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not what you would expect from a tyre fitter - weather here in the UK is horrible but I venture out a bit on chores, it is the time of year that we don't get a lot of daylight which, together with overcast skies, gives a feeling of gloom, not biking conditions although, in the past I've been a motorcycle commuter so it's what you get used to. The alternative was a train, each week one day my train would be cancelled so the next one was brimming full, rather face grim weather on a motorbike than that lol. Our railways here have always been awful, in my time and my father's time.

Hope he's ok, I had the same recently, used to have an amazing mobile guy with a kitted out van. Who'd come to my place and most of time fix/service on site. Occasionaly when really busy, they'd just take the bike to their workshop and bring it back. He had a heart attack and has now stopped working. Have the pain in the ass now of having to take my bike to the garage and wait around or uber back etc.

@neo sadly quite a lot of tread left, they're the Dunlop sportmax, relly don't have much tread, perfect dry weather tyre for Sydney roads. Bit too sketchy in the wet for my liking though, so went with the Rossi 4 this time. @Mr Bignel totally, I would never skimp on tyres, have always bought the best I could afford. Never know when that extra capacity is needed. The Yamaha dealer, Racecourse Motors did an awful job of fitting the tyre, had a really uncomfortable ride home. I realised 1km down the road something was wrong, but didn't have time to go back due to needing to pick the kids up. Later that evening I discovered there was about 3mm chain slack when the bike was on it's sidestand, and the rear wheel was well out of alignment. Really wasn't expecting that from a dealer. They said I could bring the bike back and they'd fix it, but they're about 20km away so quicker to do it myself. Can't comment on the tyre yet, it was raining today, but didn't want to push a new tyre in the wet. IMG_0067.MOV

got to have tyres in a condition that you can trust - our only points of contact 🙂

It may be the angle of the camera...but is there any tread left on those tyres Alex?😂

This looks like bloody scrapnel, doubt this is repairable. Anyway happy Friday all!

I find myself thinking about this coming year with a certain amount of nervous dread I regret to say which can't be a good thing. Where I live it is getting busy, more traffic, house building and rush - you can get round it with planning routes and times, that is the new way to go it seems.

The Tunderace was meant to be with mechanic Simon at Milton Common motorcycles, about 10 miles east of Oxford UK today but it turned out that his place was shut and according to a note on the door and a conversation with a relatively nearby shop/cafe owner he has been off ill since late November. Later, I found out that he had a heart attack, presumably recovering at present. Arranged to take the bike to another place and booked it in for about a month from now.

lower fairings off pending a visit to a local bike mechanic (panels off saves his time) for a bit of checking and refurbishing, temp bodged some indicators on the front top fairing to ride it over to the mechanics place, hopefully it will be good for 2026 thereafter. Main worries are a noise which is likely a worn EXUP valve, I'd like another opinion and a check on the tensioner for the cam chain if necessary. Other thing is a tendency to back fire when restarted, it lifted the carbs off their seating on one occasion. Perhaps carburettor balancing will resolve that, I hope so.

It can't be any worse than last year! lol

Happy new year all!

what's 2 years between friends 🤣 Happy New Year

PS oops should be 2026 on the card, my mistake 🫨

Happy Christmas all!

Merry Christmas Folks and a great New Year 2026.

I'm concerned that I understood that...

felice navidad

Happy Humbug!

i've had much worse, usually i'm to blame lol.

You could always say you deliberately dropped to the left side in case the car behind you didn't stop in time! 😉

runs quicker now, thanks Alex

i think you focused on the immediate area as you were moving over. failed to look as far as possible and adjust your speed due to the above. use IPSGA information then position then speed, gear and acceleration.

After rewatching it, I failed to notice the BMW brake lights flashing as it started an emergency stop and also it's hazard lights. I guess the other issue is pupil dilation and from the light going bright dark bright dark.

So far looking good, fingers crossed this is the problem solved, looks this way from the data, but please let me know if you notice any issues.