What did you do to your bike today?

TripleT said:
Surely I'd need to inform my insurance for a decat? I just thought it was a slipon cat back but never actually looked at it. Explains why it's so loud I guess!
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actually most arnt cat converters,they are collector boxes,the cat converters are in the headers

same as my bike

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that's the cat,pays to own a 98 model,none of that crap to restrict your performance,i might chisel mine out idk yet
 
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Craig321 said:
How small was it? Some plates are just silly small and unreadable from just a few steps away - those are the ones that will get you pulled over instantly.
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looked fine tbh i dint notice the difference in kletter size till compared it to the original.

according to the offficer he says the anrp cameras wouldnt be able to read it but he might have just being a ****.
 
Yep very cold this morning but didn't find the roads that bad to be honest.

Must admit I didn't enjoy the 60mph+ negative camber corner coming of the motorway mind! :pp Normally 80mph+ easy!
 
Was about 0/1 degrees here this morning, heated grips plus muffs did the job well, only my thumbs getting a little cold after 45 minutes.

Full merino base layers (top and bottom), kevlar jeans, a t-shirt and long sleeved tshirt under my leather jacket (with thermal liner) and I was lovely and warm. Was expecting to be a little cold but these merino layers are bloody awesome :D
 
I did 10 hours on the bike yesterday up to the very tip off Norfolk and back. Mostly 0-1 degree weather. My trousers leaked so I had a wave of freezing water rushing round the tank and pooling around my balls.. add a misted visor that also broke and wouldnt stay up. Was not a pleasant half hour :/ but those roads up there are amazing, some real awesome corners too. I hurt all over from being so cold! It's time for heated gloves a d a heated vest. The er6 was incredibly comfy the entire journey. After so long on the bike I have learnt to like it for what it is. It's basically a big boys scooter. The power is so linear that it is exactly like riding a scooter. If I had a lot of commuting or traffic to navigate this bike would be brilliant for it its so agile and corners like a dream, it just glides. It is incredibly lazy to ride too which I'm not a fan off. And fuel economy... around country roads it barely uses any petrol at all, will go for miles on a hire of tank but put her on a motorway above 80 and your in every other petrol station!! Shame about the small tank though. What this bike needs is a set of pr4 tyres. The stock break away traction far too easy in the wet. A noisy exhaust and go style shifting. And an extra 30 bhp Then I can imagine it will start being fun.
 
ConTRo13R said:
I did 10 hours on the bike yesterday up to the very tip off Norfolk and back. Mostly 0-1 degree weather. My trousers leaked so I had a wave of freezing water rushing round the tank and pooling around my balls.. add a misted visor that also broke and wouldnt stay up. Was not a pleasant half hour :/ but those roads up there are amazing, some real awesome corners too. I hurt all over from being so cold! It's time for heated gloves a d a heated vest. The er6 was incredibly comfy the entire journey. After so long on the bike I have learnt to like it for what it is. It's basically a big boys scooter. The power is so linear that it is exactly like riding a scooter. If I had a lot of commuting or traffic to navigate this bike would be brilliant for it its so agile and corners like a dream, it just glides. It is incredibly lazy to ride too which I'm not a fan off. And fuel economy... around country roads it barely uses any petrol at all, will go for miles on a hire of tank but put her on a motorway above 80 and your in every other petrol station!! Shame about the small tank though. What this bike needs is a set of pr4 tyres. The stock break away traction far too easy in the wet. A noisy exhaust and go style shifting. And an extra 30 bhp Then I can imagine it will start being fun.
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so you grew to like it a little then? ideal commuter machine
 
My Furygan Valta gloves have split down one of the seams in the lining, not great going for a pair of gloves that normally sell for about £80 and are only a month or so old.

I've gone for a pair of Gerbing 12V XRS-12 heated gloves to replace them, apart from the stitching the Furygans are great but the circulation in my fingers can be pretty poor at times so I think some added heat will do me much better on my commute.
 
mine were killing me today,feels like most of the cold comes from the levers

return the furygan for a new pair? they shouldn't have split already
 
TallPaul_S said:
Was about 0/1 degrees here this morning, heated grips plus muffs did the job well, only my thumbs getting a little cold after 45 minutes.

Full merino base layers (top and bottom), kevlar jeans, a t-shirt and long sleeved tshirt under my leather jacket (with thermal liner) and I was lovely and warm. Was expecting to be a little cold but these merino layers are bloody awesome :D
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You must be as wide as you're tall with all that on :p

I've only got normal jeans, rst pants, T-shirt and rst jacket with lining. Some rubbish rst winter gloves. I just don't feel the cold much, It's mostly my right hand fingertips that feel it my left are fine. I was going to get some heated grips but my commute is soon going from 45mins down to 10mins so there's no point.

I suffer in the heat though!
 
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TripleT said:
You must be as wide as you're tall with all that on :p

I've only got normal jeans, rst pants, T-shirt and rst jacket with lining. Some rubbish rst winter gloves. I just don't feel the cold much, It's mostly my right hand fingertips that feel it my left are fine. I was going to get some heated grips but my commute is soon going from 45mins down to 10mins so there's no point.

I suffer in the heat though!
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Nah, still a skinny git! I feel the cold, especially in my hands and feet - bad circulation/lack of fat or whatever it is :p

Ahh, a 10 minute commute, the bike won't have even warmed up!!
 
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