Author Topic: What did you do with whatever else you've got? (Read 565012 times)

Hedgetrimmer · « **Reply #1425 on:** 13 May 2016, 04:05:53 pm »

Quote from: fazersharp on 13 May 2016, 03:54:32 pm

I love the "splay pattern" on your lid it makes it look like the lid is coming at me out the screen

Don't you think it's time you gave up the hallucinatory drugs at your age?

YamFazFan · « **Reply #1426 on:** 13 May 2016, 07:34:39 pm »

Visited the Rolling Stones exhibition at The Saatchi Gallery today. Well worth a look if you are a fan

http://www.stonesexhibitionism.com/

nickodemon · « **Reply #1427 on:** 14 May 2016, 08:39:23 pm »

Went for a spin on tuono v2

Hedgetrimmer · « **Reply #1428 on:** 15 May 2016, 09:57:12 pm »

Caned the Striple again today. Well, it's the only way it can be ridden

Went up to the Hartside in the afternoon, had a sniff around this:

Which looked nice through the rose-tinted specs

Then went home for tea, but hadn't had enough, so blatted down to the Lakes, where I did discover that the A591 is open again, yay! So now, for the first time since moving up here, I can access these views again:

Blencathra:

Skiddaw:

Thirlmere:

Then proper caned it home

Millietant · « **Reply #1429 on:** 16 May 2016, 09:57:43 pm »

Liz and I cycled the British Heart Foundation 50 mile Cotswolds ride yesterday with a few friends from Yorkshire.

Probably didn't help spending Saturday night in the pub (had to get up at 5.30 Sunday morning to get down to Cheltenham ready for an 8 o'clock start to the ride), but the ride was great and the weather was fantastic. A few nice hills (no nasty ones) and lots of quiet roads.

Weekend after next we do our annual Coast to Coast cycle ride (150 miles approx) - we have 30 riders with us and hope to raise a load of money for Macmillan Cancer Support - will post up a Just Giving link, hoping for a bit of support from you guys on here. This is our ninth consecutive year of organising and doing this ride - especially poignant as we've lost 3 family members to cancer in the last 18 months and Liz has a 30 yr old friend going through chemo right now.

nickodemon · « **Reply #1430 on:** 16 May 2016, 10:01:10 pm »

That's a really great thing you are doing. Well done for your 50 mile ride and best of luck raising funds for your cancer charities.

esetest · « **Reply #1431 on:** 17 May 2016, 06:02:32 pm »

Washed and chamoised. the Guzzi , then rode it to Bibury via the Mendips , Longleat , Bath , and Corsham .

esetest · « **Reply #1432 on:** 17 May 2016, 06:07:50 pm »

Quote from: Millietant on 16 May 2016, 09:57:43 pm

Thats fantastic , good luck with your other challenge , finished mine on Sunday , completed the my Marathon challenge and have raised £75 for BHF .
Liz and I cycled the British Heart Foundation 50 mile Cotswolds ride yesterday with a few friends from Yorkshire.

Probably didn't help spending Saturday night in the pub (had to get up at 5.30 Sunday morning to get down to Cheltenham ready for an 8 o'clock start to the ride), but the ride was great and the weather was fantastic. A few nice hills (no nasty ones) and lots of quiet roads.

Weekend after next we do our annual Coast to Coast cycle ride (150 miles approx) - we have 30 riders with us and hope to raise a load of money for Macmillan Cancer Support - will post up a Just Giving link, hoping for a bit of support from you guys on here. This is our ninth consecutive year of organising and doing this ride - especially poignant as we've lost 3 family members to cancer in the last 18 months and Liz has a 30 yr old friend going through chemo right now.

slimwilly · « **Reply #1433 on:** 22 May 2016, 07:32:41 pm »

I bought some oil and filter and there on the shelf was a tail tidy ,so on impulse I bought one for the fireblade.
While I did it I also removed the rear pegs, that was a pain, had to split the subframe, the retaining bolts are inside the frame.
Before

and after

esetest · « **Reply #1434 on:** 22 May 2016, 09:53:33 pm »

Went to Whitehall garden centre , got some bark , had a coffee and a chocolate cake , and spent a couple of hours enjoying the garden .

Billy Balthorpe · « **Reply #1435 on:** 22 May 2016, 10:27:24 pm »

Picked this up yesterday. So that's two of these ive got now in the same colours.

Its a mess, mouse nests everywhere, when I eventually got the tank open it was horrible. The fork stanchions are focced, as are chain and sprockets, cant get the callipers off, exhaust is standard and was only fitted 12 months before the bike was left in a garden, so hopefully I can rescue it.

Hedgetrimmer · « **Reply #1436 on:** 22 May 2016, 11:01:40 pm »

Quote from: Billy Balthorpe on 22 May 2016, 10:27:24 pm

Picked this up yesterday. So that's two of these ive got now in the same colours.

Its a mess, mouse nests everywhere, when I eventually got the tank open it was horrible. The fork stanchions are focced, as are chain and sprockets, cant get the callipers off, exhaust is standard and was only fitted 12 months before the bike was left in a garden, so hopefully I can rescue it.

Breaks your heart to see such a lovely bike left to rot like that

ChristoT · « **Reply #1437 on:** 24 May 2016, 12:13:34 am »

I went to Rhossili on Sunday, and got 2 flights in on my hang glider!

Even better, those two flights were enough to see me signed off! As of Thursday, I will be a hang glider Club Pilot!

red98 · « **Reply #1438 on:** 24 May 2016, 06:32:48 am »

well done christo

......now,put the glider away and get out on your fazer

Exupnut · « **Reply #1439 on:** 24 May 2016, 07:51:32 am »

Nice vid Christo...I'm impressed.

noggythenog · « **Reply #1440 on:** 24 May 2016, 09:22:28 am »

That looks brilliant Christo id love to try it some day, nice landing too. Taken you a long time to get there with the weather but looks well worth it

downey · « **Reply #1441 on:** 24 May 2016, 10:54:41 pm »

bloody hell christo that looks class ,id say there was a lot of bad landings to get that good,,or is it dead easy and anyone could do it

,might buy one actually and find a hill ,looks deadly

ChristoT · « **Reply #1442 on:** 24 May 2016, 11:14:49 pm »

Over a year of training to get there! It's amazing though, can't recommend it enough. That said, buying an eBay wing and bombing off a hill WILL result in you getting hurt or killed.

Best advice: look at the BHPA website, find a local school, and sign up for a fun day or a tandem. Cheap, fun, and the best way to decide if the sport is for you.

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ChristoT · « **Reply #1443 on:** 26 May 2016, 10:28:33 pm »

Got formally signed off!

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mickvp · « **Reply #1444 on:** 27 May 2016, 09:54:07 am »

Nice one christo mate, looks like a blast. Need to be a bloody big set of wings to carry my heft though

nickodemon · « **Reply #1445 on:** 28 May 2016, 08:33:45 pm »

That must be some adrenalin rush taking off and breathing the air miles up with fantastic views. Brilliant

nickodemon · « **Reply #1446 on:** 28 May 2016, 08:39:21 pm »

I fitted a gabro racing v2 / v5 chip to my v2 tuono. Only tried in v2 mode and it's much smoother and a bit more power.. I havent tried in v5 (bonkers mode )

Yet

. Fitted my reflashed tuono v4 ecu and did the throttle handling and throttle learning, now i need to recalibrate my aprc settings...

Tangoman · « **Reply #1447 on:** 29 May 2016, 08:48:52 pm »

In between servicing the Fazer built and extension to my man shed a little 10 x 12 building just fitting it out over the summer

markie_wales · « **Reply #1448 on:** 31 May 2016, 05:26:43 pm »

Of for a not very muddy ride (it's drying pout nicely) round Salisbury Plain on the KTM with a mate who hadn't been off road before, so a bit of a wobbler still

cheers

Markie

esetest · « **Reply #1449 on:** 03 June 2016, 06:49:31 pm »

Washed and chamoised the Guzzi .