Used it for what I bought it for - riding to work. About a 50 mile round trip Ilkley - Wakefield & back, thru' central Leeds in rush hour, behaved impeccably and a fantastic filtering machine despite being not as tall as my previous (TDM 850). And marvelled at the effectiveness of of the new Oxford heated grips, like the molten core of the sun (and bought half price from GetGeared too). 'scuse me getting excitable about "a trip to work" but hey, it's a new bike, I'm allowed eh?
Nice sunny fresh day , I have the day off , bike passed its MOT yesterday no problems......great, I'll go out for a bimble go to start the bike up and nothing......battery flat, no probs me thinks , jump leads close to hand and the might thou parked right next to the six, jumps no problem ....leave the bike running and go and get my kit on.......foc....broken zip on my only jacket .....foc, i aint going nowhere, back out to the garage to turn the bike off and i notice its spat its coolant out
Congratulations bud....you deserve a pass for two hours in today's temperature!!D
Quote from: dickturpin on 30 November 2016, 06:55:44 pmCongratulations bud....you deserve a pass for two hours in today's temperature!!DYeah I will second that, well done in that cold, I bet your nuts ended up as a little bump on the back of your neck That'd be about right... thank F*ck for heated grips at least (or I'd have stayed at home..)
Finally after nearly two hours of this, outside the McDonalds in Knaresborough he said "Congratulations mate you've passed your Advanced Motorcycle Test". Which was nice.....
Ever since fitting the Pc3 and mapping my bike I developed a major exhaust leak at the join between link pipe and end can so took that apart today and used some liquid gasket to seal it. Figured I'd give it a clean and polish while I was there and replace the bolts with nice new stainless ones. All in all quite productive 😊
Rode it around North Yorkshire this morning in the muck and freezing cold being followed by a copper on a bike the whole time, he was really giving me close scrutiny, never took his eyes off me for a minute....Finally after nearly two hours of this, outside the McDonalds in Knaresborough he said "Congratulations mate you've passed your Advanced Motorcycle Test". Which was nice.....