I have put through payment for Will Crean and myself. I am planning on coming on Thursday and heading to Bantry market on Friday morning as there will be breakfast options there too. From there a short run to Kenmare via Caha Pass for a coffee stop and then back to Glengariffe via Healy Pass for lun...

It depends too on what is under the resin. It is sometimes installed on tarmac and sometimes on concrete.

Centre stands are really a no go on tarmac in warm weather and the tarmac does not like oil either.

I have a full bike licence since 1974. Over the years I rode friends bikes as an extension to my car licence. In 2010 I got a BMW K100LT, not a sports bike but still a 1,000cc bike. My insurance cost me all of 240 despite not having had a stand alone bike policy for years. A very clean licence and n...

Flintlock wrote: ↑Tue Mar 12, 2024 6:34 pm Hope not Olaf!

See if you can find a few soda farls to bring down to go with the breakfast, happily treat you to some beers. I have been known to make Irish coffees at the tent too.

Will that be a wee breakfast.....?

For anyone arriving early, there is a Friday [morning] market in Bantry, Its about 20km and a nice little ride.

I am planning to spend Thursday and Sunday night at Glengarriffe.

Another taker to be added, Andrea Woodgate. looking like we might have a nice little corner.

I camp and just looked up my costs for last September, For 22 days I went through about €1,100 and that included my camping at municipal sites, fuel, food shopping and wines as well as various presents. I tend to bbq in the evening so its cheap..

I know nothing about KTMs, but on my car owners group they were plagued with ABS and TC warnings and it became regarded as a sign of pending battery touble as in sub par voltage due to failing battery or alternator fault. On one of my bikes the frequent ABS warnings vanished after I replaced a batte...

Thanks Olaf. Indeed it is--hence the hall effect change due to dodgy wiring--apparently a known problem on the early oilheads. I'm not greedy!---just a reasonable return---Actually went out for a 20 mile or so run on it yesterday and it was below 2C--just to check the brakes after repositioning a h...