What did you do to your bike today ??
- Stonesie
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ??
I rode with some friends to escort a Scottish friend home up to the Scottish boarders with a Pit stop at the Manor Cafe near Leyburn on the way up to Kielder for lunch at the castle where we met her other half and they showed us some nice roads on the way to Longtown where we said out farewell's.
We took a slightly quicker route back from Kielder Castle with a fuel stop in Penrith then non-stop home avoiding motorways from there left me with my first aches on this Sprint, 355 miles in total and only slight knee ache to show for it after 3 hours without a break, and less than half a tank used on the dash in that 130 mile stint.
Thinking back 130 miles had me getting nervous on the MT-10
Might refit the standard exhaust for my next 12 hour day though
Edit to add detail, I was knackered after all that and got sunburn on my head, in SCOTLAND! what the hell
We took a slightly quicker route back from Kielder Castle with a fuel stop in Penrith then non-stop home avoiding motorways from there left me with my first aches on this Sprint, 355 miles in total and only slight knee ache to show for it after 3 hours without a break, and less than half a tank used on the dash in that 130 mile stint.
Thinking back 130 miles had me getting nervous on the MT-10
Might refit the standard exhaust for my next 12 hour day though
Edit to add detail, I was knackered after all that and got sunburn on my head, in SCOTLAND! what the hell
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ??
So they won't be able to track your movements ?Kwacky wrote:Debugged the MV
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Got my gixxer out for the first time in about 6 weeks. I'd got used to riding my Ducati Scrambler so much that I couldn't find the pegs on my gixxer. When I did finally find them I thought fook this. Way too uncomfortable for me now. I'm thinking of selling the gixxer.
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I work for them , I thought you had worked it outStMarks wrote: So they won't be able to track your movements ?
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Nice run out, fast and slow, chilled and manic..... Great fun lmao..... warm weather makes riding so much more enjoyable.
found some new roads, and some old favorites..... followed two muppets wearing shorts.... bloody mad!!
She needs a good clean now though!
found some new roads, and some old favorites..... followed two muppets wearing shorts.... bloody mad!!
She needs a good clean now though!
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Dropped my daughter off home and went for a quick evening blast on the slug,it’ surprisingly pulls well in the cold evening air
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Let me assure you that my powers of deduction fall far short of that level of determination.Kwacky wrote: I work for them , I thought you had worked it out
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Went over to Caffeine and Machine with Perkles. Had a pizza and put the world to rights.
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rode the slug down some amazing empty B roads with an MV up my arse
That bike makes me grin from ear to ear
That bike makes me grin from ear to ear
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Took the SUV into work. A nice ride in once I got some petrol. The local petrol station is having some work done so no fuel. The next place is the services at Junction 2. £1.50 a litre.
The roads were fairly busy. I reckon traffic was at about 70 or 80% of what I would normally see.
The roads were fairly busy. I reckon traffic was at about 70 or 80% of what I would normally see.
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Holy feck! We are paying about AU$1.50 a litre atm (£0.82)Kwacky wrote:£1.50 a litre.
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It went down to around £1.02 a litre in lockdown a year ago... I was paying £1.43 last weekend but that was for the good stuff, they were out of 95 octane so it got a tank of V-power, the bike seems to like it.
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It's about £1.27 a litre by me. Motorway services always charge extra.
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I haven't been able to afford a tank of Vpower in the car for a long time now. Prices are getting silly again.
Does anyone else feel that electricity prices are going to rocket once electric vehicles are the majority?
Does anyone else feel that electricity prices are going to rocket once electric vehicles are the majority?
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Bought the Street a set of Metzeler M9RRs to be fitted next week.
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I think we're still a decent length of time from EVs being the majority in sales, nevermind In actual majority gross numbers on the road. So in other words I think it's too early to make predictions....or at least make them accurately.Cav wrote: Does anyone else feel that electricity prices are going to rocket once electric vehicles are the majority?
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Not sure that is true.D41 wrote:I think we're still a decent length of time from EVs being the majority in sales, nevermind In actual majority gross numbers on the road. So in other words I think it's too early to make predictions....or at least make them accurately.Cav wrote: Does anyone else feel that electricity prices are going to rocket once electric vehicles are the majority?
Manufacturers are selling as many as they can make.....but just like everything in the UK these days, the infrastructure to support that is sadly lacking .
Bear in mind that installing a solar panel system makes fuelling an EV virtually free. Its road charging that will be high on the agenda as a result.