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Great job Al, just chop the back end off and it will be perfect

Cheers Podders. I am liking it the more I ride it. I may get a Storm though in April. I now have a full workshop at work with a decent Welder, Lathe and Burning gear, I need to fiddle a bit. I am still hankering at chopping the back off a Storm and making a single seat jobby.

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Crap grey wheels to silver, silver pannier rails to black. Much better.

I had some pm, s Kev are you interested?

My mate has a Ohlins shock with preload for sale. its set up for 14 stone and has done 8000 miles on the bike.

£370 posted. no pics at the moment though sorry.

I never ever thought I'd buy a Varadero XL1000. Aka the "Gravelwing" & it's no looker by any stretch. I purchased mine from a friend who'd had a static junction tumble which broke his wife's leg with a pannier & somehow pierced the fuel tank (not with the pannier :lol:) This is a ...

well 2 x speeding tickets in 1 week on the same road, I always thought it was a 50, turns out its 40. so 46mph and offered a course, then 45 and a £90 fine and 3 points bugger

BTT good to see the mandatory wheelie bin is neatly mounted on the luggage rack :lol: thats the small one :D I am actually very impressed with the luggage, apparently the boxes fall off in a smash! is that surprising? I am training my pillion to hold them as she plummets to the ground from 5 feet up.

just coming up for 19,000 miles now.

Hopefully, new coated wheels, and luggage rack and top box plate. Really happy with the results.

podman wrote: ↑Thu Nov 16, 2017 2:39 pm

bigtwinthing wrote: ↑Wed Nov 15, 2017 10:16 pm

Pics not working bud...

Nope. bloody photobucket of poooo

Kwak sx1000 are pretty good, apart from 4000 miles service intervals.