Motorcycle Live - NEC

Rideouts, Trackdays, Pub meets and other events
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Post by duke63 »

Anyone going this week? I see D6 is working there part of the week.
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Jack said he's going on a couple of days.

I can't make it. I'm in work all this week as someone in the team is on holiday and Sam is working on Saturday.
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Not this year. I should be there next year.
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I went for a couple of hours today , I can't say there was anything that blew me away , apart from a couple of new Ducatis which apart from the fugly exhaust looks the same as the old ones , new ZX10 was nice but I really liked the Z1000 , I think it looks mean

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I'll process some more and do a photo thread , if there is anything that you would like to see just tell me and I'll get some shots of it.
I am trying to get a model sorted but its proving difficult think I left it too late ;(
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Zx10 pics please
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Jack wrote:I went for a couple of hours today , I can't say there was anything that blew me away , apart from a couple of new Ducatis which apart from the fugly exhaust looks the same as the old ones , new ZX10 was nice but I really liked the Z1000 , I think it looks mean

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I am trying to get a model sorted but its proving difficult think I left it too late ;(
Any others of the z1000 Jack? Love the front pic...
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That looks ace.
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Trying to go but Spudlet 2 wants to go as well and with the weekends taken up with footie, the chances are looking very slim
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I went today, took a few clients on a freebie. Not impressed, I know we are living through possibly the greatest age of the superbike from a performance point of view, but nothing floated my boat, not a sausage. The best I can say is the 1299 and the 959 where very nice, and I want a 959.
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Im knackered. Had a good day. Had some good chats with people and had some moan about daft things. But overall was a great experience
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Did anyone moan about the cheap silver levers? I would have.
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No actually. Some guy moaned about not mounting a sat nav where you look through the screen. Because he doesnt want to look down..... But it would block the view of the road. Lol
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To be fair. All the moans/criticism was very minor and followed by praise which was nice
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I tried to sell a sprint by offering to throw in one of the female design engineers lol
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D6 wrote:I tried to sell a sprint by offering to throw in one of the female design engineers lol
Is she worth it?
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The bloke was about 60. So for him defo. To be fair he dud say he couldn't handle either one
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:D

Do you make any sales at the NEC?
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Going today.

First working day off since i came back from Como at the beginning of August.

Phone will be dumped at the bottom of the bag and switched off. :D
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Good day out and met Rocket and his mate their purely by chance. You need to make sure you exercise that hand regularly, mate. Good to see you again.

Honda - A company that seems uninterested in selling decent motorcycles anymore. One quarter of theri stand space was taken up by Honda cars (facepalm) And no RCVs there at all - Neither a Motogp bike nor the road bike.

Yamaha - They have a world champion but the Motogp bike there was still Rossi's. :D

Spearmint Rhino girls sat on MVs is a win-win.

I actually don't mind the 959 aftermarket exhaust, were it to be a freebie included i still might consider one.

Do quite like the next GSXR1000 though its was only on a stand and not able to sit on it. It doesn't have M50 Brembos though.

The new ZX10 is nice but not keen on the colours especially the black. It looks like its been sprayed with a can of Halfords black satin in someones garage to me. Quite a few H2s and H2Rs sprinkled around the show. Obviously many have been bought as showpieces.

The Yamaha R1 in anniversary yellow speed blocks looks very smart - until you get up close and see the speedblocks are just stickers that can be peeled off. I sincerely hope the production bike isn't like that.

I have a few photos to put up later.
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duke63 wrote:Good day out and met Rocket and his mate their purely by chance. You need to make sure you exercise that hand regularly, mate. Good to see you again.

Honda - A company that seems uninterested in selling decent motorcycles anymore. One quarter of theri stand space was taken up by Honda cars (facepalm) And no RCVs there at all - Neither a Motogp bike nor the road bike.

Yamaha - They have a world champion but the Motogp bike there was still Rossi's. :D

Spearmint Rhino girls sat on MVs is a win-win.

I actually don't mind the 959 aftermarket exhaust, were it to be a freebie included i still might consider one.

Do quite like the next GSXR1000 though its was only on a stand and not able to sit on it. It doesn't have M50 Brembos though.

The new ZX10 is nice but not keen on the colours especially the black. It looks like its been sprayed with a can of Halfords black satin in someones garage to me. Quite a few H2s and H2Rs sprinkled around the show. Obviously many have been bought as showpieces.

The Yamaha R1 in anniversary yellow speed blocks looks very smart - until you get up close and see the speedblocks are just stickers that can be peeled off. I sincerely hope the production bike isn't like that.

I have a few photos to put up later.
A Brutale with a soggy seat :). That would do me :)
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