Touring trip to the Alps and Going to see the French Pope!

Hiawatha's grandma?

 

Scrooge..

 

Is it the worlds fastest Indian?

 

You are a bunch of cheeky monkeys !!!!!

Just got back from a day out that started at 4:30am French trains perfectly on time, every one - then a 500 kms ride home.

Not much room in the garage now

 

I can see the smoke signals...pardon?...

 

You'll see clearly on or about the 16th of September.


LOADS of white smoke

 

New Toy ! New Toy ! New Toy ! New Toy !

 

Bless you my son...................................................................................now fuck off you sarky bastid !!!!

Set off on my round-the-world-trip - "The fat way round" - will report more when I've had a meat pie.

 

Nice pic

The colour suits you Dave. I'm expecting a guided tour of it next year if I manage to get down there

 

You would be most welcome mate. It'll give me a chance to show you the sites around here.

 

Pleased to see your having a good time.
thebiglads place seems to have become an official stop off for France tours.

Why did you take the screen off Dave?

 

Hi mate, because the screen she came with was huge and generated sufficient turbulence to keep a field full of wind generators going at full tilt. Kitten now has a very nice small screen which works much better - just need to cut the top lip off.

 

That explains a lot.
Seems to be major problem with a lot of adventure bikes.
Wife's having trouble with her Tiger screen,as did a friend of ours.
Talked to a guy with an Explorer and he said the standard screen was so bad it made him feel sick.

You'd think somebody would buy a wind tunnel.

 

The thing is that it's not complicated or difficult to make something that works loads better,but because all the screens in this category are locked into the idea that customers want to ride in a bubble of still air all the suppliers put a flip-up at the top of their screens.

Now all of that would be OK if the rider was sitting immediately behind the screen - but they're not!! If you look at any of the Adventure-style bikes, there is a large space between the rider and the screen. So what you might say? Well I'll tell you what - laminar flow, that's what. The idea is to have smooth air passing over the front of the bike and the lower half of the rider so the their head is in clean clear air. To achieve this you the correct angle of screen, with air passing underneath as well as above and most importantly a smooth departure of air from the top of the screen - which you don't get if you have a flip-up top to the screen.

 

Sounds logical,so I wonder my multi million pound company's can't seem to grasp the concept.
I read somewhere that Tiger Sport owners were putting longer spacers under their screens to cure the problem.

Tigcraft,enjoy your holiday,sorry to hijack your thread.
Have a great time.