what have you done to your "bike" today

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lloydie wrote:
agentpineapple wrote:should have had a brown seat, that way you'll hide the stains when meeting farm machinery coming the other way.... :eek2
Ha ha feck that was touch and go !
i still have visions of that moment. :roll:
missing the noise, not the vibes. However never say never!
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Your not the only one ! Proper gave me the cringe face . You lucky bugger
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bigtwinthing wrote:And that was uncalled for, iam filling up now. :lol:
Not as often as filling up your Storm, though.
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I rode it for the first time in ages.

Come to the conclusion I have to fit normal bars. Im getting old. :thumbdown:

I can ride our Bandit 1200 all day pain free. Hour on the VTR kills me.

Love it to much to sell it so have to make it work.
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NZSpokes wrote:I rode it for the first time in ages.

Come to the conclusion I have to fit normal bars. Im getting old. :thumbdown:

I can ride our Bandit 1200 all day pain free. Hour on the VTR kills me.

Love it to much to sell it so have to make it work.
Want me to ride it for you? :D
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A couple of pics (avoiding the bins) of my new Transalp beastie after this morning's thunderstorm. Shot around Colchester - Garrison Church, a Victorian wooden colonial style building now owned by the Russian Orthodox Church. And at Bourne Mill built in 1591.

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Cleaned out the crappy chain lube tar accumulated around the gearbox sprocket and rear wheel (like bike knb cheese), replaced missing bodywork panel screws, fitted SS brake plug pins. Still to do fit MOSFET R/R and Eager Beaver accessory fuse kit.
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That looks tidy Wicky :thumbup:
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sorry, its no good without bins........
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Looks good does that :thumbup:
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It may be that your whole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others.

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AMCQ46 wrote:sorry, its no good without bins........
Ah no bins but you can see into that lady's bathroom, the one having a shower ! 8O
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tony.mon wrote:
bigtwinthing wrote:And that was uncalled for, iam filling up now. :lol:
Not as often as filling up your Storm, though.

true it does about 115 before a fill up!!!!
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Wicky wrote:A couple of pics (avoiding the bins) of my new Transalp beastie after this morning's thunderstorm. Shot around Colchester - Garrison Church, a Victorian wooden colonial style building now owned by the Russian Orthodox Church. And at Bourne Mill built in 1591.

Image

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Cleaned out the crappy chain lube tar accumulated around the gearbox sprocket and rear wheel (like bike knb cheese), replaced missing bodywork panel screws, fitted SS brake plug pins. Still to do fit MOSFET R/R and Eager Beaver accessory fuse kit.

that sump guard looks like you have collected a dustbin lid. Serves a purpose though. Great looking bike.get it on some green lanes.
missing the noise, not the vibes. However never say never!
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i went to Colchester for 6 months, didn't see anything really. mind you i was in the Army prison! ah they were the days. Fit as a fiddle when i came out. Run every bloody where.
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The MCTC just a stone's throw away from me! Apparently nice pig farm there and we've played MCTC at cricket and borrowed a few. And many moons ago met an ex-inmate when hitchhiking - his sentence was for his entrepreneurship when serving in Germany setting up an unofficicial Land Rover spares business :lol:

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bigtwinthing wrote:i went to Colchester for 6 months, didn't see anything really. mind you i was in the Army prison! ah they were the days. Fit as a fiddle when i came out. Run every bloody where.
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