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

Picture?

Yeah I'd paint those walls. Bring the place right up 😁😉🤪

Have Jury Service next month. Anyone know wheres decent to park on the northside. Its Parkgate street court. Paid parking is fine. Any of them suit motorcycles?

I said the exact thing when I opened the envelope

I picked one up on Ali out of curiosity.

Seems good enough quality. I'd still wonder how it would hold up safety wise.

€16 delivered.

Didn't notice any safety markings and if I did I'd probably take them with a pinch of salt.

I can get over loosing skin or breaking bones but I'd rather keep my eyes.

I stupidly put a massive scratch in a nearly new Shoei visor a couple of years ago banging it off a wall while carrying it, right in my eyeline too, expensive lesson learned, but I'd rather stick with the real thing...

@listermint here's a post I did in Legal Discussion forum which might be of interest 😮

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If you get on a trial the lunches are very good though. Otherwise if you're sitting around in a jury room all week doing nothing you have to feed and water yourself while keeping your boss off your back.

I think I just came.

Supercrapp exhausts are useless though, they just don't flow well.

Note the OE eccentric chain adjusters, a real quality touch.

It was the fastest production bike in the world, yet was (and is) a very capable tourer or even commuter.

150 MPH baby!

A Hayabusa wasn't around in 1984 though...

Happy Christmas to whoever is left on here! 🙈

Ah heyor. Only 35k miles on this thing... that's tantamount to bike abuse so 'tis.

Shiny shiny silver fairing bits... what sort of twat would buy into that colour scheme!!! 😛 the flame red one was great too but was not in stock...

Ohh but that white face tacho with a 13500 redline...

From Garda Twitter. Or X.

I'm commuting still but feck me it's cold. I'm right next to the M50 and my office is also just off it so busy roads and it's not been raining but if it gets any worse I'll have to take the car.

I've a Keis vest about 7 years, Klim jacket and pants and hand warmers. It's really comfortable I don't understand folks that ride with just the gear and layers tbh.

I've heated grips and normally agree but this morning the backs of my hands were freezing. I had summer gloves on because the winter ones I have are **** and I need a new pair but normally the summer ones are fine.

Probably should have asked this before ordering, anybody had any experience with Monster Fairings?

I'm doing a medium resto on my 954 Blade and went with them, they're US based but I assume still manufactured in Asia. Reviews I've seen are mostly positive.

The tank is currently in the paintshop and the lad drops that back he's taking the wheels to paint them bronze and the calipers are going black (currently gold)

What started out as a 'light refresh' has turned into

Tank resprayed

Wheels and calipers resprayed (not done yet)

Swingarm polished

All new fairing

New headlight (Old one is a little tired)

All wiring tidied up, new loom tape etc.

New indicators (Previous owner put LED ones in that are ****, why does everybody do this??!)

PC3 removed and to be replaced with PC5 and dyno tune (not done yet) Might replace all 4 coils prior to this.

Fitted 'sports' heated grips

Removed aftermarket levers and returned to OEM

Scorpion titanium can

While it's apart I am also going to replace the cam chain tensioner and I'm going to get all new braided lines, it has braided fronts but they're grubby as hell and the rear is rubber so going to get a full set.

I've likely forgotten loads too. Feckin hell bikes are mad.

who is doing your wheels for him?

I got mine done by Kat in Fermanagh, would highly recommend.

https://www.instagram.com/klc_wheel_refurb/

Going the motogadget route on wiring is great too if you are doing the wiring yourself, i've installed two units now in different bikes.

The fairing is likely to arrive bare, so you will need to respray that.

I've to paint and Pinstripe the S fairing for my Dads bike this year at some point. He's converting the R100rt into a R100S

And then last night a PC5 with quickshifter popped up for sale in the UK and it's now on the way to my office in London.... I had intended getting the PC5 as above anyway. At least I've got it for a decent price

Ah nothing worse than a stupid drop.

I'm sure it'll be minty very shortly

Ouch, tough one, nothing worse than that.

Biker down at Bluebell this morning, I stopped for a bit to help and got the bike off the road. He had gone straight into the back of a Tesco delivery van the poor sod. Bit banged up but he was conscious and talking.

Hopefully you get sorted. Bear in mind, it being Monday, most bike shops wouldn't normally open . You might get an update tomorrow if you try then.

I don't think so but I didn't hear that. I just saw a while back in a FB group it had closed down. Liam was elderly enough and had run it for 40odd years. It was a back lane garage really