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When you ride next don't forget to listen for the warning noises that your wheel is coming off.

??????? Last ride before i was back in a chair. ???????

Went to lube the chain and found it needed adjustment. I haven't had to do it before on this bike (I've done 2400kms/1500 miles)......so I crossed my fingers that the right spanners were still in the toolkit. Yes.....this means me using tools! But first I had to take the seat off to access the tools.....however, you can't access the seat release under the locked back panel without removing the box first. So I consulted my Shad Box removal vid on YouTube once again cos I couldn't remember how to do it. Once I'd got to grips with that I was able to get the seat off! Luckily the spanners were in the toolkit......and after a lot of effort I loosened the axle nut. They also supply a sort of Allen Key tool to do the adjustment, and a half turn each side did the trick. Yes.....I did check it at the tightest spots......chain adjustment is one of the very few things I can manage. Just! Then it was tighten it all up again and give it a good lubing. Unfortunately I found that the spanner had got jammed into the plug socket tool cos I used it for leverage. So I soaked it with WD40 and after a bit of twisting out it came. Then it was time to put everything back together......and the chain now looks like this! Ready to go again! Now recovering from the ordeal of using tools!

Here's mine.....

You successfully used tools? I thought I felt the Earth shake a bit....

Best I can do this month is an unusually overcast affair ?

Best I can do this month

My entry for the month, not much scenery as I was highlighting Bagheera's lovely new exhaust system. ? I do like the rain drop on him and I even had the headlight on for drama....lol

I have photos of a graveyard and a punctured tyre and that's it. i was also out tonight and only took photos of some fly tipping so i could report it ?

No photos @Tym........I think we got another @Buckster in our midst!

Well done Pete! Always good to know who can maintain their chain. ? Maybe a little less lube next time. ?

Can't find @Pedro to get this started.....so I'll have to get it going! You know the rules.....it must be your bike and it must have been taken this month! Boats, planes, trains, wheelchairs, invalid carriages, skateboards, bicycles, unicycles etc are not valid.....it must be a motorised two wheeler! So let's have your entries!

Proof of life from Baja, Sea of Cortez side. I wasnt on Flames, so i hope @Bruce isnt too sad.

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.

I have had this happen to one of our boats, numerous times... I just run up the canal and ask the upstream lock keeper to open a sluice... simples innit. ?

I will go through my shots later on my lunch and post my entry.

6 months ago...... Today.....

Thats Buck showing us how to drag a foot board on his cruiser. ?

Hello techno wizards, a word in your shell likes if I may... Now you all know I'm a complete arse when it comes to all things pooterish and N0 1 daughter rang me thismorning throwing a wobbler cos her computer doesn't work and she needs a new one... Now I only bought her that one a year ago and nearly had to sell one of her siblings to pay for that so she ain't getting another one, which means I have to find the means to do something about the one she has. The place I bought it from will are willing to have a look and repair it but they obviously don't do that on site so have to send it away and it usually takes about 3 weeks, add in some covid complications and plan on a month... as they don't propose a loan to replace it during that time and N0 1 is a uni student working 95% from "home" via microsoft "teams" that brings us back to having to buy another one as a temporary replacement... I thought I'd ask you geeks, nerds, whatever you use as a collective noun, what you think the problem might be. i do understand that it's unlikely anyone is able to solution a bugging pootah without access to the bloody thing but you never know, it might be a known problem and fixable with a judicious tap from a sledgehammer in just the right place. ( one lives in hope) as I don't have the machine in front of me either ( it's in Dijon) I have tried to prise out of N0 1 exactly what happens. ( turns out that it's not actually totally fucked, and that she was maybe overreacting just a little bit (!) on the phone earlier. However. it's annoying , so: the machine is A Lenovo Idea Pad S340. 1year old, with an intel i-core 8th gen processor 500GO ( I presume that's the RAM?) and it says she's got 413GO free of the 475 available. it's running windows 10 with a microsoft office package supplied by the university. What happens is; on a fairly regular basis, on start up it doesnt connect to the internet and when she opens the "properties" it says "no intel card detected" ( I'm translating thid from the french by the way) and she has to restart it which usually works and the restart is normal. That's got to be a problem with the computor itself right? 2nd bug: if she closes the screen, rather than physically shutting down, it regularly freezes and refuses to re awaken when she re opens the screen, it thinks about it, she gets a "not responding message, then a blue screen and it goes into auto restart and restarts normally. ( I told here that I think this is just part of living with laptops, deal with it) 3rd bug: for the uni lessons and lectures they use microsoft "teams". it regularly freezes the keyboard and has to be closed and restarted which is lesson time lost and complicated to catch up with. ( I assume this is a problem with the app rather than the machine itself and told her to uninstall and reinstall the app) Q. Is it possible to uninstall a single app when it's supplied as part of a package? uninstalling and re installing the whole package is a multi hour job over her crappy internet connection. Any help, ideas, pointers, thoughts ( constructive) most welcome. but please dont tell eme to use apple, change OS, don't use microsoft.. etc etc cos all that is fine if you have the means, financial or intellectual... of which I have neither. @Bruce @XTreme @Buckster... anybody else who knows what their doing with this stuff ? ( I know you wont agree on any of it anyway so the more the merier... ta muchly

Wow, that was some chain adjustment!

Iv not noticed that but fair enough ?

The one and only. A very experienced rider, but new to dirt. So, we did our best to vet him. If he comes back after being left in the dirt, then we know he is a keeper. Truth be told, Allen had been doing phenomenal all day, including 30 miles of El Compadre Trail, and all but 6 miles of the road into Mike's. He finally succumbed to sphincteritis sandus maximus. That is the tendency to soil oneself and let off the throttle at the sight of the smallish dirt particles known as sand.

Nothing from me even though i had a few hours out on the bike i didn't take a single photo with it in

Bam another one by @MooN, lots of good pics this month.

I was just going to say the same thing! ?

Some lovely pics already.

@Grasshopper's Ride @MooN @Skippy @boboneleg @Sir Fallsalot @Pedro @Mawsley @alfalfa......and anybody else!

Looking good there Pete!

Allen's in the house!!! But, did you die?

Spooky. Me and my boy were talking about lemon cheese cake yesterday.

You start with Hello!

I got what they need.

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 ?