... his second marrigae) lives in the States now and owns her own bike. I've had a bike since 16, excpet for a 4 yr break. But took a big break from road bikes and did a lot of trail riding (green lane riding I think you call it). My My wife spent 6 yrs on the back of a bike in a previous relationship, ...

... and they have changed the person I am like I never expected. Started the 'online' bike chatter on daytona600.org when I bought the Daytona. First road bike since I was 23. Followed the crowd to tankslap "the original" but after crashing my bike rather badly at a trackday and going thru' ...

Itchy wrote:.....and well, there was this straight road, see...

Ahhh, I see. One of those many private motorways that you have down there in Norfolk.

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Itchy wrote:152. :/

Is that 1:52 round Snett' Itchy.??

Lol, I should be so lucky!

Had a quick pootle out after work with NJ2288 (you know, the guy I convinced to sign up and who's made one post since!!), had a fantastic time and well, there was this straight road, see...

... course) then the moment you find clean tarmac again, normal service is resumed. Metzeler really have done their homework on these tyres and normal road surfaces, as opposed to spending a lot of time developing them on track. That said I'm looking forward to getting them out onto Donnington next ...

I test road one .. you will get on great with it. this is a little write up i did While I was looking at bikes recently Ducati were offering test rides on the new 899 so I thought it would be a great opportunity to see what they ...

They're so good they let you go round a corner sideways

On gravel



I did my favourite trick of overtaking out of a corner without looking at the road to notice the large collection of road crap.

I've gone with the Bendix MRR. I should get them tomorrow. I'll do a review once they're bedded in. It wa a toss up between them and the mroe road orientated version but the bloke I spoke to said the MRR will be more than enough on the road and they're as good as the MF in various weather conditions. ...

I Changed Marquez for Lorenzo I really thought Jorge would take the fight to Marquez again this week. Gutted he didn't I m a Lorenzo fan and want to see him winning races again soon he is a classy rider.

Blade leading again what a shock lol

Go Spudda! That's a decent climb.

DaytonAndy wrote:I ran Ferrodo ds2500's in my Impreza. Best pad I've ever used by some margin. They weren't cheap though!

I used ds 3000s on my 911 ,not great on the road but utterly brilliant on track when you got them up to temp

this weeks update guys! 1 Steve Brown Blade 552 2 Darren Watts dizzy's 510 3 David Martin In Cider Knowledge 491 4 Simon Murray Duke63 442 5 Mark Smith Spudda's Hot Potato's 430 6 Nik King TurboTrolls 430 7 Stew Johnstone Stews superstars 410 8 Tank Slap Tankslappers 401 9 rachel moore pilchards 395...

... false; MF - SUPERSPORT SINTERED FRONT BRAKE PADS Performance orientated sintered pads to suit superbikes - for road and track day use. Bendix’s equivalent to EBC ‘HH’ or Carbone Lorraine SBK. * Sintered metal HH rated to exceed OE specification. * Superior stopping ...

... to a naked bike and looking at at getting an 05/06 Z1000 so selling my 06 ZX6R. Anyway the good bits Lots of extras, Akrpovic slip on race can (road legal) mapped and kicking out a genuine 122bhp at the rear wheel Ohlins fork internals Lots of carbon fibre bits R%G crash bobbins, bar ends and ...

The main noise I make in my lid is to giggle like a school girl when I thoroughly enjoy some bike related shenanigans, section of road, echo of exhaust note or stupid acceleration... :D But I do swear a lot at cars too. I actually got on the bike a couple of times when I was home. still ...

... That was last years race pace so pretty happy with that! I put the treadmill on 1-2% incline and find that once I get home I do better pace on the road.. think its the mental side of treadmill running is the worse, knowing you can step off at anytime, where at home I usually go out and back, so ...

... and never had a problem, but if I ever saw a White, Bull or Tiger and I wasn't in a cage I'd be worried. To be honest driving a car down the road (or bike ) is still the most likely thing to kill you in Oz! Don't let the stories and hype scare you, it's a great place, come for a visit! But ...

Le Mans 24hr. Just started. Absolutely love it. We are going next year I reckon. It's only 2 hours up the road.

Finished work early so took it for a bimble. Good. Lots of Friday traffic. Bad. Beautiful weather. Good. Coast Road was bumpy, gravelly and covered in sploshings of diesel. For frickin miles. Bad. Stopped bimble mode and attacked the last 25 minutes home. Frickin awesome! Nice ...