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mainly be used for brown laning
so a gravel bike?!
I started watching FortNine's videos a while ago so now feel I know enough about bikes to comment on them....
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so a gravel bike?!
Comical, but totally accurate. Was after a bike I could ride on the road but if I saw something bumpier could handle that too. Had my first experience of green laning this morning and can't remember the last time I had this much fun, and was only wobbling along at 20mph. Tell a lie, I got to 40mph which felt like a 100 but was probably (definitely) pushing my abilities. Also saw some great wildlife including a fallow(?) deer with the antlers and everything, felt pretty special. As the route deteriorated I looked at my lack of tyre tread and called it a day but had a blast on the 2 closest byways. Nice to get the bike a bit muddy too, can't say that about sports bikes!
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Great vids. Had him on subscribe for years.
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I now want a Suzuki Burgman after his video from yesterday
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Haven't updated this for a few weeks so thought I'd check in. The RSV sold within a few days and I somehow managed to get £800 more than I paid for it a few years previous, so that turned out well. Lets just ignore all the money I poured into it eh.
After what feels like years of reading online I finally have a bike with knobbly tyres by way of this 2019 Honda CRF450L. As Honda discontinued the model after a few months turns out they're hard to track down and I ended up buying one unseen from Northern Ireland from a 70 year old who wanted something smaller/lighter. Luckily it worked out well and over the moon with it. Overall plan is to lightly mod it into an 'Africa Single' with bigger tank and the ability to take luggage but will mainly be used for brown laning. See, I know all the lingo. Spent a couple of hours reversing mods and removing stickers then went for a blast in the drizzle. A few thoughts...
In other news I removed the SRAD's scabby headers, which was a lot easier than I imagined as fitted Samco hoses and changed the coolant. New (sympathetic) indicators fitted as the originals were breaking from being so brittle and added a Hel braided oil feed pipe whilst in there. And finally the workshop out back is hopefully getting a new roof soon. We have new tiles and somebody booked in to remove the asbestos and make it watertight for the impending winter.