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Get a grip Chunkolini, hardly a machine for Hereford lanes.
Yamaha produce a machine known to tour well, scratches too, controls fall easily to hand and foot, a comfy seat with an upright position giving you full and light control. The fun you will have is immeasurable. It is also a hybrid.
http://uk.yamaha.com/en/products/mu...boards/hybridpianos/avantgrand/n3/?mode=model
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Good grief!
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Had a ride on Mateys Transalp.
Liked it a lot, zippy enough up to about 80, should be able to cruise a bit above that.
Comfy and made the potholes in the carpark disappear.
Has offered me his bike for a good price (his words) but there are to many silly little niggles, eg can only take one pannier because of the pipe, a few electrical niggles, a small fuel leak, and a hideously heavy clutch action. it has lived outside for three years and both looks and feels like it has. But nice of him to let me have a go. Even offered me a test ride on his new GS, I turned that one down. Could ruin my life.
So probably a Translap, I have to speak to DVLA then chop in the Pan.
Liked it a lot, zippy enough up to about 80, should be able to cruise a bit above that.
Comfy and made the potholes in the carpark disappear.
Has offered me his bike for a good price (his words) but there are to many silly little niggles, eg can only take one pannier because of the pipe, a few electrical niggles, a small fuel leak, and a hideously heavy clutch action. it has lived outside for three years and both looks and feels like it has. But nice of him to let me have a go. Even offered me a test ride on his new GS, I turned that one down. Could ruin my life.
So probably a Translap, I have to speak to DVLA then chop in the Pan.
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What about an old NTV? Isn't it the same engine, but in a less deadly boring frame?
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Re the bike I test drove, I reckon I could make a set of spacers for the rack, but there were lots of little niggles, and from my memory of neglecting bikes in my youth once a bike has had a couple of bad years it will never be right again.
Did think about the NTV but fancy the trailie style.
There is a tragic NTV on bikemart an 'award winning customiser' has cafe racered it.
Did think about the NTV but fancy the trailie style.
There is a tragic NTV on bikemart an 'award winning customiser' has cafe racered it.
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Its a buyers market at this time of the year too.
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both of them will be a solid superb bike chunko
dont buy the dullsville, my dad had one and when my blade was awaiting parts i used the dullsville to commute on, it didnt feel planted on the road at all perhaps julian had the same experience?
For me itd be the CB500, CBR600RR (03) or a blade again
Mine was okay, and I was doing 100 miles every day in January. I think tyres had a lot to do with it. I do remember it taking some getting used to though, the huge fairing and not being able to see the wheels made it feel a bit disconnected until I got used to it, but with a high screen and heated grips it was so warm and well protected from the elements that it was a joy.
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I don't get this 'not being able to see the wheels' thing; my bro and some mates utter the same nonsense re. my bike (take a Deauville, scale it up and add loads of weight
)... I ride by the feel of things, not by looking where bits of the bike are in relation to the tarmac. I strongly suspect it works the same in a car; you can't see the wheels in one of those either
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I didn't say I couldn't ride it though, I said it felt a bit odd, maybe disconnected? Jump off a ZX9R and onto a dullsville and see. It's not nonsense at all. If you want strange though, try a buell city, its very short and feels like there is no front wheel as if its some kind of trick and you expect it to nosedive any minute when it realizes!
Many years ago I recall having a go on a mates GPz1100r, twin shock. My bike at that time was a Ducati 900SS. First time I wound it up I almost soiled my leathers ! The thing was just so loose, it weaved, wobbled and just felt like it was taking it's own line around corners. When I got medieval on it's ass, in an effort to show who was boss it just got malevolent !!
My Ducati was a thought guided missile in comparison.
My Ducati was a thought guided missile in comparison.
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Chunk, why dont you just get a moggie thou, better than any bike.....
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I appreciate the feeling of being 'disconnected', I drove a Nissan 300ZX twin turbo nutter beast in about '92 and I've rarely driven anything that felt less like it was connected to the road.
The Pan Euro can be a bit floaty, but I'm not sure that feeling every tiny ripple and stone makes for a more reassuring ride.
I still don't see why you need to see the wheels though. You know they're down there, you have to trust the tyre makers to be doing their job right
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you think a dullville is bad drive one of theses in the wet on jap tyres
you think a dullville is bad drive one of theses in the wet on jap tyres i bought one of these new
first ever new bike had it a week took it back handling was atrocious so they said tyres so it was fitted with TT100s the tyre of the day
still handled like a sack of poo allways like the front end going a way seemed the frame flexed manager from kwacka place in donny sent out one of the mechanics on it on a dry road
he dropped it saying the front end just went on me you could control it but he went a little too mad so dealer swopped it me for me for another death on wheels job of the day the flying Kettle suzuki 750 that was ok had single front disc kept it a few years a lot better after i fitted twin discs
those were the days
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OErqsZiAg9c
you think a dullville is bad drive one of theses in the wet on jap tyres i bought one of these new
first ever new bike had it a week took it back handling was atrocious so they said tyres so it was fitted with TT100s the tyre of the day
still handled like a sack of poo allways like the front end going a way seemed the frame flexed manager from kwacka place in donny sent out one of the mechanics on it on a dry road
he dropped it saying the front end just went on me you could control it but he went a little too mad so dealer swopped it me for me for another death on wheels job of the day the flying Kettle suzuki 750 that was ok had single front disc kept it a few years a lot better after i fitted twin discs
those were the days
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OErqsZiAg9c
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Maybe its just a bit floaty and because of that I keep looking for the front wheel? I don't normally ride around leaning over to make sure the front wheel is still there, or indeed the back one, they're obviously there or we'd know all about it fairly quickly!
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I appreciate the feeling of being 'disconnected', I drove a Nissan 300ZX twin turbo nutter beast in about '92 and I've rarely driven anything that felt less like it was connected to the road.
The Pan Euro can be a bit floaty, but I'm not sure that feeling every tiny ripple and stone makes for a more reassuring ride.
I still don't see why you need to see the wheels though. You know they're down there, you have to trust the tyre makers to be doing their job right
try most things with a vauxhall badge on it
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Bought an Africa twin in the end.
A cross eyed dinosaur, middle aged and a bit odd these days.
A bit like me.
Love it to bits so far.
Not too powerful but nippy enough for me on most roads, took it out for a spin today on main roads, feels great.
I got £2k for my 51,000 mile Pan that is a bit tired around the edges and had to add another grand.
the AT is a bit tired around the edges but has 20k miles on it, suspension is fine. So happy.
The Pan had reached the point where for no reason I just did not want to ride it, almost did not trust it cant explain why. But I listen to feelings like that.
Oh got my licence back as well obviously.
Interestingly it seems to come with a free cloak of invisibility as well.
A cross eyed dinosaur, middle aged and a bit odd these days.
A bit like me.
Love it to bits so far.
Not too powerful but nippy enough for me on most roads, took it out for a spin today on main roads, feels great.
I got £2k for my 51,000 mile Pan that is a bit tired around the edges and had to add another grand.
the AT is a bit tired around the edges but has 20k miles on it, suspension is fine. So happy.
The Pan had reached the point where for no reason I just did not want to ride it, almost did not trust it cant explain why. But I listen to feelings like that.
Oh got my licence back as well obviously.
Interestingly it seems to come with a free cloak of invisibility as well.
