yeh gotta agree done mine for the last 3 winters ..clean and spray in october then wash with clean water out the hose pipe at weekends then nowt till spring , clean again and respray..then just hose down till winter..aint got time for cleaning and polish :whistle: it looks better covered in mud :P ....

I do like the distressed look , a certain Miss Beany will be impressed :laugh: , we bought a old cottage years ago ..repo job no toilet,kitchen etc and the wires were hanging out the roof. For carpet used cardboard boxes and moped the floor to keep dust down :woohoo: they were the good old days and ...

Got the map in the post today as promised by stanfords... erm..not many roads on it :whistle: but loads of hill terrain :cheer: and some nice very twisty white roads/trails [no road numbers alongside] through the hills/mountains. There are some brilliant looking roads in the C class so it`s gonna be...

my two peneth :whistle: :whistle: it all depends what and where you want to go..if its anywhere off the beaten track then it must accept waypointed tracks...Tom Tom does not. For uk memory map is excellent...but loads of third party garmin compatible software available so you can use memory map on a...

Hi Simon.. Apparently the map is due for delivery to me Tomorrow :woohoo: from stanfords and I have the michelin map arriving too from flea bay bargin section :whistle: for the other part of the trip me and Phil are gonna do after yours..reccy party ;) Spoke with a few guys over here and they seem t...

Few thats okay then... :cheer: :cheer: just apck yourself in a suitcase with a sticker for the "sunshine state" ie..

fill the front room with palm tree`s and loads of sunbeds and happy musac!!

it`ll soon be summer again but then it rains all the time :whistle: :whistle:

He aint been on xrv since mid September

maybe His kids have tied him up and sold his Africatwin ..seriously though hope your ok mate and life aint got you down ....

I think Minky said it all really.. All new bikes have problems as do cars etc etc, dealers well some are good some bad. Second hand you hope most of the "new " problems have been fixed especially if buying the right bike at right mileage which for me is about 18k 3 years old. Those gs8 are...

dont see why not..dont think they would interupt the cooling air flow to the radiators..

http://www.xrv.org.uk/forums/varadero/4 ... iters.html

do a google search for varadero fork gaiters under images and the one off of xrv shows a pic..

all you need is some mud :whistle:

come on craig...

just a quick message to say your okay please.. we miss your banter..