Sir Fallsalot

That's my thoughts on it although there is an exception in my view and that's the one bike to do it all on scenario, where you can only afford or got room for one bike therefore you buy a bike aimed at what you do most like touring and then make do on what you use it least for. What i cant get my head around is buying a big adventure bike to ride tough technical terrain all the time. The CRF Facebook group is full of that type and they think you bought the wrong bike if you don't go off road with it and they are the vast minority the majority use it for road riding

Loads of fucked up bikes you mean never been off road or submerged in a river

The bike is capable but i bought it for touring just couldn't bring myself to drag it through the crap around here when there's so many better bikes for it. People keep saying their big dirt bikes but to me a big dirt bike is something like a Husky 701, it's a travel bike something you can ride through rough terrain if you come across it when touring. People are being sold a lie in my opinion. Manufacturers stick a world class rider on their product and then make an advert showing what he can do and the gullible think buying the bike will enable them to ride like him

Same here with my CRF1000 only dirt that will see is getting in and out of a camp field or the type of gravel road you could ride on any road bike.

So what your saying is the no point lockdown you protested about has actually worked

Are you feeling ok this is the kind of comment that uncouth bastard @XTreme would pick up on

That's great news for the cost it wasn't worth bothering doing it yourself.

If i organise a ride i try to limit it to six but no real rule about numbers its up to the event organiser. We started off as seven and met Sarah and her fella on route taking us to nine. There was another group of about six left at the same time on the same route but in the opposite direction we didn't cross paths again that day with the other group

No different Sarah, his Sarah wasn't out she has a lowered CRF300L

Too bloody hot to ride it hit 30.5c here head is feeling a bit crispy after working on her car today

wish i was there Clive i was first introduced to ELO back in the 80s when i used to get a lift to work off a guy in a Citroen CX who was into ELO didn't know how much he influenced my life until a few years ago

Just about to go out to watch a band at a club something i haven't done since before covid hopefully wont be like this later

Yes Sarah Savage

Yup i picked up five part worn front tyres for the trail bikes, four of them were almost new still had the little hairs on them for £5 each and only about 3 miles from me

Sorry @yen_powell but i still think of this every time you mention getting that removed

Bloody hell i use one of those for drawing wires through conduit

That's why i said to put the live onto all four remaining cables one at a time to find the return, didn't want to overload him with too much info

I only know him because he's a member of the TRF. I've bumped into him on a few rides seems like a nice guy in person, he's really enjoying the bikes both on and off road

There's also the Montessa Honde 4ride lighter than a fag paper but kickstart only and seat height might be a little high https://www.honda.co.uk/motorcycles/range/off-road/montesa-4ride/specifications.html

They also do a beta alp 4.0 with the old DR350 engine i believe https://www.motorcyclespecs.co.za/model/Beta/beta_alp4.htm

No he had me with him it was his ride

Don't get me started I've already been winging about the price of parts especially OEM brake pads