I've blown both fork seals following that MCN journo around Rutland a few weeks ago. Tell me why without telling me why I shouldn't get a new bike with a 4-year warranty?

Kwacky wrote: ↑29 Oct 2023, 20:30 Best 600 sportsbike.

Thoughts? It's 10.8K and I could probably get 4K for mine. So 7k for a new bike with a 4-year factory warranty?




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Cleaned it. Scrubbed up pretty good for a nearly 14 year old bike.

My brother in law has been waiting about a year for delivery of a defender, he's hopefully it will get delivered before Christmas Sent from my Pixel 6 Pro using Tapatalk But will he get insurance for it? many insurnace companies now wont insure ...

It's the outgoing 1250, I am tempted by the 1300 and it is much lighter but I think I will give it a couple of years to work the kinks out before I get one... Also after configuring one the way I would like it the price came out over £3K more than I'm paying for this 1250 Adventure ...

... is about £50 a month less on pcp and will never be in negative equity, which covers the increased insurance premium and then some over the first year. And I have a nice box of bits which will fit it nicely.

My brother in law has been waiting about a year for delivery of a defender, he's hopefully it will get delivered before Christmas

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Fitted some new rear indicators. The 13 year old originals were falling apart and looked like something out of the 90s. Swapped them for the standard OEM ones from a later bike.

... and IF I extend your working out, a brand new GSA comes with a free set of the aluminium panniers and inner bags... I will need panniers for next years trip to Spain and an aftermarket set runs up to £1K with inner bags so that's almost accounted for the insurance difference between a used one ...

So todays boredom discovery, an insurance quote on a new GSA... £2260, 2 year old GS Rally £1090, Back to the Ape (Aprilia Caponord 1200) £380 I think we have a winner. I will revisit the GS in a year or 2 so might keep the parts I have for one... But part of ...

So todays boredom discovery, an insurance quote on a new GSA... £2260, 2 year old GS Rally £1090, Back to the Ape (Aprilia Caponord 1200) £380 I think we have a winner. I will revisit the GS in a year or 2 so might keep the parts I have for one... But part of ...

Feckin hell... how long did it take for the dizziness to wear of [emoji1787] According to Strava algorithms I am not the fittest I've been over a 2 year window. I really wish I could compare to 2019/2020 when I was at my fittest. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20231009/1e26f4afad763f8899aff45f94dc33f9.jpg ...

... my local dealer for the 1300gs launch, there was free food and coffee so I thought why not? Well I won't be ordering one straight away, the first year of production always has problems to iron out. But I did get a quote for the 1250gs adventure, huge as it looks it's not much heavier. It should ...

... to grow and ship to the UK cheaper than UK farmers can supply. We import because UK farmers ruined their land being greedy by growing single crops year after year instead of rotating. Sent from my Pixel 6 Pro using Tapatalk

... be. Never going to happen though, for the same reason communism never works, we (society) don't see each other as equals. I've done my bit this year, I only did 236 miles on the bike between MOTs :D

... The above is worth a read. If you want to know why we have to import so much of our food (46% last year, most European countries are less than 10%), then this is why - Supermarkets call ALL the shots.

... how much packaging McDonald's goes through every single minute..!!! Which apparently amounts to just under two million tonnes per year. Staggering! Can't really blame McDonald's, they've been taking a decent stab at changing their business practices in order to be more eco-friendly....and ...

... indeed, and goes around the roundabout the wrong way!! 100% expecting exactly this from James when I have the challenge of teaching him in a few years. Sent from my Pixel 6 Pro using Tapatalk It’s definitely taking all my experience and skills as a workplace trainer/assessor to stay calm and ...

Warranty refund for my mountain bike saddle. 2 year warranty, it broke at 1 year 51 weeks and they refunded no questions asked!

... profits are 2.5million with more than that in the bank. Their assets are similar to that albeit they've invested over 7mil on new machines this year already but now they're not even letting people order a set of sidecutters to do some wiring maintenance jobs. A lot of things are not adding up ...