When/Where/Pics was the last time you rode your bike ?

[weeksy]

I'm somewhat behind the curve, when did you get the CB5X?

Weds.

[Nidge]

Today, Steeple Ashton in Wiltshire

[Skub]

Today, Steeple Ashton in Wiltshire

Nice contrast between the patina and the polish.

[Scotsrich]

Wednesday night on a little run with the bike club consisting of a dozen bikes.

A couple of hours round the Scottish Borders.

After using the bike for myself and wife to tour for the past few weeks this was the first solo blast I’ve had and just confirmed that the original fitment 8 year old Bridgestones are utterly shite.

New Pirelli Road 5 GT’s now on order.

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[Trogladyte]

Cissbury by Gareth, on Flickr[/img]

From about half way up Cissbury Ring. Yes, the bike is in the photo.

[Skub]

Beside the Vanishing Lake,just before the heavens opened and baptised my bike for the first time!

270 miles up now,so some more useful velocities can be had.

[KungFooBob]

I didn't take any pictures, but I've been to Bolton Abbey and back via Ilkley Moor. 120ish miles and just under four hours in the saddle.

[Skub]

Cissbury by Gareth, on Flickr[/img]

From about half way up Cissbury Ring. Yes, the bike is in the photo.

Forked if I can see it.

[Dodgy69]

Cissbury by Gareth, on Flickr[/img]

From about half way up Cissbury Ring. Yes, the bike is in the photo.

Its like spot the ball..

[Dodgy69]

Beside the Vanishing Lake,just before the heavens opened and baptised my bike for the first time!

270 miles up now,so some more useful velocities can be had.

Ride it normally....already been tested.

[Skub]

Ride it normally....already been tested.

I haven't had to run in a bike since 1976,an RD350 aircooled,and I know tolerances/materials these days are much better,but if the handbook from Mr.Kawasaki says:-

0 - 250 under 4k
250 - 400 under 5k
400 - 600 ride normally,but not redlining everywhere. Is that bollox then?

Genuinely interested.

[weeksy]

Ride it normally....already been tested.

I haven't had to run in a bike since 1976,an RD350 aircooled,and I know tolerances/materials these days are much better,but if the handbook from Mr.Kawasaki says:-

0 - 250 under 4k
250 - 400 under 5k
400 - 600 ride normally,but not redlining everywhere. Is that bollox then?

Depends who you ask....

My XSR900 had 350 miles on it at Silverstone

[Skub]

Ride it normally....already been tested.

I haven't had to run in a bike since 1976,an RD350 aircooled,and I know tolerances/materials these days are much better,but if the handbook from Mr.Kawasaki says:-

0 - 250 under 4k
250 - 400 under 5k
400 - 600 ride normally,but not redlining everywhere. Is that bollox then?

Depends who you ask....

My XSR900 had 350 miles on it at Silverstone

Ha!

I've 270 miles on it now,taking it fairly easy,so I'll maybe just build up to normal riding the next few journeys.

[Yorick]

Ride it normally....already been tested.

I haven't had to run in a bike since 1976,an RD350 aircooled,and I know tolerances/materials these days are much better,but if the handbook from Mr.Kawasaki says:-

0 - 250 under 4k
250 - 400 under 5k
400 - 600 ride normally,but not redlining everywhere. Is that bollox then?

Genuinely interested.

My last 5 GSXRs in the UK were on the track the day after I bought them. The journey from the shop was the running in.

They were under warranty.

[Skub]

My last 5 GSXRs in the UK were on the track the day after I bought them. The journey from the shop was the running in.

They were under warranty.

Yeah but,when you are moving to another bike the old one may not last much longer. I'd like to own mine for a few years yet.

[Dodgy69]

Think it's just avoid long high rev riding really. Don't know where you would do that here anyway...avoid Germany for now.

[KungFooBob]

I bought a brand new R6 when they first came out in 1999/2000. I got bored at around 200 miles and just started thrashing it.

I did 26,000 miles in three years, towards the end of my ownership it was using a litre of oil every couple of hundred miles. Every trip I had an oil bottle bungeed to the pillion seat.

Dunno if it was the running in, or that fact I raped the arse of it everywhere.... it needed a new gearbox at 6k and a snapped a clutch plate in half at 20k.

[Skub]

I bought a brand new R6 when they first came out in 1999/2000. I got bored at around 200 miles and just started thrashing it.

I did 26,000 miles in three years, towards the end of my ownership it was using a litre of oil every couple of hundred miles. Every trip I had an oil bottle bungeed to the pillion seat.

Dunno if it was the running in, or that fact I raped the arse of it everywhere.... it needed a new gearbox at 6k and a snapped a clutch plate in half at 20k.

The other side of the coin.

[melons]

Beside the Vanishing Lake,just before the heavens opened and baptised my bike for the first time!

270 miles up now,so some more useful velocities can be had.

Apologies in advance for this awkward anti-aesthetic (not quite add a top box bad!) post,....what's the wind blast like with it having no screen?, the one thing I didn't like about my lil' ol' naked CB900Hornet (sure others could add a long list of their dislikes ) was that it was great having a big engine and fun accelerating to speed but cruising at anything over 80mph or 90mph (depending on how windy it was that day) could be more painful than an elephant giving you a neck massage

[Taipan]

Apologies in advance for this awkward anti-aesthetic (not quite add a top box bad!) post,....what's the wind blast like with it having no screen?, the one thing I didn't like about my lil' ol' naked CB900Hornet (sure others could add a long list of their dislikes ) was that it was great having a big engine and fun accelerating to speed but cruising at anything over 80mph or 90mph (depending on how windy it was that day) could be more painful than an elephant giving you a neck massage

I'd forgotten i owned one of those. IIRC twas a very nice bike, at least for my type of ridin as I rarely go into 3 figures on the speedo.