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

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Supermofo wrote: Tue Apr 16, 2024 1:41 pm Puncture or not quite?

I had 3 punctures last year, 2 on the bike, 1 in the car :angry-cussingblack: Pisses me off the amount of nails/screws there are on the roads. Often walking the youngest to school I'll pick up 1 nail/screw a week I notice lying about.
I got away this time,the screw was in sideways just through the tread.

I do the same,I'm always picking up screws when walking.
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That’s only just happened - not even worn or pushed in. Check your driveway!
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Wossname wrote: Tue Apr 16, 2024 7:35 pm That’s only just happened - not even worn or pushed in. Check your driveway!
What for? He's already found the screw!
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His driveway might fall to bits if a screw has fallen out.
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There doesn't appear to be a slot or anything in the screw head. :hmmm:

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It's one of those square socket screws. I forget what they're called.
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Skub wrote: Tue Apr 16, 2024 8:41 pm It's one of those square socket screws. I forget what they're called.
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Cheers. Never heard of or seen them before. Seems like a good idea. (Also called Scrulox apparently).
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No photos but we had an unexpected sunny day here - forecast was solid rain as late a yesterday - so after getting home this afternoon I did a few short trips to pick up various bits from various shops. Just nice to be out on a bike, only the third time this year....!
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1200 Scrambler out today and doing part of the West Sussex TT route ( well, Whiteways cafe and Bury Hill)
900 Speed Triple out yesterday ( I haven't been able to ride it for 10 or so months due to a fractured hand and fucked carburators - so yesterday it was drive it everywheres a 8k revs.
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I ordered some new levers the other week,they finally turned up this afternoon after Royal Mail 24 took 7 days to deliver them :thumbdown: ...
After fitting them I decided to go for a test run to see if I had adjusted them to where I wanted.

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Lovely sunny evening so I ended up doing 30 miles & got caught in a light April shower at one point :roll:
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A cracker day from lunchtime on. Hope to get the Zed out tomorrow for an early run. 8-)
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Ye but...what about the tyre screw. 🤷🏻‍♂️
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It used to hold his number plate on.
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I took the SV to the seaside earlier,sunny Southport.Took the back road home across the moss,no traffic :thumbup:

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The weather's been so rubbish that I've only done 360 miles on it.Looks like we'll get a dry day this week so the plan is to finally get to Devil's Bridge on it.
I want it run in & the 1st service done next week,just need it to stop pissing down for a few days :roll: ..
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Maybe our settled period will blow your way when we're done with it. :thumbup:
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Almost became a statistic yesterday...

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Skub wrote: Tue Apr 16, 2024 12:47 pm Good job I checked when I got home....
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ZRX61 wrote: Mon Apr 22, 2024 11:57 am Almost became a statistic yesterday...

Mentally hearing the theme from CHiPs watching that.