Motorcycle and Scooter appreciation

I think if someone switched the engine kill switch i'd only be miffed - if someone took my keys my first instinct would be attempted theft so I'd go batshit crazy.

So would I, but if it was desperate you could ride away and leave a motorbike and rider sat there, bats hit crazy but not actually any harm.
I did it to some scrotes ripping along a towpath and buzzing me, and I have no idea how batshsit they went, I was more than a mile away before I threw the keys in the river.

I'd just be worried that I'd be tugging on the keys having turned them the wrong way/similar, whilst the chap on the motorcycle goes (as has been pointed out) bananas.

Turn anti clockwise and pull - just like a car.

I did this to a twat on a Ducati who buzzed me on the Euston Road - I then threw the keys into the middle of the road and rode off.

(I really don't get as involved as this usually...)

A word of warning with the pulling keys out and chucking them, if you met a copper on a bad day you could get done for theft. Reason being that the definition of theft from the 1968 act is pretty much as follows:

To dishonestly appropriate property from another with the intention of permanently depriving them thereof.

Just saying.

I did tell him to "go and get them" before I rode off.

and I should point out it wasn't the middle of the Euston Road - but the side street where he was parking - had a decent altercation - he was unrepentant so I chucked his keys into the road.

NOT my normal behaviour - just seemed a bit wired that day...

A lovely sunny day out yesterday at the Grampian Motorcycle Convention - pursuit racing including a couple of super moto riders, one of whom made the final - the way they threw those things around the bends, awesome skill

I would like to pick up a motorcycle in High Wycombe this weekend and transport it back to Stoke Newington. Does anyone know of a good service for this kind of thing, or would be interested in helping me do this for a small fee?

I know a slightly unhinged, incomprehensible Scotsman with a huge fuck off Rottweiler who will do it for you. Reliable and reasonable, let me know if you want his number

Going to France this weekend - do i need to put a GB sticker on my bike?

Also, any other things i might need to do? i read something about reflective stickers on helmets?

Hey motorcycle heads, check out:

http://www.muffcustoms.com/

A new custom motorcycle cafe my friends are opening up in hackney wick.

Launch party (free beer!) This Saturday

I would like to pick up a motorcycle in High Wycombe this weekend and transport it back to Stoke Newington. Does anyone know of a good service for this kind of thing, or would be interested in helping me do this for a small fee?

This is awesome.

Muff only has three bikes on their website: two don't have photographs, and the third is an SL 125 with the frame powder coated yellow.

Might pop in next week to have a look though.

Going to France this weekend - do i need to put a GB sticker on my bike?

Also, any other things i might need to do? i read something about reflective stickers on helmets?

Also (again), this new SP95-E10 fuel - I assume thats a no go for my carbed 04 Bandit?

Muff only has three bikes on their website: two don't have photographs, and the third is an SL 125 with the frame powder coated yellow.

Might pop in next week to have a look though.

Yeah their website needs updating, they're concentrating on making sure the caf is ready!

regards my issue of being stopped and charged with driving without insurance - I spoke to a solicitor last night who is 'fundamentally unhappy' with the way that the Police elicited information from me during the course of casual conversation not pertaining to the reason for the stop and check (i.e they were fishing) and I should have been under caution and advised I did not have to say anything

also, the fact the that bike officer told me that 'they were entitled to impound the vehicle' yet didn't and allowed me to essentially ride off later that day 'uninsured' means that they probably again were thinking it may stick, and would hope that I would just accept the fixed penalty

he obviously can't make any guarantee's but he doesn't think they would bother going ahead with it should I contest the fixed penalty and take it to JP's court - he thinks it would be more hassle than it is worth for them to have to call witnesses from my workplace to testify that I don't as a rule commute by bike etc.

he's having a mull over details and is going to call me later to advise if I should bite the bullet and pay, or contest. To be honest, I'm prepared to pay more than the £200 fixed penalty to not get 6 points

his parting words were the Police had been 'petty in extremis' which made me laugh!

Stick it to 'em....etc...

Good news.

possibly, but I will bow to his greater judgement if he says 'take it on the chin'

500 starters, 14 finishers!
Red Bull Hare Scramble 2013 - Event Recap - YouTube

Does anyone have any experience with Yamaha XJs? I'd like to email with a few questions about buying one and valuation. Thanks in advance

Japanese chopper guys .

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Back from Brittany - 1015 mile round trip - did about 700 miles on Saturday to get the Calais ferry, then back up to Birmingham.

Bandit was flawless the whole journey, comfortably(ish - for a naked bike) cruising at 90mph two up with luggage on the French motorways.

French roads are the best. Perfect tarmac and lovely sweeping bends, good road signs and hardly anyone else there.
Noticed how shit the UK roads are as soon as we were off the ferry!

Might need to change the chain and sprockets now. And the oil. And the tyres. Might just get a new bike....

A 600 cc front wheel drive exotic motorcycle from the Geman MOTORRAD magazine, october 1938 (1938 Killinger and Freund motorcycle)

I'm trying to charge the battery on my derbi mulhacen 125 from my car.

Unfortunately I can't find the fucking thing! Does anyone knwo where the battery is located or if there are any good guides on the net. I'm struggling to find anything that helps.

Cheers.

I think it's under the seat, but it all seems to be covered up.