Be Excellent To Each Other

Bugger off you... you.... /scratches head ..... you hot hatch hooligan!!111



(Seriously though, some people just cannot be bloody told anything mate, they're always bloody right according to them, which, given I've very nearly been wiped out by this very syndrome, you'll understand if it's a bit close to home. )

I know the feeling, but from the side of being a cyclist. However, there are good and bad cyclists, motorists and motorcyclists. It's emotive because it's literally life and death. I've been involved in a collision with a motorcyclist, so I know first-hand how awful it is (he lived, which was good).

Battery for Erfive ordered.

I give up with you. No two ways about it you're just a fucking massive prick.

Very true.
IMO there's close symmetry between the risks of being a cyclist and motorcyclist, especially in tight urban situations.

@ Mali: Yay! 'Get yer motor running' mate, it's almost April!

Thanks for your contribution to this thread, now kindly fuck off, you *shit* driver. Be told, and learn to use your mirrors, you stupid old twat.

Oh well done, you two. Well done.

Not arsed, sorry. Some people just can't be told, and they can't be civil either, so they or anyone else really shouldn't get all surprised when they get told to stuff off.
This thread is about motorbikes and the enjoyment of them. I don't come blundering into the PC or game threads belming complete shit and then get all uppity when multiple people who know far more about it than I do try to patiently explain the situation, nor do I call them massive pricks or whatever as a result.

So, let's talk about motorbikes. That would be good.

My wife's cousin's abomination. He doesn't look comfy when riding it. And it sounds like a fucking Messerschmidt.

Wow, that is very unusual, fair play!!

Is it running a Suzook 600 motor do you know DavPaz?

Be told what? I do use my mirrors all the fucking time, I don;t believe I have ever pulled out on anyone, ever. But I'm not going to "be told" about a situation I encountered that you didn't, you ridiculous overbearing old twat. You weren't there and I was and there was really no opportunity to do anything that wasn't highly erratic except make as much room as possible for both the motorbike and the cyclist and the oncoming cars. He was absolutely pinning it, giving no fucks at all like he was raging and as I watched him go off down the road he was still weaving between tiny gaps like a full on maniac.

I have no idea. He built it from parts. Trained plumbers can build deformed bikes, it seems

It's a very cool paint job and I like the naked frame, it just looks like it needs to be longer though!
If it's a bespoke fabricated, gas-flowed and decatted pipe, it's gonna be l-o-u-d.

Oh God, that's ugly. Still, kudos to him for building it himself.

A brief look on bike trader suggests I could sell if for £800 to £1,000 with an MOT. I have suggested I do this to MrsA and omitted the second part.

I missed this before in all the, ahem, excitement, but that's very true also Mali.
People just don't realise how fast bikes are; even my Harley VRod will do 0-60 in 3.7 seconds and that's before tuning. A GSX-R will do it in around 2.5 secs.

Even the old air-cooled CVO will do it in around 4.2 secs I think, and that's an out and out lazy cruiser!

So what you doin'

Idly looking at bike trader. It's pretty amazing what you can get for £1,200 when you think about it (zx6, gsxr6, sv650). There's a non running HD 1350 soft tail up for £1k, too. I am fairly sure anything other than a straight swap moneywise would be frowned upon.

Any of you been to the bike shed venue in Shoreditch?

(Only asking because they're a client, I know sod all about motorbikes...)

I'm oop north Jem, not London based. What's there, is it a meet, shop etc.?

Oh yeah, I never try to race bikes. The only time I get annoyed is when someone on a scooter filters to the front and then takes forever to get away.

It's the on-going advance of gentrification.

@Myp - yeah, that would've been me when I was an annoying 16-year old oik on my mate's Kwak AR50 'ped that did 45 flat out, I thought I was it.

They've got their work cut out in my case.

@Mali - do you reckon you'd fancy trying to do up the soft tail? Could be a bit of a money spinner, as once done up it'd likely be worth much more? Dunno if these are your thing though, you're a young blade.

2 years too late, but I had no idea you frequented this place. I always make a point of stopping off there for a drink/meal whenever I'm coming back to Shrewsbury on the A49 - great place.

Bit of everything. Started out as a motorbike blog and now have their own place in Shoreditch with food, drink, barbers, shop, meets, events etc.

I've been there a couple of times for meetings but don't know enough about biking etc to judge them on owt.

Just wondered if my work had reached further than their back yard so to speak, haha

Blimey small world Gaz, that is our flippin' local! Cannot fault the food or ale and Gary the landlord's a great bloke (total petrolhead, loves bikes, pub is full of racing car pics from Oulton etc. as you know)
How about meeting with Jem & Mrs C also when I get the CVO next month and the weather's better?

Only pub I know where you can order a half-dozen shucked Mersey oysters and a bottle of DP -or- an awesome steak & kidney suet pudding with chips and gravy, washed down with an immaculate pint of Weetwood ale, BOTH just as good!

@Jem, got a link?

It's ok, he's 50 in his mind.

It has crossed my mind. Old Man Afterthought has a bike trailer I could borrow (and the camper van to pull it). If it doesn't start it could be a battery, starter, fuel pump or plugs I guess. I might drop him a note on it, and see how busy he is. If he isn't, he could pick it up on his way to see us.

Sadly, this is probably true.

Thanks Jem, looks very cool.
Will check it out.

Nowt wrong with being 50.
Mind you I still have ONE year and a bit left to go.

Edit: Sounds good re. the soft tail - let's start BEEX MCC!!

But yet you think you look 20 when you look in the mirror. You're a strange one.

The worst part was the realisation that it wasn't all about me, anymore, and probably never was

Thanks Jem, I've checked out that site in a little more detail now, excellent.

I've always been a total, total sucker for a Cafe Racer - almost as much as Hogs - and here they review the new, mouthwatering Triumph Thruxton-R (it's a 1200 parallel twin). What a beautiful bike that is.

http://thebikeshed.cc/2016/03/18/ross-o ... hruxton-r/

I've always loved the Thruxton but baulked at the drops and silly riding position, but looks like they've really sorted this out. What a fabulous, fabulous machine; you just know that big bore Brit twin is gonna sound great with an Arrow exhaust...

British Racing Green, please

It is a sexy looking bike, but then I feel like that about a lot of motorbikes. I think it's the leather on the rider, tbh.

Yip, I've said it before, but I'll say it again - you're deffo my kinda gal, Jem.

Even though I'm a leftie liberal global-warming believer?

Yeah totes, sweet. (all my friends are seriously left wing anyway; I don't even get on with Tories *at all* and got most pissy last weekend when one of the PCC started talking about "homosexuals in the BBC". I must be a closet lefty myself likes )
(Whisper it, but give me another 5 years of beex inDOCtrination, I may yet get there myself, you never know )

That Harley is ridiculously cheap, so as long as it's not nicked, you should snap it up.

It's worth more as parts than that.

ONE OF US

ONE OF US

Actually it's more like "Cavey late Friday night trying to set (another) fire on third bottle of Sancerre after Mrs C has 'abandoned ship' and crawled to bed", but yeah, I like the sentiment.

Anyway, enough about me you barstewards, what do you think on the Thruxton-R? I think it's filth.

Actually, yeh,

Snap yourself up a bargain, Mali. (I can give you the cap back too! )

If I was closer I'd have been there already checking it out, but I'm not and I can't get it home.

It's 200 miles from me.

I've been looking at adverts for Fazer 600s this morning...

In further news from the Department of Planning ahead:

I changed the battery. Key in, and the lights lit up. Full choke applied, quick prayer and hit the starter. It caught on the 7th time. I cheered. I cheered again. My foot was wet. I looked down. Needs a new oil filter.