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I used to practise balancing on the back wheels of my wheelchair (a bit like a balanced wheelie) until my wife came in the living room unexpectedly. Taken by surprise I went over the back but avoided hitting my head. Lying on the floor I looked to my wife for sympathy but she just looked at me and said ' you stupid man' and walked out

http://colourswheelchair.com/spazz-g/ 2009 was a very good year, 5 stars. Options, Billet soft roll caster wheels, leather trim. Thank God i still have her i can get around the house without having to get up. Im thinking about @boboneleg nerve issues cause mine are sending some sporatic useless data. Ignore function is on high. If i keep her on two wheels can i enter BOTM?

Years ago my mother in law at the time was reading the book “The Exorcist”, she said it was the most evil thing she had ever read and she couldn’t finish it, that day she took the book and threw it in the local canal. I went and bought another copy of the book and soaked it in the bathroom sink then left it on her nightstand. My father in law later recounted that that was the first time he had ever seen his wife soil herself.

The only races i ever managed to get on the podium were in the rain. Up here if you don't race in the rain you are not racing This was at Portland in Oregon. It was a SV cup race and treacherous as hell as half the track was dry and the back half wet. i was slip sliding everywhere. it was funny because the day before the guys that i had a hard time keeping up with were all throwing out the anchor well before me coming into the the first right hander off the straight. most of the fast guys were from California and definitely did not like racing in the rain. here's another one. what do you do at a motard race when your XR650R blows it's rear shock..... remove the re from tard and drag the SV out of the trailer.

Actually the most reliable motor i have seen around here for high mile longevity is the GM LS v8's. The 4.8, 5.3, 6 or the new 6.2 liter ls series is incredibly strongly built stock from the factory. You can easily get well over 350,000 on them with only doing regular maintenance. The bottom ends are incredibly strong, no one else that i know of stock production v8's have 6 bolt main cranks or have as well designed oiling system as the LS series. My own 2006 sierra 1/2 ton 5.3 has 340'000 on it and still runs well. I go from oil change to oil change with out adding a drop of oil and it has had a hard life towing and being used as a contractors work truck. You can easily build LS's using stock blocks into 700 hp+ motors just by bolt on parts. Slap on a supercharger, a set of reworked heads, new cam, performance fuel injector set up and voila you get a very reliable motor with 700+HP for cheap. Try doing that with a modern Ford's v8 or eco boost or any of Chrysler's hemi's and get out your bank card because you are going to spend 15 grand plus to get the same hp out of it. As far as Japanese motors Toyota V6's and their 5.7 V8 are super reliable and good for lots of miles if maintained Their 4 banger not so much Toyota is still having head gasket problems on their 4 bangers in the Tacoma's. any of Nissan's V6 and 4 bangers are also great motors. Mazda still has issues it seems with seals and personally i would stay away from Hyundai along with it's son Kia. They are facing a 12 billion dollar class action lawsuit for early motor failure going back from now to 12 years ago. I have pulled wrenches for 30 plus years in various forms and have personally never seen a high mile Hyundai with out it having motor work done to it at some point.

Well, it is fun, so there's that....

Cool, just ticked buy it now on some red led's for the wheel horse garden tractor, light parade here i come ?

I'd forgotten that the bike clock was still on BST from last year, so arrived home an hour earlier than needed.

Thanks! ? So true, the Himalayan has good bendy bits....?

We finally got mum an appointment for her first shot, at the local CVS drug store. I never wanted to take her to those mass vax sites, she cant sit for hours like some did, that was crazy. Thank God she isnt living in an old peoples home, so many around here died in them from this chit.

SO TRUE!!!

No lie in 2008 someone called the cops cause i was wheelieing in the middle of my street in my chair, Two showed up, dint know what to do, refused to give me a ticket, and left. ?

Hold on, got to write something important on the internet! Lemon cake is a cure all! ???????

Tammy wanted me to sell it once, good thing she is 6'6" tall, i just acted like what she said went over my head. ???????

It's in our nature to hoard things. Good move.

I think if my memory serves me correctly it was around here.

I noticed the clock on my CRF was an hour fast when i warmed it up a couple of weeks ago, that's how long it hasn't turned a wheel its correct again now. Going to tax it on the 1st April so i can start using it again ?

I had a look at the TET route and couldn't see where it went down near Bridport so thought you were on a lane not on the TET. Just say it was a test for Bob and he passed

I had to put sliders on my handlebar ends on my KLR, in my dreams...lol

You do have a point there. However she has terrible taste.

Why throw it in the canal......didn't they have dustbins?

I don’t know where to start.

I'd forgotten all about that site Bob, used to use it a lot years ago

I'm pretty certain this is the lane from Symondsbury to North Chideock

I;ll lock the brakes on my Spazz in anticipation!

Rugged Individualism coming up soon! Brace yourselves!

Just over 220,000. The Toyota 3.0 ~3.5 liter v6's have a flaw in their design. The oil gallery return holes in the heads are a bit small and tend to plug up with gunk when they get higher miles on them. They can literally pump all their oil out of the pan and starve the crank. That's what i suspect happened here. I always change my oil at 4500 k but since it had 90,000 miles on it when i bought it i suspect that it was well on its way to being gunked up by then. Apart from that they are a great v6 capable of half a million or more if service regularly. if i wasn't such a lazy ass back yard mechanic and replaced the timing belt at the required 200,000 miles this wouldn't have happened. I would have caught it and could have cleaned all the goop out then. It's my own fault really but i have an excuse... Getting the rear head off in the sienna van is a real nightmare, especially if it has a rear heater and a/c option like mine had. Toyota allows 12 hours for re and re in their service book but i have seen it take way longer if there are any issues getting all the fuel rail plumbing and intake off or with stuck hardware on the exhaust manifold. so i spun the wheel and took my chances................BOOM! guess that's why i don't gamble

Glad all the limbs are in tact ? They say something along the lines of “if you don’t fall you weren’t trying hard enough” don’t they, I’d stick with that ? Another plus of the Himalayan- stuff bends back without snapping, sometimes if you’re me multiple times without snapping on the same ride ?

@demon Unsurprisingly I agree Somerset is beautiful. When you live in it all the time you forget though and then you go somewhere else and think it’s not that great because the bars already been set high ?

You look so naughty here like your sabotaging the bike for the rider

Yes she was poor girl

Found last years cancer study pic they do on me every year, the life i save, might be Bruce's! You owe me buddy! You should donate your butt's rash to GoldBond™

went for my first jab this afternoon the next one is in mid june ?

I have never felt the need to drag my knees ( though I've been dragging knuckles for years) and can see no point in doing so (other than on a race track). given that I imagine only about 1 or 2 % of riders will ever ride on a circuit, and probably only about half of those competitively, I struggle to see how any of the above information could possibly be considered something " Every rider should know" or am I just being pedantic?

I only invited him because his missis was nice.

They were taken in October 2020 on a trip through Portugal to the Algarve and back.... I have some for your neck of the woods too.

Mrs MooN got her jab ( pfizer) this morning. I'm due mine ( also pfizer) 1st April... obviously ?

Met up with Antonio and Mariano at the ITV/MOT centre...... Got down the cave and they inspected the carnage..... When you point the camera away from the cave and just take in the views things look less depressing!

People should point their loud exhaust pipes forward so people would hear them coming better. Problem solved Mr. Week

Err i might have suggested to Ren to invite him is there a prize

not tourism itself but the mighty dollar, for the vast majority of people today, money and profit are clearly and openly more important than anything else you'd care to mention. Making more money is paramount, almost any means is acceptable so long as you make more money, it is no longer a means to an end but has become an end in itself,

I might go for a ride tomorrow along with the other 3,564,438 escapees from lockdown. Gridlock expected! ??