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Talking Motorcycles & Anything Else That Comes Along

Introductions And Shoutouts

SPEAKER_00

Any time Lynn, alright?

SPEAKER_06

Yeah, freaking back.

SPEAKER_01

Now we're live. Oh really, perfect.

unknown

Excellent.

SPEAKER_01

So make sure you keep quiet now, Lynn. Alright? Oh no, no, you tune in, Lynn.

SPEAKER_07

He's living a dangerous life in he.

SPEAKER_00

Oh, I'll get a clay later, I strike. I think we all are, aren't we? We're all like that. Yeah. Well, I mean I'll three chair, aren't I? I'm gonna say hello to Andy GSA Tractor, Slowrider. I saw your video come out today slow. I haven't seen it yet. I'll take a look later. Uh Rev bomb UK, hello. Who else have we got? Uh the contented biker. Hello, mate. How are you doing? Great to hear from you. Jamie T Spike and Adventure.

SPEAKER_09

I'm a fight, didn't I?

SPEAKER_00

Kind to go. GB Patriot. Hello, mate. And that seems to be it so far. We mark. Hello, mate. How are you doing? And let me introduce my uh crowd here today. So we've got Saddlebags 73 on the top side on the top right hand side. Lovely to see you have to video it today again, Jeff. Good news, mate. Oh thank you.

SPEAKER_08

Thank you.

SPEAKER_00

Lovely to wake way to wake up on a Sunday. We have Mark the Most Wanted. Smile, Mark.

SPEAKER_01

Evening all.

SPEAKER_00

There he is. Um bottom left hand corner. We have uh Heath and Kim, also known as Lost Helmets and Him. Hello. Hello Makers these two. Well, I think it's both of you. Hello, Howie. Hello, Quinn. Good to hear from you all. You've got any questions for any of these guys? Please ask away. Uh apart from that. I'm gonna say, Mark, who are you? Where are you from? Ish. Me. Not actually, yeah. Don't not your full address, not your postcode.

SPEAKER_01

Well, Tabby these days, but I'm a Whitley boy originally from Plymouth.

SPEAKER_05

Hey, nice one, Mark.

SPEAKER_01

Good on Kim.

Europe Tour Highlights And Costs

SPEAKER_00

Whitley, where's that? Was that Cornwall, is it?

SPEAKER_05

No! Devon!

SPEAKER_00

Plymouth. Oh, Devon, is it? Plymouth is what I know about mine, about Plymouth. Um Eve, you've just been uh across Europe this this year, haven't you?

SPEAKER_09

Yeah, just done seven weeks across Europe, yeah.

SPEAKER_05

I can't believe we're gonna hear it all again.

SPEAKER_00

I know you've got to go through it all over again, I'm afraid, Ken. You haven't earned the video in Lim, have you?

SPEAKER_05

Oh god, Mark, it's been awful.

SPEAKER_09

Yeah, I have a week, Space. Seven great weeks. It was supposed to be twelve, but I did seven in the end. Why did you want to do seven? Uh because he's missing me.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, that's what it was.

SPEAKER_09

Yeah, well I was gonna go to Turkey and I was gonna do a lot of camping in Western Europe and I threw away the tent after the first night, and then obviously my price my budgeted, my budgeted costs went up.

SPEAKER_10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09

So I thought I would save Turkey for another another trip. So I just went down as far as Greece and back around and back up again.

SPEAKER_00

A common thing people were saying, and that you said in your in your videos, was that the costs of travelling now has gone up a lot, hasn't it?

Routes, Ruins, And First-Time Rides

SPEAKER_09

Certainly Western Europe. Definitely when you get towards Poland, Bulgaria, and Greece, and that the price drops fuel-wise, hotel-wise, food-wise. As soon as you start coming back up the coast along Montenegro and Croatia, and all that, because you're running along resorts and holiday places, that price automatically goes up, and then as soon as you run into like um Austria and that, yeah, you're paying top dollar then.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. And Ed, have you actually been to any of these places before?

SPEAKER_09

Only France, Austria, Germany, Belgium. I've been to, but none of the others really, no.

SPEAKER_05

You haven't been to see them, had you?

SPEAKER_09

I've definitely not ridden to most of them. So that that was a route I had in my mind to go and see stuff, and that's how I plotted my route across to go and see stuff. So, like a lot of the stuff to start with was World War II stuff. Oh, yeah. And then it was castles and what I call crumbly old ruins, like Brown's castle. I did. Oh, I can't remember. I did lots of stuff out of castle. Yeah, but I saw lots of stuff on the internet that I wanted to go and see tick off.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. Was he tempted to go, Kim? I know I know it's complicated getting time off and everything else.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, because you got no, because you were going you originally you were going for three months, and I I couldn't get three months off work, and I've got a little little little ginger sacky sank there. He he couldn't do about me for three months.

SPEAKER_04

No.

SPEAKER_05

Um three months. I mean, we do three weeks on the bike, and that's enough for me, really. So I have got to concentrate. I'm not a great, I'm not a great rider, so I've I have got to concentrate a little bit. I think three months would have been would have been shattered, I think.

SPEAKER_00

You do well, because he's done a France trip. Was that this year or was it the year before? Yeah before.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah before we did Spain the year before. Yeah, we've got Spain planned for this year, three weeks.

SPEAKER_00

Oh, lovely. Was that up uh the peacock?

Spain Plans And Road Culture

SPEAKER_09

Is it no no no no no we're doing another lap again? So we go down towards south and then back up around anti-clockwise. Okay, peacoffs. Every time we've been through near it's been raining, um it's really narrow roads, uh, but there's so much to Spain to see. So if you just go to the peak, we'll go to the Pyrenees. I've been to a few times, but again, you're in the mountains, so there's only so many roads you can do. There's only so much you can see where uh Spain has really got a lot to offer.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. How about you, Jeff? You you were on the I know it's I think it's COVID, wasn't it, that put a stop to your Spain trip?

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, I had um a big tour of Spain planned, but yeah, COVID put pay to that. And uh yeah, I've not not got back around to it yet, but it's still you haven't been to Spain then, Jeff, on the bike yet? Not on the bike, I've been to Spain several times, yeah. Buyer cars and that, and um always wished I was on a bike. So I will I'll get to it one day.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, it it is it is nice, Spain on the bike.

SPEAKER_09

Well, you're treated the drivers, people out there are treated differently. So they got more respect for you and give you more room. So we we've done it stopped and roundabouts to let us two out.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah. We found that in Ireland, haven't we, Mark? Sorry, mate. We found that in Ireland that the the bikers are treated really well by the drivers, give you room and let you out and so you can stay in a group, things like that.

SPEAKER_00

Have you done any Europe trips, Mark?

SPEAKER_01

No, I haven't, mate. No, not on not on bikes at all. To be honest, my first trip really was with Jeff to Ireland the first year. So and that was just um spur of the moment, really, when he offered me the chance, I thought gotta do it. You know? Life's short, isn't it?

SPEAKER_00

It is yeah, I did I I really really really want to do it. Um yeah, I don't know what what's happening next year. Obviously, it's been a bit of a a funny year anyway, but um things are gonna be changing again soon, hopefully. So um yeah, we'll see. Um but have you got an island trip booked for next year or anything? Jeff and Mark?

SPEAKER_08

I haven't. Nothing planned as yet.

SPEAKER_01

No, last Pera's Osos, isn't it? We were talking about doing something, aren't we, as a group? I mean, there's uh the Sammy Miller trip. We were gonna do so. That's just a sort of a long weekend or whatever, isn't it? That's like that's kind of on the cards now.

SPEAKER_00

That's Bournemouth, isn't it? Sammy Miller?

SPEAKER_01

It's I don't know, Southampton way, isn't it?

SPEAKER_09

Yeah, southampton way, and five new forests and that, I think.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, that's right. Yeah, so I think that that that's hopefully gonna happen, but that's it, really.

SPEAKER_09

I've still got that's later on this year, I think. They're potentially trying to do it. Wait, wait, when was he talking about Ethereum later in the year or early? I can't remember without looking at my phone.

SPEAKER_01

No, I can't. I can't remember. Uh Pete was on about it, wouldn't he?

SPEAKER_09

Yeah, so I said that I think I said I could be interested because there's an overnighter in it, or one night two nights in Airbnb.

SPEAKER_01

Yes, yeah, yeah. So that that that would be a laugh anyway, wouldn't it? Like, you know, so definitely wine involved.

SPEAKER_09

Well, I'd do that be like a drinkers reunion, wouldn't it? Probably.

SPEAKER_01

And there's Kim going for a bottle, look. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

She's spilling it already.

SPEAKER_06

Look, don't waste it, Kim. No, I've got a spot and drop.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, I'm on a drive spell, not Steve.

SPEAKER_09

If you're gonna do a trip, you just need to get in and do it. You can do it as cheap as possible, as possible. Just need to go and do it. Yeah, find the bullet. So every time you find your skuse not to do it, you just shoot yourself in the foot.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, I know what you mean, mate.

SPEAKER_09

You can just jump on the ferry and doing a couple of nights of Brittany and back again, or doing full blow a couple of weeks or whatever.

SPEAKER_05

That's how we started off, isn't it?

SPEAKER_09

We just did a uh weekend weekends and stuff like that, but you can make it as cheap as you can live in a tent, you can sleep in a bus shower if you wanted to, or you can have the top hotel. You've got everything in between.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, I'd be happy in the UK. I'd I wouldn't really need to go abroad. I'd be more than happy just doing a tour of the coastline or whatever, really. And it's not the same.

SPEAKER_09

No, and I and again, it's time off in it. When we're all working, it's time off, you know. I'm lucky my company gave me three months sabbatical, you know.

UK Vs Europe: Time, Ferries, Budgets

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, yeah, but the UK's still great though. There's some lovely places in the UK.

SPEAKER_01

There's loads in the UK, I haven't seen Switzerland is this one I like to do.

SPEAKER_00

Sorry?

SPEAKER_08

Switzerland is in the UK.

SPEAKER_00

No, no, that's true. Yeah.

SPEAKER_09

Scotland's like two days' ride, really.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, because we've always been invited up to Scotland well on a bike thing, haven't we?

SPEAKER_09

And then six hours we could be in France, and then you're not going to be able to do that.

SPEAKER_05

We've always declined it with this sort of other group that we belong to because it just takes so long for us to get up there.

SPEAKER_09

Yeah, so and that cost of getting there, it just is well jump on the ferry, you know, ferry, you can get a ferry back at return 140 quid, 130 quid, depending on when you do it, and off you go.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Good point. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05

But there are some nice places in in the UK to do. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Well, Cornwall.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Cornwall's lovely.

SPEAKER_01

And a fuel's cheaper. Probably mines.

SPEAKER_00

Copper mines. And pot mines. Bottles. Pasty mines.

SPEAKER_06

Pasty mines.

SPEAKER_00

One of the things I want to do actually is um gear farm pasties. Oh, you gotta have one of them. They're the best, mate.

SPEAKER_01

Gear farm gear farm.

SPEAKER_05

Gear farm, never heard of it.

SPEAKER_01

Down on the lizard.

SPEAKER_05

Oh, really?

SPEAKER_01

They're the best, without a doubt. Have you been there since the storm, Mark? Since the storm? No. No, mate. No, because it's it's closed, or our caravan sites closed January, February, so March will be back down there. Yeah. Well, were you gonna ask if the pasty place was destroyed?

SPEAKER_08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, no, I don't think so. I think it's fine. That'd be properly devastating. Yeah. But you'll find out. Oh, we'll be following scroll checking in March. Don't worry, so yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Good stuff. Um right. I've got a quiz today. What are we doing for time? Yeah, it's not too bad, is it? I've got some quiz questions for you, so you have to get a pen and paper at some point. Everybody got got a pen and paper?

SPEAKER_01

No, I've got my secretary nearby. She can do that for me. Hello, Lynn. She's off to go and get a bit now.

SPEAKER_09

I don't feel confident Mark's gonna survive with my at the moment.

SPEAKER_01

I'll be asleep in a minute.

SPEAKER_00

Bloody hell, how he's saying Greg's Greg's pasties are the best. He's having a joke, isn't he? Greg's eggs. Greg's Greg's.

SPEAKER_06

He's just trying to start an argument.

SPEAKER_01

I think he's trying to uh trying to raise raise us there to bite, isn't he? Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_05

That always causes a bit of an argument, isn't it?

SPEAKER_09

Well the room would be split here, wouldn't it?

SPEAKER_05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Pasties in Bolton cars. Come on. Only a pasty's got to come from Cornwall. Simple.

SPEAKER_09

It's a Devin invention, though, isn't it?

SPEAKER_01

What is? No, the cream teas are a teeth, innit?

SPEAKER_00

And cider, believe it or not. Cider. Cider is not from Somerset. It's from Dem.

SPEAKER_08

You know, claim everything.

SPEAKER_01

Is that a pint of wine, Jeff?

SPEAKER_08

No, it's a pint of squash. It's a school night.

SPEAKER_09

Holder jazz. My mum tries on the jazz.

SPEAKER_05

She does.

SPEAKER_09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05

Honda Jazz again.

SPEAKER_09

Yeah. That's not my mum, though. She drives like a mad woman.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Uh right.

unknown

Okay.

Cornwall, Storms, And Pasty Lore

SPEAKER_00

Also, the people in the comments section as well, if you want to get a pen and paper as well.

SPEAKER_08

Steve a while ago, I noticed somebody asked if you were the guy that crashed a nearly new NC750 on a sheet of ice. It might have been me. It might have been me.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. That's probably my most popular video. Oh, alright. Whenever I get I get recognized, they always say, Oh, you're the one who fell off on the ice, aren't you? Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_09

Did you fall? Didn't you crash a Himalayan as well?

SPEAKER_00

No, that wasn't me. That was somebody else. You can crash a Himalayan. Don't be so stupid. I don't want to talk about it, alright?

SPEAKER_07

I mentioned the joke as you ask.

SPEAKER_01

There's quite a few things you don't want to talk about, really, Steven there. Yeah, with candles.

SPEAKER_00

Oh don't how exciting. Right. Okay, ready for the other question? Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Okay. Question one. Question one.

SPEAKER_06

Oh, it was about clothes and shoes.

SPEAKER_00

It's no, it's not clothes and shoes, unfortunately. No. Um is it Neko? Is that who's got their uh sound on too loud? Might be you, Heath. Might be me? Try that. That's it. Brilliant. That's better. Yeah, you can still hear me, yeah? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, there's no echo now. Brilliant. Right. Why do long stroke engines usually produce more low RPM talk?

SPEAKER_06

What the fuck sort of question is that?

SPEAKER_00

Oh, we've got lots more coming like that.

SPEAKER_01

Say that again, Steve.

SPEAKER_00

Right. Why do long stroke engines usually produce more low-end RPM talk?

SPEAKER_01

Hmm. I don't know why.

SPEAKER_00

I thought that was an easy one, but yeah, I've got it. Yeah, I've done it.

SPEAKER_01

What's the answer, Jeff?

SPEAKER_00

Jeff, can you tax it over? Uh I'll tell you what, we're gonna do this like this actually, right? What does increase rate generally improve? Improve? Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Was that a second question then? That's the second question, mate. Yeah. I don't even hear it, mate. You don't remember I've only got one ear.

SPEAKER_00

Am I quiet or I mate why are you too quiet? Howie was saying that I'm a bit quiet on the thing. So um what does increased rape generally improve? Instrape. Yeah. You know, like the the geometry on the forks. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06

That's supposed to be protecting this work if you're all right, all done?

The Motorcycle Tech Quiz Begins

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. Cool. Uh why do race bikes use longer swing arms? I don't know how many we'll do here. I think we'll do it. I don't know what you're doing. All got that?

SPEAKER_09

You've got the same answer.

SPEAKER_05

You've got the same answer for Shut up. I can't believe you just told me shut up, but come along.

SPEAKER_00

So I've got I'm gonna be picky on these on these questions because some of them are just stupid difficult. Where did you get them from? Uh on online. Um I won't do that one either. What limits maximum lean angle in practice? What? So when you're going round a corner, full beans, put your knee down, what limits maximum lean angle? What limits? Yeah. Well, okay. I didn't write these questions. What does a quick shifter momentarily cut? That's an easy one.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, can you?

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, we got that little text mic.

SPEAKER_01

I thought I was pretty hand over the mic, but obviously I ain't.

SPEAKER_05

I do that all the time with Eve because he's half deaf.

unknown

Well I

SPEAKER_01

At the moment I've got perforated eardrum. Have you really? Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Why are steering dampeners common on sports bikes? That's one for you, Mike. That's right.

SPEAKER_01

Did you hear me answer then? You're cheating, ain't you?

SPEAKER_00

He's probably seen these questions, Mark, hasn't he? He's gonna get hard right now. Uh what happens if vows are set too tight? What would you say? Say that again, Matthew. What happens if vows are set too tight? I think I need to move on from these questions. This is all the same thing. Oh, I haven't got to the difficult ones yet.

SPEAKER_01

You're having no laugh, ain't ya?

SPEAKER_00

No. I know I had a ride the bike. You're pretty good on the mechanics, mate. It depends what it is. What brand is famous for desmodron desmodromic valves?

SPEAKER_01

Okay. Well done for managing to pronounce that. Steve I would have been able to. I don't know, I've struggled, mate.

SPEAKER_09

Electronics.

SPEAKER_00

How new is that that we learned so far? Why do high performance spikes idle roughly? Is my mic too quiet, Mark Mark?

SPEAKER_05

Yours is fine, but we can hear Mark.

SPEAKER_00

It's a struggle. Oh okay. Lynn, you have to translate it for him, Lynn, alright?

SPEAKER_01

Yeah. You will. Hello. Not a challenge. It's too early, mate.

SPEAKER_07

So that's what she does to me. She's being funny.

SPEAKER_00

I am what isn't it? Why does a cross-plane crank feel like it has more talk? I wouldn't know this one. Did you know the answers to these, Steve? Before I I knew some of them, I knew half of them, but not I wouldn't know that one. And I think we'll leave it there. I've got loads more.

SPEAKER_09

Steve Steve, are you expecting serious answers or some sort of stuff in the three?

SPEAKER_00

No, that's why I got you lot on. I know I'm gonna I could get anything. I'm definitely serious about this.

SPEAKER_01

I I genuinely could go.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, I well, I'm hoping Kim's gonna know all the answers to these questions. So of course she might have done back. Yeah. Right, so quite still got me cough. Um why do you longest look why do long stroke engines usually produce more low-end RPM talk? Well, more power over a longer range, isn't it?

SPEAKER_09

More power of the stroke.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Was that question number one? That was question number one. Yeah, no, I ain't got an answer for that.

SPEAKER_09

Oh, come on, Lynn. That's Lynn's fault, Mark.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, she missed it.

SPEAKER_00

How about you, Jeff? What have you put? Physics? Physics, you're not getting a point for that. Brilliant. Bloody oh, it's only the first question. What does increase and what does increased rake generally improve?

SPEAKER_01

Increased rake.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. Is that steeper or shallower? That's gonna be shallower. Shallower. No, no, no, steeper. Steeper. It'd be like that, wouldn't it?

SPEAKER_01

Sharper steering. If you bring the wheel back and increase the if you it's more for stability, isn't it?

SPEAKER_09

The more upright, the more stability, but you can't go round for steering.

SPEAKER_08

That very slower is the steering, doesn't it? If you increase the rate, the front wheel is further out, isn't it? Further out.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, so it's slower. So it's slower steering.

SPEAKER_08

I thought it's further in.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08

That's a steeper.

SPEAKER_01

What's that, mate?

SPEAKER_07

But like the way you ride.

SPEAKER_01

Like 50 pence pieces.

SPEAKER_06

Oh, that's Kim. Oh, that's me, Mike.

SPEAKER_08

Anyway, I put stability.

SPEAKER_00

No, that that's a point for you, Jeff. Point for uh Heath and Kim as well.

SPEAKER_08

Two out of two so far, thank you.

SPEAKER_00

No, Jeff.

SPEAKER_06

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_07

Hold on a minute. That's four for us, he's doing it. He individually.

SPEAKER_01

What did you put, Mark? It uh it uh if it slowers slows the steering down. It does speeds it up. Yeah, that's right. So I want a point, thank you.

SPEAKER_00

No, no, it speeds it up, doesn't it?

SPEAKER_01

No, no, bring a bring a wheel closer to the pipe and that'll sharpen the steering, push it further away, and it'll slower the steering. Oh, of course, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's why you will you will get a point. You never see coverage, do you?

SPEAKER_09

No, no, Lynn's not running that very clear, is she? What's that, mate?

SPEAKER_07

Lynn's not writing those answers very clearly, is she?

SPEAKER_06

That wasn't Jeff. That was eighth.

Lean Angle, Quickshifters, And Dampers

SPEAKER_01

Eith, Jack, you're getting the blin for that one. That was eight.

SPEAKER_00

Um everybody else put makes headboard now bang louder.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah if you're right. That's the longer stroke one, wouldn't it?

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, yeah, that's it.

SPEAKER_01

Oh no.

SPEAKER_06

Oh no.

SPEAKER_01

Some of the comments, some of the comments.

SPEAKER_00

They're great, aren't they? Hello, Mark from Tour Bay. Uh where were we? So it's only gonna share them. Oh yeah, that's it. What limits maximum lean angle in practice?

SPEAKER_08

No, we haven't done number three yet.

SPEAKER_09

Yeah, number three yet, Steve. Come on. No.

SPEAKER_00

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_06

Why do you race use longer swing arms?

SPEAKER_08

It's uh to uh limit wheeling.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, that's what I thought actually, but I'm not sure. I'm not sure.

SPEAKER_08

Well, I'll put stability again.

SPEAKER_00

Okay, so the actual answer that I've been given is improved rear tire traction.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, okay. Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_00

Same thing.

SPEAKER_09

Well, I'll take a point for that. Yeah, I'll have a point for that.

SPEAKER_05

He's cheating. I'm not cheating. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

I might have to get rid of you if you start cheating like that. What limits maximum lean angle in practice? Oh, that'll be bottle.

SPEAKER_01

What do you got? That'll be bottle, wouldn't it? Bottle.

SPEAKER_08

I've put grip and ground clearance. Oh god, you're bored.

SPEAKER_01

I'll just put grip actually.

SPEAKER_08

Oh I've got to win this. I think he's actually trying to get it.

SPEAKER_00

I think Chef, to be fair, I think he needs two points for that. Because the actual answer I've got is tired grip.

SPEAKER_08

That's awesome. Do I get a point for balls?

SPEAKER_00

No.

unknown

No.

SPEAKER_00

I'll get a point for grip, done. Uh oh yeah, yeah. Did you put grip though? Yeah.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Okay. Yeah, you get one point, Jeff gets two. What did you put, Ethan Kim?

SPEAKER_06

Ethan Kim?

SPEAKER_00

Balls. Balls. Balls. I mean that it is true. Hilarious. Honestly, that's true for ass neck. It's all kind of true though, isn't it?

SPEAKER_09

Kind of wrong answer.

SPEAKER_00

So what does a quick shifter momentarily cut? Momentarily cut electrics. Ignition.

unknown

Ignition.

SPEAKER_09

Ignition. I've got the same answer as Mark.

SPEAKER_01

Did you hear me say it earlier, Ethan?

SPEAKER_00

Not sure I can give you that, Jeff. Power. Ignition, isn't it? Ignition and fuel.

SPEAKER_09

Obviously, Mark. Ignition power.

SPEAKER_00

Jeff, you've lost this one, so well yeah, but you've already got so many points anyway, Jeff. We need to knock knock you down a peg or two. Right, right. I'll take it. Why are steering dampeners common on sports bikes? Stop tankers. Can I go first? Stop tank slappers. Def wobbles.

SPEAKER_06

Def wobbles. Oh, because they're ridden by girls.

SPEAKER_00

Well, well, I mean, what bikes do you do you commonly get? Tank slappers?

SPEAKER_08

TL thousand?

SPEAKER_01

Me, I I got it on a T113. Yeah.

SPEAKER_08

RD350.

SPEAKER_00

Oh, really? Oh really?

SPEAKER_08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Right. Yeah, the only time I've had that was on my Bagman 650. Many years ago. No. Yeah, true. Scooter boy.

SPEAKER_06

Woohoo!

SPEAKER_01

Um I had it on a skateboard once.

SPEAKER_06

Oh, did you? Yeah, I did. I'll come off.

SPEAKER_01

Was this last week?

SPEAKER_00

No, I've still got my skateboard though. Actually, let's see what we're doing in the comments. Hello, Jim. Hello, Jim. Hello, Jim. Hello, Jim. Alright, Jim. Who's got their sound? Is that oh you might need the sound on loud anyway, Mark. So we'll let you go let it go. Right, so that's that. Right, next question. What brand is uh famous for Desmo Tree?

SPEAKER_09

Number seven first.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. Oh, what happens if the valves are too tight? They squeak.

unknown

I've got this.

SPEAKER_00

It could be right, it could be close. What number of questions?

SPEAKER_07

Seven! That was seven.

SPEAKER_09

They burn 'em?

unknown

They burn them.

SPEAKER_09

Well your valves burn, don't they? If they're too tight, because they're always open.

SPEAKER_00

No, no. Yeah, they squeak. There you go, Ken, you got a point. Well done. They squeak. Uh Mark and Jeff, any thoughts?

SPEAKER_08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Well, I thought they wouldn't have opened enough. If they were too tight. You kind of want you you're on the you're on the right track, but I need a bit more. What do you want? Tell me.

SPEAKER_06

Tell me.

SPEAKER_05

Well, I can't show you because it's roughly the answer.

Valves, Desmo, And Cross-Plane Myths

SPEAKER_01

It restricts the bike. Um, so it's not gonna let enough gases in or out.

unknown

Close.

SPEAKER_09

They don't shut, do they properly? I've got more do you want? Science.

SPEAKER_06

Silence. Science.

SPEAKER_09

But silence.

SPEAKER_00

Science.

SPEAKER_06

Science.

SPEAKER_00

Science.

SPEAKER_06

Science. Science and physics.

SPEAKER_00

Alright, so obviously if the valves are open and you come up to compression T D C what happens?

unknown

What happens?

SPEAKER_05

They squeak.

SPEAKER_00

Yep, that's one. Yeah, you got that. It squeaks in this mode.

SPEAKER_09

Well the the properly, the air goes through back out, doesn't it?

SPEAKER_00

Which which you lose compression. Power. Thank you. Compression. Yeah. I'll get that one in it. So Kim gets a point. And I don't think you lot to Kim gets a point for two squeaks. Oh if you squeak, isn't he? Well and it'll know the next one. I know this job again. And while we're on it, Kim, what do we do to stop squeaking?

SPEAKER_05

That's a WP40 on it.

SPEAKER_00

Boom. There you go. It's another point for Kim. Right. What brand is famous for Desmodromic valves? Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_05

What is that?

SPEAKER_00

Oh go on then, Kim. Yep.

SPEAKER_05

The catty.

SPEAKER_00

Got it. Yep. Two points for you, Kim. Ducati. What is it? Ducati. Desmodromic valve. What's that to? It's mechanical. Sign anyone.

SPEAKER_09

Sign.

SPEAKER_00

Oh.

SPEAKER_09

What instead of a physics is mechanical? It physically let's say it shuts it.

SPEAKER_00

What by a gear? Is it like geared or still chained?

SPEAKER_09

Oh right.

SPEAKER_00

I think Harley did that, didn't he?

SPEAKER_09

It mechanically opens and shuts it.

SPEAKER_00

Oh, okay. I never knew that.

SPEAKER_09

I think it's fine. Could be wrong, but can't say I'll do that.

SPEAKER_00

There you go, your mate stick it up for your ear heath.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah. Yes. Well that doesn't happen very often, is it?

SPEAKER_09

Cheers, Richard. Well, we both had the carries, so we should know.

SPEAKER_01

Has he been messaging the answers, Eve? What's that? Has he been messaging Eve for the answers, Richard? I think he has.

SPEAKER_00

Why do high performance spike idle roughly?

SPEAKER_06

Roughly.

SPEAKER_00

Because it's a Honda, Steve. Because it's a Honda. Get a point so much.

SPEAKER_01

You'll be upsetting Phil.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Tune to Rev. I don't know why they why that is. I've got to be honest. I don't know.

SPEAKER_00

I think there's a lot of right answers here, Jeff. You were right. Obviously. Grav, you're right as well. Right as well. It's because uh of a aggressive cam profiles. Obviously, they keep it really tight and borderline blowing the valves out, no doubt. Um right. Okay, so why does a cross plane crank feel like it has more sort of odd firing?

SPEAKER_09

Absolutely no idea.

SPEAKER_06

No idea.

SPEAKER_08

Odd firing sequence. Science. Science. Science.

SPEAKER_05

You got every question right now, science or physics.

SPEAKER_00

It is because of reduced talk overlap improves rear tire feedback of me. Science, basically. Yeah. So Jeff, you got a point there. Wizardry. Wizardry, yeah.

unknown

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

I think that's it.

SPEAKER_06

That's it.

SPEAKER_00

I've got another two hundred questions, but I think uh I think I might knock it there. Right, so how many have you got then? Adam up twenty-six. Mark hasn't got any because he couldn't hear nothing.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, yeah. Flying the flag for Whitley Kim.

SPEAKER_03

Yay, it's not Whitley.

SPEAKER_00

Never heard of Whitley. Don't want to mess with them.

SPEAKER_03

No, they wanna mess with the part, do they?

SPEAKER_00

Oh like Rev bombs coming out with all the uh the proper answers, actually. Has an X shape firing sequence.

SPEAKER_09

Oh Richard Windows from Binding 9 windows. Stops it squeaking.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, on the Ode M T 10. Best sounding bikes ever. I don't know what that means. What you mean, Howie? Don't know what you mean though.

SPEAKER_08

That's the new 6-7.

Tiebreakers, Traction Control, Race Lines

SPEAKER_00

Oh, is it? I think you need a tiebreaker. Yeah, that's not a bad idea. Let's find out a really technical question.

SPEAKER_06

Ready, Kim? Ready, Kim? Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Actually, we'll do an easy one first. What does it have a blue dress?

SPEAKER_05

What colour fee feels best with it?

SPEAKER_00

How did you know that was how did you know what that was gonna was gonna say? What colour goes best with a blue dress? You did in Ireland. And I have put white. Anyone else? No.

SPEAKER_05

Silver can be good as well.

SPEAKER_08

What about yellow? Yellow would be very nice.

SPEAKER_05

We're talking blue for the blue.

SPEAKER_08

No, no, it's blue. Oh.

SPEAKER_00

What's the what's the answer, Kim? What's the answer? Really?

SPEAKER_05

Yes.

SPEAKER_00

Okay. Fair enough. Backs of bikes. Now she is, yeah. Um right, so da da da last question is what does traction control oh no that's too easy.

unknown

Okay.

SPEAKER_00

It was just an easy. Yeah, do an easy control. What does uh traction control actually limit?

SPEAKER_01

Power.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. Power. Yeah, a bit more precise than that.

SPEAKER_09

Why? It can't be power. Science.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, that's what it does. But what's it limit? It limits something. Not power. No.

SPEAKER_07

Traction.

SPEAKER_01

It limits.

SPEAKER_05

Oh I know what it is. Hang on, Mark's got a mark coming through.

SPEAKER_01

Does it reduce?

SPEAKER_00

I don't know. I don't know how it does it. Electronics. The actual answer is uh when it kicks in, you're normally what?

SPEAKER_09

It's a fufu valve, Steve.

SPEAKER_00

Oh valve? Wheel spin. There you go, Mark. Mark's got it.

SPEAKER_05

What is it, Mark?

SPEAKER_00

Wheel spin. That's what it does, isn't it?

SPEAKER_09

It's a fufu valve.

SPEAKER_00

Well, yeah.

SPEAKER_08

Oh, limiting the power, yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. Limits the power, but it stops the wheel spin. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

It's called the throttle, isn't it? Traction control. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Okay, last one, a racing one, okay. Why is corner exit more important than entry?

SPEAKER_08

Get on the power more. Carry it speed on the straight.

SPEAKER_00

Boom. There you go, Jeff. Well done, mate.

SPEAKER_07

That's a fix.

SPEAKER_00

Well, you owe me that money now, Jeff.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah. Get your gear for a pasty.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, good man. Sounds good to me.

SPEAKER_08

Gotta get him down there first, Jeff. Yeah, I know. He's gonna push him out of his comfort zone.

SPEAKER_01

He keeps talking about it, but we can't get him down there. No. Can't get him abroad.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, you Steve. Yeah, it's uh it's a long way, innit, for us Devin folk going over the border.

SPEAKER_01

He's death doable in a day. We've done it in a day, Jeff, didn't we? Yeah, easy. Went down and map wet uh got the pasty and so on.

SPEAKER_09

And that's it's not a bad ride, is it to them, is it, is it?

SPEAKER_01

No, no, it's alright. Down through centre. I'll still go that way, past Pete's place, pick him up on the way.

SPEAKER_09

He's too heavy to pick up, isn't he?

SPEAKER_00

Uh all right, yeah, that's about the cornering speed, isn't it?

SPEAKER_05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

I think Rev Bomb has got pretty much every question right, I think, but he is a mechanic, isn't he?

SPEAKER_02

Oh, that's cheating.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, better go and tell us and take your time coming out to be so.

SPEAKER_08

I see Rev Bomb commented on my video. Thank you, Rev Bomb. Um, he was talking about coming down this way for a meetup with some of the West Countrionians.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, yeah, I think he's um doing something with Lex Moto, isn't he? I think. Is he in Exeter? Yeah. Don't think you invited Steve, but yeah. No, no, no, no. I don't know. No. No, I've got a proper job. I don't want I can't go anyway, so it doesn't matter. Oh yeah, no, it'd be good if he does. Um yeah, well, there you go, that's about it. Well done to uh Saddlebag 73. I think I'm gonna have to give him the crown. Um poor Mark hasn't been able to hear anything that anybody's been able to say. Okay, yeah, then give it that and then Kim got the bonus points, and Heath's got nothing.

SPEAKER_09

Oh that saddles my life up.

Bike Wishlists And Test Rides

SPEAKER_00

No, it's good it was good fun that brilliant. 45 minutes has gone by already. Yeah, that flu, didn't it? Did Jesus. Anything you want to talk about, Mark? What's it work?

SPEAKER_01

I don't want to talk about work, but enough of that. I'll retire, can I? Yeah, retirement.

SPEAKER_08

That's the best way. You want, mate? Yeah, talk about some test rides or some bikes you fancy or something. V Strom thousand, I think it's gotta be in it.

SPEAKER_01

Just buy it, buy it, just where I'm heading. I've got to find one Eve.

SPEAKER_00

I thought you were on the 650. I thought you were trying to get a 650.

SPEAKER_01

No, I I I rolled Jeff's and it's very, very nice, but I just want more grunt. Yeah. Greedy.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. That 1050 got loads of grunt, but it is a big heavy bike, as you know.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, I just I prefer the luck of the thousand to be honest. The late thousands, like, you know.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, that's all right. Kim, what have you got? Have you got the T100, Bonneville? Or is it the T120?

SPEAKER_05

I don't know.

SPEAKER_00

You got the 900. 900, is it? Yeah. You happy with that? You're not gonna is that like your yeah, I'm not gonna get anything else. Sydney.

SPEAKER_01

Sydney, I thought it was 865.

unknown

Hey?

SPEAKER_01

I thought yours was an 865.

SPEAKER_09

Yeah, well it is, but they sell it as a nine.

SPEAKER_05

But they sell it as a 900.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, do they? All right. Nice.

SPEAKER_00

Right. What bikes have you had in the past, Kim?

SPEAKER_05

Hey?

SPEAKER_00

What bikes have you had in the past?

SPEAKER_05

That's it. That's what I haven't got. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Oh, fair play. Wow. You've gone abroad on it in all sorts, haven't you?

SPEAKER_05

Yeah. How many miles have I done on them? 27 basically?

SPEAKER_09

27 something.

SPEAKER_05

And most of that's been abroad, really.

SPEAKER_09

Oh wow. That's impressive.

SPEAKER_05

So I bought it as a as a demo. It had 600, 600 miles on it, something like that.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. Okay. Yeah. How about you, Heath? Are you tempt are you tempted to go 1300 on the GS?

SPEAKER_04

Oh, don't don't go there.

SPEAKER_09

Well, you let the doggo, I'll tell you the truth. Yeah, I'm really tempted. Yeah, no, uh automatic.

SPEAKER_01

Automatic?

SPEAKER_09

Yeah, they do the auto, don't they?

SPEAKER_01

Yeah. Have you ridden?

SPEAKER_09

Quite like the idea of that. Sorry, Mark?

SPEAKER_01

Have you actually ridden the automatic yet?

SPEAKER_09

Or no, they've got a demo in now at Ocean, so I might go and ride it. But I'll probably keep mine for another year at least.

SPEAKER_01

Right.

SPEAKER_09

I'm after the KLE. Kawasaki KLE 500, they're gonna bring out.

SPEAKER_10

Hmm.

SPEAKER_09

Because annoyingly, I quite like the 450 GS they're gonna bring out. The 450 BMW one.

SPEAKER_00

It doesn't look like a lot of things.

SPEAKER_09

But they're already telling me that um it doesn't come with spoke wheels because they've got a supply issue. So they're only come with cast cast wheels, which is good really for our news.

SPEAKER_01

What's the price of the 450 compared to the KLE?

SPEAKER_09

Uh they're all the same price range. They're all like um, yeah. So if you buy the lower range BMO, I think it's like seven, KLE's seven. The KLE SE, I think it's seven nine. The BMO is seven nine. I think the 450, the 450 Himalayan 7, is it something like that? The standard. So they're all pretty much the same price.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, right. I I thought the Himalayan was six, about six three now, wasn't it? Six four.

SPEAKER_09

Oh, maybe six three then, but they're all pretty much the same, depending on how you spec them out.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, a lot of people were going on about the the Vosh uh 900 as well, aren't they? Oh, we saw it looked pretty good.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, it did look all right actually.

SPEAKER_09

Yeah, I've got to say it's not something all we worried about that support from you know when you break down or whatever might happen. Exactly.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, because I know they have got supply issues. It's just why why why is it? Why are they launching bikes? And you can't get them for months, but yeah, say banks.

SPEAKER_09

Yeah, but probably the thing isn't it. I want to launch a bike and see how popular it is, and then I'll open up a distribution network. Otherwise, if it's not very well presented or people don't take it, I've spent all that money on our distribution centers, and there's a waste of money potentially. That's the way I see it.

SPEAKER_00

But the thing is that it's also pissing people off because people are putting down the deposits like the CF Motor 450, and then it's taken months, if not a year, to get older them, and even then it's not guaranteed, and then they're getting their deposit back, so it's a double-edged sword, isn't it?

SPEAKER_09

Yeah, just yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Someone I know has just bought a band from 350, promised it in September, went to October, November, now January, and he still hasn't seen it yet.

SPEAKER_01

Wow.

SPEAKER_09

So that's like a you know, that's like a death by a thousand cups instead of saying to you, uh, you'll have to wait another four months, like just keep you on the hook, yeah, next week, next week, next week.

unknown

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_09

And all you do is piss people off, don't you? If you said right it's four months' time, I'll make a decision then whether I don't want it or carry on wait four months or whatever it might be.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, makes no sense to me. It's all it's all different, everything's um still a mess, isn't it? In this country, many different things. We won't go down that road. Seems to be getting getting worse, doesn't it? It seems to be getting worse, to be honest. No light at the end of the tunnel. Nightmare. But anyway, yeah, apart from that, at least we've got bikes. You what, mate?

SPEAKER_07

So our tunnel shut every night here.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, right, right, yeah, yeah. Is that to stop anyone escaping from Cornwall?

SPEAKER_09

No, to stop the demo shows coming in.

SPEAKER_00

Uh Mark from Tor Bay, if you could have any three bikes, what would you have? Right. Oh god. Mark, start with you. Because it changes every week, doesn't it anyway?

SPEAKER_01

Any three bikes? Jesus. Um I don't know. Oh wow, come back to me on that one or I have to think a minute. Money, no object.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, don't know. Um I think I'm there really. The classic 500 MLA and the V strong. I don't know, I quite fancy a big four thing.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. Yeah. Quack of four fourteen hundreds. There you go.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00

I do quite like those. For me, it's gonna be RT 1300, uh Rocket Three Rocket. I can't remember what else. No, I've I can only do two at the moment.

SPEAKER_01

The the RT, I've got to say, the RT is yeah, if I if money was no object, I'd go and get one of those new ones. Yeah, yeah. I mean that you know, as you guys know, I I had the old um 1150 and I'm missing it. It was such a good bike, even though it was old. That uh oh yeah, if I could go and get a new one, that'd be great.

SPEAKER_00

Good choice. Keith and Kim? Kim.

SPEAKER_09

I'll go first because Kim probably won't know me that's there's one bike that I quite like.

SPEAKER_05

Was it the Patty Deville or something?

SPEAKER_09

Yeah, the DeVille.

SPEAKER_05

I quite like that one.

SPEAKER_09

Not the Honda.

SPEAKER_05

No, the Patty.

SPEAKER_09

Not a DeVille. What was it called? That big 1300 or 1200 they did as a sort of I quite like that one. Monster of a thing.

SPEAKER_05

Was it big? Was it a dump?

SPEAKER_02

Something like that, yeah. Yeah, it's a weird name, isn't it?

SPEAKER_00

I don't know which one that is. I don't know much about decays.

SPEAKER_08

I know what Eve wants.

SPEAKER_05

He wants everything.

SPEAKER_08

He wants GS, medium GS, and a little GS.

SPEAKER_06

He wants a family's GS.

SPEAKER_09

Uh I wouldn't mind the um Patty V4 um sports bike uh as a as a posing bike. I couldn't ride it to it six, and then some sort of um small bike to do a bit of off-roading if we can, because that's what I want to get into.

SPEAKER_00

Actually, I'm gonna make that my third one. Actually, it's gonna be uh CRF 300s.

SPEAKER_08

Oh Peter Hutchinson's got the name of the Ducati, isn't it? Yeah, oh Diable, that's the one.

SPEAKER_01

Dive Owl Thank you, Peter. Dive, that's the owl, is it?

SPEAKER_05

Diable, yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Alright.

SPEAKER_05

It's quite nice.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_05

If I came in for money, I'd probably um I'd probably get that. What's that the catty monster?

SPEAKER_02

That's Lily's coming with that. And the Augusta.

SPEAKER_09

Augusta. How much is that McPherson though? 44,000? How much? 44,000.

SPEAKER_00

Silly money. But that's a sort of mantelpiece spike, isn't it? If you like that sort of thing, but not for me. Bye bye Lily. Bye-bye. Bye-bye Livy. Bye-bye. Uh we are now getting to that point of having to say goodbye. It's been an hour of um of um it's been like nothing else ever had before. And it's brilliant because you guys are exactly like you are in real life. So that's exactly what I wanted. Well done. Well done for that. Well done for that.

SPEAKER_09

Uh when you pay the fee, um Dave. Pardon? When do you pay our fee?

SPEAKER_00

Fee? Um just send your address. Okay.

SPEAKER_05

Mark, somebody told David Hawkins has said set up straight.

SPEAKER_01

Dave, Mr. Dave. Is that Mr. Dave?

SPEAKER_05

Is that Mr. Dave? Dave Hawkins.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, that's Mr. Dave, I'm Dave. He's trouble. He's trouble. He is on the trouble. He is trouble. He's keep leading me out on the bad path.

SPEAKER_06

Do you know what your mark and Mr.

SPEAKER_08

Dave do in the summer when I'm sweating my ass off in a welding day? They send me photos of beautiful places on motors.

SPEAKER_01

It does. Jeff will like to see that, wouldn't he? I went, Oh, yeah, brilliant. Yes, we'll send you that. We sit, we sit there chuckling, waiting for your reply.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. Okay, guys, thanks very much for coming on, anyway. Um, just so everybody knows, we've got uh time to go live in a minute on Todge 29 with Steve and uh Flat Cap Cafe Racer and a few other people as well, no doubt. Um, so get yourself over there if uh if you want to watch some more entertainment. Um, it's certainly been entertainment having you lot on. Thanks very much for that. You made it easy for me, and I'm not feeling uh tip top condition at the moment after my cold. But uh yeah, thanks very much for that. And um, thank you, Kim. Thanks for that. I feel much better. Um so no doubt. What's that? You're talking to you, Mark. Oh, sorry, I missed that.

SPEAKER_05

I said Markley, he'd be strong as an ox, then.

SPEAKER_01

Oh god, yeah, he won't be wussing about having a pissing cold, would he?

SPEAKER_00

Thanks everybody.

SPEAKER_06

Hello, Archie.

SPEAKER_04

Thank you, guys.

SPEAKER_00

Where is he?

SPEAKER_01

We're still trying to summons his dog by the look of it.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, I can get the dog in. My dog goes nuts if he sees another dog. Um yeah, thanks everybody for coming in. Um, I would say that Jeff is gonna be the winner for that uh round on uh on the thing. Um, although Kim had the bonus points for the WD 40. She's absolutely right there. Um thanks very much for coming in.

SPEAKER_08

That's how he stops ease squeaking every time he goes to his wallet.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, yeah. Thanks, Peter Hutchinson, Mike from Torbay, the old man GB Patriot, Lily Northover, contented biker, anti-GSA tractor Dawkins, um Rev Bomb, uh Howie as well was in Flap Cap Cafe Racer. You might be over on Cime to Go's show in a minute as well. Pete Hutchinson, um, been great having you all here. Thanks to everybody who made an effort coming in for the quiz as well. Uh, Mark, Jeff, Heath, Kim, and uh, and my good self, of course. Thanks a lot, and we will see you on the next live. Cheers. Bye bye.