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Bollocks to all this politics, you can look at my motorcycle instead! Had a little bimble over to Trebes, which is in the foothills of the Corbieres. It was slightly chilly when I set off, but it warmed up a bit on the way back. I didn't actually go into Trebes castle, I'm saving that for a visit with Mandy, and to do a bit of a walk in the gorge there too. The roads were pretty quiet once I'd got past Narbonne, so it was a nice ride.

Just been out with the Dear Boy. Lovely crisp winters morning. It’s great to be out of holiday season. The hooray’s will be here soon enough to spoil Christmas. The same boats still at anchor. I looked at the shipping app I have and they are awaiting orders. Fowey Titties Empty river

You’re a big girls blouse.

We had a couple of nice days in Spain and didn't see 1 dago midget. I reckon that Pete is hording them! We visited a Fort and the Salvador Dali museum in Figueres. Then got a train to Barcelona the following day. Then visited Salvador Dali's House and a lighthouse nearby and then took the scenic coast road back to home, passing through the abandoned border post between Spain and France.

Afternoon at Leeds castle , big fire work display in a bit

In this case the BOAT is a Byway Open to All Traffic, It seems that Merthyr council have been sly dogs and not put one of the byways on the map and nobody knows it exists, that was until they had a sly meeting where they have proposed closing it which meant they had to put it on their page for the public to see and luckily somebody spotted it, so the plan today was to ride up to it and ride it while it's still legal which is a bit ironic because everywhere i rode to get to it isn't legal LOL. Anywho set out around 08:00 this morning, it was quite frosty and was -1.5c but with clear blue sky's and very sunny. I had around 3 miles of road riding before i got off road and after the first mile i was already thinking about turning back to put warmer gear on the heated grips were working overtime trying to keep my hands warm inside my summer enduro gloves but i stuck it out because temperature is a different story when you hit the dirt This is the mountain where i spotted that tetradactyl before LOL This was one of the legal lanes, it felt a bit exposed to the right now that everything is dying back for the winter, the bridge carries the A470, Merthyr to the right and Cardiff to the left I ride up past my parents house and onto trials of my past heading down towards the old Cefn Glas railway tunnel as i have done many times before Further on i have to cut through the forestry to avoid a deep mud hole i didn't fancy riding though it on my own and risk getting stuck, the cold has gone now and i'm feeling quite warm After the forestry it opens out to this moorland, a stretch of land I've hated riding from the age of 16 as it's riddled with ruts hidden by the long grass its quite slow going picking your way through the ruts although I've seen good riders go through here like it's tarmac Back into the forestry and its still frosty in the shade all the water from here on is frozen typical Merthyr weather I end up taking a detour due to get around fallen trees and end up having to negotiate this, something i wasn't comfortable doing on my own and as usual it doesn't look that steep in the photos but believe me it was and i'm now steaming hot and sweaty This is the last time you see my mirror There's a steeper short drop off onto the forest road and i decide to walk the bike down to be safe but i loose my footing when the front wheel drops off the short step and i end up falling down the bank taking my mirror with me when i go back up for the bike it's also taken the Radiator Shroud off where it dragged on the bank knew i should have just ridden down doh! From here there was lots more mud and fallen trees to negotiate and eventually i got onto the Byway i was looking for. The start was nice and easy so i could catch my breath and cool down heading into the sun now An nice drop down into a gully and back up. the trail goes sharp left up to the top left corner of the photo and was similar dropping down to where i am Back on some easy stuff About halfway along i get lost, there's trails going off in all directions and i end up by the Abernant railway tunnel it goes from Merthyr to Abredare and theres rumours their going to reopen it for walking and cycling This is a photo of the inside from stolen from on line, i would have loved to have got in there again its just under a mile and a half long. I went through there on a Honda 400 superdream when i was 17 years old but it's all locked up now with a thick layer of grease on the gates to deter anyone climbing over One of the fallen trees to get over there were quite a few like this on route no real problem for the mighty Beta And this would take me into Bike Park Wales mountain bike center, the fallen leaves from ere on hid lots of slippery rock which got me all hot and sweaty again A bit more road work to get my onto Heol Cymro which is a half mile steep climb covered in loose rock made worse today by the low sun flickering through the trees blinding me From here it was a gentle ride over my mountain to the petrol station for a wash before home You can clearly not see my missing rad shroud here Another good day's riding lit the fire when i got in so it's all toastie in here and i'm now sinking a few pints of Skippy piss chilling out

Its alright mate I put it up, not you

My submission today, but I am counting on replacing it before the 27th.

Look at this, I got the month right and everything this time. EDIT: and yes, I went to double check after posting the thread

For Marcel!

This building was originally a sugar factory, but at the time of the Spanish Civil War it was used as an Internment Camp by the Franco regime. So it has a somewhat grim history. It's condition is pretty bad now and the upper floors have completely collapsed. I also checked out the Officers' Accommodation which is further up the road! Once again it's pretty bad, but there is access to the upper floor. The first bunch of pics is the main building where political dissidents were held.......easy access to it! I found a superb Drone vid on YouTube which gives you a better idea! I need a Drone I do! It was a 200kms round trip on this run, but nearly all motorway. So nothing of interest for an onboard vid! I did actually do a vid walkthrough but it appears there's no video stabilisation on this new phone, so it wasn't too good! I need a GoPro I do! But what I don't need is another bike! The most reviled motorcycle on the forum does everything I need it to do. Anyway......let's check out the main building! And inside...... This roof isn't going to last much longer! Then it was up the road to visit the Officers' building! Here it is......probably very upmarket in it's day! But it's day has long gone! Ceilings are falling in! Looking up to the verandah...... ......which obviously needed to be investigated! And this would probably be the point where most of you would shit out! Upper floor rooms......some of which have caved in! This one was well and truly fucked...... Then back onto the verandah and I made my way out. The place wasn't as creepy as I expected it to be.......because there are some places where you get a real bad vibe as soon as you enter. This wasn't one of them. No axe murderers, no corpses, no midgets, no dead animals......you could say it was more of a holiday excursion really! For me! But for you lot it would be a bridge too far. Stick to going to your local coffee shop and leave the Dark Motorcycling to the real men!

Get in

Not my photos one of the TRF members were there today thought the photos were worth showing

Spent today cutting wood and splitting it at my parents home ready for me to burn next winter not a great deal of it will need a lot more I was looking around and there's going to be some shit to move when they pass on lol. All the stone in the walls in these photos was dug out of the ground and built by my father. I did help as a pre teen as well, just looking at what has been dug i recon over the years he's hand dug hundreds of tons to level the land off there is similar work done at the front as well, he also built the house himself with help from his brother and father All the trees to the left here may have to come down as there is a 100ft drop into a railway cutting and they have just electrified the line so falling trees could damage the overhead supply So to make the railways greener by electrifying the line they have to cut all the threes in this screen shot down the ones on the right of the line are on my dads property and they have suggested he's got to cut them down he's too old to give a shit now though lol And these looking the other way

Shit start to the weekend just been to my Uncle's funeral, very raw and emotional, he was one of the very few in my family that I was close to. Gonna go out on the Hornet in a minute after a brew to clear my head. Then doze this afternoon for work tonight. Saturday is clear so hopefully can finish running in my Hornet once I have slept. Sunday I have Christmas Choir practice down the west then work again overnight after the Wassailing.

Out for a bimble after my night shift.

Looks like Bob front row sixth from the right, could be Pete top row center, Bucky in the front between the two fatties, who can you see ?

Yesterday I dragged the bike out of the garage again my brilliant wife had a day off and the weather was cracking so I decided to go on a ride out with the group of ex pats that I have been out with a hundred times in the past , so I managed 310 km and boy I couldn't move this morning lol It had been a while since I had ridden the twisites around the Costa Blanca and I have to admit I had a bit of a boo boo my foot slipped off the brake pedal and I missed the corner went down and along a concrete drainage ditch nearly hit a concrete post I managed to just miss it and steer the bike back on to the road where I had to stop for a wee moment or two until my heart started working again.

Made of cheese brackets down and replaced with a Sealey Shelf. Which to be fair is not the best quality but at least serviceable.

You twat I clicked on the link and it put my amazon account in to fucking Spanish......

I've been out on the Louigi Moto xmas doo. Anything I post from hereon in may be alcohol induced . Anyway , John McGuiness was very entertaining . it was a good laugh and at the same time you wwere in awe of his skills .

Fitting some new rubber on the atv...radial six ply.

I hadn't done these for some time, but I wanted to check out the Tom Tom Rider Android app in different environments. I found it better to use than Google Maps......but screen visibility is still difficult in bright sunlight. Standing it upright made no difference either. The weather is still really weird here.....23C today and I got quite warm cos you don't get up to much speed on these canal paths. The view out onto the main road to Castril! I found some water..... This is where the canal goes into a bridge ......not that there's any water in there of course. And I reckon I could have BOTM in the bag with this one......if there's any justice. But of course, there isn't any justice where I'm concerned.......so I'll just have to be content with making up the numbers! It's a Man's Life on a modern CB500X!

I'm using my Xtreme card today as it's blowing a hoolie and pissing down

Bright sunshine above the low clouds today

He is out of his room again!

I didn't know we had a new politics rule and the worst offender is the one who made the rule

It’s back in my garage

I wasn't alive then lol but i would have liked it . One of my strangest memory's as a kid was i dreamt the cutting was a tunnel and i was walking through it, later on in life i learnt it was a tunnel and was cut out to make the track into a twin track and using the stone for doubling the width of the viaduct, this is a photo of it My parents house is about where the tip of the crane boom is

Ok, after a shit nights sleep the pain still hasn't gone , and it's fecking raining, and I've got to sit here and wait for two parcels to arrive, and we've ran out of Honey Loops !!! sorry , I went into @Clive mode for a moment there ...........

That is one of the reasons...I know my place...3rd in line behind the cat!... By the way, we don't have a cat.

Club did a camping weekend in Death Valley, recently reopened after the hurricane damage in August. Still a lot of the roads closed, but main two had been repaired.

Alright you feckers you shamed me into it. Not spotless but cleaner. I have got a fender extender to put on tomorrow so hopefully that will help a little.

It was a nightmare for the few years preceding that date as I was running Computer Superstores in Gloucester and Cheltenham, and everybody who wanted to buy a PC kept blathering on about them only have a lifespan until 31st Dec 1999. I reassured the punters by telling them that the PC's would be well and truly fucked a long time before that date anyway.

Found a pic of Pete and Ren...in there prime.

I had a pass out today and the weather was taking a slight pause between storms so I had a look at the forecast to see which direction to go. East looked best so off to Wiltshire but where should I go ? On the far side of Calne I've passed a 'Motor Museum' sign countless times so a quick look on the net confirmed that it was open. It took about an hour to get there and probably because of the shitty weather it turned out that I had the place to myself. This couple are the original owners, unfortunately they've both passed on now so the museum is governed by a trust............. and this car was the first one to enter their collection which eventually became the museum, it's a 1937 Buick Albermarle.............. Th

That's a nice looking machine wonder of they will do a dual sport version and looking at the specs this is a prime example of why i can't get my head around the weight of the Himalayan. it's 151KG and 650cc that's 44KG less than the new Himalayan why ? To sum it up Ducati Himalayan

My day today will mainly consist of taking my 'speed awareness' course

The Old Post Office at Tintagel

Feeling like crap today, I might have a bit of a bug, had dinner yesterday and it was hard to keep it down. I am now sat outside having a hot tea like an old woman. Every sip feels like it upsets my stomach. After arriving home I got a big broom and got to work on the back of the house, between newly formed soil from decaying leaves and olives there were three bin fulls of stuff, got too tired from doing that so do think they are related. Will sit a bit having the rest of my tea then watch tv, but might wash the bike in the afternoon if the day brightens up a little. I do plan on going for a multi day ride sometime next week and you can’t leave on something like that with an already dirty bike!

This , it's not a factory bike but something that a guy in Wales made to resemble to original offering from Honda. I could kick myself for not buying it when it was on sale .

The No 1, YZ490 was one of those bikes that all my mates said don't buy it you will regret it, well guess what i bought one and they were wrong it was a wicked machine just when i thought i'd sussed it out it would do something to surprise me it was such an adrenalin rush riding it on the dirt and the road sometimes. Broke my first bone on that bike and after i was healed i was back on it doing the same daft stuff the only thing i regret was selling it.

Watching Star Trek with my best buddy. He’s fallen asleep, can’t cope with Kirk’s dramas!