Hi there,
I just found this forum while searching for a better looking exhaust. A Beowulf is now on the way. ;D
I'm sort of living in Brittany France, well the wife and the bikes are there. I spend most of my time bouncing around all the wonderful places in the world looking at drilling rigs.
Anyway I bought the GTR new last year. Its a French one restricted to 106 HP but it really doesn't bother me that much at the moment. It's plenty fast enough to lose my licence. Apparently they're really easy to derestrict but getting caught gets your bike crushed. >:(
I've got a Dorsoduro for hooning around the lanes on......oddly enought thats 100 brake horse as well.. ;D I've also got two trials bikes a Beta 250 and a 1975 Ossa 250 MAR which I managed to implale my leg on the handlebar an hour after I bought it. >:( Dougie Lampkin I certainly am not :D
Oh and my French is crap.......In Algeria the other month I asked a waiter for bread (in my best French "du pain s'il vous plaît")........and he brought me an omlette ??? Tasted quite nice though.... ;)
Hello here, quite a stable of bikes you have...lucky sod. I have the beowulf fitted..no complaints at all...nice little piece of kit
Hi Slick, ;)
If you still have a UK licence then you can buy, register and insure a bike from that address.
I know of several ex-pats driving on UK plates, etc. in Europe registered to their Grans address.
I've ridden both and the difference between 106PS and 160PS is very noticeable, as is the difference in torque.
Are you also on GTRMania or is your French not that good?
I'm a Francophone (grew up in Belgium) so I surface there occasionally.
Bienvenu,
Hi and welcome to the forum.
Not sure I could live with 106BHP. Not with all those BMW M series drivers that need a lesson ;D
Welcome JR ... ;D
Nice to have you on board .. don't worry about the restriction ... it's still fast enough !
Great little garage of bikes you have ... how does one choose on a day to day basis ?? ;D
Thanks for the welcome. Which bike to choose? Easy, if I'm off out for the day or taking the missus the Kwacker. If it's only a couple of hours lunacy the Dorsoduro. I really should get rid of it. It promotes extremely bad behaviour ;D ::) ;D...and if it's pissing down take the Beta down to my mates wood down the road. ;)
As for the Ossa I really bought it to restore eventually and it was cheap. I'm also very wary of it since it spat me off and I found that it might not totally have been all my own incompetence. On closer inspection it had been modified with shorter rear shocks than standard. No wonder I got to the top of a bank and found the front wheel going over the top of my head... :o :o
I had a UK model Guzzi Norge previously which I French registered because staying on UK plates gets a bit dodgey with UK insurers if you spend more than 3 months out of UK. Also its illegal in France not to register a vehicle after 6 months.
As for the power apparently the 106 bhp law is being revoked in 2013 as it is against European law. Which is just about the time I'll be looking to trade the Kwaker in. 8)
I'll have a look at GTR Mania but I doubt if my french is that good, might give it a go with google and see what happens. Cheers :)