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05-03-19, 09:11 AM | #3811 | |
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05-03-19, 09:33 AM | #3812 | |
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I don't dare attach ours to me in any way at all! She'd be dragging me along at 30mph! We tend to go places that are very underused and quiet. |
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05-03-19, 02:17 PM | #3813 |
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Couple of hours out riding today trying my new Shoei NXR helmet. Wow! What a difference to my old Caberg Duke. Feels so much smaller, lighter and smoother sounding. Very breezy in a well ventilated way and loads of ventilation options that actually seem to work. The visor is like viewing everything in super widescreen too. So much better for perpiphery vision and shoulder checks.
Fit is great, but I do have to work on not ripping my ears off taking it off. |
05-03-19, 08:57 PM | #3814 | |
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05-03-19, 09:43 PM | #3815 |
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06-03-19, 08:43 PM | #3816 |
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Re: Smile of the day - What is yours?
Out on the bike today for a hospital appointment. Wet weather gear on the way there as it was persisting down, but stopped for the return journey. However, the SV looked like I'd just ridden it through a midden by the time I got home. The smile though is that it is now clean again and very shiny (for a 20 yr old, 90,000mile curvy) with it's coat of ACF50.
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08-03-19, 02:57 PM | #3817 |
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Local Twitter has loads of complaints and photos of a council built carpark that cost a crazy amount of money for a "park and walk" scheme that no one is using. Loads of photos of a big, flat, empty, newly surfaced space with only a couple of cars in it. Brilliant I thought, I'll head there on the way home and get a bit of figure of 8 and emergency stop refresher practice in for a few minutes. So I did. Perfect space for it. Thanks to the council for spending however many million on the scheme for me : )
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08-03-19, 08:03 PM | #3818 |
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Picked up my new to me car today. Out with the 9 year old scenic, in with the 2 year old Qashqai. Nice to have a car that starts first time and doesn't have a dent in two doors. Hopefully it stays that way.
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08-03-19, 08:24 PM | #3819 | |
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So I bought a nice low milage Saab 9-3, it's a 2007 vintage, but only 32000 on the clocks, and is almost as new. Leather seats, cruise control, so much nicer than anything I've had before, without spending a fortune. Sold the Astra quickly for £500.
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09-03-19, 09:49 PM | #3820 |
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Put a new rear tyre on the SV today.
Also replaced the oil delivery line and associated bits on it's Scottoiler that were vandalized by a group of Harley riders (they also poured rice all over the bike) that were staying at the same hotel a few years ago. I don't stay there anymore. Managed to get it cobbled together for the ride home and ordered a new one but just never got around to replacing it as it worked just wasn't pretty. The old line had gotten hard and brittle so replacement was overdue. And got a new pair of waterproof riding boots I'm ready to try out, just riding, not the waterproof part.
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