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I thought someone said Pete lived 150 miles away? I’m now confused. I couldn’t decipher this angry sign in front of the mushrooms. The f’in smart phone with its Google translate camera app sorted it out for me in no time. @XTreme when did you visit this supermarket ??

Where? If it's Swansea say goodbye to the van and bike!

To a local car park for a ride report with a pic

Would he like to hold my targets for me when i sight in my scopes?

wont have time for that shit ... be riding me bike, unless weather is shit.

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It’s a shame the fucker never drank it.

Semi-quiet weekend. Test rode this: would say about 10x more comfortable than my R18, as would be expected. Wonder if this model should have come out first?

When our kids were little, we had a huge 3 bedroom frame tent, had some good hols in that, but then we had a holiday in a B&B and tenting did not seem so much fun after that.

My first couple of days were great, but the third day was dire. I tried to do some sightseeing, but the rain was coming down horizontally. In the end I wimped out and found a guest house in Barmouth for a couple of nights so I could dry my gear out. After that it turned nice again, so I headed down to Tenby and stayed in a pub there for a couple of nights and then headed home.

I did a tour round Wales a few years back on my Speedy and stayed a night in a camping field belonging to a pub in the Snowdonia Park. Food and beer were pretty good in the pub and the campsite was alright too. Great place if you get the weather.

Was only thinking of your welfare......cos when we go away the weather usually turns to crap.

Snowdonia , wouldn't go down that shit hole part of Wales , i do have some standards.

Try XVideo instead. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01529-3

The pain in Spain falls mainly on the insane.. though being forgetful can have the same effect.

I really think the EU should have more draconian standards for non EU citiZens, because well, you know because we can.

i never was into tenting i would sooner throw a mattress in the back of my van its drier

That’s nothing … have a look at bender boys Glide fairing … it’s the size of a small country .

I managed to remove the Martini racing stickers today, even with my daughter hairdryer warming the adhesive up they kept flaking into small pieces, but managed to do it without marking the paintwork.

I love camping, but if the weather is bad on the bike it soon becomes miserable. I've grown soft in my old age!

A bit like saying Syphilis is more pleasant than Gonorrhea.?

Recognising it’s pissing down and won’t be fun in wet gear is not wimping, out it’s acknowledging reality

It's more pleasant than Rhyl......but that's not saying much!

We had a very nice few days in Tenby (years ago) and Saundersfoot, had a few days in Porthmadog, but the weather was very grim there, spent most of the time indoors. So hoping Prestatyn is not too bad, if it,s not up to spec it will be back to the east coast next year.

Fingers crossed for next week..........unless @Tym sends one of his used storms our way.

Can’t get into Facebook. Get locked out with password reset bollo everytime. I don’t think people understand that Ive genuinely gone the extra mile to wish them happy birthday on that vain shallow shitshow

You don't have a fucking clue do you? Portmeirion is only 20 miles from Snowdonia National Park on main roads.....and none of it is falling down you stupid cunt!

Make sure you visit Portmeirion!

TOTY right there , game over

Put him on a bike too.

Hope he ain't there the 2nd week in October.

This is true, I haven't been out on the bike at all in 6 months, needs an mot and insurance but I don't have the money just yet

You im not sure, one second you know everything the next, oh look at this, good old Buddy is attit again... https://buddycarter.house.gov/news/email/show.aspx?ID=U5HPQ7LZCUCMJXO6YADRU4BVPQ You guys should realize watching porn hub isnt watching a relibale news source, change the channel once and awhile.

Yes, he bought loads of shares in bleach just before it kicked off................

I used to be a lab technician in a cigar factory in Bristol. When Imperial tobacco decided to close our plant and move production to Spain we had some our equivalent workers from the Spanish factory come over to learn our tests and tecniques for quality control in the lab. They threw their arms up in the air with shock when they asked how many different tests we did (200) as they did just 10

Rains fine as long as it never touches my motorcycle im fine with wet.

You sound like me in 2005!

Had a grey day ride yesterday on my Honda, Charlotte. Almost made it home before the rain started, but not quite. The bike handles great in the rain! I love the Michelin Road 5 tires too!

Yep all good TLDR It was a bit stressful but turned out dandy in the end. Yesterday was a bloody long day though. Up a 3am finished signing the contract etc at 9.15pm as the landlord didn’t finish work some way away in Madrid until 5. Came painfully close to missing our flight as the passenger locator form that aeromedical consulting supply isn’t correct for what’s needed to board so a very lengthy online form (that kept glitching and making you start again) had to be filled in and varified before they send you the QR code you have to have other end. I got stuck in security as I’d put a sewing machine in my hand luggage (yes I like doing girly shit like cooking and sewing) and the gate closing time soon passed. I asked the security guy if the gates usually close on time, he helpfully replied yes or often early. This was a bit stressful, especially as our checked bags had already gone through and would be landing in Spain without us Mr Slowly had given up all hope but but I persuaded him it was worth hoofing it the million miles to the gate as quickly as a fully loaded cabin bag complete with sewing machine, a leather bike jacket and an under seat bag with every heavy item you could find stuffed into it would allow. My swollen ankle can confirm trying to run in inflexible bike boots fully loaded with multiple heavy bags is not good for you The flight passed quickly due to all the adrenaline but sore and sitting in sweat drenched clothes heading towards a ‘feels like’ temperature of 35 degrees wasn’t on my to do list especially as I’d been laying kitchen flooring for the previous 3 days and my knees n back we’re already not happy, rest was what I craved Suddenly the ‘Pain in Spain’ took on new meaning and I felt I had probably made a mistake with this venture. I was also uncertain if I’d actually managed to book a car, Mr Slowly had been tasked with finding a car (because he wanted an automatic 5 door with more than 1litre) and appeared ashen on Thursday evening saying there was absolutely nothing at all available apart from one car with Sixt for £1800 I found a hire comparison website which had a car available for a third of that but as I was unfamiliar with ‘holidayautos.com’ I went directly to the car hire company ‘Thrifty’ who said nope sorry no availability for those dates. After checking tripadvisor I went ahead with holidayautos anyway but how exactly they had a Thrifty car available when Thrifty say they dont was more than a little concerning. I needn’t have worried, we arrived and the ‘Thrifty’ person was just lovely. She saw we had a lot of luggage and said “ooh um I’m going to upgrade you to a bigger car, no charge” so the piddly little 3 door manual was suddenly a 5 door automatic VW T-Cross (a small 4x4) so Mr Slowly is happy. We wasted time checking out the nearby supermarkets and picking up supplies until Pedro (no not that one the landlord one) arrived. Having been seriously shot in the foot once before by the phenomenon known as “absence of gating” (Id believed a nice online person was actually nice in real life) I was apprehensive about meeting him because he came across in his emails as a really nice guy. It turns out he is. Even Mr Slowly commented saying “He seems really decent” So at 9.30pm we finally kicked off our shoes and had a G&T and said “Cheers” Pedro said there was a water leak in the kitchen which he would get fixed as soon as possible, I thought “yer right” but this morning a plumber (who is also a nice bloke) turned up and fixed it. I don’t think the contrast between the shitshow getting here and the lovely reception could be greater, I woke up feeling pretty damn good. Mr Slowly is happy with the little house and the area we are in, apparently it’s not that well known as a tourist destination which judging from the pleasantness of the locals must be true. The sea, restaurants, cafes, pharmacy, some shops and a supermarket is all only a 5 minute walk so I think just maybe fingers crossed we maybe onto a winner

A manager of mine in a company I worked for many years back got promoted to European Quality Manager. His job was to get all of the affiliates accredited to ISO standards for quality processes. All was going well with his job, until he went to Spain to get them accredited! After nearly a year there he threw his hands in the air and got a flight back to the UK!

I've found that if you want something done in Spain then speak to a woman!

@Sir Fallsalot.......you know the guy in the air ducts......well I've been looking at more of his stuff! He is batshit fucking crazy!

.....Ok, this should cleanse your thoughts......

But for how long?

Right, I'm sorry, how insensitive of me. I forgot over the summer how you and @Tym are especially confused with all this playing in the wetness...... But @Tym can at least sit in it, but when it comes from above in the form of drops it's just too much......

Just got back , good bike , runs and drives sweet , it hadn’t been used for 10 years

I was just thinking about how something that was originally planned as an adventure/dualsport motorcycling forum has actually evolved! Because over the course of 17 months we've become a type of hybrid of a general motorcycle forum and an OAP's drop in centre! Never saw that coming.......guess it just shows how the demographics have changed over the years! But still.......if the direction of the site is driven by the members that has to be a positive! One person's vision and direction is never going to be a good fit for everybody. So if you know any other sad old cunts who are also past their sell by date then bring them in! Do you think it would help if we became www.sadoldcunts.com

The rental agreement is for 1 year (with an option to extend each year for up to 5 years) but we are still running a business in the UK so there’s not a chance we won’t be back within the prescribed 90 days and reaching the max of 183 days is also not happening for the next 5 years minimum but with the rent here for 6 months being less than the cost of a one week holiday for this lot there’s really no reason to delay starting up some life over here even if it is only a max of 6 months of the year.