http://www.woodgen.com/wordpress BMW F800 GS and Goldwing currently.. Sun, 10 Aug 2008 05:51:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Tomorrow I am off to the Irish Treffen on the Goldwing. I have never been to Ireland before so it''s a real first for me. There is one fly in the ointment however, the ferry tickets were booked by fellow Kent Winger Vern and the timing is such that we ... http://www.woodgen.com/wordpress/archives/195 A member of the UKGers forum had laid on an invitation ride for big trailies and novices over some of Salisbury plain and anxious to try out some new territory and also to see how my Metal Mules performed on the rough stuff, I was keen to sign up. I ... http://www.woodgen.com/wordpress/archives/194 I bought some SW Motech engine bars for the GS from Nippy Normans. They were a good price compared with other makes and they arrived swiftly. Both left hand and right hand bars went on the bike easily enough although the lower bolts must have been made from putty as ... http://www.woodgen.com/wordpress/archives/193 Got down to Metal Mule today and had these beauties fitted. It''''''''s two 38l side panniers and a 45l topbox. To get the balanced set-up the standard exhaust was replaced with a slimmer Scorpion exhaust. It is no noisier than standard but sounds quite different - better I think. http://www.woodgen.com/wordpress/archives/191 I got fed up with not being able to sync the Tomtom Rider 1 with my Scala Rider bluetooth headset and also with the somewhat flaky track recording that depends on a third party app that I installed to the Tomtom. So after swearing to avoid doing business with Touratech ... http://www.woodgen.com/wordpress/archives/190 I have been awaiting the arrival of BMW crash bars for the GS since I ordered the bike. The last news I had on these was that there were "production problems" with no further news on a projected delivery date. What these production problems might be in something as apparently ... http://www.woodgen.com/wordpress/archives/184 If you wonder why there are quotation marks where there should be an apostrophe, you are not alone, I am as puzzled as you.It started when I "upgraded" to Wordpress 2.5.1 and I started to get a couple of lines of php warnings before the blog proper loaded. I also ... http://www.woodgen.com/wordpress/archives/177 I ordered some of these for the GS quite a while ago - in late April if memory serves - at which time they were awaiting delivery of the new Scorpion exhausts which are needed if one wants a balanced pannier set up with no exhaust cut-out, as I do. ... http://www.woodgen.com/wordpress/archives/176 It just happens to be blocked by a rather large tree root..Turning six bikes round in a lane narrower than the bike is long necessitates some rather hard work.. It was a brilliant day, organised by Mike Wilson at South London BMW. Six brave souls, ... http://www.woodgen.com/wordpress/archives/175 For some greenlaning tomorrow that is. Recalling my last outing, a few precautions have been taken, such as to have had a bashplate fitted and I have removed one mirror from the bike - the other will come off before we hit the dirty stuff. One problem is deciding where ... http://www.woodgen.com/wordpress/archives/174