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Exactly! There's a strict flouncing protocol that has to be observed......leaving without following this protocol is just "buggering off", AWOL.....etc!

You dint announce your flounce ahead of time, you dint post you wouldnt want to be apart of a forum that would have you as a member, stamp your cyber twinkle toes and storm off, stage left. Next time get it right...lol

Staying at a wine farm today:

you've misread him , Pete knows when something's not right, he just doesn't know how to do anything about it

And to think I was going to vote for you which would have taken it into extra time the kind of excitement this place needs. Next time i'll just go with my gut instinct and vote for Tym

Been there for two days you lazy twat!

Taking the Himalayan for its first MOT Saturday. Got the Bandit booked in for a full service plus MOT ahead of doing LEJOG, theyre going to stick a dual USB charging point on there and a gear indicator because its so smooth in 5th you could easily be in 4th or 6th and I’ve had enough of it. I was certain it would become clear after Id been riding it a while, its bloody obvious on the other bikes but its just not on this one. Someone I consider to be a good rider said they found the same with their Bandit and ended up fitting one too so I’m not alone in finding it irritating. Love doing stuff to or having stuff done on my bike. Getting something for your bike is the best prezzie in the world, IMO nothing else even comes close

I see your “if it costs nothing it has no value” and I raise you- he knows “the cost of everything and the value of nothing”

Restaurants close at 10:00pm, but loads are still closed because it’s not profitable to open. Some hotels are also closed, but we’re coping Rode for 40 or 50km today, before stopping...

My buddy started and owned a Duc forum and Vertical Scope bought it from him and killed it off in about a year. Was thriving forum and went straight to the shitter really fast. Both @DesmoDog and I were Moderators (probably had something to do with it';s demise) and it was a decent forum for awhile. He got around $20K from Vertical Scope for it - not sure if that's a lot or not.

Day 5!! https://youtu.be/MdE_3H2i-Yw

Of course he is, he is a quarter plastic.

A company by the name of Vertical Scope! These are just the ones that show up on Google.....there's page after page of them! Amongst their acquisitions are a lot of motorcycle and automotive sites......and every forum looks exactly the same! Like THIS in fact! Vertical Scope buy them up, then bump up membership prices and plaster the place in Ads. Total domination of the market! Of course, the independents have always had paid memberships and Ads as well! And I do understand the reasoning for this! However, I will point out that all the forums I've done since 2002 have always been free and never had Ads. Yet the strange thing is that the site owners who receive revenue get worshipped as Forum Gods, but when I give people something for nothing, there are some who are still not happy. But what do I know? I'm just an Internet troublemaker after all. What can we learn from this @Tym?

it'll tell you in your bike manual what the manufacturers recommendations are for chain maintenance. Triumph says to Lube evey 300km for mine but I don't do that. To be honest I just look at it periodically, if it looks a bit dry I'll lube it, or if I've been on a long run in bad weather. I can tell by the feel of the gearchange and general vibrations, as well as ( on this bike) throttle snatch, if it needs tensioning a bit and am learning to detect when it needs a lube. some bikes are more sensitive to it than others. Frequency will depend almost entirely on usage and conditions.

I was checking my XR over tonight and can say when things look like this its pretty much fucked

Chinese shite, 10hp would shatter it.

Shit Free For All might be a better fit

Oh dear, there there, just think of all the cosmic goodness coming your way for such an act of kindness.... or it would be if that was what I was referring to, I meant an electric tyre pump

You nasty dago/Welsh bastard.

And I was the only one who voted for you! Wish I hadn't now cos you're a lazy Ponty fucker!

which would explain why they've always been the haunts of skinflints and tightwads!

Id like to tell you but its chinese and mentioning it might wake Buckster Its a Mutt Hilts, yes I bought it based purely on its looks

One of my old bosses used to say "if it costs nothing it has no value" , although this was in the context of giving customers something for nothing, which the sales guys liked doing....frequently!

Oh yeh.....big dosh! There was never any hope of me selling any of mine......one look at the clientele would have been enough for them!

You tell him @Tym.

We ran out of drama queens.

New forum......and nobody's flounced! YET!

Another prolific poster no doubt, one of these will be Bruce worried about missing something.

Day 4!! We are South of the River Tagus and enjoying dry roads. We said goodbye to the moutains and are now in the land of the cork tree. Todays update from an old Monastery!

Well, I haven't got it yet but it is bought and paid for. Should be delivered next week. I'm looking forward to see how I get on with this, will the 125cc power (or lack of it) bore me to death or will I get used to it, we will see.

And it looks like the weather's changing at last! What isn't changing is the fact that I'm still locked in the town, while the rest of Andalucia is now able to travel freely throughout the 8 provinces within it. So I'll be able to get out......but I just can't go anywhere! What you got planned?

Right, it was a TW indeed, I confuse them

We had the 200 for a couple of years only here Tym, it's what I wanted really but they're rare as hens teeth here and get snapped up as soon as they're on sale.

Look at this, yummy.

My plan is to meet up with 6 hot chicks and party.

I'm a sucker for anything different.

They played at the Bristol bike show but the weather in the night was bad so i just stayed in the beer tent getting pissed. didn't even go out for the wet T shirt competition so it must have been bad. It was the same weekend as Glastonbury so me and my mate rode down there in the day and climbed over the fence for a mooch about as you could back then

Rather you than me. Much as I loved every minute of my 125, it wasn't safe on main highways cos it couldn't keep up with traffic most of the time and , lets face it, I'm not built for a 125 Having said that I know people who rave about them so you might like it. You're also a wee bit lighter than I am ( a wee bit ) so it might struggle less hauling you around

Super cute bike! Looks like fun! Congrats on the new bike @boboneleg

Had to buy myself a headset for this zoom course i'm on, so decided to got a good set i could listen to music on my PC with as well, so this week I've Been mostly listening to lynyrd skynyrd

Cop a load of this!

now THAT is an excellent photo!

Good way to end the day!

Todays daily news!! Yesterday we experienced Scotish weather and vistas and @Pedro had a snow bath!!

Well we are going to Cornwall on Saturday hopefully 2 weeks of peace and quite, I’ll pray the neighbour has died while I’m away.??