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[tunnie]

 Just went down to Brackley Bike Festival, 100's of bikes there. A GS parked up next to me, same spec as the ones from Long Way Around /Down 

Huge Storage on them, he just rolled up all his bike gear up into the boxes, and went off in jeans and t-shirt. I had to haul all my jacket, gear and helmet around in the heat. 

I love my bike, its great for twisties, handles really well, but its no good for long haul or storage. 

I would have ridden to Bournemouth Air show too, but it was too far for the MT, and would have been hard work, and again storage was an issue.

Few pictures... it was a good event they had Craig Jones the stunt rider, he was doing some good stuff, until he fell of in rather a spectacular way, he was stunned for a few mins, but then got up and all seemed well.



My clean MT-03 and a rather dirty Omega in the background







This is my only storage, well that and my pockets. 









Craig Jones a in a spot of bother

[willyboy]

How much is yours worth its just what I want 
Wifey ok'd me getting one  so keep looking
Yea lugging helmet around etc always an issue  but you would need lock box or panniers & there not on my menu dont like em...

[tunnie]

I paid a cracking price for it, still not found one same money i paid.

Its worth about 2.3k i think. Its a 2006 plate, with 21k miles.

[Turk]

Craig Jones did an Open Day for us a few years ago. Had a mis-hap then too. One stunt was a person stood up inside an old tyre and Craig was supposed to do a "Stoppie" (accelerate hard and then hit the front brakes to lift the rear wheel, as in a reverse wheelie). He did the Stoppie ok, stopping inches from the chappie stood in the tyre, but he'd passed the point of no return and instead of the rear dropping down safely, it toppled over...onto the poor bloke stood in the tyre.
He was ok, just took a knock on the shins. Could have been a lot worse. Not my idea of a fun Sunday being on the wrong side of a GSF600 Bandit.   

[Taxi_Driver]

Carnt you get a towbar fitted.....im sure AA would loan you his pikey wagon......all the storage you need 

[Turk]

This is what Givi list for the MT-03.

http://www.givi.it/My-motorcycle/?ma=YAMAHA&mo=MT-03-600-06--09

[bfb1150gs]

i used to have a bmw r1150gs, best bike i ever owned.
 if you want to learn more about living with with the big  beasts this is the best place for info in britain 

http://www.ukgser.com/forums/

very helpful people and very mad 

[tunnie]

This is what Givi list for the MT-03.

http://www.givi.it/My-motorcycle/?ma=YAMAHA&mo=MT-03-600-06--09

Seen those but don't really give that much storage.... its also the fact its a naked single cylinder bike causes problems too

[tunnie]

i used to have a bmw r1150gs, best bike i ever owned.
 if you want to learn more about living with with the big  beasts this is the best place for info in britain 

http://www.ukgser.com/forums/

very helpful people and very mad 

Yeah stumbled across them, seem very good. 

[tunnie]

Tesco compare is suggesting insurance for the BMW is cheaper than my MT-03 which is only 660cc 

[bfb1150gs]

go on you know it makes sense

[LaserLance]

Have they changed the crazy about face switch gear on the beemers yet??