Pedro

The last few years of that motor, with the four valves per cylinder and 105/110hp were the best engine BMW put into a GS. Apparently they changed to water for higher power and emissions, but the hipster bikes still have an oil cooled engine and that is great, still legal too! I looked into buying a nice one of those, but wanted proper cruise control and couldn’t find a nice one of the later years. The dry clutch and “car” gearbox make sense to me.

Haven’t seen anyone milking a leaky oil seal into three threads before, that bike, being OIL cooled, is going to make for interesting ownership!

I love that!

All of the street racing you have in the UK is insane. Fast baja and other street races like Macau are so fast and dangerous, but the speed they carry through rural villages in the UK while still riding within their safety margin is such a mental exercise of track knowledge / bike control. They're both knowledge experts and insane at the same time.

Yes it is, it's worse. Wrong premise!

Also WAY too low, hardly moved being taken off the sidestand, makes me think it'll drag at 15mph...

Quite athletic...

Easy bet on a motocross race

Shit bike, too low AND too short, that my opinion (181cm tall) having only sat on one inside a dealership.

You can't block Pete, this is basically mind rape!

nothing like a spoonful of 20W50 to make you work right!

Doing like shit, I bet. Chemo is a right bastard to endure for most people.

We should have one reaction button more than currently, specifically for that reaction to Pete's obvious questions.

They're becoming fashionable, Lambrettas, have started to see more and more of them, usually restored and looking very clean on sunday mornings.

Fucks sake, Pete!

@Buckster, why buy a hammer with that color? Why not buy a green or brown one?

You went and bought a hammer, Ian?

No manners at all!

Slept quite poorly tonight, fell asleep at 4 or 5, pestered by a couple of mosquitos and feeling hot and itchy, didn't know whether I was awake and uncomfortable or having a bad dream. I need drugs, the voice is sexy but am indeed feeling a little confused sometimes. Felt vague and not myself when riding the bike the other day and not too pleasant, so will refrain from going out. Rain fell in the morning, and am now sitting outside contemplating birds chirping all around now that the sun is sort of out. My nice neighbor is bringing me groceries and bread today, whether that happens in the morning or afternoon I don't know, what excitement!

I saw about an accident and the red flag, but didn't know about that. It's a dangerous passion to have.

So, the guys have been on the IOM since wednesday now, racing starts tomorrow. I only saw a couple of videos on youtube from Bennets Bike or something like that. Is there any live youtube channels for the racing itself? McGuiness is getting a little long in the tooth, way to go for him still being one of the fastest humans on earth, I bet he's thinking of a win regardless of his demeanor, it's in the blood!

When I had the silencer off on the XR it popped like that, and the bike ran out of power at high revs. Silencer back on, adjust the mix, and suddenly it's way faster at high revs to the point it pulls 15 or so more kmh top speed. Low rpm grunt and the open exhaust really helped, though, more snappy and less of the famous XR stall.