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I found it on racevisors.co.uk, I'm pretty sure I've used them before.

 

https://www.sportsbikeshop.co.uk/ I'd start here - excellent stock range and great customer service

 

Thanks gents!

Meanwhile, you might have guessed I'm looking around at gear again because...

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I'm done with the bike itself... I hope!







now that lockdowns are more or less behind us, I'm looking to stop tinkering and put some long rides on this thing

 

Yeah, I'd highly recommend sportsbikeshop. They're pretty much my go-to store for everything except the bike itself.

The only reason I didn't get a replacement visor from them is that they didn't have the pinlock insert.

 

Been a good week riding around the mountains.

Please excuse the heinous instagram edit.

 

My son passed his theory test on Tuesday but has fell out with his driving instructor so has decided he wants to get a scooter.

I know he needs to do his CBT first but i really don't know what to be looking for, he's never ridden a bike before(cycle yes) and I haven't ridden a motorbike (50cc one of my friends owned) since I was twenty.

Can we get something half decent for around the £500 mark at all?

 

Coming from a country that lives and breathes scooters -- get anything Japanese, particularly with that budget pushing you toward the older/smaller end of the market. Aprilia and Vespa are big here now, but haven't been around long enough to have really been tested on reliability/longevity. That said, the Europeans do love their scooters, and I can't imagine they're much worse than the Japanese.

 

Another driving instructor?
Unless he's limiting himself to city centre riding 30mph gets old fast

 

Its a long waiting list for another instructor unfortunately.

He will be using it for work, 8 miles which would either be lanes or an A road.

 

Whereabouts are you CrapBag? (OT, but your username still makes me chuckle after 13 years) Happy to have a snoofle about and see if there's anything usable, but for £500 it'll be pretty rough.

Imho the best way to go is a geared bike rather than a twist and go - learning to use gears will help when he learns to drive a car too.

This is controversial, but once he's done the CBT then pay for some more tuition. Even being extremely generous, a CBT is a course that just about teaches enough to keep you from dying if you know how to drive already, for a young rider there's a huge amount of roadcraft that you could learn in a couple of hours which would make you much safer. It also minimises bad habits being learnt right at the start which are much harder to forget later.

 

South Gloucestershire (formerly known as Avon) nothing to do with Gloucester really although it is a neighbouring county.

 

The nice folks at RE sent me a new Classic 350 to try out for a few weeks.

 

Are the Fairweather motorcyclist's getting excited about spring yet? I know I am

 

Yes and no.
Yes because, well because out on the bike obvs.
No because 1 part that I need / want to get this winters modifications done is on back order until July.

 

Very! Despite some good weather lately the roads are still too grubby to be fun.

Commiserations, what are you waiting for?

This popped up thanks to google photo organising the other day, want more.

 

A new fangled rear brake lever;

 

Nice! Coincidentally I binned the bike on a trail last weekend and am now waiting for a new brake lever (but regular OEM) to arrive. looks like I will miss this weekend's riding...

 

Oopsie.
My lever is a Harley part direct from Harley, apparently the lead time on a lot of their parts is through the roof right now

 

I'm torn between being able to eat and keeping my motorbike after an exceptionally nasty tax bill (got covid grants; thought I wasn't making much money; didn't save enough). The bike increasingly looks like £2k just sat on the driveway for no reason. I enjoy it, but I'd enjoy being out of debt more.

 

Moving along with de-chroming;

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