By **** me it was cold & somehow i managed to lose my fucking wallet, for fucks sake. ggrrrrr The R1 is bloody lovely, especially when you put air in the tyres! Front was 20, rear was 23, no wonder it felt a bit odd. -- Nige, Land Rover 90 Yamaha R1 Range Rover Vogue
Same here, a brief blat over to see my lad. Over generous lubing of the chain made left handers a bit dicey :-(
I use PJ non fling lube, it's good stuff. For an 11 year old bike, this is easily as good as anything i have ridden. It doesnt feel really fast, but i kept looking at the speedo & thinking '**** me' Mind you, i didn't go above 30% throttle anyway, wanting to get used to it before ragging the thing blind. I thought i had buggered the lights with my fitting of the heated grips, but i had knocked the switch over to sidelights Not used to swithchable lights. Might invest in a Yoshi can, or a Akro......
I dont have an air pump & i know havent been checked for 3 months. Fancy a run sometime soon old man?
I ventured out, too. As did every fecking Sunday driver in South Wales, it seems. And every crock-rocket jockey who hasn't ridden since last summer. It was cold. Very cold. Still some snow on the verges, but it was good to get out for a proper ride, rather than just blatting around locally.
Nige wibbled forthrightly: NP, I've been too busy to have a look TBH. I'm off to the local RR dealer next week.
Quite afew bikes out, but non of the poweranger types. Bloody annoyed i lost me fucking wallet, but ho-hum.
crotch, ffs. Lots and lots of people wobbling about out there in the Brecon Beacons. Found myself sat behind sportsbikes several times screaming 'just fucking go, or let me past' as they hung out on the white line not overtaking with half a mile to do it in. Careless ****.
snip> Making this sort of statement says it all. You couldn't make yourself look more of a wanker if you tried for the rest of your life.
I know I'm slow, and I know I'm riding a slow bike. So I keep out of the way of those wanting to make progress. Fuckers wobbling around on sports bikes like they've only just passed DAS, making it difficult to get past them when there's opportunity to put in a pass on several cars just piss me off. It's the 'are they going or not' that's the problem - why can't they just tuck in over to the left to make it clear they're not going?
I rather exuberantly squeezed a bottle of scottoiler lube all over mine. Prolly wasn't the best way of doing it but ho hum, it's well lubed now. as is the rear tyre, wheel, frame, chain giard, fairing, my left calf
Maybe they don't want to over take because they're just out for a pootle, but wish to maintain the position with the best view of the road ahead? They're no more in the way of you than another car, just go round them.
That must have been why they closed the mountain road up your way... The news said a large, big fat obstruction was blocking the road. ) Must'ave been your wallet!
Uncertainty over what they were going to do next - sat on the white line, right up the arse of the car in front. If I know I'm not going to put in a move on traffic ahead and have spotted a bike behind me, I'll pull over to the left and increase the gap between me and the car to make it obvious to the rider behind me that I'm not going to pull out just as they gun it.
