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Beauty of a 250....

Nice ride across the valleys avoiding the motorways and as much as possible dual carriageways from the Tawe Valley to the Rhymney Valley and a car gathering outside Doughnutters in Caerphilly with my son Ashton. Stacks more photos when (if) I get the time to edit them

Humped down the hills and through the woods back to the hotel bar for a well deserved wife beater.....

Check this RV out - he removed the fifth wheel assembly and added a winch to pull his side by side on to the back. Roof rack for wind boards and off he goes. Kinda cool ...

I was cold as fook....

The Big Blue Turd ....

Got high in the hills of Montana on Sunday, Not many others out today...

I messaged Tango this afternnoon and got a message back, he's fine, just busy with life n stuff, no worries, ( other than that the frogs are busy voting the national front into power and that we're laying money on which one of us will be escorted off the premesis first... )

Not all that warm up here and it was windy as shit. Felt like the bikes were gonna tip over if we didn't hold them...

It was pretty nice but had some real rough places as well. Hope to find more today

Just been out on it for half an hour/40 mins and it didn’t do it , hopefully adjusting tick over has helped …

You do know it's a single cylinder and all he's doing is making it tick over faster that doesn't upset anything.

Nothing worse than soggy lasagna!

Dinner was Mexican again - crappy chicken burrito, some queso dip and more than a few beers...

Heading down the back side of the hill next ....

didn't get out on it yesterday, get out tonight see if adjusting tickover has done anything

Oh Yeah

This is the stuff, not a ride to Starbucks with a snow mobile and some random guy in a car, come on you lot, get your act together, Eric spends two thirds of the year snowbound and rides more than most of you put together, brings us epic reports like this, rebuilds his bike using an elastic band and a toothbrush, dodges law enforcement, drinks warm beer and eats rattle snakes for breakfast. Meanwhile you lot are worried that you have the wrong air in your tyres.

Todd got popped for 94 mph in a 65 mph zone....and the cop let him off with a friendly warning. Lucky fucker....

i had just bunny hopped it over that big log..

That's just a Himalayan with gay tyres fitted, the Triumph looks way more cool.

It looks mean in that shot

I think i read the 890 and 901 Norden have had some cam problems as well

It's just KTM quality now sell it six this is one of the TRF guys camshaft on his 690 at 1200 miles. The 790's suffer the same fate as well apparently

That looks like a sweet road!

Is that the dirt track thing they were talking about? I don’t get those rules, Harley runs an open 1250 but KTM runs a 890 instead of a proper super duke? And BMW runs a boxer that came out 20 years ago instead of the modern 1300 or even last 1250? On the other hand, that Panamerica turned naked sportsbike looks sweet!

I presume because he gave the copper everything he asked for without any attitude unlike the videos i see on line where everyone goes on about their rights and then wonder why they've been tasered shouting I've done nothing wrong

That's because you are fat.

No, sorry, slow getting round them having to wait each time for people to get out of the way

turn your hearing aid up you twat

I meant how poor England team played..........

I was gonna say....sounds like Pete's speaking to us from beyond the grave

Got a cryptic message from Martyn asking if I fancied a ride for breakfast in the morning. So I got up to 4Turnings roundabout for 10:00am. Shadow in tow as always. Anyway Martyn was there with his V85T Guzzi, then Andy turned up with his Triumph Scrambler 900 and of course Gary with his 1973 Bonnie. Martin said he had found this place called Rainbow Bikes near Ashburton in fucking East Devon. I asked him what he was taking us to he said don’t worry they are legit and have a good trip advisor rating for the food. So off we went, got 5 miles to the first junction and we lost Gary, fucking broken down. Why he rides that museum piece I don’t know. Anyway Andy goes and rescues him and takes him to get a spare clutch cables as that was all it was. Martyn and I headed up to Saltash for him to get fuel. while they fixed the Bonnie. To be fair they were only 20 minutes behind us but Gary was spouting some story about how he got to 85 to catch us up, normally he reckons he can’t see above 70 because of the vibes. Old Triumph speedos, I don’t know. Anyway reunited we blast, well I say blast but sat at 65 for Gary is probably closer to the mark, up the A38 Devon Expressway to Ashburton and Rainbow Bikes. Turns out the rainbow comes from them being an electric scooter and bike shop. Benelli Dealership as well. Nice Old Sunbeam in the car park Well the café was very good and their half charge breakfast (electric theme) was bloody good. Note to self don’t park over an oil patch to avoid paranoia. I found out later that an old BSA was in the same spot as me before we got there Fed and watered we headed for the south coast through the South Hams to Brixham for an ice cream. Got the ice cream and had a mooch around the harbour where Gary board us all about fucking wood working and his paper driving license Well, Brixham done we headed back through the South Hams which is stunningly beautiful even if the roads are congested shit, to the A38 and home. Bloody roads around Plymouth are so congested, the last 2 miles to the Tamar Bridge we filtered the whole way as the traffic was gridlocked. Not even school holidays yet. Trip stats when I got home were 6 hours and 157 miles Good day out on the old CBF600 which is running like a Honda. Good company, fed and a few laughs mostly at Gary’s expense . Shadow has gone to bed knackered and I’m chilling before work tonight. Many bikes out today. So much traffic though, gonna stay off the A38 and A30 as much as possible until the season is over the congestion does my head in, to many close squeaks for comfort, mostly Gary but still to many people around.

Nice one @Saul , the south hams is lovely

Yes they do. My point is to let her feel comfortable getting a full foot down when things go wrong. Dropping the forks through would be much better after lowering the rear but the upper clamp doesn't allow that and I doubt she'll feel the difference removing some preload. Not yet anyway.

Love that nice dirtroad!

Nice one Eric, great vistas as usual. Todd needs to buy a lottery ticket

More pics later as we get into Montana.....

If it is injected it will have a MAP sensor, remove that and clean it out, I wouldn’t be surprised if that is the issue, with it being a single if the MAP sensor is gunged up then it will likely run full lean on decelerating and shut the ignition down.

Another possibility is that it's suckin' air somewhere.... @ 1 point I had reseal the intake boot between the carb & the cylinder head. A thin film of Permatex Ultra Black sealant cured the problem.

Isn’t there some sort of air box mod to cure this, I read it somewhere I’m sure.

That is not appropriate behaviour from a moderator! She’s the friend’s wife who he didn’t want to join in on the trip. Plus she rides a trike:

Of course i would otherwise Chloe would have died for nothing and that would be just cruel. Although it's slightly out of date so not sure now .

I can't compete with all these fancy high tech boxes ...