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That's crazy! Maybe this is why Honda are doing this preregistration thing, to guage interest before the orders come in?

We're on a water meter, so I was keen to investigate the leak, but it turns out that it wasn't the mains water.

Phew, I was getting worried that you'd died or something!

It was like that when I bought my CB500X. The delivery date kept getting pushed back. In the end that was around 4 months after the order was placed.

I'm guessing that it's going to be the same here too.

Finally managed to stop the water leak in our front garden. It was leaking from the garden watering system. Switching off the mains water supply didn't seem to have any effect. We found out that it was also supplied from well water pumped from one of our neighbours garden, but we didn't know where it was coming into our garden. I eventually tracked it down to a pipe which appeared from the neighbours garden, under a fence and buried in a hedge on the opposite side of our garden from where the leak was. It was coming through in a 1" black plastic pipe and then splitting off to go to the watering system and a standpipe. I couldn't see any way of isolating it, so I bought an inline plastic tap assy and a pair of plastic pipe shears and cut the pipe close to where it comes into the garden. Wasn't easy, as the water was still being pumped, but I managed to cut the pipe and fit the tap without getting too drowned! Hopefully this will keep our neighbour on the other side quiet now, as she tackled me about the leak every time she saw me, even though the leak was on my garden not hers!

Managed to get out on a cycle ride this morning. First one since my op. It wasn't as painful as I was expecting!

I've never had a v-strom, but the 650 seems to have a good following and reputation for reliability.

Yeah, I saw that suzuki UK are offering a £500 discount on the 650s if you take a test ride and then order one. Not sure if that will happen here, but I'll be looking out.

I don't think that carrying a pillion is going to be too often, but it needs to be available when the need arises. Given the state of some of our local roads, I think that the Tracer 7 & 9 are probably a little too road focused. I've looked at the v-strom 650 and 800 at the local dealers. The 800 was a bit heavy. The 650 wasn't bad, but is looking a bit dated now, however, the XT version hasn't been discounted completely. I sat on a Tenere 700. It was like sitting on the top of a step ladder! Even I, at 6'1", was on tip toes! No way could Mandy climb on board that! And it's not really meant for pillions, even though it has pillion pegs.

It's a good bike, Pete, but the range isn't great and it's no good for a pillion, so I may see if anything else fits the bill better.

Just don't do it again!

I'm looking at a few bikes, Pete, but I need to try them out before making any kind of decision.

That was a really scary incident @Slowlycatchymonkey, I'm glad that you lived to tell the tale.

Maybe some can't get to dealers and don't want to waste a long journey only to find out that that there's a waiting list?

That's interesting. I've not visited any of the local Honda dealers recently, so they may well have demonstrators in. I'll have to check them out.

You'd want to at least sit on one before pulling the trigger? I know that there are big delays in the production of new vehicles, so maybe it's to give them an idea of demand before going into full scale production?