What have you done with your V-Strom today?

[KingOrry]

@Nigel - Love the steps shortcut. Bet it looked like a scene from a Bond film.. 🤣

@Snakebite - You’re spot on, I find it does seem to release endorphins, and the more/heavier the traffic, the greater the ‘rush’ 😁

[nigel s]

Not sure about 007 , don't think matt black rat 70,000 mile GS 550's is his thing...

Ho Hum

[nigel s]

The early sun failed to deliver on my run up to Bury 75 miles away  single digits when I left but warmed up to 12 ish coming back , not bad for the time of year but not enough to dry the roads.
Just a couple of mopeds  , the Strom and the old boy with his RSX100 at the bike park , seen behind my bike in the pic.
I posted about the old boy a year or two ago and see he has got the RXS past 80,000 now....Respect.
Met office was right , rain at 11.30 , that chased me home with a tail wind , just made it home fairly dry .


Ho Hum

[MisterDavey]

Credit to you for getting out in the crappy weather Nigel. Was it a leisure ride to Bury? Just wondering if you'd gone somewhere nice to take a bike, as it's only 40 minutes from me.

[nigel s]

Shits n giggles on a damp day really. Did get into Waterstones for books for me and gifts for friends ( hence the panniers ) so   ...nice to blow the cobwebs out after last nights pub visit watching the footy ......  a 3.3 win against Liverpool ....
 
Ho hum

[Sir Trev]

I have happy memories of my RSX100. I got one as a cheap stop gap after my GSX250 got "shortened" by a blind man driving a mk1 Escort. Seem to recall it would touch an indicated 70 with my chin on the tank and unlike the Honda HS100SII I had as a first bike, the regular flat out riding meant I never once had to de-coke the exhaust baffle. 80k miles on one is seriously impressive though!

[ScaredyCat]

Full service, new pads and tyres.

This close to Christmas 

[2112]

My bike insurance is due on Christmas eve...

[Snakebite]

"Full service, new pads and tyres.

This close to Christmas "

Been there, just paid for that..!
I'm now in the process of refurbing my callipers personally rather than forking out to have them done..!

[nigel s]

Out early to get bootlaces..................
Ended up a county away at Blaxhill Growing Stone , via a nice windmill.
 A spooky stone that was dug up in the 1800s and is supposed to grow.....It was the size of a loaf of bread when ploughed up , so the locals say 
Set the Sat Nav to direct line to see how to get home , across two counties....hmmm...sometimes works , sometimes not.
Mostly good bs , some towns . Muddy as SH*T in some spots , and only one dead end . A win in my book.
Five hours , 175 miles later got home ...no bootlaces ...

Ho hum

[nigel s]

Nobody noticed the lack of numberplate in the middle pic...........

Ho Hum

[Barbel Mick]

Yesterday ........
I knew the rear tyre was getting a little squared off, but was hoping it might have lasted for the few rides I might get in over winter, but in the last 3/400 miles it seems to have done quite badly.
A few phone calls at the start of the week & only found one local place that could get my preferred tyre (Conti Trail Attack 3's) in before Christmas. It would cost me £30 more for the pair than one quote, but needs must! 
Bloody cold ride there, but the free coffee & biscuits, while I waited, sorted that out. 
I also asked them to have a look at the rear brake pads while it was on the ramp ....... I had them changed while it was there. Saves an old man crawling about on the garage floor in the cold.

Thanks to Powerslide, Derby. Great, friendly lads. Maybe a little more expensive than other local garages, but they got the job done. 

A few photos to prove it happened  ...... 

[Upt North]

Got to love a custard cream.

[nigel s]

Mick ,
What is the red disc thing on the lower engine bar , a reflector    ?

[UK_Vstrom650]

Nigel, I think that's a poppy 

I haven't even seen my V-Strom in weeks so I've done nothing with it. Hoping to give it some TLC and get out over the Christmas period...

[Rixington43]

Very short ride to Toolstation to collect DIY supplies yesterday, first ride in many months but she fired first turn and ran like a dream. Full tank of Tesco's finest Dinosaur Cocktail on the way home so a it's 'When the weather allows' for the next few months I reckon. Now, back to that DIY.

[Upt North]

Not only the weather R43, the roads around us are as shitty as shite on a shite stick. Plus the farmers are in full hedge cutting mode, plus the darn suicidal pheasants, plus the foreign tourists who refuse to stay away, plus the blummin deer.......
It's a jungle out there.

[Barbel Mick]

Mick ,
What is the red disc thing on the lower engine bar , a reflector    ?

Yep it's a Poppy. Buy one every year & one for the car as well. 

[Barbel Mick]

Got to love a custard cream.

I was disappointed, there were only three in the tub, I had to resort to the shortbread when I'd eaten them. 

[Peile]

Fitted a Temu 42 litre top box, cost 90 euros delivered!  it matches the black SW Motech/Suzuki panniers but the quality obviously isn't the same.
It will hold one helmet and gloves though, nuisance not having a top box, couldn't fit a bigger top box because the top opening panniers being set so close together wouldn't allow it.