Motorcycle and Scooter appreciation

With a van that size you're probably still smaller than the newest Land/Range Rovers or SUV monstrosities that grace the road. If you lived locally I'd be aggressively offering to buy you pints in return for bike related favours, so watch out for these. In the near future I'm keen to get a trailer to do some events with the CRF, the Sweet Lamb Baja series looks very tempting.

@pdlouche have you thought about a stripple?

Yep, I’ve had two or three warnings that I will suddenly become mr popular. My (good) neighbours’ eyes went wide and bright when I told them. I can’t wait for the (rubbish) neighbours to get pissed about it taking up the driveway.

Sweet Lamb Baja, the friend in the recent photos on the 990 will be doing the one start of September. We might ferry his bike up in the van.

Too expensive. I can’t have nice things.

We might ferry his bike up in the van

(envy reaches intolerable levels)

Looking to sell my street triple, early version with high mileage but lots spent on it - I’ve taken the arrow cans off

Looking for £2kish

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Probably a great deal for someone, but I don't like the Johnny 5/Gonzo lights on anything but dirt bikes. That, and I have an allergy toward Triumphs in general - too many stories of electrical gremlins.

@pdlouche if I'd ever get a van it'd be a swb transit like yours, but presumably this means travelling -10mph compared to other traffic (apart from through town)? If so, keen to get your thoughts on this as you become more ingrained in the men with ven culture.

Maybe that -10mph will be the special kind of discipline. Can’t rush, don’t want to.

Leave the fun to the bikes.

If you mean the speed limit for vans being lower. In reality it doesn't seem to be a thing when it comes to enforcement. Although I've not done a lot of mileage in my van so maybe it's just another thing to look forward to.

When I drove transits for work every weekend 7-8 years ago it never seemed a thing, don't think anyone was ever fined. Presumed it would be more of a thing now with ANPR and general driving restrictions increasing.

@pdlouche think the transits I drove had adjustable speed limiters to make this easier, but that's a good outlook regardless.

Considering my stints on the M4, vans are often flying along lane 3 fast as they can.

I got the idea from this Sawiko thing. https://www.sawiko.com/uk/rear-garage-loader-motorcycles The winch has a remote, so you stand back and the bike disappears into a fairly small cupboard in your camper. It's expensive to get it fitted, so I thought I'd do my own cheap version. The ramp needs rails and a pair of sliding chocks, which, in my daydreams, I knock up from something or other. I think there's enough detail in these videos to copy the idea:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWYm8vQorZY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYfRNpabXRo

But if you don't get it right, the bike's going to lean a little too far, and everything will be destroyed in a very spectacular fashion. So I'd have a safety strap attaching the bike to the top of the van.

I can see that being handy for big heavy bikes. Everything up to my 900SS I can get in the back of mine fairly easily, the dirt bikes are a doddle. I've got a wheel chock inside.

Load height is definitely lower on UK transits too.

Love a good van. They are the perfect adventure vehicle.

I was gonna go to the scrapyard and get the biggest piece of checkerplate alu that I could, and brace it underneath, then maybe just hinge and bolt it to the back. Probably cost me less than a narrow bike ramp because reasons.

Edit: or look for a wheelchair ramp to repurpose

I got done with it by anpr

Interesting. Was this recently and how long driving at 'normal' speeds did you get away with before a nice brown envelope through the door?

Quite a few transits had ECU speed restrictors.

Hire companies, BT and a few others did.

Worth knowing. I've got to do a speed awareness course on Monday so I'll probably be up to date on it all by Monday evening.

Have fun with that. That’s a day of your life you will never get back!
(Speaking from experience - obviously)

Still online, or do you have the pleasure of smelling others’ farts?

Fortunately online. Better than 3 points.

Yes, I did one about 10 years ago. It did actually slow me down for a while. I was only within the limit for a speed awareness course by 1mph according to online info.

That was my prize for said infraction.

Agreed. Can’t say it did anything for my driving.