Damn. Glad you're OK though!

This will hopefully stick in my head and reaffirm my habit of keeping 8 miles away from the leader! Get well soon to all bikes and bodies.

Two bits of advice I always give to my Associates when they first go on our IAM group rides:
- the greatest hazard is literally right in front of you for the entire ride
- the 2 second rule still applies

Both are very easy to forget on a fast flowing ride, and I'm as guilty as any.

'10 available / 19 sold' as of 29th April.
So maybe not quote the last one. Yet.

29 radiators is just weird. That's a significant proportion of the UK supply, surely, but from one dealer?

20mph makes sense around schools and in the centre of towns/cities because of pedestrians.
It doesn't make sense on a very long straight road in Scotland where no one is around.

Maybe it should be 20mph only if a pedestrian is visible.

And Scotland was lovely and sunny! We stayed in The Pineapple:



Possibly the best folly in the UK.

The leaves allow the 'infrequent' rainwater to roll down from leaf to leaf and out, rather than seeping into the walls. The 4 urns on the garden wall are actually chimneys. Some anonymous person had fun designing that in the 1760s.

Anyway, back to independent engineers!

And although we won't be getting the same weather you got, we're off to mid Wales for a day or three so hope we have no traffic either. Remember - 20mph, 20mph, 20mph...

I stuck to 23mph just outside of Stirling yesterday. The local behind me just swept past at 40mph. But it was rush hour. Hey ho.

Also, is it just happenstance that the photos where corrosion might be are scaled down?

Zooming in on the front wheel image, the brakes do have rusty bolts as does the axle, but only lightly.
There are also marks on the shaft.

And what's going on with that rear light cluster?

Cluster f*cked?

Well I've got one motorsport, maybe a 30th anniversary. Thats 10 days. Mind you the taxman will own one of the wheels

Did you bid on the cheap one on eBay this evening, that I really shouldn't have been looking at?
Well whoever won it got a bargain, with only a few bits of hassle.

Randomly found this chap not too far over in Northamptonshire, who might be helpful:

Ian Joyce, Bike Motor Works (see what he did there)
Long Lodge Farm, Main Road, Grendon, NN7 1JW
Mob:07890 085891

I can see he's serviced a K1300GT at some point, so it's not just boxers.

Ref:
https://www.ukgser.com/community/threads/bike-motor-works-grendon-northants.356981/

Address and number from here:
https://www.misterwhat.co.uk/company/2007792-bike-motor-works-northampton

I think the benefits of a ChiGee / Carpuride / head units over a phone are:
- larger than some people's phones, but not that much
- touch is by pressure rather than capacitive, so glove presses work
- readable in sunlight*
- can cope with internal and external heat without the screen dimming
- not vibration-sensitive
- comes with mounting kit, which in Quad Lock terms is probably about £50-£120 saved

The other stuff (waterproof, 'rugged' - whatever that means) and definitely OS is no better than a phone.

And you still need to have your phone running in your pocket, so battery anxiety isn't completly eliminated - although with no screen on your phone battery should be good for say twice as long as if you were navigating with said phone.

*the preponderance of gambling shades over the screens (like all good grannies wear) suggests maybe they're not that good in sunlight though.