@@chrisgreen1094 happy new year mate, yeah I've been AWOL. Plus side of getting your bike in April is the weather should be much better by then, sounds like a good deal too.

@ Happy New Year to you too. I was hoping to get it ASAP and use it on some of the better winter days. I’m going to chuck some knobbly tyres on it and go ride some of the green lanes.

Track days

How often do you do something like ? Track days are not exactly cheap either We also have a track in Germany that you Go on the Autobahn at full speed ahead for free😎🤣

@@user-kricks yeah upset a few fragile people.

@@delroymckoy5470 obviously didn't watch the full video.

@@JimDiesel71😂

The classic riding position is good. However, if you're six foot plus, you might suffer with your back after a few hours.

Because a lot of cars are manufacured in the EEC then imported, and if we want to get out of the economic mess this country is in we really need to consider being able to sell products to those EEC countries and what's more the if you want to get on the ferry and drive the amazing roads they have in the EEC your vehicle must meet or exceed their regulations just as there vehicles do to come here. If your vin plate starts with T, U, V, W, Z and some with S it's Been manufactured in Europe and imported. Plus everyone else who sells vehicles, actually almost anything, wants to sell them to Europe so from a manufacturing, selling and traveling point of view it's just a lot cheaper and easier for everything to be harmonised. One reason some vehicle brands disappeared in the UK is they simply didn't meet the safety criteria, some were shockingly bad. But I suppose you like having to modify your vehicle and then have it type approved every time you want to go to Europe and then come back? Seriously just think how complicated it could become if something like reverse and rear fog lights were not harmonised, this is why most cars have two fog lights and two reverse lights. A vehicle would need extra wiring work done then it would need a different set of lights or an additional light bolted to the body work.

I was going to agree that I hadn't either until I remembered riding my niece's 125 once which does have EFI & ABS so I can't but none of my 3 bikes does so for regular riding I don't. Not sure whether or not I miss the ABS, I don't miss the EFI at all. I may well have lights on during the day especially if it's a bit dull but they are not running lights. I do wonder about the obsession with quickshifters though for road use. Clutchless upshifts have been possible for years and saving a precious tenth of a second on a gearchange on the road seems rather pointless. Useful on a track day perhaps but on the road seems like just another gizmo that will break. And can we please have at least one new bike that isn't a 270 degree crank parallel twin. I know they are dirt cheap to make and easier to meet the emission regs with, but come on, show some imagination occasionally. and give the punters some genuine choice. I know bikes don't sell in the numbers that they used to, but for example 50 years ago if I wanted a new 750, I would have the choice of choosing a parallel twin, or a v-twin, or a boxer twin, or a triple, or a two stroke triple, or an in-line four, or even an in-line six. Today more than back in the days of yore, what I want a bike for, dictates the engine I can have even if in theory deciding on a "middleweight" gives me the option of a single or a parallel twin (270 bloody degree crank), a triple or even a four (providing I can persuade my creaking frame onto a supersport of course). Grumble over.

@marcuslawler3196 No way, I'm not Switching to the Dark Side.

@BikesBeardsAndBrews Yeah I'm terrible at names mate 😬