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mik wrote: Tue Sep 30, 2025 7:28 am I’m going to do something that clearly carries a higher risk than normal. Best take my helmet off to avoid drowning if I get swept away
Maybe ??
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That appeared on my insta feed yesterday too.

Having done a few river crossings on motorbikes, my first thoughts when seeing that were fuck that, it's not worth the risk. Volume of river flow is too strong, will probably be slippery too and unless you've seen it when it's low, you don't know how uneven the surface could be!
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Marv wrote: Mon Sep 29, 2025 9:36 pm That'd totally be me if I tried to enter a motorbike race :lol:

I thought Tim put a post here about a potential purchase of a Triumph Speed Triple, but I guess it didn't happen?
I binned it out of annoyance. The "family" (non bikers) decided it was worth a lot more than I was willing to pay. The chap who currently has it in his barn tried to reason with them that a bike stood still for 14 years old is not just slap an MOT on it and ride away but I guess the emotional attachment played a part. Anyway my offer stands for a month or so.

I mentally priced up £700 in bits just looking at it, and that's without dealing with the issues. So £500 was all I was going to pay for a bike that would never be more than £1500 fully fixed.

The clutch was stuck on, the throttle cable discon/snapped as well as an unknown starting fault. It was clean and corrosion free tho, had been stored well. Would have been a fun winter project.
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tim wrote: Tue Sep 30, 2025 11:49 am I guess the emotional attachment played a part.
That.
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Aprilia SXR 50 very slow edition

Will's scooter needed a new rear tyre, so as is usual I ring up the tyre place across the road, order a tyre and take the loose wheel over to be fitted. Simples.

Not simples.

Lets overlook the wheel bolts are "approximately" T40 for the moment. But in order to remove the rear wheel, it seems you have to take the exhaust off. Which is in one piece. So the WHOLE exhaust off from where it enters the head. This was starting to look like a stretch of my "just nip out to the garage to whip the wheel off" while something was running at work.

It's a bit of a pain to get to, being underneath the engine, and you have to wangle an extension socket through the centre stand, but anyway, one nut came off, the other was being a pain until it suddenly came loose. Except, it wasn't the nut, it was a cross-threaded nut still attached to the stud which had unwound out of the head. FFS.

It seems someone had been here before, and cross-threaded the nut back on the stud. When I eventually got it separated it was a right old mess.

Thankfully the local (if 30 miles away is local) Aprilia dealer has them available. The last time I had to order a part from Aprilia in Italy it took 3 weeks. So he's immobile until the weekend. And hopefully re-assembly is the simple reverse of dis-assembly.
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tim wrote: Tue Sep 30, 2025 2:54 pm
Lets overlook the wheel bolts are "approximately" T40 for the moment.
I had to do something with one of my Stihl powertools recently. T30 was too big, but T25 was definitely too loose. Luckily my Torx driver set contained a T27 (the only size in the set that wasn't a multiple of 5) which fitted perfectly. It's not even an obvious imperial/metric thing. Very weird. :?
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It's meant to be a T40 but because Italiano issa bit shit innit.
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Maybe a T42 is the answer to (life, the universe, and) everything?
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Good job you didn't need parts in August too, as they're all shut for the month, and god forbid anyone carries stock. I do not miss my Gilera 200.
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He's after an Aprilia RS125 GP Edition when he's 17 in a couple of months, and as much as I do like them the parts availability is a bit off-putting. Anyway it went back together easily enough and is tipping into corners like a loon on a nice new round tyre.
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Mines currently for sale, wrong time of year so not quite getting the offers I'm after.

Multistrada v4s is on my radar seeing as I'm very old now 😀

Been a good summer.
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I've been perusing for a silly big bore toy, just cos. Currently eyeing up ZZR1400s. I feel like I need to own another silly machine before we all revert back to horse and cart.
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Barry wrote: Fri Oct 10, 2025 5:43 pm I've been perusing for a silly big bore toy, just cos. Currently eyeing up ZZR1400s. I feel like I need to own another silly machine before we all revert back to horse and cart.
Do it!
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Broccers wrote: Fri Oct 10, 2025 12:45 pm Mines currently for sale
Deets please
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Guy passed us on a motorbike earlier - he only had one arm (right arm) and whilst his handlebar was still present on the LHS, there was no clutch lever. Fair play to him, but how does that work then? Foot operated clutch?
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Simon wrote: Sun Oct 12, 2025 11:44 pmCleverdick.
That would be some amazing dexterity... :shock:
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tim wrote: Sat Oct 11, 2025 9:03 pm
Broccers wrote: Fri Oct 10, 2025 12:45 pm Mines currently for sale
Deets please
https://ebay.us/m/3K9xfc

I rode it yesterday down to Stafford and was sat on the A38 coming home thinking why on earth am I selling this bike. Plus 100 miles from the advert. 😁
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Barry wrote: Fri Oct 10, 2025 5:43 pm I've been perusing for a silly big bore toy, just cos. Currently eyeing up ZZR1400s. I feel like I need to own another silly machine before we all revert back to horse and cart.
A chap I work with had a black and green one of these. A load of the guys went on a stag do and he popped a wheelie down the slip road till they couldn't see him anymore 😂

I could stand inside him and not touch the sides, he is a 2 Fresians of leather kind of chap.

Please get a ZZR1400.

Dave!
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V8Granite wrote: Mon Oct 13, 2025 2:37 pm
Barry wrote: Fri Oct 10, 2025 5:43 pm I've been perusing for a silly big bore toy, just cos. Currently eyeing up ZZR1400s. I feel like I need to own another silly machine before we all revert back to horse and cart.
A chap I work with had a black and green one of these. A load of the guys went on a stag do and he popped a wheelie down the slip road till they couldn't see him anymore 😂

I could stand inside him and not touch the sides, he is a 2 Fresians of leather kind of chap.

Please get a ZZR1400.

Dave!

I have a similar experience, an old mate of mine (RIP - not bike related) was a big chap too. He had a lovely ZZR1400, and we had cause to convoy with him to Stafford show one time.. burned into my brain is watching all three of us rolling down the slip at J18 M6 S, I look over my shoulder to check traffic in lane1, I look back up and my mate is GONE. He was half a mile away and vanishing rapidly. I was still accelerating my poor little Fazer to 80 mph :lol:

They're ludicrous machines and with the way the world is going, I can't help but feel I need to own one before they ban everything. Same reason Broccers can't quite let his Gixxer go, I suspect.

Ridiculous value vs performance too.
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