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That picture on the right always makes me think of Marty Robbins. This is how I remember you and I would like to point out, you didn't even buy me dinner first.

As I sip my morning coffee I watch the light misty rain ? fall outside my window. Looks like a rainy ride today, I think to myself. A smile ?comes over my face, as I have realized that I love riding in the rain. Riding through the tall lush evergreens of the Pacific Northwest rainforest of British Columbia, is simply magical in the rain. A light mist forms and floats through the trees, the green seems to wrap around you and the smell is so very fresh. It's all good, until.......DUN DUN DUUUUN!!! The Big Red Gate ??......oh well, need to turn around and do it all over again...?

About 1976-77

I remember you like this Fred

It wasn't on the way back from here! They weren't fit enough to ride home and both had to go back in planes with the bikes in a van!

Mid 80s

Kenny Everett

Early 80s on a plastic maggot (I loved that bike) and mid 90s, having a little lie down whilst everyone else is queuing en mass to get out of the Kent Custom Show, sod that for a game of soldiers!

Sierra de Baza in Spain today.....perfect temps (early 20's) but very overcast!

Thanks! ? I have a bunch of GoPros as well as a GoPro 360. I have mounts everywhere so I can capture the different angles. I really have fun making my videos, I love riding and filming. So fun when you get home to watch the footage as sometimes you are concentrating on the trail so much you can miss the awesomeness. So fun...., wait I think I said that already...lol

The red gate is for the logging company, if you pass the gate it goes down to the water where they route the trees to the tugboat, that takes them to the mill via water. I guess they don't want people down there playing around. Thanks for watching my video and yes, super fun when it is dry. ?

Despite other sh!t going on I abandoned the children to their own devices for a couple of hours this afternoon and headed out to do something useful... and clear the mind at the same time. I used "Kurviger" to plan a route as I had 3 fixed waypoints I needed to visit to verify the availability of water and electric hook ups for our boats in the event of us actually being able to run this season. We have a guide on each boat for the clients which I update at the beginnin of each season and I have found that the most reliable way of getting valid information is to go and look ofr myself... so waypoints were Surgy, Villiers sur Yonne and Monceau le compte. add start and finish and kurviger sorts out a route based on various other criteria ( fastest, shortest, main roads, curvey or downright winding) I added a couple of other waypoints to take in one or two portions I wanted to ride, export to " Scenic" on the "mefone" and jobs done. screen capture for those who like, those who don't like can do the other thing... First stop Surgy, Neither water or power available here which came as no surprise but a nice picnic area and ahade to hide in Temps in the upper 20's so shade is always welcome when disguised in bike gear Back over the river, not in the shade... and on through Clamecy to Villiers sur Yonne to see if there's still a standpipe at the little port there Villiers Sur Yonne it looked like a snowstorm had just gone through, look at all the white fluffon the ground The stand pipe is still there and even has a pair of fonctionning taps... no water in it though but I found the stop cock under a steel plate so I know it can be nade to work as and when needed. I also say this, as important a peice of leisure equipement as any if ever Boboneleg comes this way again... a pleasant spot to sit and contemplate I moved on from here heading towards Bazoches, across country on the minor roads, I wanted a closer look at this hilltop building which i'd never seen before the road up was narrow and steep but gave some good views of the surrounding countryside From afar I thought it might just be a grain silo or something but a bit odd perched up there on the hill. Turns out it's a very nicely maintained chapel Time was getting on and I need to get home, the roads from here were all well known to me and fairly rapid, here to Bazoches was again smaller back roads but then it was then quick and straightforward. got home around 6, just in time for aperitifs... ? cheers!

The best paint scheme for the AT.

Cheers Bob if i was going to get one it would probably be a new one, have to get rid of a bike first though but i cant see that happening LOL

1978

Thruxton was about 40mph, the handling was superb as well.

I cant do 70's but i got this from the 80's see if you can guess which one is me i'm 18 years old at the time. I think some have already seen this ?

I cringe thinking about riding my KLR in that! Water!?! Mud! On my bike!?! ACk!...

Having an enduro and a sport tourer has worked out well for me.....if you could have only two bikes

CRF 250L.

Probably the Triumph Thruxton RS.

You ponce.

Made leg crossing an art form.

If it's cold or average, I enjoy a nice red wine, something nice from the Douro or a nice Syrah from southern Portugal if I can. If it's warm or summery mood, a nice crisp dry white wine, something that allows you to eat olives or cheese and doesn't mess with them flavors, and goes along with dinner and after dinner as well. Nothing like a nice white wine, but then again there is nothing like a nice white wine hangover either. As a spirit, a nice flavorful añejo rum with ice (and a quarter slice of pineapple, thank you, I don't care what you think) Or, if I'm already drunk and it's a warm night in the Algarve with good company, I'll start drinking Mojitos or Elixir de Cuba Legendarios like it's nobody's business. It'll end in disgrace and oversleeping, but then again it's summertime and nothing a liter of water for breakfast won't cure. What's your drink of choice?

Its been far too long since I last went for a decent ride on the bike, last Friday a friend of mine Eric,asked if I wanted to join him and his mate Les for a spin out in the country how could I refuse? The route was around 150km around the area to the west of Gandia, a gorgeous day for a ride even if we did take the odd wrong turning. Stopped off a couple of time for refreshments like you do when the temperature climbs to the upper 30's Unfortunately my front facing go-pro had a problem when i got home all the data on the card was corrupt so have to make do with footage from the older camera set up on my rear pannier, but you get the idea. Just part of the trip but it will do a great day.

So are mine i paid for them just like you

Oi ! I've got a full set, and they are all mine.

No but i'm well on my way lol

They're superb vids!

Can we trust the word of a gimp?

Ive also met Fred, Ren, Dave and Bruce and none of them were cunts either.

yEs, wEirD waY of writiNg ThinGs ?

I do tend to avoid off road when it's wet, I have neither the tyres nor the riding ability to deal with it. First rule of staying alive when your on your own,, know your limits. Plenty of tyres around that would be better suited to the sort of offroad I do but I would then almost certainly loose something at the other end of the performance scale when I'm trying to keep up with the other nutters ahen group riding ( BMW 1100RR Yam R1, a brace of fjr1300's CBR1000RR, vfr 800, vfr 1200 etc etc. The tiger is far better at this than the transalp was, unless it got really twisty...

I still like the Himalayn, or something lighter than the Tiger for the sandy trails in our area.

If i saw overcast like that i;d run back to the barn asap! Cant be to careful when moisture is present!

I had a bike like that once but on the move to take the weight off was 120mph LOL

I thought the bars would be uncomfortable but on the move the wind takes the weight off.

I think I'm pretty much there. GS does the touring bit and pretty much anything else that I need, although the K12GT was more comfortable over distance, and way faster on the autobahns. GS is, for me, a bit heavy for trundling along tracks so I got the CCM for that sort of thing. I must confess that if it's just out locally it's now the goto choice. Anything longer, or decent roads and it'll be the GS. Sport bikes and my back don't go together so have never been an option.

Grill guards, light guards crash bars, fire extinguisher mag light filled with rocks(modern day hammer) first aide bags.....all check! Have i forgotton anything? In my defense reality isnt my fault.

and you haven’t bought anything alcoholic for a lot longer than that

Fantastic! How many cameras do you have......or do you change position on them?

Does the red gate close a private property? Surely that's not closed due to weather! Nice video, great dirt road, marvelous for a proper blast in the dry.

I really rate the Continental TKC70s I have now on road, both dry and wet, and they give plenty of confidence in the kind of dry hard packed dirt I see in your dirt road reports.

oh yeah it's not the bike that's not capable Pedro... I've currently got Pirelli scorpion trail II front and back and I really like them on the road, not enough testing off road to make an informed opinion yet. Very similar to the michelin anakee II 's that I ran on the tralp, can't fault them on road and I have learnt to push the tiger waaaaay beyond anything the tralp could do on the tarmac.

Im still looking at Jamie, i dint say i was good at this...

No.......Keith Emerson! Here he is in 73 with a Z1.......all I had was a GT380.

It's like Justing Bieber, Michael Jackson, or Vanilla Ice ?

Post up a few of your pics in the Gallery because British Columbia isn't somewhere we normally see.

Hello & Greetings from British Columbia, Canada. I would like to introduce my trusty ride, his name is Bagheera! Looking forward to getting to know the community and sharing some Grasshopper & Bagheera adventures. ?

yeah, but that was like, 100 years ago Bruce! they do it all with satellites and computor modelling now... ?