BMW R1200RT/R1250RT Forum

Today we went up to Hideout Leather at Ashdon in Essex to get my leather (racing?) jeans sized down to fit me after shedding a bit of blubber! Horrible 2.5hr mostly-motorway drive up there with a lovely few miles of twisty C roads near the end. Hideout is aptly named, it’s a repurposed block of stab...

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5’10” (old age shrinkage from 6’) and now 12st from 13.5st last year. 34” waist and BMI is 24.1 The highest weight I’ve been was 14.5st after the Miners Strike, as we were working weird shifts and ate whatever was put in front of us as you never knew if/when the next meal would appear… consequently ...

You can only try your best… It’s what the phrase WTF! was designed for

I can understand the need for that, they are really close!

Time to get the bike ready for a ride. Before I get out on it,I've got to buy all new gear due to me weight loss,that is going to be painful. I know what you mean… I lost 1.5st on my wife’s low cholesterol diet after her blood test came back super-high. I’d just bought a Klim Marrakesh suit and had...

It was actually one of those rare warmish evenings with not much traffic, and really quite a pleasant ride out. That was based on the fact that I hit no dammed potholes, deer, or badgers, and it didn’t rain!

Very good bulbs though

EasyRider wrote: ↑Mon Apr 22, 2024 4:41 pm I just ride in the day time with Halo's and lower spots on on the RT, and just dipped beam (LED's) on my other bikes.

Me too, but I had the time and dry weather to go out on the bike one night, just to see how good the Cyclops were… highly impressed with them

I know this is an old thread but I recently took pics on a deserted main road of the low/high beam with my Cyclops LED converted lights plus a set of Clearwater Darla’s (with yellow lens fitted) that are set at 40% power on dipped and 100% on main beam. I’ll also add that I didn’t get flashed by any...

Steve398 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2024 4:58 pm Just had notification from BMW Motorrad Ins that they’re changing from Devitts to Atlanta, have to confess I’ve not heard of them.

It seems that Atlanta is part of the Ardonag group who also own Swinton and Carole Nash…

Hi Martin, this is an older thread that may be of help:

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That's intresting. I have a Hiatus Hernia as well. Had it for about 8 years, no one to tilt the bed up. Well all they told me was ah you have a Hiatus Hernia after taking the camera out.Still waiting for a call back.Lucky I have a full electric bed. I wait till the wife falls asleep then Fold the b...

This is the one, damned pricey for what it is, but she no longer suffers the crippling pains in her chest and back each morning.
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Because my wife suffers from a slipping hiatus hernia we we recently advised to lift the head of the bed at least 5”. As a more workable alternative we bought a Putnam mattress tilter which is a large wedge of foam that sits under the mattress and does the same job, but doesn’t put any stress on the...

I want to try Artie without any luggage. It just took me 20 mins to remove all the luggage and the King Charles ears (crash bars). Having had it all on from new to me (apart from when it was on the work bench) the ass end looks small. I've not tried it without the luggage yet, so going to try it on...