Went for a lovely ride out in the Beacons today...

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hornetrider · #1 Post by **hornetrider** » Mon May 21, 2007 9:24 pm

...and took a few crappy pics with my camera phone. Apologies for the poor quality!

Green is definitely the fastest colour

Aladinsaneuk · #2 Post by **Aladinsaneuk** » Mon May 21, 2007 9:43 pm

like the exhausts :)

pssst - may be an idea to remove your number plate details though :)

Gio · #3 Post by **Gio** » Tue May 22, 2007 8:04 am

Aladinsaneuk wrote:like the exhausts :)

pssst - may be an idea to remove your number plate details though :)

Absolutely.

Which has given me another idea.

Falcoholic · #4 Post by **Falcoholic** » Tue May 22, 2007 8:53 am

Nice pics and nice colour too.

Now all I need to do is paint mine green and get a new reg plate made up with the numbers..........

D-Rider · #5 Post by **D-Rider** » Tue May 22, 2007 9:02 am

Yep - very nice.

Glad to see you're putting that Falco to good use Horntrider.

As for the colour scheme - it's almost as unique as the registration plate itself (maybe no different if Falcoholic has been busy with a yellow board and some sticky black letters and numbers .......)

Falcoholic · #6 Post by **Falcoholic** » Wed May 23, 2007 9:33 am

hornetrider · #7 Post by **hornetrider** » Thu Apr 23, 2009 10:35 pm

Just arrived at Le Mans

Edit: Yes, I know they're not Akras, but they're the only stickers I could find big enough to cover the scratches after falling off the fecking side stand

D-Rider · #8 Post by **D-Rider** » Thu Apr 23, 2009 11:01 pm

Nice picture ...... I've said it before but it does look good in that colour

Fausto · #9 Post by **Fausto** » Fri Apr 24, 2009 9:10 am

That colour is growing on me too.

..... and no I don't have a fungal infection !

D-Rider · #10 Post by **D-Rider** » Fri Apr 24, 2009 9:24 am

Have you lost one of the fixings at the top of your bellypan?

.... puts down thermos, removes anorak .... thumbs through Observers book of Falcos .....

Aladinsaneuk · #11 Post by **Aladinsaneuk** » Fri Apr 24, 2009 9:40 am

looks like it - or he is using black fasteners that fade into the blackness of the black belly pan

and if there were such black fasteners readily available then i am fairly sure, on my pagan black heart, i would have a set of them

did I mention i have been listening to a lot of Black Sabbath lately?

hornetrider · #12 Post by **hornetrider** » Fri Apr 24, 2009 10:46 am

Yeah I've lost one on each side - been meaning to replace them. Cheers for comments. It's funny, most of my mates are fairly jealous of the bike and have stated they wanted one but can't buy one now that I have one. I think the Falco is quite respected amongst bikers who 'know', it certainly attracted a lot of interest in France, particularly from the gendarmerie who breath tested us on the way back!!

...but not as much as my mate, who went over on his (1990 I think) CBR400RR - my god it was like flies around a shit with that bike! They're not available in France and never have been, so everyone was coming over and saying... Blade? But 400?? Was pretty funny.

Also you may (or may not) notice that there is some sponge slowly but surely creeping out between the headlight and the screen. I think I'll have to pop the screen off and squeeze it back up. Anyone else have this problem?

Tweaker · #13 Post by **Tweaker** » Fri Apr 24, 2009 2:56 pm

Also you may (or may not) notice that there is some sponge slowly but surely creeping out between the headlight and the screen. I think I'll have to pop the screen off and squeeze it back up. Anyone else have this problem?

Are you sure you're not keeping it somewhere really wet - that stuff only grows in the sea

DavShill · #14 Post by **DavShill** » Fri Apr 24, 2009 4:45 pm

Looks great HR. Nice wheels -what are they and what's your carrier/rack arrangment?

hornetrider · #15 Post by **hornetrider** » Sat Apr 25, 2009 6:47 am

Cheers. They're the forged OZ's from a Tuono. The rack is a Givi one and clips in at the rear grab rail and just in front of the exhaust mounts. I've got an old massive monolock box that takes two lids. In the sack is my rollmat, tent and camp chair and that is secured with a bungy on each side.