What did you do to your bike today ??

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It's very bright??

Just don't get matching lid & leathers and you'll be OK.
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Black with a couple of tankslap decals
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kingfixer wrote:I quite like this but some of it needs to be orange ??
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Can't you photo shop anything to get ideas? I quite like this

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Plugged my tyre
Not a neat job but doesn't leak air so not too bad!Image

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It'll scrub down to nothing once you ride it a mile or two.

Assuming you lean that far over.

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Looks like he has been getting plenty of lean tbh 8)

Look newish tyres also Rossgo. I hate it when you puncture nearly new tyres :@
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D - yes mate I'm.hoping it will wear down. Tomorrow I'm.on a LLR (Look Lean and Roll) Course. I did it a couple of years back with the advanced lot well worth it. Tomorrow I'll repeat the same course. Great fun to be honest. Basically teaches you about counter steering in a controlled environment eg last time i watched blokes almost getting knee down (almost meaning they were actually allowed to as it is a DSA MOD 1 examining area and they didn't want us messing up the tarmac!) This was all at approx 10-20MPH lol

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Blade - yes mate they are blinking new! Maybe 1000 miles on them now (went to Wales for a play a week after getting them fitted!) I do try to use up my tyre. Got to love the lean!!

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Ride the AT in the snow.
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Fruit salad chews are not the best tyre plugs out there :D
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Went on the Look Lean and Roll course. Great fun. Really crank over the bike constantly. I dont think I do too badly on the road but 90% of the time we are up right on this course 98% of the time we are on the edges of the tyres! It was a wet day and at first I didn't feel it but when the rain stopped I seemed to get a bit more confident and then i was cranking it right over. Great time had by all

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Got out on the Tuono for a bit this afternoon, called into Fowlers for a cuppa and a nose around the bikes.
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My OCD got the better of me again (blush)

Went to do a coolant change and entered up cleaning the expansion reservoir inside and out, replacing some fasteners, Scotch briting the headers and giving a good dose of ACF50 (facepalm)
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I stopped the traffic on the M40 so I could get a swan off the 3rd lane onto the side embankment.
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Bloody hell, brave of you. So glad we live in our society where we have good people who will do this sort of thing.

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Kwacky wrote:I stopped the traffic on the M40 so I could get a swan off the 3rd lane onto the side embankment.
That was very "game" of you. :)
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Did a heap of yard work today so know my body is going to hurt tomorrow so thought i’d double up and get a ride in and make the ache worthwhile. Took the GB out for a thrash for an hour. Still don’t regret buying it, you can thrash the arse off it and still be within semi legal speed limits (lol)
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Filled two unsilenced vtwins up with fuel stabilizer and fresh fuel and left them running with the garage door open (happy)

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Blade wrote:Filled two unsilenced vtwins up with fuel stabilizer and fresh fuel and left them running with the garage door open (happy)

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How come you ran them with the exhausts off Blade? I take it you are prepping them for winter?
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Ring of Red today around the M25.... Man its cold....
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