apart from brakes being spongy, eg poor braking performance, there is no damage could be done to the ABS modulator. the legality of riding with malfunctioning brakes is another matter :whistle: it is always a good idea before fully overhauling a brake system with ABS, just simply disconnecting the A...

it is amazing to see 690SMC in the top sales chart every year. Even though I have never seen a supermoto on the road in Germany.

Bluebird wrote:Is it me, or are riders not nodding as much as they use to?

Went to North Wales today after two years brake and what has struck me was also riders not nodding anymore. Especially the riders riding old bikes. Too much to cope on for the grandpass? B)

Three times today while driving my lorry, I've spotted a biker coming up behind me and I pulled over as close as I could to the hard shoulder and gave a short indication left and gave the biker a thumbs up, each time the bikers overtook me, not one even acknowledged me and on one occasion the two c...

Hi, this weekend had again a headlight bulb blow up in smoke in a middle of a night for a third time this year. It seems that head light bulbs last 5-7k on my DD before going up in smoke. Tried different brands of the headlight bulbs without any luck either. Maybe vibrations, maybe my riding, maybe ...

imho the payments using the bank transfers, especially using IBAN and SWIFT are safer than cash (fake or not?) or and much safer than paypal elc. al lthe guy could do with your iban and swift is just to transfer money to you. and nowdays in domestic transfers everything happens pretty much instant, ...

relax, and enjoy the riding - once you have enough riding, just put in sat nav nearest campsite and if you do not like the first one, you will definitely be happy with one of the next three down the road. There are plentiful of campsites in France, Germany and Italian alps. Enjoy the freedom and hav...

rode the new bonnie and thought that the suspension was very adequate to the bike and a huge improvement to the old bonnies. those bikes are not aimed at people to whom the cornering speeds or brakes performance matter. look at them :laugh: and I had scrambler for three full riding days. after the n...

history books are full of coups and other events and history tends to repeat itself :unsure:

hope not many innocent people will suffer :unsure:

imho xsr700 and the other two are two completely different category bikes. xsr is just a mt07 with different (imho fugly) dress and reshuffled pegs and handlebars, while other two are aimed not at the rider per se, but to a person with different priorities in his bike :D also, if you want to ride tr...