The Motorbikerist Thread

[JLv3.0]

Holy mother of God - can EVERYONE please watch today's Moto3 from Phillip Island today. Never in my life seen anything like it. This is the last lap - it looks like the dash into corner 1 from the start!



You won't breathe once. Money back guarantee.

[tim]

It's officially FUCKING COLD so I've treated myself to a Keis heated jacket. Pretty simple to wire into the bike and my service bike handily already has the tails fitted. Just the ticket when you're out in 4 degrees in the pissing rain at 2am.

This one fits in place of the padded liner in my textile jacket perfectly.

https://www.infinitymotorcycles.com/pro ... wer-jacket

Am on duty tonight so will see how it fairs.

[NotoriousREV]

I’ve finally relented and put my thermal liners back in, and yesterday I bought a Buff neck warmer thing. The Mrs also bought me a thin North Face fleece. With my heated grips on Max I’m as snug as a bug.

[tim]

Oh my lord. I’ve just spent 3 hours and 130 miles literally being hugged by Jesus.

Best £199 spent in some while!!

[Barry]

Oh my lord. I’ve just spent 3 hours and 130 miles literally being hugged by Jesus.

Best £199 spent in some while!!

I have heated gloves, been tempted by the KEIS gilet I must admit.

[NotoriousREV]

I’m considering buying the heated seat for the KTM at £208.

[_andy]

I fitted some bar muffs to the MSX, they don't look silly or anything:



They're made by Toucan Urbano (Italian), are universal but went on quite easily in around 20 minutes, and mean I can now wear summer gloves instead of winter welding mitts. I have been wearing my Furygan leather jacket with the insulated liner fitted, but have been looking at cheaper textile winter jackets, like the Oxford Montreal 3.0 which seems to get good reviews and can be had for £120ish.

Exhaust update: It's still super loud, and I am considering going back to standard, or maybe getting the Tyga system I was going to get in the first place

[mik]

[tim]

Wired the power cables for the jacket into my RT this morning, so toasty all round this weekend. 3 SERV night duties and 3 associates to tutor over the weekend, but at least it's warmed up a little and stopped hoofing it down with rain now.

[240PP]

Good looking bike:

[JLv3.0]

Maybe even THE best looking bike IMO.

https://newatlas.com/2019-ducati-paniga ... cle/57092/

234 bhp from one litre

[Rich B]

Reminds me, there’s a guy at my work who does a 65 mile each way daily commute on this:



For the wetter days he’s just traded in his M140i for an M2.

[dinny_g]

Holy mother of God - can EVERYONE please watch today's Moto3 from Phillip Island today. Never in my life seen anything like it. This is the last lap - it looks like the dash into corner 1 from the start!



You won't breathe once. Money back guarantee.

Madre el Dios, now that’s racing!!

[speedingfine]

Holy mother of God - can EVERYONE please watch today's Moto3 from Phillip Island today. Never in my life seen anything like it. This is the last lap - it looks like the dash into corner 1 from the start!



You won't breathe once. Money back guarantee.

Madre el Dios, now that’s racing!!

Cheers Dinny/JL I'll watch that later

[dinny_g]

Do - it's awesome...

At one point, it looks like a Tour De France sprint with a long line of bikes nose to wheel, flat out

[JLv3.0]

Wonderful ride on the BMW today - made it 10 mins to the petrol station meet up where upon arrival the battery shit itself

New lithium battery fitted - my god they are black magic. Weighs nothing and cranks the motor over like it's attached to a big block Chevy.

[Barry]

Been up into Welsh hills today to test my heated vest. Wasn't very cold to start with (9c) but even on mid setting it damn near burned my nipple's off. Should be great when it's really cold. Vest has a tiny draw too (1.3A) so no strain on the bike at all. How it generates that spread of heat on such a tiny current is impressive.

[NotoriousREV]

I’ve been sweating my tits off this week. Considered taking the thermal liners back out but can’t be arsed.

[Barry]

Likewise, I'm back in my summer gloves and lightweight inner. I'm not complaining though, better that than wet n cold.

[JLv3.0]

Nothing very interesting to add but it's pictures and bike-related so hey. Very much into the bike-as-daily weather now, it really does make a massive difference to day-to-day life here being able to lane split and get through traffic. Tenere as solid as ever, and I finally clocked over 10k kms in it, which seeing as I bought it in 2014 is nothing to be too proud of.



For some inexplicable reason it still really tickles me that I can use it as I would a car - picking up some moto rims for a mate of mine yesterday as he was at work and the seller was about to travel - doddle:



And as I've got a 1k km trip coming up on the BMW, over borders and such, I thought a tank bag might come in handy, a thought that occurred to me exactly after a mate was selling his. Not a fan of tat stuck onto sports bikes, but hey - it actually sits quite nicely (tm) but will most certainly not live on there:



I don't have much to do at the mo