A new year, but before we look forward, here are some of the highlights from 2017
A little late maybe, but that ruddy flu got me and has set me back.
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Videos featuring tips on riding and highlights from my many motorcycle adventures
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Sixth Sense Skills – Tip 20 (Peds)
So many close calls, can you predict what is about to happen? Reckon you would have the sixth sense skills to avoid these near misses?
So many
Unfortunately, this is the state of London today, too many people completely oblivious to their surroundings.
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Sixth Sense Skills – Tip 19 (Bad Obs)
I know my video output has been a bit sparse lately, but I do hope you’ll find this one interesting.
There’s clearly a number of lessons to be drawn from this video on planning ahead, avoiding distractions, maintaining safe distances, personal safety bubble and not carrying too much speed into situations. I’d love to hear your thoughts on this. Thankfully the rider only had an injured pride and some minor cosmetic bike damage.
The holidays are most definitely over, it’s back to the serious business of not dying on the streets of London. I see a lot of stupid road users and I’m fairly immune (mentally) to most of it these days, but tonight things got very close. A proper brown pants, heart pumping, adrenaline gushing moment.
See if you can predict what is about to unfold. What would you have done?
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Sixth Sense Skills – Tip 17
It’s been a while since I last put up a Sixth Sense video, but this incident today was ripe for a fresh video. Enjoy!
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ELAM Ride Out Video
Some highlights from a recent ride out with the East London Advanced Motorcyclist (ELAM) group I’m with. A great day blitzing around Herts and Essex. Hope you enjoy it!
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Sixth Sense Skills 16
A full review of that Nautilus Stebel horn can be found here.
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Sixth Sense Skills – Tip 14 – Fail :(
What a shit morning. My biker sixth sense wasn’t with me today…
Whilst quietly filtering through some suburban traffic approaching the A13 I managed to drop the bike. Again. I was just about to start filtering past a queue of traffic when a car decides to do the same thing and pulls out on me. I panic braked, locked up the front wheel and down she went. All very low speed (as usual), didn’t even hit another car, they just carried on oblivious. Grrr. Totally smashed the fairing, crash bars did their job, but various other bits are scuffed.
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Sixth Sense Skills – Tip 13
In the clip I’m going to highlight an all too common hazard on the streets of London.
A key item on the regular service schedule is the replacement of the air filter. On my FZS600 2003, this is due every 6000 miles or every year (whichever is the soonest). This year, however, I decided to fit a K&N reusable filter, slightly more expensive but it should pay for itself after a couple of years. The Fazer 600 is known to run slightly on the rich side, so the increased airflow from a K&N should balance this out.
Here’s a quick video run-through of how to replace the filter. It’s an easy task that you all should be able to tackle, don’t be put off by having to remove the fuel tank.
Tools required are minimal: an 8mm socket, T30 Torx socket/alan key, Philips screwdriver and some needle pliers (to unclip fuel pipe).
Tips as you go along:
- Ensure you only have a small amount of fuel in the tank to keep it light when removing.
- Have some tissues/rags to mop up the drop of petrol that’s left in the loose fuel pipe.
- Don’t forget to turn back on the fuel tap before bolting down the tank afterwards!
