OK, I admit, I was very sceptical to these Cool Covers when someone told me he’d put them on his T700 oak plank seat and found the seat to now be rather comfortable. I didn’t take his advice and instead made a modified Sheepie. The Grenadier Butt Guard, as I named it, was (and is) very good, helped a lot and I was quite happy with it. Roll forward a few months and I needed […]
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I bought a little bottle of this Muc-Off Visor, Lens and Goggle Cleaner a few weeks ago whilst visiting my local Yamaha dealer. I wasn’t expecting much but it’s actually brilliant! I had a few splatted bugs bakes onto my MX-9 visor and they were right in my points of vision so as I was heading off for an extended ride after leaving the dealer I decided they needed to go. I keep a microfibre […]
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I have a few videos I’d like to get done soon and some of them, I think, are going to be better served with a helmet mount rather than my usual crash bar mount. Doing some research, there are a plethora of options but very few that I thought would work well with my Bell MX-9 MIPS helmet. I then stumbled across a Canadian company known as “Chin Mounts”.. Hmm.. sounds the part, eh? Amazingly, […]
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My final birthday gift to celebrate my own awesomeness (I really am kidding here..) was a copy of the latest Adventure Biker Rider magazine. First one I’ve purchased but after quickly flicking through it I’m pleasantly surprised. I shall enjoy browsing this at bedtime tomorrow whilst trying to block out my wife’s telephone call to her best friend. 😁 SUBSCRIBE TO THE OVERLAND RIDER BLOG Please enter your email address to subscribe to this blog […]
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I’m a detail person and small intricacies can give me great joy! So as my birthday approached I spotted these custom key rings on eBay and couldn’t resist celebrating myself with one. It arrived today in the nick of time and it’s brilliant! Nice leather spine with a quality 70s retro metal custom tag. I saw a post somewhere from another rider who’d ordered one of these but with different text. I absolutely love it […]
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There are some products I purchase (they usually cost very little) and after I use them for a while I pat myself on the back and croon about that being the best few pounds/bucks/rupees I’ve ever spent. This app is one of them! I purchased it probably 7 or 8 years ago and I’ve used it constantly since. The developer updates it with new features and improvements every few months and whilst the free version […]
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Whitey66’s (from tenere700.net) T700 quick release seat kit (now sold by Rally Raid) is a useful mod and saves fiddling around with a hex tool to get your main rider seat released. The only thing that bugged me was the two cotter pins (R clips) used to keep the two posts secure. They’re a pain to put on and a pain to take off and the small zip ties were annoying, too. I decided I could no longer […]
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Following on from my last post the JT 16T front sprocket arrived today. Big shout out to my friends at Rugged Roads who shipped this within a couple of hours of me purchasing it and as a result it was in my mailbox already this morning, less than 24 hours after I ordered it. I like using these guys when I can as they’re in Lymington which is just across the Solent from me so local […]
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I like most of what the T700 does but at the moment I have no chance to take the bike off-road so the stock gearing isn’t making complete sense to me. 1st gear on the road is virtually redundant and I find myself taking off from standing in 2nd more often than not and as I reach 70mph I can’t help but wish I had another gear to go up. As such I’m going to […]
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