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Offline richtea

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Re: K1200S
« Reply #270 on: July 26, 2018, 07:37:45 pm »
Quote from: fjtwelve on July 26, 2018, 07:27:36 pm
Came out of the office tonight in air conditioned cooled leathers and almost chewed the air. The bike thermometer said 23c but the temp guage had one block up before I started the engine. Really only 23? A mile later it snapped to 36.5C. Radiator is really struggling.

That's high! I had 31.5C in the UK this afternoon, which I thought was bad.
Went for a rainman ride - I ride, it rains. Seems to happen most times, and thunderstorms were predicted. 20 spots of rain. That was it for ~3 hours. Didn't work. Gently chided by Ms Mohair for failing to revive the garden. I did my best  ::)
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Re: K1200S
« Reply #271 on: July 31, 2018, 11:22:04 am »


Keep worrying I am going to drop my keys in the canal
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Re: K1200S
« Reply #272 on: August 02, 2018, 11:30:22 am »
A sudden stutter on the way home last night, warning lights come on, then die down and left with red "brake failure" light. Gasped a bit when starting this morning, and red light still there. Otherwise running fine. I assume my ABS just died or a wire fell out?
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Re: K1200S
« Reply #273 on: August 02, 2018, 08:42:01 pm »
Don't ride too close behind those big trucks on the Dutch motorways then Martin  ;D
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Re: K1200S
« Reply #274 on: August 02, 2018, 09:46:40 pm »
Fat chance of me riding close behind anything
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Re: K1200S
« Reply #275 on: August 05, 2018, 06:10:43 pm »
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Re: K1200S
« Reply #276 on: August 05, 2018, 07:15:52 pm »
Quote from: fjtwelve on August 05, 2018, 06:10:43 pm
Meanwhile in other news

I'll see your Fal-Mouth, and raise you a Bal-Ham:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ewUOSlRDkk
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Re: K1200S
« Reply #277 on: August 05, 2018, 09:33:32 pm »

Saturdays jaunt to Arnhem



Sundays run up to the North



Somewhere near Hardwijke. After weeks of heat is was deliciously cool.




Tree lined roads for a lot of the morning



Minor obstacle.



Miles of dead straight road and canal







Next 1000 coming up shortly



Where else would you park it? Den Helder.



More straight roads and canal plus windmills  but no trees and loads of slow traffic on the way back down the coast to Haarlem






Tierneys in Haarlem keep a good pint of Guinness



Still experimenting with Tom Tom. Winding routes got a bit of a pain, it'll take you through backstreets, tried avoiding motorways which put me on bypasses, shortest routes has you up farm tracks. Having said that ,finding winding routes in square grid Holland is difficult.
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Re: K1200S
« Reply #278 on: August 06, 2018, 07:43:39 am »
83000

Missed my turning off the motorway on the to work this morning and spent an unhappy 20mins trying to find my way back. Lost in France Schiphol. This is when you realise the complete lack of landmarks, and the spaghetti junction style of motorway intersections over here

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Re: K1200S
« Reply #279 on: August 06, 2018, 08:36:27 am »
My sat nav would have found the alternative route before I'd even got as far as the on-ramp of the missed junction.
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Re: K1200S
« Reply #280 on: August 06, 2018, 08:38:00 am »
Would help if it was on...I thought I had learned the route, but hey its Monday morning.. :-\
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Re: K1200S
« Reply #281 on: August 06, 2018, 09:00:53 am »
I learned from such "mistakes" some time ago. Now, sat nav is always on as it manages my phone as well, but real time route re-planning happens automatically.
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Re: K1200S
« Reply #282 on: August 08, 2018, 05:50:14 pm »
Them aliens are coming. Quick! Hide behind that old lump of metal, Harleys will block death rays

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« Reply #283 on: August 08, 2018, 10:29:02 pm »
 ;D ;D ;D
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Re: K1200S
« Reply #284 on: August 09, 2018, 05:32:56 pm »
First rain for months coming tomorrow
By coincidence I am riding back to the midlands tomorrow :(
Oh and the wind will be against me as well >:(
Suppose I should just be thankful the temperature has dropped :-\
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