The Motorbikerist Thread

[Barry]

I've said the same at every stage, RD, TZR, RGV, TDR.. all daft money now. I wouldn't want one for financial appreciation though, I'd want to ride it.

[Barry]

The bike seems fairly efficient but the entire vid seems to be about planning on where to stop for sparks.. hardly exciting biking is it.

[jamcg]

https://www.topgear.com/car-news/electr ... you-expect

[Broccers]

I dont know about anyone else but I found Chasing the racing pod cast an amazing insight into bike racing. Really really good.

Last weekend one of its presenters Chrissy Rouse got run over by a following bike at the Donington round and unfortunately left us yesterday @ 26. Horrific really and a reminder that bikes really aren't safe at all.

[McSwede]

Just caught the last 10 laps of Moto GP from Philip Island. Awesome stuff at a track that always delivers great racing.

[Marv]

Interesting geeky vid about metallurgy:

[tim]

The bike seems fairly efficient but the entire vid seems to be about planning on where to stop for sparks.. hardly exciting biking is it.

The video was shite but, much like EV cars, the bikes are certainly getting better. I've still not tried one. 120 miles is about the usual Sunday morning group ride door to door for me, so not beyond useable without having to stop for a charge.

[Barry]

I tried a Zero recently but the test ride itself was hampered by lack of adequate charging at the test location (extension leads running from the café). They were claiming 180 town miles, but reality was half that in typical riding IMO. I will often do a couple of 100+ mile stints on a day out, so if they can get charging at most towns, it might be viable. Then there's just the £20k+ RRP on the bike to worry about.

[tim]

Exactly. 22k of naked EV bike isn't going to tempt me off my 22k fully loaded R1250RT for a while yet.

[tim]

So I think I've set a new PB at forgetting to get an MOT done. My RT turned 3 years old in September, and I've been riding it about since, including re-doing my RoSPA Advanced Tutor test with an old bill . MOT is being done tomorrow morning...

[Carlos]

https://twitter.com/i/status/1604764937427062784

Some lovely skills here

My instructor was big on this and we spent ages going around his course on a BMW F650 and then not even asked to do a u-turn on test

[tim]

So the RT passed it's MOT becasue of course it did, it's only 3 years old, but that didn't stop the local Honda dealer that did it suggesting £350 worth of "work" that "needed" doing.

Oh do fuck off.

[Marv]

Is that Lings in Harlston?

They tried to charge me £50 for adjusting when the brake light comes on, after I asked them to look at it at the first service (had to push the rear brake lever hard to get the brake light to come on)

When I pointed out to them that it was like that from new, and I bought the bike from them, they knocked it off the bill

I looked at how to adjust it when I got home, it's a little adjusting nut which can be rotated by hand, right by the brake lever!

TBF I've found them much better than Lings in Ipswich.

[tim]

Yes it was Marv. I now live close enough to almost throw something and hit them with it. Which I might well attempt after today.

[nuttinnew]

Much emotion. R.i.p. wee man, and good karma to those who did A Good Thing for people they didn't know and had never met.

https://www.falmouthpacket.co.uk/news/2 ... ck-church/

[tim]

I've provided escort to a few of those on the blood bike in my time - always very emotional things to be involved in. The last one I did the family wanted "noise" at the crem when everyone had turned up, which was pretty amazing.

[nuttinnew]

You're a good man - (obviously, you do blood runs). I can imagine making noise feeling counter intuitive.

[Broccers]

Great work.

We did the egg run this year (probably in this thread) and while riding along at a slow speed wasnt that much fun to see the kids faces was well worth giving something back and making their day.

[Broccers]

Jesus - had to double take this was in the uk when first read it

https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/p ... rs-8019933

[240PP]

Just been reading about that. Why was it manslaughter and not murder?