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Equipment

Riding again

May 15, 2009

I went out for an hour on the Goldwing. My hand is the thing causing the most problems at the moment. It continues to swell up at times and become painful. Initially it felt quite sore on the bike but settled down after a while.
It is strange how unconfident I feel when not able to [...]

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Bike repairs and thoughts of a new bike..

March 28, 2009

I rang South London Motorrad but was told they only had two techs (out of four they were supposed to have) and couldn’t look at my bike until the end of next week. This was too late for my liking as I am planning more off-roading on the 19th April and I want to be [...]

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Warm Hands Arrived..

December 30, 2008

Courtesy of the postman this morning. Thanks too to Derek at Pricedright for getting them sent off so quickly. The gloves are a little large but only borderline so I shall keep them. Naturally I had to try them out and with the temperature at -2 deg C this morning, it seemed like a good [...]

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Out and about

December 25, 2008

Fresh from the triumph of fitting my new crash bars to the BMW yesterday, I celebrated by having a short ride on it today. Having both been laid low by the flu for two weeks, dearly beloved and I have postponed our Xmas jollifications until New Year – assuming we (still) feel like doing so [...]

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Ils sont arrivés! Or the Eagle has landed!

December 10, 2008

My crashbars and bash plate arrived from Adventure Spec this morning. They were delayed apparently because the guys at AS had been unable to get up a snow-covered hill to their workshop on top of some god-forsaken moor and as a result were not posted until Monday. They arrived as shown in a rather unprepossessing [...]

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Finally I got my map and other good news.

December 2, 2008

Well TomTom came through in the end although the communications through their web site still drive me potty. I had to create a new email address and set up a TomTom Home account in the new name, then the company switched my map authorisation to the new mail address and I was able to to [...]

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The Crash Bar Saga

October 14, 2008

More than three months ago, I ordered a set of SW Motech crashbars from Nippy Norman but they didn’t fitAfter endless emails, complaints and attempts to fit a replacement cross piece – which suffered exactly the same fault, I gave up, returned the bars and got my money back.
All in all it has been a [...]

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The Powerpark centre stand

August 31, 2008

Powerpark is a wonderfully misleading name. In one sense it is accurate, but in another quite wrong. There is no power (unlike the BMW K1200LT) other than using the bike`s reverse gear. The stand is nothing more than a shorter than standard centre stand which is the right height to allow the rear wheel to [...]

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Progressive Springs and other things

August 31, 2008

I had just one day at home when I got back from Ireland (just enough to dry out a very wet tent) before I took myself up to Rotherham so that Ian Cardwell could do some work on my bike. I had a number of relatively minor things to do – mostly I wanted attention [...]

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Fantastic Wiltshire Ride

August 3, 2008

A member of the UKGers forum had laid on an invitation ride for big trailies and novices over some of Salisbury plain and anxious to try out some new territory and also to see how my Metal Mules performed on the rough stuff, I was keen to sign up. I became rather less keen as [...]

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