We Were Right All Along

[Robodene]

And the TDM still looks terrific in my opinion, as well doing so brilliantly. 

[leehenty]

Doggy, with the niner, you never worry about oil consumption. It never uses a drop between services. Just grease the bottom link once a year and you are good to go.

[Studley Ramrod]

Doggy, with the niner,
you never worry about oil consumption. It never uses a drop between services. Just grease the bottom
link once a year and you are good to go.

Fnar fnar

[leehenty]

To actually grease the bottom frame link, often results in hours of battle actually getting it out.

I'm still receiving counselling resulting from the ChrisR bottom link job 😁

[marko67]

To actually grease the bottom frame link, often results in hours of battle actually getting it out.

I'm still receiving counselling resulting from the ChrisR bottom link job

Obviously you should have gone dogging first.

[James]

Just the term ‘Adventure Bike’ p!sses me off these days. That and ‘wild camping’ and ‘wild swimming’. It’s camping and swimming FFS and ‘adventure’ is a state of mind not a sticker some manufacturer has put on a (usually inappropriate) bike. Bah!

 

I must be getting old.  :oldgit:

 

This post was last modified: 17-03-2022, 06:53 PM by James.

[fixitsan]

Just the term ‘Adventure Bike’ p!sses me off these days. That and ‘wild camping’ and ‘wild swimming’. It’s camping and swimming FFS and ‘adventure’ is a state of mind not a sticker some manufacturer has put on a (usually inappropriate) bike. Bah!

 

I must be getting old.  :oldgit:

 

 

I know of someone, as do most of us probably, who insist on fitting aluminium boxes to go out for a leisure run.

Empty boxes which add weight, wind resistance and width, and there's never anything in them, but that's what makes it an adventure apparently !

[marko67]

 

I know of someone, as do most of us probably, who insist on fitting aluminium boxes to go out for a leisure run.

Empty boxes which add weight, wind resistance and width, and there's never anything in them, but that's what makes it an adventure apparently !

Yeah, things have changed a lot. My best adventures were on a KMX 125 2t and later an XT350 with a haversack flapping off my back. Traveled the length and breadth of the UK in great discomfort loving every minute of it.

[leehenty]

 

I know of someone, as do most of us probably, who insist on fitting aluminium boxes to go out for a leisure run.

Empty boxes which add weight, wind resistance and width, and there's never anything in them, but that's what makes it an adventure apparently !

Usually BMW GSA wide load riders, but hey they are having an 'adventure'

[Snowbird]

A couple of guys I knew years back both had big bikes but one had an MZ250 he used for despaching and the other was given one of the real old MZ250's, he put a new plug in the oldie and it fired up, so he tried it for mot and it passed with a new bulb, needs a shakedown run he thought, so off they both went to prague on the MZ's, that's more like adventuring to me.

The same pair left their big bikes at home and went on a tour to italy on a pair of CG125's on the grounds that they wanted to see what they were passing instead of the scenery being a blur.

Not for me but you have to respect the attitude for sure, one of them is the editor of a bike travel magazine these days so at least he knows what he's talking about.

[TDrummer]

2022, Kawasaki went to the trouble of renaming their 35 year old single cylinder KLR 650 the "Adventure" and no mention. Kawasakis are cheap. No mention. Owning a KLR and a TDM. No mention. The KLR I crashed. Adventure!

[Snowbird]

I fancied a KLR650 many years ago, now I have a TDM I can't be arsed.

[fixitsan]

.

The same pair left their big bikes at home and went on a tour to italy on a pair of CG125's on the grounds that they wanted to see what they were passing instead of the scenery being a blur.

 

Wasn't one of these lads by any chance was it ?

Hats off to everyone who still does it .

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGyaj_HeLhw

[Snowbird]

No, early to mid nineties for the pair of reprobates I'm thinking of.

[madmopedracer]

love the small bikes so much more relaxed and you cant get a big one here as you have to sneak past a couple of gateposts

off road from the bottom of the rest and be thankful over the top looking down on ardlui loch lomond .

and i can afford it as 100mpg +

 

 

 

This post was last modified: 19-03-2022, 08:46 AM by madmopedracer.