What Did You See Today?

[Will14]

Is the bike an old Wing? or a Hardly or what? 

BMW K1200 LT, from about 2000 I think.

With a side car on it & the tow hitch in between bike & side car, plus a car tyre on the back of the bike 

[KiwiCol]

You'd think that putting the tow hitch between the bike & the sidecar would induce heavy lateral drag on 1 side. Must be a pig to steer.

[Will14]

You'd think that putting the tow hitch between the bike & the sidecar would induce heavy lateral drag on 1 side. Must be a pig to steer.

I agree, makes you wonder if it is a genuine photo or photo-shopped/AI image? or could the wheel on the side car be linked with a drive shaft from the bike wheel, one thing for sure the hitch isn't in centre of the bike

[Eric GSX1400K3]

Putting a car tyre on the 'ol K1200LT is not uncommon, bloke in our BMW club has the same LT, and he also tows, but his towball sits directly behind the rear tyre.  He says the car tyre is better for towing, the LT is also a heavy bike, would chew through motorcycle tyres pretty quick if also towing  i guess.

I don't know whats going on in that photo, could be a gooseneck and hitch off to the side as Will14 suggests?  Or its photo shopped....

[Hooli]

Looks like a car tyre on that BMW to me & there's something I can't work out poking over the topbox. I rather suspect it's got a sidecar too so the tow hitch is setup in the middle of the combo.

Yeah, I forgot this had already been suggested
/dementia...

[grog]

I reckon he needs a 4wd for his caravan and a proper motorcycle for riding.All hes got now is a headache. IMO😎

[Hooli]

I'll never understand towing with a bike, if you need that much stuff you're doing it wrong.

[grog]

Hooli i dont understand towing caravan with anything. Total stress, huge cost outlayed,just hard work. Book somewhere nice, drive, fly whatever. Pay the bill, job done.

[Hooli]

Yeah it escapes me too Grog, ruins the trip as you can do the fun roads. Isn't nice to stay in and as you say costs a fortune. I'm sure what people pay for the things would cover hotels for all their trips.

[Eric GSX1400K3]

True, but you cant take your hotel out bush and enjoy the serenity (cue "The Castle")

[Dwain Dibley]

I wasn't out on the 14, but I was on 2 wheels. I am appalled by the regularity of seeing what's in the pics below.
This road is a particularly expensive one with houses well over £1 million. But it is still abhorrent in any street/road.

D.D.

[Hooli]

Yup, utter scum doing that are getting more & more common.
Councils don't make it easy though with all the stupid rules on what goes in the bin or what tips accept. I had oil bottles the other year with no legal way to get rid of them, so I black bagged them & put them in the bin. The tip I got rid of the waste oil wouldn't take the bottles as they were a fire risk!

[Will14]

Yup, utter scum doing that are getting more & more common.
Councils don't make it easy though with all the stupid rules on what goes in the bin or what tips accept. I had oil bottles the other year with no legal way to get rid of them, so I black bagged them & put them in the bin. The tip I got rid of the waste oil wouldn't take the bottles as they were a fire risk!

Very true what you say about the councils making it difficult to get rid of waste, I'm all for recycling but the line has to be drawn somewhere. The councils however are making it easier for unregistered waste carriers to rip people off, they charge the uneducated the earth to take waste away, which they then dump in areas like DD's pics show

[Tony Nitrous]

Yup, utter scum doing that are getting more & more common.
Councils don't make it easy though with all the stupid rules on what goes in the bin or what tips accept. I had oil bottles the other year with no legal way to get rid of them, so I black bagged them & put them in the bin. The tip I got rid of the waste oil wouldn't take the bottles as they were a fire risk!

Where I am we don't have dustbins or any waste collection.
It's pretty common in rural areas.

Near a local town there's a "Transfer Station". They do like you to seperate stuff into Green Waste, Cardboard, Bottles and cans, metal, and general waste.  They will take batteries, old oil, paint etc too, no charge.

Open every day of the year except Xmas day. There's no charge and they never make it complicated.

I said to a local how good the service was, they said yeah, they tightened up on it a while back and it didn't go well. A lot of stuff got fly tipped and there was uproar over it.

Much as I hate fly tipping, If they want folk to dispose of stuff properly it's no bad thing to have a place that's easily accessible without ridiculous fee's.

[Mick_J]

Some councils here have stupid rules.  One council make a charge to remove furniture, fridges, washing machines from your property and they have 28 days in which to do it so you could have a pile of crap on your drive for a month and pay to have it removed.  The same council also has a rule that fly tipping has to be cleared up within 48 hours, so can you guess what happens?