Makes you wonder why you can't get prescription visors don't it?? :dry: I was told by a bloke in George White's in Plymouth that they would be producing prescription pinlock at some point this year! Glued to pinlock website Nothing yet! And it's not even April 1st yet :whistle: I'm about to start s...

Slight tangent here as an ex-glasses wearer who couldn't tolerate the idea of contact lenses (the thought of touching my eye with my finger was way too much :sick: ). I went to enquire about laser treatment and was told that as I was "over 40" that: a) I probably only really use one eye an...

Congratulations!

Excellent work, Paul, and I pledge to eat even more curry at the Boil this year in support :whistle:

Good luck with the Sahara trip, look forward to reading about it in a future issue of ABR magazine!

All of which is a good reason to ditch the servo/abs, which I did on my 1150 following excellent Instructions from ukgser. Not sure if they've posted how to do it on a 12gs though.

Hope you get it sorted, sudden loss of braking is not nice!

Thanks pal will take your advice looking at the smaller model F800gs 2008 model hopeing to pick one up for around £5000. Ah, sorry, F8GS. Right, some things to check: That it has had the recall work done, including replacing the original chocolate chain with the later spec one (my original broke af...

From this: solentribster.com "It is not a requirement to display a notice of the unladen weight of the trailer or the towing vehicle, unless the towing vehicle is either a motor tractor or a locomotive, as defined in the C&U." Trailer Type Approval rules: Trailer Certification Informat...

I'd agree that £400 would be a fair price if the paint is good. Try posting the question on ukgser, that's probably the best place to sell it too.

If this goes ahead, count me in!

Thanks everyone for all your advice, sounds like I have opened a can of Worms.but all your advice is helpful. Not at all. See what happens if you post a similar thread saying you're thinking of buying a KTM but have been put off by all the rumours of unreliability and the need to change the oil eve...