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Post by yamfan on Jul 29, 2014 12:06:43 GMT
Ewan and Charlie wanted KTM's and were blown out! Came down to the idiots at KTM marketing or they new something about the reliability of the Adventure. I suspect the latter. The BMW is tried, tested. Here's The Africa Twin and the legendary BMW R80 in Paris-Dakar mode. A fair point on the KTM thing. Those 950 Adventures are particularly wonderful. I haven't done it yet but if/when I ride from the UK to Australia, it would actually probably be on a Honda Innova 125i - rugged, hugely amusing bikes, more anonymous and universal parts availability. Also far more appealingly daft. Fabulous bikes the Dakar machines. 80s Dakar rallies were the dog's bollocks - some good vids knocking about of them on YouTube. Euwan and Charlie highlighted to the masses what GS owners already knew. Now the GS is a common sight on the road. Since sports bikes can no longer be enjoyed on our congested and speed camera littered roads, the adventure bike has seen a huge resurgence. More and more are finding out what great bikes they are, a true alternative to tourers for many,especially for those who go where the roads are not all perfect tarmac.
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Post by elsidibe on Jul 29, 2014 12:59:06 GMT
A fair point on the KTM thing. Those 950 Adventures are particularly wonderful. I haven't done it yet but if/when I ride from the UK to Australia, it would actually probably be on a Honda Innova 125i - rugged, hugely amusing bikes, more anonymous and universal parts availability. Also far more appealingly daft. Fabulous bikes the Dakar machines. 80s Dakar rallies were the dog's bollocks - some good vids knocking about of them on YouTube. Euwan and Charlie highlighted to the masses what GS owners already knew. Now the GS is a common sight on the road. Since sports bikes can no longer be enjoyed on our congested and speed camera littered roads, the adventure bike has seen a huge resurgence. More and more are finding out what great bikes they are, a true alternative to tourers for many,especially for those who go where the roads are not all perfect tarmac. All true. I've done a fair bit of remote long distance riding myself - on and off-road - and I find adventure bikes way more comfortable over long distances even on asphalt. Really good fun to ride too. Doesn't stop me lusting after T120 Bonnevilles, Vincent Black Shadows, Mk.1 Fireblades/R1s or Ducati 916s mind. I think it was the Long Way Down series that irked me, with the army of support trucks and WAGs showing up everywhere. There are now far too many spotlessly clean R1200GSs knocking about for my liking - like a Land Rover, a GS should at least have a nice patina of wear to it, and it should carry battle scars with pride. In my humble opinion, adventure bikes look best in brown:
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Post by bignickhowes on Jul 29, 2014 12:59:28 GMT
always wanted to get a Yamaha R1 lovely bike
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Post by yamfan on Jul 29, 2014 13:18:52 GMT
Mine's the older EXUP model with a very special engine and paint job. Been to many European places on it and despite its sports nature it toured quite well.
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Post by yamfan on Jul 29, 2014 13:21:34 GMT
Euwan and Charlie highlighted to the masses what GS owners already knew. Now the GS is a common sight on the road. Since sports bikes can no longer be enjoyed on our congested and speed camera littered roads, the adventure bike has seen a huge resurgence. More and more are finding out what great bikes they are, a true alternative to tourers for many,especially for those who go where the roads are not all perfect tarmac. All true. I've done a fair bit of remote long distance riding myself - on and off-road - and I find adventure bikes way more comfortable over long distances even on asphalt. Really good fun to ride too. Doesn't stop me lusting after T120 Bonnevilles, Vincent Black Shadows, Mk.1 Fireblades/R1s or Ducati 916s mind. I think it was the Long Way Down series that irked me, with the army of support trucks and WAGs showing up everywhere. There are now far too many spotlessly clean R1200GSs knocking about for my liking - like a Land Rover, a GS should at least have a nice patina of wear to it, and it should carry battle scars with pride. In my humble opinion, adventure bikes look best in brown: I know what you mean. Nick Sanders is the man for long distance riding, and he did lots of it on an R1
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Post by elsidibe on Jul 29, 2014 13:56:29 GMT
All true. I've done a fair bit of remote long distance riding myself - on and off-road - and I find adventure bikes way more comfortable over long distances even on asphalt. Really good fun to ride too. Doesn't stop me lusting after T120 Bonnevilles, Vincent Black Shadows, Mk.1 Fireblades/R1s or Ducati 916s mind. I think it was the Long Way Down series that irked me, with the army of support trucks and WAGs showing up everywhere. There are now far too many spotlessly clean R1200GSs knocking about for my liking - like a Land Rover, a GS should at least have a nice patina of wear to it, and it should carry battle scars with pride. In my humble opinion, adventure bikes look best in brown: I know what you mean. Nick Sanders is the man for long distance riding, and he did lots of it on an R1 Yes absolutely. I have a lot of time for Nick Sanders and his round-the-world-with-nothing-but-a-leather-racesuit-and-a-Mastercard approach. An admirably mad bastard. I'm a huge admirer of Helge Pedersen's too.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2014 16:21:34 GMT
Euwan and Charlie highlighted to the masses what GS owners already knew. Now the GS is a common sight on the road. Since sports bikes can no longer be enjoyed on our congested and speed camera littered roads, the adventure bike has seen a huge resurgence. More and more are finding out what great bikes they are, a true alternative to tourers for many,especially for those who go where the roads are not all perfect tarmac. All true. I've done a fair bit of remote long distance riding myself - on and off-road - and I find adventure bikes way more comfortable over long distances even on asphalt. Really good fun to ride too. Doesn't stop me lusting after T120 Bonnevilles, Vincent Black Shadows, Mk.1 Fireblades/R1s or Ducati 916s mind. I think it was the Long Way Down series that irked me, with the army of support trucks and WAGs showing up everywhere. There are now far too many spotlessly clean R1200GSs knocking about for my liking - like a Land Rover, a GS should at least have a nice patina of wear to it, and it should carry battle scars with pride. In my humble opinion, adventure bikes look best in brown: I once competed in an Enduro in Rhayader where the bog section was actually worse than this. After the fourth lap the whole thing was festooned with bikes half submerged with only the front wheels visible in the vertical plane. It was like a bad day at the Somme. I also hurt myself that day, after I completely mistimed a horrible jump, nosedived, bottomed my forks (15' travel on those as well) and fell off my CRM on the first lap. That really hurt and then as I was crawling off the track I got landed on by a quad as well. Fuck. Still managed to finish both races though. Oh yes, great fun Here's some poor sod falling off a lot in Rhayader Hare and Hounds. You have to not mind being covered head to toe in shit to enjoy Enduro. What you can't see is how out of breath and steamed up your goggles and helmet get heaving the bloody bike out of half a ton of cack each time you fall off.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2014 16:45:33 GMT
I'd encourage anyone who is comfortable riding a bike even slightly off road to have a crack at Enduro. It's fantastic. For those of you that don't know what it is, you basically do two 1 hour races races and the winner is the rider with the most laps. The trick is to keep momentum and keep going. It's brilliant and you get riders of all ages and bikes from the fifties to the present day. Cheapest form of motorsport there is.
Come on have a GO!
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Post by yamfan on Jul 29, 2014 18:09:26 GMT
I'd encourage anyone who is comfortable riding a bike even slightly off road to have a crack at Enduro. It's fantastic. For those of you that don't know what it is, you basically do two 1 hour races races and the winner is the rider with the most laps. The trick is to keep momentum and keep going. It's brilliant and you get riders of all ages and bikes from the fifties to the present day. Cheapest form of motorsport there is. Come on have a GO! Never did enduro but did used to race a Supermoto. The first couple of laps each day almost everyone used to get arm pump, then it just went away. I presume it was the hammering your forearms get from the bumpy ground. Was it a similar thing to happen in enduro?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2014 18:17:54 GMT
If it was Hare and Hounds, the starts used to happen in waves. At big events, It could be that nervy I could puke half the time. I can't honestly remember getting arm pump, that's not to say it didn't happen. The first lap of an Enduro is usually the first chance you get to see the full course. There's always a few surprises.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2014 18:21:21 GMT
always wanted to get a Yamaha R1 lovely bike I was going to mention Nick Sanders. Why did he choose an R1?
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Post by yamfan on Jul 29, 2014 18:31:44 GMT
Maybe it was just the few laps of practice each day or the fact that the larger wheels and knobbly tyres damped the bumps down a bit then. In Supermoto we were only allowed 17" wheels and slicks or wet road racing tyres. My CR500 was a real handful on the wet dirt, the thing wanted to throw me off on the tarmac, let alone the off road stuff
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Post by harryburrows on Jul 29, 2014 19:43:26 GMT
great show on now horizon bbc4 about bikers in the 50/60s
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2014 19:44:14 GMT
Maybe it was just the few laps of practice each day or the fact that the larger wheels and knobbly tyres damped the bumps down a bit then. In Supermoto we were only allowed 17" wheels and slicks or wet road racing tyres. My CR500 was a real handful on the wet dirt, the thing wanted to throw me off on the tarmac, let alone the off road stuff My mate had a CR500 "Red Rocket" real nasty thing that was. I always thought it was too big for off road. Maybe I did get arm pump, I can't remember - we'd be out every weekend either racing or trying to do big jumps and generally copying Travis Pastrana only to end up smashing ourselves about. I'm talking 1998 to 2001 here.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2014 20:03:04 GMT
We used to watch this stuff, and try and copy - Crusty Demons of Dirt. Crazy really.
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Post by yamfan on Jul 29, 2014 21:09:34 GMT
Maybe it was just the few laps of practice each day or the fact that the larger wheels and knobbly tyres damped the bumps down a bit then. In Supermoto we were only allowed 17" wheels and slicks or wet road racing tyres. My CR500 was a real handful on the wet dirt, the thing wanted to throw me off on the tarmac, let alone the off road stuff My mate had a CR500 "Red Rocket" real nasty thing that was. I always thought it was too big for off road. Maybe I did get arm pump, I can't remember - we'd be out every weekend either racing or trying to do big jumps and generally copying Travis Pastrana only to end up smashing ourselves about. I'm talking 1998 to 2001 here.
I raced from 1997 to 2000 on motos, my wife begged me to stop when she got pregnant, wise really as most of us crashed at least once each meeting. The big two strokers were too savage for slicks/wets on the dirt and were all ported for top end speed on the tarmac, that coupled with the fact that if you touched the front brake on dirt you crashed, made them hard to race but the four stroke crossers just weren't fast enough then. My CR spat me off regularly, especially when it found sudden grip and launched me skywards:) On non race weekends I used to practice sliding it on dirt on the Brit car parks before they put kerbing on there. I watched the crusty demons too, used to practice jumps over the grass mounds onto the posh tarmacced car parks, crazy days!
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Post by yamfan on Jul 30, 2014 0:53:12 GMT
I took my road bike down to one game, think it was the playoff vs Gillingham when Hessenthaller scored a late goal against us. Left it chained to the railings at the back of the boothen where the TV trucks usually park and had no problems security wise, in fact it was quite nice that folks were admiring it and loving the paintwork, many kids and even dads asked to sit on it and have a picture taken. The problem was leaving, as I rode past the shop and gates to the away end some drunken Burberry clad twat jumped out in front suddenly and almost knocked us off. My newly pregnant wife was quite shaken up and upset, as when I gave him a mouthful he took on a fighting stance and shouted "come on Stoke". Fortunately his mates had spotted the paintwork and laughed at him, shoving him away, on another day it could have been nasty. I vowed never to take the bike to a match again, ironically probably the safest place for it, it's been all around the uk and large parts of Europe and had nothing but admiration and praise, but the Brit?, the mind boggles I tell you!
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Post by yamfan on Jul 30, 2014 0:54:26 GMT
Dunno why pic won't come through?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 30, 2014 3:01:06 GMT
Dunno why pic won't come through? Drag the pic you like onto the desktop, then go to this page tinypic.com, choose your pic, upload it and then cut the "IMG Code for Forums & Message Boards" code, then paste it into your reply.
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Post by yamfan on Jul 30, 2014 5:54:39 GMT
Dunno why pic won't come through? Drag the pic you like onto the desktop, then go to this page tinypic.com, choose your pic, upload it and then cut the "IMG Code for Forums & Message Boards" code, then paste it into your reply. I'm using an ipad mate, I managed it no problem on the bottom of the previous page, but now it won't work. Is there such a thing as a limit on images per page or per thread on the forum. Sorry if I'm a bit dozy at this but it's the first time I've tried pics :]
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Post by Deleted on Jul 30, 2014 6:11:22 GMT
You can do the same on the iPad just save the pic into photo's and choose your file from there.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 30, 2014 6:42:40 GMT
I used to ride a "proper" crosser too, a KX250, but never raced it. Stuck some headlights and a battery on it and re-registered using an old AR50 log book and put it on the road. Air cooled Beastie.
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Post by yamfan on Jul 30, 2014 6:43:18 GMT
You can do the same on the iPad just save the pic into photo's and choose your file from there. I'm using pro boards, there's an icon, I click that then choose the pic then select size then upload photo, it worked fine on the last post on the previous page if you're interested mate. I'll give it one last go in case it's an image limit per page. I did read some time ago that admin clear images out periodically or something to make room on the board, whether that's true or not. Here goes...
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Post by yamfan on Jul 30, 2014 7:04:50 GMT
I used to ride a "proper" crosser too, a KX250, but never raced it. Stuck some headlights and a battery on it and re-registered using an old AR50 log book and put it on the road. Air cooled Beastie. My issue must be a pro boards one. My CR 500 is legal on a daytime only mot like old Brit bikes, had to take bike to dvla in Manchester so they could inspect it after I got it mot'd at foley motorcycles. All it needed was road legal tyres, a horn with a constant pitch (9v bmx jobbie from halfords) and an exhaust note acceptable to the tester as it has no bs approved exhaust with it being an off road machine. Phil at Foleys had no problem accepting the exhaust note as long as he could have a rip up the road on it as he loves crossers, he said its wild. Lol Once dvla had approved the bike they issued me a Q designation reg plate and I taxed it. Sitting on 17" wheels it looks quite small so you do tend to get other bikes and cars wanting to race you from traffic lights, probably because I have to constantly blip the throttle to keep it running (it's designed to stall in the event of being dropped). I think some of them get a shock when it takes off on the back wheel, it'll do ver 130mph but I had to stick a billet clutch basket with extra plates and harder springs to handle the huge change in gearing. A 320mm front disc makes braking on it a one finger jobbie too considering it's only just over 100kg with oil and fuel. It's fun but definitely not practical
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Post by scfcrmagic on Jul 30, 2014 10:41:41 GMT
I use my sons small quad ( for dragging a roller round the field ) .......but I don't this makes me a biker chick ... maybe if I wear leathers that would help ?
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Post by Billybigbollox on Jul 30, 2014 21:32:04 GMT
I use my sons small quad ( for dragging a roller round the field ) .......but I don't this makes me a biker chick ... maybe if I wear leathers that would help ? Pic or it didn't happen. :-)
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Post by scfcrmagic on Jul 31, 2014 0:08:30 GMT
I use my sons small quad ( for dragging a roller round the field ) .......but I don't this makes me a biker chick ... maybe if I wear leathers that would help ? Pic or it didn't happen. :-) This is my fav outfit ...... Attachment Deleted
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2014 0:11:10 GMT
Really ?
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Post by scfcrmagic on Jul 31, 2014 0:18:37 GMT
This is my fav outfit ...... Really ? Attachment Deleted me on my bike ....it's a bit big for me ...
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2014 0:21:47 GMT
Indeed !
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