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Just got notified yesterday that I'm gonna be a Great Grandparent this coming October... here's my oldest Grandson's 1st view of his future riding partner...that he already has a bike in the waiting for the little guy...

I also wanna build a tiny cabin or two for visiting bike riders. Plenty of room behind the garages for them and I've always wanted to build one. Something like these:

Packing for the move that begins next week. Entire house contents are boxed up and ready for the movers. We'll be in for a culture shock; moving from one of the wealthiest areas of the USA to one of the poorest. But the riding in Appalachia is great and I'm looking forward to it....

So on Sunday afternoon I decided to take a run out as the temperature was up to a near Caribbean level of 12c. I headed south into the Scottish Borders to the popular spot of Moffat but other than a sprinkling of power rangers and a few born agains it was quiet. My new exhausts were attracting a lot of admiring looks from the ladies. From there I headed to St Mary's Loch for a bit of cottaging. I was alone in the toilets though so I just took a piss instead. Again there weren't a lot of bikes, I did speak to a Polish couple who were on a Harley Electra Glide and I had a cigar break. Then I headed back using a single track road I wanted to explore. This took me past Megget Reservoir.

After 5 yrs. of not seeing my son...(he's a PMC in Israel) I got wind that he's here in OR currently!....just talked to him for the 1st time in a coupla years...he's in Portland to get his beat-up shoulder operated on (injury from Iraq back in 2011) & process a load of paperwork to get his Top Secret security clearance for a new contract in Germany after he finishes the remaining contract in Israel. Gonna relieve my anxiety a bit as a parent to know he'll be moving up the food chain & outta the field....probably gonna go see him next week...pretty stoked about that!

I saw a few of Fred's girlfriends, it is lambing season to if Fred had been here he would have gone full nonce. I then headed to Talla Reservoir, as usual the scenery was okay. Going off the side of the road would give you a bad day here. I eventually rejoined the main road and headed back to Edinburgh.

Good day out with some mates doing a Geand tour of Devon. Trip Stats. Other stuff

Sunny morning in Bristol ...................

A DBM is a Dago Bumming Midget , Pete was quite fond of them ................ .

So I woke up and my dog is laying on the back patio covered in dirt with a rabbit in his mouth. The rabbit's not bloody, just dirty. My neighbours kids raise blue ribbon rabbits. I instantly knew it was one of theirs. I took the rabbit away from my dog, rushed inside, and washed all the dirt off it before my neighbours could come home. It was stiff but I heard some animals play dead when they are afraid but I couldn't remember which ones. I took it and placed it back in one of the cages in their back yard then I ZOOMED back home. (Don't judge me ) Not 30 minutes later I hear my neighbours screaming so I go out and ask them what's wrong? They tell me their rabbit died three days ago and they buried it but now it's back in the cage. .

Sorted.. get another one in there if I cleared all the shit at end of it

Thanks! Should have loads of great ride reports once I get moved in. The new place has 5+ acres of land and a small shop out back - actually two shops in one. Smaller one to the right will be bikes only and the rest will be welding and woodshop stuff ....

Got 7 inches last night and I'm still sore! Another day in paradise...

Granddaughter rang yesterday "Scoot making a funny noise and won't start!" .....So I nipped over to hers, battery almost totally flat, starter relay just chattering when button is pressed, she also said that when it was running it would only do 25mph!....tried to pull it out of the garage, front brake absolutely seized, charged the battery, stripped the caliper, cleaned and greased it...scoot now starts and does 55mph again, so i thought I would check other things too, oil level fine, air filter clean, tyres!...both down by at least 22psi....... a bucket of wash and wax would be a good thing too.....

Dirty yellow on clean yellow.

I've been back up north, Mrs not been great, but now she is pretty well OK I now have time to myself

A38...M1 junction 23a..... passed East Mids Airport, country road to Donington Park...... just a reverse journey back home, nothing exciting was encountered on the journey there and back, did have a short shower on the way there. Took a few photos, phone camera is crap.

After a coupla days of rain, it finally turned out halfway decent weather-wise....was out havin' a spin on the Mullet & my dad called...so I rolled down to the RV park where I could call him back w/o my full-face lid on.... He got a text from my lad over in Israel...guess he's on a mission in the Golan Hts. near the Syrian border. Dad said he was gonna get back to the Gaza area soon....so I'll definitely be looking forward to hearing from him.

Out for a short ride on the Vespa today . Fully serviced , new MOT and a new pair of tyres from GJB Motorcycles...........

Tires on my m/c trailer were looking pretty ratty, not good enough for the 1,500 miles I need to do next week with some bikes. So off to WalMart to get a new set - they come pre-mounted on trailer rims and are around $160 each. I get some other crap while I'm there, go through the check out line and the lady working there was a complete idiot. Had a hard time ringing stuff up , etc. I pay, get my receipt and go home. At home, I check the receipt; she gave me my other stuff for cheap and didn't even charge me for the rims and tires! I got outta there for $20.16. Normally I'd have said something, but I didn't look until I got home and WalMart is about 45 miles away. So it looks like I got free tires!

had a local ride on the Beta this afternoon, bloody nice to not have to wash tons of mud off it for a change A few photos of the usual lanes you've all seen before but with clear blue sky's and no chem trails fucking Golfers all over the road

The result if @boboneleg & @Buckster had a run-in w/ each other...

Had a trip out to the local Vintage motorcycle club this morning. And one old chap turned in his recently restored MG only done 140 miles since it was finished. Certainly a beautiful thing I can’t imagine it came out of the factory this good.

Trip over to Newquay and Project 83 this evening. Like a warm summers day. with a couple of mates, Andy on his Thruxton and Martyn on his V85TT. Nice to have all modern bikes for a change and not have to wait for the vintage bone shakers. Family parking

Finally got around to sorting out the noisy inner primary bearing. It's not a difficult job but means removing the entire primary, I wanted to inspect the Dark Horse motor sprocket I fitted in place if the old compensator anyway and make sure the old deflector was still in place on the inside of the cover as it has been 1500 miles since I fitted those. The Dark Horse and deflector all looked good, unfortunately one of the starter bolts wouldn't come out, the allen head was buggered. I started drilling it but looking at the head I had an epiphany and sure enough one of my cam driven stud pullers fitted it so it came out nice and easy. At that point I went to get my bearing race puller and after turning the shed upside down I couldn't find it. Last time I used it was ten years ago in Georgia. I started to think maybe it was still over there. So I put the bike away while I figured it out. Found the tools this morning after two minutes of looking, they were under the bed of course. Hopefully get most of it done this evening.

I'll fix it, but nobody really knows what Harley models are called.

Again I had a similar thing with my boys scoot the other day, I noticed the front brake pads were wafer thin. I ordered new but when they came one of the pad pins seized and stripped, so bought a used caliper and fitted that. Only for the boy to tell me the front brakes had been rubbish for weeks. FFS He was shocked how good they were now they actually work. I sometimes wonder if at 21 he would have the sense to come in out of the rain. I did enjoy playing with the ped though, all relatively simple but therapeutic to do.

I’ve been rumbled, Adolf was my dad.

No idea why this photo should pop up on Facebook memories but it’s me on my Yamaha EXUP circa 1991 I think.

I had a 20 mile round trip, very nice out there, but I was slightly over dressed Not many bikes here considering the nice weather, the traffic was crap.

I went to view a house today, it was advertised as having a double garage which it had but the photos cleverly hid the fact that there was no driveway, the garage was at the back of the garden with about 60 feet of lawn in front of it. They just used it for storage and a gym, there was no vehicular access.

bob two minutes before posting the above

And tother day showing a guest at the Shack our back yard

Better one, not washed out by the sunny backlight

Lovely day out with the neighbours dogs. Did the Two Rivers walk at Keynsham, I’m fecked now but so worth it for quality time with my son

Dragons to be reintroduced to Wales after an absence of more than 1000 years , local conservation groups say they are pleased by the move that will put a large predator back in the food chain .... There has been concern shown by the farming community due to the risk of predation to livestock but the Welsh assembly say they are willing to pay compensation to farmers who can prove loss; the other danger with the dragons’ eating habits of taking virgins is not thought to be a problem as they became extinct in Wales many years ago anyway......

I went shopping today in Asda and i was behind a grandfather and his badly-behaved grandson. He has his hands full with the child screaming for sweets, biscuits, all sorts of things. The granddad is saying in a controlled voice: “Easy, William, we won’t be long . . . easy boy.” Another outburst and I heard the granddad calmly say : “It’s okay William. Just a couple more minutes and we’ll be out of here. Hang in there, boy.” At the checkout the little horror is throwing items out of the trolley. Granddad says again in a controlled voice : “William, William, relax buddy, don’t get upset. We’ll be home in five minutes, stay cool William.” Well, i was really impressed, so i went outside to where the grandfather is loading his groceries and the boy into the car. I said to the Grandad “It’s none of my business, but you were amazing in there. I don’t know how you did it. That whole time you kept your composure, and no matter how loud and disruptive he got, you just calmly kept saying things would be okay. William is very lucky to have you as his granddad.” “Thanks,” said the Granddad. “But I am William. The little bastard’s name is Kevin.”

Thank you for your advice Arfur ..........

Oh dear what a sad silly boy.

I've got one this month............. not the best but it'll have to do.