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  • #6152
    PCeeeee
    Registered Users Posts: 1,489 ✭✭✭PCeeeee


    IrishGrimReaper wrote: »
    Where about are you based PCe? Regardless of the distance don't let a 200KM first go put you off, you'll have a blast and it would be a great way of getting used to the bike. That kind of trek for those 2 bikes would be nothing to them.

    When I got mine the first proper go on it was back from Dublin port to Monaghan and then Galway the next day. It was national roads/motorway most of the way which made it a doodle.

    I'd be more hesitant getting used to a new bike on short urban rides where I have to slow down, especially taller ones like the Vstorm :pac:

    I'm in Gaillimh too. Finished IBT today, so full steam ahead!

    Jayz that was some spin. At my current comfortable cruising speed it could take a while:pac:


  • #6153
    IrishGrimReaper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,037 ✭✭✭IrishGrimReaper


    Well if you do get something and need someone to drive it to Galway I'm down :pac::pac::pac::pac:


  • #6154
    horse7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,769 ✭✭✭horse7


    I think the M50 is the worst road,and when I say road I mean drivers on that road.


  • #6155
    PCeeeee
    Registered Users Posts: 1,489 ✭✭✭PCeeeee


    IrishGrimReaper wrote: »
    Well if you do get something and need someone to drive it to Galway I'm down :pac::pac::pac::pac:

    I think I seen a nice one in Inverness.....😂


  • #6156
    horse7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,769 ✭✭✭horse7


    Any forums for ride out/ going for a spin , the biker.ie one is in lockdown/not available, so for someone who has a bike ( in Dublin
    area) any idea if a few people are interested in the same,


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  • #6157
    BaronVon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,662 ✭✭✭BaronVon


    horse7 wrote: »
    Any forums for ride out/ going for a spin , the biker.ie one is in lockdown/not available, so for someone who has a bike ( in Dublin
    area) any idea if a few people are interested in the same,

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056728342


  • #6158
    horse7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,769 ✭✭✭horse7


    Thanks.


  • #6159
    horse7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,769 ✭✭✭horse7


    Did Dunlavin today,it's been beautiful weather,no traffic past tallaght, roads to myself.


  • #6160
    horse7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,769 ✭✭✭horse7


    Did Dunlavin today,it's been beautiful weather,no traffic past tallaght, roads to myself.


  • #6161
    ZX7R
    Registered Users Posts: 3,428 ✭✭✭ZX7R


    horse7 wrote: »
    Did Dunlavin today,it's been beautiful weather,no traffic past tallaght, roads to myself.

    My home town


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  • #6162
    horse7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,769 ✭✭✭horse7


    Recommendations for eating /coffee in dunlavin?


  • #6163
    ZX7R
    Registered Users Posts: 3,428 ✭✭✭ZX7R


    horse7 wrote: »
    Recommendations for eating /coffee in dunlavin?

    Coffee shop beside the garda station,I believe they do sambos ECT


  • #6164
    blade1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,463 ✭✭✭✭blade1


    LIGHTNING wrote: »
    Boy the new FB Mondial 1948 is rather lovely

    5un49u.png

    Thinking of changing already??? :)


  • #6165
    horse7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,769 ✭✭✭horse7


    Rip in mulpheddar clonard co.meath today, 50 year old motorcyclist, anyone know where that is,I can't find it on Google maps?


  • #6166
    deise08
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,330 ✭✭✭deise08


    Just seen this on Facebook. Thought I'd post here, maybe someone here might be able to help him.
    He's looking for his father's old bike.


  • #6167
    Cork Trucker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,553 ✭✭✭Cork Trucker


    deise08 wrote: »
    Just seen this on Facebook. Thought I'd post here, maybe someone here might be able to help him.
    He's looking for his father's old bike.

    Poor chap, i actually remember this. His father also had a Kawasaki ZZR1100 which he managed to track down but the current owner won't sell. I seen on the posts that there have been a few sightings of a similar bike recently as well as the most recent registered owner living in West Cork. With the season that is in it now is a good time to restart the search with bikes everywhere in the good weather.


  • #6168
    blade1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,463 ✭✭✭✭blade1


    Went to vrt the bike today.
    Took 3 hrs off work and drove 45 miles and was then told at the NCT centre that the system was down since yesterday and I'd have to come back another day. :mad:


  • #6169
    Cork Trucker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,553 ✭✭✭Cork Trucker


    blade1 wrote: »
    Went to vrt the bike today.
    Took 3 hrs off work and drove 45 miles and was then told at the NCT centre that the system was down since yesterday and I'd have to come back another day. :mad:

    45 miles? wow. can you not do the VRT at any NCT centre?


  • #6170
    blade1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,463 ✭✭✭✭blade1


    Cork Trucker wrote: »
    45 miles? wow. can you not do the VRT at any NCT centre?

    Nope.
    Blarney and Waterford are my two closest and I'm more or less bang in the middle of both.

    It's up to each individual NCT centre who wanted to do vrt but most did not set up for it.

    They could have let me know.
    If I inconvenienced them by being late or not showing up,I'd get charged for it.


  • #6171
    listermint
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,104 ✭✭✭✭listermint


    You got to take your new bike for a spin

    Wheres the downside :)


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  • #6172
    blade1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,463 ✭✭✭✭blade1


    listermint wrote: »
    You got to take your new bike for a spin

    Wheres the downside :)

    No reg plate and got pulled by the guards a few times already.
    Going through the same rigmarole every time is getting tiring.
    Want to have a plate for the weekend because I'll be on the bike a lot.
    No doubt I'll have more of the same **** again.
    My good manners only stretch so far.


  • #6173
    blade1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,463 ✭✭✭✭blade1


    blade1 wrote: »
    Went to vrt the bike today.
    Took 3 hrs off work and drove 45 miles and was then told at the NCT centre that the system was down since yesterday and I'd have to come back another day. :mad:

    So,after being told the other day to call back another day and no need for appointment as they had the all the details,I headed back up to the NCT centre first thing this morning.
    Walk up to the desk and the one behind the desk asks have I an appointment?
    I said I was told on Thursday I didn't need one.
    She then says yeah but head office now says everyone now needs an appointment as there is a backlog.

    You'd think they would let people know.
    Must now go a third time and no guarantee it'll go smoothly,going by the level of incompetence shown already.


  • #6174
    honda boi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,741 ✭✭✭honda boi


    Will be going to look at an 2006 Kawasaki er6f one of the days.
    What's to look out for in them?


  • #6175
    horse7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,769 ✭✭✭horse7


    Some interesting stuff here, https://www.motorcyclenews.com/bike-reviews/kawasaki/er-6f/2005/


  • #6176
    Cork Trucker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,553 ✭✭✭Cork Trucker


    Accident in East Cork just outside Killeagh, a biker is allegedly involved, fingers crossed it's not serious.

    https://twitter.com/CorkSafetyAlert/status/1152633219084431363

    Edit:

    Confirmed as fatal

    R.I.P to the rider, thoughts with his family

    https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/man-dies-in-crash-between-car-and-motorbike-in-co-cork-938349.html?fbclid=IwAR3-fl_km_3xzUsczHazqjxHtf-YeY-EVGwYLHO9SwTrDX3bFEiBk5b0FJs


  • #6177
    Jackdaw89
    Registered Users Posts: 91 ✭✭Jackdaw89


    It’s been a bad 7 days in Cork, some good lads lost in accidents. Stay safe on the roads lads.


  • #6178
    Cork Trucker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,553 ✭✭✭Cork Trucker


    Jackdaw89 wrote: »
    It’s been a bad 7 days in Cork, some good lads lost in accidents. Stay safe on the roads lads.

    2 bikers killed in 24 hours, terrible isn't the word, the boy killed in North Cork last night was only 18.


  • #6179
    Jackdaw89
    Registered Users Posts: 91 ✭✭Jackdaw89


    Cork Trucker wrote: »
    2 bikers killed in 24 hours, terrible isn't the word, the boy killed in North Cork last night was only 18.[/quote

    Thursday? He was only 19 and another 40 odd last Sunday. RIP gents


  • #6180
    Cork Trucker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,553 ✭✭✭Cork Trucker


    Jackdaw89 wrote: »
    Cork Trucker wrote: »
    2 bikers killed in 24 hours, terrible isn't the word, the boy killed in North Cork last night was only 18.[/quote

    Thursday? He was only 19 and another and another 40 odd last Sunday. RIP gents

    Yes it was Thursday, my apologies, my days are all backwards, i seen the 19 age quoted myself however people came out on Facebook demanding that the article be changed to reflect he was 18. Yes the gentleman in his 40's also. R.I.P all :(


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  • #6181
    Lumen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,137 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    "POLITE" vest news from June. LOL.

    Motorcyclist claims POLITE vest "ruined my life"
    https://www.motorcyclenews.com/news/2019/june/polite-vest-ruined-life/
    A biker’s life has been turned upside down after being convicted, then subsequently acquitted, for wearing an item of clothing that resembled police uniform when he rode home from work in a POLITE vest.

    Darren Emanuel, 47, an independent financial consultant, has been a biker for many years and was riding his white, ex-police BMW R1200RT when he was stopped by a police officer who had seen him from the opposing carriageway.

    After checking his bike over, the officer then claimed Emanuel’s choice of clothing (a white helmet, hi-viz jacket and 'polite' tabard) combined with the bike constituted that of a police officer’s"


  • #6182
    blade1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,463 ✭✭✭✭blade1


    Lumen wrote: »
    "POLITE" vest news from June. LOL.

    Motorcyclist claims POLITE vest "ruined my life"
    https://www.motorcyclenews.com/news/2019/june/polite-vest-ruined-life/

    Oh well, maybe there is justice after all!!


  • #6183
    Sonics2k
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,253 ✭✭✭Sonics2k


    Eh, I'm not a fan of the Polite vests but it seems to me like he was just being ultra-careful and making sure he was well visible.


  • #6184
    Max Headroom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,101 ✭✭✭Max Headroom


    Sonics2k wrote: »
    Eh, I'm not a fan of the Polite vests but it seems to me like he was just being ultra-careful and making sure he was well visible.
    Hate those vests things..i dont wear one, never have...i'd rather depend on my own senses and common sense.....ok so far..;)


  • #6185
    Wonda-Boy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,013 ✭✭✭✭Wonda-Boy


    Lads really good sale on in Halfords at the moment especially on cleaning gear. I got a bucket, large bottle of car/bike wash, 5 micro fibre cloths and a large microfibre scrub mit for €6!!!

    They also have a motorist tool kit half price for 20 well worth it for the bike if going on long trips.....


  • #6186
    Lumen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,137 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    Sonics2k wrote: »
    Eh, I'm not a fan of the Polite vests but it seems to me like he was just being ultra-careful and making sure he was well visible.
    Yeah, the ex-copper bike was pushing it though.


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  • #6187
    Interceptor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,180 ✭✭✭Interceptor


    Sonics2k wrote: »
    Eh, I'm not a fan of the Polite vests but it seems to me like he was just being ultra-careful and making sure he was well visible.

    He went to the cop shop to make a complaint about his treatment at the roadside and then they issued charges? His choice of bike, helmet and jacket were in poor taste but he shouldn't lose his job, house and insurance for it. I'd say there's more to this than they are saying.


  • #6188
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,476 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    Only after Emanuel later made a complaint to the police about his treatment was he called into a police station about the incident.

    That's where he went wrong

    Scrap the cap!



  • #6189
    horse7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,769 ✭✭✭horse7


    Anyone going out riding tomorrow morning 11am, the meet n ride group are doing one after 6pm today, can't find a weekday morning group, north Dublin group ride out is on aug bank holiday omeath to letterkenny. For me mornings are best and weekends are full of traffic.


  • #6190
    honda boi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,741 ✭✭✭honda boi


    What's your opinion on a short arse(4"11) on a MK1 Fazer for a first bike?
    Would you think it will be too big in height?


  • #6191
    horse7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,769 ✭✭✭horse7


    Try this. https://www.revzilla.com/common-tread/motorcycle-ergonomics-simulator


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  • #6192
    honda boi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,741 ✭✭✭honda boi


    Thanks horse used that already.
    Doesn't seem to bad on him.
    But real world experiences are better to go by.


  • #6193
    Beast4mdaeast
    Registered Users Posts: 57 ✭✭Beast4mdaeast


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  • #6194
    Beast4mdaeast
    Registered Users Posts: 57 ✭✭Beast4mdaeast


    Beast4mdaeast wrote: »
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    Ahh pic wont show attachmentIMG_20181104_123316_653[\IMG]


  • #6195
    Beast4mdaeast
    Registered Users Posts: 57 ✭✭Beast4mdaeast


    Ahhh why wont my photo show


  • #6196
    horse7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,769 ✭✭✭horse7


    Save as a JPEG and make sure the file is small enough to upload.


  • #6197
    D3V!L
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,958 ✭✭✭D3V!L


    Looks like the new Honda Monkey bike may be a little small for me !! :(

    486026.JPG


  • #6198
    horse7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,769 ✭✭✭horse7


    Can't beat the real deal. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4Afz6oTHAbo


  • #6199
    Wonda-Boy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,013 ✭✭✭✭Wonda-Boy


    Thats a kid in a monkey suit!!!


  • #6200
    Richard tea
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,597 ✭✭✭Richard tea


    www.motorcycleshop.ie are doing 15% off everything including sale items until midnight 31st . PULITSLAP code So now is the time to pick up some service items if you plan a service anytime soon


  • #6201
    zubair
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,459 ✭✭✭zubair


    Richard tea wrote: »
    www.motorcycleshop.ie are doing 15% off everything including sale items until midnight 31st . PULITSLAP code So now is the time to pick up some service items if you plan a service anytime soon

    Cheers, already on it. Full brake pad set, dry chain lube and a new puncture repair kit ordered. Saved 20 bucks.


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