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I wasn't sitting in this heat with the engine running, didn't occur to put it in gear (avoids embarrassment restarting!) still holding the brake on kept me awake!


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So here I am, touring Norway, left Bergen this morning heading towards Trolsteigen a few miles off a ferry when I see a sign saying yet another tunnel has works which means a delay... guess what I pull into the queue behind! A can am. As I've said before not my bag BUT as the wait extended to 15 min...

Sullivj wrote: That's quite some nail - I wonder what the collar is for..


Out of interest, did you get a warning from the TPS before you felt that it was flat?

I always get the TPS warning once made it home on a tyre repaired 4 times, 2 up and loaded for touring!


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Mine is washed after every wet ride but the rust came from under the coating. Rust built in. I used so much acf didn't stop it


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USB power socket in top box, if you set it to auto set the alarm allow it to lock the cases too. I have the powered cubby hole (2014 recall someone paid for the radio!) only just fits an iPhone se they don't seem to have realised phones have grown! Other than that... massaging seat for longer journe...

Definitely get guards, wish mine had arrived a week earlier (


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Ferry up and bridges back through Denmark so we can pay respects to Allan Simonsen the fastest GT driver I've ever worked with an taken too soon at Le Mans


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https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170701/7243c7f8ed38a8c8ded3788a01d6a111.jpg 2 long days, one more tomorrow when I wake up in Gothenburg and ride north past Oslo then the fun really starts! https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170701/f6f2fd358a35870d353388cc7fc5204b.jpg Sent from my iPhone using Ta...

It's a perspective thing (glass half empty/full) I found it amusing and eye opening to read I'd always thought of it from the view of: none of the advantages of a bike and none of a car but like I say perspective. When I built and drove a kit car I saw only the positives whilst others saw the downsi...

Last minute packing and (hopefully) an early night ahead of the Norway tour starting tomorrow with a hop to Antwerp!


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I wouldn't have any qualms other than those with buying any thing new!


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Norway is very expensive on top of which I'm paying for food & room for both of us, Europe where room costs are shared with my brother, we usually fill up on breakfast and have coffee & cake in the day plus evening meal maybe a couple of beers - September is a good time for costs, I paid fer...

In 2014, for my brothers birthday, we did uk, tunnel, France, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Italy (Stelvio) France (Milau viaduct then med. coast), Pyrenees Spain & back via Santander ferry 8 days one of which was sat on the ferry. Not only that but we were 4 bikes: Pan, Tiger 800, CBF...

That's over 220 miles per day! You ain't gonna see a lot of the country..... :( At least 5 hours riding a day then breaks....... This is the trip with my wife, we'll get a flavour and she wants a few days off the bike just the price you have to pay. September is a week of Switzerland & Austria ...

Near cheddar in Somerset, doing the Keil to Gothenburg overnight in the way there and Malmo bridge on the way back. 4000+ miles all told


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