G Man's DAS

[G Man]

Well over the past year, I have reduced my love for cars to like and really fancy the freedom of a bike.
So I have signed up for a DAS test next week, oh to be back to school ...

[Stig]

G Man said:

Well over the past year, I have reduced my love for cars to like and really fancy the freedom of a bike.
So I have signed up for a DAS test next week, oh to be back to school ...

Nice one Gareth - you'll not regret it. As my mate says, 4 wheels move the body, 2 wheels move the soul

Any particular bikes in mind once you pass?

[G Man]

Stig said:

G Man said:

Well over the past year, I have reduced my love for cars to like and really fancy the freedom of a bike.
So I have signed up for a DAS test next week, oh to be back to school ...

Nice one Gareth - you'll not regret it. As my mate says, 4 wheels move the body, 2 wheels move the soul

Any particular bikes in mind once you pass?

Definitely a shaft driven touring bike for this old fogy

[Stig]

G Man said:

Stig said:

G Man said:

Well over the past year, I have reduced my love for cars to like and really fancy the freedom of a bike.
So I have signed up for a DAS test next week, oh to be back to school ...

Nice one Gareth - you'll not regret it. As my mate says, 4 wheels move the body, 2 wheels move the soul

Any particular bikes in mind once you pass?

Definitely a shaft driven touring bike for this old fogy

Let me guess - BMW R1200GS?

Do yourself a favour and try the new Triumph Tiger. Hughendon on the M40 are nice and local too. OK - it's chain drive, but it does everything the 1200GS can do, for less money and handles more like a sports bike

Far too many Ewan McGregor/Charlie Boorman wannabe's on the road as it is

[rsv gone!]

KTM must be rueing the day they turned them down....

[G Man]

Stig said:

G Man said:

Stig said:

G Man said:

Well over the past year, I have reduced my love for cars to like and really fancy the freedom of a bike.
So I have signed up for a DAS test next week, oh to be back to school ...

Nice one Gareth - you'll not regret it. As my mate says, 4 wheels move the body, 2 wheels move the soul

Any particular bikes in mind once you pass?

Definitely a shaft driven touring bike for this old fogy

Let me guess - BMW R1200GS?

I was thinking more K1200GT

[Stig]

rsv gone! said:

KTM must be rueing the day they turned them down....

I was thinking the same thing. I imagine that they all got round the boardroom table discussing 'damage limitation/potential disaster' etc.

Despite the breakages of the BMWs they still did a good job.

I distinctly heard a big 'Doh!' with an Austrian accent when the series aired

[Stig]

G Man said:

Stig said:

G Man said:

Stig said:

G Man said:

Well over the past year, I have reduced my love for cars to like and really fancy the freedom of a bike.
So I have signed up for a DAS test next week, oh to be back to school ...

Nice one Gareth - you'll not regret it. As my mate says, 4 wheels move the body, 2 wheels move the soul

Any particular bikes in mind once you pass?

Definitely a shaft driven touring bike for this old fogy

Let me guess - BMW R1200GS?

I was thinking more K1200GT

Sorry, I thought you said 'bike' not 'bed'

[G Man]

CBT done ... next week I get serious

[Phone_Monkey]

GL, and relax on the test, it will make things easier

[G Man]

Damn this motorbike lark is expensive ...

Dropped into a a motorbike shop today and it was like Little Britain... " I want that one"

So new helmet, glove and boots later I have a permanent grin on my face ...

[anonymous-user]

G Man said:

Damn this motorbike lark is expensive ...

Dropped into a a motorbike shop today and it was like Little Britain... " I want that one"

So new helmet, glove and boots later I have a permanent grin on my face ...

I was like you this time last year doing my DAS. It's fun, isn't it?

[virgil]

G Man said:

Damn this motorbike lark is expensive ...

Dropped into a a motorbike shop today and it was like Little Britain... " I want that one"

So new helmet, glove and boots later I have a permanent grin on my face ...

Good stuff, though I hope you got a good reduction on the glove - I prefer two myself...

[G Man]

virgil said:

G Man said:

Damn this motorbike lark is expensive ...

Dropped into a a motorbike shop today and it was like Little Britain... " I want that one"

So new helmet, glove and boots later I have a permanent grin on my face ...

Good stuff, though I hope you got a good reduction on the glove - I prefer two myself...

Just done the theory test ...

PASSED


Now 2 days on a 500cc before the main event on Friday

[Twit]

rsv gone! said:

KTM must be rueing the day they turned them down....

Actually I don't think they do... As someone who actually has ridden a KTM round the world (a 950 ADV) I can catagorically say they would have destroyed them before they got to the end of the trip. Good bikes, but far too highly strung as a RTW bike. The KTM wouldnt have survived all the drops... For that purpose, assuming you want a big bike you simply can't beat a BMW. Doing it again I'd go on a 250 dirt bike or something of that type.

As for bikes, don't rate the new Tiger - just a road bike in semi drag - and if you want to go any distance on and off road it isnt the bike. If you want a beamer, get a beamer, anything else will be a disappointment. I'vr got an old 100 GS and its the only bike I'll never sell...

[Wyvern971]

G Man said:

Just done the theory test ...

PASSED


Now 2 days on a 500cc before the main event on Friday

Good luck matey, you'll love the bigger bike

[Stig]

G Man said:

virgil said:

G Man said:

Damn this motorbike lark is expensive ...

Dropped into a a motorbike shop today and it was like Little Britain... " I want that one"

So new helmet, glove and boots later I have a permanent grin on my face ...

Good stuff, though I hope you got a good reduction on the glove - I prefer two myself...

Just done the theory test ...

PASSED


Now 2 days on a 500cc before the main event on Friday

Cool - just in time to buy my Tiger

[G Man]

Stig said:

G Man said:

virgil said:

G Man said:

Damn this motorbike lark is expensive ...

Dropped into a a motorbike shop today and it was like Little Britain... " I want that one"

So new helmet, glove and boots later I have a permanent grin on my face ...

Good stuff, though I hope you got a good reduction on the glove - I prefer two myself...

Just done the theory test ...

PASSED


Now 2 days on a 500cc before the main event on Friday

Cool - just in time to buy my Tiger

After you have had a tiger it would be sold as a toothless moggy, never raced,rev'd or wheelied

[Silent1]

Gareth, avoid triumphs like the plague, IMHO they still haven't fixed the reliability issues, which is a shame as i really like the look of the daytona

[Stig]

Silent1 said:

Gareth, avoid triumphs like the plague, IMHO they still haven't fixed the reliability issues, which is a shame as i really like the look of the daytona

Have you had a Triumph?