First real ride on Mark 2

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First real ride on Mark 2

Postby GerryB » Sun Jun 07, 2015 5:10 pm

Today I took out the bike I collected from Jez on thursday .

Had a great 150 ride from Ross on Wye , via back roads to Brecon , then on to Hereford , down to Abergavenny then on to Ross .

150 great miles .

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Strangely as I was going around the round about at Ross on Wye a red R1100S went across towards M5 ....
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Postby Mitch1100 » Mon Jun 08, 2015 12:39 am

Nice..what's that tail rack?
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Postby GerryB » Mon Jun 08, 2015 6:59 am

Mitch1100 wrote:Nice..what's that tail rack?


I guess its a Givi , I have the top box , which is ok ,I just think the box spoils the looks of a great bike .
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Postby andy griff » Mon Jun 08, 2015 8:30 am

Agreed, like a roof rack on a Ferrari ..... :shock:
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Postby Boxermed69 » Mon Jun 08, 2015 9:02 am

:lol:

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Postby dave the german » Mon Jun 08, 2015 11:34 am

I'm hurt - fitted one to my BCR to make it more practical for work use. It does look fugly but serves a purpose. If I did have Ferrari I'd put a roof rack on (just to pi$$ people off!!)
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Postby f90x » Mon Jun 08, 2015 11:40 am

Ferrari with a roofrack isn't so bad. If I had the money I'd do it.
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Failing that just strap it on with bungees
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Postby andy griff » Mon Jun 08, 2015 2:08 pm

Until just now, I'd never actually seen one ( roof rack on a Ferrari that is) and it looks as crap as the saying suggests :D
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Postby jeznewsome » Mon Jun 08, 2015 6:47 pm

GerryB wrote:I guess its a Givi , I have the top box , which is ok ,I just think the box spoils the looks of a great bike .


Pleased you are having fun with it Gerry. The box and rack are Givi and bloomin useful (need to find one for my new VFR now) but yes fugly.
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Postby GerryB » Mon Jun 08, 2015 9:23 pm

BMbler wrote:any boxes and/or bags on R11s'es make it look "overloaded donkey" like, sorry!


Agreed , but as Jez says , they have their uses .......
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Postby GerryB » Mon Jun 08, 2015 9:27 pm

jeznewsome wrote:
GerryB wrote:I guess its a Givi , I have the top box , which is ok ,I just think the box spoils the looks of a great bike .


Pleased you are having fun with it Gerry. The box and rack are Givi and bloomin useful (need to find one for my new VFR now) but yes fugly.


Jez , How you doing with the new bike ?

Mine did a lovely ( some what rapid ) trip to work this evening :lol: :lol: :lol:

I think I'll use the Suzuki for a while ...

Licence preservation and all that !!!


Although I love triggering the camera ( front view ) !!!!

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Postby The Teutonic Tangerine » Tue Jun 09, 2015 10:20 am

The Givi rack that you have is in my view much more elegant than the Givi "WingRack" that gets bolted to loads of other bikes. Now they really are ugly


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Postby jeznewsome » Tue Jun 09, 2015 7:05 pm

GerryB wrote:Jez , How you doing with the new bike ?


New bike is immaculate, really immaculate for a 10yr old bike (seems a shame it'll be my ride to work bike). Only 7K on it.

Seems to go (but not with the same low down urgency of the V Twins), stop and handle OK. Very smooth, stable, great mirrors etc I haven't had a Jap bike for over 12yrs and had forgotten how good (but bland) they are.

Only thing I have fiddled with so far is to ground a couple of wires on the Datatool alarm to stop it beeping when arming and automatically arming the fecking annoying movement/nudge detection!
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Postby GerryB » Tue Jun 09, 2015 9:38 pm

jeznewsome wrote:
GerryB wrote:Jez , How you doing with the new bike ?


New bike is immaculate, really immaculate for a 10yr old bike (seems a shame it'll be my ride to work bike). Only 7K on it.

Seems to go (but not with the same low down urgency of the V Twins), stop and handle OK. Very smooth, stable, great mirrors etc I haven't had a Jap bike for over 12yrs and had forgotten how good (but bland) they are.

Only thing I have fiddled with so far is to ground a couple of wires on the Datatool alarm to stop it beeping when arming and automatically arming the fecking annoying movement/nudge detection!


That's great news .

I'm back to using my Suzuki Motard as my day to day work tool .

More fun through the narrow lanes and twisties ... :wink: :roll:

But the Beemer is locked away , on the Battery conditioner for a week or so till it gets out for a decent run .
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