UKRM Run 2010
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From: Wicked Uncle Nigel on 2 May 2010 16:43 Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, The Older Gentleman <totallydeadmailbox(a)yahoo.co.uk> typed > >Enjoyable few days' riding, all the same. The K managed a best of 55mpg >(gentle pootling around on Saturday) and a worst of 40mpg (two-up into >the howling sodden sodding headwind outside Calais). The GTR is distressingly thirsty when pressing on. I filled up near St Quentin, and got the low fuel light as I approached the port. -- Wicked Uncle Nigel - "He's hopeless, but he's honest" I've always been a man who's open to persuasion
From: TMack on 2 May 2010 16:46 Wicked Uncle Nigel wrote: > Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, The Older > Gentleman <totallydeadmailbox(a)yahoo.co.uk> typed >> >> Enjoyable few days' riding, all the same. The K managed a best of >> 55mpg (gentle pootling around on Saturday) and a worst of 40mpg >> (two-up into the howling sodden sodding headwind outside Calais). > > The GTR is distressingly thirsty when pressing on. I filled up near St > Quentin, and got the low fuel light as I approached the port. Ditto with the ST3. Filled up near St Quentin, fuel light on the way into the port at Calais. It died just as I was parking it on the ferry, which gave me visions of having to push it off at the other end. However, it turned out I had just stalled it. I made it to a garage in Dover with no problem. -- Tony '04 Ducati ST3, '08 DL650GT, 97 TW200, '87 semi-rat LS650, OMF#24
From: Salad Dodger on 2 May 2010 16:51 On Sun, 2 May 2010 21:43:34 +0100, Wicked Uncle Nigel <wun(a)wicked-uncle-nigel.me.uk> wrote: >Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, The Older >Gentleman <totallydeadmailbox(a)yahoo.co.uk> typed >> >>Enjoyable few days' riding, all the same. The K managed a best of 55mpg >>(gentle pootling around on Saturday) and a worst of 40mpg (two-up into >>the howling sodden sodding headwind outside Calais). I hate you. The run down on Friday (at an average 85mph) returned just shy of 30mpg. > >The GTR is distressingly thirsty when pressing on. I filled up near St >Quentin, and got the low fuel light as I approached the port. Blimey. We filled up at the St Quentin Motorway services, and rode all the way home on it. Low point was the impromptu tour of Reims roadworks, deviations, and tram network construction project, which is why we ended up on the autoroute after all.
From: TMack on 2 May 2010 16:50 Higgins wrote: > Spete wrote: > >> Higgins: since you didn't react to my waving my arms, I hope you >> gathered I took to the road to Liege and aren't searching ditches for >> cloggie bits :-) Thanks for the ride, was a nice road we took. >> > > I stuck me leg out. Gone native, you see. > > > It was good apart from the moment of sheer panic when the fuel gauge > went from four bars to none, in an instant. My ST3 does something similar - goes from 3 bars to orange light in next to no time. -- Tony '04 Ducati ST3, '08 DL650GT, 97 TW200, '87 semi-rat LS650, OMF#24
From: Nige on 2 May 2010 17:49
On 02/05/2010 21:50, TMack wrote: > Higgins wrote: >> Spete wrote: >> >>> Higgins: since you didn't react to my waving my arms, I hope you >>> gathered I took to the road to Liege and aren't searching ditches for >>> cloggie bits :-) Thanks for the ride, was a nice road we took. >>> >> >> I stuck me leg out. Gone native, you see. >> >> >> It was good apart from the moment of sheer panic when the fuel gauge >> went from four bars to none, in an instant. > > My ST3 does something similar - goes from 3 bars to orange light in next to > no time. > Use the forks, Luke.. |