Recent content by sdrio

Lean over when cornering? Dunno - was there something specific? Nothing will teach you more than getting out there and riding it.

Wishing you all a good one. And don't mix that MT07 and the booze chaps.

Taking the baffles out will have much more effect than the size of the pipe. My R1 has a huge can on it, and sounds pretty unremarkable with the baffles in. Take them out and it's like all the Norse gods have got together for a farting contest.

I'm looking at the baby Multistrada. It has a 950 engine, so slightly more practical as a commuter. I'm not quite convinced it's small enough for traffic, and also Ducati haven't got a sterling reputation for reliability, but I'm possibly going to get overruled by how good it looks. One thing...

Maybe I shouldn't do it then - they say you should never meet your heroes, it'd be a shame to finally get on a 900r and find out it was shit!

It's a joke. Old people look out of the window at the shops roads and houses, and say 'I remember when all this was fields', as in before everything around them was built. I guess it's the UK equivalent of 'Pepperidge farm remembers', and if you don't get that, I give up . . .!

Young pup. I remember when all this was fields.

I've done it myself, once I answered a thread that I had already answered a year before.

10/10 for optimism, the last post in that thread was more than 2 years ago!

Sound like a pair of hose.

Have to say, while most service schedules do call for brake fluid changes at this kind of interval, I have rarely ever changed brake fluid on a bike. If I do, I'll normally just pump new stuff through, without emptying the system. If the brakes work, I just roll with it.

The GPz900r has been on my 'todo' list for most of my biking life. I was seriously looking for one earlier this year, but there only seem to be tatty basket cases around now, and I want one that at least is road legal. I bought an R1 instead, but I reckon one day the right bike is going to...

Head bearings. Apparently these as fitted in the factory to the MT07 are of the same kind of standard as the rest of the bike, and don't last as far as you'd expect them to. There have been a few cases of them being replaced under warranty, for the lucky few people whose warranties were...

Just an update on this creaky old thread - I passed my advanced test on Wednesday, managed to blag a first too. Can thoroughly recommend doing it, I started it with 32 years of riding under my belt, but I still learned an awful lot. You get to meet a lot of other bikers too, which is good...

OK, as this one has resurfaced, back to the Fizzie tips. What I learned on a cold November night in 1983. Or thereabouts. The following is a bad idea. 5 or 6 of us had just got mopeds, and one of them (let's call him Darren) only managed to get a Garelli Bimatic, which has dynamo powered...