What did you do to your bike today?

[JonRGV250]

@JonRGV250 Loving the Schwantz jacket! I proper fangirl'd over him in the 80s.

I think we all did, although he wasn’t himself after the Rainey accident
Nothing even comes close to the 500cc era, nothing.
Those bikes were pretty much unrideable.
The “unrideables” documentary is a must watch for an insight into those machines.

I'm guessing that only gets worn on the RGV

It does, although I reckon I look a right plonker.

 

[Diddums]

I reckon I look a right plonker.

Given the smile you'll no doubt have in your lid, I don't think that really matters tbh

 

[JonRGV250]

True, but this is how I picture myself..

 

[Diddums]

And that is still to this day one of the coolest images AI has ever generated

 

[unKle]

I think we all did, although he wasn’t himself after the Rainey accident
Nothing even comes close to the 500cc era, nothing.
Those bikes were pretty much unrideable.
The “unrideables” documentary is a must watch for an insight into those machines.

It does, although I reckon I look a right plonker.

That was the thing with the 80s and 2 strokes, spindly frames, skinny tyres and explosive power bands, some of the most exciting times I had riding LC's/powervalves and Gamma's. There really wasn't the need to rush out and get a thousand like these days, those things were quick enough and gave enough adrenaline to last the weekend.

Totally agree about the racing, those 500s were something else.

 

[Scort]

Up and downs: the up, is that the Luimoto gold gel is brilliant, bye bye numb painful rear! And I should be able to send the medical gel back too - it's just too soft for me, probably better on a chopper or something sofa-esq.

The downs: my AliExpress bar end mirrors, well the right, failed at the weekend and started flapping around - took it off and heated the glass up, but try as I might, it didn't pry off..... then, CRACK! Ordered some more, HJR looking ones this time, for a while 12 quid, probably the same ones that are selling for 68 quid on eBay.

The other down: my throttle is clearly knackered! I noticed it when picked it up, it felt creaky/notchy, but is getting worse and trying to feed it in progressively on the road is now impossible! Feels a bit dangerous tbh. I appreciate it won't ever feel like a cable, but I've had plenty of fly by wire bikes, and it's only been the S1000Rs that feel bad like this, and it's certainly gotten worse since I picked it up.

Checked for any debris or fouling of the grip, but alas there's nothing to be seen - I'm hesitant to take it off the bike and do much more, as it's got warranty - so I guess it'll have to go in to be looked at.

 

[Scort]

Took the throttle off, and gave it and the bar a jolly good clean, it feels much better now; but yet to ride it on the road.

BMW, at least the one closest to me in the New Forest, wanted £95 to diagnose the fault, which I'd have to cover, but if a new throttle was needed, that would be under warranty - not overly happy to have to cough up nearly 100 quid for something you could test with the flick of the wrist! Oh, there's also an 8 week wait!

If it plays up again, then maybe I'll moan at BWM in Bristol - highlighting how it was a problem when I got the bike...

Fitted my new AliExpress 12 quid mirrors - these appear to be the 'HJR' ones I saw on eBay, only they didn't cost me 68 quid, and arrived in a couple of days

Also fitted the standard clock cover, so the Puig screen bracket is stored away for now.

 

[JonRGV250]

BMW, at least the one closest to me in the New Forest, wanted £95 to diagnose the fault, which I'd have to cover, but if a new throttle was needed, that would be under warranty -

That's insane.
I've worked for main (car) dealers on and off for 30 years and have never heard of that practice.
Not good.

 

[JonRGV250]

The Rizoma style Ali-X mirrors I fitted didn't have indicators in like the OE ones, and riding without them seemed a bit daft, so..

Far from perfect, but at least functional.

 

[Scort]

That's insane.
I've worked for main (car) dealers on and off for 30 years and have never heard of that practice.
Not good.

I was a bit taken aback when they said this... you'd have thought that with a warranty, any fault found would mean no charge for the diagnosis - especially with something so blatantly obvious.

Luckily the second round of cleaning did the trick and the throttle application was buttery smooth when I did a test ride earlier - the mirrors was also reasonably usable over 4k, unlike the previous AliExpress ones. A tad too small for my liking, and having them inboard (as above) meant my knuckles kept knocking them - so I flipped them out and reckon they'll be grand

 

[haaammit]

I got a bloody puncture. Luckily one of the group had a temp plug/regas repair kit, so could get to a petrol station to fully inflate then went home. Tyre off and I'll put a proper plug in tomorrow, but the temp one, whilst leaking, leaked less than the bloody great hole that was in it! Think he said the kit was a tenner. Sure beats getting recovered.

Captain Sad....

Temp plug - got me home

Tyre off ready for a plug!

 

[LowEndTorque]

Always is the new tyre isn't it.

 

[McGray]

Went camping with it.

 

[mingeroonie]

Moved my bike over in the garage to make way for a new track bike
Pick it up on Wednesday

 

[LowEndTorque]

Moved my bike over in the garage to make way for a new track bike
Pick it up on Wednesday

Is it some Italian Time Attack editon?

 

[mingeroonie]

Is it some Italian Time Attack editon?

Gone for a German flavour
Will post a pic when I have one

 

[JonRGV250]

So a thou RR then?

 

[Diddums]

 

[JonRGV250]

To this day I’ve never got my head around those things, or the bikes with 2 front wheels and one on the back.
The **** is the point?

 

[Diddums]

To this day I’ve never got my head around those things, or the bikes with 2 front wheels and one on the back.
The **** is the point?

These were meant to give you the comfort and dryness of a car, without having to faff about in traffic, and also skirt any parking costs. They were actually really good, as was the Benelli Adiva.

Here, an actual convertible scooter

The three wheelers started off as a way to get on a "bike" without needing a car licence, as they're categorized as tricycles, but people soon found out that double the traction at the front is actually a lot safer than a single wheel.

The British mentality around scooters is quite amusing to me, I grew up in Holland where everyone's on scooters, they simply can't be beat for practicaility and convenience. Here they're "gay" for some reason.


I actually clocked a proper oldschool biker looking at my scooter a few weeks ago, he was stood in a pickup in his car and was looking at it. I came out with a trolley full of shopping and loaded it in to the scoot without so much as needing a pocket. He actually remarked at how convenient it was. Think I showed someone that day