Motorcycle and Scooter appreciation

good point on the lining

:-D

Noiiice. Congratulations. Question is, why is it locked up on a day like this?

Just went home to drop off backpack and panniers.

Been out and done 120 miles since.

Radness! How is it compared to the MT for long windy miles?

Technically it's still an MT.
It's just the 09 with bigger fairing.

I did another 70 odd miles this morning and it's great.

New tyres so hard to tell if you can lean it quite as much as the '07 but gut feeling is probably not.

However, the riding position (up high with wide bars) and the triple which has no right to sound so awesome on the stock exhaust, are fucking great.

It feels planted and solid but still chuckable.

Only done just shy of 200 miles but feels like I've made the right decision so far.

The commute tomorrow will be the first major test...

Holy sweat balls.
Dunno about the south, bit Glasgow is at least 25 today with high humidity and pollen count worst of the year. Trying to ride a bike around is torture, reduced to open face mode on my givi touring helmet, Jacket, mtb gloves, approach shoes and only jacket I have (almost winter jacket).
On that plus side. Every street is dry and grippy as! Though peds are at an all time high threat, pokemon go probably to blame for that lol.

Been using a yamaha ybr 125 injection the past few weeks now. Three tank fulls through it and cannot get less than 105mpg out of it, so slow, but comfy and obscenely frugal. 13 litre tank gives a 250/300 mile range, maybe more if you are prepared to find out exactly how far 13l can take you

I'm working from home today (too hot in the office) but yesterday around London was +27 in the evening.

Fine going along with a vented jacket but being stationary was excruciating.

The only positive is knowing that people on trains will be hotter and for longer.

It peaked at 32°C for us today, no way I was going near my leathers, I'd need to be cut out of them from sweat.

i am melting!
M25/ dartford tunnel (red light) stuck between two lorries, wearing work trousers, armoured textile overtrousers, sidi boots, shirt, alpinestars andes jacket, big ass gloves. sweat blinding me.
horrific.
Had to open the taps once passed the average speed cameras to disperse the heat from me as well as the bike.

Riding my Vespa home from work was the first time I was comfortable all day: nice breeze, just a shirt. Not clever. But breezy.

Cycling to work yesterday was passed by a guy on a shiny café racer with L-plates, so I sprinted to catch him up at the next junction to find out what is was. AJS Cadwell - nicest Chinese 125 I've ever seen. Actually very tempted

Photos are good.

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The HMC Classic looks nice as well as a little 125cc.

Also has anyone made their own bar ends?

I've cut down my bars to help with traffic, but my current bar ends are pretty chunky. Without them there were quite a lot of vibrations. Most of the aftermarket ones are alu which seems a bit pointless.

Any ideas?

You could make your own bar end weights. Chuck a load of glue on a suitably sized weight, chuck it in your bars, and put in your bar ends/bar end mirrors on top, and wait. It's not exactly high tech but it works - I have that kind of setup on my oem bars.

Small tip - if you can drill a hole in your weights, so you can see it from the bar end side, that makes it easier to remove them with a sturdy hook, if you have to. I don't ever expect to have to though.

Cheers.

Thats the sort of thing I was thinking. Possibly using silicon bathroom sealant as a plug because it can be pulled off.

Just trying to work out where to get a "weight" from cheaply. Initial thoughts are sand or lead packed into a bit of copper tube somehow sealed off at the ends.

Lead balls in an inner tube?

Edit: but enough about my reproductive organs.

R&G make nice (shorter) bar ends.

Parking on the street is shite. Why do people steal covers? It's £2 from fucking fleabay. Two frikking pounds.

People are cunts.
Unfortunately.

Do you live near homeless types in shop doorways? Someone probably stole it to sleep in.

Nope, around the Hampstead area so ponder that!

Now to make things interesting, it seems like the alarm combined with the recent heat has near enough rinsed the battery. Roll start won't work. Is it time to replace?

Still hot and sweaty in the jeans both the ones with the kevalr inner and the ones with the kevlar in the knit.

Speak to some one with lathe.

Or fill the bars with lead shot or sand.

I now have a a lathe, not local enough though, sorry!

It is hotter than the devils ballsack here at the moment. I sat on my hot bike, in the hot, hot heat in stupid Hollywood Bowl parking chaos last night for 20 minutes on the way to see Dr John. There's clearly a critical temperature for testicles, above which any reproductive function is marginalised by the rage impulse. Horrendous.