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Just bought these Dainese boots on Ebay they are discontinued so have a good discount off RRP. Just hope I can get used to them after wearing trainers all these years.

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tyke_ said:
Just bought these Dainese boots on Ebay they are discontinued so have a good discount off RRP. Just hope I can get used to them after wearing trainers all these years.

www.ebay.co.uk

Dainese Raptors Air Motorcycle Shoes (RRP £159.95) **Now £69.00** | eBay

Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Dainese Raptors Air Motorcycle Shoes (RRP £159.95) **Now £69.00** at the best online prices at eBay! Free delivery for many products.
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Well that's a step in the right direction :). I predict: you will get used to them. They're hardly full on up-to-the-knee adventure boots, so it'll be breaking in like you do with walking boots. Have fun :)
 
I'm annoyed.

My scooter is a year and 4 months old.

I paid £150 for its first service, fair enough.

I bought a new battery on March 14th because I left it over winter without a charger - fair enough. £45.02

Then it killed that battery too, so I took it to the dealers under warranty. I also had new L plates fitted and the rear shocks given a click of preload. They replaced the battery and charged me for it. £160.

Now the bike's killed that battery too. I took it in and they agreed that it was the tracker that was chewing the batteries. During this time I got them to replace the fuel filler cap as I broke it when I locked my keys in the bike. They now want to charge me another £330.

For a bike that's in warranty, a tracker that's in warranty, both are 16 months old. I could deal with the first battery as that was my own fault, I could also deal with paying a bit of labour to do the shocks / L-plates / fuel filler cap replacement (the parts for which are £27).

So that's £530 in repairs in the first 14 months of ownership, on a bike which is under warranty. I really feel like I'm being taken for a mug here, anyone care to chime in before I go full Karen tomorrow?
 
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I'm annoyed.

My scooter is a year and 4 months old.

I paid £150 for its first service, fair enough.

I bought a new battery on March 14th because I left it over winter without a charger - fair enough. £45.02

Then it killed that battery too, so I took it to the dealers under warranty. I also had new L plates fitted and the rear shocks given a click of preload. They replaced the battery and charged me for it. £160.

Now the bike's killed that battery too. I took it in and they agreed that it was the tracker that was chewing the batteries. During this time I got them to replace the fuel filler cap as I broke it when I locked my keys in the bike. They now want to charge me another £330.

For a bike that's in warranty, a tracker that's in warranty, both are 16 months old. I could deal with the first battery as that was my own fault, I could also deal with paying a bit of labour to do the shocks / L-plates / fuel filler cap replacement (the parts for which are £27).

So that's £530 in repairs in the first 14 months of ownership, on a bike which is under warranty. I really feel like I'm being taken for a mug here, anyone care to chime in before I go full Karen tomorrow?
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Assuming they supplied it with the tracker fitted?

If so yeah I'd say you've got every right to go in on them, they're also robbing you on labour rates. I could fit a new battery, stick a click of preload on, fit some new l plates and replace your filler cap in about half an hour and I'm a desk jockey not a professional mechanic.
 
Yeah it's not a BMW scooter is it? :D

Also perhaps find out the tracker model as I thought they were supposed to stop glugging power when the battery drops below a certain voltage, so as to avoid these situations.
 
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Looks like I'm gonna need more storage. Needs to be universal, I'm not spending £150 on a rack for a bike that likely won't see the end of the month in my ownership. Waterproof, decent quality, able to be tied down to the pillion of my scoot. Will also need some bungie cords or net or whatever, anyone got any ideas?

EDIT:

It's going on the back of this, so should have a few mounting / tie down points:

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I use kriega tail packs and they're brilliant and 100% waterproof, very expensive though, I'd be tempted by the cheaper knockoffs if i didn't already have them. I've used roc straps too with a dry bag which worked great
 
Griffo said:
Yeah it's not a BMW scooter is it? :D

Also perhaps find out the tracker model as I thought they were supposed to stop glugging power when the battery drops below a certain voltage, so as to avoid these situations.
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My Biketrac tracker does discharge the battery a fair bit. According to the blurb it only uses a little bit of power for when it phones home every 4 hours but i know if my bike is not left on a battery tender full time the battery goes flat within a number of days. I get text/email alerts from the tracker if the battery voltage falls below a certain threshold i've set.
 
Biketrac, that's the one. It's now killed four batteries. Granted the batteries are quite small but I reckon Biketrac need to either up the size of their internal battery, or figure out a way to make it consume less power, and also give me the ability to have the tracker shut down rather than kill the battery.

I'll be heading to the bike shop this afternoon to have a chat. I don't think it's going to go the way they think it's going to go. £530 in repairs for a bike that's under warranty is taking the ****.
 
Got them to take £100 off, they reckon I need to contact Biketrac as they were the cause of all this nonsense (which I agree with). It got really tense, to the point where the chap (who has undoubtedly been the most helpful during this whole ordeal which just made me feel guilty) was getting very defensive over the loaner they gave me.

Oh and the bike gained a scratch during its stay.

BMG Scooters - never again.
 
Diddums said:
Got them to take £100 off, they reckon I need to contact Biketrac as they were the cause of all this nonsense (which I agree with). It got really tense, to the point where the chap (who has undoubtedly been the most helpful during this whole ordeal which just made me feel guilty) was getting very defensive over the loaner they gave me.

Oh and the bike gained a scratch during its stay.

BMG Scooters - never again.
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£100 is better than nothing but wow scratching your bike, that's something i dread when leaving a vehicle with 3rd parties. About contacting Biketrac, i did too when my battery was obviously being drained fast by their tracker. They'll probably deny it like they did with me, they said it hardly draws any power. I bought a battery tender which i leave connected full time which has sorted it.

Edit: not sure if you know this already but with Biketrac you can access an online web portal where you can monitor your bike including seeing what your battery charge is. I open it via this webpage https://alltrac.co.uk/
 
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tyke_ said:
£100 is better than nothing but wow scratching your bike, that's something i dread when leaving a vehicle with 3rd parties. About contacting Biketrac, i did too when my battery was obviously being drained fast by their tracker. They'll probably deny it like they did with me, they said it hardly draws any power. I bought a battery tender which i leave connected full time which has sorted it.
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They gave me a new tracker after I made it pretty obvious I wasn't going to give in easily. At least now I can leave it a couple of weeks without worrying again. I'll be emailing them about this and suggesting they have a beefier battery option as well as the option to shut the tracker down rather than kill the bike's battery.
 
So after a significant lack of miles I've decided to put the XJ6N up for sale :( I thought about just SORN'ing it as I may need it for my next place of work in around 3 years time but it didn't make sense to keep something just in case I might need it. So, it's up on AutoTrader and I'll still be gutted to see it go :(

I'll be able to 'keep my hand in' through volunteering for Blood Bikes
 
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I sat on a Triumph Tiger 900 GT Pro today and it fitted like a glove. Looking online I can see some reasonably priced Tiger 900 Rally's which have the higher offroad suspension. I love the look of the Rally even though I don't actually need that suspension and unfortunately it hadn't occurred to me to try sitting on the Ralley they had in the showroom. I won't be able to get back there for a while.

I'm 5ft 8in with a 30" inseam. The GT has a seat height of 810mm which I loved and could get both feet down on tip toes with only trainers on (so I could probably flat foot it in boots on the standard height). But the Ralley apparently has a seat height of 850mm.

Does anyone around my height and leg inseam have a bike around the 850mm saddle height and how do you find it? If it's going to annoy me I'd rather get the idea out of my head before the little gremlin gets hold of it and convinces me to start looking at them in ernest. I still have a weak left leg due to my accident over a year ago. Thanks.
 
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Depends on width too to a great extent. If you sit on a wide triangle you'll need longer legs than a narrow one of same height. Probably don't sit on triangles to test this though.
 
I've ridden my mates multistrada which according to wiki has a seat height of 850mm and I've only got little legs.
Around a 28 inch inseam, but with my boots on it was fine.
 
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