SECOND GTR1400

[kwarrgtr]

umm whats a flat gap, is it something to do with missing teeth.....

[Boomer]

umm whats a flat gap, is it something to do with missing teeth.....

Go easy on them. They struggle to speak and write English Ooop Narth.
It's all those Viking genes ya see. 

As for Nartherners being out in the cold in their string vests,..... where there's no sense, there's no feeling! 
(that saying was copied from my Dad, who was raised in Greetland,... and me Mam's from Elland)

EssexBoy, if the tank is vacuuming shut then chances are the vent tube is trapped, blocked or kinked.
Either way I'd get to the dealers with it and get it sorted before it buckles the tank.

Pitsea is the only place in the world where I stood in the Market on a busy Weds afternoon for 15 minutes and didn't see a single woman I even vaguely fancied. I can't think of a more appropriately named place. A pit by the sea.

[100milesaway]

Southern Softies like to come out now the sun is shining .... you are so right !! The numbers are balancing out nicely I think .... you never know we may organise a Southern Meet .......

Ah yes a few rays of sunshine come bursting  through the clouds, and the shandy drinking nancy boys from darn sarf are singing like my local song thrush. Meanwhile up norf where it's dead good an reet proper we make final arrangments for our summer season of inter village fun and games. The 19th Leyburn canal jumping competition is my favorite, closely followed by the ladies flan flinging championships. Kids also get to join in the fun with their own wellie flinging gala day. And finally the highlight of the festival of fun is the Wensydale cheese rolling championships, the idea of this  is to roll a massive chunk of cheese down the local hillside hopefully knocking lots of folk over as it goes.(extra points are awarded for bowling over errant southerners, especially if they happen to be knocked into a fresh cowpat).Aye ya can se wot ya wont, but we know ow ta enjoy us sels up ere. 

[Essex Boy]

Boomer , sorry for the delay in responses, but that thing called 'work' keeps getting the way. Problems with the tank vacuuming shut is probably a venting problem I agree. I'm surprised it isn't making the bike miss a beat or two but she seems fine.

600 mile service will be due next week so I will get Colchester Kawasaki to check it out.

350 miles of London commuting so far and all good otherwise.

EB

[O.C.]

(that saying was copied from my Dad, who was raised in Greetland,... and me Mam's from Elland)

George.....are you being serious....no really are you???????

My family is from Greetland and originally Elland 

[zedmeister]

eeeeeyyy by ekk, flat cap throwing,who needs frizbies, darn saaf dont they do filo fax tossing.

[Essex Boy]

...only after we had some pleasant canapes and a cheeky glass of Pinot Grigio....don't you know !

eb

[zedmeister]

Nay lad pint 'o' best n a chunk uh black puddin, puts hairs on thi chest.

( but i do like a glass of pimms )

[Winston Smith]

Nay lad pint 'o' best n a chunk uh black puddin, puts hairs on thi chest.

( but i do like a glass of pimms )

Pimms?!!?? - Yer southern softie.  Midlander mekin' art thas from oop north.  Tha shud be suppin' bitter strained through a Sheffield birds gusset - as a starter!

[Boomer]

George.....are you being serious....no really are you???????

My family is from Greetland and originally Elland 

Yup, Dad was born in Oxford University (Nan was heavily pregnant when they were evacuated from London during the Blitz) and then they moved to Greetland.
Lived in a 2-up, 2-down right by the cricket pitch. One of his fondest memories was watching the river change colour when the mill changed the colours they were dying the fabric with upstream.

Mum was born in Halifax Infirmary, lived in Elland (Whitwell Green Lane) until she married Dad and he carted her off to Germany (he was in the Royal Signals).
My Auntie Jean worked at the Gannex factory for ages and my cousin was in the Elland Boys Brigade and still lives in Halifax.

I spent a fair bit of my Yoof in Elland visiting family.
Used to go fishing in the Calder down by the Gas Works and hike up Ainley Top before they ruined it with the M62.

So I can claim to be half Yorkshire at least.
That said my grandparents were from Elland, Northampton, Perth and Port Talbot so I'm really ½ English, ¼ Scottish, ¼Welsh, which by my reckoning makes me British! 

I was born in a British Military hospital in Germany and have lived almost everywhere.
I'm only in Essex because my Nan was in Chelmsford and I stuck around after she died.

[O.C.]

Its a small world mate.

My family used to have a mill (Clay House Mill) in Greetland on the right just around the corner from Andy Thorntons Architectural Antiques building, which I think was originally Garnetts. My family name is Hamer.

My dear old uncle died about a year ago up until which time he lived in the 'family home' in Greetland, which is called The Hollies, and is on Clay House Lane, where their used to be a butchers, on the corner,  I think he was called Geoff Morton.

I was born in Huddersfield and lived at Bradley Bar and I too used to love cycling up the hill to Ainley Top and then free wheeling down towards Rastrick, alas all that changed when, as you say, they built the M62.....which reminds me do you recall Marsdens Farm half way upthat long hill ?

[BigAlan]

Problems with the tank vacuuming shut is probably a venting problem I agree. I'm surprised it isn't making the bike miss a beat or two but she seems fine.
.
EB

Both I and a mate had this problems on or Sprint ST form new within 6 months, the tank collapsed on the right hand side and neither of us noticed it as we hopped onto the biles form the left, another mate spotted it and it was weird when both of us went back to the dealer, same bikes, same village and same problem. All sorted with new tanks and the breathers put on the right way round underneath.

Alan

[Boomer]

....which reminds me do you recall Marsdens Farm half way upthat long hill ?

Sorry, I don't. There used to be a farm on the shelf just before the last rise to the top, but I have no idea what it was called.
I never got to ride my bicycle up there as we were always visiting or en route from one house to another.
All my "adventure" bicycle riding happened on the Quantocks in Somerset and the backwoods inland of Frillesås, Sweden.

[Nok12rs]

That is what the M in BMW stands for Monstrous.

That's why I have have kept my K1200RS since 1999 although I tested each replacement including the 1300GT.  None were as comfortable or good looking.  However, transmission problems  dogged me for 13 years and now I am renting a 1400GTR for a day next week.

I hope I love it if only because of this forum; great bunch and I love Geoff's avatar....or is it Geoff?

[O.C.]

its George....good innit