smilinjack

As some of you will know, I also spend a fair bit of time on a VFR forum. There's a ride out next Sunday which I'm hoping to attend as long as the weather's OK and I sort out my battery problems. Based on previous runs they seem a good bunch and actually you don't see too many VFRs I'm sure anyone would be made welcome. http://www.bikersoracle.com/vfr/forum/showthread.php?t=125626

Just been pricing them up. I think I'l get that Optimate 4 & see if I can recover this battery, otherwise just about time to get a new one before my big ride out next Sunday. I'm going to post details on that in a bit. That said, the weather needs to shape up a bit-it was perishing this morning.

+1. That's a no brainer

how many times have I heard this with alarms , get a optimate Alan and or bin the alarm and get a good alarmed disc lock Got an Optimate but I have to share with my Speedy, and in honesty I'm so busy I'll forget it most of the time. Think I'l buy another

Just been up to work on my VFR and it's got a flat battery again. Think it's a goner. Bloody Datatool alarms are killing batteries for fun.

If you can afford a 2011 Speedy mate then give it a go. Excellent bike, stonking brakes, but the narrow lock can take a bit of getting used to. Better than a Z1000 in my book simply because it sounds so much better.

The French rugby team (les Bleus) are the only thing that can stop Ireland winning the Six Nations, thereby giving the title to England. And at the moment they're doing a pretty crap job. Bloody feckless Froggies, can't rely on them.

Allez les Bleus!! Not very often you'll hear me say that

Maybe you all need to buy some cheap Maxxis tyres like me. In fairness I was going a bit steady as I'd got the dragon on the back

Well, I got out on the bike today for a couple of hours round the Peak District. Wife came with me, had a pleasant ride through glorious scenery in belting weather. She enjoyed it too; but then I got the sting. She's concluded it's too much grief and discomfort to go long distance touring on the bike, so my planned trip through France and Spain, stopping off for a bit of beach at our flat, looks like it won't happen. I don't get sufficient holidays or salary from work to go it alone or with mates, so I've some major rethinking to do.

Passed Monyash a wee while ago. Just done a lap of the peaks up to Owler Bar, just short of 100 miles. I like my new exhaust too

Taking my son to Stansted airport in the morning otherwise I'd be in. Have fun & ride safe dude.

P.P.E. Personal Protective Equipment

Mallory's not been the same since the Transatlantic races stopped. PS Post TT used to be good too. Remember seeing Phil Peed on the MV Agusta there-what a fab sound.

I'm going to try & sell my Bandit this Spring. I plan fitting a new chain & sprockets, may have to replace one or both tyres for MOT. It's done 12k miles, decent nick, some sensible extras inc ignition advancer, stainless frame infills, Renthal bars. I was hoping for around £1500 on this basis. Does the collective view that as attainable or not?

Just as well if they have a Busa.

Guess what Dave-got a job in Chester. Why couldn't it be a Sunday?

Got a job in Faringdon I'm afraid dude

rather that's how insurance companies would like it to roll. My car was stolen 4 years ago but the immobiliser killed the engine the next two streets down. By the time I got there from work the police had loaded it on to a wagon and shipped it to the insurance accredited garage who decided it would cost £4500 to put right and as my premeium was already £3200 I let them scrap it. Only damage to put right was a new ignition. No other damage was present. Thieving Ba%&ards. OOOhhhh and the car was an x-reg corsa 1.0 litre valued at £1800 Yep, I didn't say I agreed with how it works, just stating the facts. My son's had that happen to him, stolen car two streets away which cost a packet in release fees etc. Don't harbour the notion that insurance is fair or customer orientated-it's a big business with more than just the ear of government to allow it to operate the way it does.

Hopefully you'll feel more magnanimous if you crash your bike and put up all our premiums. That's just how insurance rolls I'm afraid dude.

What, can't you get bricks and string in your part of the world?

Would be out on the bike myself if I didn't have to take my girls out walking. Just not enough time to do it all.

Certainly has, but there are other routes around there away from prying eyes.

I can take you to Cat & Fiddle and environs easily enough mate.

But ride on anything in any condition Well yes I do have quite a catholic approach to bike tyres, and have discovered that an awful lot of crap is spouted about them. The very fact that I'm not dead is because, within reason, any old tyre will do for most of us. We're just not good enough to stretch them, even those of us who go out in the rain.