of an epic here kiddies...

Right me and rob (klr600) were discussing on MSN how immensely boring being wide awake at 4.30 is.
He then fiendishly suggested a ride. But at 5 in the morning...

Could we be /that/ insane. In wales. In the cold and wet. With our two bikes both legally old enough to fuck.

We picked a suitable meeting point inbetween our respective bunkers, and set about planning. I started trying to start the bike at around 5 o'clock. By about 5.30, i was just about on my way (see battery thread ) so i gave rob the go ahead.

Now wales, as you may have gathered, isn't the warmest of places at the best of times. Its also ruddy pitch black. And i mean 100% nothing. The SMOD as you know is well and truly fucked, thus i spent the whole time peering beadily into the next frost covered hairpin.
The main amusement of the ten miles or so there was spinning the rear the entire way through second and the length of a rather long straight road.

I eventually arrived at our meeting place at around 6, and within a few minutes Rob arrived. Having both braved the elements getting there, we decided we had proved we were hardcore, and just sat there talking for 2 hours. It was a good giggle. There was much rejoicing.
I've decided i am getting him to come out with me and get hideously drunk in a student rock night .

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v331/serenaur/Chillin.jpg

Suffice to say, it was dark by en large. And the SMOD remained ugly. Very very ugly.

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v331/serenaur/scenery2.jpg

Anyway after some 2 hours of pro plused shenanigans, mainly involving us taking photos in the darkness hoping something would be mildly discernable (it never was), as soon as it got light we decided to jog on.

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v331/serenaur/Urmm.jpg

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v331/serenaur/rob7894.jpg

After the grand kerfuffle of getting our bikes started we were off.
I spent the entire time wheelspinning and backfiring (meh, shoot me).
I forget to mention i somehow demolised my back brake (you never know how useful it is till you donts got one) hence the dodgy footwork you will see soon in the video coming up.

After a few tentative miles we stopped so i could toast my gloves on the zorst. Now the real fun began. I went to do a little burnout. Dead battery. After throwing it down this hill and rebumping it, it lived. For the duration of one burnout. It then died, again. And again. And again. Rob then had a go bumping it.

Got it going, and as you will see in the clip, the smod might have an ickle problem or two By the way, if you think the clip sounds loud, you should been there in the flesh... Sweet jesus.

Anyway we then decided to call it a day, or night... well call it a merry debacle and fuck off home. Rob kindly agreed to follow me for a little bit (there was some debate on the likelyhood of it spontaneously combusting after the previous ahem... issues).

Rob at one point overtook me to give chase to some mad welsh bint in a corsa. He lost her

I was half expecting to find her in a bush somewhere. Sadly not.

I nearly crashed when he overtook me (target fixation on curb), and i nearly went in the back of someone (again, i miss my back brake) a little later. But other then that fun was had by all, i got home alive, and more importantly i only kicked the smod once...
(it dropped from first into neutral without me knowing, racing starts look better in gear ).

So, its a mini adventure.

Vids of me being a twat to come later
And im sure ive forgotten plenty, so Rob can fill you in on anything else...
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[KLR600]

That corsa (that was actually a golf) was about 6 inches from my back tyre for about 3/4 of a mile when I was following you home and it quite annoyed me so I saw it fit to give chase.......untill I remembered my bike tops out at 80mph because of stupid restrictions .

I'd also like to mention here that the KLR also has no rear brake so you're not alone there bonny .

I see you happened to forget to mention all those backfires you did past every bus stop with school kids waiting for buses at them, leaving me in fits of laughter watching them all having mild heart failure!

It would look like from the pics that we just rolled up around lunch time but here is some (kind of) proof that we were there before sunrise.....

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v331/serenaur/Face.jpg

That's me and bonny with a torch....

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v331/serenaur/bike.jpg

And that was a biker who went passed at about 6:30am and kindly beeped at us .

Seriously though, I'm scared of the SMOD.......

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[riichy]

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welsh
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[Visitor Q]

Have fun pointing and laughing.

And riichy, im english innit.

Vid here boyo
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From September 2014 to January/February 2015 I will not be using any English, nor reading any. As such, I won't be on here. PM at will, but I won't be checking/posting unless in emergencies. Certainly not for the first couple of months. Please berate me savagely if I break that rule...

[riichy]

ooo you gota love the bike wobble
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[mr.z]

Nothing like a ride in -0ºc conditions in the dark to wake you up, (lucky me thats every day at the moment)

ummmm whats this fearsome sounding SMOD?
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[Dischord]

You crazy duo, I was struggling for warmth under a double quilt at that time, must've been crazy on a bike! Have you gained any respect for wales yet bonny?
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