steele01
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Hiya everyone sooo finally managed to get a day to myself yesterday yay! Had the V-strom for about a month now but not been able to do any miles on her bar 60 so the plan was to stick a big day in and put some miles on and do the route out of adventure bike rider mag had to get dads bike mot'd first though so that took the morning oops!
Then it was off down to Wales with the old BMW Nav 5 barking ger-maniiac instructions down the Sena Headset.
The Battery picked its moment to run out haha on some tiny b-road in the middle of no where after a wrong turn and Dads Gsx-r 750 k9 running on Vapours.
Hmm sure that road looks familiar yep! back on track thank *insert swearword* and a sigh or relief.
Luckily had been to Llanberis before so decided to crack on with it through LLangollen for fuel. Betws-y-coed, yep this looks familiar woop on route!
had a really beautiful ride through some stunning scenery and just about sussed the route out back haha had a Nick sanders style powernap on a bench was sooo hot.
Got back in past midnight haha well worth the trip though
Thought's on the V-strom loving the direct feel of the throttle cable, handling is very neutral beautiful and crisp with the suspension tracking slightly firm how I like it but very push and responsive I'd say you could carry the corner speed as much as you want on it feels like a 250 race bike (rode a few)
Fueling is nice to and comfort great seats a little on the hard side though! haha getting used to it though.
Previous bike experience is rd350lc's, Tz 350's rzv 500's fireblade gsx-rs an a few Nortons Last bike was a BMW- GS adventure LC
Anyway the bit you have been waiting for pictures ! the on the road ones are with my mobile can't wait to get a tank bag
Lucy
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Then it was off down to Wales with the old BMW Nav 5 barking ger-maniiac instructions down the Sena Headset.
The Battery picked its moment to run out haha on some tiny b-road in the middle of no where after a wrong turn and Dads Gsx-r 750 k9 running on Vapours.
Hmm sure that road looks familiar yep! back on track thank *insert swearword* and a sigh or relief.
Luckily had been to Llanberis before so decided to crack on with it through LLangollen for fuel. Betws-y-coed, yep this looks familiar woop on route!
had a really beautiful ride through some stunning scenery and just about sussed the route out back haha had a Nick sanders style powernap on a bench was sooo hot.
Got back in past midnight haha well worth the trip though
Thought's on the V-strom loving the direct feel of the throttle cable, handling is very neutral beautiful and crisp with the suspension tracking slightly firm how I like it but very push and responsive I'd say you could carry the corner speed as much as you want on it feels like a 250 race bike (rode a few)
Fueling is nice to and comfort great seats a little on the hard side though! haha getting used to it though.
Previous bike experience is rd350lc's, Tz 350's rzv 500's fireblade gsx-rs an a few Nortons Last bike was a BMW- GS adventure LC
Anyway the bit you have been waiting for pictures ! the on the road ones are with my mobile can't wait to get a tank bag
Lucy
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