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tom_e said:
Why? I'm assuming you've never ridden anything with linked brakes? Did a pretty good job on my 250kg+ blackbird
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Fairly sure my old S1000R had a linked brake system and amazingly I'm still here to tell the tale despite me wringing it's neck for all it was worth.
It seems that someone is as usual talking utter halfwitted nonsense.
 
Seen a couple of scooters, first one - seller doesn't have V5c hmmm..shame as seemed a nice bike. Too risky.
Another one local will be looking at tomorrow he's got the V5c, but not as nice model as one above. Little bit cheaper insurance as not the flagship model.

Think I'll go for the second one, it's a scooter get me up and running get some road experience wait a year for insurance to come down then look at another or second bike
 
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Family holiday and needed to take the parents too so “only” way we’d all fit was for me to take the bike. Of well :D

Nice long 180 mile trip to Somerset. Stopped before Stonehenge and as we hit traffic gave the wife a wave good bye and slipped through ha!

Saved enough time I could stop a 2nd time for a stretch and a drink and still beat them there by 5 minutes.
 
tom_e said:
The problem being you'll still have no idea how to ride a geared bike. Buy a geared bike, nurse it down to your nearest industrial estate on a Sunday and spend the day learning to ride it.
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yes I understand what you're saying and I'm pretty sure I'd get it in a week. I do see pros and cons of both bike types.

In process of ordering geared bike now
 
How affordable are motorbike sat nav? I know you can use a phone but a sat nav with a higher quality speaker (louder, clearer etc) and only GPS software rather than phone - which can be clunky and drop out back to android ) is a pain

I remember some sat navs have open source maps.
 
hornetstinger said:
How affordable are motorbike sat nav? I know you can use a phone but a sat nav with a higher quality speaker (louder, clearer etc) and only GPS software rather than phone - which can be clunky and drop out back to android ) is a pain

I remember some sat navs have open source maps.
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Nowt wrong with calimoto or Google maps for nav - neither crash back to Android, and you don't need audio - just the odd glance
 
hornetstinger said:
How affordable are motorbike sat nav? I know you can use a phone but a sat nav with a higher quality speaker (louder, clearer etc) and only GPS software rather than phone - which can be clunky and drop out back to android ) is a pain

I remember some sat navs have open source maps.
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You can have a look at these.

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hornetstinger said:
How affordable are motorbike sat nav? I know you can use a phone but a sat nav with a higher quality speaker (louder, clearer etc) and only GPS software rather than phone - which can be clunky and drop out back to android ) is a pain

I remember some sat navs have open source maps.
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I've never had any of my GPS apps (Copilot, Google Maps and a few others) crash back to Android.
 
I'm more intrigued by the speaker requirement. Is this dude standing at traffic lights broadcasting to everyone that in 300m he's taking the second exit from the roundabout? :D
 
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