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It was the classic most common and deadliest motorbike accident; drifting into oncoming traffic on a left hand bend. Second most common is apparently drifting off road on a right hand bend, and third is to be hit by traffic pulling out from junctions and not seeing you. Luckily i collided as a...

Well that didn’t last long! Passed my full licence last year, bought a Royal Enfield classic 500 (see earlier posts), and have written it off 4 weeks ago. Collided with oncoming traffic but very lucky to get away with just severe bruising! Insurance write off value cheque just arrived - can’t...

That classic 350 is the modern replacement to my discontinued classic 500. I test rode it to see how the two compared. Can see why it get good reviews.

Impressive. Very guilty look at having been caught restoring it in the living room! At least you made the effort to roll back the carpet!

Going for your full A licence?

In the middle? (of england) - warwickshire. The landlady took umbrage at our querying the cost and suggested we clear off elsewhere if we felt it was too expensive. She says it will be similar now wherever we tried, hence my tongue in cheek post about self sufficiency as an alternative...

For years my riding buddy and i have often stopped at pubs towards the end of a ride. Being creatures of habit, we usually have one pint each with a small bag of scratchings and one of nuts. Yesterday, we were charged nearly £16, up £4 from last month, and nearly twice what we were paying not so...

Just back from a bit of cycling on the bridleways of Finistere. Road calming measures taken very seriously here. Cars lane reduced to single track, but can use cycle lane to pass oncoming traffic. Noticed that motorists gave cyclists time and space wherever. Number of towns and villages have an...

Out of the searing heat and coming across spooky menhirs in the woods of Finistere. All praise to the bike god Velodin? Sacrificed some peanuts i had just in case.

Rode the Workington to Sunderland route (mix of road and mainly non technical bridleways/old railway lines) on a hybrid over 3 days, carrying own kit. Reasonably tough going, even after training, so would not have enjoyed trying to complete in two days. Day 1 was mixed surface and a relatively...

My son’s girlfriend has started out on a 100km cotswold camping and cycling weekend. Rear hanger has snapped and local bike shop doesn’t have a replacement ( not surprising because of the sheer number of patterns). I could only suggest shortening chain and running it single speed. She has...

In January last year I bought this Royal Enfield classic 500. However, up to that point I had never ridden a motorbike in my life and had no licence to do so! All I needed to to do was get some lessons, pass a test and off i could go!!!!! Smile was wiped off my face when I found that no theory...

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Near Rugby. Willing to travel short distance if required.

Bumping this as i have now finally boxed it and could post. As above but note there are no tyres, nor tubes so as to keep package below 1m length and reduce weight. £100 collected or £120 posted.

Just passed my theory test two weeks ago. CBT and Mod1 for category A licence passed last week. Starting lessons for Mod2 next week. The multiple choice section is very easy, and if you brush up on highway code and signs, you really cannot fail this part. It is the hazard perception test that...

Re: 17” is from centre of bb to top of seat tube. Fairly certain that is how Clockworks sizes are quoted. 15.5” to centre of top tube. Think the popular sizes for the clockwork were 15”, 17”, 19”. Top tube is 21.5” from centre of seattube to centre of headtube. Steerer and headtube are 1”...

Re: 26" WTB/Ritchley wheel, 26" Mavic 261/stx wheel Have added these wheels to the clockwork frameset posted separately, so not currently available on their own.

Re: Have added the wheels that were listed separately. Surely this is a good project for someone!