A picture a day....biker banter (Vol 3)

[Deranged Granny]

accident said:

Deranged Granny said:

graphene said:

accident said:

so what youre saying is that its the viewer who has to change the image?
heres man landing on the moon

Yes, much the same as: The reader has to add the punctuation.

Btw, I'm not an but even I can see that your lunar image has been 'photoshopped'.

But more to the point, are you an astronomer?

i thought he used "astrologist" as a deliberate joke.

Not in your quote he didn't

Yes, I guessed as much when I saw that Polly had been and gone

[Jonjo91]

Out using the winter bike tonight!

[winbar]

gwm said:

winbar said:

Annual trip up the west coast of Scotland

Where about are you in this pic?

It's halfway down the road from Oban to Lochiliphead. It's like a roller coaster ride one of my favourites

[gwm]

winbar said:

It's halfway down the road from Oban to Lochiliphead. It's like a roller coaster ride one of my favourites

Ah! I've only ever taken the A819 from Inveraray. Will remember that one

[Hooli]

graphene said:

accident said:

so what youre saying is that its the viewer who has to change the image?
heres man landing on the moon

Yes, much the same as: The reader has to add the punctuation.

Btw, I'm not an astrologist but even I can see that your lunar image has been 'photoshopped'.

I've seen a documentary & the moon is kind of like Wensleydale, so that's got too many holes in.


I blame the clangers.

[Tim85]

Hooli said:

I've seen a documentary & the moon is kind of like Wensleydale, so that's got too many holes in.


I blame the clangers.

I watch that documentary regularly with my daughter. I like the bit were the clumsy narrator builds a rocket in his garage and when the mute dog skis on the moon.

[Andy XRV]

gwm said:

Andy XRV said:

Coming out of Druids the week before last.

How did it handle? I always imagine it's disconcerting leaning something that tall over!

Obviously it's a completely different ride to a sports bike but it does tip in with very little effort. I'm no Pikes Peak rider but by the end of the evening I was scraping the right peg coming out of Druids and round Clearways.

I've watched a few Pikes Peak videos and it's about a 50/50 split either riding them bolt upright leg out like a supermoto or knee down like a sports bike. At the moment I'm somewhere in between both styles

[996 sps]

Andy XRV said:

Coming out of Druids the week before last.

Good pic.

I've not been on one but I watched Tris Palmer ride one around Silverstone on a Ducati track day and he was flying - Said it was a great bike.

[gwm]

Andy XRV said:

Obviously it's a completely different ride to a sports bike but it does tip in with very little effort. I'm no Pikes Peak rider but by the end of the evening I was scraping the right peg coming out of Druids and round Clearways.

I've watched a few Pikes Peak videos and it's about a 50/50 split either riding them bolt upright leg out like a supermoto or knee down like a sports bike. At the moment I'm somewhere in between both styles

[Justices]

Bike is kept in a bunker-turned-bicycle garage at a friend's compound to keep it out of sight. There's a brutal 5-point turn at the bottom of the staircase to squeeze the bike through before having to drive the thing on a steep incline an inch from the wall to freedom (for first attempt see wing mirror). First time taking it up is something I'd like to forget, glad nobody was filming.

[Yazza54]

fk that!

[moto_traxport]

^^^^ Hard as nails, that is. You've really want to go out for a ride to overcome that lot. Don't even think about doing it on a 1098/1198 with their steering lock etc



Meanwhile, back in non bunker land, someone else has got themselves a little Yamaha trailie project. Most jealous and quite impressed he got it in a Fiesta.

[graham22]

MCN today said:

The term legendary is often over-used but not when it comes to this 1998 VFR800 engine

Wasn't part of the legendaryness the gear driven cams?

Edited by graham22 on Wednesday 17th September 11:36

[moanthebairns]

Justices said:

Bike is kept in a bunker-turned-bicycle garage at a friend's compound to keep it out of sight. There's a brutal 5-point turn at the bottom of the staircase to squeeze the bike through before having to drive the thing on a steep incline an inch from the wall to freedom (for first attempt see wing mirror). First time taking it up is something I'd like to forget, glad nobody was filming.

I bet you a pinch of st, or 5 million pounds, you will drop that.

[central]

Garry Bowe by Fast an' Bulbous, on Flickr

[gareth_r]

graham22 said:

Wasn't part of the legendaryness the gear driven cams?

It was certainly something of an achievement to mass produce a gear cam drive

[graham22]

gareth_r said:

graham22 said:

Wasn't part of the legendaryness the gear driven cams?

It was certainly something of an achievement to mass produce a gear cam drive

But MCN didn't use your pic, mine is the photo of the pic under that heading in todays MCN Icons supplement clearly showing cam chains - doh.

Edited by graham22 on Wednesday 17th September 11:37

[Baryonyx]

Justices said:

Bike is kept in a bunker-turned-bicycle garage at a friend's compound to keep it out of sight.

fking hell, I thought I had it bad with my outhouse. Whoever decided to build my outhouse in the first place thought that having a two tiered floor was a good idea, and hence there is no full sized garage door, just a standard house door for entry. Getting the bike into it requires turning it round on the street and walking it backwards down the drive. I can then muscle it backwards through the doorway and into it's resting spot in the outhouse corridor.

When I get a bigger bike, I just won't be able to manhandle the bike in the same way, particularly as the small bike can just held by it's rail and handlebar and dropped right on it's side to make sharp reverse 90' turns. I'm going to have to remodel a concrete planter in the rear garden keeping one tier of my vegetable patch in place (by which I mean, smash it out) to create room to get a big bike, I'll have to walk or ride it through all the way to the back garden and slowly turn it round 180' and then gently push it back into the outhouse. What a fking carry on! Maybe I'll build a pop-up bike shed in the back garden.

[crashley]

Yazza54 said:

fk that!

Buy a dolly to spin it around on at the bottom?

[Justices]

crashley said:

Buy a dolly to spin it around on at the bottom?

There's another sharp, crumbling ramp to the left at the bottom which makes the turn even tighter. Can't install anything down there unfortunately, it's not a democratic nation here and I'd have to pay bribes to half the building for it to even be considered First day I took it out of there I was on that ramp for 20 mins solid as I kept stalling and having to start the bike on that incline. The sound of the revs on this thing in this closed space sounded so unfamiliar to me coming from cars I kept bricking it and stalling. I was convinced the thing was going to rocket off up the ramp and cause a scandal.

There are literally hundreds of bicycles and scooters parked in this bunker, some being used, most just piled high in corners as people here don't like to throw things away and live to claim space with useless boxes and old furnishings. We moved a load of this crap elsewhere and took over a section of this bunker to use as our own parking area. With a bit of luck I'll be adding another to our award winning garage at the end of the month.

My friend has found a novel way of avoiding the dreaded ramp by parking his favourite bike outside of his front door.. ON THE 25th FLOOR (vid)!