@@maximusthemartian8897 k&n is washable, never heard of BMCC

Cheers mate, yes the bike is running well

Cheers mate

Thanks Michelo, all the best to you and your family for 2025

Cheers Nige, my wife is the same when it comes to servicing 🤣🤣🤣

@BMCMOTOUK 🤣🤣 to be honest mate, I'd sooner have a good shit these days

I’d rather have a cup of tea 🍵 🤣🤣🤣

Thank you mate. In all honesty, this device is an absolute game changer! The racetorx really stiffens up the gear linkage and takes away the slack which practically eliminates false neutrals. This device will also dramatically reduce wear on the gear shifter and it’s the best mid I’ve done to this bike. Highly recommend it!

Amazing!! Thanks a lot! Ride safe

You too mate 🏍️

Hi Michael and that’s a bloody good point! In all fairness, when we have our panniers on we always have kit in it, usually waterproofs etc lol. Hope you and your family have a great Christmas too

@ Sean, I knew that’s what you were going to come back with, you’re right we make use of ours. I’m going to make a video about the top box I bought for the R1250R, ordered the bloody thing from Italy. GIVI advertised their latest Limited Edition with Special White metallic paint, a pillion pad and stop light /indicators with charging socket pre installed. The market price is around £380 though I paid £320, on top of that UK customs charged £86 VAT ☹️ It arrived sparkling white with pillion pad but no bloody electrics 🤬 Should have bought a Shad for around half the price. Still once they see my false advertising video I recon they’ll regret misleading people.

I look forward to seeing that video Michael. As soon as you said “Italy” I knew there would be a customs comment, that’s catching a lot of folk out. The panniers are useful on the bike and we do make full use of ours and they aren’t just for show and they also give the bike a better road presence lol. These nuggets you see with the roof boxes on their BIG cars are purely for show and I can guarantee you all they have in them is fresh air and don’t get me started on roof tents. I still see a lot of cars in the city with these hideous things on their roofs, I bet after the soggy damp winter their tents will smell like a damp dog lol

I was aware of the VAT so I expected it, though I notice some Italian companies now stating they give an invoice showing VAT charged. I assume this way there’s no extra cost to the consumer. It’s funny how E.U. goods are available for sale here with no added cost , including German cars and motorcycles. I was considering the BMW panniers but they’re very expensive. I may opt for the Oxford soft panniers which are two tone ( blue and white) and would match the bike better. The only two videos showing the Limited edition GIVI top box both state the pre installed electrics. That’s what justified the extra cost to me, I even planned to drill my mounting plate to accept the wiring connection. They don’t even have electrics available as an accessory 😠😤

I don’t I’m afraid but there is little clips that you need to push in I believe to get the inner weights out.

lol, I’d say your more of a roof tent man 🤣🤣🤣

@@BMCMOTOUK I'm not shallow, but if it's trendy - I want it 😂

Would love to see you scoot through London with a roof tent on your rack, you would give these just eat creatures a run for their money. Maybe start a new moto trend? 🤣

Cheers Dan, ah yes the good old map reading days. Like you I’d plan my route the night before with notes on which roads to take and where to turn. Nowadays it’s all sat nav and the concentration levels of drivers is non existent! Hope all goes well at the Docs

Thanks Nige, our weather up here has took a turn and currently getting blasted with wind 😔

Hi Derek, we ended up in McDonald’s that day as a lot of places were closed lol

Cheers mate and thanks for watching!

Cheers mate!

Hi mate and thanks for your comment. This set up was home made. The rack is a standard Givi rack and the kriega plates were mounted to the rack using hydraulic pipe clamps which held the lomo soft bags very securely, in fact they didn’t move throughout the trip and I covered 3500 miles! With the lomo bags there is a strap to connect them that runs over the seat but in all fairness it’s just belt and braces. The lomo bags were threaded through the slots on the Kreiga plates. The plates weren’t cheap but well worth it and no additional holes were needed as the holes to line up with the brackets and the pannier frame lined up spot on. If I get a chance over the winter I’ll make a short video on this set up. After the tour I removed the pannier rack but left the frame in place to allow me to keep the top box as this bike is just a commuter bike for me now. All the best, Sean.

Oh to answer your question about the weight, 20lbs would probably be your limit as you need to consider the stability and also the more weight you carry the more fuel you’ll use. I averaged about 62mpg on this trip when the bike was fully loaded.

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Cheers Dave, the bike rides are great and I love exploring old and new places but I really do need to get back on the minis. When working on vehicles all week it’s just nice to put the spanner’s down and go for a ride out on the bike. I’m free for a video chat tonight if you are!

Cheers Derek! My Honda was put into storage last month so it’s just the GSX that’s still on the road but it’s not been out for a few weeks and probably won’t be out until next year now. The old BMC site here is long gone and the only thing that remains is the street names which were named after vehicles that the BLMC made. After the plant shut down the BLMC would store thousands of cars on the site then they were distributed to the dealerships up here

Cheers Nige! Salt is everywhere now so I don’t think we’ll be getting out much now plus it’s bloody cold lol. Hope you’re well mate!

@@BMCMOTOUK Only one place for salt, on ya fish and chips!😉😉

Absolutely correct Nige 👌

Cheers Dan, it’s cold 99% of the year so we always have our full kit on lol

Cheers John, yes that was a chilly ride out, I bet you were glad that you were working that day lol. If you need a hand fitting the bits and bobs just give me a shout 👍

Cheers mate! This was a hell of a cold ride out but we didn’t care as it got us out for a few hours and more miles on the bikes 👌

I call it “the twisted arsehole” I’ve had many BL cars over the years from Austin Cambridges, Morris Oxfords to Morris Marinas and Austin minis. I’ve still got 2 old minis, one is 1977 Austin and the other is a 1989 Rover mini thirty 😃

@@BMCMOTOUK Oh I once replaced the worm thing that drives the window wipers on an old mini, pig of an engine to work on 😂

@BeansOnToast_YT there’s not a lot of room under the bonnet of the old minis, plenty of scuffed knuckles lol

@@BMCMOTOUK Exactly, putting the engine sideways like a crab, and it's useless trying to be a hand model when working on those engines.🙁

@BeansOnToast_YT and don’t forget about banging your head on the bonnet lol

Totally agree Toastie. I think they all suffer from FOMO 🤣

@@BMCMOTOUK Yep, get a lot of longing looks from blokes trapped in cages wishing they'd not given up bikes. They know in their hearts that they've now sunk so low as to end up as merely just obstacles to me on the great obstacle road race of life. Perhaps I may have overthunk this😂

@BeansOnToast_YT yes they like to be trapped in their expensive cars going absolutely nowhere showing it off but they are the silly ones paying up a flash car on pcp/hp while it’s deprecating like a rock dropping while we are scooting about on a motorcycle and actually making progress lol

@@BMCMOTOUK The really good thing is the EV cars. Poor things desperately trying to make it home before they depreciate to zero ending in negativity equity 😂

Our works vans are EVs and with this cold weather the batteries run down very quickly. Thankfully we have superchargers in our depot so they quickly fill again. None of us like them so I hope our next vans are dirty diesels again. Can’t wait to see how crap they are in the snow lol

Oh god Nige send some of the 80c up here and stop being greedy with it lol. We were out to Callander yesterday and it was a tad chilly. No rides today as I had the car to fix but as soon as the sun fecked off the ice moved in 😒

Cheers Dunc, yes it was a tad chilly that day and we were out again yesterday to Callander and that was even colder but we wrapped up for that one lol. That Kirk really us awesome, I used to play in there when I was a kid lol

Cheers Michelo, it’s getting colder up here now and we managed a ride out yesterday but our days are seriously numbered now before the really cold weather hits

Thank you!

Cheers Dan, as you know our winters are cold and wet. I don’t mind the cold, it’s the salt and ice I can’t stand lol

Hi and thanks for watching. In all honesty I didn’t notice any difference in induction sound. I have a K&N on my car too and again I haven’t noticed any difference in sound

Thanks Michelo! Glad you had a good time in Milan

Thanks Johnny, yes it certainly is a nice cafe and there’s nothing better than having lunch with a beautiful view

Thanks Michael, I’m a stonemason to trade and these old stone structures will outlast any concrete monstrosities. You’re spot on on the ugliness of todays structures, how they get away with it it beyond me but I guess they are cheap to build and don’t require much skill…

Hi Derek, we do have some nice roads here once you escape the cities. That viaduct is probably almost a mile long, it’s just a small one

Yes your right about empty and busy roads Nige, we sort of win in both situations lol re Alex’s plate, I’m not sure how old it is other than I’ve known of it for the last 25 years lol. Alex has many private plates on retention.

Cheers mate, yes I much prefer the tranquility of the countryside over the shambles of our cities. Thanks for watching

Thanks Alan, the borders is a lovely place to ride out to. Lots of cracking scenery to take in

Very true Dan lol

@@michelod.i.y.5202 if all goes to plan I’m hoping to get out a ride on Sunday but I’ll need to tax one of the bikes 🙁

@BMCMOTOUK don't tax the bike, the weather will change 😅

Cheers Michael, not a back catalogue video, more of a revisit and the cafe is most certainly worth the trip!

@@Tojj29 cheers Nige, the Scottish Borders is a lovely place to visit. I don’t think d fancy living in that house on the bend, especially with our rapidly degrading drivers these days! Re the plate on Alex’s bike, this is just one of his many private plates.

Thanks Graham, yeah it’s not a bad road and the cafe at the Loch is a great place to have a brew and bite to eat 👌

Fantastic story and thanks for watching. The test is a lot different now. My car/ bus and HGV tests were just driving and answering a couple of questions but the bike test, that was a bit of nonsense to be honest. 3 parts to gain your licence? I understand that we need safe and competent drivers but the bike test could easily be done in one go. A lot of my friends done the same test as you but I was late to the party so had to do the theory/ mod 1 & 2. Fortunately I passed all 3 first time!

@@BMCMOTOUKI managed to fail my first attempt at a test not so much fail as not be allowed to sit it. Instead,of Edinburgh whose list for tests was pretty long I booked it in Galashiels. Typical teenager I never thought to check how long it would take to get there, where the test centre was and of course arrived late. This very angry examiner marched out of the test centre gave me a lecture on punctuality handed me a fail sheet and walked off. Of course I then had to go on the Edinburgh list I didn’t want to meet him again.

I failed my first driving test in the car as a dog ran out well in front of me and much to the examiner’s dismay I didn’t hit the brakes as there car up my arse plus it was my Dads car. He screamed and shouted at me (must have been a dog lover) and I just told him to shut the fcuk up. Needless to say I failed so went to Sighthill to do my next test where I passed

Hi mate and thanks for watching. The oil capacity on this machine is 3 litres so I would have used a smidge less than that when carrying out the oil change. It has the capacity stamped on the engine case which a nice touch and saves you from having to look it up

Cheers mate, I have more filtering stuff but need to re edit them as theres too much swearing in them