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Good on you Geo, just start getting the mileage in now so you'll be in shape to enjoy it. Decent contact points - shorts, shoes & gloves will make a big difference. I'd join you if it wasn't all the way down in that there SE

Happy birthday Tony! Hope this is going to be a better year for you

Kev L wrote:The bloke(!) in the pic is Grayson Perry, artist with a penchant for dressing as a child/woman and in the box was his teddy!!!

Golly - I didn't recognise him. Quick google reveals all. The teddy is called Alan Measles..
Tis a world of strangeness

Can't remember where I first saw the pic, might well have been on Lee's thread, but it is a thing of wonder in so many ways. Who, and why, and mostly - what's in the box? Someone must know. Love the composition of the picture, too. Is that genuinely you? :P Why look so grumpy, at least you look fabu...

That's my back yard there, Benny bach.. Your backdrop there is the very fine Glyder Fach at 999m. Snowdon itself is just off to the left, following the line of your Akras. The pointy little peak near the top right is Castell y Gwynt, which -for you poetic souls- translates as Castle of the Winds. It...

callam_nffc wrote:the idea would be to have money with me, or just kick seven shades of sh1t out of him and burn off lol

Steady on old chap, this isn't the Gixxer forum, you know

Well, if you're flaring yer link pipes, you may as well do it properly

The R1/R6 unit I fitted had a slight recess on the back which limited the surface area against the frame. I guess the unit is big & finny enough but I stuck a bit of copper plate in the recess which filled out the (I dunno, less than a mil?) gap, using thermal conduction paste. Probably a bit OC...

Kev L wrote:

Whoa Nelly wrote:Ah, the sensuous latin temprament that demands total devotion..
My old girl gets a slap on the butt and a squirt of FS365 if she's lucky

What about the bike?

*Foghorn Leghorn voice* Ah keep pitchin 'em, you keep hittin 'em!

Here's mine, more or less as it is now



Stock apart from:
Moriwaki titanium zorsts & stage 1 tune
Nitron shock
R1 Reg/rec, APE CCTs

Forks next!

Virt wrote:Don't throw the bike down the road then

Sadly, the Tuono comes from the factory looking like it's been down the road

Good to see you back on here Tony; sorry its not with cheerier news. It won't stay crap forever - much as it must feel like it. I've suffered with chronic back problems and know that they are bad enough on their own, without all the other stuff you have on your plate. You'll get past it all, move on...

Ah, the sensuous latin temprament that demands total devotion..
My old girl gets a slap on the butt and a squirt of FS365 if she's lucky

You want a Firestorm, you do :D I guess any of the IL4s will scratch that itch for top end rush, from the (sort of) sensible Blade to the barking ZX, but my experience is that by the time they start to really feel and sound special, you're already heading way over the speed limit. Time & place &...