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    #1742
    Skill Magill
    Registered Users Posts: 2,572 ✭✭✭Skill Magill


    Skill Magill wrote: »
    send them to skillmagill@gmail.com ,I'll upload them for you.
    Is it a long story? You still driving agricultural vehicles?

    jiHRMZA.jpg

    6WxsD09.jpg

    dBGSTA9.jpg


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    #1743
    Skill Magill
    Registered Users Posts: 2,572 ✭✭✭Skill Magill


    Haha, I'm not resizing them, beast of a bike bro,

    I did though, see below


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    #1744
    KTR1C
    Closed Accounts Posts: 241 ✭✭KTR1C


    Skill Magill wrote: »
    Glad you're back old chap, there's talk of a new ride out, you comin?

    On that note, whens the next big one?

    Yeah I'm up for that


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    #1745
    goodlad
    Registered Users Posts: 3,224 ✭✭✭goodlad


    Jamie is being sound and we're taking a drive to louth tomorrow.
    Going to see a 2008 Bandit 1250.


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    #1746
    blu3r0ri0n
    Registered Users Posts: 896 ✭✭✭blu3r0ri0n


    Was not expecting that! :eek:



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    #1747
    Cienciano
    Registered Users Posts: 14,296 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    Ktric, amazing bike, love it. Couldn't believe the size of the back tyre first time I saw one. What made you go for that ahead of the vmax? I've no idea what new prices are for either btw


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    #1748
    Pique
    Registered Users Posts: 3,051 ✭✭✭Pique


    Skill Magill wrote: »
    Did you make yourself redundant in a fit of pique?

    What'd I do?


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    #1749
    Skill Magill
    Registered Users Posts: 2,572 ✭✭✭Skill Magill


    Pique wrote: »
    What'd I do?
    haha:D
    I hear ye, ye must have done something though?


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    #1750
    KTR1C
    Closed Accounts Posts: 241 ✭✭KTR1C


    Cienciano wrote: »
    Ktric, amazing bike, love it. Couldn't believe the size of the back tyre first time I saw one. What made you go for that ahead of the vmax? I've no idea what new prices are for either btw

    Believe it or not the Vmax weighs 100 kilos more !!!


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    #1751
    Skill Magill
    Registered Users Posts: 2,572 ✭✭✭Skill Magill


    jiHRMZAl.jpg

    6WxsD09.jpg

    dBGSTA9l.jpg


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    #1752
    Cienciano
    Registered Users Posts: 14,296 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    KTR1C wrote: »
    Believe it or not the Vmax weighs 100 kilos more !!!

    Was reading a few reviews comparing the 2. Looks like the Diavel is the one that handles. Vmax is pure straight line speed


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    #1753
    KTR1C
    Closed Accounts Posts: 241 ✭✭KTR1C


    Cienciano wrote: »
    Was reading a few reviews comparing the 2. Looks like the Diavel is the one that handles. Vmax is pure straight line speed

    And actually costs more !! No idea why.

    I spent the morning chasing my missus over the mountains on her ER6 around Omeath and the Diavel didn't miss a beat. We were doing 80 - 90 around bends that I would have crept around normally and had full confidence. I'd honestly say it's the best handing bike I've had. Can't comment on performance just yet because it's not broken in but so far very impressed.


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    #1754
    Cienciano
    Registered Users Posts: 14,296 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    KTR1C wrote: »
    And actually costs more !! No idea why.

    I spent the morning chasing my missus over the mountains on her ER6 around Omeath and the Diavel didn't miss a beat. We were doing 80 - 90 around bends that I would have crept around normally and had full confidence. I'd honestly say it's the best handing bike I've had. Can't comment on performance just yet because it's not broken in but so far very impressed.
    Keep it wrapped up in ACF50, those ducati motors have a habit of losing their paint! Any plans to change the exhaust?


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    #1755
    KTR1C
    Closed Accounts Posts: 241 ✭✭KTR1C


    Cienciano wrote: »
    Keep it wrapped up in ACF50, those ducati motors have a habit of losing their paint! Any plans to change the exhaust?

    I think the old ones are more prone. I've seen a couple of second hand first gen Diavels and the paint was fine.

    No plans for the moment, the Termignoni pipes are thousands. Might get them sometime in the future when I'm feeling flush.


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    #1756
    Cienciano
    Registered Users Posts: 14,296 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    KTR1C wrote: »
    I think the old ones are more prone. I've seen a couple of second hand first gen Diavels and the paint was fine.

    No plans for the moment, the Termignoni pipes are thousands. Might get them sometime in the future when I'm feeling flush.

    Yeah, termi system for mine was over €2k! I'd just get end cans and probably not termis.
    Anyway, handy forums in case you haven't found any yet:
    http://ducatiforum.co.uk/forum/
    http://www.ducati.ms/forums/
    Last photo on the photo thread is a matt black one like yours with matt black exhaust, looks savage.
    http://www.ducati.ms/forums/attachments/diavel/524761d1427292154-diavel-picture-thread-img_0669a.jpg
    Anyway, enjoy the bike, supposed to be dry all week too :cool:


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    #1757
    Pique
    Registered Users Posts: 3,051 ✭✭✭Pique


    If a hitman rode a bike, it'd be a matt black Diavel!


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    #1758
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 35,072 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    Richard tea wrote: »
    Fantastic guide to different engines



    http://www.bikebandit.com/community/guides/guide-to-motorcycle-engines

    To the cognoscenti it's no surprise that the inline triple comes out the best :)

    © 1982 Sinclair Research Ltd



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    #1759
    Mr Sheen!
    Registered Users Posts: 850 ✭✭✭Mr Sheen!


    Hotblack Desiato wrote: »
    To the cognoscenti it's no surprise that the inline triple comes out the best :)

    Have had a v-twin, inline 4, v4 and now on the triple.

    All have their strengths but I do like the triple best for all round ability


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    #1760
    DubVelo
    Registered Users Posts: 581 ✭✭✭DubVelo


    So, sand mid-corner... that makes things a bit 'interesting' doesn't it? :eek:


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    #1761
    Zascar
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 12,778 Mod ✭✭✭✭Zascar


    Lads I'm down in larahg, the traffic is mental. Was backed up about a mile before the town and there are loads of police checks. Anyone know what's going on? It is just bank holiday traffic or is something else happening?


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    #1762
    KTR1C
    Closed Accounts Posts: 241 ✭✭KTR1C


    Has anyone any ideas, my garage door has a sliding bolt type lock and since the sun was shining at the front of the house its swollen and now won't open !!!

    Means we can't get the bikes out to go for a spin. :(


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    #1763
    prunudo
    Registered Users Posts: 7,469 ✭✭✭prunudo


    Zascar wrote: »
    Lads I'm down in larahg, the traffic is mental. Was backed up about a mile before the town and there are loads of police checks. Anyone know what's going on? It is just bank holiday traffic or is something else happening?

    Probably just the good weather. Was busy up there 2 weekends ago too.
    Got grief at a checkpoint yesterday for my tax being out by 4 days!


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    #1764
    prunudo
    Registered Users Posts: 7,469 ✭✭✭prunudo


    KTR1C wrote: »
    Has anyone any ideas, my garage door has a sliding bolt type lock and since the sun was shining at the front of the house its swollen and now won't open !!!

    Means we can't get the bikes out to go for a spin. :(
    Try spraying the door with the garden hose. It might be enough to cool it down


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    #1765
    KTR1C
    Closed Accounts Posts: 241 ✭✭KTR1C


    jvan wrote: »
    Try spraying the door with the garden hose. It might be enough to cool it down

    It's locked in the garage :P


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    #1766
    Richard tea
    Registered Users Posts: 3,597 ✭✭✭Richard tea


    KTR1C wrote: »
    Has anyone any ideas, my garage door has a sliding bolt type lock and since the sun was shining at the front of the house its swollen and now won't open !!!

    Means we can't get the bikes out to go for a spin. :(

    Hammer, Brick, Lump of timber???


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    #1767
    Max Headroom
    Registered Users Posts: 7,101 ✭✭✭Max Headroom


    Usually swells when wet and shrinks in the heat......:confused:....sounds like you have a sagging problem....:P


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    #1768
    Mr Sheen!
    Registered Users Posts: 850 ✭✭✭Mr Sheen!


    KTR1C wrote: »
    Has anyone any ideas, my garage door has a sliding bolt type lock and since the sun was shining at the front of the house its swollen and now won't open !!!

    Means we can't get the bikes out to go for a spin. :(

    This is too funny!!
    Did you get them out in the end?


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    #1769
    KTR1C
    Closed Accounts Posts: 241 ✭✭KTR1C


    Mr Sheen! wrote: »
    This is too funny!!
    Did you get them out in the end?

    I did thankfully :)

    The missus wasn't too happy and I eventually got it open when the sun moved around the house.


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    #1770
    Mr Sheen!
    Registered Users Posts: 850 ✭✭✭Mr Sheen!


    KTR1C wrote: »
    I did thankfully :)

    The missus wasn't too happy and I eventually got it open when the sun moved around the house.

    Too hood if a day to miss.

    Get that door sorted ASAP


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    #1771
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 35,072 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    WD40 is the answer to any problem that duct tape can't solve.

    Don't tell me your only can of WD40 was locked in the garage :rolleyes:

    © 1982 Sinclair Research Ltd



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