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« on: 09 January 2018, 09:39:05 pm »
Relative to France there are fewer campsites in Baden Wurttemburg and they do get very busy in August - particularly in the south of the BF the closer you are to Freiburg, Titisee, Todtnau, Mustertal and the Feldberg.
I'd do a search and see if you can book a site online.
Dont forget whilst down there to do the Kandel, the Glottertal and the Route De Ballon - all as nice as the B500. I also like the road from Todtnau to the frontier with CH. A good run is Titisee over Feldbergpass onto Basel then up the Route de Ballon over to Colmar and back to Titisee.
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« on: 02 August 2017, 09:25:03 am »
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« on: 31 July 2017, 08:39:17 pm »
Lets broaden this out a bit how about ones that nobody wanted/dogs when they came out but now achieved classic status/stupid money
Honda CX500 couldn't give them away except to couriers 10/15years ago, but ran for ever.
More like 30 years ago!
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« on: 27 July 2017, 07:57:40 pm »
I used to go to this every year. When they closed the town down and it was a motorcycling festival.
Is it any good now?
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« on: 09 July 2017, 10:11:01 am »
The rear shock on the MT09 has had appalling reviews and feedback from owners. Your problem sounds symptomatic of the shock having very poor damping characteristics.
Unfortunately the fix seems to be aftermarket shock fitment. The MT forums will shed more light./
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« on: 01 July 2017, 02:46:11 pm »
For me the MT10 is the only bike that is very removed from the Fazer-family principles. The Fazers and MT03,07,09 and tracers are all do-anything bikes - it prolly why we like them. The MT10 is very much pitched at taking on big european sports muscle. As a Gen 1 thou owner, i wouldnt consider it a replacement. It's more like pure sports with no fairing.
Bought my FZS1000 new in 2004, and I was considering a new MT10 this year. Got home improvements on my mind now. Maybe buy the MT10 next year.
But yes, it is the evolution of the FZS1000. The original FZS1000 took the R1 engine, retuned it for more mid-range and torque and stuck it in a everyday useable chassis/package.
The Gen 2 became more sports or fun biased as has the MT10. But they are still, ride all day, all-rounders. Though I wonder if a GT Tracer (MT10, with a bigger tank, maybe a new softer chassis, half fairing and proper integrated full luggage options) is maybe on it’s way for those of us lusting after a 2018 FZS1000
Forum? Remember the Dutch English Fazer Board? Became Marion’s Fazer Pages or something before morphing into FOC-U. Many thanks to all those who have been involved and run these sites for us. Personally, I think while the evolution of the Fazer continues as the MT and Tracer series, sadly the evolution of Dutch-English-Marion-Foc-u seems to have ground to a halt. The Fazer must have had one of the best web forums out there.
I mean I looked at a couple of MT10 forums, and frankly they are pants – utter crap.
I've been on there quite a few times. Seem like a reasonable bunch. but, bloody hell, they were getting excited over managing 120 miles from a tank of fuel. The bloody thing has got cruise control, why not a 20 litre tank or decent cruiring economy. I want at least 155 miles out of a tank of fuel before stopping. It's a hooligan tool, with nowhere near enough compromise for those of us who commute, tour or expect a semblance of practicality.
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« on: 26 June 2017, 06:59:40 am »
I have a foot in each camp!  . Both excellent bikes-but different.
Indeed, an IL4 compared to a parallel twin I would've thought would be very different in character. Another reason I don't think the MT series has a place here. The MT10 perhaps more so as a replacement for the FZ1, using a retuned version of an R1 engine, as have all the litre Fazers - but it still ain't a Fazer!
For me the MT10 is the only bike that is very removed from the Fazer-family principles. The Fazers and MT03,07,09 and tracers are all do-anything bikes - it prolly why we like them. The MT10 is very much pitched at taking on big european sports muscle. As a Gen 2 thou owner, i wouldnt consider it a replacement. It's more like pure sports with no fairing.
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« on: 25 June 2017, 09:14:23 am »
Just remember OP - you have done nothing wrong, nothing. Having had almost the same thing happen to me in the long past and experiencing some intransigence, just think you've been helpful, got a quote and done your bit.
The idea you are trying to make something of this indicates there are some real prats on this forum.
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« on: 24 June 2017, 09:50:53 am »
good riding skills by the harley nugget to be fair, cant be easy to flick one of those bloody things around.
Feel sorry for the car that got flipped over, minding their own business when, bam - flipped over by the actions of 2 idiots.
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« on: 24 June 2017, 09:43:01 am »
Cheers everyone. The die is now cast. Daddy clearly said, "£1500 pfffft, that's just a scratch" and five mins later I get a call from my OWN insurance asking me about the incident! My spanner man reckons he can sort it all out for me for about £500 using eBay parts and his top spray paint mate, so maybe buying it back once it's written off is in order.
My premiums are low as I'm an old fart, so I'm not too worried about all that tbh.
My other option is to cut and run and move on completely to something else as I have a spare couple grand I could chuck in to any payout.
A pleasantly painful dilemma...
Sorry but that just makes you sound (imo) a twat........ 20 yr old girl more than likely paying rip off insurance premiums wants a helping hand by not going through insurance and all you clearly want to do is fleece her for a meesly grand.
Does it?
Sounds quite sensible to me.
Would she give SpokesT a 'helping hand' if it had been the other way round?. I guess we will never know.
This going down the cash route is all well and good up until the evening of the event when things have cooled down and the driver starts getting helpful 'advice' from friends and family.
Usually along the lines of...'You don't want to pay that!', 'I wouldn't pay this!', 'It's just a scratch!' etc etc.......
Agree 100%. Also be wary of 'settling' yourself. The other party might get tapped up by a no win, no fee in the future. The whole thing is clearly her fault, but people can easily taught to lie when the promise of £thousands is mentioned. With no hard evidence of what happened, apart from a collision you could be liable for a massive payment with no way to disprove false accusations; and your insurance wont want to know as you never informed them at the time. Take a bit of a hit on your premiums [seems to affect the price of car insurance more than bikes] get the insurance involved and dont turn a fender bender into a possible financial disaster
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« on: 17 June 2017, 05:40:50 pm »
Anyone put extra weight inside their handlebars to damp out vibration, I've renthal ultra lows with RG end weights but there is still an annoying vibration there, I was thinking of kiln dried sand, lead shot or brass internal bar, approx. 13mm diameter by 150mm long. Any thoughts ?
I've got a Gen2 FZ1, I filled the bars with lead shot. Best, cheap mod ive done. Completely eliminated vibes in the cruising speed band. Reduced them massively at all other noticeable points in rev band. I think I put 2kg of shot in [i worked it out by calculating the bars as a cylinder and finding the density of shot]. I think the shot cost about £12 delivered. Poured it into one end with the bike lent on one side, using a funnel.[/i]
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« on: 08 June 2017, 08:40:53 pm »
Not long tae go now.
Go Jezza go!
Yeah, go and don't come back.
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« on: 07 June 2017, 08:23:18 pm »
I am in need of these for gen 2,
Front brake resevoir,master cylinder, and cap.
Screen,any as I will cut it down,=cheap
Also for my spare front wheel I need two disks
usually screens on ebay, from china for about £12. Genuine discs from Fowlers are £65/ea.
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« on: 04 June 2017, 08:56:50 pm »
Well, while it's not exiting or sexy, I put new tyres on today.
In the normal scheme of things I wouldn't have posted this but it's the first time I have used a manual tyre changing machine.
I bought one of these Dirty pro tyre changers earlier this week
Excellent piece of kit. Changed and balanced both tyres in less than 15 minutes. What with 3 rears and 2 fronts/ year on the bike and the motorhome and the UFWD, when I think of the money I could have saved over the years. 
quite fancy one of those myself. did you use one of the recommended alloy wheel bars with it [with the polymer special end fittings]? or just tyre levers?
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« on: 02 June 2017, 08:54:20 pm »
MCN has a review of the boxeye in this weeks copy, as a secondhand bike, and mentions FOC-U as a source of info [as well as the yamaha owners forum {of which i am also a member}]
worth a read, but nothing we didnt already know.
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« on: 21 May 2017, 07:39:05 pm »
Took my FZ1 green laning on salisbury plain  very slidey, very muddy in places. barely keep up with my mate on his triumph tiger. a lot of fun though.
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« on: 16 May 2017, 09:54:52 pm »
So to summarise you ^^^
I think I was quite clear.
In any case your summary of my post seems to be longer than my post itself.
Invoking the death sentence in an eye-for-an-eye way is satiate a public baying for blood.
Well who did all of the above for 40 years, the IRA/INLA and their bastard offspring still carrying out 'extrajudicial killings', aka punishment killings [often these days in republican heartlands]:
You seem to be a little selective here. Or do you approve of the UVF , UDA and UFF. And how exactly does framing and hanging innocent men help?
Perhaps Brady's mistake was not hiding behind some political BS.
Brady killed for pleasure. He is a true psychopath. He did whatever pleased him, whatever fascinated him. Psychopaths aren’t like ordinary people, they are wired up different.
Personally, I feel that hanging such people lets them off the hook. I can’t think of a greater punishment than being locked up for life. Further I don’t believe in killing, and I certainly don’t believe in the state killing in cold blood.
Make the punishment a hell
Prison should be about rehabilitation, not simply punishment. However, be clear you cannot rehabilitate psychopath.
Like the IRA, I think the Loyalist Terrorists are scum, totally without justification. A front for drugs and other gangster activity, hiding behind a movement, pretending. I'd say abducting a mother, killing her despite her true pleas of innonence [because Adams didn't want to get locked up] and hiding her body reeks of psycopathic behaviour. It's certainly not a shot accross no mans land or retalatory gunfire. I don't think prison should be about rehabilitation, not for serious offenders anyway. It should be about getting them off of the streets, so they cant endanger the rest of us and it should be unpleasant. I don't care about the nature of the murderer, i just dont want them anywhere near decent law abiding people. Pandering to killers is all a bit sick. Brady tortured children, his time in prison should have been horrid - the recording of the little girl is the mark of a pair of vile, vile pieces of inhuman filth - utterly unpleasant. We care too much about criminals rights in this country, we need to care about victims. Putting a roof over their heads and feeding them should be how we spend our money. If prisoners have to till the land to feed themselves, in hard labour, bloody good job.
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« on: 16 May 2017, 08:21:23 pm »
At the end of the day Brady was a psychopath.
I'm with others who think that the visit to the Moors a few years back was about Power.
Of course it was. Psychopath’s need to be in control, they also need attention. Even his will is an manipulative attention seeking document.
The public are his audience, and he has played to them.
As for the death penalty, and “beyond reasonable doubt” of which every guilty sentence is beyond reasonable doubt. Though note that our law allows for doubt in that very statement of “beyond reasonable doubt”. So what of the Birmingham six and the Guildford four? Convictions on the back of corrupt policing and a dodgy legal system. They would all be dead if some of you here had your way. And indeed when you think back to the convictions of those innocent men, well there was no doubt the public was baying for blood - big time. An eye for an eye indeed.
So to summarise you ^^^ Murdering people and disposing of their bodies so no one can ever find them is disgusting [Brady] and an act of control. Carrying out 'justice', that is false [Guildford Four] is also disgusting. Invoking the death sentence in an eye-for-an-eye way is satiate a public baying for blood. Well who did all of the above for 40 years, the IRA/INLA and their bastard offspring still carrying out 'extrajudicial killings', aka punishment killings [often these days in republican heartlands]: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/news-analysis/why-the-ruddy-family-are-true-heroes-compared-to-cowards-who-abducted-and-killed-seamus-35697163.htmlJean McConville never got a hearing and was summarily executed by scum, her body hidden, her killers became suit wearing politicians laughing at committing a crime and getting off scot free. Perhaps Brady's mistake was not hiding behind some political BS. ..... I dont believe in protecting the human rights of killers (if you want rights don't do the crime), I also think the death penalty is utterly unreversible and so can only be actioned where evidence is irrefutable (CCTV and DNA combined), I just think scum like Brady should do hard labour, not luxuries, no voice, no heat, no artificial light. Make the punishment a hell, so if just one potential murder is prevented it becomes worth it. Why did we spend £8m on Brady? pennies would be too much.
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« on: 13 May 2017, 08:37:13 pm »
The government of John Major told the IRA via the back channels that no formal, open dialogue was possible until a ceasefire.
Informal talks in other words. They had accepted that their policy over the last decade had failed.
I'd hardly call an absolute expectationg of a ceasefire prior to talks 'splitting hairs'. While PIRA were active the UK government of the time would not even consider talks - remember at the time, SF/IRA wanted the initial discussions that spanned 18months or so kept secret. The government stuck with it. Even when things went wrong for a time. I suspect the likes of Corbyn would have happily 'given' NI to the Republic without one second of thought to the unionist and protestant community and their human rights or wishes.
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« on: 13 May 2017, 04:16:08 pm »
my issue with him, on the IRA matter, is that he rubbed shoulders with McGuinness and killer Adams, at the height of the troubles, long before they ceased fire, started a dialogue or decommission.
You don’t make peace with your friends.
I don’t see what the issue is. It wasn’t long before it was government policy to speak to terrorists, and indeed that’s exactly what Mo Mowlam did. Eventually through dialogue a cease fire and a peace agreement followed.
Mr Corbyn has always unequivocally condemned IRA violence, but he has (rightly I say) insisted on acknowledging the role of atrocities like Bloody Sunday and the treatment of IRA prisoners in precipitating radicalisation.
I can't see any valid defence of this.
The Thatcher government’s policy was an absolute utter failure. And it cost a heck of a lot of lives. Only when others adopted Mr Corbyn’s approach was progress made.
Mr Corbyn’s approach to the IRA is all the more reason to vote for him.
The government of John Major told the IRA via the back channels that no formal, open dialogue was possible until a ceasefire, hence the ceasefire of the early 90s. Unlike Corbyn there was no open discussion, until that happened. No one has ever adopted Corbyn's approach, there have always been conditions made. I wonder what Corbyn would have done differently with the Northern Ireland of the 80s? I have no problem with those who met with IRA-Sinn Fein after the first ceasefire of the early 90s because a breakthrough was tangible and close, but someone who smiled with senior IRA commanders for photos when the mainland was being bombed makes me sick. I wonder if any Irish TD ever had his photo taken with a minor Unionist politician linked to UVF around the time Dublin was bombed in 1973? [don't think it's too likely do you?]
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« on: 13 May 2017, 02:16:08 pm »
his IRA links outweigh any brilliance
Mr Corbyn was not and is not a member of the IRA. my issue with him, on the IRA matter, is that he rubbed shoulders with McGuinness and killer Adams, at the height of the troubles, long before they ceased fire, started a dialogue or decommission. His fawning over dead republicans, in the midst of mainland bombings was and still is repugnant. I can't see any valid defence of this. He'll be gone when Labour lose 40+ seats anyway, his far-left codswallop on the scrapheap.
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« on: 06 May 2017, 03:54:57 pm »
Simson SR50
ZR50
RXS100
CB250RS
CB400N
another RXS100
RD350YPVS
FZR1000 (still got it)
ZX6R
XJ6N
TDM850
XJ6S
FZ1S (still got it)
another FZR1000
XV535
RG250 (still got it)
Think there might be one or two bikes ive forgotten. I've owned other bikes that i didn't use or punted on quick, but havent included them - if i didnt really use it, it doesnt count!
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« on: 26 April 2017, 06:56:12 am »
Maybe they need some compassion and rehabilitation through foreign travel or exciting days out to help make them more rounded citizens.
If we increased their benefits they may not feel the need to commit crime. Having them spend some time in the country working with animals
and doing activities like hiking, canoeing will often work wonders with underpriviledged children from the inner cities. Councils should bring back
the Sports and Social Development Office to develop an integrated multicultural cohesive inclusive society.
Sorry . . . Don't know what hapened there, I came over all Corbyn for a moment. I'm alright now- yep hanging or limb chopping is the answer.
Nah, Corbyn would consider the above 'fascist punishment', he'd put up taxes and buy all bike thieves a ducati instead.
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« on: 23 April 2017, 09:56:17 pm »
When the OP wrote 'kicked some nazi ass' I thought Macron had beaten up some of these mythology driven fascists who keep driving trucks into innocent people or shooting up kids at rock concerts, not someone [like them or not] runnning in a democratic election. Still what do I know?
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