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Hi to all, I am a biking mature student doing research into bike safety for my PhD. That is I get to ride around asking questions and get a small sum of money...
Hi Guys, Just wondering if anybody can help me, i need new tyres and have had two totally conflicting recommendations. the guy selling the Conti road attacks...
Hello Don't know anything about the tyres your being offered, but from previous threads I have read, the Bridgestone BT 020 seem to get the riders vote, I ...
Hi, have just bought a 2nd hand deauville and have bought a givi topbox on e-bay. however getting varied answers from dealers as to which fitting to use to put...
Hi, Just thought I'd say Hi to the group. My name's Ken from Edinburgh and I've just passed my Direct Access course at the age of 46...well, what's a mid-life...
Congrats! I bought a new Deauville in January as a stablemate for my 1500 Goldwing and so far I've not been disappointed, it's a great bike that is not really ...
Hello Ken, Welcome! Mid life crisis? How many 96 year olds do you know? (LOL!) Also did my DAS this year at age 46! Done 4500 miles on my Deauville since then,...
Hello Ken, Welcome to the world of motorcycles :-) What was it that made you in 'middle age' (!) decide to take up biking? How do you hope to see yourself...
Hi Barry, Well, that's the deposit and my insurance premium paid, so I guess I've been and gone and done it! I used to have a little Honda-50 some years ago...
Hi Niall, I'm a grandfather, and ride like one - if I get my knee down it's unlikely that I will be coming back up......! And most of my 50k on a Deauville has...
Hi All, Just thought I'd relate my recent Spanish trip to you. Set off on the tuesday night down to the Channel Tunnel to get the 1:30am (wed)train. I live in...
Hi Barry, I did the Pyrenees route via Pau and into Spain towards Huesca. As I didn't get to Pau till 4:30pm, I wanted to get to Zaragoza for the night so...
Colin, The Picos is a favourite of mine. I was there again in May this year, after a gap of 5 years and I was surprised how 'gentrified' the road had become -...
Hi Barry, I was in the Picos about 4 years ago and enjoyed it alot. Your trip sounds a good one, maybe I'll think on that. Actually, I always go to Spain...
... & > O or Brittany ferries? I wasn't aware there was any other that went > there instead of Bilbao. . ... Sorry Colin, I intended to say Plymouth to...
Wow....You guys are making me feel like i have not lived cos you all seemed to have lived all of my dreams on a motorbike. Pity i got my DVille late in the...
Ray, I suspect that it is just a matter of time - speaking for myself, I have been at it rather a long time. That of course means that I have rather less...
Talking about trips abroad, I rode to Sardinia in Sept and on the return I lost th e road toll ticket from Genoa - great Italian kerfuffle and much waving of...
Hi all I've noticed a problem when maintaining about 70 (5k rpm) on the motorway, the engine seems to 'miss a beat', sometime 3 or 4 beats on the trot. It...
Hi Ken, I used to have something similar - although never thought of trying different fuel types. My solution was to adjust the mixture screw much further...
Hi Everyone, I'm envious. Here in OZ we have no equivalent of your continental excursions although we do have plenty of space without crossing any borders. Do...
Hi Neil I use a GIVI 52ltr top box (which if anything is a bit too big). The problem is that here in the Northen Hemisphere we have to allow for almost arctic...
Hi gang, I wondered if one of you could give me an answer to this. Someone has given me a set of the fairing lowers but no bolts. My question is do they fit...
