To those that fit and forget their scottoilers.  They don't work if the bike isn't moving, so if its stood up for a month or so outside you need to oil it manually.

I never flounced.  I just melted into the ether  .

don't forget (I think) Dawn from the IAM brigade. 
Makai was the male stripper Fazer riding ghost. (and I was his dad for a while)
Oh yeah I think I remember Iano.
 
I was bornagain again.  Did the Bourton ride with you guys last year.

And the forecast from the long range weathermen is it could the longest winter in history with snow sticking around to May.
 
Thank god someone invented the word COULD, otherwise we would never have any experts to guige us lol
 

I came on on a different name at first cos it wouldn't accept mine.  Wasn't till last week I realised I could change the email and start a new account.  I am as dumb about computers as I am about riding technique
 

Happy new year you'all, and may any spills in 2014 be of the liquid variety.

Crashing does seem to be a theme.  Although in 'my era' lol it was much different.
Let me see, the guy who tailended a car whilst waving to us, before the rideout had even started.
Jake the Cat, whilst looking for a good place to take pics, forgot to turn off the roundabout and ended in a ditch.
Dinobats famous first (failed) flight attempt with a Fazer thou.  He got nearly 40feet though so nice attempt. And he got a free ride in a helicopter.
Ian, whose attempt to avoid a pothole and pick blackberrys from a ditch was not the best idea that morning.
Me, whos attempt at elbow down on a roundabout may have worked if I hadn't taken the jack up  plates that morning. (well actually it did work just not as planned)
Cant remember who it was, but a 5mph drop pulling out of a car park in front of 40+ Fazers in Wales (was it horseshoe pass or something).  Marks out of 10?
There were more, but those were the ones I was on the ride-outs with when they happened.
 
Although we did it with more style then lol
 
 
 

Why change the rear instead of the tyre?
 
You might get more choice but if you mess a corner the result will always be the same.  Training on how to ride a bike to the limiys of yourself and the road conditions is the only answer.  Either that or a sit down in a dark room a have an honesty session with yourself.
Btw.  If you need a lot more lean angle than you get from a Fazer 600 then something is wrong.  How many times have peeps been on a ride and watched the knee/peg/exhaust scrapers and then thought 'hang on, I'm going the same speed why aren't my pegs ripping up the road'.  Lean angle is for the track, peg etc scraping is for the piss take.
 

I'M BACK.

Nah, I am a pussycat now lol
 

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