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I keep a record of major expenditures in the form of keeping receipts much too long until they become clutter and I throw them out. Otherwise I keep meticulous records of maintenance done, parts used. and mileage, but not prices paid for oil, filters, and brake pads etc. not even tyres. As for...

Brand new bike on gravel? I dunno. Well....maybe...after it's not so new any more :unsure:

Can't quote specs right now and can't be bothered to look them up, but I'm sure that when I read about the 250 V Strom some time ago, my first thought was at that weight, you might just as well have the 650 version, there's so little difference.

If I had misgivings before, now Dan's quip about changing the 'J' to a 'G' is something that had never entered my mind. "I think I'd better think it out again" :oops:

So, my beautiful 3cyl Triumph 1050 is gone :cry: And with it has gone the trepidation every time I battled to wheel it backwards out of the garage or wobble through the traffic crawl of robots and stop streets. Also gone, that wickedly seductive surge, and giving an earful of Yoshimuira to those...

The good old days were the best of times, but the winter morning commute was the worst of times! Pre full face helmets, and of course no screen or fairing because that just wasn't the rocker style. The trouble was the thick early morning fog which meant you couldn't use a visor or goggles, so it...

Yeah, lighter bike, got to happen for sure. Can't keep paying for expensive plastic repairs after dropping my bike in the garage because my muscles have atrophied. Or coming to a wobbly halt at robots and stop signs focussing on planting my feet wide and firm to avoid falling on the car stopped...

You see, humankind just never learn from Their observations. What happened to all the mammoths? They sank into the marshes because they were too frikkin heavy.

But why do you want to access the mechanical and electrical parts for maintenance? Never mind all that, just look at all the lovely new plastic bits we've added! 😍

Well, Harley did climb into bed with another Wop manufacturer for a while, Aermachi so who knows maybe they also had a brief flirtation with MV Agusta?

Erm, that Harley V4. Yeah, Harley did make a V4 prototype but that bike in the pic isn't it. That's a straight inline motor, unless my poor old eyes have finally gone totally wonky. 😵‍💫

Just caught up with the thread. Best of luck with the outcome, Dan.

I can concur about the ridiculous price for a minor plastic repair and respray. My Triumph "fell over" in the garage and now I have to pay up for a professional job because I have to sell it. No choice, on the brink of turning 80 I just don't have the muscles to handle it any more. But...

I wonder how many workshops or dealers drain oil out of a customer's bike that's cold after standing and waiting it's turn for a service? :unsure: And how many bother tipping the bike this way and that, and all the other tricks to get out the last dregs?

For how long now have WD's been trying that particular tactic? It doesn't work 🥱

It's brought back a long forgotten memory from when I was just a wee laaitie. There was a traffic circle, we called it a roundabout, smack in the middle of our village and our house was right next to it. One summer's evening there was a horrendous grinding of metal and a crash. we all rushed out...

I don't normally dwell very much on thoughts about accidents, but reading this thread must have affected me because instead of moving on I've sat here for about 10 minutes in sober contemplation about some that I've known - too many to remember - and all the possible implications. Now I must...

How many riders 'en masse' with enough big levers would it take to shove the whole rig over the side?:unsure:

Not for anyone to tell another that they are on the wrong bike. I only tell that to myself. 😏

Perhaps a silly suggestion, I don't know, but, fire blanks? They don't know they are blanks. Or, pillion with a kattie?