What have you done to your bike today....
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gazzatriumph
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I can't even get the cover off mine 
Scrappy
Legendary Knight
I can't even get the cover off mine
How's your recovery going? Hopefully not too long before your back in the saddle
gazzatriumph
Legendary Knight
Slowly, still using a frame but have a boot thing now instead of a caste. Will be going on to crutches soon.How's your recovery going? Hopefully not too long before your back in the saddle
It won't be until next year to get back on the bike and that will depend on how it fixes.
Don the Don
Legendary Knight
You will get there mate, just get yourself mended and think of riding next year and also a meet up
MartytheMartian
Legendary Knight
Well today I got my other Bonnie, the blue one, out of the shed and washed her down. Bit of rust on the rear shocks and the wheels have rust spots on the rims (nothing unusual with these shitty Italian rims) but otherwise she seems to have survived her lay-up well and, with a new battery in (Tayna's 'own brand' one) she fired straight up. The Tayna battery claims to have 2ah more oomph than even the Yuasa so hopefully it will keep her spinning fine.
Question for the Brain's Trust -
If you get a bike MOT'ed do you have to tax it immediately even if you ride it hope and then not use it again until, say, the start of the next month or will those bastards we call a government have you for no road tax even if you don't actually have the vehicle on the road after the MOT.
Question for the Brain's Trust -
If you get a bike MOT'ed do you have to tax it immediately even if you ride it hope and then not use it again until, say, the start of the next month or will those bastards we call a government have you for no road tax even if you don't actually have the vehicle on the road after the MOT.
Don the Don
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As Long as you don't get caught you are ok, TAX is the main thing any government wants, Better to have them apart as it won't brake the bank their data base will show it is not taxed I can't say for sure but to be legal you need all three with insurance as insurance may be void if one of the others are missing, Think about how many vehicles on our roads have none as in some cases the fine is cheaper than being legal.
MartytheMartian
Legendary Knight
What I'm wondering is, if I wanted to get my other bikes MOT'ed sooner rather than later but don't want to actually put them on the road until May for example would the robbers at Westminster reckon that, by simply being MOT'ed they need also to be taxed. I'd trust anyone else to be decent about such things but I don't trust our fecking tax bandido's.
It pisses me off too that I have to pay full tax on each bike even if I'm not exactly wearing the road out under my wheels. Tax per mile, if it was a a reasonably, fair amount per mile, would be much better/fairer for folks with multiple vehicles. You can't use more than one at a time unless you are exceptionally talented after all. Or just one tax payment for all vehicles you own. Robbing bastards get on my tits.
It pisses me off too that I have to pay full tax on each bike even if I'm not exactly wearing the road out under my wheels. Tax per mile, if it was a a reasonably, fair amount per mile, would be much better/fairer for folks with multiple vehicles. You can't use more than one at a time unless you are exceptionally talented after all. Or just one tax payment for all vehicles you own. Robbing bastards get on my tits.
Don the Don
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NO, you don't have to do them at the same time, taking a vehicle for a MOT pre booked is deemed okay if not going to be used until later for Tax that's no problem if not used that's what I do, I still don't trust the coppers mind.
gazzatriumph
Legendary Knight
My first MOT on the RE is due in June, I sorn the bike in the winter. I won't be MOTing it or taxing it until I can ride it. I'll still insure it is it worth doing fully comp or just third party fire and theft until it gets on the road. Does TPFT still count or keep your no claims, like the taxman can't trust insurance companies.
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Scrappy
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I don't know why ICE vehicles should pay road tax, we are already taxed on the fuel we use, so if you drive a lot of miles or have a large gas guzzler then you pay more tax, which would be fair. Then only have road tax for crappy electric vehicles. Is this too much like common sense for those pricks in Westminster?
Don the Don
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Today I fitted some new Classic Rides wax oil panniers and took the bike for a run and a MOT then had a bimble to a small aircraft museum by Kinloss barracks [old RAF Kinloss] and enjoyed a coffee and a talking shite with some old pals.
gazzatriumph
Legendary Knight
They look great
MartytheMartian
Legendary Knight
Well today I went to change the front cog on my Bonnie from a 17T to an 18T as she runs out of revs on the tacho before she runs out of puff and so I decided to see how she behaves going up a tooth at the front. I figured a five minute job but how bloody wrong was I! Because it's a bit crowded in the bike shed I have to pull the bikes out from the front by the handlebars and I didn't realise that the sidestand had moved back enough so that, when I went to rest her on her stand outside she ever so gracefully went over sideways. It would have been fine as she ended up on the grass but unfortunately the tail light hit the shed doors and broke into pieces. Fortunately amongst the few spares that I have I had a tail light so I could swap it over. After that the sprocket nut refused to move with the front and rear brake held on and sitting on her she was still going backwards every time I gave the socket a bit of welly but, eventually, it stopped resisting and I could swap out the sprockets. A ten minute job ended up as a couple of hours of banging about garnished with cursing and swearing. All done now though and hopefully she will be the better of the change. Acceleration as it is is pretty good for the type of bike with plenty of torque and it should be even a bit more punchy now and she should be able to cruise along on less revs. Seventy plus always seemed a bit frantic with the stock gearing and I don't know how many times I have tried to go up a gear when I'm already in top because of how high the revs seem. I may opt for dropping a tooth at the rear as well as I have a feeling that even adding a tooth at the front might still leave room for more improvement.
Big Sandy
Legendary Knight
Funny how a simple job usually turns into a 'mare, isn't it?
I went under the Landy yesterday morning to grease the rear prop, saw what I thought was a bit of scabby paint on the chassis, went at it with the needle gun, and cue two days worth of crawling around underneath and welding.
Still...it's done. And, so am I.
I went under the Landy yesterday morning to grease the rear prop, saw what I thought was a bit of scabby paint on the chassis, went at it with the needle gun, and cue two days worth of crawling around underneath and welding.
Still...it's done. And, so am I.
Big Sandy
Legendary Knight
The Bonnie looks well Don. I like those panniers. Very much in keeping,and not as poncy as leather.
MartytheMartian
Legendary Knight
Thankfully there have been no more dramas with my Bonnie. Took her out for a spin today and she seems to be improved by the extra tooth at the front but I'm now wondering if I might go another one tooth bigger or opt for a smaller rear sprockets. Does anyone know if the 790 Bonnie's are restricted? I've seen a claimed top speed of 115mph for the 2001-2 790's but when I was out today I was coming close to the 100mph mark, which is near enough the red line on the tacho and the engine just seemed to lose all power very briefly and the went back to normal as if, at 100mph some sort of limiter kicked in. I think my other Bonnie can get by 100mph but never seen it on this one.