Motorcycle and Scooter appreciation

Thanks! Great yea, watched that vid and will watch that series - may be useful.

Beware with all these dual sports, prices seem to be rising for clean examples. Trail bikes and pure scramblers are insane prices, way too fashionable for a low-down knobbly-tyred affair. You’ll end up browsing hours a day, and save about 5 different search terms on ebay with daily updates. Then the bike you want will be on facebook instead!

Cannot wait to be off the 125. Went out yesterday in the rain for an errand, and again today, both only short rides of 10 miles across known busy roads. Trying to regain confidence in general after a few weeks off the bike. After a couple months of blistering sunshine and bone dry quiet roads, it was imperative to get more experience in inclement weather conditions on busy roads again. Yesterday’s flooded roads were way more fun than the merely wet and diesel-slicked hell of today. Car users have totally forgotten how to drive.

Saw a very expensive looking sport-tourer parked up beside a notorious potholed roundabout, with two police vehicles flashing and a car mounted on the pavement. Rider in his leathers was sat down, helmet off, looking pissed.

Shortly after, I had a granny try cut me up. I’d already slowed down to 20 on the roundabout and straightened right up in anticipation so if she hadn’t stopped the T-Bone would have been pretty minor if the stopping distance wasn’t enough. Certainly felt closer than it might have been.

On the way back the bike was still parked up but there was a transit van with the doors opened nearby, so I think that rider’s getting a payout.