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

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Horse wrote: Fri Dec 09, 2022 1:48 pm
Yorick wrote: Thu Dec 08, 2022 5:21 pm That's the annual wash done :D

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The person who designed the graphics get mm and inches confused? :)
Same with the exhaust link pipe designer! If you wrote to the end can, its probably got a different postcode to the bike! :lol:
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6 Hour ride today. Having so much fun we just kept going :)

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Bit nippy out today but not as bad as it’s been but as the gritters have been busy I took the chance to clean the bike down and cover it in ACF50 ready for the rest of the winter. All shiny now but will be covered in road crap until probably February or March ;)

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Not bad for a 22 year old bike and 40000 on the clock :thumbup: :banana-wrench:
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Bigyin wrote: Mon Dec 12, 2022 4:33 pm Bit nippy out today but not as bad as it’s been but as the gritters have been busy I took the chance to clean the bike down and cover it in ACF50 ready for the rest of the winter. All shiny now but will be covered in road crap until probably February or March ;)

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Not bad for a 22 year old bike and 40000 on the clock :thumbup: :banana-wrench:
Scrubs up nice that mate.
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ZX11 & ZRX11 are both gassed & spiffed up ready to rock & roll...

and...

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Bugger... This is between me & LA...
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weeksy wrote: Mon Dec 12, 2022 4:34 pm

Scrubs up nice that mate.
Ta :thumbsup: Looks ok in the pics and from distance ….. up close there are a few dings, scrapes and cracks in the plastics
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Bigyin wrote: Mon Dec 12, 2022 9:55 pm
weeksy wrote: Mon Dec 12, 2022 4:34 pm

Scrubs up nice that mate.
Ta :thumbsup: Looks ok in the pics and from distance ….. up close there are a few dings, scrapes and cracks in the plastics
And that's just the owner. :silent:
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Skub wrote: Tue Dec 13, 2022 1:41 pm
Bigyin wrote: Mon Dec 12, 2022 9:55 pm
weeksy wrote: Mon Dec 12, 2022 4:34 pm

Scrubs up nice that mate.
Ta :thumbsup: Looks ok in the pics and from distance ….. up close there are a few dings, scrapes and cracks in the plastics
And that's just the owner. :silent:


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Looks like there's about a window around Noon-3pm when riding won't be a chore on Sunday. I REALLY want to ride on Sunday.

However, next Sunday looks about damn perfect, but apparently there's something else going on that day & everywhere is closed.
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Thought I had found the "sensible button" when riding the ZX11... & then about a mile from home discovered I had misplaced it. Sat at a light, check behind me & I can see about 6 or 7 cars back in both lanes. No rozzers. Light turned green & I took off like Pee Wee Gleason. I cover about 1/2 mile in fairly spectacular fashion & check my mirrors...
Hmmm.. some bloke back there appears to have Christmas lights on his roof.
Bugger.
I look again & realize he's still trying to pass cars. I turn into my neighborhood, hit the garage door opener in my pocket as I came round the corner, rode straight into the garage & closed the door.. WooT!!

So, onto today's pics...

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One of the Argentine new build Type 35's ($270K)

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Rapide & Shadow

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And just after I left the RockStore:

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wow, did any one else go out and ride in the summer we are currently having, -5 to 13oC wow. loving it
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ZRX61 wrote: Mon Dec 19, 2022 3:53 am
And just after I left the RockStore:

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Unless I'm very much mistaken that's a Lancia 037, isn't it?
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Indeed it is..
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We do get to see some rather spiffy specials. Last month this showed up:

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Big boyz toyz.
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Skub wrote: Tue Dec 20, 2022 8:44 pmBig boyz toyz.
They aint MT09s Bruh! :wtf:
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Was a scorcher today so headed up into the hills
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I just had a spin on the Street Triple,it's 2 or 3 weeks since I last got out for a ride.
All the ice & grit washed away now,just the usual winter conditions...
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Not been riding in a couple of weeks so took the Frazer out for a play this afternoon and ended up about 100 miles around Narfuck. Suicidal pensioners in brand new cars everywhere driving at 28 mph in nationals and 40 mph in 30’s ffs. Weather was ok for the first 80 or so miles and heated grips didn’t go on till 30 miles in and light rain for last 20 miles

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And despite a few people looking at me funny for riding a bike in December this daft bastard was on a sodding paddle board :wtf:

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Downsides are my tyre pressures are lower than they should have been as I didn’t check before I left and also my left foot peg is moving about a bit so will get that off and checked
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Bigyin wrote: Tue Dec 27, 2022 4:17 pm Not been riding in a couple of weeks so took the Frazer out for a play this afternoon and ended up about 100 miles around Narfuck. Suicidal pensioners in brand new cars everywhere driving at 28 mph in nationals and 40 mph in 30’s ffs.
There is some serious research to be done on this. Sooo often I'm behind cauliflower heads through the (what used to be 50) 40mph stretch into the village and they're like ' :shock: trees, bends, no pavements :shock: ' all the way.Then we hit the 30 sign at the edge of the village and, woohoo! they're off like scalded cats.

There is something seriously wrong in their heads if they feel safe in 'built up' areas so they feel released to speed but can't cope with roads outside where it is 'officially safe to go faster'.

In the AI future, anyone accelerating 'against the signage', as it were, their car will be automatically rerouted to the Soylent Green production plant where the driver and passengers will be processed along with members of the 'Centre Lane Owners Club'. :thumbup:
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