NBT: I've just bought my forever bike!

[Supermofo]

It must be love, its nearly 2 months!!

[Taipan]

It must be love, its nearly 2 months!!

To be fair I never went near it for 3.5 weeks!

[Taipan]

The longer I own this bike the more I like it. Can't imagine going back to a manual transmission bike now. The DCT is just superb. I flick between the different modes and even D mode is useful as you can use the torque of the engine without it kicking down so much. It can hustle too! I thought i'd broke it for a split second yesterday as it misfirred but then i relaised it was the traction control kicking in! Epic bike that is in my top 5 bikes i've owned.

[v8-powered]

End of November.....

[Taipan]

End of time.....

You could be right!

[Taipan]

My colleague reckons there must be something I dislike about the bike? Well, I'm certainly not shy of slagging a bike off if it needs it, so I've given it some thought.

• Okay its big and wide. Well don't buy an adventure bike then.
  
  Its not the easiest thing to get on and off of. Hardly the bikes fault.
  
  Not great at filtering. Same answer again.
  
  I get buffeting. But I have on every screened bike I've owned. Tall folk generally do.
  
  The pegs always hit me in the calf muscles when I stop and put my feet down. Again, hardly the bikes fault and most bikes with forward mounted pegs will do that.
  
  The best I can come up with is I prefer the steering of a 17 front wheel?

I'm pretty shocked at that. I've had it since July ffs. It should be long gone by now! I don't just like it for its competency, as it can be quite an exciting bike to ride and can certainly hustle when asked. Its returning c55mpg. Its comfortable. I even still like just looking at it!

I have search alerts set up for a cheap SH300 to ride in the really shit weather and one came up yesterday but I passed on it, preferring to keep riding the AT with ACF50 on it! I'm not even looking at bikes on eBay anymore and normally I'm doing that whilst waiting on delivery of one I've just bought. Strange times indeed...

[Taipan]

Just had a look at the front brake pads and as suspected they are Nissan HH compound. It looks like Honda fit HH pads as standard, which is a pain as i dislike HH pads for my use.That said I've kinda got used to them now, but that fitment is on other Hondas so I may be able to x-ref them with an EBC organic?

[mangocrazy]

Are you sold on EBC as a brake pad supplier? I've always found SBS make really good pads.

[KungFooBob]

If you really don't like HH pads and organic pads are a must then you can't beat Ferodo Platinum (if they do them in the right sizes).

I had ductile iron discs on my Fireblade, HH pads wore them down too quick, PFM suggested Mintex MR's as they weren't has harmful as other brands HH's or any full on organic pads, the Ferodo's were the best organic pads I tried by a mile.

[mangocrazy]

If you really don't like HH pads and organic pads are a must then you can't beat Ferodo Platinum (if they do them in the right sizes).

I had ductile iron discs on my Fireblade, HH pads wore them down too quick, PFM suggested Mintex MR's as they weren't has harmful as other brands HH's or any full on organic pads, the Ferodo's were the best organic pads I tried by a mile.

I've got ductile iron discs on the Falco and the Ducati and the best pads I've tried are Performance Friction 95 compound, but they are hellish hard to get hold of and decidedly spendy. I think I'll be trying Ferodo Platinum when the current one wear out. I did try SBS sintered pads and they were noisy, grabby and quite unpleasant on ductile iron discs.

[Taipan]

Are you sold on EBC as a brake pad supplier? I've always found SBS make really good pads.

God no. I 'm not really keen on EBC pads, as in later years I've had to file paint off them to stop them binding in the calipers. They seem to have really dropped the ball on quality on their organic pads, so i've been an OEM pads man fro many years now.

[mangocrazy]

No, I'm not keen on EBC either. As far as I can see they went for domination of the UK market, pretty much achieved it and now quality is poor. As KFB says, Ferodo Platinum come recommended.

[Taipan]

ECO friction? I'm guessing they're semi-sintered by the looks of them. Turns out the x-adv uses the same pads, so there should be some more options out there?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/314486414646

[KungFooBob]

I can't see the Platinum listed on the Ferodo webshite, In fact they don't list any full organic pads.

[Taipan]

I can't see the Platinum listed on the Ferodo webshite, In fact they don't list any full organic pads.

TF for that. i thought it was me being dense!

[Taipan]

I've ordered the ebay ones and they have been dispatched from Naples. Dunno if I'll get hit for import charges, but if I get better brakes I doubt I'll care.

I had to go into town on Saturday, so I took the bike. I think this was because it has a top box so i could leave my lid in it and not walk around town lugging bike crap with me. I also didn't wear earplugs to hear how the Remus sounded as with earplugs in it seems very quiet with just the engine's famed whistle sound. Pleased to find out it gets a nice little bark to it when you open it up.

[Taipan]

Just bought oil and filters for the AT.

[Supermofo]

Coming up to the 3 month itch

[Taipan]

Coming up to the 3 month itch

Not a chance! Its not even due a service really, but I thought I'd set it up for winter! I've even bought a Denali sound Bomb for it! I've changed!

[Supermofo]

Coming up to the 3 month itch

Not a chance! Its not even due a service really, but I thought I'd set it up for winter! I've even bought a Denali sound Bomb for it! I've changed!

It's like seeing a legendary player hang up his tinder account and settle down on the sofa with a cuppa and a stable Mrs. Whatever happened to the likely lads