Just come back from France where not one Biker wore reflective anything. As I'm going there soon on the bike I was expecting to have to wear reflective jacket or some sort of stripy thing. I thought there was a new law. Does anyone know the rules and if there is a law, do they just ignore it?

Been watching the Dakar coverage on YouTube, and so far the scenery has been blowing me away. But what is happening to Despres? Without Coma as his team mate, and main competitor, I was expecting him to romp it. Currently he's almost half an hour off the lead. Iain

My rear rim cracked and my front rim was showing serious signs of corrosion, so I thought I'd bite the bullet and get both replaced. Took them to Hagon which is up the road (ish) from me and they convinced me that the corrosion on the front rim could probably be polished out. Since there's...

I popped down to my local bike shop today and saw this sweet looking Tenere outside. Fully expecting it to be a customers bike, I asked about it and was told it's actually For Sale. ((I've decided (rightly or wrongly) NOT to put this in the For Sale area, purely because it's not me selling...

I wasn't expecting it to be good but its the biggest pile of ****e I've ever seen, Is this the best this country can produce? Sent from my HTC Desire S

Having great difficulty finding copper grease here(yes, I know, I should've bought some a long time ago:rolleyes:)...it seems no-one bothers with it! We went around half a dozen workshops, with the local car spares supplier, trying to find someone who knew what it was, but not a chance...tried...

Im now in a new job and doing a little more than 75miles a day commuting. Thats about 25 miles normals roads, 50 miles motorway. Ive just replaced the back tyre (a pilot road with 10k on it), with a pilot road 3. Hopefully the dual compound will help out with the straight line miles (altho i...

After seeing the Vibraction roadbook report in ABR issue 5 I researched a trip that we could do in a week and settled on Roadbook 10 Aragon and Navarra Pyrenees and Bardenas Desert. Over the next few frantic months that soon became weeks and days away the bike was fettled to move the Zumo so...

Hi All, To give you some back ground, I took my test 10 years ago and haven't really ridden since, but have started again recently with the plan to do a 3 week European road trip with my other half, now the issue is she lost a partner to a bike accident some years back so I consider myself very...

. After seeing the NC700X at my local Honda dealer and the "new transalp" thread's I was quite intrigued by the new Honda. Firstly I have to say I really like fast bikes so wasn’t expecting too much from this bike..... I collected the bike from JS Gedge in Hastings this morning and it was...

[COLOR="#FF0000[SIZE=5]"]***SOLD***[/[/SIZE]COLOR] I've started the clear out prior to the move!! I'll list items on here first then on to ebay if no interest. Here I have a BRAND NEW and unused set of Oxford Sports LifeTime Panniers and Tail Pack. COMPRISES OF: 1 SET OF EXPANDABLE PANNIERS,&...

Change of plan What with that silly sausage eating Kraut mucking up his passport application and not being able to make this year's Northern Germany trip we had a bit of a rethink about where we would go. Yes we all still wanted to go to Plon but it was felt that that would best be left for...

My local Kawasaki centre had open day and test day today and deal and bargains to be had. 1st i test rode the Versys 1000cc and that left me very confused. The styling is tall upright riding position like most trial / dual purpose bikes but they've stuck a straight 4 in it??? if your looking at...

I'm guessing the council are expecting a huge influx of bike accidents over th enext few months going by the previous few years. I'm not quite sure what this card will cover and what details it will carry. there is a plus side to it for me I'm after a Shoei Multitec the dealer (Damerells) have...

Thanks for all that replied to my 'CRF230 vs. CCM C-XR230' thread - http://www.xrv.org.uk/forums/crf-new-forum/48476-ccm-c-xr230-same-honda-crf230.html In the end I plumped for a 2004 CRF230. I'm loving the bike, but not finding it as powerful as I was expecting. From what I'm reading they are...

The dates have been announced for the NW200 next year, just wondering if anyone's planning on going. I'm 99% certain i'm going bit of a 2 in 1 do really. Always wanted to go and it will be a belated "Wetting the Babies Head due" Wifes expecting our first on Tuesday.

As the titla says, i'm thinking of getting one. Been bikeless now for a good 18 months (come on try not to start welling up) brought a house and had to sell mine. but have had enough of being apart from two wheels. Now i love the 700, but funds wont streach that far, small budget of £1000 -...