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its not a bking

Gotta say, you two can't half derail a thread quickly!!

need to get mine back together! its been on a trainer since before christmas with road cassette, tyres and wheels.

Meh!

Yeah tail tidy is next on the list, as well as full set of LED indicators ( £80+ for the 4!!! ) Quick is a understatement! they are stupidly quick off the mark, not a high top speed and do get a little lively up front!!

Its the Street rally model so has more plastic than the standard MT-09 which is what puts people off I can't have a bike without hand guards now for some reason, just doesn't feel right lol Sorry for the cropped pic, not sure the misses would be pleased ( pic was with her on it! )

Well here is it. Ordered it back end of last year but delays at Yamaha meant i only got it the start of this year. Its a mar-mite bike really, some like the look, some don't but it suits me to a T. As usual for me, Exhaust, o2 mod, rad guard, two sets of crash bungs and lights changed straight away ( LED sidelights and a brighter/whiter H4 ) custom seat will be on soon And yes, its stupidly loud with the 3-1, no cat and no baffles

I thought it was only you lot down south that are the fairies!

No longer needed as i had a screw in the rear and replaced both at same time. Loads of tread left, slight 'nick' near one of the grooves, hard to explain without it sounding bad but its only little, cosmetic and doesn't affect the tyre at all! Holds pressure absolutely fine. £30 collected from either Northampton or Studley ( let me know so i can get it back from the misses! ) or £40 delivered. Pics to follow Thursday evening.

Went fishing yesterday, Some how managed to get burnt to a crisp even though it was cold and no sun!!! was planning on testing out my new carbon fibre rod ( yeah, i love my carbon! ) but decided to stick with the pole Good fun watching the elastic do a runner with a big carp on plenty of small fish and a couple small carp.

seen the same thing happen on the motorway back end of last year. Chav'd up lupo i think? or polo.. couldn't tell as it was f****d in the middle of the road. All 4 wheels under the car on their sides and car just sitting there mm from the ground. Always seems like a good idea till it goes seriously wrong! I wonder if they are in lots of sections to keep the pressure in and to stop the pipes from splitting with the pressure?

tbf the worse I've seen is 50mpg and that was giving it stick on back roads

Rode home from the misses at a steady 45mph most of the pissing way! Still, managed 58.8mpg on the MT!

bloody heck! they look bigger than 30mm lol

Never had a single carbed bike that i've had to jet. OK tell a lie, the DRZ because i had full system, open box and freeflow filter. If anything, its the FI bikes that are more a pain due to lean mixtures from factory

I've found that over the years doesn't matter how big your bike is, how brightly coloured it and you are they still wont see you. However if your bike is loud enough to make the ground shake then your good to go

thats the thing, there is two classes. Sports tourer which are smaller and lighter, then there are the tourers. I've ridden both sports tourers and tourers and there is one hell of a difference! The FJR is on border of sports tourer and as you would expect, its smooth and its powerful when you need it! The power is there lower down compared to the sports tourers which ( like the VFR ) are more sporty and higher in the rev range. You will find pretty much all tourers will be shaft driven. Sports tourers:- VFR Crossrunner Triumph Sprint Tourers:- R1200RT K1600GT GTR1400 FJR1300 Trophy I guess its kind of like cars.. The tourer versions are usually big old estates with roof bars and a boot big enough to stick 10 bodies in. I would choose a sports tourer over a tourer just for the ease of owning one. Easier to move around and will do everything! etc etc

Well they got the money to buy one, so sure they can pay the fine if caught without a plate.

looks like a good day was had and great weather after all!! who had the panigale ? ( either im blind or no numberplate? )

x2 on that one!

God i love it when racing season starts at silverstone. All i can hear at the moment is the practice for FIA World Endurance. Sounds awesome!!

don't forget there might be me and gav?

Processor: AMD Athlon 2650e Processor (1.6GHz) RAM: 2GB Hard Drive: 100GB Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium Screen: 14.1" (WXGA+ high-brightness (200 nit) Acer CrystalBrite TFT LCD Optical Drive: DVD RW Graphics: Shared Graphics ( ATI ) Not the fastest thing on earth but ideal for word processing, web browsing, social media bla bla bla! Small bit of the e missing on the logo but not a big deal £60 inc postage with charger, recently new extended battery, recently new keyboard. Its a AM2 CPU so you can upgrade the CPU to make it quicker, but it will need to be either an e or b spec CPU ( so the energy efficient 20 - 40w TDP CPU's, like the Amd Neo 6850e ) I have ran this myself with a 6000+ ( 3Ghz speed ) but being a desktop CPU and not a laptop ( E or B model ) it got a bit hot.

Been struggling to find somewhere sensible to mount mine on my bike. In the last month i've lost count how many idiots have cut me up, nearly stuck me in a hedge or just too busy on there phones to notice i've stopped at a red light. A camera on the bike is well and truly worth the money!