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Hiya Chuck, wondered how you got on at the rally. Looks like you had fun. Glad your home safe.
British bikers rule!!!!!!
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Hmmmm............... It would appear , on closer inspection, that the only place the George cross and Estonia are ACTUALLY linked, is on THIS forum
As the actual Estonian flag is somewhat different, being like the format of the Dutch and German flags, but in Blue, Black and White!
Still, dosn`t stop us being twinned, does it
Yup, i think someone was having a laugh with the George Cross!!!!
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Im now a proud citizen of Estonia.... Lol.... Nice, weather does seem to be better here. Had a ride about. Roads a little bumpy but easy enough to negotiate.
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I also ride all year (no car), except when I'm feeling energetic and cycle to work.
What annoys the heck out of me is that Swindon is full of cycle paths, yet so many twonks unnecessarily decide to ride on the road, causing even more traffic problems than there is already. Grrrrrrrr
And don't me started on the groups of 'em taking up the ENTIRE ROAD...... aaarrrgghhhhhh WHY WHY OH WHY be so blatantly inconsiderate and quite frankly stoopid.
Horses on the road....... best not, I'll explode!
I agree with you with the cycle paths, I used to deliver there last year, thier was more room on the paths than on the road. At one stage I did use the cyle path to avoid a nasty bumper to bumper queue, it was for 30 seconds or so, but thier was about 6 or 7 cyclists blocking the road. . . .ok, i was a bit foolish maybe, but i was working and it was late and I wanted to get home. Horses. . . yup. . I live right out in the sticks and regularly horses trot up and down our road. Ive scared a few, so I now stop and kill the engine. Its just easier, I dont like horses jumping around in front of me. -
Hi Guys, I've just bought a 2002 R6 and loving every minute of it !! Lets hope we get some nice weather very soon so you can enjoy it more. Take care on that nose happy bike. Ive a mate with one and hes struggles keeping the front wheel on the road.
Snowflake. . . yep thats what is going on outside my window right now. Time for the waterproofs....
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Oh yes indeedy - Now get this. I am in a local bike shop a few weeks back perusing the clothing and helmets when in walks Mr colour coded 1 piece.
He's looking at gloves and picks up some that match his leathers.
He tries them on
He walks to the mirror
And proceeds to turn his hands over so he can see the gloves in the mirror from all angles....
then......
starts twisiting an invisible throttle - in the mirror.........
I (and 2 sales assistants) wer almost on the floor laughing at this plank.
I mean - ok so some folk like everything to match - whatever floats your boat - but to pretend to rev your bike in a mirror in a crowded shop to see if the gloves you just tried on look good gets twat of the year award IMHO
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Big HELLO from Rossendale.
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Stupid tinterweb double post!!!!Sorry....
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Lol. Hiya Purple sarah, welcome to Yama land (Ooops I dont have one now...), if you cant find the answer to any question on here, then there isnt an answer. Enjoy.....
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Now disrespect to the British Isles, but how do you get 60K, in a year, on an island?
Yep i can see where you where going with that one. Well it was less than a year it took me to tot up those miles. I was couriering nationwide on a daily basis, every day i did distances (well huge to some), often doing 1000 miles in 2 days, up and down the motorways of this not so fair nanny state. . er Isle, lol. Some days i neva made it home, parking up and kipping on park benches( not good for the back) and was even found asleep under my bike parked up in services. Ive lists of places ive been, i did this 5 days a week and sometimes weekends 2,depended what was needing to be carried, from parts for the channel tunnel, emergency engineered parts for big name factories, to passports, visa applications, credit checks, jewellery, u name it i carried it. Its dead easy to clock up miles here. I ride everyday, even when not going anywhere in particular, and dont feel ive been anywhere unless ive drained the tank and filled up again, something i did 3 or 4 times a day when couriering.
When i ride at weekends and meet other bikers who proudly tell thier mates theyve done 300 miles in a month on thier bikes, i hold my breath, thats a usual sunday ride for me!
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Hi all, sold my 2003 xj900 divvy 2 weeks ago, after putting an extra 60000 miles on her, had 11000 when i got her in June 07. I dont think 60k miles is too shabby in that time span.
Got a kwak zzr1100 now, bored out to 1260cc, gas flowed head, lowered, extended swingarm (to stop it wheeling so much), 6 pot Billett brakes on the front and a one off paint job, for a bit of fun.
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I had one of these, they are hard b**t*rds to start for sure!
You've got to work out the right feel of the kickstarter against the decompression lever, let it ride back up and kick it like hell - but the best advice I can give is this:
DO NOT TOUCH THE THROTTLE WHEN KICKING IT OVER!!!
We're always tempted to give it a little tweak as we hit the button or kick things over, but on these WR's and in my experience any 4-stroke single, blipping the throttle is a big no no.
hope this helps. even when you do it right, they'r ehorrible to get going.
I have evil memories of dropping mine down a remote welsh hillside and then having to pick it up from an inverted position, push it back up a hill through waist high gorse bushes, and then attempt to kick start a hot, flooded bike whilst standing on a mud path so narrow and slippery that you couldn't kick the bike over without fear of falling back down the same hill.
My god, it's all come flooding back. In fact, sell it, it'll be less hassle!
good luck!
Paul B
Oh yes, the big kick. . .lol sounds like youve had fun. My mate had one of these and it threw him off the kick, he ended up pushing home from petrol station with a bad limp. He kept it for a week and got rid.
Thank whoever for electric start. . .
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Arse, double post!!! sorry.
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Hi everyone first time on hear and I need the help.
I have a 1999 600 FAZER I use it to commute every day (12 miles each way) Yesterday the speedo,the rev counter the tacho meter all started working intermittently the speedo winding all the way round or siting on zero, however, when I operated the brake lever the gauges jumped al over the place the bike has never exibited this fault before and switching it off and restarting seemed to cure it. The battery was flat a couple of weeks ago but I recharged it satis please help.
Yes this does sound like an earth issue, check all connections in and around ins panel, you may need to remove to see it, dodgy wire somewhere vibrating when moving,hense your instruments going wonky, when sat, no vibes,hense working. Let us know how you get on.
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Loved it!!! Yes thats just how they are. I know, ive worked with hundreds in the last 9 years as a Youth and Community Manager.
So funny when put like that. Nice.....
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Being an all weather all year round rider - I do over 300 miles a week up & down to London - 37k n 3 years!! Have sen numerous riders behaving like idiots n think thats why bikers & others get tarred with a bad brush. Mad scooterists too - to the general population we are all the same.
I have had numerous occasions when I've been squeezed at traffic lights by sports bike riders despite the fact that I can beat some away at the lights!
Dont get me started on cyclists - the numerous times Ive nearly had one squashed because thyve shot the lights - thank god for good brakes & observation
Probably seen you up and down the motorways, used to do leeds to london -london to leeds 3 times aweek up untill recently.
Ha, those sport bike riders, i saw one come past me today, doing around 100mph, i came off at same slip road and followed him down to the lights at the roundabout, as he slowed to stop, an amazing thing happened, he fell over!!!! Oh yes i stopped to see if he was ok and to help him pick up his machine, a fireblade. I said " oh, are you ok?, what happened? "
It seems he couldnt get it to stop, so he put it on the floor. . . . .wtf**** and HE passed his test and was happily doing a ton on the motorway. . . .
Its sad, very sad.
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i am the same
My motorbike is my transport all year round, i dnt have a car and dont want one so my SR gets ridden day or nite, rain snow or sunshine
And im sick of hearing "motorcylists r dangerous, theyre wankers blah blah blah"
why shud we all be tarnished, spesh by car drivers who tbh, there are more of them on the road, and they are ten times worse than the bad motorcyclists!!!
You have your rant Tamz. Yes unfortunatly thier are people out ther ready to spoil what little fun our nanny state confines us too. ( oh dont get me started on that one!!!!) lol. Glad your enjoying the life on two wheels.
I gave up cars 2 years ago , for bikes, best thing id done ever, in the last two years ive done 200,000 miles, alot of it on 125s. Enjoy. . .ull love moving up to big bikes.
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These Sunday bikers seem to have a similar attitude to the 'cyclo-warriors' that fill my journey to work each day. You know the sort - obscenely tight lycra and funny hat that makes them look like sperm-on-wheels. They just assume that all surfaces are their possessions and motorists are the spawn of Satan. Pedestrians and other road-users are things to be sworn or spat at and road markings/traffic lights are there to be ignored.
I wonder if these two groups of twunts are one-and-the-same?
LMFAO Thats funny that. Yes very much the same mentallity, they are a lot quieter about doing it though, you dont know they are there till you here the swearing and clunk of deraillers. I come up on these people regularly, usualy on a blind bend, and they are most allways (as a pack) taking up the entirity of the road, one guy i saw coming towards me wasnt even looking down the road, wobbling wildly, drink in hand head tillted back, on my side of the road! I gave him a toot with my air horns, (yes they seem to get the message through on motorways!), he stopped broadside square in front of me and started to protest id made him jump, i explained to the numpty why id tooted and that he should look where he was going. It ended up with him backing down as another group of bikers came round the corner and i dont think he wanted to argue with 15 lads dressed in leather. . .how would that go down in the office?????
I got used to them last yearin london during my long distance courier work, the silent, traffic light ignoring lycra squad.
These guys are definatly worse. Its to late when you hear the c-ching of bell and squeak of wet lycra. . . .
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I agree with you. Allways the minority that spoil it for the majority. I hope none of you were on the M65,preston to blackburn side at around 4.00pm this afternoon, my friend and I were doing a little traffic calming, after seeing one car swerve into my mates way and another doing considerably more than they should, i thought id calm things down, we sat side by side for 8 miles doing 50, mate on his cruiser and me on xj. Yes sure we probably annoyed a few people, but made it safer for all. Sorry if you were around then.
Ive vented my spleen about our sunday flower bunnies, sorry ,sunday death wishers. So Ill shut up now.
Weve all had experience of the idiots, wether we be new on the road or been around since the red flag waving brigade.
Just watch for them.
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I rode everyday/all weathers for many years and now returning to the saddle. Idiots like this have always been around and it's what gives bikers a bad name.
My riding phlosphy (sp) is simple, if I wouldnt do it in a car I wont do it on a bike.
I am fairly sure that, as with most people who ride so recklessly, he will end up little more than a bunch of flowers attached to country lane tree somewhere.
I'm glad to here your ok though, thats the sorty of thing that could have been soooo much worse.
Yes your quite right, if I see him again, maybe il ask what type of flowers he likes. It could have been a lot worse, if i was a learner or a resently passed rider. . . so much worse. He should be thankfull I didnt get my hands on him. . .I was ripping. . not like me at all.
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Hi gang is there anyone outthere from up our end (Heywood, Bury,Oldham,Bolton ,Rochdale....Ect
!!!!!Budgie....Heywood
Hi matey, Ill holer down the road to ya..... Big HI!! Im in Rossendale valley, not far from you.
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Its taken me this long since sunday to calm down. Generally I dont get stressed at others on the road, but this weekend was the worst I have ever seen. I ride all the time, come rain or snow and im very used to my machine. I was out with a mate on sunday, having a great ride through yorkshire into cumbria then back down to lancashire.
About 10 miles away from home a group of, er. . sunday bikers came up behind us, we are on country lanes, nowhere to pass, if it was me behind, id have waited, using a bit of the old common sense, but no....these four came past doing well over a ton, the last one took my front wheel out after clipping my elbow. . . only experience saved me from a nasty crash and injury.
Yes sure, I know thier are people out there who for one reason or another, do biking on the weekend and thats great, we are all in the same club, but do some of these people have death wishes?
Id like to thank the tossers who think they own the roads for an afternoon and ride with pure ignorance and gay abandon. Some of us wish to live and to see the next day.
If going out on a sunday is what you like, and dont care about other bikers. . . .stay the feck away from ME!!!! My insurance is high enough!!!!
Rant over . . . . .
Anybody any thoughts on the subject?
Hi Guys, I've just bought a 2002 R6 and loving every minute of it !!
Lets hope we get some nice weather very soon so you can enjoy it more. Take care on that nose happy bike. Ive a mate with one and hes struggles keeping the front wheel on the road.
Garage break-ins
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His Kwak 636 is in his house now, another has gone to a secure lockup and the other machine cant be moved, to big...
Mr plod said "Nothing can be done" Great that is. Surely someone saw the vehicle they came in, it was big enough, you can clearly see the tyre marks.
So, if you live in Rossendale area and have a garage thats away from your house, be warned theres bike thieves knocking about.
Just to add more to this, bikes are going missing off the streets now. One nearby was taken and dumped a mile away because it had no fuel, damage around 500 quid, about half of what the bikes worth. Bike was recovered. Police "Doing what they can" stepped up patrols and putting notices up. Be carefull where you leave your bikes and make sure they are well locked up. Not like the R6 I saw in Blackburn the other day, bike lock put through bike jacket, but not the bike.....Doh!!!!
STEAL A BIKE......HAVE HAND CHOPPED OFF!!!!!