tom13

Great write up. Looked a great time. I have said it before but I love your dedication to this bus. What was the rough price of your ferry? Thinking about just a return trip, any tips for getting the best deal? Did you do Santander or Bilbao?

Interested to hear your thoughts on these. I never really liked mine and the quality was pretty poor on it. The swift sport before I had was 1000 times better.

As in a whole morning to do a battery?

I think kit is cheaper than ever. I have a full Oxford textile suit. It was around £100 for the full suit. As @twosmoke300 said as well. I had an Arai for years and have then just gone to a HJC IS17 and it's 5 star rated, super comfy with loads of features and sub £100 as well. I have 2 sets of gloves some short cuff alpinestars which were around £40 but I have a more traditional cold weather pair which were £15. Boots are going to be sub 100 as well. If you shop around you can get a full kit for under £250 and it not be utter rubbish.

God those TRXs were cool. I will check that thanks, I think its only recently had an oil change as well. Such a good noise even with the baffles in. I'm going to have to take them out for a bit though.

Recently acquired TDM850. Nice feeling bike. Excited to get out on it. Sounds lovely with the aftermarket exhaust.

I just love how you keep this thing going. Serious hats off to you.

Love these. Seem a great buy still for the money.

Why so set on an LCI?

Santa hand delivered mine today while I was out. How about that for service. Have a great Christmas all.

You are doing an excellent job here. Hats off to you. I do love a lightly modified one of these though.

Pull the plastic up and check those steps and sill asap.

Just seen this sorry. It's not on there anymore but I have the guys details if you need them at all. It was actually listed as a Djebel so I'm sure it wasn't as easily searched for. The price was £1450 for it as well but it looked clean.

If not too late can I put my name in the hat please.

Cd175 has @Cavcraft name all over it.

Like I say the one in Bideford looks good and is just tax and MOT exempt.

106 Rallye

Got this the start of last week. Ended up selling the Himalayan, I'm sure I will regret it as it was a great bike but hopefully with the new model prices on the original will crash and I can buy a cheap one and do a full off road spec one. It's a DF200. Basically a DR200 made for more agricultural tasks, hence the racks, extended guards, plus kickstart. There was a DR200 in Devon I really wanted but the guy was messing about whether he was selling or not and then this popped up. Super happy to have this spec as it's rare over here and I wanted the racks and Kickstart. I wouldn't be surprised if this is the only one in the UK. I just wanted a reliable lightweight trail bike. This is 20bhp and around 100kg. Could have gone DR350 but would have had to spend a bit more and a lot of them looked very rough, plus the extra weight. Plan is lower and push pegs back, new bars and maybe a bit of suspension work and that's it. This even had USD added as a bonus.

K11. Prices will continue to rise and they are cheap and reliable to run and repair. 107, C1, Aygo. They are mega cheap to run and spares are cheap plus you will always get back what you pay. MK4 escort, mk2/mk3 golf, E36s can be a good reliable appreciating classic but they need a bit of love to keep rust at bay. Anything bigger or premium has the trouble of one big bill causing you to lose money on it.

If anyone is breaking or has some spares for a 2002 CB500 let me know. After quite a few bits, radiator is a top priority though.

Why is that? You hear so many rave reviews of the DR350. I would actually rather have the 200 but they are nowhere near as common.

Anyone have a small trail bike for sale sub £1500? Or an adventure/touring bike? I ended up selling the Himalayan which for anyone wondering is a fantastic bike. I would 100% recommend one. I only sold it as I now want a slightly smaller bike for Laning. I want something like a DR200 DR350, XT350 etc etc. Would maybe consider a 650. Would also maybe consider a cheap translp or something as well. I have a 2002 cb500 I could throw in a a cheap PX.

So many lanes aroudn there. We only really did the south peaks and there was a lot of mainly easier tracks. Was due to go up and do around Buxton last weekend but called off due to the flood obviously.

This the lane next to the side of chastworth house? Did that a couple of weekends ago for the first time if so.

Are you fixing or have you already fixed these? I can't remember but do these feed into the inside of the sill? If so they will be rotting your sill from the inside out as it will be filling it with water. At the bare minimum shove some cavity wax in there and grind and fiberglass over these.