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Yup, it was fun, i liked the bumps and being in the mountains, that was always cool. The only pic i have of me skiing, mid 1980's in vermont.

You must be older than you think that looks like 19o8 kinda chit. ?

Now you're talking Bob! I grew up overlooking Swansea Bay Station.....till they closed it in 1964. Notice the tallest building on the skyline? That was where I went to Junior School.

I can just remember that, we had to take the train to go to my Nan's at Clevedon (only 15 miles away) , it was a steam train as well. Very excting for a 5 year old

This place is fantastic for riding in the three months of riding weather that we have, rest of the year, not so much. Come over anytime, we love to show people around.

Thanks for that. I’m definitely gonna stay there! ? Thanks for that. It looks beautiful and wild. I had a look and apparently Misery was also filmed in Colorado. It was at least 20 years ago I watched either of those films so its clearly a very striking place! Colarado wasn’t ever on my hit list but it is now!

"The Shining" was partially written and inspired by Stephen King's stay at the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado - just up the road from my house a bit. He stayed there through one of our snow storms and got the idea for the book. See: https://www.stanleyhotel.com/ . They have ghost tours and stuff like that there. I've posted some pics of the Stanley in some of my ride reports. From Wikipedia: In 1974, during their brief residency in Boulder, Colorado, horror writer Stephen King and his wife Tabitha spent one night at the Stanley Hotel.[9] The visit is known entirely through interviews given by King in which he presents differing narratives of the experience. At the time of his visit, King was writing a book with the working title Darkshine set in an amusement park, but was not satisfied with the setting. According to George Beahm's Stephen King Companion, "on the advisement of locals who suggested a resort hotel located in Estes Park, an hour's drive away to the north, Stephen and Tabitha King found themselves checking in at the Stanley Hotel just as its other guests were checking out, because the hotel was shutting down for the winter season. After checking in and after Tabitha went to bed, King roamed the halls and went down to the hotel bar, where drinks were served by a bartender named Grady. As he returned to his room, numbered 217, his imagination was fired up by the hotel's remote location, its grand size, and its eerie desolation. And when King went into the bathroom and pulled back the pink curtain for the tub, which had claw feet, he thought, 'What if somebody died here? At that moment, I knew I had a book.'"[10] In a 1977 interview by the Literary Guild, King recounted "While we were living [in Boulder] we heard about this terrific old mountain resort hotel and decided to give it a try. But when we arrived, they were just getting ready to close for the season, and we found ourselves the only guests in the place—with all those long, empty corridors." King and his wife were served dinner in an empty dining room accompanied by canned orchestral music: "Except for our table all the chairs were up on the tables. So the music is echoing down the hall, and, I mean, it was like God had put me there to hear that and see those things. And by the time I went to bed that night, I had the whole book [The Shining] in my mind."[11] In another retelling, King said "I dreamed of my three-year-old son running through the corridors, looking back over his shoulder, eyes wide, screaming. He was being chased by a fire-hose. I woke up with a tremendous jerk, sweating all over, within an inch of falling out of bed. I got up, lit a cigarette, sat in a chair looking out the window at the Rockies, and by the time the cigarette was done, I had the bones of The Shining firmly set in my mind."[12] The Shining was published in 1977 and became the third great success of King's career after Carrie and 'Salem's Lot. The primary setting is an isolated Colorado resort named the Overlook Hotel which closes for the winter. In the front matter of the book, King tactfully states "Some of the most beautiful resort hotels in the world are located in Colorado, but the hotel in these pages is based on none of them. The Overlook and the people associated with it exist wholly in the author's imagination."[13]

In this house shad is short for shit head ?

Because topboxes

Y Butt, i self identify as extremely stable, so please use my prefered pronoun of Chad. ?

Lol now I know youre definitely unbalanced ?

top boxes nearly always look shit on a bike, mine's fucking huge and looks horrendous, but it ain't halfp practical - - - yeah but it looks shit - - -yeah but it's practical - - and so on...

Honestly I’m not sure what I was thinking, it’s even worse when you know this was only 2015 ?? From the expression on my face you can tell I was clearly lost (again), my delightful friends enjoyed photographing my clueless face as I slid by in the wrong direction... again

If that’s the 80’s you were waaaay cool, no fluorescent gear?! Christ I look more like a refugee from the 80’s now than you did back then! Hang on I’ll try and find my best/worse gear choices. One season I wore a Panda hat. Yep it’s not a typo.. a fake fur Panda hat, not sure if I have a photo of that though.

Funny you should mention that. I spent last years ski holiday thinking about how far the same money would have taken me on a motorcycle, at the end of the holiday I decided I’m done with skiing for a while. The constraints of time and money, what a PITA

I'm not sure getting overtaken by Pensioners on walking sticks qualifies as "riding" Rick!

Ah yes I remember that one. I was 9 then so cant of been the first time Id seen snow but it is the first time I remember it, cue huge disappointment every time they said it was gonna snow after that and 2-3cm fell ?

I wasn't around then but do remember it in 1982 as i had a week off school to fuck around in it ? https://www.facebook.com/bbcradiowales/videos/10156322773040715

Weather in Scotland is great.

I've got one dollars worth of hard drives, shit I have no idea what I'm going to spend all that on .

Colorodo is a great place to visit, if you get a chance do go, even their popular resorts are cool places Vail was right off the highway and i liked skiing there anyways, nice mountain. The Alps were a scary place to ski, dint like them at all.

Pretty bad and yet even today in the worse weather the UK can muster most of us still venture out in our normal winter coat (usually one thinish layer of cheap wadding or a normal wool coat) and a pair of wellies (could we pick a less appropriate boot for the snow?) then we act surprised and complain how cold we are ??

I remember the Winter of 62-63 in Britain......that's the worst I've ever known.

well he recycled tham as curry!

Dont think ‘The Shining’ and ‘Misery’ was the best introduction American winters, I’m waiting for an accompanying horror story! ??

Who? im to busy checking out the hottie in the Panda constume. ?

yeah cos our departement still isn't on the "lockdown that isn't a lockdown" list. I reckon it's only a matter of time though and then we'll be restricted to 10km from home. ( unless justifiably work related)

But it wouldn't be streets blitzed now....it would be complete towns and cities.

Swansea took a real hammering as it was a sea port. Swansea Blitz

The Germans must have bombed you boys back a hundred years! We looked that in 1867.

At least Team Green leaves you a pile of parts to grind down.

Still No Excuse™ to own a Suzuki..... What was the price on corrosion again? ?

Cant fund curry butt the minumum price for a motorcycle is up to 3 cents a pound! ? TypePrice Per Lb. Copper & Brass #1 Bare Bright Wire$2.00 #1 Copper Tubing/Flashing$1.62 #2 Copper Tubing/Bus Bar$1.51 #3 Roofing Copper$1.41 Brass (Plumbing, Pipe)$1.05 Bronze$1.23 Brass Shells$0.81 Brass Water Meter$0.50-0.85 Clean Brass Radiators$1.00 Aluminum/Copper Coil (Clean)$0.78 Aluminum/Copper Coil (Dirty)$0.68 Copper Yokes$0.25 Copper Transformers$0.05-0.13 Electric Motors$0.10-0.12 Alternators/Starters (Separated)$0.15 Sealed Units/Compressors$0.05 Insulated Copper Wire Insulated Copper Wire (Cat 5/6)$0.51 THHN Cable$0.93 500-750 MCM (Bare Bright Inside)$1.25 Hollow Heliax Wire$0.69 Romex Wire$0.74 Insulated Cable$1.02 Insulated Steel BX$0.14 Christmas Lights$0.13 Aluminum Aluminum Siding$0.33 Sheet Aluminum (Windows/Pans)$0.28 Aluminum Rims$0.45 Aluminum Windows (Broken)$0.30 Cast Aluminum$0.33 Clean Aluminum Wire$0.45 AL Thermo-Pane/Break (Not Glass)$0.28 AL Litho Plates$0.45 AL Machine Cuts$0.35 Aluminum Grills$0.33 Aluminum Ladders$0.28 Aluminum Transformers$0.03 AL Turnings$0.14 Miscellaneous Scrap Car Batteries$0.17-0.21 Lead$0.40 304 Stainless Steel (Non-Magnetic)$0.24 316 Stainless Steel (Non-Magnetic)$0.36 Forklift Batteries$0.14-0.18 Lithium Ion Batteries$0.15-0.50 Lead Wheel Weights$0.15 Scrap Generators$0.05-0.17 Steel & Iron Steel$0.01 Light Iron$0.01 Cast Iron$0.02-0.035 Whole Cars$0.02-0.03 Motorcycles$0.03-0.045 Computer Scrap Clean Green Motherboards$1.20 Non-Green Motherboards$0.65 Memory Chips$4.00-6.50 CPU Processor Chips$3.50-25.00 Whole Computer Towers with HD$0.15 Laptops$0.50 Power Supplies with Wires$0.14 Hard Drives with Board$0.50 Hard Drive PC Board$1.90 Cell Phones (No Battery)$0.75 Telecom Equipment$0.14-0.27 Servers$0.14-0.27 Low Grade Non PC Boards$0.08 Insulated Wire$0.28-0.51 AL Heat Sinks$0.28 Rare Earth Metals Carbide Inserts/Shapes$3.00-4.00 Monel$1.50-2.50 FSX 414$2.50 Titanium$0.20 Nickel$1.50-2.00 Inconel$1.00-2.50 High Speed Steel$0.25 Hastelloy Shavings$0.75-1.25 Hastelloy Solids$1.25-1.50 Tin Solder$0.50-3.00 Babbit$0.50-5.50 Alnico Magnets$0.25

If i had to.

I grew up in southern Ontario, which is more easterly Canada and in the middle of the Great Lakes, so we got LOTS of snow, some years we were climbing out the windows as the doors would be covered. Then, as the only responsible one in the family I had to shovel the driveway, which was a short farmers road.....ahhhh back in the hard days.... ?

Speak for yourself and that motley top box ?

We're a low class, low quality motorcycle site Pedro.......so I'm trying up the quality a bit. Not sure if this will help but beggars can't be choosers.

The expression "like watching paint dry" never had such a match for a thread as this.

Coat no 3......

If diversity is so cool how come it doesnt work in Prison.

Looks Chinese.

"So broke ya can't afford to Pay Attention"....?

"More ups and downs than a Catholic wedding"

I know what it needs, a little touch up! lol

they've just shut down the Rhone, Nievre, and Aube departements, so we, the "Yonne" are now closed in on 3 sides ( plus a narrow corridoor into the saone et Loire. Travel between regions is banned except for professional purposes or family imperatives, which you must beable to justify. this for 4 weeks, so that's fucked the easter hols then.

I was talking to a friend earlier and he said his mate was out on his Ducati going over the beacons when he spotted about a dozen police bikes in the layby ahead he got a bit worried about being out so decided to do a u turn and when he did he lost his footing and dropped the bike on the road, The coppers were there in seconds not to book him but to help him pick the bike up they asked him why he turned around as they wouldn't have pulled him because he was on his own and riding sensibly. They were just there on a training exercise he done a £1000 worth of damage turning it around it would have been a lot cheaper getting booked He's got one of those new panigale v4 S version and the fall broke the handlebar off had to get it recovered to get home