What Have You Being Doing With Your Non-triumph Today?

Love Fatboys, looks very comfortable

 

I love Fat Boys, too, @Dartplayer. Mr. Sandi had one (a 2001) when we first started dating and I rode pillion with him so they've also got a bit of sentimental value to me. I got the opportunity to ride one 100+ miles through the Texas Hill Country a couple of years ago and really enjoyed it. Very comfy, handled well even with those fat tires. Right now it's the one bike that would make me contemplate a trade even a little bit.

 

Just rode down to fill the tank, it would skin ye... bitter cold. Roads are dry but there are frozen puddles about so tank is filled, and fuel stabiliser added. Thats probably it for a few months for me, gritters have been out too. Guitar season starts now!

 

@andyc1
Glad you've got that guitar (or those guitars??) to tide you over until you are out riding again, andy. When I wind up riding with riding friends--and without Mr. Sandi-- it's usually because he's opting to stay home to play his guitars.

 

Have no photos but took my son to pick up his Honda CBF125 after the garage did an awesome job of fixing the electrics.

I haven’t taking pillion for a while so was a bit nervous but did enjoy showing him what a bigger bike could do - within safe limits of wet, oily, freezing roads. I.e we did 30 every where.

After collecting the bike and being shown the broken bits (which are were definitely knackered) we went off for a ride in the rain.

I kind of figured that he’s learning so getting experience in the worst of it has its value.

We made it home after scooting past Rykers in Dorking (empty as no one else was as stupid as us). We were both freezing and a bit wet.

Still, a great ride out. As are all rides.

Edit: I was just thinking - some folks like riding fast. I’ve realised I like riding slow(er) but with more interesting challenges such as flooded roads, gravel and potholes. I’d seriously think about crossing Africa but think crossing Surrey has become a more significant achievement.

 

Hello Everyone

Just completed a 12k major service by Muddysump. 2014 Street Triple 675R. The bike feels great. Muddysump "David" great fella and knows his Tiumphs. He was very thorough and meticulous in the way he carried out the service. He started at 9am and finished the job at 4pm. I am very happy.

 

Ready to go for the heatwave at the end of December

 

A balmy 3 degrees Kelvin.

Northerners would still be out in shorts and t-shirts complaining about how climate change has raised the temperatures around Bury to uncomfortable levels.

 

Thanks to lovely weather and time off work for the Thanksgiving holiday, I managed to get in a ride every day for the past four days. But each time I went out to the garage, my Mustang would, as @TheBeardedPunk said of his bike, seem to let out a sigh. Mostly of disgust, I think, since it seemed to have accumulated about an inch thick layer of dust. And I can't drive fast enough in town for it to simply blow off. Though I do my best.

So, I finally washed my non-Triumph Ford this afternoon after Mr. Sandi and I returned from our Sunday morning group motorcycle ride. And afterwards my car DEFINITELY breathed a sigh of relief. As did I.

Yesterday I ran a few errands which required trunk space. So I took my car and the odometer turned over to 5,000 miles while I was out and about. I'll have had it two years at the end of this coming January. Nothing like a pandemic and months of primarily working from home to keep the mileage down.

 

While eating Bury Black Pudding on a muffin slathered in english mustard.

 

If I had that car I’d definitely put off becoming an eco warrior for a few more years.

Broom broom - or is it more of a deep throated gurgle of infinite power, menace and presence?

It sends shivers down my spine just thinking about it.

I think my wife passed her driving test in a 1968 (ish) convertible model when she was 16 (maybe younger as I didn’t listen). Insane.

Edit: This isn’t it, but would have looked similar.

 

Hahaha! Yes, I'm not too keen on trading my current Mustang in for one of their new electric "Mustangs", @Cyborgbot. Seems to me the new Mustang is that in name only.

From Autoweek:
"The Ford Mustang Mach-E looks like it’ll be a very well-engineered electric vehicle that can compete with the best in the segment in range and performance at a price well below the competition. But what’s the deal with the name? It shares just about zero percent of its parts with the current Mustang. It sits on all-new architecture, rides on all-new suspension and the only passing resemblance to any Mustang ever made is that blocked-off-grille front end and the semi-wavy hood. What was Ford thinking? As if to beat a dead horse (get it?), there were even sincere and profound testimonials from about half the presenters at its introduction about what Mustang meant to them, how their first car was a Mustang, how their first date was in a Mustang, how they were conceived in a Mustang, etc. etc. (the electronics and software guys, on the other hand, had all worked at Ford about five minutes and would probably be at SnapSlap or WeasleWorx by the following week)."


My Mustang DEFINITELY "more of a deep throated gurgle of infinite power, menace and presence". In fact, that's a very good description of it! Ellie, the Boxer, hears me when I'm still a block away and runs to the door expecting me.

I think it's very cool that your wife passed her driving test in a '68 convertible. My dad had a red '67 convertible that he lovingly restored. My younger brother sold it some time after our dad died. And of course he now regrets that decision.

 

How dare they defile that name!!!
It hasn't even got the right number of doors for christ sake!!!

Edit: watched Top Gear last night, that new Chevy Corvette was tasty, even comes in RH drive AND GOES ROUND CORNERS TOO!!
Shame my pockets aren't that deep.

 

RH drive... that's just awful!

 

I think a couple of things have fallen off during the design…

 

Sorry @Sandi T for some reason I can’t see that image.

Clearly way to dodgy for this forum.

 

No worries, @Cyborgbot. You’d probably want to avert your eyes anyway.

 

Friend has purchased his birth year ‘66

 

Returned my courtesy bike to Dundee today, and collected my GS which was dropped off yesterday for the valve check service.
BMW XR1000 great bike but lacks the grunt of the GS and even although it's marketed as a sportier bike than the GS it has a higher top speed, much harder seat and slightly lower bars i would say the GS is the better handling bike, and much better bike overall





Earlier in the year they gave me this gorgeous looking bike (S1000RR) as a courtesy bike the last time my GS was in for a service. i took bad with the much higher pegs and low bars (it's over 20 years since i last had a sports bike)
i took it a run up to Braemar and it's a missile! but i think it would take my body a while to get used to the position again