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I used it as an excuse to sell my CBF500 and buy the tiger.
I am doing 250 mile round trip to Suffolk to see my little one whilst my divorce is getting sorted and so wanted something more comfy. PIcked up the '11 plate low mileage Tiger and it is so, so much more comfy and having 6th gear gives great MPG too at just over 50mpg
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Every cloud, nice one!
New helmet day! Just picked up a Shoei X-14 to replace my beloved Kiyo rep X-12. In a gaudily taste-free 'colorway' that's rendered it sale proof. (Except at 300 bucks off RRP to me.)
I'll leave it a couple of days for my card to stop smoking and order up a fire orange, iridium visor to complete the 90s crotch rocket-naff aesthetic.
This is my 4th Shoei and only 6th road Helmet in 20+yrs, clearly goes to show I'm a lot better at looking after them than I am bikes.
1. 30quid plastic FM (or maybe AGV) Horrible. Lasted mere months before I realised it wasn't proper.
2. Very tatty Kev Schwantz Pepsi Rep Arai, bought from my colombian mate Jose for 30 quid and painted by me a garish orange and silver. Made me realise Arai don't fit my breadbasket shaped bonce.
3. Shoei RF700 Nobby Ueda Rep (barbed wire and sparkplugs) bought off another courier whilst I was working for Chain Gang for 70 quid. Great condition aside from a hole in the front chin vent where he had stuck fags through to smoke whilst riding. (No shit...) Fitted with a blue iridium and lasted 3 years until I wheelied into the back of a car and landed on it. Ended up giving the carcass to a Mexican dude in part trade for a motorhome in LA.
4. Shoei 'Spiderman' RF1000? Bought NEW but cheap...no one wanted to be spidy and I was skint. Fitted with a ho-hum black visor (because skint)...lasted (eh-hem) TEN YEARS before I gave it to a mate. Paint work and lining still in superb condition, that was one quality helmet.
5. Shoei X12 Kiyonari Rep - Silver Dragons. Bought new, fitted with a silver iridium visor. Lasted 6 years and still in good shape but now too loose on my wrinkled old dome. Likely hair loss a contributing factor. The helmet that made me bessies with the old ladies in my local Chinese restaurant. They love the dragons. Never had the heart to tell them the rider and helmet were actually Japanese.- Pics to follow!
....OCD helmet screed over //
- Pics to follow!
Jung
That whole ULEZ thing boils my piss - it's just another regressive, poorly considered tax. If I still lived in Fitzrovia, I'd be paying over a hundred and fifty quid to make a few journeys a month on a low mileage, clean 2005 motorbike. Basically, if you're loaded you can sell and buy a new one. If not, you're fucked.