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Indian oil is ridiculously expensive, I was going to buy some and change it in the FTR but looking at the cost of it they can get stuffed, I’ll use a diff brand.

I was tempted, I’m fairly tall ( although not as tall as Marcel or Bucky obviously ) and probably the XR would be a better fit with a bit of fiddling, but for some reason I do enjoy the naked bikes.

Black, what other colour is there?

Just bought a BMW S1000R ( used) which is certainly fun to ride. I need some bar risers to raise the bars a little as the riding position is a bit far forward for me. Lovely engine… Also looked at the XR too which looked nice, just not sure I’m ready for a bike with luggage just yet. Maybe next time. Lots of instructions to read …

Watched the eclipse yesterday from the top of a large nearby hill, along with hundreds of other who had the same idea. It’s on a small country road- going back to the car people who had turned up later than us and couldn’t squeeze onto the grass verge just stopped and abandoned their cars in the middle of the road.

Do you need any form of oscillation damper on the hitch (ive never towed anything except in a tractor, but there are plenty of YouTube clips of caravans doing alarming things)...

meh, my money was on an Indian....

Rescue my car - only used once but if you call them a second time for the same vehicle they as for a copy of proof of repair for whatever was wrong. My fake cobra broke down on the garage forecourt whilst awaiting an MOT a couple of years ago, garage were clueless as it has things like a distributor and a carb, they gave me the number of a local recovery chap who arrived within 30 mins and was half the price of the nationals. The frustrating thing was it was only 400m from home.

You seem to have fitted a barbecue behind the back seat.

Does it have image stabilisation? If not then the place with the least vibration the better otherwise it's unwatchable. A lot of action cams have built in software to take out the vibration but you can also do it with processing software afterward. The image stabilisation on the likes of GoPro and Insta is very good.

I found a right hand stand for mine. On the std side stand the oil dribbled past the rings and it smoked like crazy on start-up. Looks a bit odd in a line of other bikes tho

Wish we'd get some rain down here... You'd be welcome to use my garage Iain, but seems a long way to come, and you'd need to get it here.

I rode around the isle of white with a bunch of mates last week, as usual I didn't take any photos of my bike - have to see if anyone else did ...

What he said ^^^^. Until recently I had a load of points on my licence but was hoping the the premium would go down after the came off my licence but its not changed.

Felt fine when I rode it. Stops reasonably well considering its age. I know the right mirror is missing, couldn’t be bothered to refit it.