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Post by Deeps on May 22, 2016 19:27:57 GMT
So went to Wales today, look what I brought home.  |
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Post by teejayexc on May 22, 2016 19:34:01 GMT
Very nice Dave, enjoy.
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Post by Deeps on May 22, 2016 19:39:48 GMT
If you're not to busy, I might pop over Monday or Wednesday, before I go back to work.  ? Sent from my HTC One M9 using proboards |
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Post by m40man on May 22, 2016 19:40:06 GMT
Lovely! Enjoy  . |
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Post by teejayexc on May 22, 2016 20:18:57 GMT
If you're not to busy, I might pop over Monday or Wednesday, before I go back to work. ? Sent from my HTC One M9 using proboards Wednesday would suit, I'll be around. |
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Post by cam7777 on May 22, 2016 20:20:20 GMT
Love the Versys 1000, what a cracking bike.
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Post by leatherbabe on May 22, 2016 22:55:28 GMT
Cracking bike, Dave.
Looks all-singing, all-dancing.
Esp. love the extra lights 
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Post by bev on May 23, 2016 7:56:51 GMT
I really like the look of that. I don't like the extra lights I think they tend to dazzle oncoming traffic and give a false idea of the approaching speed at junctions. I've seen a couple of close ones during the winter (one was me) when I almost pulled out on a BMW GS fully lit up because it looked like a tractor at first glance. I kid you not. Luckily I realised tractors don't approach at 60+ but it could have been nasty. I should probably state that Tractors are more common than BMW GS's in Fife and that takes some doing. Fife is the only place I know where the newsagents have 10 different versions of tractor mags and 2 bike mags. |
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Post by GAv on May 23, 2016 8:16:27 GMT
Should have gone to spec ......
That said I very nearly came to grief when rounding a corner with a staggered junction on my very first road bike, a Suzy Wolf 125, and I could see around the corner over a hedge a John Deere at the end of a farm track and I thought he saw me as he seemed to stop then with a trailer pulled out, then he saw me as with both brakes locked the little bike went straight on and literally up the grassy bank , so I was looking down at him.
He looked a bit shocked and called up are you alright mate t'wit I said yes and we both proceeded on our various ways.
I had literally two accidents within 100 yards of that corner later on a Suzuki GT 185 and also within a few months of each one, plus the ignominy of it being a four wheeled Milk float, in the middle of nowhere out in the sticks, that pulled out after milky delivered whatever colour milk top jumped in the electric buggy and pulled right out in front of me.
I had dipped headlights in the early spring drizzle and had been looking forward to some warmer weather, and was doing all of 15MPH but like my recent incident over 40 years late , even at walking speed dropping a bike( the GTs electric start caught my ankle.
it did more damage to me than the previous off at higher speed, and on that previous occassion, a car was overtaking a van just before that corner and a Humber Sceptre that had pulled out of the right junction, opposite the tractor incident's Farm Lane,a bit carelessly and I were proceeding the other way, said Arrow Hunter Sceptre model stopped dead but I didn't,skidding on the shale after the roadchippings had collected aside the corner in the dip of the road and again with locked brakes it seemed to be speeding up and finally the bail out.
After a trip to the hospital when getting home the warm wet feeling in my arm was claret , for about a fortnight ever time I tried sleep all I could see was telegraph poles flashing by after that late summer spill, there wasn't really a viable alternative route to/ from work.
Had no such after effects this time, despite Morphine in Hospital, and even though I probably won't be riding it for a while as my leg knee are still quite painful, I am quite glad to be shot of that bike, despite it being down to me taking my eye off the ball.
a mate over the road not only encouraged me to go for it, you are only on this earth once, so why won't he buy my Mille he keeps on about, oh I know his missus, but as I do not have one of those can please myself.
he is gonna drive my car and trailer to pick up the 1000cc Cagiva( I have wanted one for a while)Raptor from Brentwood, now I gather The only way is Essex central.
There may well be a few bikes going begging in the fleet including the Yammie XJ 600, when I can get it together enough to get it re MOTD, Viva's due tomorrow.
Good riding on the Versey, very nice looking bike.
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Post by bev on May 23, 2016 9:38:08 GMT
I was engrossed in the story but I just couldn't get my head round telegraph poles flashing by at 15mph  |
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Post by GAv on May 23, 2016 12:10:17 GMT
Yes it was confusing I was referring to the first off as I was lining up to accelerate and overtake the Humber as after the corner you could see a good distance however that view was taken up by a young kid in a white escort overtaking a white van, and was doing a bit more than 15 when the lady driver in the Sceptre jammed on her brakes & stopped dead . Fortunately I wasn't as I baled off the bike before making contact with the solid chrome Humber bumper.
Now did I tell you how several CWT of tatties finished up all over the road after I tried to stop a Ford 5000 in eighth with 6 ton of King Edwards in a four wheel Weeks trailer, after failing to secure the bar that links the two wheel rear brakes, it jackknifed and also ran up the grassy bank depositing the newly harvested potatoes, the idea it was undone so that at the end of a field you could spin the tractor trailer on a sixpence, no one told me that the bar had to be slotted in but I found out next morning in no uncertain way, when the foreman came to pick me up in a Landrover( being young and feckless, I didn't say anything about the incident, even though the missing rear by cycle lights we used to lash on had also dissapeared) what stupid **** did tha..?...
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Post by Deeps on May 23, 2016 12:27:48 GMT
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Post by bev on May 23, 2016 13:31:42 GMT
Bev, I wasn't so keen on the lights myself, but this bike came up a little earlier that I was planning to change, but it was definitely the right price so I went for it. Good job I did as while we were having lunch after doing the money thing and paperwork the owner got 2 calls offering the full! asking price. But it's the bike I wanted, with the boxes and top box, for my Germany trip next year. and in the colour I like best so guess the lights stay, I don't dislike them enough to bother taking them off. The 130 mile ride home yesterday was fun. A real revelation after the Xj900. ? Sent from my HTC One M9 using proboards I wouldn't have missed it for the sake of the lights either. Looks a beautiful bike and I really like the colour. If you got it for the right price it's spot on.
The ride will be streets better than the D9 (I'll get banned again )
I like D9's but the design is old and the difference when you get on a better bike is amazing if a little more engaging. The D9 covers you for a few mistakes where other bikes will not be so forgiving.
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