|
Post by steve63 on Jan 5, 2022 13:56:08 GMT 1
Thoroughly deserved in my opinion. I've watched Time Team from episode one. He and the program have done a huge amount to popularise Archaeology and an an interest in history to this country. I think David Beckham is well overdue though. He's done so much to popularise underwhelming football performances and having tattoos to the masses. Yes...well deserved. But his cunning plans and slug balancing act must of sealed it... Beckham? No chance... he hasn't missed a critical penalty. Not forgetting his coffee making skills using just mud, dandruff and spit.
|
|
|
Post by steve h on Jan 5, 2022 15:43:21 GMT 1
Farage for gong of some kind. Shame HMTQ thinks less of him than the likes of Savile, Harris (x3), and Hall to name just 3. Maybe Gadd will beat Farage to a gong.... (Hopefully pinned sideways up his rectum)
|
|
|
Post by brigitte on Jan 5, 2022 18:42:19 GMT 1
Spoked wheels are rubbish and look cr@p. I had spokes on my Fizz, my RD200, my DT125 and my 400 Four. Hated all of them. Couldn't keep them clean, the spokes rusted and would come loose and the rims rusted. The 400 back rim was so baggy it felt like it had a permanent puncture. I never had enough money or the skills to get it fixed. A set of alloys I could clean up and paint for a couple of quid. Took the rusty spoked wheels off the 200 slung them in a skip and fitted alloys off a later model. Painted the rusty spokes on the DT with silver paint just before I sold it. Putting spoked wheels on a modern (one that would have alloys on it originally) bike makes it look different. Different is not always better it's just different. The last bit is actually another unpopular opinion. I agree. When the RD 250 / 400 were new, alloy wheels were the thing you must have. Even when the styling was not so elegant ("Ochsenkarrenräder" in Germany). So I went with the maintenance free wheels and sold the spoke wheels for good money.
I can add the rear disc brake: Nice to have but decades later I prefer a drum brake. Easy maintenance again.
Brigitte
|
|
|
Post by steve h on Jan 8, 2022 17:59:55 GMT 1
Farage for gong of some kind (or a Peerage). Shame HMTQ thinks less of him than the likes of Savile, Harris (x3), and Hall to name just 3. Maybe Gadd will beat Farage to a gong.... (Hopefully pinned sideways up his rectum) Post ahmended to include a Peerage.
|
|
|
Post by marrcel on Jan 8, 2022 19:59:56 GMT 1
My bike is far more superior than yours😉
|
|
|
Post by wassy06 on Jan 14, 2022 11:01:12 GMT 1
A Vauxhall Vivaro is a much better van than a VW transporter
|
|
|
Post by steve h on Jan 14, 2022 11:10:45 GMT 1
A Vauxhall Vivaro is a much better van than a VW transporter I have a vivaro, it's ok and was hugely cheaper than a transporter...which they could not supply in the configuration I wanted. The covid prices of secondhand vans is just f..in mental.
|
|
|
Post by wassy06 on Jan 14, 2022 13:46:20 GMT 1
A Vauxhall Vivaro is a much better van than a VW transporter I have a vivaro, it's ok and was hugely cheaper than a transporter...which they could not supply in the configuration I wanted. The covid prices of secondhand vans is just f..in mental. Mine’s a 13 plate I drove a VW of a similar age and couldn’t believe how agricultural it was. I’m sure the bubble will burst at some point the same with houses and second hand cars.
|
|
|
Post by JonW on Jan 15, 2022 12:44:10 GMT 1
I have a vivaro, it's ok and was hugely cheaper than a transporter...which they could not supply in the configuration I wanted. The covid prices of secondhand vans is just f..in mental. Mine’s a 13 plate I drove a VW of a similar age and couldn’t believe how agricultural it was. I’m sure the bubble will burst at some point the same with houses and second hand cars. not until at least the end of 2022 / early 23. It'll probably be 'fixed' by inflation... which of course is a double edged sword. Anyway...
|
|
|
Post by steve63 on Jan 17, 2022 23:37:52 GMT 1
Just bought and in the middle of reading 'Ride' magazine so…....
'Adventure' bikes. Nope, not buying into that bullocks. Especially at £18, 573.
The Yamaha R7, no not the gorgeous 0W01 replacement homologation special, the gutless 72hp/700cc twin. Described as "light" at 188kg. I'm not having that either.
I could get the same thrill by taking two plugs out of my R1 and burning £6,000.
2022. The year when bike magazines think 188kg, 72hp and £8,200 is good.
And they wonder why older bike prices are so high 🤣
|
|
|
Post by steve h on Jan 17, 2022 23:39:27 GMT 1
Too true!
|
|
|
Post by steve63 on Jan 17, 2022 23:49:42 GMT 1
I saw something called something like 'Adventure Bike World.' It was like a show for 'adventure bike riders' with ride outs and side shows and long lines of these t@ssers on these big stupid bikes that do the 25 miles to Bridlington on hot sunny days and have sat navs and aluminium panniers on and I thought it was a spoof.....but it's real 🤣
|
|
|
Post by steve h on Jan 17, 2022 23:49:44 GMT 1
Adventure bikes..... When they come with a folding elephants foot stool as part of the tool kit maybe I'll be able to sit on one.
|
|
|
Post by JonW on Jan 18, 2022 1:37:54 GMT 1
I saw something called something like 'Adventure Bike World.' It was like a show for 'adventure bike riders' with ride outs and side shows and long lines of these t@ssers on these big stupid bikes that do the 25 miles to Bridlington on hot sunny days and have sat navs and aluminium panniers on and I thought it was a spoof.....but it's real 🤣 Yesterday in rush hour traffic a guy on a brand new big engine GS filters ahead of me and stops on the line to the side and in front of me at the lights. Good, thats what bikes should do... but... The road we are on goes left and right, hes between these two lanes... so where is he going. His road position looks to be aiming a little across my bows, so i think hes going left with me. Hes a bmw rider, so no need to indicate of course. The lights change, he waits... WTF?! I cant move as I'll turf him off. Eventually he rides away, across my bows. nice work my BMW. He accelerates onto the clear 3 lane road ahead and then as i follow he brakes hard. wtaf?! Im on it so i didnt take him out, but I could have if id not been on it. No idea why he did that, probably didnt think any car could pull away as fast as his BMW. Hmm... I follow him for about 10km. Hes a solid lanky bloke and a complete tosser. One time he stops over some AC water dropped by previous cars and starts looking left and right to make sure its not leaking lol I thought these were aircooled but i guess not, must be known leakers. At these lights since im next to him I can see that his bike is defo brand new. Not even dust on it and no heat marks on the stainless pipes. It has a massive, tall and wide in all directions, top box and more bars on the engine than the costa del sol. He also has a phone mount for his nav. It looks the perfect setup for travelling around the world... until you actually try to do that on a bike and realise the phone gets broken really quickly by vibration and the massive top box puts all the weight of the waaay too much stuff you thought you needed up so high that the bike is unstable. Proper w**ker spec then. Of course if you actually travel round the world you'll rue the day you picked a big GS, its 250kgs without luggage to pick up when it falls over. As we motor along the road my wife comments that hes a knob. lol. Yep. Hes wearing shiny suit trousers (great protection) and has a brand new KLIM jacket on - the huge KLIM logo was a giveaway lol. The jacket looks like it should have a tag on, its that new. He proceeds over the next miles to stand up while riding and all sorts of messing about while in traffic. He seems to accelerate and brake like no one is around, a new addition to the 'dance like no one is watching' thing that airy fairy types suggest we all do. I note that these new GS have indicators that are also the tail and brake lights. I guess my XT500s billet and super cool 'illegal units' are now fully road legal then which i guess is cool... but i now worry people will say i did this 'like BMW', yet it was built many years back. Great. The whole time we follow him he never once uses his indicators. I guess thats why the stop/tail lights are now housed in those unused sticky out projections...
|
|
|
Post by veg on Jan 18, 2022 12:36:15 GMT 1
I’ve owned several GS’s and was a member of the Gs forum in its early years, at the time I was doing a fair few big trips and tours per year, then after Scott mcscott and chudley booring went “adventuring” with a full pit crew, camera team interpreters, doctors etc there was a new breed of owners and sales of aluminium tat went through the roof. The bmw suits were known as t**t suits for a reason. I soon left and sold the bikes as I wanted no association with them. The bikes are actually pretty good, some owners are old school riders most though are chasing a dream where they play out being adventurous rugged brigands of the highway where they aren’t married to Doris and have a mortgage and are hen pecked pegged wannabes
|
|
|
Post by wassy06 on Jan 18, 2022 13:25:00 GMT 1
I’ve owned several GS’s and was a member of the Gs forum in its early years, at the time I was doing a fair few big trips and tours per year, then after Scott mcscott and chudley booring went “adventuring” with a full pit crew, camera team interpreters, doctors etc there was a new breed of owners and sales of aluminium tat went through the roof. The bmw suits were known as t**t suits for a reason. I soon left and sold the bikes as I wanted no association with them. The bikes are actually pretty good, some owners are old school riders most though are chasing a dream where they play out being adventurous rugged brigands of the highway where they aren’t married to Doris and have a mortgage and are hen pecked pegged wannabes So a bit like the LC scene in a lot of respects then.
|
|
|
Post by veg on Jan 18, 2022 13:48:00 GMT 1
Think the difference here is that there is a lot more respect and it’s about the bikes rather than the “lifestyle” there is also a lot less ego on this site than came with the buying of a Gs and it’s associated “lifestyle”.
|
|
|
Post by steve63 on Jan 18, 2022 14:02:17 GMT 1
I saw something called something like 'Adventure Bike World.' It was like a show for 'adventure bike riders' with ride outs and side shows and long lines of these t@ssers on these big stupid bikes that do the 25 miles to Bridlington on hot sunny days and have sat navs and aluminium panniers on and I thought it was a spoof.....but it's real 🤣 Yesterday in rush hour traffic a guy on a brand new big engine GS filters ahead of me and stops on the line to the side and in front of me at the lights. Good, thats what bikes should do... but... The road we are on goes left and right, hes between these two lanes... so where is he going. His road position looks to be aiming a little across my bows, so i think hes going left with me. Hes a bmw rider, so no need to indicate of course. The lights change, he waits... WTF?! I cant move as I'll turf him off. Eventually he rides away, across my bows. nice work my BMW. He accelerates onto the clear 3 lane road ahead and then as i follow he brakes hard. wtaf?! Im on it so i didnt take him out, but I could have if id not been on it. No idea why he did that, probably didnt think any car could pull away as fast as his BMW. Hmm... I follow him for about 10km. Hes a solid lanky bloke and a complete tosser. One time he stops over some AC water dropped by previous cars and starts looking left and right to make sure its not leaking lol I thought these were aircooled but i guess not, must be known leakers. At these lights since im next to him I can see that his bike is defo brand new. Not even dust on it and no heat marks on the stainless pipes. It has a massive, tall and wide in all directions, top box and more bars on the engine than the costa del sol. He also has a phone mount for his nav. It looks the perfect setup for travelling around the world... until you actually try to do that on a bike and realise the phone gets broken really quickly by vibration and the massive top box puts all the weight of the waaay too much stuff you thought you needed up so high that the bike is unstable. Proper w**ker spec then. Of course if you actually travel round the world you'll rue the day you picked a big GS, its 250kgs without luggage to pick up when it falls over. As we motor along the road my wife comments that hes a knob. lol. Yep. Hes wearing shiny suit trousers (great protection) and has a brand new KLIM jacket on - the huge KLIM logo was a giveaway lol. The jacket looks like it should have a tag on, its that new. He proceeds over the next miles to stand up while riding and all sorts of messing about while in traffic. He seems to accelerate and brake like no one is around, a new addition to the 'dance like no one is watching' thing that airy fairy types suggest we all do. I note that these new GS have indicators that are also the tail and brake lights. I guess my XT500s billet and super cool 'illegal units' are now fully road legal then which i guess is cool... but i now worry people will say i did this 'like BMW', yet it was built many years back. Great. The whole time we follow him he never once uses his indicators. I guess thats why the stop/tail lights are now housed in those unused sticky out projections... I guess that's how fashion works and why it exists, to create a demand (for adventure bikes) and sell stuff. Hopefully he'll survive long enough to learn. There was an article in our local paper a few years back. Two guys were doing a tour on motorcycles to raise some money for charity. Not a bad thing I'm sure you'll agree but then they were pictured next to two of these trailly type BMW's with aluminium boxes and talking about being equipped with satellite phones and all the equipment you need to do a trip like this. Where were they going? A 4,000 mile trip around Europe. A similar trip to me and the Mrs. did in 1990 on my GSXR 1100H. Even the Mrs laughed. It's just the whole thing. I'm sure some of them are nice guys but when I read an article about riding gear costing £700 for a jacket and £500 for the trousers, more than all but two of my bikes cost to buy and the magazine awards them 'best buy' It grinds my gears as Homer says. Talking about weight distribution etc. When we went to France a few years ago on the R1, a bike that weighs 200kg dry so not too bad, I had so much gear on and the Mrs. on the back it really wasn't pleasant to ride until you got up to speed. We had throw overs and a magnetic tank bag but also a rack with a bit of stuff on it. The GSXR had more stuff including tent and stove but felt better. I got as close to dropping the R1 as it's possible to do in a Belgian petrol station. The fairing must have been 20mm from the ground but somehow it picked it up. I guess the best thing to do is sail past them on a CD175 while carrying more gear?
|
|
|
Post by steve63 on Jan 18, 2022 14:07:21 GMT 1
I’ve owned several GS’s and was a member of the Gs forum in its early years, at the time I was doing a fair few big trips and tours per year, then after Scott mcscott and chudley booring went “adventuring” with a full pit crew, camera team interpreters, doctors etc there was a new breed of owners and sales of aluminium tat went through the roof. The bmw suits were known as t**t suits for a reason. I soon left and sold the bikes as I wanted no association with them. The bikes are actually pretty good, some owners are old school riders most though are chasing a dream where they play out being adventurous rugged brigands of the highway where they aren’t married to Doris and have a mortgage and are hen pecked pegged wannabes I had to ask the Mrs about a couple of things in this post. Apparently I'm not hen pecked. She also says that if I bring something to bite on she'll explain 'pegged' to me later tonight
|
|
|
Post by veg on Jan 18, 2022 14:12:49 GMT 1
Pmsl 😁
|
|
|
Post by veg on Jan 18, 2022 14:21:50 GMT 1
NSFW
|
|
|
Post by steve h on Jan 18, 2022 19:12:41 GMT 1
If thats anything remotely like a colonoscopy....you can shove it up yer arse...I aint interested.... Always found them "all the gear" and huge shiny bike lifestyle brigade are just posers in a c**k measuring competition between each other... The 1st GS's were brilliant.
|
|
|
Post by steve63 on Jan 19, 2022 13:44:10 GMT 1
I enjoyed that, the video that is, before there's any confusion. Just to clarify; the video is fine it's only the sound you shouldn't have on at full volume during your lunch/dinner break........ so my boss tells me
|
|
|
Post by steve63 on Jan 19, 2022 13:49:27 GMT 1
If thats anything remotely like a colonoscopy....you can shove it up yer arse...I aint interested.... Always found them "all the gear" and huge shiny bike lifestyle brigade are just posers in a c**k measuring competition between each other... The 1st GS's were brilliant. I see what you did there I've had the one from the other end. I was plied with drugs beforehand so it is a bit of a blurred memory. It was done at the hospital not just for recreation BTW. I do remember clearly the "stick it in your mouth and swallow" bit though.
|
|
|
Post by midlifecrisisrd on Jan 19, 2022 16:50:49 GMT 1
Had both ends done one after the other
Luckily the top end was first 🤣
Steve
|
|