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Anybody have any experience using these? I once saw a scrambler round town that looked like someone’s rat bike…had a military-esque theme and I quite liked it tbh. Bit of a mad max feel. Told myself I would copy the ammo box idea once I have my bike. I have a retro scrambler with a khaki fuel tank, and I think an ammo box would suit it nicely. I’m not the most practical of fellas, so how exactly would I do it? Is there somewhere I could take the bracket and ammo box to and pay someone to weld it? Some kind of latch to allow a padlock would be a good addition.

Passed my mod2 3 weeks ago, absolutely loving being on a bigger bike. Had 2 years experience on a 125 prior to DAS, although I don’t drive so it is my ONLY experience on the road. Most of the 2 years on the 125 were local familiar roads, with the occasional longer trip to visit somewhere new to me. Point being, a lot of road types and riding in general isn’t exactly second nature to me yet. I still haven’t done much dual carriageway riding, and my first motorway outing was the weekend just gone. I feel my riding is okay, far from as perfect as I would like…but to give myself credit I do ride defensively, safely and take a bit of pride in following the rules of the road. My question is, at what stage should I consider advanced training? Had a few bikers suggest sooner rather than later, the fact I’m fresh out of DAS is apparently a good thing? If now, then what do I go for? Struggling to understand the differences between IAM, RoSPA and Bikesafe? Should I just enjoy my time for now and get some mileage in on a variety of roads? Or go for an advanced course of some description ASAP. Bikesafe seems like it could be a cheap taster session of what other advanced courses have to offer…possibly a good course in its own right? I have no idea. Any thoughts?

Probably a long shot, but thanks for coming to assist me when I dropped my bike. Apologies if I seemed off/not very chatty…dropping my 2 week old bike really soured what was a nice ride out…and also hurting my shoulder was also very distracting…wondering how the hell I was going to make the 2 hour trip home! Well I made it, with several stops. The pain became and still is pretty bad. Oh well, lesson learned!

For those that didn’t witness my buffoonery…I had pulled up to get some pics on my phone, and was on a bit of slope. Tried to put my foot down and didn’t quite appreciate how much of a slope I was on…bike was too heavy to save it and so I was thrown to the side. 2 years on a little 125 never taught me that lesson…200kg bike is very different!

Seems like my shoulder took the impact, bike got off lightly with nothing but a slightly bent front brake.

Anyway, if you see this it was much appreciated that you took the time to stop and have a chat and make sure I was okay.

I only have my motorcycle licence, which I recently obtained. So obviously motorways are completely new to me. I feel like I need to take the plunge and force myself to get on one. I’m half excited and half nervous, don’t want to go in completely blind. I was thinking of just doing a single junction for now, maybe even staying in lane 1 just to get a feel for it. Perhaps after I have got used to that, maybe throwing in some overtakes. Maybe then venturing out maybe a 100 miles from home.

Incase it wasn’t obvious, Im a bit of a nervous rider…and a chronic over thinker. Been riding 2 years on a CBT and never really ventured out too far. Now I have my A licence I feel a little overwhelmed with my options. Would love a trip to cheddar gorge, which is a 2 hr trip each way for me.

I appreciate this is second nature to many riders, many of which already had a car licence prior to their motorcycle licence…but it is completely new territory for me.

Any tips, however basic, would be much appreciated

Upgraded to full A last week, got a new bike yesterday having ridden for just short of 2 years on a CBT. My insurer said I would need to cancel my current policy instead of swapping the bike, which meant I was just shy of reaching 2 years of no claims. When it came to starting a new policy I had to enter the period of time I had held my license, 0 years 0 months, which then meant the website wouldn’t recognise any NCB, not even the 1 year that I 100% do have. Really wished I had of called and cleared it up, but in the excitement to get on the road I thought sod it. Feel like I’ve been done over.

Is this typical? Or should I call and see if I can get some money back?