MikeS wrote: Wed May 20, 2026 7:36 pm Used this guy last year. Fitted me in at short notice, 220 quid ride in/out. Only issue for me was that the distance away from home but you can courier the wheel if you're not in a rush.

+1. I took it to them personally, 3 hrs later it was done, great job.

Doctor T wrote: Wed May 20, 2026 2:18 pm Ive Aliexpress on my RT. They work without any fitting problems

Except for the spring replacement, which was a copper-plated pig to put on.

burridge01 wrote: Fri May 15, 2026 2:58 pm Today i have taken the 2nd step back to work.Contacted my employer(Flannery Plant)to get booked in for a medical.Can't say I'm looking forward to it,not in the slightest

Best wishes for whatever path you choose matey

Not a lot different tbh, but everything’s damn pricey on a bike isn’t it? The price of pleasure

Thank you, that’s how it was when I was growing up on the Island… beautiful and unspoilt.

Not in comparison to some on here, about 7k a year if we do our Greece tour, otherwise about average at 3-ish.

Last year we didn’t do the tour because of wifey’s health, but this year (fingers crossed) we’ll do that in Sept plus another 2 week run through France next month.

I’ve got a set of Dunlop Roadsmart GT4’s ready to go on before a 3 week France and Spain trip in June, and possibly another Greek trip in Sept, but wifey’s waiting on an op which takes precedence of course.
The new tyres get a good write up and it’s time for something different after 3 sets of ...

I quite fancy one of these...

You can have the Daytona boots with the calf size made to measure, this will of course increase the rather high price of the boots as standard.
Personally, I think my 26 year old Daytona Road Star GTX’s were worth every penny.

You’re a bloke Martin, you’re meant to be useless at such things!

Hope you’ll soon recover from your medical procedures and get back on the bike and the beach before the summer is over… or should the be starts?

Yes. Coincided with my battery letting me down twice,
Replacement is easy, same dimensions.
As you see I also added the pigtail so that I could jumpstart it directly and easily from a NOCO unit.

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I think you’ll have to, I’m not sure they’ll survive the heating process.

I haven’t got enough space in my garage to fit a conventional bike ramp, so this was a better option for me.
Well engineered, very sturdy, steady, and surprisingly heavy, it surpassed my expectations.

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Actually purchased 2nd hand a while ago, but it took me ages to get a mate to drop in and help me set it up, in the end I bribed him coffee and cake which worked a treat.

Once we’d worked out the obligatory ‘what goes where’ stuff it was actually very simple to fit it onto (into?) the bike, which ...

His bike details look rather strange too. A 2016 RT1250? The earliest 1250 was 2018 I believe.