A picture a day....biker banter (Vol 4)
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mga32 said:
3DP said:
Very nice - are they quite loud or does the cat keep them a bit quieter? I bottled getting that one and bought the Akra with the loop of pipe and bigger end can.
Also - are those M7RR tyres? Are you running 55 or 50 profile and how are you finding them on the Blade?
Cheers,
The exhaust is very loud, I think it may need a db killer, available at extra cost of course!Also - are those M7RR tyres? Are you running 55 or 50 profile and how are you finding them on the Blade?
Cheers,
They are M7RR tyres, seem very good, but only had them on a week. The qualifier 2s that came with the bike lasted 1500 miles, front and rear, so hopefully these will last a bit longer. They were £160 for the pair, which I thought was pretty good.
My rear Qualifier 2 was done in 900 miles. Put another on as changing both for a Eurotrip next year and noticed that the front is now nearly done after 1400 miles! Nuts.
M7RRs going on next, but unsure on 50 vs 55 rear. I usually switch to 55, but the blade steers so sweetly on 50 profile rear I don't want to make it too flighty!
3DP said:
hebegb said:
The 55s do not come remotely close to becoming " flighty" - they are fine.
You've tried it on a 2014> Blade?I switched to 55 on my 1198, R1 and a bunch of others but all were a little slower to steer to start with. The Blade, not so much.
I recently put a 55 rear M5 on my RR7 which made it nicer. I was considering M7's, and part of me now wishes I had used them, as the rear in the same size is slightly taller again. I have just fitted the M7 to my RSVR Factory for that reason.
The difference in height of a 190/55 M7RR stood next to a 190/50 Supercorsa is quite significant, the Ape feels much nicer too.
The difference in height of a 190/55 M7RR stood next to a 190/50 Supercorsa is quite significant, the Ape feels much nicer too.
Maybe should go in the 'list of bikes' thread...but I was looking though some old photos and found these 
My second bike (if we're classing my previous SS50 as a 'bike') and my first attempt at some minor mods/spanner-work.
So from 1974 I present my first take on a Cafe Racer, with the budget of a schoolboy with a weekend job. I bought it as a regular Honda 250K3, although it had been resprayed blue.
Clip ons and rear-sets (Read-Titan, bought 2nd hand). Dunstall exhausts and a Dunstall front mudguard. I think front number plates had just been made optional, but I remounted mine across the front above the headlight, and cut down a bit of a blue plastic screen off a scooter to make a rudimentary flyscreen. And remounted the tail light, rear indicators and number plate directly on the mudguard. As a 17 year-old I thought it was the dog's b
ks.
Jacket was just a nylon ski-jacket; plus jeans and trainers...but I had big gloves! And to I think I berate yoofs nowadays for not wearing the proper gear. And my old man and his Ford Zodiac behind.
Parted with it when I turned 18 and bought a Norton Commando, and soon had to get in to spannering big-time through necessity, but that's another tale.
My second bike (if we're classing my previous SS50 as a 'bike') and my first attempt at some minor mods/spanner-work.
So from 1974 I present my first take on a Cafe Racer, with the budget of a schoolboy with a weekend job. I bought it as a regular Honda 250K3, although it had been resprayed blue.
Clip ons and rear-sets (Read-Titan, bought 2nd hand). Dunstall exhausts and a Dunstall front mudguard. I think front number plates had just been made optional, but I remounted mine across the front above the headlight, and cut down a bit of a blue plastic screen off a scooter to make a rudimentary flyscreen. And remounted the tail light, rear indicators and number plate directly on the mudguard. As a 17 year-old I thought it was the dog's b
ks.Jacket was just a nylon ski-jacket; plus jeans and trainers...but I had big gloves! And to I think I berate yoofs nowadays for not wearing the proper gear. And my old man and his Ford Zodiac behind.
Parted with it when I turned 18 and bought a Norton Commando, and soon had to get in to spannering big-time through necessity, but that's another tale.
Merch131 said:
Yesterday I went to a big classic bike show in Stafford, where TAB (T.A.Baker) the tank maker had a small stand with lots of alloy loviness to drool over. They even had the Endurance racing Guzzi tank I want, though 'mine' will have a different filler cap...
This was a Terry Baker tank that he made for me in 1999.
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