The Bikeshite Thread

[Dave_Q]

Any suggestions on where to buy a motorbike battery in France please?

[bangernomics]

Tidy, Where are you buddy?, I'm in Newtown just now, but just bought a house in Oswestry.

A49/533 side of Northwich

[bangernomics]

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Any suggestions on where to buy a motorbike battery in France please?

Norauto or a BIG supermarket. Worst case I have Amazon over here so could locker you.

Norauto Calais Coquelles, Calais, 62231 France

French Halfords.

[Rustybullethole]

8 hours ago, Dave_Q said:

Bit dark for pictures but have one anyway.

Camped near Folkestone, tunnel in the morning 

Little Switzerland or the club site in the warren by chance? Stayed at both and a few times as a stopover before crossing the pond. Like the fact you can see France from there too. 

Enjoy. 

[bangernomics]

Looks promising

[Dave_Q]

Thanks, I can bump so will make some progress rather than hanging around Calais waiting for France to open.

Caen looks like a good target to stop.

[Dave_Q]

11 minutes ago, Rustybullethole said:

Little Switzerland or the club site in the warren by chance? Stayed at both and a few times as a stopover before crossing the pond. Like the fact you can see France from there too. 

Enjoy. 

Little Satmar holiday park, Capel-le-Ferne.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/ySot4RCQDksuPPKs8

[EyesWeldedShut]

40 minutes ago, Dave_Q said:

Thanks, I can bump so will make some progress rather than hanging around Calais waiting for France to open.

Caen looks like a good target to stop.

Most places like Norauto open at 08:00 - so the one in Caen will just be peeling up the shutters when you get there  

[Dave_Q]

Sitrep:

The battery problem was overtaken in importance by a tyre problem. Luckily a Dutch guy at an aire pointed it out to me and I covered 200 miles or so with several stops for air.

Waiting for this place in Caen to open after lunch.

Can't see anything in the tyre or detect a leak with water but there definitely is one.

Got a tin of tyreweld from Dafy Moto but they didn't have the workshop open.

If this place can't help then I may have to call on your semi-local knowledge and French skills @bangernomics to see if I can find somewhere to fit one for me tomorrow.

[hairnet]

14 hours ago, Dave_Q said:

Bit dark for pictures but have one anyway.

Camped near Folkestone, tunnel in the morning 

tent just fckuing no

 

[Sham]

Hope you get the bike sorted.

Today, I passed my IAM test, and passed it very well. I'm what they call chuffed!

[Dave_Q]

They did have a tyre but they didn't have a fitter, going back for it in the morning.

If I turn up when they open (9:30) they will get it squeezed in as the first job which means it should be ready in a reassuringly French timescale of about 12-1pm.

Rather than pay to change my Chunnel return looking at Dieppe-Newhaven ferry although the options get in at either 9pm or 5am neither of which is especially ideal for a 5 hour ride home from there.

Set up for the night in a municipal campsite about 40min from Caen, nice quiet spot by the river and only 12 euro. Also bought a track pump from decathlon so I can inflate the tyre in the morning to get back to the shop.

[hairnet]

tent - just fckuing no

sorry about the tyre although i had similar on saturday

aired it and it seems (phew) to be ok

[bangernomics]

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Bit more temperate tomorrow for you. Any tourist plans or just winging it? Don’t forget some comedy sweets for the kids/work colleagues. A bag of mushroom crisps is always fun.

[bangernomics]

Sorry about this I think Tapatalk is playing up with weird quotes.

[Dave_Q]

No firm plan past the tyre but I'll need to amuse myself between Caen and Dieppe until the boat at either 6pm or midnight.

Possibly the beach, or a war museum? Moules fries for lunch? Should also ride the windyest route there and avoid the autoroute which was very boring.

[hairnet]

940 ftw

berck to honfleur

visit le touquet see if theyre doing the giant sandcastles thing

put yer compass on and just follow anything with a D

south west

[Dave_Q]

Tyre achieved.

Have booked onto the midnight ferry from Dieppe so going to look at some war shit on the way.

[hairnet]

Wanted to look at the brakes on mine 

Approached it from the back...........

Sake

Hope it can be fixed

[Dave_Q]

Pegasus bridge. Mental that they flew in and took this in flimsy gliders made from balsa wood and corrugated cardboard. I've seen sturdier airfix models.

[Dave_Q]

46 minutes ago, hairnet said:

Wanted to look at the brakes on mine 

Approached it from the back...........

Sake

Hope it can be fixed

Seems to be in an ideal location for a plugging 

[Cavcraft]

Trying to book a test ride on an R.E Himalayan 411.

[Cavcraft]

5 minutes ago, Dave_Q said:

Seems to be in an ideal location for a plugging 

Hairnet or the tyre? Actually, don't answer that.

[Stinkwheel]

Question, where have all the middle 'old' bikes gone?

All the many many ZZR's, CBR's, GSXR's, ZX's GPZ's etc etc gone?

Living in a fairly touristy area in welsh Wales i see a lot of bikes about. Most of them are 2 or 3 years old. Sometimes you see stuff 5 or 6 years old and then you see bona fide classics. But all the middle stuff, wheres that gone?

[Jazoli]

6 minutes ago, Stinkwheel said:

Question, where have all the middle 'old' bikes gone?

All the many many ZZR's, CBR's, GSXR's, ZX's GPZ's etc etc gone?

Living in a fairly touristy area in welsh Wales i see a lot of bikes about. Most of them are 2 or 3 years old. Sometimes you see stuff 5 or 6 years old and then you see bona fide classics. But all the middle stuff, wheres that gone?

They are still out there but modern bikes are cheap, you can have a new middleweight bike for £89/month on a pcp so that is what most people do as they want ABS and stuff which older bikes lack (and reliability, warranty etc), all the ZZR's CBR's etc have been replaced by more upright bikes such as Triumph Tigers, MT07, MT09, Hornets etc.

[UltraWomble]

12 minutes ago, Cavcraft said:

Trying to book a test ride on an R.E Himalayan 411.

Preston Motorcycles (Waterloo Rd) do test rides and supposed to have at least one in stock.
Ive done an Enfield Meteor that they have - rather liked it, however "things" mean that until I have received either a FPN or court date Im not going forward with a buy just yet as I may be looking at 9 points and a ban.

[Stinkwheel]

6 minutes ago, Jazoli said:

They are still out there but modern bikes are cheap, you can have a new middleweight bike for £89/month on a pcp so that is what most people do as they want ABS and stuff which older bikes lack (and reliability, warranty etc), all the ZZR's CBR's etc have been replaced by more upright bikes such as Triumph Tigers, MT07, MT09, Hornets etc.

I think you are right all round, I just wonder where they all physically are, they cant all have been scrapped/broken. Must be thousands of bikes up and down the country stuck in garages

[Dave_Q]

They're worth so little, £89 a month is a low figure but you can pick up a CBR or ZZR for £500-1000 in some sort of usable condition, even adding in tyres and chain and sprockets etc you're at way less than 3 years payments + deposit.

Having said that people don't fix their own shit anymore and not many people think they're cool so I can see why new stuff is popular.

[hairnet]

2 hours ago, Cavcraft said:

Trying to book a test ride on an R.E Himalayan 411.

try a 450

if you want one theres a barely used 23 plate on ukgser that he only wants 2500 for

[Dave_Q]

An adventure bike, pictured here next to a couple of Italians on some sort of half ton monstrosities