With the baffles in, it sounds pretty damned loud to me! Without them, it's just ridiculous :-)  There's lots of popping and banging on the overrun which makes for fun times in little villages    The only thing that worries me, is whether or not it will pass a sound-check on a track-day.

Like Nick Crisp, I do a bit of painting but it's all very much at amateur-level...





 



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Anyone help with this one? It's my Dad around 1960. He was penniless so I'm guessing it's a 30's bike.





Twin port again. gear-change on tank, kneepads on tank. Some people say Rudge Ulster but there's flaws to that theory too.

People wrap chains around their wheel and then two Pikeys come along in a van and just lift up the end of the bike which has the chain on and roll the bike into their van. Bye bike!!

Chains are just deterrents to protect against OPPORTUNIST thieves. There is no pikey deterrent - end of.

Just bought a bluetooth headset and thought I'd share my brief experience with it. I opted for the SENA SMH10-11 which cost around £150 through Amazon. The SMH10 comes with a fixed "boom" mike whereas the SMH10-11 includes the option to use a smaller (some would say neater) microphone that is positioned in a location of your choice.


Initially, I plugged in the boom-mic and plan to test that for a while and then change over to the small mic at a later date once I know everything works okay. Fitting the headset to my Shark S700 was an absolute breeze and I encountered no problems whatsoever. HOWEVER, I didn't like the speakers making contact with my ears (I'm a sensitive soul), so I thought I'd relocate them BEHIND the helmet-padding instead of on top. My only concern was that the padding would muffle the sound and mute the volume too much, but I needn't have worried because it worked out just fine!


Next up was to pair the device with my iPhone 5. Piece of cake and within seconds, I was making and taking calls, using apps like Co-Pilot and listening to music in stereo. The speakers have quite large magnets and produce some decent sounds, but bass is lacking slightly as you'd expect of a lo-fi piece of audio. Happy with the mobile phone performance I thought I'd try my iPod Touch using the supplied 3.5mm lead. Needless to say, the process was simple and it all worked flawlessly.


Finally, I switched on my TomTom Urban Rider V3 and got it to search for the new headset. It found it immediately and paired without even asking for the pin. Everything functioned perfectly well and my iPhone contact-list uploaded to the TomTom and gave me direct access to call making facilities. 


So, all in all, I am over the moon with this product. It mated with everything perfectly and presented me with no issues whatsoever. The volume ramps up to a VERY high level and is clearly audible at all speeds. The volume control is amazingly easy to use thanks to the glove-friendly rotary knob. It just couldn't be better! The only issue I can see being a problem is the fact that the padding of the helmet has effectively been increased by the presence of the speakers and so I am concerned that on one of my typically long rides (6 hours+), my ears might start to hurt. But if that's the case, I'll switch to the ear-buds option that is available with the SENA system.


Currently, I have no interest or use for the Intercom facility offered by the SMH10-11, but from all accounts, it's a great system, providing good range (albeit line-of-sight) and allowing multiple users to chat.


HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!

Full leathers, biker gloves, crash helmet. Go to barbers, have haircut and at the end he asks.... "You wanna some gel"? :-D

Bluetooth can only be paired with one person?? Don't think so. Some BT headsets can pair up with 8 other users for inter-bike comms. Well, as far as I know anyway.

I've just ordered a SENA SMH10-11

It was bought to sort out the throttle snatch due to the injectors being switched off when you back off the throttle inbetween gear changes. I bought this thing now, so it's no use talking about ECU remaps and PC5's.

Aaaahhhh! Just been out on another rideout this morning before work. When cold, it behaves perfectly, but when it has warmed up, that's when the issue takes effect. :-(  Anyway...

...the thing I wanted to mention is that just after installing the FCE, I had increased my tickover speed using the adjuster on the left side of the bike and so after a few miles this morning, I pulled over to the side of the road and turned it back down again. HEY PRESTO! The problem had gone! :-D

BUT, back to the FCE - has it made a difference? Well no, not really. In fact, the bike feels grumpy at slow-speed thru town. I'm going to use it over the Easter Holidays and evaluate it properly before doing anything else.

I had a Gen 1 and thought it was a CRACKING all-round bike, but ultimately, it looked kinda big and old-fashioned. I now have a GenII which looks more compact, feels much lighter and looks AMAZING with the gold USD forks and modern styling.


First thing I'd say about the GenII is they have a shit gearbox! Really agricultural compared to the 40+ other bikes I've ever owned. Especially moving from 1st to 2nd gear. BUT that issue is probably made much worse than it needs to be because of the fact that the fuelling is shit too!!


BUT, because I love this bike so much, I've just ordered an IVAN'S FCE to sort out the fuelling, adjusted the gear-lever down so that it's easier to make a more positive up change and I've fitted a Nitron Shock. Those little mods cost me less than £500 and will transform the bike!  Before I bought this bike, I thought there'd be no low-down power but that's a load of absolute crap. It's got lots of grunt!


I've also removed that God-Awful silencer and fitted some fruity twin pipes, but that's just cosmetics.  The seat's are rock hard so my bum aches after about 150 miles. The tank-range is a bit shit and it means I'm hunting for fuel every 100 miles or so.  There's no room to store anything.


GenII all the way!! :-)

I've worked all over the UK (including Yarm) and would say that chippies in the North West are the best of any. Not many would be cooking in dripping these days though - well none that I know of. I love me chips :-D

Installed my new NITRON NTR SPORT shock and altered the ride-height while I was at it. Much better!!