When/Where/Pics was the last time you rode your bike ?
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Re: When/Where/Pics was the last time you rode your bike ?
I'm somewhat behind the curve, when did you get the CB5X?
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Weds.KungFooBob wrote: ↑Fri Jul 31, 2020 9:23 pm I'm somewhat behind the curve, when did you get the CB5X?
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Re: When/Where/Pics was the last time you rode your bike ?
Today, Steeple Ashton in Wiltshire
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Nice contrast between the patina and the polish.
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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.
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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Cissbury by Gareth, on Flickr[/img]
From about half way up Cissbury Ring. Yes, the bike is in the photo.
From about half way up Cissbury Ring. Yes, the bike is in the photo.
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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.
270 miles up now,so some more useful velocities can be had.
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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.
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Forked if I can see it.Trogladyte wrote: ↑Sun Aug 02, 2020 4:04 pm Cissbury by Gareth, on Flickr[/img]
From about half way up Cissbury Ring. Yes, the bike is in the photo.
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Trogladyte wrote: ↑Sun Aug 02, 2020 4:04 pm 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..
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Ride it normally....already been tested.
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Re: When/Where/Pics was the last time you rode your bike ?
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.
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Depends who you ask....Skub wrote: ↑Sun Aug 02, 2020 6:29 pmI 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?
My XSR900 had 350 miles on it at Silverstone
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Ha!weeksy wrote: ↑Sun Aug 02, 2020 6:30 pmDepends who you ask....Skub wrote: ↑Sun Aug 02, 2020 6:29 pmI 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?
My XSR900 had 350 miles on it at Silverstone
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.
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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.Skub wrote: ↑Sun Aug 02, 2020 6:29 pmI 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.
They were under warranty.
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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.
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Think it's just avoid long high rev riding really. Don't know where you would do that here anyway...avoid Germany for now.
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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.
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.
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The other side of the coin.KungFooBob wrote: ↑Sun Aug 02, 2020 6:41 pm 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.
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