General chat thread... Links,pictures, banter etc v2

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LIGHTNING

Decided a lot of the sticked threads needed to be nuked. The contents in them was so so outdated and wrong it wasn't even worth trying to update them. Killed them and recreated them. Copied over as much as was still relevant. But if anybody wants to take a punt at better text let me know

knucklehead6

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123082454#Comment_123082454

maybe add in the requirement for the cert and power that is changing.

Someone could have had their IBT for ages and think they are sorted only to find the test centres are only taking the CC and power from the reg cert nowadays and not on a separate document

blade1

Some new gear so just a few thoughts on them..

The leathers are Rst S1.

Bottoms are pretty much like my old track tech ones. No difference that I notice anyway (Possibly higher safety spec if anything).

I love the jacket. Much nicer to wear than my track tech one. (I'll never again buy a jacket with a hump).

Ok to wear in cool weather with the rst wind block base layers.

It's perforated so wouldn't be much good in cold on its own.

Like the Richa boots too.

Tight enough fit with the leathers.

How do lads with big calves manage with boots at all?

I've legs like you'd see hanging out of a nest and find a lot of boots tight with leathers.

Now the gloves.

I just wanted a light summer glove so tried these Rst Fulcrum gloves.

They do feel light and cheap and flimsey.

Would have went for the next ones up if I knew these were like this.

Esel

^ SMIDSY 😀

blade1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123097694#Comment_123097694

I have no idea what that means 😄

Gremlinertia

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123097863#Comment_123097863

A popular and deadly cager refrain - sorry mate I didn't see you

Esel

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123097694#Comment_123097694

Your gear looked a bit like a decapitated biker…😂

blade1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123097970#Comment_123097970

I was going to say it's the one part of me that I haven't damaged and then remembered I split my forehead open 3 or 4 years ago and I also got bottled in Limerick when I was 18 or 19 and have a scar on the back as well 🙊

muddle84

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123097676#Comment_123097676

Nice!!! I got the Dainese Mig 2 as a summer glove. They're really comfy and feel like really good quality. But they're a short glove as opposed to a gauntlet!

blade1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123104139#Comment_123104139

I've always used a gauntlet type.

Would the short ones be just like for urban use?

muddle84

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123105007#Comment_123105007

I've used them for touring, they have plenty protection in them in fairness. I wouldn't be using them on a track though! They mate well with my textile jacket, there's no skin exposed around the wrist. But its all well ventilated compared to my winter gauntlet type gloves!

IrishGrimReaper

Hopefully, a few guards will lead by example but reckon the fear of what is appropriate or not will likely means they still won't pursue.

"However, Mr Harris has now announced a change in the policy as regards to scramblers and motorbikes.

He said gardaí can now pursue them if it is appropriate, proportionate and necessary to do so."

https://www.rte.ie/news/2025/0131/1494051-garda-scramblers/

GBX

About time! Hopefully they can get some of the sh1te off the road. And some of the bikes as well ..

blade1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123120567#Comment_123120567

Wouldn't bother me in the slightest if they had to even scrape the shîte off the road.

GBX

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123120574#Comment_123120574

Or just leave them there to rot

Breezin

Speaking of enforcement… Isn't there a new Garda portal in the pipeline where one can upload pics and vids? This would be most effective for bikers in nailing those idiots on their phone, especially while stopped or in slow traffic.

Usually, when I see it happening, I'll slow or stop and look in all nosey like. People generally freak out and shamefully put away the phone — one even threw it away presumably because he thought I was a guard. But the other day I did it and the dude just brazened it out.

Hotblack Desiato

hard to imagine anything much happening when the garda who was pursuing the toasted scumbags in the stolen BMW on the Naas Road is still up on charges. Does the left hand know what the right hand is doing?

LIGHTNING

So it turns out you can fit a small scrambler in the back of a Kei Van 😂

blade1

I had a post up about cheap Ali express headsets but I can't find it.

Just want to update incase anyone is buying one.

This one that I got recently, I noticed the left speaker cut in and out a bit if your collar touched the headset or cable even.

Ended up bugging me too much so I decided to try another one.

This one doesn't have the same problem and the sound quality is excellent.

Also, going by reviews, apparently, it can communicate with another one of them but you can't while connected to your phone.

So it's either one or the other.

All in all, this is a great device for the price.

Arrived in less than two weeks.

http://a.aliexpress.com/_EGTMr00

Debub

Hi - can I ask… is the Triumph Scrambler 900 ok for the full A license driving test? I think that its minimum 50KW - is that correct?

Thanks

Power	2017: 54bhp (40.5kW) @ 5900rpm 2019: 64bhp (48kW) @ 7500rpm

Hotblack Desiato

Took delivery of my first bike 30 years ago today…

a nine year old GP100

blade1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123171688#Comment_123171688

This is what I had 30 years ago.

Yamaha RD125.

Coming up to 37 years since I got my first bike on my 16th birthday, a Honda 70.

Hotblack Desiato

Nicer bike but I think I have the nicer pic 😆 (yeah I only added it later)

It's amazing how any of us are still alive really 😁 I had two close calls on that GP and neither was my fault. One time I was going across Tara St up Townsend St, was first away at the lights, had just about cleared the junction when a tipper truck went thundering through the red light at what looked like 40MPH crossing just behind me. If I'd been slower off the mark there was no way that guy was stopping.

The other time was on Summerhill (probably on the way back from what seemed to be weekly trips to Mountjoy Motorcycles to buy parts) and I stopped for a pedestrian crossing, quite close to the centre line. Then I heard this almighty noise behind me, white van man didn't see the light and then locked up but somehow managed to swerve just enough to my left and this Transit stopped in line with and beside me in clouds of smoke. If I'd been in the middle of my lane I'd have been fired into the middle of the next week.

enrique66_35

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123168104#Comment_123168104

Minimum power is 35KW but will also need to exceed 0.2 power to weight ratio (i.e. power in KW / weight in KG) so a bike that's above the power requirement both very heavy might still not be accepted for a test. Make sure the relevant information is filled out and correct on the Vehicle Registration Cert (this is being checked for every test now) & if there's any zeros or 555555s in any category will need to get it corrected by Dept of Transport in Shannon.

That can take some time and back and forth so get a cert of conformity from the manufacturer and allow some time to resolve before booking a test - if it needs correcting.

Mad_Lad

Minimum is 50 Kw, not 49.99 but 50 Kw.

Get the bike you want and use the instructors bike for some lessons and the test, this is what I did and you won't have to worry about paper work or anything else.

The whole licensing system is a bit of a joke to be honest, car drivers are not expected to go out and get different licenses to drive higher powered cars.

blade1

Got a four pack of these chain brushes for around €8 on Amazon.

Handy things to have.