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Lazy rider, but love riding new bikes that I can’t afford… hehe…..
Be careful, one day one will get you so bad that you just can’t help yourself…how do you thing I wound up with my MV!
Ah, but I don’t have a garage. So I can’t fill it with bikes like some…. (you, Thumper, Jed, Ade, – the list goes on….).
Just as well…….
I saw one of these today for the first time. Looked and sounded good…I got the impression that you might have found your bike here!
Must say – I was genuinely impressed. The Adventure spec package is pretty good value…..
But I’m no sportsbiker: it may not be punchy enough for some. I am a lazy rider….Blimey, you are turning into a real motorcycle tart!
Radar, see today’s Africa Twin review: yes, I am that tart!
Where exactly is that new Victory & Indian dealer? We should compare them with our Harley reviews….
This might be worth a visit too
The BSA Super Rocket being shown at Bromyard looks like my old one after restoration (mine had clip-ons and rear sets…..). See you there, Radar?
And I’ll be at the Prescott do on the 17th April too: Jed and I went last year – well worth it.
Are these on again this year? The 2015 meets looked superb and I kept missing out
The Wednesday ones are, starting in April: https://www.bikersnite.com/pub-list.php
Not sur about the Thursday ones – I’ll find out on 17th April at the Prescott Hill Climb Bike Festival….. https://www.prescott-hillclimb.com/events/bike-festival-2016
See you there Radar?
Great to see the K&N’s have done the trick. Looks like a decent ride out too, great pictures. Itching to get out there myself!
Radar, you’d have loved the lane leading to Gospel Pass: the tarmac getting proportionately less as the ratio of red mud and gravel increased…. Your Ducati would have loved it….
Lovely ride though….
I count my blessing everyday, it just struck me as funny as the bike I specifically bought for this sort of weather decided to throw a strop!
Glad you got some quality miles in!
Better trade that mis-behaving Kwacker in for your next bike then!
Harley or GS? Hmmm, what a conundrum!!I am pretty sure the mystery bike is a Minsk, an old soviet two stroke thing. I don’t think they were sold in the UK
Yup, it’s a Minsk: looks like the 125cc. Vietnam are the major export market for these…
My ferking winter hack Kawasaki wont start…my allegedly temperamental MV…first stab of the button…Grrr
Its raining in any case…hey ho
Can’t really complain when you’ve got a garage-full to choose from, Radar!! :
My 4th ride out of the year was in glorious Forest sunshine – the gremlins that marred last weekend’s outing had gone, so the twitchy tyres just added a bit of adrenaline rather than a bucketful of terror…
Not bad!!
Radar, that’s the mandatory routine for whenever a Brutale rider sees a mate on a GS….
You should get quite good at it by the end of 2016…..
Once they are common they will require instrumentation to allow car-to-infrastructure communication. That is the thin end of the wedge. From that point the only way is down. It eventually will lead to every vehicle requiring location / communication electronics, including motorcycles. That means that your every journey will be officially recorded and logged, and that includes your speed. And everyone is sleep-walking into it.
This is not scare-mongering, it is the most likely scenario, yet the docile double-dumb British public just stare blankly and smile glibly like the brain-dead, rigid-thinking morons that they are.
We need smart drivers not smart cars.
Agreed!
Then we’ll be forced to go off-road to get our kicks. TDM out, XR in….?Had my second solo outing of 2016 on Sunday: total nightmare!
The addition of K&N air filter (or a disturbance of sensors) at last week’s service has totally buggered the fuelling. So it stalls and bogs down at low revs under load. To get up our steeper-than-1-in-4 slippery driveway I had to keep the revs well above 5000rpm, slipping the clutch for nearly 100m: up our bit, onto the joint concrete slab then up the lane until it levels out at Jed’s place. To stall on the first or second sections would mean tumbling down the concrete strips, so concentration was paramount….
My proposed 95 mile jaunt to Gospel Pass soon reduced to 12 miles around the lanes: it started drizzling – no problem normally, but the tyres have also just ‘gone off’ so squirming around on a pair of weasels while still clutch-slipping at every junction and upwards hairpin bend detracted somewhat from the experience.
Next weekend: get a new normal air filter then Rich Kingdon will do a series of dyno runs under load to compare (if I can get it to Whitecroft unscathed!). We reckon that the K&N + the Beowulf cans + my ECM fuelling mod = incompatibility…..
Would like to meet up for rides in Oxfordshire/Gloucestershire.
Cheers, Neville
Welcome to the group! Good choice of steed – really enjoyed my test ride on a TV 800…
Gloucestershire (& Herefordshire/Worcestershire) has good mid-week pub meets from March onwards – I’ll keep the group notified. And we do the odd weekend jaunt into the Welsh hills; or up to Ludlow; or down to Tintern Abbey, etc…. Hoggin’ the Bridge, etc….
Doing a bit less over winter as our Forest lanes are a tad slippery with wet leaves, but still getting out most weekends….
