boboneleg

This is my mate's personal review of his new Transalp ............... Well, 150 odd miles today. Handling brilliant on road at speed and wonderful balance at walking pace. Brakes good (smaller Nissans than an AT but bigger disks & it works well) Finish - pretty shite in some areas, cheaply covered ill fitting seat, exhaust system real tatty ugly affair. Swing arm welds are good but some of the frame welds done by a trainee monkey robot ? Wind noise from lower fairing drowns out the week sounding silencer Cheap feel and look to the levers. pillion pegs can't be removed because they also hold the silencer bracket some of the wiring looks a bit ugly, wound in black tape. Coolant pipes don't have a decent finish either. The suspension settings on dry off-road rough stuff was great straight out the box, but without a sump guard you don't want to get silly. Not a review, just some of the things I've noticed on my first day and nothing that can't be sorted. Trouble is ,I'm making comparisons with a very well built and finished 701 and an ever better built Dragster. The reason I bought this bike is because it's a Honda. I know it'll just go on and on back and forth across two counties to my old mums care home. The Dragster is back at the dealers after another tantrum, The 701 seat and my arse won't talk to each other................ I rest my case !

Of course ..................

My boss got four class wins out of four races last week at Cadwell, he is leading the championship at the moment .

Very nice Peter F*cking huge those floods aren't they, you took your life in your hands there ..............

Next job was new chain and sprockets . So new front sprocket on .............. The rear sprocket had hardly any wear so I left that in place and then fitted the chain...............

The next thing to need attention was the cush drive rubbers in the hub. They had been mounted with some silicone sealant by the previous owner (a common trick to stop transmission slop)........... Once I got the rubbers out I was left with this ............... but brake cleaner and a scraper got it clean , this was the crap that came out .................. with the hub cleaned I fitted some Polyurethane cush drives from Procycle. These are supposed to be much better than the rubber originals .............. The cush drive was then mounted to the wheel and then the wheel was squeezed back into the bike ...............

So it's time for some work on Miss America as I have a trip to France/Italy coming up soon. First job was to change the rear tyre , there's a Mitas E-09 on there (fitted by the previous owner) and they can be a bitch to remove so get the shit job done first Leave them out in the sun for a while , much easier to work on a warm tyre ............. Get the ABBA bead breaker on it and squirt some WD-40 into the bead ................ and then lever it off, looks easy enough in the photos but it took about 30 mins on the bead breaker to get it done.........

That's good because we get a lot of peeps who don't get it and disappear straight away. We have a Matron to keep us in check every so often , isn't that right @Slowlycatchymonkey

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Jesus, I can't unsee that image . Feckin uncooth lorry driver ...............

Yebbut the trailer is ok, the rider is hoping theat PC Plod can't see the tractor for the trailer . Like you can't see the woods for the trees ................ I think

Ah ! I thought it was a Fazer . I can't keep up ..............

I am with a company called giffgaff (been with them 8 years now) and I had no problems with roaming in Italy this year, exactly the same cost as in UK. https://www.giffgaff.com/

I've only ever owned one four cylinder bike in all the time I've been riding, they do nothing for me. Having said that it looks a peach but what's happened to the three cylinder Fazer ?

So has it got good wi-fi as you seem to have no problem being in here today

Yes !! never watched it but I'm sure others have so perhaps it's a No

I'd better wear my leather jacket then as none of my lycra fits anymore

Lionel is

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm, Kippers. I'm going to have to get down there