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  1. Sandi T

    Sandi T It's ride o'clock somewhere!
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    Is that what they call "sunshine" where you live, Callumity? :p:eek: It is a beautiful area, though, I'll give you that.
     
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  2. JtC

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    "Sunshine all the way" :laughing:
     
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  3. JtC

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    You just beat me to it, Sandi.:laughing:
     
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  4. Callumity

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    That was me being ironic - the UK had wild electric storms and torrential rain last night.
     
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  5. Sandi T

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    How were the roads then? When we get big rains here the roads tend to have lots of areas covered in sand and it makes for some treacherous riding conditions. I suspect you may get branches and things in the road but my bet is not much sand based on those beautiful green rolling hills!
     
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  6. JtC

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    Sorry, I'm unfamiliar with the terms "torrential" and "rain", Callumity. :p
     
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  7. Sandi T

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    I'd say the same except for our monsoons. I think those big storms may be where the phrase "when it rains it pours" came from. Unfortunately we are in a major drought this year and have had only one storm so far and we're weeks into monsoon season. This morning in the newspaper I saw the term "nonsoon" coined to described our monsoon season thus far. :(:sob:
     
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  8. OsteKuste

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    Not very exciting, but I’ve been commuting to work on the bike this week. Dodged rain all week till this evening, but not to bad. I could get used to this!
     
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  9. crispey

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    Yup some cracking roads and scenery around there, I’ve done it a few times, Pissing with rain, raining and blazing sun all were great!
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  10. fzr162

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    Rode home from Normandy. 159 miles to Dieppe then ferry to Newhaven and a 286 mile ride to Keighley.
     
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    Rode home from Normandy. 159 miles to Dieppe then ferry to Newhaven and a 286 mile ride to Keighley.
     
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  12. Callumity

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    To answer your question directly, the roads were far better than I expected. I had stood in my porch the night before watching spectacular lightning as the storm rolled slowly north and rain fell.....but not that much. It turned out we were on the Southern edge and far, far more rain fell 30-200 miles North causing flooding and landslides (tragically including a fatal derailment). Some places recorded 4.2” and more in a couple of hours.
    I did an anti clockwise loop to the South and the watercourses (including the Tweed (World famous salmon river?)) barely showed any fresh water. The roads were washed but dry with the odd damp patch or mud from logging operations. Only on returning North did I pick up a stream (burn!) that drains the Pentlands (hills immediately South of Edinburgh) in spate (flood!).
     
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  13. Callumity

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    By eck as like, that were a good step!
     
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  14. Thripster

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    #13434 Thripster, Aug 13, 2020
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    First image is of fitting today of 'Moio cnc.com' bar risers. Disadvantage of these seems to be that you have to roll right forward of the centre line adjustment or right aft to allow clearance to tighten the clamping allen bolts (Upper body of clamp fouls allen key otherwise). Might resort to getting standard stainless bolts to allow tightening of both sets from either side. Advantage is, these are considerable cheaper than the Rox counterparts. Sorry about quality of photographs - camera on phone is carp. Had been getting neck crut through leaning forwards and downwards. Hopefully, this will cure it.

    Second is of recently assembled sliding carriage assembly with parts provided by Tallpaul. Enabled me to use the plastic base-plate and aluminium top plate and thus avoid either disposing of these or adapting to a rigid mount. You can see that the previous owner had made a rigid mount for his non-Tiger by drilling countersunk holes for the required fittings.

    Looking forward to trying them both out when the torrential rain over Northants has stopped and now that I have a mesh jacket. Far too hot otherwise.

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  15. Wessa

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    Had a run down to the Raven at Whitchurch this evening on the Thruxton. Loads of bikes out and about..
     
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  16. Sandi T

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    What's a "roof boxer helmet", Duck? :confused:
     
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  18. fzr162

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    Whilst in France my Triumph tank pad fell off, no glue left on rubber pad. Went to Triumph West Yorkshire this morning and they replaced the pad FOC no hassles. They are really good to deal with.
     
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  19. Richard Goss

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    Booked the Street Cup for it’s annual service and MOT at Oxford Triumph in October. Having some Conti Road Attack 3s fitted as well (following good report on this forum) and fork oil change ( still find it odd that you have to remove the forks just to change the oil ) .
    Still I am getting a loan bike for the day so looking forward to give something else a try. Will be surprise to see what it is
     
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  20. Easy Tiger

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    Ms Tiger came home with a new mask for me. Ooo! I’ll be the talk of the wash house

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