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Most tracks are surprisingly beginner friendly, that's the beauty of the groups :) Novice tends to be more crowded but there are strict passing rules and everyone is moving at a pretty calm pace so very good to learn. It's actually challenging in a way as it's a lot of higher speed sustained corners with tightening radiuses etc. But a very pleasant track. I miss elevation changes 😂 We think it was that quiet due to the heat warnings, a lot of people might not have shown up due to that. It was a very quiet group, good in a way but not as fun as having some people to joust with :P Correct! They do endurance stuff also :) I was lucky that most of Ireland is a basically small back road race tracks and I rode bikes there when I was younger....so more of an idiot than I am now. When I finally got to the track it felt fairly natural(with a lot of bad habits). Thankfully Mr Chris Gray took me under his wing and taught me how to be less shite. But nothing formal ever no. Just practice :)

Hahaha I am not very fast, some guys out there were flying!! I really like the track tbh, a nice amount of challenging. Thanks Andy!

Thanks! Honestly you don't have to brake brake much on this track except for turn 1 which has markers. They are indeed, some very tricky ones to get right, I made a mess of too many of them I know I can hit though, nice to have a target too. Very quiet on account of the heat I think, it was nice in a way I could be very consistent, but like that it was harder to push to try match and catch someone.

It honestly gives my life meaning. I go to work to earn money to do this stuff.

@@TheGorillaBiker you are living a lot more than most my man. I’m going to do a track day in Tasmania. It’s cheap and don’t need one piece leathers.

@@hachewie I try! Still not nearly enough tho eh, need to win that lotto so I can bunk work forever :D Oh nice!! I look forward to seeing it :)

Now it's solicited tho cus I formally ask for your advice.

@@TheGorillaBiker my advice is to reject my advice and just love riding that beautiful kawasaki.

@@hachewie I will follow part 2 but not part 1.

It's N2844-002

@@TheGorillaBiker thank you. I am looking through the site for the wind screen as i just got the bike last weekend. Super excited

No problem! Congrats! I bought from Amazon but you can also buy direct from National Cycle! Best of luck with the bike :)

It's an overflow if memory serves. The lower house goes to the rad, the upper hose is an overflow hose and goes to the ground

I did think it was very odd that it had stripped and I hadn't felt anything, either way stripped intentionally or not for assembly it wasn't usable. That's what I said? It barely is long enough. That said it has held up to road use and a track day now.

It's a rental house. So literally never.

Glad it was, and best of luck with the search!

Right you are, not sure why I never double checked what I'd been told. I also could have looked online harder I suppose but here we are! Thanks!

That's it really, I mean I get that we need to diversify how we transport ourselves around, but it was handled so so poorly imo. Yeah, which is really sad in a way, if I could have a multidirectional treadmill and a headset to walk around skyrim I'd be the fittest man alive.

Thank you amigo. It was a very happy track day indeed :) Yeah, the mount worked really really well on the Vstrom, but the need for something to tie off that excess strap is needed and then on the Z900RS, functional but way too fiddly imo. You are indeed!!

Happens to the best of us....and the worst :P Exactly. I really think it's why so many bigger youtubers just seem turned off bikes in general. I'll keep popping out videos so long as people like them. Hahaha I think that's why we're friends eh, just both happily deluded with bikes :D Oh I'd say some people 100% would.

@@TheGorillaBiker I think it is one of the reasons I don't commute often by bike, I like to keep a separation between work and play

That's true, it is also an original osmo action that's been rolled over by a bike too so we'll cut it a little slack....I'm planning on finally buying a new action cam soon..... just have to decide which one. Hahaha I'd be fat as a fool.....or not....depends on how well they paid :D A Yuge burd. They're very cool, always love seeing them.

@@TheGorillaBiker me too, the one on my trail ride vid was Incredible 🤩

Haha I overspent tbh, it was a last minute spur of the moment buy, which I normally don't do so I am glad it worked out :) Exactly, I like to talk to anyone on their bikes and why they keep/sell them! Yeah, I think as a global population we can't lose sight of keeping places actually pleasant to live, people have to live places of course and work places, but we need to set aside plenty of green and beauty spots.

Sorry not sure how I missed this one! I miss good brick and mortar stores tbh, even the bike shops that are around now rarely have much gear in stock and even less bikes, which really makes me sad as I love just wandering through bike shops dreaming. I actually really dislike ordering online, I recently had to return a jacket to Revzilla that didn't fit and it was such an ordeal I probably won't bother again. That's very possible, I'd love to have a lot more transparency on the push for electric. For an A to B commuter in a city, fine, but otherwise they really don't make a lick of sense, ESPECIALLY if you're not wealthy as they cost a lot. Hydrogen is a mega challenging one. I don't see it being mass adopted any time soon either. I think the ones that make sense aren't affordable. I follow a few people who have the Rivian R1T and that looks like something I would actually be able to use for commuting and towing a bike etc. But it costs $75,000!!!!!!! I mean that is just so far beyond anything I would ever consider spending on a car it may as well not exist. That for me is the issue, the ones people can afford are largely pointless as cars. The motorcycles.....too expensive I'd buy a used Honda Cb or something. People shouldn't be regulated in to buying things that literally don't make any financial sense to them. Thanks for the comment :)

Yeah it is most certainly easier for some things, I just like cable operated clutches as you can fix them on the side of the road pretty easily.

No problem! Release the clutch also before reinstalling makes it easier!

Why thank you. To be fair it's insanely easy to keep bikes clean where I am, and I have the garage

@@TheGorillaBiker I couldn't keep my bike clean if I tried. Which is maybe why I really don't try.

To be fair I never bothered much in Ireland, it'd be dirty the same day again.

Thanks man, I had an absolute blast :)

Nice! Congrats!

@@TheGorillaBiker thanks man, your review was great, not clinical and boring like most

@@Backswell thank you! I just ride the bikes and talk about what I like 😂 Nothing fancy!

Happy to hear it, thank you!! :)

Thank you kind sir! I did realise last night it might look terrible now that I have my numbers on, we'll see. Hahaha oh absolutely, I'd say they're looking at us from wherever they ended up cursing us :D Like it is so so easy to get very good quality video, and I'm using a very well used gopro hero 8 too! The newer ones are so so much crisper. Yeah I agree, a lot of the overdone videos that have all the fancy clips and such, I personally have never understood them as I'm watching for a vlog, or information, it's not in a cinema etc. But each to their own at the same time!! Thank you!! You too, and an even bigger thank you for joining the Patreon, still think everyone who does is completely mad :D

It's honestly been essentially perfect for a tail bag, it'd be very nice on your bike too as it's not gaudy or anything on retro-y bikes

@@TheGorillaBiker Heh, still gotta put my rear rack on. I'm lazy and work is an evil octopus trying to pull me under the waves.

Get yourself a good spear gun and get that rear rack sorted out :P Then send me pictures :)

Depends on mileage with a lot of them. Most twins use a little as they age. No idea on this one as I didn't own the bike.

I'm glad people(and you obv.) think it comes across like that!! I've honestly always just covered what I'm doing, I don't think any other way would work for me as I really don't have any time to go for some of the more professional setups people have! No hassle!! Glad to be of some use :D I love the Z, absolutely one of my favourite modern bikes. Good at everything! Exactly, if I don't know how to do it I'd rather spend the time learning how to do it than just be able to afford to keep the bike!! A good kind of geek :D Yeah I'm the same, I'll happily help friends with servicing but as soon as you take money for it it changes, and I just don't want to do that. It's hard enough trying to keep to a video schedule :D Thank you sir!! :)

Thank you kind sir. Excellent! :) Hopefully it passes tech, if not I'll figure something out. Definitely want to get you all some videos out of it! I'm the same, honestly the thing I still watch a lot of, and enjoy making, is just the old basic vlog. Just talking about things. It wouldn't work so well if comments weren't a thing though. Haha the idiot filter is mucho importante.....not sure how I made it through that tho :D Yeah they are I suppose, fences look nicer though, and oddly friendlier.

Thanks! I hope the bike treats you well! :)

@@TheGorillaBiker thanks,..these are a savage bike in every way, the handling, the power if you want it and the looks etc,...mine is in the M sport colours,..she puts a big smile on my puss every time I ride her (thats the BMW !!),...ole ole !!😉

What's the best way to contact you? I would definitely like to pick your brains over my electrical gremlins :) Thank you also!

I don't think I take any youtubers as role models tbh - I wouldn't recommend anyone does we're all mostly morons who spend on their money on fun stuff :D That's a very good point over here, there really are no clear boundaries or fences which I still find odd even after being here a while. The no fences are your house is mad. Haha glad to hear it, I'm not even very professional in my actual job, I'm just good at fixing stuff so they keep me around :D Thanks Stephen!

Oh that's a big move!! I hope you like it as much as I did :)

Yeah it does seem to be the unfortunate path a lot have to follow to make things work. I won't personally call anyone out for shilling, I would like to pick their brains on it first. Hard to get a response from a lot of people these days too tho. I agree 100%. Like I get it, you play the unfun game etc and the result of beating a boss etc feels nice but you really didn't enjoy bloody getting there eh! Nah, I'd sooner enjoy the journey. Well, I'm glad you think so :) Thanks!

@@TheGorillaBiker we can disagree on calling people out for shilling, I'll call them out due to them basically being influencars without actually doing any reviewing a product, they are telling you info from the manufacturer only.

@@mygi43543 well....that's actually very fair. A few tell me I'm too nice 😂 I will say I don't think I've ever watched TMF and did stop watching C2W for pretty much that reason.

i've has s22 and m9rr on my bikes, both are amazing tyres, I prefer the s22 though.

I've never had a bad experience with dunlops, even when I did track with my CBF 1000 my very worn old sportsmaxs did an incredible job. The q5s I'm really looking Forward to trying. I've never used metzeler much, main tyre supplier for the TT now until 2027! I might give them a try at some point but I've already bought the q5s :)

@@mygi43543 I wouldn't get s22 again tbh. Great tyre but Id sooner try sometime I haven't lowsided with at the track 😂

@@TheGorillaBiker haha true, my complaint is that they wear way to fast

@@mygi43543 fair, especially if you ride on the street with them a lot. Stromboli is king for the donkey work! 10k miles out of the last rear!

Ive done about 5 tyres on it to date, about to do 2 more. Very impressed. I'll be doing an auld review soon :)

Gracias amigo, hopefully it passes tech and I can get some footage. So it turns out if you have a posted sign like that you can just call the cops on someone without giving a warning about it being private property first. So it makes sense. I just think having so many of them gives an unfriendly feel to the area.

Why thank you good sir, hopefully it passes tech. Yeah same, like everything I make plus waaaaaaaay more :D Sorry future me. It's nice when it happens but also generally brings in a lot more negative people....or probably the same % of them just more cus trending etc. I'm just happy some people still watch my videos. Stop making me want to upgrade from my 1000 pls and thanks :D

@TheGorillaBiker haha the DE is perfect for us lanky ones, love it!

@@tomstc what you were mentioning about it in one of the vids being nice and such, it sounds like the fixed the windscreen, which is honestly my only complaint

@TheGorillaBiker yeah I'm looking into replacing with the adjustable one from the XT not sure why they didn't make it adjustable?

@@tomstc no idea. They seem to be fairly shocking at making a good stock screen in general. Need to invest in a wind tunnel I think 😂

That's exactly what I do, and I largely agree. I think if you go the Blockhead route, where you have a viable business and youtube as well, that's cool. Or DIWD who still makes the madest blend of videos, and I like that. But so so so so many people just make long form ads these days.

Ah nice! I've lived in the Clayton area for about a year now, it's nice, just need more twisty roads :D