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yea, who wants to ride round the streets of bolton.

I'm with Cynic for the cost of a lith battery you can buy 3 normal batteries,whitout the hassel of chargers and they don't catch fire all on thier own,can be run flat and recharged ,the lith will be junk if run below its thresh. If you need to save a lb or 2 have a good dump before a ride,or unless you have less than 2% body fat hit the gym the money saved will pay for a couple of months of membership to a gym.

Nah i don't find it lonely it's nice to get some genuine silence when you stop the bike all you can hear is the wind and maybe the odd sheep lol. You can have a good old think about life, people and everything in between Helps you remember whats important.....well it helps me think like that anyways.. Thing is that when you are on your own you can go at you own pace, which i think is very important or otherwise when you go to quick to keep up you will more then likely have an accident, and vice-versa if you are the quickest one, your riding buddy might find themselves going abit quicker then they can handle to keep up, or you could just be bored shitless waiting for them to catch up and they could be feeling abit ego damaged lol. Another thing to consider is that if anything happens when your on your own, such as the bike not working properly or you hurt yourself you might struggle to get however far the nearest people are, and depending on the problem you might end up having to leave your bike in the middle of nowhere and there's no one to send for help. Do remember this could happen anywhere that isn't all that busy when on your own though, like late night travels and so on. so don't let this that put you off too much. (touch wood so far soo good) Don't think of it as just going for a ride for the hell of it, think of it as EXPLORING! i'm sure you pass roads all the time that you don't know whats at the end of them- why not just go and find out. More fun exploring them then just riding for the sake of it maybe I'm just odd.....okay i know this to be fact but surely others want to know all the local roads, side streets and dead ends. this is what i like doing and it ends up taking me to places like that ^ Due to this i now know loads of local short cuts and good diversions if traffic is crap or road is unusable. give it a go you might be pleasantly surprised by what you find around you! As for riding partners i went out for my first ever ride with another biker Sunday, a lad from work who has one of those Chinese 125 bikes, to be honest it does look pretty cool- retro even though it's on an 11 plate! as for top speed the bikes are pretty much the same so that made for a cool ride, not having to go slower or him having to. I enjoyed it very much and was great fun, took him over Barmouth bridge, he had only ever done it on a bicycle before so the tight space was abit worrying for him lol - but he did fine, didn't even take out a cyclist or anything hahahah. He was pretty impressed at how quickly i was going around the corners- to which i replied 'fucking hell you should see me on the supermoto wheels, i have had my boot on the floor before now!' SuMos innit..... I was toying with the idea of making a post on here to ask if anyone would be up for a day of greenlaning around my area, i think i know enough to keep us busy for a good part of the day, i could map out some routes and everything, but then i thought i have NEVER been greenlanng with anyone before so i can't even compare to anyone to say how quick or slow i am, as i wouldn't want someone to come all the way over here and spend the day waiting for me to catch up. Personally i am more then happy to take it easy, would be cool just to share some of these awesome roads and tracks. But yeah i ride a xt125 so might be best to wait until i get something abit bigger. who knows.....if anyone fancys it....HIT ME UP!