Well, that was very pleasant
Pip Luscher
Only a couple of dozen miles but in a sort of hazy sunshine on quiet
roads. Fingers burnee though.
That's after a pleasant but wheezy 5 mile run, so I can feel smug and
virtuous too.
Now to sample some of that whisky I got for Xmas/b'day. Or maybe some
of the orher whisky I was given. Or maybe some of the whiskey I was
given. Err, there's a pattern to the gifts here.
--
-Pip
Vass
"Pip Luscher" <plus...@live.invalid.co.uk> wrote in message
news:0h4sj5pip264nnf14...@4ax.com...
quick blat for me too on the R1, up to Portsdown hill overlooking Pompey and
the coast.
Bike, Burger, Beverage and bloody chilly.
becoming a tradition to get it out on NYD
Cracking nuts at home now
--
Vass
Colin Irvine
>Cracking nuts at home now
<wince>
--
Colin Irvine
ZZR1400 BOF#33 BONY#34 COFF#06 BHaLC#5
http://www.colinandpat.co.uk
ogden
> New Year's Day mini-blat on the V11.
>
> Only a couple of dozen miles but in a sort of hazy sunshine on quiet
> roads. Fingers burnee though.
>
> That's after a pleasant but wheezy 5 mile run, so I can feel smug and
> virtuous too.
Crikey. That's all rather active.
By the time I woke up, it was starting to get dark.
--
ogden
DozynSleepy
Decided that traversing a lovely rutted ice rink street could wait for
the Elefantentreffen and then realised it's just a couple of weeks away
and I haven't even fitted my crash bungs.
Settled for starting it up in the garage and letting it get to operating
temperature. A warm fire beckoned so the crash bungs will have to wait
another day.
--
DozynSleepy
Ducatenstein ST4s
Lozzo
Wtf is this 'woke up' malarkey, I still haven't been to sleep from last
night.
--
Lozzo
Versys 650 Tourer, CBR600F-W racebike in the making, SR250 SpazzTrakka,
TS250C, RD400F (somewhere)
Garage clearout - Yamaha SpazzTrakka 250 for sale, email for details
Pip Luscher
<Dozyn...@ireallymeannospam.invalid> wrote:
>Pip Luscher wrote:
>> New Year's Day mini-blat on the V11.
>>
>> Only a couple of dozen miles but in a sort of hazy sunshine on quiet
>> roads. Fingers burnee though.
>>
>> That's after a pleasant but wheezy 5 mile run, so I can feel smug and
>> virtuous too.
>>
>> Now to sample some of that whisky I got for Xmas/b'day. Or maybe some
>> of the orher whisky I was given. Or maybe some of the whiskey I was
>> given. Err, there's a pattern to the gifts here.
>>
>>
>Braver man than me.
Not round here. We had a light sprinkle of snow this morning and
that's it: roads are very damp but not icy. Off-road, ground is frozen
solid and the snow still survives in shadows but that's all.
--
-Pip
Sean Hamerton
> New Year's Day mini-blat on the V11.
>
> Only a couple of dozen miles but in a sort of hazy sunshine on quiet
> roads. Fingers burnee though.
Tell me about it - I hit the road at 07:30 this morning doing 80+ all
the way up to Battersea. No heated grips and I've lost my thermal
glove liners. Was fine until I ran out of motorway and had to use the
clutch again. I left my thermals on in the depot as the place has _no_
heating whatsoever.
--
SeanH - '01 Fazer 600 in black | '97 GSX-R 750 SRAD.
wessie
8dcd-917...@a15g2000yqm.googlegroups.com:
get a set of bar muffs - best thing I bought last year. Great in the wet.
Good by themselves in the cold. Switch on the heated grips and toasty,
toasty.
--
wessie at tesco dot net
BMW R1150GS
sweller
> get a set of bar muffs - best thing I bought last year. Great in the
> wet. Good by themselves in the cold. Switch on the heated grips and
> toasty, toasty.
When I did the Elefant that's all I had. Muffs and winter gloves (and
thermal glove liners) and I didn't really suffer with cold fingers.
--
Simon
Mark Olson
Or go whole beast, like this:
http://www.thetimelessride.com/US/Eurasia/Mongolia/Mongolia.176.htm
http://www.thetimelessride.com/US/Eurasia/Mongolia/Mongolia.184.htm
BTW this fellow's site has some absolutely fantastic photos and stories.
Well worth spending an hour or two looking at it.
Sean Hamerton
> Sean Hamerton <sean.hamer...@gmail.com> wrote in news:ef7d89ab-a3f2-4a92-
> 8dcd-91725dcf4...@a15g2000yqm.googlegroups.com:
>
> > On 1 Jan, 15:24, Pip Luscher <plusc...@live.invalid.co.uk> wrote:
> >> New Year's Day mini-blat on the V11.
>
> >> Only a couple of dozen miles but in a sort of hazy sunshine on quiet
> >> roads. Fingers burnee though.
>
> > Tell me about it - I hit the road at 07:30 this morning doing 80+ all
> > the way up to Battersea. No heated grips and I've lost my thermal
> > glove liners. Was fine until I ran out of motorway and had to use the
> > clutch again. I left my thermals on in the depot as the place has _no_
> > heating whatsoever.
>
> get a set of bar muffs - best thing I bought last year. Great in the wet.
> Good by themselves in the cold. Switch on the heated grips and toasty,
> toasty.
I'm not sure they'll really work on a fully faired bike with clip
ons...
Heated grips are on the to-do list, but higher on that list is MOTing
the Fazer, which has hot grips already.
The Older Gentleman
>
> Or go whole beast, like this:
>
> http://www.thetimelessride.com/US/Eurasia/Mongolia/Mongolia.176.htm
>
> http://www.thetimelessride.com/US/Eurasia/Mongolia/Mongolia.184.htm
>
> BTW this fellow's site has some absolutely fantastic photos and stories.
> Well worth spending an hour or two looking at it.
Good God. You're right. And he's done it all on a Ural, FFS. Bookmarked.
--
BMW K1100LT Ducati 750SS Honda CB400F Triumph Street Triple
Suzuki TS250ER GN250 Damn, back to six bikes!
Try Googling before asking a damn silly question.
chateau dot murray at idnet dot com
Lozzo
> get a set of bar muffs - best thing I bought last year. Great in the
> wet. Good by themselves in the cold. Switch on the heated grips and
> toasty, toasty.
I have a set of muffs on the Versys and haven't bothered wearing winter
gloves yet this season. Heated grips are set on the lowest setting and
at time I'm taking my hands out and waving them in the cold air to cool
them down.
stephen...@gonemail.com
> I have a set of muffs on the Versys and haven't bothered wearing winter
> gloves yet this season. Heated grips are set on the lowest setting and
> at time I'm taking my hands out and waving them in the cold air to cool
> them down.
Exactly my approach; I hate winter gloves so using summer gloves all
year round is great.
Well it was in the days I rode bikes in the winter rather than fecking
trains.
wessie
> wessie wrote:
>
>> get a set of bar muffs - best thing I bought last year. Great in the
>> wet. Good by themselves in the cold. Switch on the heated grips and
>> toasty, toasty.
>
> I have a set of muffs on the Versys and haven't bothered wearing winter
> gloves yet this season. Heated grips are set on the lowest setting and
> at time I'm taking my hands out and waving them in the cold air to cool
> them down.
>
I only put the heated grips on for the first few miles, just to knock off
the initial chill. I wear summer gloves too, my goretex Alpinestars ones
made from cordura & fake leather. I find leather ones get a bit clammy
inside the muffs.
Mark Olson
> Mark Olson <ols...@tiny.invalid> wrote:
>
>> Or go whole beast, like this:
>>
>> http://www.thetimelessride.com/US/Eurasia/Mongolia/Mongolia.176.htm
>>
>> http://www.thetimelessride.com/US/Eurasia/Mongolia/Mongolia.184.htm
>>
>> BTW this fellow's site has some absolutely fantastic photos and stories.
>> Well worth spending an hour or two looking at it.
>
> Good God. You're right. And he's done it all on a Ural, FFS. Bookmarked.
He made a couple of stops at the Ural factory, which I found fascinating.
If they're not sponsoring him (aside from rebuilding his engine, gratis)
they should be.
http://www.thetimelessride.com/US/Eurasia/Russia/Russia.319.htm
http://www.thetimelessride.com/US/Eurasia/Siberia/Siberia.1.htm
Pip Luscher
wrote:
>Or go whole beast, like this:
>
>http://www.thetimelessride.com/US/Eurasia/Mongolia/Mongolia.176.htm
>
>http://www.thetimelessride.com/US/Eurasia/Mongolia/Mongolia.184.htm
He seems to have impaled a couple of dead bears onto his handlebars.
--
-Pip
The Older Gentleman
"I arrived in Irbit at the Ural factory after consuming 1/2 quart of oil
every 30 miles during the last 1800 miles."
<Shakes head in amazement and respect>
ogden
> Mark Olson <ols...@tiny.invalid> wrote:
>
> > The Older Gentleman wrote:
> > > Mark Olson <ols...@tiny.invalid> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Or go whole beast, like this:
> > >>
> > >> http://www.thetimelessride.com/US/Eurasia/Mongolia/Mongolia.176.htm
> > >>
> > >> http://www.thetimelessride.com/US/Eurasia/Mongolia/Mongolia.184.htm
> > >>
> > >> BTW this fellow's site has some absolutely fantastic photos and stories.
> > >> Well worth spending an hour or two looking at it.
> > >
> > > Good God. You're right. And he's done it all on a Ural, FFS. Bookmarked.
> >
> > He made a couple of stops at the Ural factory, which I found fascinating.
> > If they're not sponsoring him (aside from rebuilding his engine, gratis)
> > they should be.
> >
> > http://www.thetimelessride.com/US/Eurasia/Russia/Russia.319.htm
> >
> > http://www.thetimelessride.com/US/Eurasia/Siberia/Siberia.1.htm
>
> "I arrived in Irbit at the Ural factory after consuming 1/2 quart of oil
> every 30 miles during the last 1800 miles."
"1/2 quart"? Bizarre.
A flossie-fucker I used to live with at uni would refer to a quarter as
a half-half yet an eighth, bizarrely, was a half-quarter. I don't recall
what what he called a teenth but it was probably something just as daft.
--
ogden
Mark Olson
> The Older Gentleman wrote:
>> Mark Olson <ols...@tiny.invalid> wrote:
>>> http://www.thetimelessride.com/US/Eurasia/Siberia/Siberia.1.htm
>> "I arrived in Irbit at the Ural factory after consuming 1/2 quart of oil
>> every 30 miles during the last 1800 miles."
>
> "1/2 quart"? Bizarre.
No, not bizarre at all.
He carries oil in liter cans and stopped to pour half a can in every 30
miles, not wanting the level to get any lower than half a can low. His
English language site tends to convert measurements from metric to English
units, hence "quart" being used in place of liter. Where oil comes in
quart cans it's more common to refer to an engine being a half-quart low,
rather than saying it's a pint low.
steve auvache
ogden <og...@pre.org> writes
>
> I don't recall
>what what he called a teenth but it was probably something just as daft.
2 spliffs
--
steve auvache
geoff
Older Gentleman <totallyde...@yahoo.co.uk> writes
>Mark Olson <ols...@tiny.invalid> wrote:
>
>> The Older Gentleman wrote:
>> > Mark Olson <ols...@tiny.invalid> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Or go whole beast, like this:
>> >>
>> >> http://www.thetimelessride.com/US/Eurasia/Mongolia/Mongolia.176.htm
>> >>
>> >> http://www.thetimelessride.com/US/Eurasia/Mongolia/Mongolia.184.htm
>> >>
>> >> BTW this fellow's site has some absolutely fantastic photos and stories.
>> >> Well worth spending an hour or two looking at it.
>> >
>> > Good God. You're right. And he's done it all on a Ural, FFS. Bookmarked.
>>
>> He made a couple of stops at the Ural factory, which I found fascinating.
>> If they're not sponsoring him (aside from rebuilding his engine, gratis)
>> they should be.
>>
>> http://www.thetimelessride.com/US/Eurasia/Russia/Russia.319.htm
>>
>> http://www.thetimelessride.com/US/Eurasia/Siberia/Siberia.1.htm
>
>"I arrived in Irbit at the Ural factory after consuming 1/2 quart of oil
Does he mean a pint, then ?
>every 30 miles during the last 1800 miles."
>
><Shakes head in amazement and respect>
>
>
--
geoff