Quote from: Earache on 11 December 2014, 07:09:42 am

No tervehdys Sasu, niin mä vähän arvelinkin... meitä on siis nykyään kaksi täällä, Mä asustelen tosin tätä nykyä Espanjassa.


Sorry guys for writing Finnish, it just happens that me and Sasu are both Finnish.

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I hope you are not insulting the  rest of us !!! 

Haha, no, we are nice people 

Got my first experience on ice today, but no snow expected for at least a week. Ice was a non-event today, still made me ride verrry carefully.

Hi Sasu, nice little experiment there, your from scandinavia i guess, perhaps Finland?

That kind of mileage from a tyre is something I can only dream of 

In the past when living in Finland i did not manage such high mileage from my tyres, a maximum was between 6-10.000 miles.
The road surfaces here in Spain are really good and since there are no harsh winters they stay so.
One other secret for tyre longevity is that i never do burnouts, do not do 1st gear revving from traffic lights, and i almost never revv a cold engine (this applies to tyres too). I ride 40 highway miles daily to work, do some city riding if needed, tour a lot on the bike and occasionally i ride some great mountain twities with friends(scratching footpegs at way above legal speeds) the diablo stradas have coped with this kind of riding very well. my yearly mileage is around 13.000 miles, so a pair that last like the stradas would be ideal, meaning one tyre set per year.

Hi,


Its been a while since i'v been in the market for new tyres.. my current Pirelli Diablo Strada's have lasted for 16.000 miles(25.000km), highway riding, city riding and occasional twisty mountain road blasting on the beautiful Spanish roads!!(yes i wear them from the sides too ) 

but now its time for new ones. I have always favored the Diablos on my past sport bikes and the stradas on lower powered once, but they do not make them anymore, such a shame since they were cheap and great all weather rubber.. Had a pair of Michelin pilot roads on a cbr 600 in the past, ok tyres but not as versatile as the Diablo stradas, some bridgestone (BT 020, BT 016) but those were total crap, the only time i have had a serious close crash was on my old CBR 900RR with BT 020's, awful rain tyres..

My question is, what tyre would equal the old outgone Diablo stradas in price, longetivity and specially GRIP (excellent tyre in wet, track and dry)! i do about 10.000 miles a year on my bike and currently on tight budget since i'm planing to pay my apartment by next summer...


-The michelin pilot road 2 is seemingly a good choice but the price is high and i'v heard mixed feedback about the longevity..
-Pirelli diablos are great gripping tyres but have a softer compound, meaning less miles..
-Mez z6 is apparently a re-badged pirelli diablo?
- Mez Z8, any good?


suggestions and opinions on different tyres welcome! [size=78%] [/size]

Buying a new helmet is not such simple thing... during the 20 years i have ridden a bike i have owned  Nollan, Bieffe, Shoei, Suomy, Scorpion, and Arai helmets.


Currently i use an Arai Chaser V helmet that i got for a good price on ebay. Definetely the best helmet i have ever used, the quallity and comfort are excellet and although the price is a bit high on Arai's you get an excellently designed and manufactured helmet. Suomy helmets are good too, but are no match to Arai in quallity.
 Shoei manufectures quallity products too, but the one Shoei ride i have owned was absolutely horrible to use since it does not fit my head shape, but this became apparent only after about 20-30 minutes warring it.
So my advice is to try all helmets that interest you and buy the one that feels the best. But if Arai's suit your head shape, i definitely recomend it as a good long term investment on comfort and safety.

I had a fazer 600 that had 110k on it and a fazer thou that had 130k, I also had a trx850 for a short time that had 180k!

Impressive miles, specially on the TRX!!

did a 450 kilometers day trip on it 

My Fazer with my mates Triumph triple. By the way took this piccy with an HTC wildfire thought it came out well.

Although i'v never been a fan of yellow, i have to admit that everytime i see a yellow/black Fazer i feel like getting rid of my Grey one, it looks absolutely great!!

I am lucky down here on the North Costa Blanca, I ride with a group every Sunday morning , Brits , Dutch, Germans in our group.
I am not resident here and to be honest I may keep it that way, if I take out residencia it is compulsory to get a Spanish licence so will stick with my UK(Euro)licence for as long as I can.
Lew

If you have the possibility to live here without the residencia, then you have no worries about the licence..
I need to be resident since i work here and support the troubled state by donating some hundreds of €'s to the tax office every month.

Quote from: Motorbreath on 13 August 2013, 11:59:30 pm

Which city it was?

I'm from Spain and I've never been fined for filtering, and only once for speeding  . Filtering is a grey area that depends on how hard the city's council tries to get money, if it happens that somebody there hates or likes bikes and how dangerous the action seemed to the police. It is not a good idea to filter on a solid line anyway.

In cities like Madrid and Granada you have advanced motorcycle stoplines. I think that nobody is going to fine you if you filter to reach them if the cars are fully stopped and you do it slowly even if you do not leave the 1'5m.

Parking on the sidewalk is allowed in some cities and forbidden in others, so when you travel it seems you have to study each council's local rules. Radar where the speed sign changes are increasing. It is a theft. They mostly control speeding at the sorrounding of towns or at the end of descents. Never where the traffic is very light -no matter the accidents, according to the former chief's words-. The 50% discount is very embarrasing and for many law experts it is considered actually illegal.

It was Altea Costa Blanca North, Alicante province Bike for filtering, and the car speeding fine A-P23 up Narvonne?, parking incident Teulada/Benissa Alicante province. Having a moan but loving my life here in Spain, but I will be hanging onto my British licence as long as I can as I have been told when I get my Spanish licence I will have points straight away.
Lew

Hi there!


I live in Spain too, Barcelona is my home city. Cops here suck big time, specially if you are a foreigner who cant speak good enough Spanish.. I have been living here for almost 2 years and i have been stopped only once,it was a routine traffic control with 7 cops bitching on me about almost everything...  i do around 1000-1500km a month commuting to work and weekend trips around Catalunya and the French border.. I do filtering all the time since here its the big city traffic and a bike is the only good choice here(+ coming from Finland i have the chance to ride 12 months a year instead of 6 month!). Regarding the Driving licence mystery, cops hate foreign licences due to the fact of not being able to deduce points and if you haven't done anything wrong to fine you its hard for the young macho's to just let you go.. I have had a big argue with 3 cops about my licence(EU-licence), the cops say you have to change it for a Spanish one, but a the "DGT=Trafico" they say there is no need to change it, but after 2 years of living here you should register your licence to Spain. The process costs 50€ for a medical check and 10€(mostly tax) to the DGT=Trafico + a week or two of waiting for the your original licence to travel to Madrid and back, during that period you will have a temporary paper as your licence and you are not allowed to drive outside the country(Spain). So all in all you have to pay 60€ for the privilege of being fined by loosing points.. And for me as i hold a Finnish ABC licence from the beginning of the 90's, my licence is of a very long duration, its valid until 2047 without any need for renewal. That seemed to be a big problem for the Spanish authorities too!! I'll try to just continue driving without doing anything to my DL, unless i get into big trouble that forces me to register the licence.. Not sure if the local insurance companies can wash their hands in case of an accident if you are resident here,riding a Spanish Plated bike with an unregistered EU licence... but even if cops and some other things suck here, can't fault the beautiful women and the awsome weather!! 


By the way any more members of this forum living in Spain, would appreciate some riding company, since i'm mostly a lonely rider here.

I live in Spain and even if we have the ++30c summer i have heard the fan come on 2 times, the second time was just a idle test in my parking place after fixing a slight coolant leak from one hose, it was frustrating to wait 15min(after a long ride) for the fan to finally come on! But i prefer it this way, my ex- VFR800 was running the fan all the time even in the winter(and leaking coolant from under the rad cap until the bloody fan stopped coming on due to loss of coolant) what a crap bike it was....