Brill post. I love my RD07. Had three RD04's and sold them before I discovered I can't be without an @T in the garage.

Oooh, That looks to be in fab condition and well worth the 1k. 'Very envious'.

Friend near me builds them. Even created his own gimbal for his unit.

Good post.

*Remember when riding rural that the lanes are often in shadow all day, so you can be riding a good surface one minute and the next bend has frost or ice on a road surface that's not seen the sunshine all day so is still there for the night before. *Lots of rotting green stuff (leaves and so on), sl...

64 now. At 17 they gave me six months to live. Positive attitude is 'everything'. Been riding bikes since the early seventies. Spent my entire life walking hills, caving, diving - anything that tested my body really. I agree I don't bounce so well these days as a major biking incident back in 2009 c...

Conditions and speed were probably a factor as has been mentioned. We all get a little overconfident now and again, and forget that at any given time, there's only a thin strip of rubber in contact with the tarmac. Put other factors like lubricants, polished metal (drain covers), into that equation ...

Agree. Report him 'before' someone gets killed.

Its all about income generation. You can argue the merits of bikes all you want. They see a way of making extra cash so they'll implement it regardless. Remember all the technical data that brought in the global warming taxes? Most of those arguments were proven to be inaccurate, 'but' the taxes are...

Exactly the same a few years ago on the way home from work. The driver of the car who pulled out on me, didn't stop. Just kept right on going. I was standing on the pegs trying to bring the BMW under control. Managed to stop but stalled the bike in the process. He just carried on. For all he knew I ...