2017: Bikey goals

[Sebo]

Sebo said:

1. Buy a van. Fed up of trailers and paying through the nose to hire vans for track days.
2. Do Cadwell and Oulton and get out of the South East for a change
3. Nail Snetterton
4. Sell my trailie as it's been sat doing nothing since April and isn't likely to move any time soon

Not long left of this year, how have folks done?

1. Now the proud owner of a tatty van
2. Solely did Snetterton and Brands this year so failed this one!
3. Certainly not nailed it but its started to click allot better than it did last year
4. Trailie went in April

[moanthebairns]

moanthebairns said:

1. fix all my bikes and tart them up.
2. Actually fking ride my bikes on the road.
3. euro track days
4. not fall off
5. enter (don't fking laugh here, I know it will never happen) 1 race weekend in the novice open to all class at knockhill
6. Attend wheelie school with prolapse like he said he would but he is in the habit of doing fk all bar talk on the phone for hours about how his mate is shagging john leslie and how fked his Honda is.
7. sell my fireblade after doing no.2 pisses me off, ponder what bike to buy then realise its a fking 675 like what you had.

fking hell.

I did 1, 4, and 5. I'm most proud of 4.

I started of doing number two but the weather was pish the rest of the year. 7 I still have the blade but I bought another 675

Only euro track days and wheelie school.

[Gunk]

Gunk said:

1, Finally remove and service the forks on my 'Blade
2, Repair the crack in the fairing
3, Get off my arse and arrange a weekend away in Northern France
4, Do some club meetings at Silverstone with my lad
5, Visit the National Motorcycle Museum with my Father In Law
6, Buy a twin shock trials bike

Well I managed 1,2 & 4, bought a tatty CBR 600 instead of a trials bike, there is still time to do the NMM, I doubt if I’ll get to Northern France this year!

Edited by Gunk on Tuesday 7th November 22:11

[Biker's Nemesis]

Biker's Nemesis said:

I'm gonna try to be less grumpy on here and with people face too face.

New road bike for next year.

Use my track bike more than I did this year.

I've not called anyone a so far. Sucess

Bought a new road bike. Sucess

2 UK days and 2 foreign days so failed there. Fail.

[moto_traxport]

moto_traxport said:

Buy / build a campervan that can take the bike for weekend's away.
Get my ACU license again and do a couple of races (endurance preferred to sprint)
Euro trackdays at Castolloli, Spa, Hungaroring and something else.
UK trackday somewhere - Donington / Oulton / Anglesey?
Watch road racing at TT and Chimay.
Poss long weekend ride to & from Brno MotoGP.
Reinstate the yearly thrap round Wales.
Watch less racing on telly - waste of many a sunny Sunday.

Got a new job that gives me a freebie van. Win win.
Didn't bother getting my ACU licence again - fail.
Did Euro trackdays at Castelloli, Spa & Estoril. Yay!
Did a great day at Donington.
Went to the TT. Didn't manage Chimay - will try again in 2018.
Failed dismally riding to a foreign MotoGP.
Never got round to a hoon through Wales. Too busy buying a house.
Still watched too much racing on telly wasting nice sunny Sundays.
Crashed a bit too much!

[bogie]

bogie said:

Finish paintwork on Harley, then no more mods
New stainless or titanium cat free manifold for MV and remap
Ride as much as poss with mates as usual
Do the Route66 thing across USA for my birthday in May, 3 weeks with other half on Indian tourer thing
Do the bike Cannonball in June on Isle of Man/Scotland for a laugh

Completed except for the MV manifold, had a great time riding in the USA including arriving in Vegas on my birthday. Got soaked 4 days out of 6 on the Cannonball but still had a lot of fun. 4k miles on the Harley, 3k miles on the MV and 2300 miles on the Indian hire bike....

The best riding year I can remember for a long time

[mckeann]

mckeann said:

Try not to crash

Fuuuuck yes. Wooohoooo.

[Fleegle]

Fleegle said:

1. A different motogp
2. Finish one of my projects would be good
3. Finishing 2 would be a bonus
4. Try for 2 euro td's
5. Maybe dip my toe into a bit more endurance racing
6. Lose a couple of stone to save me another £700 on leathers

1 out of 6


Useless fking

[Jazoli]

Jazoli said:

1: Not fall off
2: Do more than 1 track day a year
3: Go to Scotland
4: Buy a second bike for cruising around on.
5: Do more than 2000 miles in a year.

Nothing spectacular there really.

Well I didn't fall off and did 3000 miles this year so two out of five, piss poor effort.

[Speed addicted]

Speed addicted said:

Job uncertainty has limited my plans so far, and cancelled a coast to coast trip in the USA. I did manage to ride up to the Nordkapp this year though!

1, I'll be mainly riding the Explorer to places in the UK, possibly back to Germany or around Ireland.

2, I'd like to get in an offroad course, possibly the BMW one in Wales (I live in NE Scotland) as I think it'll help when things get slippery.

3, Further tidying and refining of the project BMW K100 as it has a good long list of stuff to get done over the winter.

1, Did a Land's end to John O'Groats trip, so that covered a fair bit of the UK in a 2.5k mile loop
2, Umm... Nope.
3, Well yes and no, did more to the bike but didn't really ride it and there's still more to do until I'm happy. My GPZ600R took up most of the time and is still in bits too!

[patchb]

patchb said:

Do at least one trackday, I had donington booked for March this year but cancelled due to bad weather so I've got a bit of credit with no limits to use up.

Do a bit of touring in Europe over summer. Preferably camping and just riding nice twisties every day. Need to fit a taller screen to the Tuono to do this or I think my neck will break!

Buy an enduro bike.

Well I did Mallory, Brands and Rockingham so covered point 1 well enough. The other points I didn't do but I did buy more bikes!

[Mr_Tickle]

Mr_Tickle said:

1. Tart my Honda commuter up for sale.
2. Sell Honda.
3. Move to Spain.
4. Buy new bike.
5. Commute in the sunshine.

I did all of mine. Got 1500 quid for the Honda, moved my ass out to Spain, bought a Kawasaki on a whim (which I don't really like a all) and started to commute on it. And it's still sunny.

[kiethton]

kiethton said:

1 - Take and pass my DAS
2 - Purchase a new commuter
3 - Not have it nicked this year
4 - Regain my NCB

1 - Passed in January
2 - CBR 600f banger purchased, much mocked on the commuting thread
3 - successful (touch wood!) having a garage helps
4 - 2 more months and we'll be back to a year!

[curlie467]

curlie467 said:

Get the YZF running.
Get my ACU licence.
Do some off roading.
Ride up to see yazza.

Erm.



Nothing to see here.

[cbmotorsport]

cbmotorsport said:

2017 goals:

1. Do something with my old Fireblade - either sell it, or do some basic mods to make it more track focused, either way it can't continue to gather dust.

2. Polish up my off road skills with ome sort of coure..leading to:

3. Go to the Pyrenees on my Enduro bike and do some trail riding.

4. Find time, and put some more miles on my S1000

1. Fireblade went in July. I miss it.
4. Put a couple of thousand miles on the S1000, that's good for me.

[BobSaunders]

BobSaunders said:

1) Upgrade from 600 to 1k
2) Buy a dirt/enduro bike
3) Trailer and tow bar for car
4) Get out on track days more
5) Look at getting away for a couple of weekends exploring
6) Get to a few MotoGP and BSB races
7) have kid in March and ignore the above list..

Point one and point seven happened. F**king kids.

[BuzzBravado]

BuzzBravado said:

1) Attend the TT, already got deposit paid on ferry.
2) Book the 1 day MotoScotland course.
3) Finish Yamaha XS650.
4) Possibly try novice session at Knockhill.

Done 1 and 3. Still want to do 4 weather permitting.

[Birky_41]

Birky_41 said:

1. The ride to Nurburgring, not crashing going round it and the ride back
2. IOM TT Race week, again not crashing over the mountain section
3. Getting my track bike dialed in as sweet as my last one and beating my pb times as a personal self goal. Namely Cadwell sub 1.40's
4. Get my son back into racing rather than just practice days
5. Stop spending money on bike stuff all the time which really isn't needed
6. Maybe look at an Enduro bike and getting back into my routes of off-road riding
7. One Euro trip again on the track bike

Just see my old post and it made me laugh. Right end of the year and lets see what I did

1. Done it, loved it, didnt crash
2. Done it, got wet, still loved it, didnt crash
3. Bike dialed in, electrical problems and nope didnt do better than a 1.40 again!
4. Yes, did pretty much a full race season but missed 2 rounds due to reasons. Has a 2018 CRF250 due in 3 weeks for next year
5. Didnt happen...Im skint
6. Nope see above because of track, road and sons mx bikes
7. Yes and loved it (See trackday thread)

Still some road riding to do in 2017 but think I'll be doing my 2018 'to do's soon

[BuzzBravado]

Birky_41 said:

Birky_41 said:

2. IOM TT Race week, again not crashing over the mountain section

2. Done it, got wet, still loved it, didnt crash

Did you get up the mountain section this year? Tried so many times, but it was always closed.

[cbmotorsport]

BuzzBravado said:

Did you get up the mountain section this year? Tried so many times, but it was always closed.

I got up a good few times. The key is getting up silly early at crack of sparrows and getting a few laps in before the nutjobs shake off their hangovers.

Had one run where I only saw 3 other bikes.