Mutt have a very good rep at the cheaper end of the market.
Are the cheaper end Cafe bike/scramblers any good for a first starter?
I was looking specifically at the Bullit hero / hanway scrambler 125.
Thanks
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I have been slowly adding bits to my 790. Removed the cat and added a rally style can...
....and this was trying to get the cruise control switch installed (along with the GPS wiring and power socket which was playing up).
Skid plate arrives Monday, hopefully it will dry up before I take it around the woods for a test run.
Had a nice run out this morning with a mate on his Ducati. Over Exmoor and down to Ilfracombe. Great roads. Sunny but a tad chilly over the moor!
All was going well until we both got a £25 parking ticket in Ilfracombe in an empty carpark at 0900 on a Sunday morning. Where do you put a parking ticket on a bike?!!
You can’t and that’s early start,I was cold yesterday mid day.
Gloves heads up
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Macna-Fot...-/122784645844
To late I got the last XL
There’s a bigger size available.
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I did think about heated gloves for a while, but then decided to go with heated grips again. The BMW solution is expensive but very neat and apparently superb quality, so I'm off to Lind Motorrad at WGC first thing tomorrow to get them fitted. First mod for some time, and probably my last for some time too as I'm putting any suspension upgrades on hold until next spring (excuse the pun!).
BMW heated grips are lovely and hot which is great.
You do still end up with hot palms, cold back of the fingers and frozen thumbs.
Adding hand guards helps, though I find the thumbs still get cold.
I'm beginning to think the only good solution is a muff.
Or taking the car.
I would be tempted for muffs. I've had bark busters, heated grips and big Rukka gloves and still been cold. Especially the thumbs. If I was commuting this winter I would probably get some muffs. Not sure which grips go on the R9T but the GS grips only have two settings, not ideal.
My bikes, in order of increasing winter comfort...
4. 2019 Triumph Street Scrambler, Triumph heated grips
3. 2015 BMW R1200R, BMW heated grips, BMW R1200GS hand guards, Givi hand guard extensions
2. 1989 BMW R80RT, BMW heated grips (though nowhere near as hot as the 2015 ones)
1. 1982 BMW R65, BMW RS fairing, no heated grips
I'm a real believer that the best thing to do in winter is to stop the extremities getting cold by keeping them out of the weather rather than trying to heat them up again.
avoiding the obvious trap...
https://www.tucanourbano.com/en/pl/m...andgrip+covers
https://www.tucanourbano.com/en/pp/m...ck-r369x-65829
These Givi muffs are very good although you do need to make your own hole to bolt them to the bar ends to stop them moving about. I do about 200 miles a day all year round and I wear fingerless gloves and find the muffs and heated grips keep me warm enough.
Super day for a ride and a spot of lunch.
Well it's goodbye to the American heavyweight................
And hello to the Anglo-Indian middleweight.....!!
Collected this morning and looking forward to doing a little 'personalisation' over the winter months.
Started out with nothing. Still have most of it left.
"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action."
'Populism, the last refuge of a Tory scoundrel'.
I did something stupid last night.
I totted up how much money was involved in the parts used to tweak my Triumph Street Scrambler.
The total was quite scary. No, it was very scary. About £7,500.
OK, I've not spent that much as such as I totted the prices up at list, rather than what I paid for them (some dealer discount, some eBay etc) and some bits I already had in the garage/re-used from other bikes. It's not all on the bike at once either, as some parts are interchangeable. Whatever, it's a hell of an uplift on a bike that lists at £9,300.
The only time I've done similar before is when I had a Harley 883 Sportster and spent roughly 100% on upgrades. With that though the upgrades were far more substantial though adding significant performance/handling/braking changes in addition to all the cosmetic & comfort changes.
Might be time to list a few watches on SC...
I don't get on with thick gloves so muffs are non-negotiable for me when it comes to cold-weather riding, these allow me to wear a pair of roper gloves or GS Rallye all year round.
R
Ignorance breeds Fear. Fear breeds Hatred. Hatred breeds Ignorance. Break the chain.
When I sold the Sportster, I got roughly the same as if I'd left it completely stock.
At the time I knew the right thing to do was to put it back to stock and sell the bits, but if I'd had time to do that is have had time to ride it; reinstating barrels, pistons, heads, cams, carb and ignition system aren't 5-minute jobs.
After Japanese sports bikes and then Harleys its a bit of a change to be honest!
Not the most powerful thing for the money but that wasn’t what I was looking for. It will do 100mph apparently and having tried one of their demonstrators that seems to be the case.
Has abs and fuel injection but nothing much else in the way of electronics. Just a parallel twin 650. Does have infinitely variable riding modes though, controlled by rider input with the throttle and brakes! 😂
Started out with nothing. Still have most of it left.
I keeping thing of changing my Striple as I've had it over 10 years now (wow time flies!) but I kind of like it precisely because it doesn't have the gadgets, just like I like my Mk1 MX5 for the same reason...
Mine does get revved over 7000rpm every now and then though
It’s a TFC, so no delivery date yet..... dealer recons April, or May ish next year
Yes mate....just got in from woods..could have ordered from Bill Smiths in Chester, but I’d rather deal with woods..
Sadly, not a chance of a discount on a TFC..
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Like your work, Enoch!
Ooh, the pics have appeared
Yeah, might as well keep the Bobber Black, I’ve done so many mods to make it my own it’d be a shame to sell it..
It’ll be a breeze, I waited 18 months for my mustang.. A Rolex or 2 will be sold to provide some of the funds for this.. I’ve decided I don’t need 3 submariners, but I do need 3 bikes..🤡🤡🤡