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tom_e said:
Apparently my housemates little girl now points at any motorbike she sees and shouts my name...the seed is set she'll be a biker one day!
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My 2 and a bit year old nephew is the same, any person on a motorbike is 'Paul bikey!!!!' and anyone on a bicycle is 'daddy bikey!!!!!' - his dad is a big cyclist, not one of the annoying ones!
 
My mate text me this morning, he asked how much talk my bike has.. :D I text him back and said it's torque you thick **** :p

He wants to get a Honda cb1000r.
 
Anyone commuting through the winters on their bike?

I'll be doing 25-30 miles each day, from 5am up until 11pm. I know how cold it can get on a bike due to my dad having one when I was younger, and I can always blow £500 on a cheap car with MOT to get me through the bad days. Mixture of town and country A roads with a couple of big banks.
 
I use to, one thing for sure... I won't miss it, getting a car for commuting now.

Road covered with ice, as you can see. :p
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AHarvey said:
Anyone commuting through the winters on their bike?

I'll be doing 25-30 miles each day, from 5am up until 11pm. I know how cold it can get on a bike due to my dad having one when I was younger, and I can always blow £500 on a cheap car with MOT to get me through the bad days. Mixture of town and country A roads with a couple of big banks.
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Pretty much every winter bar one for the past 12-13 years.
Yes its rubbish, but proper tyres and gear make it bearable, certainly beats sitting in traffic, the one or two days its mega icy or the snow actually settles I just stayed at home, as the car couldn't get out the street either :p
 
When I was a wee lad I used to deliver pizzas after school in Holland. -14deg, snow, sleet, hail, rain, ice everywhere, you name it. It was hell, make no mistake, but when you put on an extra little shiver at the door and get that extra 5 euros, it's all worth it. We used to make about 100 euros a night on a good night, we absolutely caned it. Then again, we also fell off our bikes at least once a night, and when we got back to the pizza joint we had about a kilo of ice stuck to the front of each boot (no exaggeration either!).

Didn't help that the pizza joint was a proper one, so didn't maintain their bikes properly. Bald tyres, worn brakes, etc. Every night was an adventure :D
 
AHarvey said:
Anyone commuting through the winters on their bike?

I'll be doing 25-30 miles each day, from 5am up until 11pm. I know how cold it can get on a bike due to my dad having one when I was younger, and I can always blow £500 on a cheap car with MOT to get me through the bad days. Mixture of town and country A roads with a couple of big banks.
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Yeah I do, I commute all year round 16 miles each way - down here in kent there's only a 1-2 days a year that are too icy/snowy to commute.

You'll need decent, warm and waterproof textiles, goretex boots and waterproof gloves. I'd get heated gloves, that's what I'll be doing this winter, when it's below 3 degrees heated grips aren't enough, you'll have painful fingers and thumbs - you can use muffs over the top but heated gloves are the way to go. Get a windproof neck tube too, like a cold killers, basically with the right kit the only bit of cold air that gets in will be above your nose and below your eyebrows.

Something with a fairing is very nice to have in winter, espcially if the screen takes the cold and dirty air over your helmet, last winter due to the moist crap on the roads I was cleaning my visor after every commute - the salty road grime gets everywhere and coats your textiles/helmet/boots etc.
 
AHarvey said:
Anyone commuting through the winters on their bike?

I'll be doing 25-30 miles each day, from 5am up until 11pm. I know how cold it can get on a bike due to my dad having one when I was younger, and I can always blow £500 on a cheap car with MOT to get me through the bad days. Mixture of town and country A roads with a couple of big banks.
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Yup, been doing so for the past 37 years, & being a poor scrote I use my GSF1200, tho one of these days I'm going to say stuff it all & learn how to drive a car, cos to be brutally honest all year round riding has long since lost it's appeal. :p
 
I commute year round. Even with decent kit winter commuting is seriously grim simply from the point of you never know where a patch of ice could be hiding and stick you on your face especially on the smaller country roads. It's not a fun way to ride and as soon as I can afford it I'll be doing my car licence to get me through the cold snaps.
 
I commute all year round 3c and above (using my outside thermometer). Used to do freezing temperatures, not fun and not worth it.
 
arfoll said:
Tempted to get a short cuff summer vented glove, was having a look at the A* Celler and the Rukka Rytmi was recommended. What are people's views on the A* GPX - I have the GP Plus so would it be the same fit? I prefer the look of the sportier gloves I guess, unfortunately hard to try any of them out, shops around never seem to stock any of these - could abuse free returns a little I guess...
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I've just got the A* Celer Gore-tex, great glove, weird sizing though. Size guide seems right although you'll probably be a size bigger than normal.

I commute all winter too, 20miles each way. I go in to the city centre which is always warmer than where I live so I know if there's no ice when I take the dog for a walk I'm golden.

I really don't mind it, gore-tex boots and gloves and you're laughing. I Don't feel the cold much
 
Nice, are they screw on filters?

Gonna get a frame housing for my xiaomi yi camera as my waterproof one is cracking on the clip, i'll need a filter for the front though to stop bugs from destroying the lens. May aswell get an ND filter for the bright Alpine sun :D
 
TallPaul_S said:
Nice, are they screw on filters?

Gonna get a frame housing for my xiaomi yi camera as my waterproof one is cracking on the clip, i'll need a filter for the front though to stop bugs from destroying the lens. May aswell get an ND filter for the bright Alpine sun :D
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They are push on but a tight fit, no chance of them coming off. I had a skeleton case turn up today along with a mic adapter, just need to find a mic now.

I've been watching some youtube videos of the ND filters, if you turn them a certain way, the black speedo reading gets blocked, i'll have to give it a go.
 
That's not ND filters, that's polarising filters.

An ND (neutral density) filter just stops some light coming into the camera, so you can use longer shutter speeds or bigger apertures vs without one.

A polarising filter (you want a circular adjustable one) reduces reflections and/or glare. And sometimes blackens out speedos. :D
 
What's the percentage that ebay takes when selling a motorcycle via auction? Can I cancel or set a target for the auction, if not met will the auction just end?
 
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