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

close, but no cigar. Your wallet won’t be taking a hit.

Throw the old ones in your neighbour's bin and say you got €150 on Adverts for them? 😁

can a couple of you lovely people provide me with an alibi for some time in the near future?

I was scrolling through facebook last night and in the suggested reels part I saw one saying “I had a lovely chat with a Garda today” so let it run it on.

Some chap on the m-50 being told off for filtering between cars at speed.

Then I recognised something. The chap being spoken with was my son. My not passed his driving test son. My not wearing his tabard son. My not going to live very long son. Especially after I’ve looked at some more of the videos on his instagram

unfortunately he moved out two weeks ago. Be easier to kill him!! 😄

The videos have been going on a lot longer that 2 weeks though. I’m gone beyond angry, I’m just really disappointed in him. Riding the bike up on footpaths to avoid traffic lights that sort of thing.

He’s deleted all the stupid behaviour videos from his account now.

I agree. But typical 20 year old he’s saying that his behaviour is not my problem.

I'm just so bloody disappointed in him.

At the end of the day the insurance can lift his cover. So if he likes his bike tell him he could easily lose it entirely.

I’ve been going down the route of “if you hit someone then you are directly affecting them as you’ll be regarded as an uninsured driver so it’ll take longer for them to get sorted” trying to appeal to whatever shreds of decency and non selfishness are left in him.

I don’t think it’s working though. I’d say if I positioned myself in the m50 today between where he lives and works I’d see him on it again

Well fingers crossed some of it goes in. You know the youth though, we all knew it all.

The new R1300GS Adventure launch today. Not a whole lot of love on the interwebs nor the launch crowd on YouTube. Fairly muted responses.

Looks kinda shite alot, from my amateur eye.

Looks more like the ride on toy from Smyth's now than something the design team spent **** loads of time on.

Tbh I like the look of the 1250GS. And others seem to also. Mine never seems to not get people coming up to me commenting on it.

The other colour options ain't too bad I don't know why they went with the Red colour for the promo.

But that Horizontal Spotlight and the silver metal panel behind it look like pieces you'd get from AliExpress.

https://configurator.bmw-motorrad.ie/index_en_IE.html?country=IE#/configurator/0M31/P0N2L,S0380,S0457,S0748,S0771,S07A6,S08CA,S09T2/COLOURS

Yes but I do quite like the "door scrapers" 🤭

10,000 miles? Barely run in. never mind 10k km…

Yeah it's where I'm conflicted, if I put most of those miles on myself it wouldn't bother me but buying a bike with 50ish k miles is territory I've never been in or even cont plated, now if it was as gs or that is be nearly asking why it hasn't got that many miles 😅 the odd Honda I've seen with 80-90k and seem to be still sweet, suppose we were spoiled here for a long time with low milage bikes

In other news… generally not a good idea in a democracy when the police are telling politicians what laws to make.

He said an avenue that might be considered to increase road safety for
motorcyclists, 13 of whom have died on the roads this year, was a
periodic technical inspection for roadworthiness. “As it stands, Ireland
is one of only a handful of EU states that doesn’t require any level of
roadworthiness testing for motorcycles,” he said.

Well maybe he could start by actually looking at the data and educating himself on how many motorcycle deaths / serious injuries are caused by mechanical failure.

I've been told about 3 weeks now.

Bike Magazine's bike of the year.

Guest tester Richard Hammond

Penny saved is a penny earned.

Why I never encourage anyone to start out on a bike. Rest in peace to them and all the others who passed away

I have a bike idiot. It's a personal opinion on a public forum. Get it?

Been on two wheels for 46 years and would be slow to encourage anyone having lost two classmates before they were 21. The consequences are horrible once anything goes wrong. BUT…. It’s so worth it in terms of pure enjoyment that middle aged me is happy to head out on a Sunday spin in tractor crawling, cowshit covered, random loose clippings blind bends rural Ireland. Anyone who has toured Europe (or indeed UK) knows how safe it is compared to at home. Another thread needed for that maybe. I think most on here have the experience to ensure they get back in one piece. I’m still learning…

Any decent way of planning a route on Google Maps?

I tried by adding stops but that seems to require updating the route at each stop which I don't want to haveto do.

I mean when the first stop is reached it stop navigating.

Have to stop and manually press something to continue