Paging Phil L re the VFR

Still interested in the VFR?

Rode it to work and back yesterday, the new front brakes are working
fine. Not to happy with the back brake but that never was that great -
it works but I'll have a fettle on the w/e to see if I can improve it.

I'll try to book an MOT for next week and it'll have to go very soon
afterwards as I've completely run out of space here and need to get rid
of a couple of bikes...

 

At the moment I have no garage space.. Cheryl has decided the ex-Tiger
space is going to be used by her Morris Minor.

So at the moment I'm afraid it's a no until we clear some more space.

Phil

 

come on, the Tiger's big, but it's not *that* big[1].

[1] actually, it does take up a surprising amount of space - with the
tall screen on, and the wide bars, in terms of the space taken up by
it's extremities it's by far the largest bike I've owned - especially
side to side leaned over on the stand[2]
[2] I am obviously weaker than I thought - I have no hope of getting
the bugger on the mainstand.

 

It is when you have to use a small turntable to turn it round in the
garage to get it back out of the garage again..

I gave up trying to back it out of the garage, up the slope and past
the cars a long while ago. Not only is it a pain walking a bike
backwards but trying to do it with a big bike, up a slope covered in
gravel while avoiding two cars is a non-starter.

Then the turntable broke.. it turns out that if you don't have the bike
exactly centred on it the spindle in the centre can't take the load and
comes apart.

Yup. Same as me. I used to be able to (and still could with Cheryls
help) but not now. And trying it just made my wrists hurt like hell.

Phil.

 

It's a very narrow gap between two cars (one of them not mine!).. added
to the fact that I'd have to back it down over a tarmac lip onto the
gravel (with slopes at several different cambers) and I just didn't
fancy it.

With a smaller, lighter bike than the Tiger or a VFR it might be
possible.

Phil

 

Wuss, I do that on my own at work with the bike wobbling about on a
metal surfaced hydraulic bench - put some backbone into it.

 

it's just the Tiger - any other bike I've had with a mainstand,
including the R1150GS, I had no problems getting it on/off the stand

 

The RGS mainstand is excellent. Very easy to get the bike onto it and I
like the way it is evenly balanced. No faffing about with bottle jacks,
bricks etc. Just put the top box on the rack to get the front wheel off the
ground.