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hello boys an girls, a quick update on this. i had an MRI scan during the week and saw the doc on friday evening. MRI scan says I have ruptured the supraspinatus tendon and have a large subacromial and deltoid peri articular effusion... I'v snapped the tendon over the shoulder joint in english. Doc says no choice, as it's ruptured, gotta operate. I have an appointment with a specialist in Gijon on 26th oct... problem is I already have an appointment with an other specialist on the 15th about repairing the meniscus in my left knee... I think that I'm just falling apart at the seams now... Thursday I did discover that i can still get on the bike and managed to ride into town and back so that's reassuring at least.

Hawkesbury Common this morning.........

Then i just toddled around the back roads to head for home but also taking in this short lane on the way back.

I took a photo for you this morning but that's as close as I'm getting before the lycra hordes start to question why I'm there

You meet the nicest people pushing a Tomos.

TAR SNAKES!!! ? A casual ride along Highway 101 on the Sunshine ? Coast of British Columbia. A quiet misty day in September makes for a lovely ride, although there is one hazard to watch out for. The dreaded TAR SNAKE!!!.... Some fresh tar snakes from the summer were still a bit tricky to navigate, even on a cooler day. Pick your line wisely Grasshopper! ?

So there's a sign stating 'Historic Church' that i ride by quite often but I never seem to have time to stop, so I set off with just that one thing in mind this morning. I'm not a religious person at all but I do like architechtural design and history of churches. This one turned out to be a cracker for me as you could only get to it via a grassy track so although the classification of the track would not normally allow vehicular use I could use it as I required 'access' to the church.

I was going to say that lifting the bike off the stand and moving it around I am doing gingerly, but then Pete would think I was having a dig... to be honest i rarely need to manhandle the bike, even the tiger I am tall enough to sit on it with both feet down and paddle it around, but yeah, im trying to be careful.

We got million dollar boats around here, i could park a ducati race bike out front not one person would care.

Weird, i parked the Tomos out front, shes a rock star, people were stopping and taking pic's FFS! A car load of crack heads stopped and wanted me to fix their broken chi.com spark plug leed.

I worked saturday and sunday, but they were easy days with coll and experienced clients who dont ask stoopid questions or need you to wipe their arses but it absolutely pissed down all day today, more rain in 12hours than we've had since may! started putting the boats to bed for the winter, never done that in september before. tomorrow driving to Lyon to assist with transfer of bro in law to hospital ( surgeons not capable of learning how to communicate with him so someone has to go to translate) then a few days off. no riding though cos the weather is shyte.

That'll draw in a 'different' crowd ?

Ir only you knew someone with a GoPro thas's gathering dust in a bin somewhere... ?

I can weld a few firearms to it, give it a steampunk look with a few other bits from the knackers....

Hi My name is Michelle (aka: The Grasshopper) Welcome to Grasshopper's Ride, the adventures of a mild mannered, middle-aged bookkeeper on a motorcycle. Highlighting the beautiful Sunshine Coast of British Columbia, Canada. ------------------------------------------- Let's start with an Intro! With my bike down for repairs, I have a bit of extra time on my hands. So I have prepared a trailer for my YouTube Channel, Grasshopper's Ride. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChWHkOm8ZDUQ8XzdHkbM9ng?view_as=subscriber Have a watch, it's silly, funky and just good fun on two wheels. Have a great week everyone! I'll post other videos here for your viewing pleasure. Unless everyone starts throwing rocks at me, then I'll quietly retreat back into the forest again.....lol

Best of luck with that MooN - sounds like no fun at all.

Shit! And you'll find that as you get older things take a lot longer to heal Chris!

I like big Thumpers......and no doubt after all the aircooled XT's I've had it'll probably feel pretty smooth to me.

I looked at the bm GS 650 when I was replacing the tralp but it just wasn't sufficiently multi task for me, probably more apt off road and on the trails than the tiger, but not sufficiently at ease on the motorway or trying to keep up with the nutters I tend to ride with. I also found the single generated too much vibration for me, especially compared to the tiger which at cruising speeds is just so smoooooooth...

Another Abandoned Village!

Seems to me @yen_powellshould be accountable for that

Gives me an idea for a line of classic literature book titles, based on the adventures of Tymmys Tomos. I;ll let someone else write the book parts im sure we all agree on that.

Nice Bob i know what you mean about not having time to stop,? i done that with Soar y Mynydd chapel a few weeks ago, the fact it was open and it started to piss down as i arrived gave me a bigger reason to stop as well

Over here it's commonly known as 'overbanding' and it doesn't really create a problem unless it's wet and you hit it at the wrong angle with knobbly tyres on, then it gets exciting

Cow ... it wasn't the best I've had

I warn you, do not see unless you have two minutes of your life to go to waste So yesterday I filmed my drive by at Serra de Montejunto, Today, after washing the bike I went for a cold beer at the river, using drying the bike as a fine excuse to go there, decided to amuse myself trying to get another drive by and catch the bike getting a little air in places where it usually leaves the ground, truck traffic didn't make it easy since all I thought was that the phone would get run over Here's the result, first go didn't film where the front wheel lofts, on the second one the phone fell because of the draft draft and missed the second drive past , all in all a great success in wasting some time But, bike was cleaned, black stuff now looks black again And refreshment was had in a nice location

Oh god.....a moped as our header photo for a month!

The rims have survived well, the spokes not so good....

That's what you would say to a woman, to a man you'd say "Bem Vindo!", but I like your style

Voted for Tym's Tomos - Just a cool bike

Loved this video!! Thanks!!

The only thing worse is a ride to here. My pic for the day.

I liked several but I voted for Fred’s.

I voted for Earache's bike, I quite like mine more but that picture in the desert, with the sunrise light and the red dirt just breaks my heart and takes me back to my own memories, amazing picture of what riding in wide open spaces is about.

I know......that was the domain I initially searched for. But when you go for www.darkmotorcycling.com it goes here!

It's a bad state of affairs Chris! I won't get into the Brexit thing as we have a rule here of no politics.......but I don't think anybody's in any doubt where I stand on it. I'm somewhat shielded from the fallout of everything because I work for myself.......and the internet keeps running regardless of Brexit, Covid etc. In your position, and many other Brits in Europe including my sons in NL and Poland, life has thrown something at us that we could never have foreseen.

Nope. Didn't tell him either. One of the reasons im so worn out is that since June the boss and I have been working flat out to simply try and keep the company afloat and survive into next year. If the company goes under then i'll have to find another job, at 49 with the physical health problems I have and being a foreigner ( and english with the Brexit bollox currently going on) my CV is not particularly attractive and jobs are scarce with the economie screwed by covid. The work load has now eased as we have almost no clients now so it's just putting the boats to bed for the winter which I can do at my own pace then probably furlough till december I expect. I'll just have to deal with it untill either it gets better or it breaks completely, when it will be boyonf my control anyway.

I thought that as well! He's not Doctor Clouseau is he?

Does that doctor know what you do?

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

1st gear, engine running, rock back an then forward, as it comes off the stand, clutch out and away you go... apparently not an orthodox method nor recommended by the experts but i did it like tht for years with the transalp...

It’s getting the bike’s momentum going back and up that helps you do that. Like most things, when you do it right it doesn’t take any effort, but they’re a bitch if you don’t. Maybe you might have joint problems?

This video is from May, had some time to work on my footage lately. I spent all yesterday working on the most ridiculous after thought on any bike ever. The ABS was added to meet regulations, so they stuffed it into a silly spot. I finally got the line routed and on and now I'm worried it isn't tight enough. The true test is to take it out today and get it hot. If I don't have a shower of brake fluid I will be one happy girl.

What a coincidence - I have found that I really suck at editing.?

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!

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.

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.