Thumper Club Forum
Club House => Chatter => Topic started by: andi230 on August 11, 2007, 07:11:12 PM
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Hello chaps!
Back at home, tired but happy. 2,600 miles in 3 weeks. The africa twin is a fine machine, but folk dont talk to you like they do on a heavily loaded norton!
For anyone interested:
Calais,
Down to Bordeaux,
Turn left, over the alps around Gap,
Past Turin to Milan,
Across to Padova,
Back to Como, sheer joy!
Back over the Alps to switerland (S. Gothard Pass)
Interlaken,
Up to Zurich,
Back to Calais
No probs bar a snapped clutch cable. Dropped it once at rest, me and the missus couldnt lift the heavy b@stard!!
Engine didnt go bang, true to honda form, it didn't even use any oil.
Tyres are knackered, scottoiler worked well.
Definate front end wiggle at 25mph, would investigate if it were mine (but this is on a dodgy rear tyre, slightly bent spoke on front wheel (!), and massively overloaded)
And I scared the missus only once investigating the limit of handling!! Centre stands scraped. Also (front end) worrying, the front end tucked a couple of times on twisties.
Always nice to be back with a cuppa, eh?! Off to bed soon I fear!
zzzzzzzz!
a
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Welcome back Andy. Glad you had a good time. Did you have a spare clutch cable? mart
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Sleep well, pleased you had a safe trip.
Bill
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Welcome back Andy. Glad you had a good time. Did you have a spare clutch cable? mart
No!! I was too tight to buy one, so just lubed the old one instead, and brought clamp on nipples. Obviously it broke with about 4 inches left at the clutch end, so my plan was useless. Normally I'd have carrried a spare, but as it wasn't my bike, I didnt buy the honda part.
Daft really. But it only meant a trip on the recovery trailer to a local bike shop to make up a new cab;e with a clamp-on nipple. 3 hours delay was all, pretty good I reckon.
Speak to you soon, hope the injuries are healing!
a
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no spare clutch cable!
and i thought i was tight fisted :-)
the biggest problem with riding in europe is the sheer incompetence of car drivers when you return to blighty.
can't help but curse all the way from dover to home as one moron after another sits in the outside lane!
was going to a steam show in maidenhead today, only lasted 10 miles before the frustration of riding on the m25 made me turn off and go for an a-road blast round hertfordshire instead.
bullet350
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can't help but curse all the way from dover to home as one moron after another sits in the outside lane!
exactly right!!
a
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can't help but curse all the way from dover to home as one moron after another sits in the outside lane!
exactly right!!
a
Had it yesterday. Some daft tart doing 28 mph in the right hand lane of the Leeds ring road (70 limit at that bit). Not only that but after 2 miles she gets to the three lane bit where everyone assumes she wants to turn right, gets in the right lane then changes her mind and nearly collects my back wheel and the front of the van coming through in lane 2! Give me Europe every time. I gave up on the idea of a longish run, went to get my new tent and retired to the back garden to drink Erdinger!
Andy
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Ditto!!
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Glad to hear you both had a good time, see you soon, hope you got lots of pics.
I'm pretty sure that 25mph wobble would be caused by the weight distribution?, did it go when you rode it unladen?
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I'm pretty sure that 25mph wobble would be caused by the weight distribution?, did it go when you rode it unladen?
I expect it was caused by a Tight Scrawny Scot sat on the front ! ;-)
Jethro
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I'm pretty sure that 25mph wobble would be caused by the weight distribution?, did it go when you rode it unladen?
I expect it was caused by a Tight Scrawny Scot sat on the front ! ;-)
Jethro
Not enough change in my pockets to weigh down the front!!!! :)