General chat thread... Links, pictures, banter etc

Ordered this on Amazon on Friday and it arrived on Saturday. 😮

Don't know whey they bother with those connectors though (well I do. They cost next to nothing).

Even the smaller Oxford chargers use the much better sae type.

I know it's mentioned that it's best to wait until spring to sell a bike but does it really make that much difference? Realistically how much of a € hit would it be?

Very dependant but you could be looking at 20% if you can even find a potential buyer, if it's a hot summer prices soar.

Its the Tuono. Wasted on me. Im not in a hurry so Ill see over the next few weeks.

No lid is quiet enough to avoid long-term hearing damage without earplugs. That's just an unpalatable fact.

As for flogging the Tuono, lovely looking bike but seems a shame to be trying to sell it now, you'd get silly offers or no offers at all (it's niche enough and let's face it, Priller's rep would scare off most) if you can afford to hold off for 3 or 4 months it should be well worth it.

I'm I right in thinking I can sorn a bike that I haven't taxed yet?

The rgv probably won't be on the road for a few months. and I've just received the tax book today.

I was lucky so.

I bought the bike mid December.

When the tax book hadn't arrived I rang the seller on Monday and he said he forgot to send it so sent it then.

When it arrived today the seller put 1st of Jan for date of sale.

21 days from change of ownership. You can't make changes to a vehicle without the logbook being in your name.

Thats my understanding of it anyway from Imports

Oooooh, vury nice, carbonista; well weal.

Had a generational moment today or an airheaded moment. I'd assume Ireland changed to kilometres for everything in like the 80/90s or something but no. I'd no idea it was 2005.

Lad commented that it was handy my bike was in kilometres, and I assumed I had already mentioned it was imported at some point so clarified that it was imported but not from the UK but from Japan but he was just going off it's age.

I was a teenager in 2005 and not driving but I must never have even looked at a road sign as I've no memory of miles at all.

I'm in mph on my 2019 RE, which came in via UK. Doing the sums to convert to kmph keeps the old brain sharp! 😅

A user on Motors posted this conversion hack a few years ago. It assumes your speedometer is reading higher than actual speed by some margin. I've used it and compared to GPS speed, it's fairly accurate.

To convert mph to km/h, add 50%. So, 60mph on clock equates to 90km/h actual speed.

To convert km/h to mph, subtract 33.3%. So 120km/h actual speed equates to 80mph on the clock.

It's aimed at the same market as the old hornet but I don't think you can compare them too much. Other than name recognition I don't know why Honda went with the Hornet name.

Great Honda have this new engine, there was a big gap in the twins for them. You'd a jump between the 500 and 1100 bikes with the underpowered old 750/700 in the middle. I liked those forward tilted 700/750 but they were so underpowered but it wasn't really like for like in anycase.

Rumour is they're doing a retro 750 soon too, compared to the neo retro they've already got. Considering what Royal enfield are doing sales wise it's a mistake to ignore that market.

So I don't know if anyone heard that Jay Leno had a crash on a bike not too long ago.

He's fine now but he was talking about it in a video today about the different restoration project he's got going on and showed the bike he'd the accident on.

He took a shortcut through a car park and there was a wire across one end he didn't see and hit if neck/head first, the bike had a sidecar to just kept going without him into a building.

Akrapovic exhaust me hole!

If I was a betting man id say they are Scorpion.

An SV1000 is just as good and a lot more affordable!