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I was a Salesman in Currys 72-73 and now and again I'd have to go out in the van.....either Transit or Escort. So the local girls' school was on the itinerary. One time I picked up two birds in the Escort.....they got in the back and I wheelspun away from the school. They flew backwards and went flying out the back door onto the road. I left them there and carried on as if nothing had happened. Cos that's the way I rolled back then! Thinking about it.......nothing much has changed since! Except if I hung around girls' school at my age I'd get put on the Sex Offenders Register! ? While I was doing ungentlemanly shit in Swansea back then I've no doubt that @Renegade was doing the same thing in Cardiff! The teeth days were good times Phil!

Tropical storm forming, breaking out my ace in the hole Started on the first pull after being in long term storage since 2012

The GTR is due for her 33erd aniversary product review at the end of the year... should be kinda interesting...maybe....

That's a Kawasaki all right......looks like they used the leftover paint, and probably a few parts, and built the KLV1000.

I thought you would like to see mine Tym its just like a KLR battered and badly modified but painted orange to disguise it ?

I jammed the oil filter socket on the old filter.......so she had to advise how to get it off!

I cringe thinking forward at some of the chit i have left to do...

Yes, they're real. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Castle,_Monmouthshire

and, 12 quarts of oil

Freaking hot today, butt, i needed my horsepower fix, you can only ride a thumper for so long before you want to throw them off a bridge. So..i visited my grandparents. They should have listened to Bob, he was really sick ya know! And the traditional hands of the hips selfie perfected by non other than our own @XTreme

Seen this @Sir Fallsalot......this guy got done up like a kipper!

And I managed to get Motul this time! What a difference......engine purrs and tickover has dropped! Now I know you can always feel a difference when you change the oil.......as it's old v new. But the Repsol had only been in there for 5 months, and had done only 1800kms/1100 miles. Surprisingly, all went well.....no disasters! Except for managing to burn my finger on the downpipe!

To call my Irish Consulate When i do i get to talk to the hottest Irish Chick on the planet i swear to doG. Got to be good i;ve used all the easy ones.

My next oil change is due at 106,000 miles. I will make a lovely job of getting all the oil into the drain tray, none will leak over the floor, the filter will be carefully emptied so as not to splash anything. And then I will blood kick the drain tray by accident or some other clumsiness and there will be oil everywhere. I am like the Jack Douglas of oil changes.

Yeh.......and they weren't needed! It was just a frayed wire.

Sorry, have I misunderstood, he paid for all those replacement parts?

I want my 5 seconds back

I managed to have no spillage disasters today Fred! Very unusual! The worst to do are the XT600's with the oil in the frame. Virtually impossible to do those without some sort of spillage. Well I've never managed it!

Test ride today, freaking humid hot, the type of weather i never rode this bike because you cooked in her cockpit. Butt, taking the pan off lets the bike dump all the heat out the bottom now. All i need to do is make a skid plate for the radiators overflow tank. Plus Ron Ayres has shipped more parts! Team green will survive!

Why bother, i;ll just keep replacing parts on the ones i got...

You're going to buy another Kawasaki?

@Lone Amigo Well, igot two 5 gallon cans, and since both bikes dont have vacumm petcocks, i can use the 7 gallons in the GTR and 6 gallons in the KLR as backup, never have needed that much gas however. This Yam burns very little gas.

I trust Alison was keeping a watchful eye.

I'll plug it all in later and see if it still boots up.

Word!

It's not progress is it Clive?

This one was done at 36,600 kms.......next one 39k kms. So that'll be 2400 kms / 1500 miles.......probably around December I'd say! At 40k kms I'll be taking it into Juan Cortes for new plugs (it's got 4) and new air filter! That was an easy job in the old days.......now it's remove tank, and all plastics! FFS!

Top man class!

Nah i just wasn't listening to you lol

I thought you were going to announce that you were buying a nice V-Strom!

Black castles matter.

They were a rarity when I was there......mostly owned by old guys.

Don't I know it. One day they're all lovey dovey, licking the salt off of your truck in the driveway and the next night the bastids jump in front of your truck....

Pop up the road to Lavenham whilst you are in the area https://goo.gl/maps/Dzb9WeNAmgM4t1MQ7 then take a slow wander round the streets. Same for Castle Hedingham, ignore the castle, wander the streets of the village on foot, then pop next door to the steam railway which you will probably hear tooting every 10 minutes. Oh and Kersey https://goo.gl/maps/qiQhN1E18g2SAUMK7 . People think Essex is full of yobs and electric pylons, but that is the south. North Essex is rammed with medieval timber framed cottages, not just the villages, but every tiny lane you go down you will find tucked away gems. They can cost a million quid plus to buy some of the bigguns, I reckon there's a hundred thousand millionaires tucked away in the countryside there because no one else can afford the house prices.

I like these tyres that look agressive butt work on the street.

I remember someone asking him, "was racing Dakar hard?" and he laughed and said no - because all he had to do was ride. In fact, it was the only race event where he actually put ON weight (from all the Argentine barbecues he would stop at between the end of the stage and the bivouac point). The thing that made it easy was having a support team to do the maintenance and logistics. "No, Dakar wasn't hard," he said. "Not compared to all those years racing small enduro eventus in New Zealand every weekend - you'd drive down on Friday night, race Saturday and Sunday, work on the bikes on Saturday night, and drive back on Sunday night, and then get up on Monday morning and go and do your real job. That was hard." So, kudos to him for having put in the hard yards to get to a place where he gets to ride motorbikes for a living, and for being a nice bloke too.

May as well go by car.

Perfect for you as you don’t have a functioning bike. A few others in here could join you as well.

I've spoken to people about this place and some have said......"I don't have an Adventure Motorcycle". My opinion is it's more about what you do WITH the bike rather than the bike itself. Look at all the GS's with the dustbins that never go anywhere for example........while there's people riding round the world on Honda 90's. So I'd say if you're getting out doing trips (on or off road), visiting places of interest (not the local bike meet up), and doing it all by motorcycle......then by definition it's an adventure motorcycle!