Tank Slap - Motorcycle Forum

Kwacky wrote:

Perkles wrote:hung on to it for dear life in a very muddy field, I have never been so scared and smiled so much at the same time in my entire life on a motorbike

The weather was pretty crap on Saturday. Fair play for riding the kwak for the first time in that

never ridden a full on mx bike,never ridden it more than 50 yards ,never changed gear or been on a track before
said what the hell and hung on for dear life, it was an amazing experience and I cant wait to learn how to ride it properly

duke63 wrote:

Perkles wrote:

duke63 wrote:No the 748 will be sold. I don't have room for three bikes and I am getting to stiff for sportsbikes.

thats a shame you have put a lot of effort into that bike

I have had it for nearly 12 years. It’s been a great experience but my body doesn’t bend enough now to ride it properly.

Want to buy it?

erm ive now got 3 cars and three motorbikes, although i am single and can do as i please but got no room im afraid

There's room in my garage for me to look after it ...

Washed the Honda. It got pretty dirty on Saturday.

Did some polishing on the MV tank. The cloth key fob has very slightly scuffed the lacquer. A coating and polish with Meguiars. Cleaned that off then a coat of liquid crystal.

Fitted an Evotech engine guard and rear bobbins to the Scrambler. Well, I fitted them yesterday and not today. Not sure whether to buy a tail tidy for it? I quite like the reg plate half way down the rear tyre. Evotech short levers are on the radar next.

Snap with my Brutale. I prefer leaving the number plate where it is rather than ruin the look of the rear with a tail tidy

Kwacky wrote:Snap with my Brutale. I prefer leaving the number plate where it is rather than ruin the look of the rear with a tail tidy

I think it looks good on the Brutale

Fecking nothing.

Another weekend washed out

Washed it.

Evaluated once again whether it's worth keeping.

It might be time to say goodbye.

To biking or just the bike?

The bike for good, and biking for a bit.

With a heavy heart, I've got to look at the big picture.

I'll be moving to somewhere where I need to commute to work.
Doable on the bike but not nice in the winter.

So the original plan was to get a cheap shitbox city car that could shuttle me back and forth, and hopefully not break down.

With the revelation that sometimes my daughter will have to get the bus from Telford to Wolverhampton, and sometimes I'll have to take her in, I'm not comfortable with transporting her in the aforementioned shitbox!

So I need something a bit better, and as the house purchase will completely drain our funds, in order to do so I have to look at raising money to do so.

Hence looking at selling the machine that, for the most part has spent 2 years doing not much at all.

When I leave the RAF in 18 months or so, I'll be getting a lump sum payout as part of my pension. That'll be the deciding point as to whether to get back into biking or a mid-life crisis sports car.

That's fair enough.

But don't disappear.

You still owe me breakfast

Getting one of each would be a mid-life crisis worth having.
Just sayin'.

Kwacky wrote:That's fair enough.

But don't disappear.

You still owe me breakfast

Lol, I know. I'll still be around.

D41 wrote:Getting one of each would be a mid-life crisis worth having.
Just sayin'.

That's also an option I've considered, and may explore. I suppose it all depends how much the payout comes to.

You would just need a 23yr old pole dancer girlfriend for the full mid life crisis set then.

Testing

duke63 wrote:You would just need a 23yr old pole dancer girlfriend for the full mid life crisis set then.

All things considered, that doesn't sound like such a bad idea. Sign me up.

duke63 wrote:You would just need a 23yr old pole dancer girlfriend for the full mid life crisis set then.

I don't think my bonus will be that big!

duke63 wrote:You would just need a 23yr old pole dancer girlfriend for the full mid life crisis set then.

Where do I sign up?