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The Euro K Club Lounge / Re: Good bye old friend
« on: December 11, 2023, 09:43:52 pm »
Dealerships are always happy to see your money for maintenance. But if it comes to buying your second hand K1300S after spending all that money, they're not very interested. Then it sounds like (imagine the dealer's face as if he's in big pain) "Unfortunately, the K1300S is a very difficult bike to sell second hand, you know"...

Hence very unlikely I'll ever buy a BMW again.

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The Euro K Club Lounge / Re: Too old to ride, too idle to work...
« on: November 22, 2023, 08:19:27 pm »
You can buy Teslas 24/7. Online.

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It would be good to see you again Philippe, let me know when you have decided.

Hopefully no pandemic this time...

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So, who wants to join us?

I'm considering it. For me without the marriage option  :afro:

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The Euro K Club Lounge / Re: If it's out of the blue...
« on: August 04, 2023, 07:57:35 pm »
Or by his neighbour !

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Don't know if this changes a lot. On the other hand, there are other domains where half an inch makes a big difference ...  :-X

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It's a very decent mount, well finished, good quality. I had 2 different BikePenR ones on 2 different bikes, and both were well finished and robust. You may want to have a look at some older (K1300S-time) video's on my YouTube channel (same name as my nickname here) to have an idea of how it looked like "in real life"  8)

EDIT : some memory, far, far away makes me think the BikePenR mount for the GT was a different one than the one for the K1300S, though ... I think their website was clear on that point. Just so you don't order the wrong one...

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I think all who have ever had 3 K1300S's should get a discount on the membership here  :thumbsup:

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Feel free to ask questions.

Hope you get the right price for it. But erm... what bike will you be riding soon, now that you're selling your last K1300S ?

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Euro K Club Events / Re: Welsh Wramble 2022
« on: September 01, 2022, 07:37:18 pm »
Looks good ! Have fun ! I'll be riding around in Slovenia around that time, otherwise I would have been riding with you.

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Euro K Club Events / Re: Welsh Wramble 2022
« on: August 20, 2022, 09:10:36 pm »
Or...

I could just use my sat nag  8)

I thought that method was too difficult for you. Sorry for misjudging the situation  :D

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Euro K Club Events / Re: Welsh Wramble 2022
« on: August 20, 2022, 09:01:39 pm »
Well that's all well and good but what if the Earth and Mars swapped places tomorrow?

Then you'd use the compass anyway, and make that yearly-changing magnetic deviation correction, of course.

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Euro K Club Events / Re: Welsh Wramble 2022
« on: August 20, 2022, 08:14:46 pm »
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Now, which way was north again?

You could use a compass. But I bet your question originated from you having too much trouble correcting a compass' magnetic heading to true North. Indeed, the more North you're located, the bigger that correction gets : too much trouble.

So I suggest the time-based method : quite a lot simpler !

The Bryncelyn Guesthouse's exit is located at 52°06'27.1"N 3°38'20.1"W, or in decimals : 52.107519N, 3.638926W.

In Greenwich, in the summer, the sun is right in the East at 6 o'clock UTC, so 7 o'clock UK local time. The sun moves 360° in 24 hours, so 15° per hour, so 1° every 4 minutes. So at Bruncelyn's exit, the sun is exactly East 3.638926 (in decimals) degrees later, which is exactly 3.638926 x 4 minutes, or 14,555704 minutes, or 14 minutes and 33 seconds later.

All this together means that at Bryncelyn's exit, the sun is exactly East at 7 hr 14 minutes and 33 seconds in the morning. But you asked where North was, not East, so there's some more to it ...

At that calculated time, look straight into the sun, and then look left in a perfect 90° angle : the direction then pointed at by your nose, thát's where true North is  8)

(hope for a clear sky !)

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Matt's Bikes / Re: Bike Six: KTM Superduke 1290GT
« on: June 23, 2022, 09:09:00 am »
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I didn't know you had a 1600...  :winkthumbs:
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<confused mode>I don't  ???</confused mode>

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Matt's Bikes / Re: Bike Six: KTM Superduke 1290GT
« on: June 22, 2022, 07:53:50 pm »
... the Missenden flyer's review ... It sounded a bit bargey. ...

I don't think the guy riding his K1600GT in the link below would agree with that statement... He abused (or I could just as well say : "really used properly") his K1600GT ... Including footpegs touching the ground. I doubt if the average K1300S rider could follow this guy. I couldn't have done so...
https://youtu.be/xTZa2iSyn-g?t=120

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