Bought my "Snotmobile"

[Bumpkin]

As I said Martin, you're a bad influence! 

[Kwikasfuki]

Hi and welcome to the forum Geoff.

Enjoy the ride. Green is ok, but black is best

[100milesaway]

Right thats you sorted now I'm going to try and convert 100milesaway. 

Dream on.     

[Boomer]

Crikey! What tyres do you use?!  I've never got the panniers down......

ArfArf,... he's soooooo funny! 
I meant clearance between cars and before someone tells you that the mirrors are wider, so what?
I just wiggle the handlebars and one mirror goes down and the other up and they both miss the car wing mirrors.
If yer a regular filterer (lanesplitter) then you'll know what I mean and you probably don't ride with the panniers fitted either.
The rest of you probably have panniers fitted and never ride in heavy traffic.
My pet hate when filtering is getting stuck behind an ST1300. 
They ALWAYS have the panniers fitted as they look like they've had an accident when you remove them, and they are a slow moving bloody roadblock for the rest of us. 

[Bumpkin]

Ah well - seems me and the GTR never did quite gel....

Could well be the weather since I bought her as the storm last Autumn started when I ordered her, but I have now changed and got a Thunderbird Storm - for those of you who are wondering, yes, I ordered the Storm at the start of the heatwave!

As the weather spent so long being so bad I had to move to a car commute, so I've reset the expectations from my bike and gone for something easy to ride that shouts at people 

Good luck all, and if you're enjoying the weather I will take sponsorship not to buy another GTR 

[Boomer]

Serves you right for buying a green one. 
Enjoy the T-bird Storm.

Based on the fact that the weather got nice when you bought the T-bird, you do realise that are not allowed to sell it now,.... EVER!