I believe I can fly.
Well skip is more accurate, but still- I caught some air!!!
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from the side....... It did take a while to get them mounted but I must say that I pleased with the way it looks.

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Which pipes are they, I quiet like the look of them..

GPR titanium , there is a soundfile in the exhaust thread.

A couple of videos of the jumps.

Nice fly!

HJ

Out for a run on Sunday following a winding route I'd programmed into the GPS. Never done this 'properly' before so wanted to see how it works out on the road. GPS estimates 4 hours for 100 mile.

Shot of the bike on a ford, before it gets dirty.

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View north, with the snow capped Alps in distance.

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Vinderloo land, UKs first curry house, built by t'romans.

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I turn off down a single track road and horsey point to point meeting is chucking out, no-one gives me room, but fortune smiles, I turn off down here out of the traffic and first mud of 2010.

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A porper awld road.

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I take a pic before the bike develops its 'mud hinge' and I exit with wheels and legs all going in different directions.

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Route was 104 miles and at the start GPS reckoned on 4 hours, but I beat that and did it in 4hours 20mins, lots of single track roads (term used loosly as most of the tarmac has been replaced by holes and grit) and a few stops. Not bad this GPS lark, with a bit of foreward planning, I had a really good day out on local roads I've never ridden and perfect on the Ten.

Hi Skunk.Looks a great day out.

Can I ask about the GPS mullarkey? I'd like to make a move to it myself, but don't really understand it. I use a Tom Tom sat nav for the road routes I follow (with trusty paper maps for back-up) - type in a place name you want to go to and it takes you there. Am I right in assuming that the GPS is different? mostly for off-road trails? and you put in numerical coordinates or something?

I'd be interested in something (GPS) that allows me to plot a route across 'trails' - how do you do it on GPS? I also have heard loads of mention about 'waymarks' and map downloads from Google Earth and other such things. In Numpty (read Ashintun pit yacker) terms, what's it all about? I'm really thinking in terms of when I go on a trip to, say, Greece, will it allow me to find/ride trails.

Should I decide to make a move for a GPS Receiver, what's a good entry point piece of kit? not too expensive, to learn with, maybe to upgrade later?

Thanks for any help from anyone who has time and patience to set me straight!

My fault, should have called it a SatNav, mine's a Becker, like the TomTom it will only plan a route using the "official" road network or whatever it has for it's digital map. So if I put in a "point" thats on a trail it just sez "not on the digital map".

Way to do it is to create your own "Point of Interest" POI (just like the petrol stations cafes etc you get on free on the device). As most UK trails start/end on the roads you can easy put these in and 'fill in' the offroad bits with more POIs every so often, the SatNav should show these and it's easy enough to follow them.

You can see the tarmac road bottom left and the POIs I have created going off down the trail, so what I've done is stick the start of a trail in and the SatNav giudes me to the start, then I follow the POIs offroad, untill I pick the road up again, now the SatNav will recalculate the route and guide me to the next trail along the roads.

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A GPS is much the same, add some waypoints and it will only give you a "as the crow flies" direction to follow to the next waypoint as it doesn't know about the roads/trails.

You can plan a route using google earth/memory map etc and download it to the device (I use routeconverter.de which does export TT files).

Works OK, but only tried it in the UK and on trails I could follow anyway, but theory is sound so should work for longer distances anyware. Try it on ya TT for some local routes.

Loads of info on the net but it's a bit of a trawl to find exactly what you want.

That's very helpful, thanks. I'll do more research and maybe give the POI a try on the TT. Just out of interest, what's it like on the trails in West Northld at the mo? Are they closing/puting restrictions on most?