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I rode it on the trip to Bosham on Sunday. Can't say I noticed any undue vibes but then again the FTR is very vibey so anything else is rock solid by comparison. Every car ive had has been large displacement and lots of low end torque so that's what I am kind of used to and I find it difficult to switch to using the revs to get the ooopfh out of a bike, and that's exactly what the s1000 needs. I owned the MT09 for several months before I noticed that the rev counter went green once you wound the revs up enough . The BMW really is a lovely engine. I have raised the bars by 25mm which weirdly makes a huge difference to the comfort/riding position - I need to decide if I think it would be further improved but bringing them up a bit higher but that would require altering the brake lines. Im somewhat bigger than the average rider so all I can see in the stock mirrors are my shoulders - new bar end mirrors to fit tomorrow which will improve things.

Didn’t expect that ! Thanks all, I’ll have to work on my acceptance speech

Anything Italian looks beautiful, but it’s going to be in the shop a lot.

By some miracle I actually have a picture of my frankenbike ... you can all wash your eyes out later if you don't like that style.

I could accept that, if the roads were ever resurfaced, but it’s 10 years since anyone has done that …

Bloody 20mph limits are a nightmare, they are popping up everywhere. What’s next 10mph limits?

I was tempted, I’m fairly tall ( although not as tall as Marcel or Bucky obviously ) and probably the XR would be a better fit with a bit of fiddling, but for some reason I do enjoy the naked bikes.

Black, what other colour is there?

Just bought a BMW S1000R ( used) which is certainly fun to ride. I need some bar risers to raise the bars a little as the riding position is a bit far forward for me. Lovely engine… Also looked at the XR too which looked nice, just not sure I’m ready for a bike with luggage just yet. Maybe next time. Lots of instructions to read …

Watched the eclipse yesterday from the top of a large nearby hill, along with hundreds of other who had the same idea. It’s on a small country road- going back to the car people who had turned up later than us and couldn’t squeeze onto the grass verge just stopped and abandoned their cars in the middle of the road.

Do you need any form of oscillation damper on the hitch (ive never towed anything except in a tractor, but there are plenty of YouTube clips of caravans doing alarming things)...

meh, my money was on an Indian....

Rescue my car - only used once but if you call them a second time for the same vehicle they as for a copy of proof of repair for whatever was wrong. My fake cobra broke down on the garage forecourt whilst awaiting an MOT a couple of years ago, garage were clueless as it has things like a distributor and a carb, they gave me the number of a local recovery chap who arrived within 30 mins and was half the price of the nationals. The frustrating thing was it was only 400m from home.

You seem to have fitted a barbecue behind the back seat.

Does it have image stabilisation? If not then the place with the least vibration the better otherwise it's unwatchable. A lot of action cams have built in software to take out the vibration but you can also do it with processing software afterward. The image stabilisation on the likes of GoPro and Insta is very good.

I found a right hand stand for mine. On the std side stand the oil dribbled past the rings and it smoked like crazy on start-up. Looks a bit odd in a line of other bikes tho

Wish we'd get some rain down here... You'd be welcome to use my garage Iain, but seems a long way to come, and you'd need to get it here.

I rode around the isle of white with a bunch of mates last week, as usual I didn't take any photos of my bike - have to see if anyone else did ...

What he said ^^^^. Until recently I had a load of points on my licence but was hoping the the premium would go down after the came off my licence but its not changed.

Felt fine when I rode it. Stops reasonably well considering its age. I know the right mirror is missing, couldn’t be bothered to refit it.

I had to renew my car insurance last week. Wrong side of sixty, no claims for 20 years and it’s still bloody expensive.

It lives !! Rode it down to the village and back, only about a mile but I live at the top of a long steep hill and didnt want to have to push the thing too far if it did crap out. Smokes like a bitch, but I think it's from being on the side stand for a while - illogically that puts the crank case above the head, so oil seeps to the top of the engine. Ive ordered a right hand side stand for it. Its a heavy bike and the original side stand allows the bike to lean over at a really steep angle - make me nervous seeing it like that so hopefully the new right hand stand will give it a more upright position ... otherwise I will have to adapt it so it does. Still need to fiddle with the rev counter, it's a bit jumpy so will experiment with where the input comes from. Also need to get the gas gauge to work.

Its called an EUC, the most powerful ones accelerate at an insane rate - The motors main job is to keep you upright with the power which is left over from keeping you upright giving you acceleration or deceleration. If you ask to much of it the thing decides it doesn't want to play anymore and shuts off which is what you see on the second guys telemetry when it hits red. The motors on these things get better every year. My first ever wheel was 500w, the red one in the pic in BOTM is 4kw continuous output, maybe 6kw peak.

I have the speed warning set to 30mph, it will go considerably faster but I'm old, and things take longer to heal.

Is this eligible, its good a motor & peddles, and it currently goes faster than my K100