Don't forget there are two Grasshopper Inns - the one I believe you are talking about is the large one in Moorhouse not Westerham (half a mile away from the town center).

CJS Racing in Bristol do several Kwaks - might want to add your model to their list?

http://www.zx14r.co.uk/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=113&t=14282&hilit=Oil+filter

62 yrs old on my second ZZR1400 - 32k on them since 2009. (Got Komp's old green seat cowl on the current one!!). Passed my test 46yrs ago in 1969 when I was sixteen. Went to school in the sixth form on a T120R Bonneville.

Ache a bit now and not capable of more than 300 odd miles in a day but still manage a couple of Euro trips a year.

Prum in the Eifel and couple of French awaydays.

Leading in Luxembourg - some damp patches - three valleys fun starts at 5:20

https://youtu.be/RqCvfXbfg3s

No more sensible now than I was then.

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19,000 miles in great condition.
Recently had new Brembo Brake Pads front & rear.
Brake & Clutch fluid changed.
Tsubaki Chain & Sprockets.
Kwak centre stand.
PD Oiler
MOT April 2015 Taxed till end September

Now the clichés:
Never dropped (actually true)
Never seen rain (both it and I have been through the monsoon that is Northern France many times)
Full Service History (always service my own bikes as I wouldn't trust most dealers after having seen one carry out a first service)

Not a cliché – unfortunately!
Reluctantly selling the bike due to ill health (Low or nonexistent Platelet levels not conducive to extreme sports!).

Had a set made in 2005 by Headset Services at Shoreham Airport - been using them ever snce with zero issues.

My ear canals are so totally different foam plugs are all but useless for me.

Looks comfy!

The original Virgin Superhub is known for being rubbish on the WIFi front - you could ask Virgin to change it for a Superhub 2 which is supposed to address this issue.

I have never done a track day mainly because I only have textiles (Rukka) and I am too mean to buy a set of leathers and do not want to wear someone else's sweaty cast offs. However I do ride on the road for pleasure both in the UK and in Europe. I am well aware I could get badly hurt, die or get away "scott free" from riding motorcycles.

Track Days
Let's take a track day at Brands Hatch on the Indy circuit – I am going to leave the pit area and turn right downhill and then turn sharp right then turn slight left followed by another slight left then an uphill right and then another right onto the straight I started off on and repeat ad infinitum for 20 mins. Now it is not going to take me long to remember this and after a while unless I am completely useless I am going to get better and probably end up in "Inters". I might even end up in the "Fast Group" until I push so hard cos I think I am good and I enter the "kiity litter" at "warp speed" and damage myself and the bike.

Road Riding
On the weekend if I rise from my cot very early – say 07:00 and If I go and do a loop of Finchingfield from where I live in Kent I am going to do a 15 minute very boring bit of motorway until I get to the A12 turnoff then I am going to be on some of the finest and technical motorcycling roads the "sarf" of England can throw at me. I am not going to be able to remember every one of the hundreds of bends the 130mile Round Robin I have devised and I am going to be sorely tested on my motorcycling prowess as well as my ability to stay alive, not get nicked or SMIDSEY'd. I will eat my cake at Bosworths and then continue on slowly through picture postcard villages  with unlikely names such as Steeple Bumpstead only to emerge onto more fantastic roads. I will arrive back home with my mates in tow and if time allows will down a pint in a local hostelry whilst discussing any "near death" experiences any of us might of encountered. I will sit at home in the evening and contemplate on whether it was a really sensible thing to do at my ripe old age of sixty and should I really be doing this? I will probably conclude that I actually feel alive because of it and have thoroughly enjoyed the day.
The same mates will venture out on summer Wednesday evenings meeting up about 18:00 when we will choose who leads and head south towards the coast. By about 19:00 we will be on the motorcycling equivalent of "cloud nine" as the traffic will have disappeared and all be at home watching Emmerdale or Corrie whilst we venture along the A264 and then turn south down towards the south coast possibly Rye then back through some great empty roads o join up with the A21 when it gets dark and home via the pub.

Several times in the Spring and Summer months we will embark on European trips avoiding motorways and riding the "N" roads as much as is possible or as time allows. Destinations will include Albert in the Somme, The Vosges and The Eifel. The ZZR will really stretch its legs on these trips. We will obey the speed limits through the towns if nothing else as a mark of respect to the indigenous population but once out of the towns we will enjoy those roads that can only be experienced in Europe. We will encounter long straights, sharpish bends, coat hanger bends, constant radius bends and all will test our abilities.

So Road Riding or Track days?

I will now quote several idioms - Horses for courses – You pays your money (and you takes your choice)

For me it has always been Road Riding since I was sixteen.

Quote from: big gav on September 12, 2013, 11:54:06 PM
Oooo the N848 in Belgium through a place called Herbaumont=awesome.

N884 per chance - great area for a weekend away - stayed in Bouillon several times.