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Pick it up tomorrow morning, couldn't get it before as I have been away in Devon (by car) to visit the descendants. The plan is to ride to my mate's house tomorrow morning, he gets on the back of my bike (which he will own by the end of the day) and we both ride to the bike shop. Then he rides the Kawasaki back and I ride the Yamaha. I have owned three Yamahas, an XS250 and two FJ1200s. Yamaha are too late, their brand perception is already slaughtered.

Here's a few shots! And I was very impressed by their trams! So I shot a vid! Can you believe they're not abandoned?

you mean they tell you to fuck off? ? Oh and if you're looking for sympathy, it's in the dictionary about half way between"shit" and "syphillis"

dunno, doc reckons I could be back at work in a week so if I can work, I can ride...

Let's see pics then Yen.....before you cover it in shit!

Another abandoned station on the GSSR route in Southern Spain - Fines-Olula in Almeria. It was a busy station both in passenger traffic and materials from Olula del Río, Fines, and Macael......mainly marble. Like all of them it was closed on 31st December 1984. This is Dark Motorcycling!

rode to Sens, an hour north of home for an "off road training day" 1st exercise, using the centre stand, now my bike doesnt have one ( though i've done it a million times before on previous bikes) so I used the instructors bike, GS1200. I now have a dislocated left shoulder, have ridden an hour home one handed and am now waiting for Madame Moon to come home and take me to A &E. Bugger!

As the fuhrer of this forum instructed me to go out and ride i did, and as he likes anything to do with choo choo trains i thought i would revisit the old tunnel and viaduct where i grew up The viaduct is called Goitre Coed Viaduct the only one of three left and still in use today, originally it was a single track but was widened it to make it into a twin track i think it was designed by some bloke called brunel I think I've posted this before this is it being widened they just built another viaduct against the original one To get to the viaduct i had to ride the old tram road which passes under it, which was the place the worlds first powered rail journey took place. powered by Richard Trevithick's steam locomotive The trees are huge compared to what i remember walking along here as a lad Avon Taf in English river Taff I tried to do a now and then photo of this But all you can see now are trees So onto the tunnel the route in has had various types of blockades over the years but luckily for me the locals always find a way through, the old line ran over this little bridge This is what the line is like now hard to imagine trains travelling along here And another futile attempt to stop me getting into the tunnel, looks like some recent drainage works has been going on Tunnel is this way There it is Not the best I've seen it And we're in, only about a quarter of a mile long this one That LED light i got on the bike is not much good on the road i can see why now most of it goes up lol with the light off didn't do that for long it was a bit scary Out at the other end, they built the A470 and blocked off the exit from the cutting so you have to turn around This is the tunnel in use and this is now, the same end of the tunnel This end of the tunnel is quite wet and has drainage ditches in the centre so you have to stay to the left or right to avoid them, this end also suffers from the most deterioration You can still see all the soot on the walls here, this opening used to be a little room for the track workers to rest in, i remember it having wooden benches in there as a lad but in the miners strike back in the 80's my cousins boyfriend dug through here into the old pit workings and started digging out coal, it was filled in but this looks like someone has been in there again, i was too freaked out to take a closer look and made for the exit The exit A shaky hand held video my phone couldn't handle the bumps so its a bit blurry I then took the old parish road to get back up over the mountain, my father said he used to drive his bubble car over here 50 years ago, well there's no chance of that now. And on the top, the tunnel is beneath the bike here another now and then, the old photo showing the three viaducts, the one on the far right is the only remaining one And the same view now, you can just make out the viaduct below the smoke That's it for now i'm off to bed

Ericeira is a coastal town with a lot of weather exposure, this is a particularly nasty bike that rides daily Running, the engine sounds very much like a new bike

I'm not going to 'like' this if you don't mind Pete. I've seen enough of the inside of hospitals without you taking photos of them

if it's not tyre pressure, or wear then it's road surface I reckon.

spot on. since the back op i am not supposed to be involved in the hands on crawling around engines in bilges, but due to the covid bollocks we have no staff so it's been down to me. I have 2 fucked shoulders ( one now seriously screwed) and a hairline crack in my left knee for which I have already done an MRI scan and heve an appointment with a surgeon mid october. The latest bout of endless hours and stupid positions has the whole organism stretched to breaking point. it broke.

Not near the coast, only on the highest peaks. Here you get salt on the sea breeze ...

Im sure @Buckster would agree for the best pic nice lines are important, especially when using digital devices what do you say @Buckster ? Im sure @Buckster will be here shortly to opine on this.

I do think im sick, i spent 3 hours making sure all my soft bags had nice creases to them by using card board on the insides....

No idea Fred......I don't hang round scrapyards!

Love it, would like to ride my XR there

Back to the ride this is a photo of the tunnel entrance where i had to turn around its the group of trees to the left of the pylon Down to a place called Pontygwaith from there to the humpiest hump back bridge i know of Looking into the Taf again Just off the tram road is this, i'm not sure what its purpose was i think a WW2 pill box Looks like some poor bastard spent a night or two in here Good view from the window Back on the tram road its now the Taf trail only those pedal powered heathens allowed on here so only rode in for a couple of photos and then left. I used to ride it all the time before everyone went green On the parish road to methyr now i cant think I've ever seen anyone walking up here but past 3 families on the way everyone's invading my peace since corvid used to be just me the horses and the sheep The black shapes above the brown horse in the distance are solar panels lots of them appearing here now Aberdare in the valley below here This is looking towards Sennybridge one of my many favourite roads This is one of the reasons i came out today I've had a few people ask me about a few lanes on the TET https://transeurotrail.org/ Lots think it's a route suitable for the larger bikes i've been telling people not all of it in the UK is so decided to take a few photos of two i know would be a challenge The start on this one looks ok But soon becomes a flat twins nightmare Bike for scale Quite nice once you get past all that though But soon goes down hill literally LOL Ends in someones garden And the next one isn't much better looks rough from the start This photo and the next show how in my opinion these easily accessible routes on line affect the lanes the second photo i took in 2012 same lane and location On the way home i decided to check out a lane i thought i haven't ridden before The road there was good starts off ok But doesn't last long surprisingly that was all OK to get through Photo to prove i didn't go around When i got here i realised i had ridden this before many years ago and vowed i'd never come back bloody poor memory, getting old sucks LOL Stuck here for a short while but pulling it back a few few feet slipping it into second with lots of gas sorted that. After that it was a bit more hard work before getting stuck again I wasn't far from the main track which goes around this shit but the red dots are supposed to be the vehicle right of way. You will notice by my route i had trouble finding the entrance to this i should have left it lost, i'll be sticking to the gravel next time. Almost there It was home from here along some uninspiring lanes after that And this is why we cut out or remove the front sprocket cover

Yeh......could be the Bogey Man in there Pedro!

I'd say Weston Super Mare!

No bike, but got out in the truck for a bit today. Was about 35F / 1.5C today, so not a lot of riding on my part. Saw a couple of twats in a boat - had to be freezing out there...

very little time for riding in august and the one or two short trips I did to blow away the cobwebs were tight timewise so rarely stopped for pics. here's what I did get

Its OK Moon is back i seen him post on the other thread

I'm a bad boy

You could live to 150 and you'd still not achieve that (in my experience) A smaller , lighter bike could open up so many more opportunities for you.

I think the point was that you shouldn't need strength... if you do it poperly, which I clearly didn't. odd thing is that i put me weight on the centre stand foot, my right hand on the rear grab rail of the bike and the left hand on the handlebar to steady it so when lifting, any pull or force would have been through the right hand to ppull the bike up and back, but somehow my LEFT shoulder went POP about halfway through the manouver.