What the feck have you done today?

[WAYNE]

It's surprising how large behemoths feel so light when moving, I only notice the pan weight when going very slow or stopping - or trying to push it over a rouge pebble outside the garage

My Indian Sprinfield weighed nearly a ton and i'm only 10 stone and a skinny fucker but i could chuck it around easily and never scraped the pegs at silly lean angles!! At low speed use your back brake and less front and it keeps the bike more stable as using the front the weight makes the rest of the bike want to surge forward making it unstable. I learned it from an American bloke on Youtube that was an x police motorcycle cop.

 

[Barry Hell]

I suppose the weight will be fine up until you get it out of shape, then you'll know about it. But with ABS and TC that'll help avoid getting to that point.

ABS and TC are gay

I've had the back end step out on a damp road - back brake off and it stepped back in, which was nice

 

[Barry Hell]

I've never understood why people push bikes around while walking alongside - unless it's in a garage or showroom where you haven't got the key or don't want to start the engine.
It's far easier and safer to sit astride it and use the engine to go forwards or your feet to paddle backwards.
I see it at bike stops all the time where some little old bloke turns up on a bike and rather than paddling it back into a parking space on level ground, he gets off, puts the side stand down and then precariously walks it backwards, struggling with the weight and the side stand scraping the ground. Assuming they haven't bought a bike that's too big for them, why not just stay astride it?

I've also notice that a lot of people don't seem to have learned the technique of very slow speed manoeuvring by riding the back brake against the clutch. Instead they grab the front brake causing nose-dives and wobbles. When I did my part 1 training for the old two-part test back in 1990-ish, rear brake against clutch was part of the training to get round the cones and do full-lock turns.

I only push it out of the garage and onto the track so as not to disturb Mrs H's early morning slumber

Generally make sure I don't stop somewhere I'd need to push back as it's too heavy

 

[Barry Hell]

Rouge - are they very posh pebbles

It's a lifestyle choice

 

[Exige]

I only push it out of the garage and onto the track....

Which circuit do you live near

 

[Barry Hell]

Which circuit do you live near

Knockhill is nearest

 

[1418]

Reverse gear gets me out of trouble. I minimise its use by planning where I park. That's proper gay

 

[The skitz]

I suppose the weight will be fine up until you get it out of shape, then you'll know about it. But with ABS and TC that'll help avoid getting to that point.

The GSs ive owned are the easiest handling bikes I've ever owned in the big mileage ive done ive had one big out of shape moment and that was caused by the retard on the saddle Riding too hard on roads that were melting in 40 degree heat in Montenegro but still i managed to get out of a very dangerous situation by more than likely the electronic aids

 

[The skitz]

I've never understood why people push bikes around while walking alongside - unless it's in a garage or showroom where you haven't got the key or don't want to start the engine.
It's far easier and safer to sit astride it and use the engine to go forwards or your feet to paddle backwards.
I see it at bike stops all the time where some little old bloke turns up on a bike and rather than paddling it back into a parking space on level ground, he gets off, puts the side stand down and then precariously walks it backwards, struggling with the weight and the side stand scraping the ground. Assuming they haven't bought a bike that's too big for them, why not just stay astride it?

I've also notice that a lot of people don't seem to have learned the technique of very slow speed manoeuvring by riding the back brake against the clutch. Instead they grab the front brake causing nose-dives and wobbles. When I did my part 1 training for the old two-part test back in 1990-ish, rear brake against clutch was part of the training to get round the cones and do full-lock turns.

I agree on the skill part . But im a little lad and even though I can get both feet firmly on the ground my 76-78 kg struggles on any gradient to move 265kg of beemer so im a dab hand at moving bikes around standing to the side .. and rule 101 to that is get the fucking side stand up as its the most likely thing to throw the bike over on its side

 

[NoGutsNoGlory]

I agree on the skill part . But im a little lad and even though I can get both feet firmly on the ground my 76-78 kg struggles on any gradient to move 265kg of beemer so im a dab hand at moving bikes around standing to the side .. and rule 101 to that is get the fucking side stand up as its the most likely thing to throw the bike over on its side

I never move the bike by hand with the side stand down, recipe for disaster.
After years of track and race bikes some with no side stand I’m quite happy moving the bike by hand and putting it on paddock stands.
People paddling about in the pit garages whilst sat on the bike really annoy me.

 

[Loz]

I never move the bike by hand with the side stand down, recipe for disaster.
After years of track and race bikes some with no side stand I’m quite happy moving the bike by hand and putting it on paddock stands.
People paddling about in the pit garages whilst sat on the bike really annoy me.

Have you tried pushing them over while they paddle about?
That is one way to deal with them.

 

[NoGutsNoGlory]

Have you tried pushing them over while they paddle about?
That is one way to deal with them.

I had 3 mates who I regularly did euro Trackdays with and they all did it.
They were in a group down from me and would be paddling all around the garage while I was trying to get out.
None of them could park a bike straight once they finished manoeuvring!
I must have showed them hundreds of times how to jump off outside the pit garage then just push the bike back into its spot but they reckoned it was easier to paddle it for 10 minutes.

 

[SHarper]

 

[Dox]

Disgrace!

 

[SHarper]

I ran away again.
MIL was at my house, so I said I was off out for a ride. That was Wednesday morning, I got home about an hour ago.

Stopped at Seaways for a cuppa.

Bridlington

Flamborough Head

Thornwick Bay

Scarborough Castle from North Bay, Marine Drive, at the bottom of the hill where they initially buried Saville.

This is the room I had at The George and Dragon in Kirbymoorside

Very good for £74.

 

[Twinlover]

I ran away again.
MIL was at my house, so I said I was off out for a ride. That was Wednesday morning, I got home about an hour ago.

Stopped at Seaways for a cuppa.
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Bridlington
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Flamborough Head
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Thornwick Bay
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Scarborough Castle from North Bay, Marine Drive, at the bottom of the hill where they initially buried Saville. View attachment 171590

This is the room I had at The George and Dragon in Hutton-le-Hole.
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Very good for £74.

Be careful, the MIL might start thinking you don’t like her…

 

[The skitz]

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Fake news AI I call bullshit on this foto..

 

[wroughtironron]

 

[Exige]

Fake news AI I call bullshit on this foto..

Ovalwheelanddiskitus innit

 

[Noobie]

Has Perry hacked Steve's account

 

[Gimlet]

Reverse gear gets me out of trouble. I minimise its use by planning where I park. That's proper gay

Neither my Harley nor Rocket 3 had reverse gear. It was imperative to avoid the schoolboy error of parking forwards downhill into a kerb. Three point turns to enter a parking space backwards were a feature of Harley and Rocket ownership.

 

[SHarper]

Day 2

So, I got up in Kirkbymoorside, looked for somewhere to have breakfast and Duckduck suggested Botton village store, a blast up the ‘Eskdale Way’ through Hutton-le-Hole, what a fab, mostly deserted road to Castleton.
What a great set-up. It’s a village for and run by challenged individuals, if you're up that way pop in to support.

Botton Village • Camphill Village Trust • Supported Living

Founded in 1955, Botton was the first Camphill centre to offer supported living opportunities to adults with learning and other disabilities.

www.camphillvillagetrust.org.uk

The young lady, in charge of my egg butty, saw that I’d come by motorbike and asked, “Ooh, have you come down the big, steep hill?” I told her I hadn’t but if she showed me where it was, I’d leave that way.

The big, steep hill, viewed from Botton village.

It wasn’t that steep actually, there’s steeper with houses on in Sheffield, nice view from the top though, which I didn’t take in when I went past at speed half an hour earlier.

Onward and upward, went to the seaside, Redcar

Called at Staithes

Port Mulgrave, Runswick Bay

Then on to Seas End for a cuppa, it seems I didn't photograph seas end, except for the photo I took in the Gents.

It was of the toilet cleaners van, replicated many times through the clear glass bricks, it looks better from closer.

Final stop at the whalebones end of Whitby

The whalebones have gone!
Uproar and tears!

Residents upset after early morning removal of Whitby's whalebones - The Whitby Anchor

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They’re going be replaced by bronze replicas, I’m sure they’ll last a hundred and odd years.
Came home.

 

[ComfySofa]

Tomorrow - out early morning with my mate....he'll be on his spanky new SF V4s - think ill be on my rsv4...where we're going ive no idea....he knows all the best places to go - thats about all i have.

 

[Dox]

Day 2

So, I got up in Kirkbymoorside, looked for somewhere to have breakfast and Duckduck suggested Botton village store, a blast up the ‘Eskdale Way’ through Hutton-le-Hole, what a fab, mostly deserted road to Castleton.
What a great set-up. It’s a village for and run by challenged individuals, if you're up that way pop in to support.

Botton Village • Camphill Village Trust • Supported Living

Founded in 1955, Botton was the first Camphill centre to offer supported living opportunities to adults with learning and other disabilities.

www.camphillvillagetrust.org.uk

The young lady, in charge of my egg butty, saw that I’d come by motorbike and asked, “Ooh, have you come down the big, steep hill?” I told her I hadn’t but if she showed me where it was, I’d leave that way.

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The big, steep hill, viewed from Botton village.

It wasn’t that steep actually, there’s steeper with houses on in Sheffield, nice view from the top though, which I didn’t take in when I went past at speed half an hour earlier.

Botton Village sounds like a very worthy venture

Did the young lady also not ask if you'd ridden through a pile of shit judging by the state of the once gorgeous wheels on the Duc?

A good time for an update on the ceramic coating?

 

[SHarper]

Botton Village sounds like a very worthy venture

Did the young lady also not ask if you'd ridden through a pile of shit judging by the state of the once gorgeous wheels on the Duc?

A good time for an update on the ceramic coating?

She didn't see the bike, just my attire.

I’ll let you know when I get back to that level.

I’ve got a tight spot on my chain and have been lathering it in various oils and lubricants, hoping it'd loosen off, but it appears not to have.

Does anyone have a tried and tested method of loosening off a tight spot on a chain?

 

[Dox]

What are the symptoms of a tight spot - do you notice it riding?

 

[SHarper]

What are the symptoms of a tight spot - do you notice it riding?

Kerchung, kerchung, kerchung, repeated ad nauseam, at various speeds, depending on velocity, you tend not to hear it once you get toward the national speed limit, ‘cos the road noise from the front tyre, or the intake suck drown it out.

 

[The skitz]

Kerchung, kerchung, kerchung, repeated ad nauseam, at various speeds, depending on velocity, you tend not to hear it once you get toward the national speed limit, ‘cos the road noise from the front tyre, or the intake suck drown it out.

They are a hoor to get out ,i ended up replacing the chain on my sons 500 hornet, no matter how much lube I used and worked in it wouldn't free up and only 6000 kms on the chain

 

[SHarper]

They are a hoor to get out ,i ended up replacing the chain on my sons 500 hornet, no matter how much lube I used and worked in it wouldn't free up and only 6000 kms on the chain

That’ll be what I end up doing, it is only the second chain in 30,00 miles, it is a DID and it is cleaned each week and then relubricated.
I’m not convinced that dry lube is a good thing, even if it does keep your wheels cleaner.

 

[Noobie]

I always used to use the oil from an oil change, douse a bit of rag in it and wipe over the chain once a week or after a rainy ride out. Any splash out was easy to wipe as it had no adhesive in it.

On the ownerships where a long distance touring bike was chosen for for that purpose, I've tended to use a scott oiler.