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Well I have only don 900 miles since passing my test and the last few days have been real nice with the weather being sunny. I love being part of the 'nodding' club but no-one to nod to today when I had to make a 2 hour round trip from Byfleet to Newbury in the worst that it could throw down- on the M4 What can I say, the Ixon clothing kept my clothes dry and feeling a little warmer , the Dianese boots at £100+ were NOT waterproof , my Racer gloves at £100+ were waterproof .... for the 1st hour , the Bluetronics bluetooth comms got soaked and gave up after 30 minutes so no more tunes on the m/way but I gained a little confidence in riding in the wet even if the…

Spend all year round riding, snow, sleet, constant rain, extreme cold and as soon as summer comes my bike is fucked. Fucking typical.

Good afternoon all, i hope your all getting your fair share of this sun at the moment. I have noticed recently that there seems to be a lack of "The Nod" greetings between bikers. Has anyone else noticed this or is it that peeps just dont like us cruiser types i definetly had more on my El Bandito. I have had a Leg wiggle in the past week but he might have just followed through :{ Just a thought......

Sorry its late peeps, prevailing circumstances and lack of time management. anyhoo, who wants to offer up a juicy offering for the March page of the 2014 calender?

Having shelled out some really hard earned cash, a lot of it, on leathers I was wondering what the best way to clean them was? Are they dry clean only or can you do them at home? I mean the outside can be wiped down easy enough but after a couple of weeks daily use, they cant be that err ... hygenic How often do you get them cleaned? Also can anyone recommend any leather alteration people in surrey (Woking way) as I made them fatal error of buyinbg new while losing a little weight?

I've just heard on the idiot box that they have decided to make middle lane hogging and tail gaiting a driving offence. This is great news and I think will be welcomed my most. I am a little concerned though over the implications of this, are we now going to see more and more cars ducking in and out of lanes because they don't understand what over taking is and what middle lane hogging is. I tend to stick to inside lane myself and have a right old time dodging people "pulling in" into "empty" (me) lanes which either forces me to back off into the car behind (now causing him to tailgate me) or have to pull out into middle lane to get room (look, now I am a hogging …

Hi all, I'm currently in the middle of some cosmetic mods for my fz6, I'm looking at changing the indicators to some nicer looking ones and have come across LED indicators on eBay, are these road legal in the UK? Will they pass an MOT?

Hiya peeps. Starting to get a few bits on the cafe racer project (was an XZ550), but have taken the top yoke off as it was fuck ugly and wouldnt let me use ace bars, i was told by the pervious owner that XJ550 top yokes will fit straight on but as it turns out the only breaker i could find had sold his on already. Im thinking maybe XJ600 (pre-div?) or something similar, but not is kind of thing?sure where to start, does anyone have any experiance in thing?

hi does anyone know the year range of cdi unit I can buy for my 1999 dt 125r thanks

Purchased a 2004 V-Star 650 Custom and there is no way my wife will last long on the stock passenger seat. The Stock rider seat is fine for me. Any recommendations on a decent passenger seat that will fit this bike without purchasing a complete rider/passenger set? Thanks.

I've got two bikes and now a third is greeping into my greedy vision, another old dog needing a home. but, tbh I don't need it and I can't really afford the running costs..it's that acquisitive must have thing like in the TV programme Porridge where Fulton Mackay says that the prisoners steal things and then think whether they need it afterwards

Is it me r are fazer gearboxes clunky first to second sumtimes third . And same comeing back down . Ive had the early fazer some call it the dark fader then ive had the fox eye and now I have the fazer fz6 . Its si annoying would it b the oil ???

Well riding home from work my little rattle got louder then 5 miles from home she lost power and I couldn't get out of 2nd, then going down my drive she died and now wont start she will turn over for one rotation and wont fire. Cheers grouchy loves ya mate xx

I went to see this bike today and I'm considering buying it. Here's the dealer's description: "891cc, . This is probably the best XJ900F that we've ever had........and we've had a few !!! It's covered less than 25000 miles and is in pristine all round condition. It's been fitted with Krauser panniers and top box. The engine and gearbox are warrantied by us for a year, parts and labour. We can arrange delivery.. £2,499" It really is in pristine condition, and the dealer has also offered a 2 year guarantee on the engine and gearbox. I'm relatively new to bikes and would be grateful for any opinions on this model/year and whether you think this is a good deal! …

Hi everyone, i've just seized my Yamaha blaster engine as the piston skirt shattered due to piston slap, i've just gauged up the barrel to find its 0.23 mm over the standard bore size, i was just wondering if anyone could tell me what over sized piston to order? Im rubbish with this type of thing and don't understand clearances and stuff i do know the clearance should be 0.02, i would much appreciate if someone could help me out? many thanks Cody.

Is this the last new /unreg Fazer 600 S2. The bike is a 2010 model new and unused. I live in Spain and currently ride a Kawasaki Z1000SX. At 64 the bike is getting to heavy for me now, love it to bits but it has to go. Anyway I was in a dealers the other day looking for a suitable replacement. Nothing took my fancy as I really love the Kwacker. I mentioned to the saleslady (yes)lady I once had a 2005 fazer 600 and loved it. she suggested the FZ8 but I have a limited budget so she did a search on the Yamaha Spain website looking at the Diversion class bikes. I was looking over her shoulder and spotted a naked FZ6 with ABS dated 2010. I pointed to it and asked her about it,…

Advice please went through a lot of woodland today and into swarms of horrible bugs having heard mention of baby wipes on here I stopped to see if I could buy some at a village shop but they only had facial wipes which leave a smeary mark on my visor/headlight afterwards so I bought a household cleaning cloth off the shop and got it wet from a neighbouring filling station and used that what do you do about the dreaded insects?

Yamaha emailed me this, called The Darkside of Japan. Wonder if it's a new bike? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmKUDLSJ4jA&feature=youtube_gdata_player

This may be a silly question but I'm going to ask in any ways how do you learn how to ride with a pillion as I have never rode a bike ( a part from a peddle bike ) with some one on the back as I don't fancy dropping me and the wife as we have 4 kids so how did you lot get to grips with having some one on the back of the bike ? all tips would be greatly appreciated

Last night it (the 83 XJ900) finally started . After sitting for about 10 yrs, it is rough but ran for about 5 minutes while Playing with the idle. Got a miss or two and got spark shooting out of the exhaust which is way to loud (guessing some rust etc). Choke cable was seized solid so thats off for now. Piece by piece....