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Rather you than me. Much as I loved every minute of my 125, it wasn't safe on main highways cos it couldn't keep up with traffic most of the time and , lets face it, I'm not built for a 125 Having said that I know people who rave about them so you might like it. You're also a wee bit lighter than I am ( a wee bit ) so it might struggle less hauling you around

TADAAAAAH! like shit on a blanket.

we're going to be freed progressively from monday, 3rd may end the 10km restriction 19th may they re open bars and restaurants, outside areas only and lnited to 6 per table. groups outside limited to 10 people. curfew pushed back to 21h00 non essential shops re open along with cinemas, theatres etc. 9th june gyms, reopen, foreign tourists will be allowed back 30th removal of all restrictions...except night clubs which remain closed. this is, of course, subject to no new outbreak, but seeing as yesterday the health minister anniunced that no cases of the indian veriant have been found in France and today he announced that 2 cases of the indian varient have been declared.... I imagin that it will all go to shit faster then the proverbial excrement from a digging implement. lets hope i'm just being my usual pessemistic b'stard.

now THAT is an excellent photo!

oi! you switched whilst I wasn't looking!

then he needs to get out and practice more!

25kilosmore than my tiger... which is 30 kilos more than the tralp was... not sure I could pick it up

if you're not underselling yourself and your linguistic abilities and need help with technical terms in frog, I can help. You're also only about 25 minutes south of my oppo ( in Capestang) who is ( or was) a proper mechanic, even if his last bike was something like a suzuki GT750 way back when... he's english and speaks the lingo sufficiently well to run our operations down there. I'm sure he'd help if I asked. Have you got to the point at the dealers yet where they all run away and hide when they see you coming...

I was going to say that the same could be said of almost any modern bike, fry the electrics and yer fecked wherever you are, the location will simply make the repair take more or less time.

BOTM shot right there!

I still think that it won't sell. Not in Europe anyway, the aesthetics of that front end... and it's a Harley. there'a a huge portion of the riding world who would refuse to buy one however good it is on those two criteria alone. I'm not saying they're right, i'm just saying they exist. Add to this the lack of dealers and tech support outside of the US and you have another reason to not want one. Like it or not, these are all real factors in motorcycle choice. However, they have called it the "Pan America" which situates its target demographic pretty clearly in the US, which is where they already have a serious market, the dealer network is more developed and being a domestic product is a sales argument rather than the contraire. So far I have only read reports from professional riders or journalists, mostly from manufacturer organised test days. The real information will come when Joe public gets his grubby hands on it and starts dropping it and using all the wrong settings, and generally abusing it. I've already seen on various "adventure" sites, the nay sayers who ask "what happens when it breaks down half way across africa" " how you going to service the variable valve timing at the roadside in a guatemalan monsoon" .... "Pan America" if they have designed it for that purpose then I imagine it fits pretty much it's design brief.

s'funny how quickly you can go off some people...?

I can provide boats if you really want...

definately not a fan of those high pipes.

so am I just not of where I want

nice looking machine Tango, I might have fallen for one of those had a good 2nd hand one been available when I needed. I'd like to hear how you get on with it once you can start riding any sort of distance again.

you do.

yeah, same old same old since 2006

if you want a ring of truth to it, givingan identity to the site motorcycleparking.com is probably available I'm trying to be helpful...honest!

drop "adventure" go with "motorcyclerider.com" or .net we're more about the riders than the actual bikes themselves

well I made some vaguely serious suggestions and they're too long cos theres always motorcycle forum plus at least one other word, looks to me like you can't have anything other than "the motorcycleforum.com" and I've run out of ideas now

motorpsycleforum.com

some bike forums have either a questionnaire or a load of profile details to fill in. A reoccuring question is "riding style", to which I always reply " Yes". ?

MFI MotorcycleForumInternational.com ( or as Mel Smith once put it " Made for Fucking Idiots" only the brits would get the furniture gag)