First real ride on Mark 2

GerryB · Post by **GerryB** » Sun Jun 07, 2015 5:10 pm

Today I took out the bike I collected from Jez on thursday .

Had a great 150 ride from Ross on Wye , via back roads to Brecon , then on to Hereford , down to Abergavenny then on to Ross .

150 great miles .

Strangely as I was going around the round about at Ross on Wye a red R1100S went across towards M5 ....

Mitch1100 · Post by **Mitch1100** » Mon Jun 08, 2015 12:39 am

Nice..what's that tail rack?

GerryB · Post by **GerryB** » Mon Jun 08, 2015 6:59 am

Mitch1100 wrote:Nice..what's that tail rack?

I guess its a Givi , I have the top box , which is ok ,I just think the box spoils the looks of a great bike .

andy griff · Post by **andy griff** » Mon Jun 08, 2015 8:30 am

Agreed, like a roof rack on a Ferrari .....

Boxermed69 · Post by **Boxermed69** » Mon Jun 08, 2015 9:02 am

Mike

dave the german · Post by **dave the german** » Mon Jun 08, 2015 11:34 am

I'm hurt - fitted one to my BCR to make it more practical for work use. It does look fugly but serves a purpose. If I did have Ferrari I'd put a roof rack on (just to pi$$ people off!!)

f90x · Post by **f90x** » Mon Jun 08, 2015 11:40 am

Ferrari with a roofrack isn't so bad. If I had the money I'd do it.

Failing that just strap it on with bungees

andy griff · Post by **andy griff** » Mon Jun 08, 2015 2:08 pm

Until just now, I'd never actually seen one ( roof rack on a Ferrari that is) and it looks as crap as the saying suggests

jeznewsome · Post by **jeznewsome** » Mon Jun 08, 2015 6:47 pm

GerryB wrote:I guess its a Givi , I have the top box , which is ok ,I just think the box spoils the looks of a great bike .

Pleased you are having fun with it Gerry. The box and rack are Givi and bloomin useful (need to find one for my new VFR now) but yes fugly.

GerryB · Post by **GerryB** » Mon Jun 08, 2015 9:23 pm

BMbler wrote:any boxes and/or bags on R11s'es make it look "overloaded donkey" like, sorry!

Agreed , but as Jez says , they have their uses .......

GerryB · Post by **GerryB** » Mon Jun 08, 2015 9:27 pm

jeznewsome wrote:
GerryB wrote:I guess its a Givi , I have the top box , which is ok ,I just think the box spoils the looks of a great bike .
Pleased you are having fun with it Gerry. The box and rack are Givi and bloomin useful (need to find one for my new VFR now) but yes fugly.

Jez , How you doing with the new bike ?

Mine did a lovely ( some what rapid ) trip to work this evening

I think I'll use the Suzuki for a while ...

Licence preservation and all that !!!

Although I love triggering the camera ( front view ) !!!!

Naughty naughty .

The Teutonic Tangerine · Tue Jun 09, 2015 10:20 am

The Givi rack that you have is in my view much more elegant than the Givi "WingRack" that gets bolted to loads of other bikes. Now they really are ugly

http://www.twistedthrottle.com/givi-n14 ... gage-racks

jeznewsome · Post by **jeznewsome** » Tue Jun 09, 2015 7:05 pm

GerryB wrote:Jez , How you doing with the new bike ?

New bike is immaculate, really immaculate for a 10yr old bike (seems a shame it'll be my ride to work bike). Only 7K on it.

Seems to go (but not with the same low down urgency of the V Twins), stop and handle OK. Very smooth, stable, great mirrors etc I haven't had a Jap bike for over 12yrs and had forgotten how good (but bland) they are.

Only thing I have fiddled with so far is to ground a couple of wires on the Datatool alarm to stop it beeping when arming and automatically arming the fecking annoying movement/nudge detection!

GerryB · Post by **GerryB** » Tue Jun 09, 2015 9:38 pm

jeznewsome wrote:
GerryB wrote:Jez , How you doing with the new bike ?
New bike is immaculate, really immaculate for a 10yr old bike (seems a shame it'll be my ride to work bike). Only 7K on it.

Seems to go (but not with the same low down urgency of the V Twins), stop and handle OK. Very smooth, stable, great mirrors etc I haven't had a Jap bike for over 12yrs and had forgotten how good (but bland) they are.

Only thing I have fiddled with so far is to ground a couple of wires on the Datatool alarm to stop it beeping when arming and automatically arming the fecking annoying movement/nudge detection!

That's great news .

I'm back to using my Suzuki Motard as my day to day work tool .

More fun through the narrow lanes and twisties ...

But the Beemer is locked away , on the Battery conditioner for a week or so till it gets out for a decent run .