Bmwdumptruck
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All back together looking nice n standard, but hopefully a lot more comfortable. Big ride tomorrow, need to get 5-600 miles on by Wednesday morning for first service. So either a run to Wales or Scarborough. 
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Where are you having your bike serviced? Flitwick Motorcycles did my first service and I intend to go back there.
Bmwdumptruck
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Fully booked all summer it seems..... so I’m booked into Moores in Hemel. I live less than a mile from FlitMC, but can rarley use them. They’re always too booked up, and for an mot they want the bike all day. I end up riding 19mile to Gardener and White in Stoke Goldington, often same day or just a day or twos notice as a rule.
Bmwdumptruck
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Bugger bugger bugger. Just fitted the brake light kit in the new givi topbox. Clicked it onto the rack, doesnt work
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got my tester out, contacts on the mount work. Clip box back on, try to test the contacts inside the box, slip and short across two contacts which are only a few mm apart. NO fuses blown, tested them all behind the side panels, but ive no sidelights or stoplight at all now. Feck, feck, feck. Any ideas guys. Totally gutted, not going anywhere now tomorrow.
.got my tester out, contacts on the mount work. Clip box back on, try to test the contacts inside the box, slip and short across two contacts which are only a few mm apart. NO fuses blown, tested them all behind the side panels, but ive no sidelights or stoplight at all now. Feck, feck, feck. Any ideas guys. Totally gutted, not going anywhere now tomorrow.
Bmwdumptruck
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Panic over, dead fuse found and top box wiring polarity corrected. All good now hopefully.
Bmwdumptruck
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Just got home a after 450 mile round trip from home up through Lincolnshire, over the Humber and up to Castle Howard and back. Bike runs great, really enjoyed it. Bums no worse than it would be on the Pan or GS, so I’d say the seats a success. I did remove the buffers for the return which also helped, so ill get a set of the short ones now. 
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Boris
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rode through Stoke Goldington this morning on the way to Olney for a coffee and chill out. Gardener and White has changed a lot over the past year or two.
Bmwdumptruck
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Yes, Paul bought the business a couple of years back. But he lost the showroom, offices and forecourt in the deal. The showroom has been demolished and the offices turned back into a cottage with another brand new cottage built in front on the old forecourt. Pauls got the two workshops, cars and bikes, Dane his mechanic and Kate in the new office; which I helped Paul create out of the old customer loos. He’s basically concentrating on Mot’s these days, cars and bikes.
Bmwdumptruck
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Ok so its had the first service. £188 . Bloody stealers know how to charge eh?? Apparently the6000 is more than double that. I ordered the short seat buffers while there along with a few other bits.
And this morning I tried the Touratech seat a mate lent me to try. Wish id fitted it Saturday, its night n day better, even after the mods i did to the original. Looks like im buying it next.
Off to the Scottish borders tomorrow for the weekend. That should see the remainder of running done.
. Bloody stealers know how to charge eh?? Apparently the6000 is more than double that. I ordered the short seat buffers while there along with a few other bits. And this morning I tried the Touratech seat a mate lent me to try. Wish id fitted it Saturday, its night n day better, even after the mods i did to the original. Looks like im buying it next.
Off to the Scottish borders tomorrow for the weekend. That should see the remainder of running done.
yen_powell
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I just bought the Sargent seats, they feel hard as rock, but they never seem to feel any worse as the ride goes on, where as the standard seat would start to niggle a bit after a while. I had the same thing with a Touratech seat I fitted to my Africa Twin donkeys years ago, solid as rock but never seemed to be uncomfortable.Ok so its had the first service. £188
And this morning I tried the Touratech seat a mate lent me to try. Wish id fitted it Saturday, its night n day better, even after the mods i did to the original. Looks like im buying it next.
Off to the Scottish borders tomorrow for the weekend. That should see the remainder of running done.
Bmwdumptruck
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The Touratech seat has only cost me £60.... but the base is damaged, the post next to the catch has been snapped off, and theres a couple of cracks around the area too. So after my borders weekend ill pop the cover and foam off and fibreglass it all back together.
I’m all loaded ready for an early start in the morning. Meeting a few mates, including the one that lent me his S10 to try, at 7am upthe A1 And then we’re off to Moffat for the weekend.
I’m all loaded ready for an early start in the morning. Meeting a few mates, including the one that lent me his S10 to try, at 7am upthe A1 And then we’re off to Moffat for the weekend.
a few years back we were in touratech head quarters in BAVARIA i bought both seats there and swopped them over in germany less than half the price at the time than the uk shop in swansea half hour away from me had them 5 yrs now stunning
Bmwdumptruck
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We’ll she’s certainly run in now. 1400miles done now I’m up here in the borders. What a tool, I’m in a group of 20bikes, mostly GSs, but getting regular comments of how well she goes and handles. 
Bmwdumptruck
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And with my mates one
She's a wolf in sheep's clothing. (And, I don't care who that makes mad)
Longdog Cymru
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Simply the most under-rated Adventure type bike on the market!
Bmwdumptruck
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One of the other lads took a cracking pic today
Bmwdumptruck
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So my trip to the Scottish borders added 1500 miles, taking it to 2200miles in 11days. Don’t think I’ve been so impressed with a bike so quickly, although the Pan European would have been pretty close; I did do 8000 miles on the first one the first year I had it. One niggle with this one though, the gear indicator is almost pointless, as it disappears with the clutch in, just when you need to know at a junction etc. It’s taken a wee while to get use to the extra gear, all my other bikes only have 5. As the weekend went on I found I was trying to pull away in second or third less often. Don’t suppose there‘s a fix that disconnects the clutch switch from the dash??
The OE Bridgestones have been better than I’d expected, most on ukgser call them ‘deathwings’ As yet I’ve not had to test they’re wet grip, so the jury’s out on them for a bit. But so far I’ve virtually no chicken strips, and have touched toes both sides and the hero blob on the left too. Things I don’t normally do on other bikes. Keeping off the A1 up and back has meant they’re wearing evenly too, my previous Bridgestone experience usually sees them squared off by 2000. It’ll get Conti Trail Attacks if I can afford them when needed, if not original Tourances as they’re a bargain atm. Been very happy with both in the past.
Time to go give it a first wash. And fit the shorter seat bungs I picked up from the dealer earlier today. A mate has offered a loan of an airhawk pad, so I’ll be heading to London one evening to collect it later in the week.
The OE Bridgestones have been better than I’d expected, most on ukgser call them ‘deathwings’
As yet I’ve not had to test they’re wet grip, so the jury’s out on them for a bit. But so far I’ve virtually no chicken strips, and have touched toes both sides and the hero blob on the left too. Things I don’t normally do on other bikes. Keeping off the A1 up and back has meant they’re wearing evenly too, my previous Bridgestone experience usually sees them squared off by 2000. It’ll get Conti Trail Attacks if I can afford them when needed, if not original Tourances as they’re a bargain atm. Been very happy with both in the past.Time to go give it a first wash. And fit the shorter seat bungs I picked up from the dealer earlier today. A mate has offered a loan of an airhawk pad, so I’ll be heading to London one evening to collect it later in the week.
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Bmwdumptruck
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Another pic from the same lad that took the previous action shot.
