The TPU UK Clubhouse

[FreedomEclipse]

what gas mileage do you? or does it use diesel? whats the mpg or kpg I don't know what they use there. can you convert it for me and just tell me what your mpg is on highway/city with that? thats main reason i want one, fun but also... can go very far on very little money.

A KTM 690 like this wouldnt be diesel. Not that many motocycles will. Military motorcycles might do -- the old ones did but otherwise maybe really old cruisers that look like Harley Davidsons might do but really rare and people dont even bother with engine swaps because its just not worth the effort as diesel doesnt have the performance.

KTM quotes about '60.8 mpg (3.87 l/100 km)' so ymmv depending if youre a hoonigan.

 

[lexluthermiester]

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Anyone else into bikes?, sold my Tiger 800 XRT last week and picked this up, it's a bit mental.

Nice! Someone is having fun!

 

[Space Lynx]

A KTM 690 like this wouldnt be diesel. Not that many motocycles will. Military motorcycles might do -- the old ones did but otherwise maybe really old cruisers that look like Harley Davidsons might do but really rare and people dont even bother with engine swaps because its just not worth the effort as diesel doesnt have the performance.

KTM quotes about '60.8 mpg (3.87 l/100 km)' so ymmv depending if youre a hoonigan.

I don't know what hoonigan means, but 60 mpg is great. can you recommend a cheap motorcycle that gets around 80+ mpg? i want to go on long adventures without it breaking the bank on tank fill-ups
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UK is fine, I'm based in USA, but I might come to UK someday still. waiting on Boris July 19th.

 

[Caring1]

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Anyone else into bikes?, sold my Tiger 800 XRT last week and picked this up, it's a bit mental.

Nice, looks like a Trials bike with road tyres.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Nice, looks like a Trials bike with road tyres.

That's what I was thinking. Still looks sharp though!

 

[kurosagi01]

I don't know what hoonigan means, but 60 mpg is great. can you recommend a cheap motorcycle that gets around 80+ mpg? i want to go on long adventures without it breaking the bank on tank fill-ups
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UK is fine, I'm based in USA, but I might come to UK someday still. waiting on Boris July 19th.

I would have thought hoonigan is a term that came from the states, pretty much a phrase used to describe a bit of a nutjob on the road.
They say 60mpg but I reckon they will probably get like 50mpg.

 

[Space Lynx]

I would have thought hoonigan is a term that came from the states, pretty much a phrase used to describe a bit of a nutjob on the road.
They say 60mpg but I reckon they will probably get like 50mpg.

well the Honda Rebel says 80 mpg. So I am looking at that one for myself. Not the most fun ride I am sure, but 250cc is really all I need for a country drive...

 

[kurosagi01]

So last year we had Domminic Cummings driving across the UK at start of lockdown with "symptoms" last year and now we have Matt Hancock having an affair and sharing spits with another lady/secretary.
Damn got to love how much they are representing the UK to the world.

 

[the54thvoid]

What's wrong with traveling our fair country and appreciating our foreign named wimin?

 

[kurosagi01]

What's wrong with traveling our fair country and appreciating our foreign named wimin?

Nothing wrong at all, just the timings and the double standards.
Apart from that...anyone else been watching the Euros 2020?

 

[the54thvoid]

Sarcasm tags required....

 

[FreedomEclipse]

well the Honda Rebel says 80 mpg. So I am looking at that one for myself. Not the most fun ride I am sure, but 250cc is really all I need for a country drive...

I think you'll find that once you start riding, that it will be night time before finding out how far away from home you are and turn around to make the long journey back. It looks like a good long range cruiser with a little mid range grunt

 

[FreedomEclipse]

What the hell is wrong with humanity these days??

 

[lexluthermiester]

What the hell is wrong with humanity these days??

Answer: The world is quickly filling up with whiny, entitled, special-snowflakes. The sooner those types of people are given a fat can of STFU and boot up their bum, the better off we'll be...

 

[claes]

STFU or I’ll stick a boot up you bum

Your explanation doesn’t explain anything at all... Many cultures have integrated soy into their diets for thousands of years. Sure, there’s a lot of appropriation of those cuisines (especially in the UK, and certainly America), but those same cultures were meat eaters themselves. It’s not about PC “snowflakes” or whatever culture war manufactured consent has fabricated, it’s about bad reporting and political arrogance.

A lot of the problems associated with appropriation could precisely be solved with patient explanation and sympathetic negotiation rather than the typical (colonialist, reactionary) response of a foot-in-the-ass/call-outs, but the mirror is the last place I’d look for those sort of conversations

 

[the54thvoid]

Reddit sourced story. Yarr, I'll consider it a fraud. Don't know a single vegan that would think that way. Sounds like a stooge, or set-up.

OTOH, if true, it's an isolated idiot. Much like the morons that revel in taunting vegans. You know, people that get offended at other people's choices. Snowflakes falling from everywhere.

 

[kurosagi01]

And here I thought Tofu is more a asian thing than a "vegan" food, when I think of Tofu i'm thinking of japanese tofu or mapo tofu dish(very delicious) in chinese cuisine.
The Sun and the Mirror are bloody trash anyway.

As for sarcasm from void I apologise i couldn't recognise it was sarcasm, my brain was a bit in scramble when I read it.

 

[Deleted member 24505]

What the hell is wrong with humanity these days??

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Typical vegan

 

[dorsetknob]

Can Vegan's pick their snozzer and eat it ?? ...............just asking. "Oh and French kissing is that allowed"

 

[pantherx12]

I don't know what hoonigan means, but 60 mpg is great. can you recommend a cheap motorcycle that gets around 80+ mpg? i want to go on long adventures without it breaking the bank on tank fill-ups
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UK is fine, I'm based in USA, but I might come to UK someday still. waiting on Boris July 19th.

BMW f650/ f700 GS ( twin cylinder models) can get crazy mpg if you ride sensibly ( i.e don't go over 5k rpm)

My f650 would get 70mpg if I rode it sensibly but I had a high flow air filter and decat exhaust/ high flow muffler which affected MPG negatively.

I tend to hold onto my gears and accelerate quickly where ever I am so my actual mpg was much lower ha.

Honda NC model bikes also have crazy mpg, down side is they have the shortest gearing on a mainstream bike I've ridden with the red line being at 7k which means you have to change gears very frequently which can be a pain.

Currently riding A Kawasaki kle 500 which again I've decated, high flow air filter and added the air snorkel from the 1996 model ( 3.3 times the air flow )

It gets about 40 mpg riding aggressively.

It could do 70 if I was more mild mannered.

The gpz 500 ( ex 500 in USA) uses the same engine but has superior aerodynamics as it's a light weight sports tourer, that gets 60mpg even riding like an arse hole, I got close to 100 mpg if riding sensibly.

My kle, I painted it myself, can you tell? Ha

 

[Caring1]

STFU or I’ll stick a boot up you bum

Your explanation doesn’t explain anything at all... Many cultures have integrated soy into their diets for thousands of years. Sure, there’s a lot of appropriation of those cuisines (especially in the UK, and certainly America), but those same cultures were meat eaters themselves. It’s not about PC “snowflakes” or whatever culture war manufactured consent has fabricated, it’s about bad reporting and political arrogance.

A lot of the problems associated with appropriation could precisely be solved with patient explanation and sympathetic negotiation rather than the typical (colonialist, reactionary) response of a foot-in-the-ass/call-outs, but the mirror is the last place I’d look for those sort of conversations

Cultural appropriation is an imaginary concept made up by whiny Karens of the world that apparently prefer segregation of races rather than integration.
ps anyone that wears moccasins, please hand them back to the nearest native American.

 

[Space Lynx]

Anyone heard any news yet about americans traveling to UK? still the same deal? quarantine for 10 days and 2 tests paid for by me... I really think if you can prove you had your pfizer or moderna jab they should just let people travel freely. i guess too many people would try to trick the system though is the idea against that im guessing?

 

[basco]

Love the blackwidow exhaust ! hope your neighbours too !
and nice camouflage-good job Mr.panther

 

[Tatty_Two]

Anyone heard any news yet about americans traveling to UK? still the same deal? quarantine for 10 days and 2 tests paid for by me... I really think if you can prove you had your pfizer or moderna jab they should just let people travel freely. i guess too many people would try to trick the system though is the idea against that im guessing?

A vaccinated individual can still transmit the virus? Of course countries are going to continue being cautious until they have their population protected, not saying I completely agree with it but I can see why.

 

[Splinterdog]

I have been wanting to get something that like this, but getting your license for motorcycle is a pain where I live. you have to take a class and its like 1 hr drive to get to to the class and its like a week long... also quite pricey to get your initial license. renewing it is cheap enough... but eh. every time i try the class was always booked full so i eventually just gave up. might look into it again someday if i find a good deal on something.

I'm British and living in Buenos Aires where I took up motorcycle riding about ten years ago. I managed to blag my way through getting an initial license up to 300cc where no kind of test was required at all.
When it came to renewal and an upgrade to any size bike, I had to do a written test (in Spanish) which was a simple multiple choice on road signs. That was later followed by by riding through six cones without touching the floor and a nice cappuccino afterwards.
It's probably the simplest test I've ever done and goes to show that living in a third world country definitely has some advantages.
I would never get away with some of the riding I do (motorcycle courier) back in Blighty, but hitting the open road is most definitely one of life's greatest pleasures.