The "What Did You Do Today" Thread....

[Hippo-Drones]

So far today I have put in the thermal lining on my green laning kit as it is -1' outside currently and am about to go play!

 

[Hippo-Drones]

Went on an awesome ride with Big_Pezza, tried out some more Insta360 One X footage and he had a play with his new drone (which I might have crashed Oops). Learnt so much on the bike today!

 

[Hippo-Drones]

Well today has been a busy day with the Moto Guzzi and the Triumph. I now have a pair of Michelin Pilot Road 5's fitted to it, man getting the rear wheel back on was a pain! I have also been modifying my Moto Guzzi so it will pass the UK's annual MoT as the rules have changed and the indicators now have to be a minimum of 300mm apart at the front and 240mm apart at the rear. I think my rears will probs pass muster, but the fronts needed a rethink. The indicators were the little chrome bits sticking out of the headlight surround...

So back to the drawing board. Because I have a different dash now I wasn't able to use the original headlight bracket (which had mounts for indicators) without modifying it, so I chopped it in half and gutted the framework that was in the way and gave it a lick of paint:

I then refitted the original headlight from before the build began:

And also fitted the front indicators from my Beta Alp 4.0

I'm not anti the new look, but it is a shame I had to lose the tiny (and pretty useless) "Bates" style light, is ace to have a halogen bulb again though!

 

[R-Rated]

Well today has been a busy day with the Moto Guzzi and the Triumph. I now have a pair of Michelin Pilot Road 5's fitted to it, man getting the rear wheel back on was a pain! I have also been modifying my Moto Guzzi so it will pass the UK's annual MoT as the rules have changed and the indicators now have to be a minimum of 300mm apart at the front and 240mm apart at the rear. I think my rears will probs pass muster, but the fronts needed a rethink. The indicators were the little chrome bits sticking out of the headlight surround...

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So back to the drawing board. Because I have a different dash now I wasn't able to use the original headlight bracket (which had mounts for indicators) without modifying it, so I chopped it in half and gutted the framework that was in the way and gave it a lick of paint:

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I then refitted the original headlight from before the build began:

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And also fitted the front indicators from my Beta Alp 4.0

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I'm not anti the new look, but it is a shame I had to lose the tiny (and pretty useless) "Bates" style light, is ace to have a halogen bulb again though!

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I like it!

 

[Hippo-Drones]

Cheers Anthony, I don't hate it, and I'll def appreciate the better illumination if I am out at night

 

[R-Rated]

Cheers Anthony, I don't hate it, and I'll def appreciate the better illumination if I am out at night

It reminds me of my 73 CB750 back when I bobbed it and parked under the "Harley parking only sign" at a biker bar long ago.

I had an old school visor on the headlight.

Man, I wish I had pics of it back then.

 

[Meifesto]

Finished the last bit of the rebuild 2018 xD

Waiting for the last screws, took some time :O

 

[Hippo-Drones]

Looking forward to watching the vid mate!

 

[Hippo-Drones]

Today, I met up with a very awesome young man who is travelling the world on a Honda CRF250

Here is a link to his YouTube channel, his sense of adventure and true enjoyment of the world is quite something, I wish I had his drive and passion when I was his age!

The King On The Road

Hi, I'm currently riding my Honda CRF250L motorcycle around the world! Thanks for joining me on my adventures! I hope you enjoy!

www.youtube.com

 

[Hippo-Drones]

Will this morning we had an earthquake, that was something new to me! 3.7 on the Richter Scale apparently, certainly made the building I was in shake and made a bit of noise.

 

[CDA441]

Ridden with the new mic setup, god that's so good! But not good enough
I added a piece of fur inside the windjammer in the hopes that my breathing and the external wind noise will subside. But for a 15€ microphone in total, it absolutely blows away the competition.

I also feel like having a facecam gives me the opportunity to cut away to another POV to snip out the empty spaces between sentences and "uhhs". I still feel like I need to learn the language a little better so it pops out naturally, because right now I'm watching the road like a hawk when talking to a camera

 

[Meifesto]

Fighting with claims on the youtube video's for music that i paid for...

Epidemic sounds is losing it :O

 

[CDA441]

Got the breathing noise away, which means no more huffing and puffing in the mic!
All by using a big piece of fur in front of the mic. Didn't get the full wind noise away tho, and the engine noise isn't that good of a quality, so the external microphone should fix that.

 

[jasonrides]

The pictures of the planes remind me of Fleet Week in San Francisco where the Blue Angels fly over the city performing various maneuvers and stunts. Awesome!

 

[Hippo-Drones]

Well today I had a vlog fail, audio went Pete Tong half way through, but I did get out on the Beta, so not a total fail. If it was drier, I'd probs pop out for a bit on my Triumph too, but it is kinda grotty, so washing up it is!

 

[scottrod]

Finally got my arse back on here after about 2 months! Haha!

 

[Hippo-Drones]

Who are you? ;-)

 

[Theodor]

Found out, I may have started the season just a tad early.

 

[Hippo-Drones]

Damn that sucks, hope it thaws out soon mate!

 

[Hippo-Drones]

I popped out on my V7, headed the long way to Brighton for sausage and chips on the seafront