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[TamSV]

Looking good bibs

[DarrenSV650S]

Man it's gone from swarm of the flies to no flies at all! I just did about 100 miles at warp 9 and my bike has like 5 flies on it. The cool weather must have killed them off

In other news, my bike feels incredible just now with those new tyres! Such a pleasure to take corners :love:

[garynortheast]

Man it's gone from swarm of the flies to no flies at all! I just did about 100 miles at warp 9 and my bike has like 5 flies on it. The cool weather must have killed them off


Same here Darren. Riding back from Yorkshire last Friday I had to keep stopping to clear the bugsplats from my visor. Rode into town today and not a single splat!

[Bibio]

thats due to there being a little breeze, you dont get midge when its windy.

[Bibio]

riding a naked has definitely slowed me down. yesterday when looking down at the clocks most of the time the speed was 60mph and below. where before it was upwards by a fair old whack. the larger (two teeth) rear sprocket along with the wind blast has me holding on for dear life at times. its fun :-)

[maviczap]

Liking that Bibs

[DarrenSV650S]

riding a naked has definitely slowed me down. yesterday when looking down at the clocks most of the time the speed was 60mph and below. where before it was upwards by a fair old whack. the larger (two teeth) rear sprocket along with the wind blast has me holding on for dear life at times. its fun :-)

Slower?! We'll need to get you back out for a run with me, show you how it's done ;)

I'm tempted to get a bigger rear sprocket for more fun but it'll probably just cut my tank range down even lower

[shiftin_gear98]

Bibs, bike looks great. Enjoy.

[shiftin_gear98]

Pretty sure the words. Naked and clocks shouldn't be in the same paragraph when speed reading.

[Bibio]

i'm not really one for looks but i must admit it does look pretty.

i'm glad its slowing me down...

[andrewsmith]

To 100 mph? ;-)

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[Sir Trev]

riding a naked has definitely slowed me down. yesterday when looking down at the clocks most of the time the speed was 60mph and below. where before it was upwards by a fair old whack. the larger (two teeth) rear sprocket along with the wind blast has me holding on for dear life at times. its fun :-)

Know the feeling Bibs. My GSX-F was fully faired and you did not notice the speed creeping up. Now I have a naked again I feel more part of the experience somehow.

[Bibio]

my brain cant cope with going at fast speeds any more. the body is willing but the brain is wandering so its time to chill and look at the scenery instead of endless tarmac and corners.

[Bibio]

anyone else noticed the influx of svrider members of late.

[DarrenSV650S]

How do you know they are from svrider? Any new members are a good thing

[Bibio]

same usernames unless i'm dreaming. yes the more the merrier and all welcome and i dont blame them. svrider is getting beyond a joke.

[andrewsmith]

same usernames unless i'm dreaming. yes the more the merrier and all welcome and i dont blame them. svrider is getting beyond a joke.I'm banned from the sv rider forum5

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[maviczap]

I'm banned from the sv rider forum5

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Pray tell what you did? :-)

I don't visit svrider at all, what's going on?

[andrewsmith]

Pray tell what you did? :-)

I don't visit svrider at all, what's going on?Years ago
Told them that one of their sponsors was ****

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[maviczap]

Lol pretty trivial then :-)

[andrewsmith]

Lol pretty trivial then :-)The normal for them

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[BanannaMan]

Haha I was banned from SVrider as well.
I made the site administrator mad on another forum.
Cupid stunt.

[Sir Trev]

I used to pop in every now and then but got fed up wit their snide comments about this forum and when they started discussing how best to carry their weapons when on their bikes I gave up on them completely. If you want to talk about concealed carry or which calibre is best for stopping bike thieves at close quarters join a gun forum...

[Sir Trev]

Went in to London today for a chat with a recruiter about a possible new contract. As it was a nice day I had a wander about in the sunshine afterwards instead of heading straight back to Marylebone. Bit of a mistake as I had forgotten to take a hat and after a bit I realised my head was starting to cook... Had to duck into a nearby hostelry for a cold reviving one, which was nice. Hope you all managed to enjoy at least some of the sunshine today, if you had some in your neck of the woods of course.

[Bibio]

someone forgot to feed the hamster again....

[maviczap]

Hee hee hee hee

[garynortheast]

I was starting to panic!

[Sir Trev]

I had withdrawal symptoms last night it felt so wrong.

[SV650rules]

i'm not really one for looks but i must admit it does look pretty.

i'm glad its slowing me down...

Bike does look good, mind you I have never been a fan of faired bikes, why hide all that lovely engineering behind plastic. Last time I used a bike for commuting was when I was in late teens early 20's (late 60's early 70's) and even then they were not faired, can't for the life of me how I used to ride in all weather and on snowy / icy roads - must have been the foolishness / hardiness of yoof.

IMHO You do get more of an experience on naked bikes, and I have never been one for long distance touring where a fairing is a help.

And as you say, less likely to lose your licence on a naked. Being a naked the AL7 already had lower gearing fitted as standard ( 15 / 46 ) and is pretty quick off the mark as a result.

[maviczap]

Karma

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/gang-poachers-eaten-lions-after-12857347

[maviczap]

Dear DPD how do you keep in business, 2 days running you've scheduled to deliver a parcel, 2 days running you've cancelled the delivery. I know when your driver gets around my road, so saying my parcel has been delayed is a load of old tosh, especially when it's been put on the van twice according to its tracking.

Only TNT have been just as useless, and I saw their can drive past three days running, can you beat that?

Just glad I didn't stay in to await non delivery.

[Bibio]

Karma

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/gang-poachers-eaten-lions-after-12857347

:D

[widepants]

Morning. Just popped in for the last few first-line in years. Any oldies still here

[maviczap]

Yep, I'm still here

[garynortheast]

Blimey! Welcome back wp. I guess 8 years is nudging oldie-dom. Where've you been, what've you been up to?

[andrewsmith]

Blimey

Facebook must be a bore now*




*Well I've barely been on for getting onto a month now

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[garynortheast]

Strewth! Gonna need to light the Rayburn if it gets much colder!

[littleoldman2]

Had a great afternoon. Went to the youngests for a barbi, all the kids and all the grandbains. Lovely afternoon.

[garynortheast]

Proper bbq weather or were you dodging showers?

[Sir Trev]

Strewth! Gonna need to light the Rayburn if it gets much colder!

It is SO nice. Instead of going to be on top of the covers or under just a sheet I actually had a blanket over me last night night. Bliss.

[garynortheast]

Summer's gone, Rayburn is lit!

[DomP]

Summer's gone, Rayburn is lit!I've just got back from Durban Corbieres in the south of France, 37 degrees to this miserable weather. Quite a shock

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[SV650rules]

It is SO nice. Instead of going to be on top of the covers or under just a sheet I actually had a blanket over me last night night. Bliss.

First decent nights sleep for a month - I like the cooler weather, a lot :)

And the sunshine did bring out our resident arsonists in droves, at least the damp will make their job harder, what is wrong with these people ?

[littleoldman2]

Proper bbq weather or were you dodging showers?

Was alright, did have the big umbrella over the bbq just in case.

[garynortheast]

Hey Dom, you going to join us on our Border Patrol Weekender?

[DomP]

When and where is it?Hey Dom, you going to join us on our Border Patrol Weekender?

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[garynortheast]

Have a look here (http://forums.sv650.org/showthread.php?t=229922)

[garynortheast]

Evening all.

[maviczap]

Evening

[Bibio]

i'm seriously wanting a smoke.... almost two weeks and i'm going nutz. wouldn't be so bad if i could do some physical stuff around the house like DIY but i cant.

[ophic]

i'm seriously wanting a smoke.... almost two weeks and i'm going nutz. wouldn't be so bad if i could do some physical stuff around the house like DIY but i cant.
Remember that you're fixing stuff inside by not smoking. It's kind of like DIY...

[Bibio]

Remember that you're fixing stuff inside by not smoking. It's kind of like DIY...

its an evil of two situations. on the plus side its helping my lungs and artery's. on the negative side its stressing me out, the more stressed i get the more it places undue strain on my heart :crutches:

[Sir Trev]

Thankfully it is the weekend and I feel a bit more relaxed than our man Bibs. Have you tried some stretching and balance exercises to take your mind off it? When I feel hacked off at work I find a few lunges and squats are quite relaxing (luckily the place is usually half empty and I can find a quiet corner most of the time with nobody looking on).

[Heorot]

its an evil of two situations. on the plus side its helping my lungs and artery's. on the negative side its stressing me out, the more stressed i get the more it places undue strain on my heart :crutches:

I find that a very large (at least quadruple measure) of a good Islay malt or Talisker relieves any stress :D

It's a pity I can't afford Ardbeg these days.

[andrewsmith]

its an evil of two situations. on the plus side its helping my lungs and artery's. on the negative side its stressing me out, the more stressed i get the more it places undue strain on my heart :crutches:Nicotine tablets probably will take the edge off it. Worked for me

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[yokohama]

I find that a very large (at least quadruple measure) of a good Islay malt or Talisker relieves any stress :D

It's a pity I can't afford Ardbeg these days.

Quality is certainly worth paying for. Ardbeg currently on offer at Tesco for £37, which is a pretty good price. Normally, its £40+

[maviczap]

Got so bored at work today, I came home and sorted my Racco box of Allen bolts and various nuts into their correct sizes as they got jumbled up ages ago.

[Heorot]

Quality is certainly worth paying for. Ardbeg currently on offer at Tesco for £37, which is a pretty good price. Normally, its £40+

Thanks Yoko. I was just sent a voucher for £6 off a £40 shop at Tesco so that makes it even more reasonable. I will definitely get a bottle.

[garynortheast]

Morning all. Early start for me; have to go and collect the rest of my PA system from the place where we played a wedding twmpath last night.

[Sir Trev]

In case anybody was wondering if Garry's predictive text had gone bonkers...

Twmpath. Twmpath (Welsh pronunciation: [ˈtʊmpaθ]) is a Welsh word literally meaning a hump or tump, once applied to the mound or village green upon which the musicians sat and played for the community to dance.

Thanks Wikipedia

Hope it was a goodun Gaz.

[garynortheast]

Twmpath is the Welsh word for ceilidh or barn dance, so yes, pretty much spot on there Sir Trev. 10 house points to Hufflepuff and sit at the top of the class.

Yes, it was pretty good thanks. We were playing for the wedding of the son of two of the members of our local Welsh folk dance side, for whom I also play.

[garynortheast]

Evening all. How has everyone's weekend been?

[andrewsmith]

Evening
Aye as good as can be while working.
Sent from the moving office

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[maviczap]

Evening all. How has everyone's weekend been?

Nice, took my youngest daughter away with her friend to North Norfolk, kept her happy as it was something SHE wanted to do.

Its strange, as there won't be many more of these types of holidays, she's getting to the age when going to the seaside and funfairs isn't what she wants to do.

Just sipping a G&T now

[garynortheast]

Nice, took my youngest daughter away with her friend to North Norfolk, kept her happy as it was something SHE wanted to do.

Its strange, as there won't be many more of these types of holidays, she's getting to the age when going to the seaside and funfairs isn't what she wants to do.

Just sipping a G&T now

Know what you mean there Mav. My girls are just turned 16 now and this is the direction I suspect we'll move in. I'm lucky though as they are well into motorcycling and are making plans for some fairly serious rides with me, especially after next year when they hope to have their own bikes.

[maviczap]

At least I know my youngest prefers doing stuff with me, maybe its because I'm a soft touch :-)

I just need her to like cycling up mountains, although it has crossed my mind to take her out on the Sv, that's your fault Gary :-)

[Sir Trev]

Evening all. How has everyone's weekend been?

Nice ride out in the sensible temperatures yesterday and as I was passing I stopped in at the stealers - Hugh is now booked in for his 1st year service but they have no workshop slots free for seven weeks! Managed to persuade Lady Poppy we need a new matress as it's been goodness knows how many years since we last replaced it. And once it started raining today I abandoned the gardening and ironed all my shirts for the week ahead. All go at Trev Towers...

[garynortheast]

At least I know my youngest prefers doing stuff with me, maybe its because I'm a soft touch :-)

I just need her to like cycling up mountains, although it has crossed my mind to take her out on the Sv, that's your fault Gary :-)

I'm a bad influence:smt074

[garynortheast]

Evening all (as someone famously once said).

[maviczap]

Evening, I wish Dixon of dock green was still on. Better than some of the trash they put out

[garynortheast]

Bloody hell, me and alcohol really don't mix. I had a single glass of quite nice red wine last night and I've woken up this morning with a headache.

[maviczap]

I like red wine, but like you it doesn't like me. I tend to keep to clear drinks, but I don't drink much these days.
UK brewed beer doesn't do me any good, yet if I drink beer in Germany, France, Holland I'm fine.

[garynortheast]

I'm ok with the occasional pint of proper ale, but even then any more than a pint does me in. I've never really had any tolerance for alcohol.

[littleoldman2]

That's because you've been sensible and not become used to it. It's one of the loves of my life. My favourite tastes are dark beers, good coffee, cheese and quality sausage. Followed closely by tomato, basel & garlic.

[SV650rules]

I like red wine, but like you it doesn't like me. I tend to keep to clear drinks, but I don't drink much these days.
UK brewed beer doesn't do me any good, yet if I drink beer in Germany, France, Holland I'm fine.

Could be the remains of yeast and other stuff in 'darker drinks' (like real ale and some UK beers) - that is affecting you - I think continental beers are probably well filtered to give them their lighter colour). Real ale really gives me a bad head and an upset stomach, but lager is fine, red wine also affects me pretty badly.

http://uk.businessinsider.com/heres-what-happens-to-the-body-24-hours-after-drinking-a-beer-2015-8?r=US&IR=T

(http://uk.businessinsider.com/heres-what-happens-to-the-body-24-hours-after-drinking-a-beer-2015-8?r=US&IR=T)
http://allaboutbeer.com/article/unfiltered-enthusiasm/

(http://allaboutbeer.com/article/unfiltered-enthusiasm/)

(http://allaboutbeer.com/article/unfiltered-enthusiasm/)

[Heorot]

That's because you've been sensible and not become used to it. It's one of the loves of my life. My favourite tastes are dark beers, good coffee, cheese and quality sausage. Followed closely by tomato, basel & garlic.

If you ever get the opportunity, try Adnams Broadside. It's a deep red colour and is 6.3% in bottles and slightly less at 4.7%. From Suffolk though so good luck!

[Sir Trev]

I do like the odd pint of IPA but like a few of you it seems I cannot get through much before regretting it badly. Can drink far more in the way of spirits but the sugary mixers I like to have with them are something I'm trying to cut back on.

As it's a bank holiday weekend we'll have a nice bottle of Rhone red tonight I think as a treat. I tend to spend a bit more on wine these days as the better quality is less likely to give me a headache so the wine rack only gets raided when we think we deserve it.

[Bibio]

i had a few beers at xmas time and i had a hangover for 5 days... never again.

[kaivalagi]

Where are all the younger ones piping up about their heavy sessions and early morning runs to shake it off...

If I have a session on a Friday night I'm screwed for the rest of the weekend, I can't handle it these days, no matter what booze choice.

Now I just pick a nice beer and have a few...I'm partial to BrewDog Elvis Juice these days, lovely stuff :)

[maviczap]

Could be the remains of yeast and other stuff in 'darker drinks' (like real ale and some UK beers) - that is affecting you - I think continental beers are probably well filtered to give them their lighter colour). Real ale really gives me a bad head and an upset stomach, but lager is fine, red wine also affects me pretty badly.

http://uk.businessinsider.com/heres-what-happens-to-the-body-24-hours-after-drinking-a-beer-2015-8?r=US&IR=T

(http://uk.businessinsider.com/heres-what-happens-to-the-body-24-hours-after-drinking-a-beer-2015-8?r=US&IR=T)
http://allaboutbeer.com/article/unfiltered-enthusiasm/

(http://allaboutbeer.com/article/unfiltered-enthusiasm/)

(http://allaboutbeer.com/article/unfiltered-enthusiasm/)

Think it's more to do with the additives that are used in our beers, which aren't found in continental beers.

Most German beer should be brewed to a natural standard, with no additives, but there was a big hoo hah as one brewery was found to be using additives to give the beer a longer shelf life. It's stuff like this that causes headaches, I'm sure

[maviczap]

Anyway who turned the dial to winter! Our heatings on

[garynortheast]

I've had the Rayburn lit for the last couple of days. It's only bloody August for God's sake!

[Sir Trev]

Lady Poppy says (and I agree with her) "we've had three months of hideously hot weather and now it's gotten back to normal you're all complaining?" Come on you lot - if it's mid-teens to low twenties out there it's much easier to cope with and nicer to ride in. Happy days. Mav - you need to turn your thermostat down.

[SV650rules]

Lady Poppy says (and I agree with her) "we've had three months of hideously hot weather and now it's gotten back to normal you're all complaining?" Come on you lot - if it's mid-teens to low twenties out there it's much easier to cope with and nicer to ride in. Happy days. Mav - you need to turn your thermostat down.

+1

Hot weather made a lot of people grumpy through lack of sleep and the rivers and reservoirs were going down fast, and now we are back to normal proper UK weather. I looks on weather maps as though Scotland continued to get a good soaking while we were having high temps and no rain.

[Sir Trev]

I got rather wet out geocaching yesterday and I rather enjoyed it. Walking through a dripping wet woodland is rather nice if it's as mild as we're having it right now.

[Bibio]

Walking through a dripping wet woodland is rather nice if it's as mild as we're having it right now.

i agree with that. its a bombardment of the senses. especially if your collecting firewood for a camp fire that night so you can have proper bbq food and get pizzed under the stars.. gawd i miss it sooooo much. just wish i was still able.

[hardhat_harry]

I took the sender off the boiler (that the thermostat connects to) when we were getting our kitchen done earlier in the summer and now I have lost it so I cant turn the heating on if I tried........ Luckily we have a log burner..........Ordered a hive hub and thermostat so we will have heating next week sometime when the postie delivers it

[DarrenSV650S]

If you labelled the connections you can just bridge the feed to the switch wire going to the boiler.

[hardhat_harry]

If you labelled the connections you can just bridge the feed to the switch wire going to the boiler.

Doh now you tell me!!!

[maviczap]

Roast lamb first time in years, and I made Yorkshire puddings even though it was lamb.

First time I'd cooked them in our new oven, very good yorkies

[garynortheast]

This cold, grey weather absolutely scuppers me. All my get up and go has got up and gone. :-(

[SV650rules]

Roast lamb first time in years, and I made Yorkshire puddings even though it was lamb.

First time I'd cooked them in our new oven, very good yorkies

Proper Yorkshire pudding is as big as the plate and everything goes inside it - yummmmmm. Anything smaller is an impostor..

https://recipes.sainsburys.co.uk/recipes/main-courses/giant-yorkshire-pudding

[ophic]

Roast lamb first time in years, and I made Yorkshire puddings even though it was lamb.

First time I'd cooked them in our new oven, very good yorkies
Yorkshire puddings go with everything, especially on Sundays.

only I'm vegan now dammit :smt108

[maviczap]

Yorkshire puddings go with everything, especially on Sundays.

only I'm vegan now dammit :smt108

My vegan daughter had my yorkies, I used sunflower oil, instead of dripping :D

You're right, they work with everything

[ophic]

My vegan daughter had my yorkies, I used sunflower oil, instead of dripping :D

You're right, they work with everything
And what replaced the milk & eggs?

[maviczap]

Ah, she's only part vegan :-)

Lets say vegetarian ;-)

[ophic]

Ah, she's only part vegan :-)

Lets say vegetarian ;-)
You got my hopes up for vegan yorkies :(

[maviczap]

Apologies :-(

[garynortheast]

You got my hopes up for vegan yorkies :(

There are plenty of milk and egg subs for making batter. Soya, oat, nut milk all work well, and there's a good starch based egg substitute too. Can't remember the name now, I'll look it up for you. We make lots of very good batter based stuff with them.

**edit** Orgran is the stuff we use but this is worth a read (http://recipes-plus.co.uk/article/best-vegan-egg-substitute-186#!)

[ophic]

yeah but do they work for yorkshire puddings? They're a bit special. They only rise because of a reaction between the egg and the salt. I'm not sure substitutes work here.

But pancakes are nice as well :)