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Oi ! I bought someone a pint a few years ago. Then I gave up drinking and don't go to pubs anymore so I don't have to buy someone a pint again. ?

Yeah, thought that'd be a bit too serious and real for you lot. Lets just remember those exotic holidays of yesteryear... VID_20200428_111217_360.mp4

I remember someone asking him, "was racing Dakar hard?" and he laughed and said no - because all he had to do was ride. In fact, it was the only race event where he actually put ON weight (from all the Argentine barbecues he would stop at between the end of the stage and the bivouac point). The thing that made it easy was having a support team to do the maintenance and logistics. "No, Dakar wasn't hard," he said. "Not compared to all those years racing small enduro eventus in New Zealand every weekend - you'd drive down on Friday night, race Saturday and Sunday, work on the bikes on Saturday night, and drive back on Sunday night, and then get up on Monday morning and go and do your real job. That was hard." So, kudos to him for having put in the hard yards to get to a place where he gets to ride motorbikes for a living, and for being a nice bloke too.

That little Beast looks like a heap of FUN....

Nah, just people letting their imaginations run away with them.

No such thing as ghosts, it’s a shame to see buildings like this going to ruin.

You need to ask Jason Lewis (one of Cupid's mates) about our meeting one of the inmates at a filling station near there ?

@Renegade has developed tightness into an art. Having retired I’m doing my best to emulate him. ?

A good friend of mine Tony Smith from Tonypandy ( i hope that's how you spell it) is a keen photography and a lot of his photos are of abandoned places like the institutes already mentioned and old factories and the like, I'm pretty sure he's been in that place in Denbigh

On a trip across the mountains to Benidorm with a pillion I came a cropper on a very steep descent on a gravel road and yes I now hate ABS, and yes I will buy new tyres and yes I did cry a bit, However luckily only minimal damage to both humans and machine and we did manage to continue to our destination. There is an article on here about heavy dual sport bikes what I will say is "When is a bike too heavy for off road use?" When you can't pick the dam thing up ...!

That there's a novel coronavirus is not in dispute, but it's still just a virus. It's the way the world has reacted to it that's new and worrying. That's why I linked the Rockefeller report, it shows that they saw a future pandemic as an opportunity and explains what they propose to do with it. Like I said, I'm resigned to what comes next, so have no real desire to convince anyone of anything. Most people go along to get along, so it's not my wish to make anyone feel uncomfortable. This social distancing nonsense, like crabs scuttling around each other in a bucket, is seriously doing my head in though and it's hard not to want to vent.

Still? Not sure what you mean by that. I just question shit and don't like to be hoodwinked is all and the Rockefeller Report is an actual report and Event 201 is an actual pandemic simulation. To be honest I have a degree of resignation and gallows humour about all of this shit, if I didn't I'd just get depressed. Watching actual families, all of whom are asymptomatic (no fever, coughs, no sneezes or means of spread by aerosol despite the nonsense being spread by CNN and the rest of the mainstream media), strictly keeping 2 metres apart, just baffles me. And when I question them on this the only answer they can give is, 'well, you never know'. If that's the level of critical thinking we've reached at this point in history, we're well and truly fucked. History shows that this sort of passivity and unquestioning acceptance of authoritarian rule is far more dangerous than any virus and most of the world just rolled over on it's back.

That, or there's a higher level of cooperation not apparent to us. No conspiracy, this is a freely available Rockefeller Report from 2010. In the light of that report last November's event 201 pandemic simulation makes sense. Read from page 18. Rockefeller Foundation.pdf

Is it ok to say that was Amazing Grace? lol Welcome!

Not so much where I live, I go out as much as I want really, but there's been a lot of overreach in various places. I've got plenty of country lanes to play on. And, contrary to the fearmongering, should I bin it and break something, I'll likely have the ward to myself and bunch of nurses glad to have a fit older gentleman to look after.

I have the clear one on my Donkey (DR650), it's ace. When we were riding in Spain I came out of paying for fuel and my tank had gone blue !! Who knew that Repsol colour their petrol blue ?

You will have to behave yourself now Bob LOL

Yes the S10 is a big old bus but then I#m a big old boy LOL. Not long after I bought the bike I was going out on her for a spin she was on the centre stand so while sitting on her I pushed forward to get her off the stand without looking, I had left the side stand down as well! so as she came off the centre stand she bounced off the side stand and threw the bike over to the right and over she went, again no damage but it was on flat solid ground and I managed to pick her up on my own I think the panniers help by not letting her all the way down, Where I had my little spill a few weeks back what doesn't show up on the photos very well was it happened on a steep hill with loose gravel and sand underfoot that's where the trouble lay I have had a fair few bikes in my time over the last ten years they have been mainly large cruisers/tourers IE three Harley's a Goldwing and a Honda Valkyrie Interstate and even an immaculate XJ900 after my Yams first service she would leave all of them for dead, I have had her sitting at 206km/h according to the sat nav which is fast enough for me, And when fully loaded as per the photo no difference she doesn't even notice the weight, I'm certainly not dissapointed with the engine in fact somewhat surprised at how good it is even the mpg is brilliant on my trip to the UK and back she averaged 5.2 litres/km which is just over 54 mpg and on an unladen trip of just over 450 miles taking it easy I returned an incredible 4.6 litre/km which is a little over 61 mpg this is not unheard of on a Super Tenere. Throw in their legendary reliability and and a brilliant shaft drive then I have to admit in over 45 years of riding this is by far the best bike I have ever owned. Perhaps the Gen2 engines were re-mapped a bit? Yes I do agree the S10 is perhaps too heavy for serious off roading especially if you have road tyres on like I did ,, they are going to be changed once we get out of this lock down situation and ABS that can't be switched off is a pain, I have since learnt that a fuse can be removed to turn the ABS off. Everyone is different and its horse for courses I suppose and of course everyone will admit that their current steed is the best bike in the world.......probably!!!

Following a fatal road traffic collision that occurred in Barry yesterday (26.04.20), the family have released a tribute. Alan Jones, 62 years old, from Penarth was travelling on his silver Yamaha motorbike, westbound on the A4050 Port Road East, Barry when the collision happened. His family have said, “Alan was a husband, father and devoted grandfather and was well known as a postman in the local area. The family are devastated by his sudden, tragic passing and this will leave a massive void in all of our lives.” Emergency services were called to the scene shortly after 11.15am following the collision which involved Alan’s silver Yamaha motorbike and a brown Volvo XC 40, both of which had been travelling westbound. Tragically, Alan suffered fatal injuries and was declared deceased at the scene. Officers are appealing for anyone who witnessed the collision, or the manner in which either vehicle was being driven prior to the collision, to come forward. Please contact 101, quoting occurrence 2000142848.