NBT: I've just bought my forever bike!

[Skub]

I never minded ruining a Honda in Winter riding. Kind of a civic duty really.

[v8-powered]

State of those headers! - no Weeksy approval there.....

[Taipan]

I never minded ruining a Honda in Winter riding. Kind of a civic duty really.

Funnily enough i've just been given a SH300!

[Skub]

I never minded ruining a Honda in Winter riding. Kind of a civic duty really.

Funnily enough i've just been given a SH300!

Nice. What's the plans for that?

[Taipan]

I never minded ruining a Honda in Winter riding. Kind of a civic duty really.

Funnily enough i've just been given a SH300!

Nice. What's the plans for that?

Its my Step Father-in-Laws. He's just turned 80 and is quitting riding, so he is going to give it to me. I don't really want it, so i'll probably sell it and get some money for him. Its not ULEZ compliant as its a 2007 but i've asked Honda for a certificate of conformity and will register it with TFL if they send us one. If I didnt have the CB1R I might have kept it for rainy days commuting, but not sure I want to insure another bike.

[Taipan]

***SOLD***

[636mick]

Which one??

[Skub]

Which one??

I'd say the Homda,but one can never be certain with Tarquin.

[Taipan]

They’re both Hondas but this thread is for the Africa Twin and that’s the one that has left building!

[Supermofo]

Woss next?

[636mick]

He don’t hang about!!

[Taipan]

Woss next?

Already got it! Just haven't got round to a new bike thread as massively busy! Will bung one up later hopefully...

[Supermofo]

He don’t hang about!!

He'd never seen it clean before the bloke washed it the other week and realised he actually hated it

[Taipan]

Actually the first bike I've sold that didn't really want to, but it was just too big and unwieldy for what i use it for. I said from the outset it'd the be size of it that would be its undoing.

[Yorick]

FS1E

[Skub]

FS1E

Too spendy. £10k for a good one now.....

[Taipan]

I do get the big ADV bikes. When I took it for a ride around the back roads of Suffolk, I loved it. Around 100bhp (?) so more than enough grunt for easy overtakes and throttle wind ons through the sweeping bends. I really, really enjoyed myself. But for trying to wiggle through Londons traffic it just got tiring being held up all the time and its also a very top heavy and wide bike. I thought I could suffer it as I liked the bike so much, but eventually I admitted defeat. Plus for a crip like me its not easy to get on and off of! I'm glad I owned one though, but within 500 yards of riding the x-adv, i knew i'd made teh right decision, which was a relief as I really was reluctant to let the AT go...

[Taipan]

IIRC the X-ADV is actually heavier than the AT 1000? I do know when its wet my garden gets boggy and I cant safely back the AT across the uneven path and garden onto the path where my ground anchor is, but I parked the XADV these easily. That's just me being a 60 year old crip though,as its hard to believe how some people chuck big ADV bikes around!

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

There is a vid on Youtube where a bloke compared the new AT with an old original AT from years ago.

He said that whilst on the move the new AT is streets ahead, it's high up, plush suspension, great motor, etc.
But when it comes to slow tricky stuff the old one is miles better, because its smaller, you can get your feet down, easier to wiggle it around, etc.

So if the new 2024 AT has managed to solve the slow speed awkwardness by dropping the seat height and the suspension lowering automatically then it might be the perfect solution, I don't think it's much wider than an X-ADV so if they've made the AT easier to manage at low speed and through traffic then there is no reason why it can't go anywhere the X-ADV can.

The old 750 AT was a huge heavy monster of a thing, the seat wasn't mega high but it was wide, and the weight was high up, even with an empty tank, I looked at buying one to go to the Artic Circle on in 2003, but it wasn't for me.

[Taipan]

There is a vid on Youtube where a bloke compared the new AT with an old original AT from years ago.

He said that whilst on the move the new AT is streets ahead, it's high up, plush suspension, great motor, etc.
But when it comes to slow tricky stuff the old one is miles better, because its smaller, you can get your feet down, easier to wiggle it around, etc.

So if the new 2024 AT has managed to solve the slow speed awkwardness by dropping the seat height and the suspension lowering automatically then it might be the perfect solution, I don't think it's much wider than an X-ADV so if they've made the AT easier to manage at low speed and through traffic then there is no reason why it can't go anywhere the X-ADV can.

The old 750 AT was a huge heavy monster of a thing, the seat wasn't mega high but it was wide, and the weight was high up, even with an empty tank, I looked at buying one to go to the Artic Circle on in 2003, but it wasn't for me.

Sounds like a hell of a trip! Did you go? If so what on?