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Yesterday I had 3 hrs on the M1000RR BMW……. Sh1tting hell, that is an overkill bike. The seat, the suspension, everything is Just solid.. you don’t feel the traction, you just have to trust and push harder. It was a huge transition from the baby Ducati, and even the BMW owner wanted to keep the Duc...

I've had a pulsing vibration at wheel speed from the front discs for ages, so took my Brembo discs ( on the Aprilia) to Maidstone Motoliner a few weeks back to have them trued. But I still had pulsing, so, today I cleaned the discs using fine emery and Scotchbrite pads, and I also cleaned the pad f...

Sorry to hear of your Mum passing Duffy, my condolences to you and all of your family, Chris. Thanks Chris it was very sudden. I had only spoken to her the night before. I got a call from my sister that she had been taken to hospital, but she was 120 miles away and sadly passed before I could get t...

Sorry to hear of your Mum passing Duffy, my condolences to you and all of your family,

Chris.

Not as standard. They're only needed with fuel injection systems. But I added two lambda wideband sensors in the downpipes and connected a display to show real-time air/fuel stoichiometric ratios when riding, to aid carb setup, on my tuned firestorm. It saved the cost of repeated Dyno runs whenever...

I've had a pulsing vibration at wheel speed from the front discs for ages, so took my Brembo discs ( on the Aprilia) to Maidstone Motoliner a few weeks back to have them trued. But I still had pulsing, so, today I cleaned the discs using fine emery and Scotchbrite pads, and I also cleaned the pad f...

I think the hire company did me a favour now, the 900cc engine might be the perfect size for these type of roads on this island, where the 1200 V4 might have been too much of an animal. I have only found one road on a steep uphill climb where I didn’t have enough grunt to fire out of the turns as f...

Cheers Mac

Chris.

Happy birthday Duffy

I hope you’re having a great time,

Chris.

What a difference a day makes. USB port fitted and working, tracker reconnected. Only the seat and one side panel off. Mind you, I was thinking about how to test each wire and diagnose yesterday's problems most of the night... Time for a BBQ and some cold beers :beer: 💨 Bloody Italian bikes. It'll ...

https://i.postimg.cc/rRSCWrcD/20240511-083455-Copy.jpg The ones T&T & insured to ride... https://i.postimg.cc/GTcJFppz/20240511-083510.jpg CJ Storm missing more bits in the Jones 633 fettling saga... https://i.postimg.cc/0zfvnWZf/20240511-083525.jpg The works in progress.. Yeah right... htt...

First proper ride now I have the trumpet back . I have to say i did miss that triple howl. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20240512/9268a53ce3b1d1bbf4bc39d8771208d1.jpg https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20240512/2e703505ffaa0029463f1d5b95ff7ba5.jpg https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20240512/ca550192...

Out early so we could be back for beer and MotoGP on TV. This is the competition: 2x Aprilia V4 Tuono factory bikes 1x BMW M1000RR 1X BMW GS1250 And then 2 of us on 950 Ducati Multistrades Up in the mountains looking out to sea IMG_5252.jpeg And this is it with no screen… and yes I am obviously the...

Friday went and picked up the naughty Triumph after electrical death :eek2 . turns out a common problem on early 675s , i wasnt about to start pulling it apart but a man i know who is good with trumpets found the problem after a few hours of wire checking :thumbup: , fixed and seems to be running t...

Well i am growing to like the little V2 Ducati, its light, agile and with good brakes and suspension it is working with me to keep up with the big boys on the mountain roads. Being a hire bike, the lack of mechanical sympathy i am showing it is not my problem 8O So far I have rotated the bars forwa...