I keep seeing full faced helmet riders with their visor open, or worse: modular helmets fully open. Do you think it's worth the trade of for the chin protection?
Edit: I mean jet style open-face with a proper visor. Not the half shell skull caps. This is not Texas
Quite frankly don’t know where else to post this and I don’t know what to do.
If you’ve seen my previous posts, I recently just passed my cbt (yippy). I now would like to collect my own bike from my father’s garage. But he won’t let me.
We have a highly complicated and manipulative relationship. Where my bike is perfectly fine for him to ride and use, but the moment I’d like to have it, and ride it, it suddenly has a million things that need to be fixed, delaying when I’m able to collect my own property because he insists on fixing them.
I did my cbt and without the knowledge of my father because he is highly against me paying money for anything and is very controlling and particular about how things are done/how I was taught to ride my bike (he taught me the opposite of what is standard btw).
So this is basically a cry for help as he is refusing me collecting it from his garage even though I can quite happily adjust my chain, put my L plates back on and whatever else (don’t even know) needs doing, myself.
On the last day of an otherwise successful tour, my bike was smashed up in a hotel car park. It looks like a couple of guys tried to get the disc lock off, couldn't, and then just decided to go to town with a hammer. Headlight and dash are both done. Multiple fairing panels cracked along with some other damage. The bike was tipped for good measure.
Police obviously can't do much (balaclavas and gloves). No insurance for this, and it looks like the repairs are going to cost me dearly. At least the rest of the tour went well...
Can i just to the CBT? Or do I have to do the theory test aswell? I dont mind the L plates, just want a ride to go around and for work.
Posting this out here as this would've been the perfect post for me to see when i was researching
i have long fingers for their width. Struggled to get the right fit of glove
Tried RST PRo series gloves in M/L/XL/2XL but the fit only got wider not longer.
I'm currently wearing a winter apline stars touring glove in large that fits okayish
I've now bought
Alpinestars gp pro r4 L
Five RFX Race L
Five RFX1 Evo L
Any feedback on the above is welcomed. I'll post on here when they arrive and i've tried them on
Who would have thought we’d see the day Honda brings out their first fully electric motorcycle.
I got to have a go on the new Honda WN7 and I’m just curious what everyone else thinks of it really. Is this something you could see yourself owning, or do you think electric bikes still have a long way to go?
One thing I will say, I didn’t get the 80 miles of range it says I should have… but to be fair I was pretty heavy on the throttle 😂
I’ve done a first impressions review on it here:
I’ll leave it there if anyone wants to see it, if that’s cool. I’m more intrested to hear what other riders think of the bike.
Afternoon everyone
I finally start my DAS course tomorrow for 4 days. The weather is looking like 31 everyday.
I have a mesh jacket and summer gloves.
Has anyone got any tips for me on how to stay cool or what to do if I get light headed or something. I feel like it's going to impair my learning and test with the heat.
Thanks in advance. Test day is Thursday eeek
Well it never really stops here (Gwynedd). I was over in my other home in Shrewsbury, the single carriageway part of the A5 at Montford Bridge had a slow procession of them, refusing to move to the left to let me get past. Now I used to tow a caravan and never drove like that - I’d always pull slightly to the left so faster traffic could overtake safely. TFMs… total fucking morons. And the dualled bit of the A5, more fucking caravans, tractors with slurry tankers, milk wagons, bloody horse boxes… ugh.
Pic of bike at Ruyton-XI-Towns, just for attention. Ruyton-XI-Towns. What a name🤣 Mae’n ddoniol iawn (that means: it’s very funny)🤣🤣 and people think Welsh place names are silly🤣🤣🤣
So after 8 years of riding to the same car park and parking in the same spot every day 4 scallys in balaclavas just walked up to my bike at 1:30 in the afternoon and nicked it, they rode off with it as well the bastards.
So if anyone in the greater Manchester area sees a 57 plate red (with a black left hand fairing because I came off it and that’s all I could get at the time) Yamaha TDM being driven like a dick. It’s not me anymore.
Spent the last few days really pissed off and annoyed about it. It wasn’t much but it was mine and that’s what’s worst about everything these days, how hard is it to not touch something that’s not yours.
In April, I spent 8 days riding solo around Morocco on a rented Himalayan 411. No drama, just great fun. I got home on the Saturday, and the very next day managed to drop my BMW F850GS on my foot - damaging both metatarsals and my lisfranc ligament, which required surgery and a plate. I was wearing a pair of J&S 'urban' style ankle boots - super comfortable but clearly not the most protective.
In Morocco, I wore Alpinestarts SMX-6 boots. They're pretty decent, but I'm not convinced they would have saved my foot if the injury had happended out there and I was stranded in the middle of the Atlas mountains.
So roll on three months and I'm looking for something more protective, but comfortable enough to wear off the bike for walking around for an hour or so. My shortlist:
Alpinestarts Tech 7
Sidi Adventure 2
Leatt 4.5, 5.5 or 7.5
Gaerne Dakar
The AS Tech 7 seem to be the benchmark, but they're pretty pricey and sound like overkill for my needs. Most of my riding is on tarmac, with ocassional off-road stuff (think gravel, broken North African roads, dirt tracks, etc). In the UK, I might do the ocassional green lane, but very much at the easier end of the scale. In a few months, I'm planning a trip from UK through central Europe, down to Sicily and across to Tunisia (where I'll spend 8 days exploring remote areas) - this is fairly typical of the mix I need to accommodate.
I generally reel away from anything with 'adventure' in the title (or indeed Dakar), but the Sidi Adventures and the Gaerne Dakars do seem to hit a strong middle ground. Likewise the Leatts 7.5
I'd love to hear what others use. thanks.
pics: The boots I wore when I dropped the bike on my foot
Hi guys, tried to put my L plates on my Honda CB125F but I can't get them to fit on the front at all?
I have the clips as the adhesive one wouldn't stick at all to my windscreen, but it won't fit on the fork side or even in-between?
As the title says, looking for bike people to talk bike chat and maybe hang out or future group ride prospects. Im in Hampshire and 29. Might be important to some people who want male only groups but I'm a female so hopefully not an issue 🙂
My stolen motorcycle disappeared almost 2 years ago.
I had an AirTag hidden on it, but it stopped updating almost immediately after the theft. I always assumed the thieves found it, removed the battery, and threw it away.
Today I checked Find My and noticed something strange. About a week ago, the AirTag suddenly appeared at what seems to be a Mercedes repair/body shop. Then it went silent again.
I’m almost certain an AirTag battery wouldn’t last two years without any updates, which makes me wonder if someone replaced the battery. On the other hand, maybe the AirTag was somehow stuck inside the bike all this time and was only discovered when the vehicle was dismantled.
Has anyone experienced something similar? Is it worth contacting the police with this new location, or is it likely a dead end after all this time?
I passed my A licence yesterday, the only big bike I fell in love with was an Africa twin and my boyfriend has a Tenere so when it came to choosing a big bike that’s what I went for.
Today on first big ride on a national speed limit road we came to an unmarked give away junction there was no signs for it earlier, and it was just around a corner on a slope, so I slowed down, stopped at the junction to look both ways and pulled handlebars to turn right, that was enough for gravity to topple me over… fortunately the engine guard took the brunt of it, decal on the right hand side, handlebar wind breaker broke and brake lever bent slightly, bike struggled to start but after trying a few times it did and it sounded and rode as normal.
My confidence though dropped significantly. I was so happy up to that point, no issues whatsoever and one silly sloped junction took that away… I’m really not sure what to do now, I’m so worried about getting on the bike and drop it again 🥺
Its a 2017 honda cbr125r. This is pretty much the only issue I ever have with the bike.
It happens maybe once every few weeks on the same stretch of very slightly uphill A road, however it's happened twice over the weekend and I just want to know why.
So I'll be chilling at 50-55 when it starts feeling like there is something pulling the bike back, I've tried tapping on the brakes and clutch and going up and down gears but there's nothing I can do to fix it, it just suddenly picks up again by itself after maybe 30 seconds and acts like nothing happened.
Google is saying a clogged air/fuel filter or bad fuel pump or spark plug, but I gave the bike a pretty thorough service when I got it a year/5000 miles ago, and the fact it never bogs down while caning through B roads is confusing.
Any help or advice much much appreciated 🙌
You know that classic collision video we've seen hundreds of variations of? The one with the biker travelling along the main road and a car crossing it from the side road pulling out and going straight into the bike.
Yeah, that was me today.
I've had plenty of close calls. Whether it's a dumb decision or poor judgment on my part that I could learn from, or the actions of another road user that I could react to, I've had my share of moments where I felt lucky.
Today was different though. Today was sobering. Half a second later or a few inches to the right and I might not had made it home in one piece.
I've had that thought sitting with me all day, with no one to share it with so I'm just writing it out here to help me process it.
Funnily enough, I had been thinking about posting on reddit today only half an hour before this incident happened. I wanted to ask a question, so I might as well ask it anyway.
As I'm coming to a stop, I'm typically using both brakes. Once I'm stationary, I release the front brake and keep my foot on the back brake. When do that, it feels like the back of the bike sits down.
It doesn't matter whether it's immediately after I've come to a standstill or if it was 2 minutes ago, releasing the front brake while holding the back makes it feel like the entire back end of the bike lowers an inch or two.
What causes that? I tell myself the short answer is "physics", but I'd like to understand the long answers if anyone is able to ELI5.
Hey all, I really appreciated everyone’s advice last week on the bike. I got a mix but everyone was helpful and supportive of the fact that this is pretty much the best I’m guna get on my budget and situation.
I’m really happy, I love it. The look is excatly the sort of thing I wanted and it’s starts first time every time on the key and “for fun coz I like it.” First time on the kick start too. I can’t ride it yet and all I’ve seen is the gentleman who sold me it show me it working. He drove it and put it through the gears up and down the road and demonstrated the brakes working etc. i had a look at what I could being moderately mechanical and very mechanical with mountain bikes I checks the things I knew I could. These were…..
*The feel of the levers brake and clutch. I can’t ride drive so I let it out on to the bite point etc without actually riding far to test the bite and feel. I did the same on the brakes, checked the pads and the feel.
*I checked the chain it looked clean tight and looked after.
*checked all lights and the tyres. Needs a front tyre soon if anyone can advise on a budget 90/90/17 seems like a less used size.
Sooooo, now I’m wondering what else I can do in the 2 weeks it will be saying my friends garage. I’m a painter originally so I’m all good with cosmetic stuff but I’m looking for ideas of things I could check and how to inspect them etc. I’m confident the guy wasn’t lying about changing the oil due to the fact why would he even bother he didn’t claim anything else on it or over inflate the quality was a quiet guy really. But he did say he did it right before so should I do it again? Any other ideas. Things I can check and clean without doing any damage or making my life harder. I’m going to treat the exhaust and paint it with the high temp exhaust paint to protect from rust in future. I have experience with suspension and stripping it etc but seems ok and has recently had seals fitted that can tell are new.
If you got this far thankyou for reading. I guess basically I just want any help or instructions on things I can do to up my percentage chances of me having a nice reliable ready to ride bike by the time I do the cbt in 2 weeks ish.
What I'd like to do...
Has anyone done this?
Hey Guys and Gals, looking for some mechanical advice. 22m been riding for about 2yrs now on a cb500f. Had my mot yesterday and annoyingly it failed due to front shocks leaking. I assume I just need to buy a new dust and seal set. Also need to get a new chain as its on its way out.
Would it A be easier to do this all myself or B pay for it to be done along with another mot. Labour is £56+vat ph