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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)

anything using "Motorcycle" rather than "Bike" is a mouthful, add more words and yes it become long and boring. some of them were a joke Pete...

it's not a "right" or "correct" way of riding Pete, it's just "another" way of cornering, I use it either when I've misjudged a corner and gone in too fast and need to correct, ( backing off the throttle will sit the bike up and make it run wide) or am trying to keep up with faster bikes / riders and need to carry more speed through the corners.

you don't want to "hit" anything once you're beyond a certain angle, The clue is in the title " Trail" braking, you're just feathering the trailing (rear) brake into the corner, allowing the use of the brake as a further control of angle and speed ( in conjunction with throttle and bar inputs), usually only releasing it completely, as Buck says, at the apex as the bike then needs to sit back up and accelerate out of the corner. ( some sort of disclaimer here about not confusing road and circuit, safety ahould be first consideration etc etc and that I am in no way affiliated or accredited by the california highway patol or anyother competant or incompetant organisation)

The Real Motorcycle Forum International Motorcycle forum (The IMF ) WorldWide Mororcycle Forum ( probably wouldn't get away with that ... WWMF) The proper Motorcycle Forum The Right Motorcycle Forum Ye Olde Motorcycle Forum The SOG Motorcyle Forum The Fossilised Motorcycle Forum The Motorcycle Forum 3rd Age The Motorcycle Forum Tokyo drift the possibilities are endless...

Georgia the state or Georgia the country?

cherry scrumping tiger

Pete, can you move my post to ride reports? I done gone put it in da rong place innit. cos i is a fukwit!

how to ride nearly 3 hours whilst remaining within 10km of home. something like this: nearly all pretty minor roads, which is what we like, and the dark brown bits on the trace are unpaved sections. Sun shining, spring in the air and 20 odd degrees forcast for the afternoon. I had to take N01 daughter back to uni in the afternoon so did this in the morning, set off about 10h30 up through St Bris le Vineux and on to St Cyr les Colons the village itself is "out of bounds" so cut north back under the autoroute, twice, and on to montallery and Bleigny le Carreaux. It had taken me a while to find a way out of Bleigny le Carreaux without crossing the 10km line, but a shot dirt track liason sorted the problem allowing me to cut back westwards through to Moneteau and cross the river there. There was no way to hug the northern edge of the circle without crossing out of it, so I had to work back south a little before heading towards the western sector. and some cherry orchards. soon be scrumping time... time ws getting on and I knew N01 would be getting her knickers in a twist if I didn't get back soon so from here, above Coulanges la Vineuse, I pushed on a bit down through Vinvelles, back across the river, up and down the hillclimb course at Chitry le Fort, back to St bris, cuting left up over the Col Du Cremant and back to the river at Vincelottes and thus home along the riverbanks. Got home with impeccable timing ( as always) at 12h30 just as Lunch was coming out of the oven. 100km almost exactly with a moving average of almost 50km/h . scoffed lunch, jumped in the car and did 3 hours of Autoroute taking N01 back to Dijon.

which is problematical as he's the bloody driver! ?

they did something right with the picasso, though fuck knows its ugly enough.

you can work on the basis that anything Citroen is either brilliantly quirky and a nightmare to work on, ( Traction, mehari, 2CV, DS, GS, CX, BX,...etc...etc) or simply a pile of shit and even shittier to work on ( berlingot, C4, C8, C5, C1...etc ...etc...) I've used most of these last at work one time or another and have hated every sigle one of them.

The idea is that once you're leaned over at speed in a bend, applying a little rear brake will a) compress the rear suspenders slightly and b) slow the forward momentum slightly, both of which will ( unless countered by steering or throttle input) tend to push the bike further over into the corner, which is useful to know if you've gone in too hot. incorporating this information and technique proactively rather than reactively, allows you to corner faster or tighter than if not using the technique. I don't use the front brake in a corner as this tends to sit my bike up, out of the corner. ( slowing the front end will transfer mass forward and outwards).

From what i've heard, the camping cars are more of a problem than the midges on that particular route. A victim of its own success perhaps, cos it should be a superbe ride.

oh don't, I still have fucking nightmares about that! ?