A picture a day....biker banter (Vol 4)

A picture a day....biker banter (Vol 4)

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spareparts

6,777 posts

226 months

Saturday 22nd April 2017
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New Sigma to replace the old broken DP slipper


A500leroy

5,085 posts

117 months

Sunday 23rd April 2017
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Fabricated a bracket and wired in the loom neatly for my heated grips, if only i could remove the bar ends....

hebegb

1,523 posts

146 months

Sunday 23rd April 2017
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Had the mighty 443 Meister call round on me for a brew this afternoon , reminding me of how incredibly skilled and creative he is in throwing this work of art together from scratch ....and on kicking it up and leaving later , wow ,what a gorgeous racket of crispness and power , this thing is nearly ( his words) set up properly now - will be just amazing I reckon , power to weight ratio of a GP bike ! ( ok , maybe a 2...)...
Congrats once again Ryan :




Yazza54

18,464 posts

180 months

Sunday 23rd April 2017
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Power to weight ratio of a second cum with my fat arse on it thumbup

Birky_41

4,276 posts

183 months

Sunday 23rd April 2017
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Loving that!

Birky_41

4,276 posts

183 months

Sunday 23rd April 2017
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Getting myself ready for A European ride. Pictures and a new post will be added in a week. Everything ready except my USB has stopped working so I need to fix that and I'm gonna try upgrade the headlights before I leave


podman

8,850 posts

239 months

Sunday 23rd April 2017
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Birky_41 said:
Getting myself ready for A European ride. Pictures and a new post will be added in a week. Everything ready except my USB has stopped working so I need to fix that and I'm gonna try upgrade the headlights before I leave

Have a good trip, look forward to hearing all about it..

podman

8,850 posts

239 months

Sunday 23rd April 2017
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hebegb said:
Had the mighty 443 Meister call round on me for a brew this afternoon , reminding me of how incredibly skilled and creative he is in throwing this work of art together from scratch ....and on kicking it up and leaving later , wow ,what a gorgeous racket of crispness and power , this thing is nearly ( his words) set up properly now - will be just amazing I reckon , power to weight ratio of a GP bike ! ( ok , maybe a 2...)...
Congrats once again Ryan :



Never fails to get me excited seeing pictures of that....

cloud9

podman

8,850 posts

239 months

Sunday 23rd April 2017
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Been out on the bikes all weekend, been fab.

Anyone get to the OyB open yesterday or today ?

Ive never seen it so busy.



James Hiller took a shine to the KR's.







Loved listening to Freddie Spencer talking about the late 70's/early 80s going from racing the NR500 to his championship winning NS500's.

My mate took the seat hump from his NS400 for Freddie to sign, which he did no problem, what a gent and what a day out.








Later on ended up catching up with Mr 996 for a blat, the old 9/16/96/98 shape still has it eh?





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Gunk

3,302 posts

158 months

Sunday 23rd April 2017
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A500leroy said:



Fabricated a bracket and wired in the loom neatly for my heated grips, if only i could remove the bar ends....
Very neat, shame about the white cable ties.

A500leroy

5,085 posts

117 months

Sunday 23rd April 2017
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Gunk said:
Very neat, shame about the white cable ties.
I know, they only send black ones in the kit! It was either white ties or dangly cables.

spareparts

6,777 posts

226 months

Sunday 23rd April 2017
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podman said:
Been out on the bikes all weekend, been fab.

Anyone get to the OyB open yesterday or today ?
Yep - was a great day! Had my first ride of the R in over 6 months, met up with my old Rizla K6 sold to a mate, and had a great ride out with ChipChap and others.





hebegb

1,523 posts

146 months

Sunday 23rd April 2017
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podman said:
Never fails to get me excited seeing pictures of that....

cloud9
I was standing on my front steps ( sloping drive) and slightly behind it nearest the cans where I took the second pic, when he kicked it over - first kick was a bit short and it popped a backfire which nearly killed a passing elderly
neighbour ( and the little dog he was walking ) , second kick and - boom - nearly killed me , I'm not feint hearted , quite well accustomed to live-round gunfire ( living in the North , of course ) but I damn near fell off the steps and into the drive - it's brutal , not ridiculously loud , per se, but just brutal !
Awesome smile

podman

8,850 posts

239 months

Monday 24th April 2017
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spareparts said:
podman said:
Been out on the bikes all weekend, been fab.

Anyone get to the OyB open yesterday or today ?
Yep - was a great day! Had my first ride of the R in over 6 months, met up with my old Rizla K6 sold to a mate, and had a great ride out with ChipChap and others.




Ah, I did have a look around the GSXR and your 1098, very nice...

MotorsportTom

3,318 posts

160 months

Monday 24th April 2017
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The time has come... Gave the Katoom a good scrubbing on the weekend and now it's up for sale on a known auction site.

Still not sure what I plan to replace it with... I'm sure it won't take me long once I have a few quid in the bank!

SAS Tom

3,398 posts

173 months

Monday 24th April 2017
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That didn't take long? How come you're selling?

MotorsportTom

3,318 posts

160 months

Monday 24th April 2017
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SAS Tom said:
That didn't take long? How come you're selling?
Few reasons -

I've always had snotters and made them progressively worse - I don't want to to do that with this!
I've come close to knocking it over a few times - again don't want to wreck it
I struggle getting on and off it (I'm 5ft 9/10ish) so again see point above.

Main factor is it doesn't give me that warm feeling knowing it's mine. That might partly be due to the loan on it which I will pay some off and get a cheaper commuter/tourer and an enduro bike I think.

Vincefox

20,566 posts

171 months

Monday 24th April 2017
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Finished painting last fairing panel...






Then accidentally bought this for 40 quid. Got it running too!





Waiting for new screen to turn up to fit fairing properly.

Biker's Nemesis

38,534 posts

207 months

Monday 24th April 2017
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Vincefox said:
Finished painting last fairing panel...






Then accidentally bought this for 40 quid. Got it running too!





Waiting for new screen to turn up to fit fairing properly.
Have you still got that Black Fireblade and the other Honda thing Vince baby?

Biker's Nemesis

38,534 posts

207 months

Monday 24th April 2017
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Main bearing failure on my mates White 125 yesterday.


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