A picture a day...biker banter (Vol 5)

[Ed.]

Quick run down the Slug road and up and over the Cairn o mount before winter.

[jjones]

Ed. said:

Quick run down the Slug road and up and over the Cairn o mount before winter.

No need to rush, you have 57 days

[CAPP0]

Here’s what I spent today doing:



Praying for dry weather tomorrow! I should put this in my 4XV thread really.

[Shadow R1]

I don't like straps round the bar like that.
After seeing a bar snap at Croft because of it, totaled the bike.

BN or some of the others can best advise on where to put them.

[Ed.]

jjones said:

Ed. said:

Quick run down the Slug road and up and over the Cairn o mount before winter.

No need to rush, you have 57 days

I saw a gritter out this afternoon

[CAPP0]

Shadow R1 said:

I don't like straps round the bar like that.
After seeing a bar snap at Croft because of it, totaled the bike.

BN or some of the others can best advise on where to put them.

Well, I guess during the past 20 years of using those, several pairs, on god knows how many bikes and for tens of thousands of miles, I must have just been dead lucky.

Or maybe I didn't use them on bikes with damaged or st components.

Anyway, I got my new purchase home and that's what matters!

[Shadow R1]

CAPP0 said:

Well, I guess during the past 20 years of using those, several pairs, on god knows how many bikes and for tens of thousands of miles, I must have just been dead lucky.

Or maybe I didn't use them on bikes with damaged or st components.

Anyway, I got my new purchase home and that's what matters!

Fair enough.

[stevep944]

[theshrew]

https://imgur.com/gallery/w8FReOl

[Rawwr]

Fun morning with twin Twins.

Edited by Rawwr on Sunday 7th October 13:23

[Rawwr]

anonymous said:

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Hah. Well, I parked first so it wasn't my fault.

You may also notice the amount of water underneath mine. That's because we had to stop so I could wash a coconut-sized bird sh*t off my arm and bike. It was f*cking massive. It f*cking stunk like only a coconut-sized piece of sh*t can and it f*cking hurt when it hit me.

[Steve Bass]

Rawwr said:

Hah. Well, I parked first so it wasn't my fault.

You may also notice the amount of water underneath mine. That's because we had to stop so I could wash a coconut-sized bird sh*t off my arm and bike. It was f*cking massive. It f*cking stunk like only a coconut-sized piece of sh*t can and it f*cking hurt when it hit me.

That's good luck that is......

[Rawwr]

Steve Bass said:

That's good luck that is......

Honestly, that wasn't what I was thinking at the time. It was more along the lines of: "OuchhhhhEWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!"

[CAPP0]

Well THAT was fun

The can and the indicators will be going, I only bought the bike yesterday so I had to get out and ride (does sound good though!). Got a better exhaust and the front indicators already.

Edited by CAPP0 on Sunday 7th October 15:49

[Andybow]

[stevep944]

stevep944 said:

Are those PR5s? How are you finding them? I've got Power RS on mine at the moment and they're a great tyre but I seem to have gone through them like a hot knife through butter. Something a little longer lasting wouldn't go amiss.

Yes, but only had the bike 10 days and they were pretty new on it I'd say, so a bit early to tell really. They seem ok though.

Edited by stevep944 on Sunday 7th October 19:02

[podman]

Apologies for poor quality pics, using the phone as a sat nav on the BMW has apparently wrecked the camera..

A frosty and a bloody cold start (for me ) yesterday, our merry band from the VJMC made our way to Cadwell for the last CRMC meet of 2018, in the spirit of all things VJMC , I "borrowed" my good ladies CBR , was fortunate enough to get out on the track for a good few "parade " laps, which usually are just that but after a couple of goes around, we all found some clear space here and there and got to get a bit of speed for the majority of it, enough to have 2 or 3 of our number go off the track and a guest in the pace car throw up at the end! One of those that ran off apparently lost it right at the mountain and right front of the VJMC tent..

Never been to Cadwell before but I can now see why people rate it so highly, CBR was great on the track and on the journey too and fro.

Was quite amusing lining up in the paddock area with a 2 up RD400, a DT250 and a Kettle but everyone had a good crack...which is what its all about.

[Mr OCD]

anonymous said:

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WOW really?

Is it a heavy upright bike or are you a powerfully built director?

Both sets of the Power RS I have run have done 6000 miles which includes track days.

[spareparts]

I think ChipChap is on his second set of PR5s on his R1200RS. I think he burned through them within 4k miles or less, although I could be mistaken. We did about 3k miles of those touring through Europe and along some great roads.

[winbar]

Probably the last run of the year before the gritters come out.