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PostPosted: Tue Mar 22, 2016 15:06 
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Being a dick and thinking a car can out drag a bike (if your car is slower than a WRX Impreza, you can't).


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!

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.

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


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@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. :DD

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


It's the on-going advance of gentrification.


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

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@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.

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so we could all bumble down to my favorite (biker friendly) country pub ever, the Fox and Barrel http://foxandbarrel.co.uk/ , and its amazing Michelin-quality food (as eaten in its fab country garden).

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.


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

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 :DD

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so we could all bumble down to my favorite (biker friendly) country pub ever, the Fox and Barrel http://foxandbarrel.co.uk/ , and its amazing Michelin-quality food (as eaten in its fab country garden).

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.


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? :)

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@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.

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

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@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.


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.

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@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.

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


Sadly, this is probably true.

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

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@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.

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


Sadly, this is probably true.


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

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

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@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.

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


Sadly, this is probably true.

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

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@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.

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


Sadly, this is probably true.

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


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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...

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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. :DD

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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. :DD


:hat:

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

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Even though I'm a leftie liberal global-warming believer? ;) :luv:

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Even though I'm a leftie liberal global-warming believer? ;) :luv:


Yeah totes, sweet. :D :luv: (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 :p )
(Whisper it, but give me another 5 years of beex inDOCtrination, I may yet get there myself, you never know :p )

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@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.


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.


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

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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. :p

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

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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.


Actually, yeh, :this:

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

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


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It's 200 miles from me. :(

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

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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.


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Fair play to it starting though!
If you're selling, you need to get a shoofty on here, it's the start of the new riding season and people are scanning the ads.

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Fair play to it starting though!
If you're selling, you need to get a shoofty on here, it's the start of the new riding season and people are scanning the ads.



I was surprised with 6 year old fuel...

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Fair play to it starting though!
If you're selling, you need to get a shoofty on here, it's the start of the new riding season and people are scanning the ads.



I was surprised with 6 year old fuel...


Yeah, you can see how the Jap bikes took over the world, they are amazingly engineered and so reliable. The Harley would've thrown its toys out of the pram years before (and probably would've actually seized by now, let alone started up)

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If you're selling, you need to get a shoofty on here, it's the start of the new riding season and people are scanning the ads.



I was surprised with 6 year old fuel...


Yeah, you can see how the Jap bikes took over the world, they are amazingly engineered and so reliable. The Harley would've thrown its toys out of the pram years before (and probably would've actually seized by now, let alone started up)



It took some huffing and puffing and some 3 in 1 to roll it back so the exhaust was outside the garage (I did not want to risk a backfire inside)in you but time will tell.

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CVO just come into dealer, needs to be PDI'd etc.
Can't wait!! :D

Watch this space for Tragi-comic updates and pictures lol.

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Excellent. We'll definitely need to have a Beex bike meet at some point.


Deffo mate, that would be most awesome. :)
I'll post pictures once I have them.

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Some Tragicomic photos of the CVO Pro Street Breakout. Suggest listening to Steppenwolf whilst viewing.... First off, the bike :D


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Thanks guys :)
@Grim..., yeah chopped in the Rod mate, partly for financial reasons but also, because bikes have to be ridden, not kept in garages. I barely have enough time to ride one; had two bikes before now and it didn't work

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I do not understand motorbikes as most people I know who gave had one has come off to some injury. I've been in the back of one once, about three miles at what was a billion miles an hour down the North Circukar Road. Not for me. Also, leather trousers are very warm.

My sister was a biker. She used to work at the Ace Cafe in London (also on the North Circular Road) which is some kind of biker cafe, until she was banned for life from going in the place because of bad behaviour. I gave no idea what you could possibly do to get banned for life from a biker cafe, and she won't tell me :DD

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I do not understand motorbikes as most people I know who gave had one has come off to some injury. I've been in the back of one once, about three miles at what was a billion miles an hour down the North Circukar Road. Not for me. Also, leather trousers are very warm.


Well, I suppose a close analogy would be thrill sports - snowboarding's dangerous, people frequently get injuries but it's just an awesome buzz? Ultimately, what is life for, if not for living; life is all about risk. I'm just not the kind of guy to spend my days wrapped in cotton wool (or in a Honda Jazz for that matter :D ), and I suppose it helps that the missus isn't either - she was on the back of an RD-400 at age 14, just as I was messing with these, and other old lairy old deathtrap '70s strokers at 17-18 too. It gets in the blood and once it is, there's no cure. :)

Having said this, people who scare their pillions, especially if they're inexperienced and it puts them off bikes for life, are dicks IMO. You'd love it on the back of the Breakout, Meems, as she's a great big friendly pussycat, despite the mean looks. :)

As for warm leathers, well, you don't notice that if you're moving (albeit I only ever wear a Harley leather jacket, which is ventilated, plus drag jeans. Can't be arsed with 'Power Ranger' full leathers, plus they would not be in keeping with my big ol' cruiser lol).

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My sister was a biker. She used to work at the Ace Cafe in London (also on the North Circular Road) which is some kind of biker cafe, until she was banned for life from going in the place because of bad behaviour. I gave no idea what you could possibly do to get banned for life from a biker cafe, and she won't tell me :DD


Heh, the Ace Cafe is indeed "some kind of biker cafe", Meems, you're right there. :D
Oh man, you've so got to let me know what she did to get banned for life from the Ace Cafe lol. The mind boggles! :D

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Having said this, people who scare their pillions, especially if they're inexperienced and it puts them off bikes for life, are dicks IMO. You'd love it on the back of the Breakout, Meems, as she's a great big friendly pussycat, despite the mean looks. :)


It's quite a common attitude amongst bikers to try and scare passengers though. I've had people do it to me, and it's possibly even worse when you ride yourself as you *know* how badly they are riding.


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Having said this, people who scare their pillions, especially if they're inexperienced and it puts them off bikes for life, are dicks IMO. You'd love it on the back of the Breakout, Meems, as she's a great big friendly pussycat, despite the mean looks. :)


It's quite a common attitude amongst bikers to try and scare passengers though. I've had people do it to me, and it's possibly even worse when you ride yourself as you *know* how badly they are riding.


Yes, agreed mate.
I've had it done to me too. Must be a macho/bravado thing.

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I do not understand motorbikes as most people I know who gave had one has come off to some injury. I've been in the back of one once, about three miles at what was a billion miles an hour down the North Circukar Road. Not for me. Also, leather trousers are very warm.


Well, I suppose a close analogy would be thrill sports - snowboarding's dangerous, people frequently get injuries but it's just an awesome buzz? Ultimately, what is life for, if not for living; life is all about risk. I'm just not the kind of guy to spend my days wrapped in cotton wool (or in a Honda Jazz for that matter :D ), and I suppose it helps that the missus isn't either - she was on the back of an RD-400 at age 14, just as I was messing with these, and other old lairy old deathtrap '70s strokers at 17-18 too. It gets in the blood and once it is, there's no cure. :)

Having said this, people who scare their pillions, especially if they're inexperienced and it puts them off bikes for life, are dicks IMO. You'd love it on the back of the Breakout, Meems, as she's a great big friendly pussycat, despite the mean looks. :)

As for warm leathers, well, you don't notice that if you're moving (albeit I only ever wear a Harley leather jacket, which is ventilated, plus drag jeans. Can't be arsed with 'Power Ranger' full leathers, plus they would not be in keeping with my big ol' cruiser lol).

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My sister was a biker. She used to work at the Ace Cafe in London (also on the North Circular Road) which is some kind of biker cafe, until she was banned for life from going in the place because of bad behaviour. I gave no idea what you could possibly do to get banned for life from a biker cafe, and she won't tell me :DD


Heh, the Ace Cafe is indeed "some kind of biker cafe", Meems, you're right there. :D
Oh man, you've so got to let me know what she did to get banned for life from the Ace Cafe lol. The mind boggles! :D

It must be about twelve years ago now... I doubt I'll ever get the truth out if her. I like to imagine it was a bat brawl, though.

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