reliability and rallies

[Bosun]

do you think the reason some of these rallies have now grown and grown is that bikes are now far more reliable?

no more checking everything after a 60mile journey while you also recover from the shakes etc

no one seems to flinch at 150miles plus now

[BlackPig]

I personnaly wasn't aware that distances were a problem,when I lived back 'ome,near Penzance in Cornwall,I had t' do a 120 miles just to get to Exeter FFS !! :rolleyes:

[Rogue Monkey]

Nah! I made it to loads o rallies on a clapped out Harley! I think its cos there are more cars there! :rolleyes:

[Mrs Reject]

My bike isn't reliable, Mitch blew the exhaust pipe off it this morning. I said, we've got to change those spark plugs for 8's and he said oooooooh no they are fine as they are........and now look what's happened eh? eh?
Sorry, just thought I'd involve everyone in the family argument - you are expected to take sides, as long as it's my side :D

[Mitch]

My bike isn't reliable, Mitch blew the exhaust pipe off it this morning. I said, we've got to change those spark plugs for 8's and he said oooooooh no they are fine as they are........and now look what's happened eh? eh?
Sorry, just thought I'd involve everyone in the family argument - you are expected to take sides, as long as it's my side :D
ex-squeeze me? Check yur email me-ducks!!! :D you said fuel starvation, get it right dearie!! (honest guv!!) hehehehe!!

[Creature]

distance no object - as long as theres a petrol station every 35 miles or so :) and theres enough hours ion the day

[Bosun]

My bike isn't reliable, Mitch blew the exhaust pipe off it this morning. I said, we've got to change those spark plugs for 8's and he said oooooooh no they are fine as they are........and now look what's happened eh? eh?
Sorry, just thought I'd involve everyone in the family argument - you are expected to take sides, as long as it's my side :D


shall we say the cat did it to save further bloodshed?

[mr.chaz]

Fayji.....
Saying all that , we still have two or three rally clubs around us that do the same old rallies year in and year out and never venture further.
I was nattering away with a couple of ladies who have been around since I was a kid and the looks they gave me when I suggested maybe they ride along with us to Rock and Blues or Celtics this year - blasphemous!

I can't see the enjoyment of doing just the same local rallies , seeing the same faces every other weekend - year in , year out. Especially when you've seen the same old faces for the last 20 years!

Get on your bloody bike and ride it! that's what I sayz

[Bosun]

indeed ... only just 2 saturdays agao we were on way to a party, my mate chatting to a guy at this hotel bar.. " oh yes i have a speed triple, done 600 miles this year " he said proudly..
" oh said me mate, when i get home tommorrow i will have done 500 miles this weekend" the look on his face :)

laugh nearly wet me self

next year i am definitely heading for NABD as want something new

[BikerGran]

Bloke at work got a Triumph. Said to him the other day - well back in the nice weather whenever that was - 'haven't seen you come in on your bike lately?'
He said 'No, don't want to put too many miles on it! '


WTF?......... I'm not often speechless!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[STEViE]

Before my Triumph 'Bonnie' became a 'PROJECT' it would regularly get me out to our clubhouse parties in Germany an' back. Reliable ? Very, as long as I remembered that I could only get 85 miles out of a tankfull before needin' to be lookin' for a petrol station. On a couple of occasions it did run out, once when I was only about a mile an' a half from the clubhouse. A couple of the guys came out to bring me some petrol and I couldn't fathom why they were laughin' so much as they filled up my tank. Turned out the b'stards had syphoned the juice out of a mower - they thought that quite funny.

[Gypsy]

i think we have done over 3500 miles on ralleys this season.. not too bad methinks

[Doro]

20 years ago most rallies were small, and most bikes were unreliable, but we regularly travelled from Newcastle to London, Midlands etc.

on a 400/4, a triumph tiger (chrome tank, loverly bike) and a dodgy old suzuki type of thing

I think the reason rallies have got bigger is to do with clubs getting more organised and getting more money and the idea of a bikers rally being a 'show' means it isn't as scarey to the gen. public and council officials etc and more respectable 40 somethings who wear suits to work are taking up biking and going to shows

you can also relate that last sentance to pubs

very rare to be refused entry to a pub if you're a biker these days