Bought the police motorcycle road craft paper backed book after about 3 yrs from passing my test and buying a new R1. I was lucky as I had about 30k miles of road riding experience with a bunch of good mates that had decades of real life road riding skills and natural ability. When I read the book I...

Chainsaw bar lube for me ,applied every 150 miles onto a warm chain.
The chain on the fire blade is as good as new after 8k miles.

KungFooBob wrote: ↑Sat Feb 20, 2021 9:35 pm Is it under the mower?

No The Elgin marbles are craftily concealed under the aforementioned mower and other sundries pah to the greeks.

Spring clean check on the Kawasaki ready for mot in march :banana-wrench: :banana-wrench: Now I only change the ,coolant, plugs and filters as in oem manuals.Every second year the swing arm pivot and suspension linkages get stripped and greased. However the brake fluid is changed every year and the...

Cheers for all the input.Fancied the 1299s as it was the last of the v-twin model. Two good mates have aprilia v4 and the new ducati v4.rode them both but not in mental modes. Aprilia never again took me nearly a year for a few parts to arrive after a minor spill. Deffo not buying a bike unseen but ...

Yorick wrote: ↑Wed Feb 17, 2021 7:04 pm Oh, send us the link for the advert

M8 bike shop is UK based and all the pics are watermarked. Will wait to see if I get a reply as I don't want to start throwing stones.

Right :mrgreen: had a right f---k on with the insurance company to amend the policy without reg details ,multiple bikes that is. Keeping both the zx10r and the blade .Looked online at a 3.5k milage 16 plate 1299s ,fitted with well worn track tyres :silent: Bike looked clean as a whistle on the websi...

Dropped a right bollock about three yrs ago. I had over nine yrs no claims running on three individual insurance policy's for 3 sports bikes,fire blade ,zx10r and gsxr thou. Decided to get them all insured on a multi bike policy as I would only have one renewal date.Worked out a small saving but los...

If I returned to the track I recon £250 would be the most I,d pay for the actual track time. Back in the day I had two 5eb Yamaha r6 with a wet and dry set up and was king of the hill :banana-wrench: .After a 8 yr break or so I felt massively under gunned for the fast group and under prepared Tbo. ...

GSXR1000 is the only choice :) My b/w k6 thou was a belter until I wrote it off. :thumbup: I had the K1, K3, K5, K7, K9, L3 and now L8 :) Not biased then.Bloody good engines ,no nasty surprises .Mates k1 thou from new has 82k on it and sweet as a nut.However I,m needing some one to poke me in the H...

Yorick wrote: ↑Tue Feb 16, 2021 11:20 pm GSXR1000 is the only choice

My b/w k6 thou was a belter until I wrote it off.

Taff wrote: ↑Tue Feb 16, 2021 2:57 pm How pleased barn owls were once humans invented the barn.,...

My guess is not as content as your average house spider.

10% increase isn't going to put anyone off. Look at the average cost of the bikes in the trackdays paddock nowadays.. 4k upwards. Combined with coming out of lockdown and the places will be rammed, same as last year. I've got Mallory and Donington booked already 🙂 ... No point being the richest blo...

Hi,thank you for letting me join the forum .Been lurking for a while :crazy: At nearly 54 yrs old I,m after another sports bike and feel if I leave things much longer I,ll have missed the boat. My wife says better regret something you have done rather than something you did not do. .So I could buy a...

Started doing track days in 2007.My local circuit is croft and with plenty promoters at the time @about £69 a pop you could do 1-3 days per week if you fancied.Last one I did was a while ago and was £199 and the place was fully booked. All about supply and demand.I stopped doing them when the majori...