Back in the fold!

Hi Folks,

That's one thumbs up, and one more reason to do it 

I've just spoken with Griff and he's of the same opinion....except for my bad back and age....my eyes have written cheques that my body may not be able to cash, but that's what painkillers and back braces are for LoL!

the rsv looks really good, even has a task disc holder on it haven't seen one of them in ages, i reckon that arrow will be loud enough to wake the dead.

Looks a gudun bud 

Bladerunner919 wrote: And rearsets that lower the pegs, which I'll be doing soon. As an aside, I've been toying with the idea of a 1200GS as a commuter for my Berkshire to London ride - how would you rate it for that sort of thing?

redratbike wrote: you can always fit some raised clipons to help out  but that looks stunning

Yep, I rode a 1260 Enduro Multistrada at Ducati's invite when they did their superbike tour a few years back.  Impressed with upper mid and top end shove and handling, but I found it ridiculously tall (taller than my GSA ) and it had very little grunt under 4K revs making it easy to stall around town.

If I had one, I'd ride it 

Yep they need to be used a bit if not what's the point

Castle Coombe is the nearest track to me but alas the arrow pipe on the "new" Mille would preclude it from a few miles off 

Yes, we were up near Silverstone a week or so ago.  Two hour drive.  Castle Combe is perfect venue-wise and is a fast track too....just a shame only sewing machines are permitted these days due to complaints form retired chocolate box house owners nearby (who always knew they were buying next to a race track).  Reminds me of some blow-ins close to here complaining about the "smells" coming from adjacent farms and about farm traffic on local roads!  I'd rather see a tractor than the groups of lycra wearing bicyclists who infest local roads here in summer/autumn. They have become a real danger here both to themselves and other road users.

I wasn't track daying unfortunately.  I have had more angry encounters with dangerous prats in lycra than I care to remember so am now blanket prejudiced the whole flipping lot of them.  Single riders out for exercise or commuting are no bother at all, it's the groups of privileged club riders which cause the trouble.  Never ride in split groups making it impossible to overtake on some roads and passing a large group a while back I sounded the horn to let them know I was passing only to have one deliberately pull out and try and block me whilst I was doing 50mph past them in a wide berth.  He strayed onto the opposite carriageway to block me and almost got wiped out as a result, the utter cnut!  Would have served him right had he been hit.  Got it all on dash cam and should have gone to the police but they're so ineffective they'd have done nothing so didn't bother.  Just gave him an almighty verbal bollocking and left it at that.