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My first smart phone was about 12 weeks ago, forced on me by work, I had to find a small child to show me how to work the poxy thing. They also made me have my first ever lap top a few weeks ago, it's like a proper PC but with a less usable keyboard, stupid small screen and no proper mouse, they'll never catch on. I'm gonna have to get one of those switches so I can use my main keyboard, mouse and screen with it, I do my CAD and estimates on the proper PC and email them to myself when I've finished. I don't have WiFi at home so the lap top is using my phone for the WiFi connection when I work from home which is most of the week at the moment. I can see the amount of data used flying up on the phone, I wonder when work will get a red flag on that.

Yes i'm sitting here waiting to see what bike Yen is getting and i ain't going to bed until i know lol

The first time was when you got rumbled in the GS section, my third post there me thinks, ive been perma banned 3 times so far...lol...

Awesome.

I tested the vid capability.......it's really impressive!

Here are our three contenders for August Bike Of The Month, two Royal Enfield Himalayans and one Triumph Speed Triple. Cast your votes, and let's find out which bike goes on the banner next month. @Grasshopper's Ride's Royal Enfield Himalayan, Bagheera in the lush forrest. @Skippy's Royal Enfield Himalayan, out on the mediterranean coast @Sofia's Triumph Speed Triple RS, on top of a hill with the ocean in the distance.

Hope it warms up a bit though - only 51F / 10C here now. Should be better tomorrow though.

I'm gonna ride like my hair is on fire and my ass is catchin' ! Gonna hit up an old abandoned train station, some old train cars, gold mines that are outta business and then have whiskey and whores at the hotel tomorrow night. It's all true except the whiskey and whores part.

1998 was a good year for me computerwise. Windows 98 was out and worked pretty well as I recall, AutoCAD R14 was the first decent version with icons instead of just a side menu and tablet and making customised buttons which combined commands was easy and saved much time. I had lots of shortcuts on my screen, my own printer and my own desk. I could knock out work like billyo. Today I have an unstable desktop that loses shortcuts and customisations so often it's no longer worth bothering with them in the first place, we now have tool pallettes instead of menus so one click items take three clicks. I have no desk to myself and the one I am allowed to use has to be cleared each time I leave it, so reference items or other handy things are no longer to hand. If I want to look at a map of the borough for reference, there is no longer a big print on the wall, this is not allowed, I have to look at it online where it is slow to pan and freezes a lot and has numerous mistakes. The printer is two rooms away and there is always a queue at the thing and if there isn't it's because it is not working. If it is working my print sometimes doesn't make it through. When I received a letter, the writer didn't expect a response within a few minutes like email. My mobile phone battery lasted more than two weeks. The mobile phone itself did not make it look like I am trying to steal a book out of the library by pushing it inside my trouser pocket. I feel better now.

The good old days of death threats over WD40!

That's the bike that I've got. He took it to Moscow and back. I'll be selling it before long in all probability as my back can't take it. I'm getting old. Fortunately still ok on the GS.

Had to be ButtRider didn't it? @Tym........how long did it take you to get banned there?

So how's life back in 1998 Yen?

I saw that - how freakin' stupid is that? Wearing chaps in the first place is pretty dumb and this is a way to make it even more dumb.

Nope - but I do now! Always thought they were cool on gunbelts, holsters and on some leather pants....

That’s the only way to win, Labour is the 35hp party.

I am properly chuffed at Miguel´s win today at MotoGP, Portugal's first win in the big class, and Miguel is a great kid. He must be feeling like he can fly right now, and rightly so since he's amazing.

Two-stage voting, it's like trying to get the Labour party back in power

You are very welcome. I'll close this now, and start the new vote with all three bikes, both Himalayans and the Speed Triple. Couldn't get more diverse.

Speaking of redneck pms, Mernickle just sent shipping confirmation, my new holster should be here from Texass by monday...getting more conchos too!

Switchable abs yes please, I wonder if it will be available as an upgrade for the earlier bikes?

Kid is, as a lot of them also are, really genuine. He was lucky to be picked by ktm as he was the right age in moto3. They figured they would go through the classes with him and have him in MotoGP by the time they would have a winning bike. No fools, those Austrians. There was a small article on him a while ago and he was having (i think) pork steaks cooked in a very portuguese fashion at his grandma’s, and she was saying “eat up, you don’t get this on those fancy places worldwide”, i got a giggle out of it.

Sometimes, and more often then I would like these days, you see something that just makes you confused at the level of absurdity that can occur with humans. ? Here is a prime example, now I know a bunch of you are going to be excited about this new product and might even think of bringing the chaps out of the closet..... just keep your excitement to yourself please.... ? https://advrider.com/you-saw-it-here-first-series-chap-gap/