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Dear Mr Cage Driver, I was riding pillion, minding my own business when you came so close to us, I almost swallowed my tongue whole. I was not the least bit impressed by your aggressive manner or your flashing lights. You followed us for several miles through town, cutting up other cages to keep with us and going through red lights. I hope you realise that was very naughty of you. We came to an NSL zone and left you for dead, rapidly getting up to the speed limit within a couple of seconds. Again, you zoom up behind us getting dangerously close, your lights flashing in our mirrors. If we had to stop quickly, I have no doubt in my mind that I would have been s…
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Hi All , Anyone travelling down through France and wanting to meet up at ferry port/ or onroute . I am leaving from Wirral Merseyside about the 18th June going via Dover /Calais ferry route , will be using Seafrance as they discount for bikers if you quote MCI. My route will be avoiding the toll roads and eventual destination will be SW France in Carcasonne, that is if me Tom Tom 2 can guide me there. Lew
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I was going through some pc files yesterday and came across some old pics of great biking times so I thought let's start a thread on it. Below is a picture of me a good few years ago whilst touring France with a couple of mates. We were heading into Switzerland and came across a fantastic piece of road about 3 miles long with loads of bend and uphill. We were laden with panniers and tents but we stopped at the top of the road we were grinning from ear to ear. Someone said how good it would have been to ride it unladen. We dumped all of our stuff in a layby and spent the next Hour or so riding up and down the raod and taking pictures. Our stuff was still there when we…
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went to maidenhead bike show sun: 31/5/09 thought id share the pics ill put more on soon in joy as i did ride safe now
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Hi Guys n Gals Copied from another forum... Hi All, Theres a Virus doing the rounds at the moment. If you get any emails containing - "Outlook Configuration", "BAT Configuration", "PostCard from a Family Member", "You have recived an eCARD" (they all have a zip file attached). It might be a good idea to delete em
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whats the best allround rear tire in size 160/60 17" or slightly wider notsure how wide i could go i preferably want one with good allround grip and durability and but must have enough grip in the corners to get right down. i have pireilli scorpion tires at the moment and seem good allround but buy the looks of it they dont last long (nearly have no tread in the middle) the tire i have specks are 160/60 R 17 M/C 69H TL they 180/55 ZR 17 M/C 73W TL but dont unders stand what they are saying lol ps wont be changing the front thats also a scorpion cheers for any advice
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Anyone know where to get an led for datatool veto evo alarm ?
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well im quite disapointed with the top end speed to be honest (mt-03) i only managed to get 103mph while slips streaming my dads car was told that 110mph is about the max so was hoping for a bit more ohh well was on the m45 verry fast road think there wasent as car doing under 90mph lol
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Need them to last as i ride all year all the time. Not into all that knee down shite but i would like the some grip in the wet (due to my location is seems to be wet alot!!!) Cheers.
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been checking Flea-bay for millenia for one of these and some brastrad always beats me to it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36dYpDkQ1U4
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well she migh do her cbt or may just get her car licens and get a 50cc i wanted to know of any god bikes that can do about 50mph obviously faster for the 125cc but it does neet to bequite low to the ground because she cannot ouch the floow on my MT-03 at all also geard or ungeard dosent matter i can teach her lol ohh and as light as posible thanks not to hot on the smaller bikes aroud and any good make wil do as long as its not a cheepo one thats going to fall apart
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X7 at 17, XS750 2D at 19, XJ900F at 45. (And literally dozens of bikes inbetween.) My Pride & Joy is my Laverda 1200 Mirage but my recently acquired XJ900F is fantastic. (I will be seeking much info over the coming months/years, all XJ900F input will be welcome. )
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Hi just wondered if there are any other peeps on here that are Blue Knight Ride with Pride. Scotland 1
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After a few of you recommend this book to me i got it 9 quid from amazon. I thought i knew very little about a biking, only being on the road 11month, after reading 78 pages of this book i now think i knew nothing. Cant recommend it enough. Cheers who told me about it in the first place (cant mine who, sorry) Regards Kev.
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I am looking for restoration parts for the 1975/77 YZ, especially tank decals.
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