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You need gas? Pull my finger! Guess what i did today!

I went out for a couple of hours on the XR today met a lad on his first trail ride attempt so i stayed with him for a bit as he was heading in my direction. He was riding one of those Chinese bikes The XR This is the new boy he was brand new just look how shiney he is And because it was a Chinese bike it wasn't long before we were fixing it. Spring broke off the side stand so had to fix it with a cable tie for now Past 3 fuel stations on the route and all 3 were out of fuel i'll have to do a bit of siphoning if i go out on the bike tomorrow

Got out early. loads of pretty girls today, weird. Had a snack after saluting the flag. At one point, i was sitting on top of the world. Met a nice Lady named Caty, came home. End of weekends beach report.

Today Im gonna go for a spin over to Wells on Mr Slowlys new steed, have some lunch somewhere, watch my sons rugby game and hand him his forgotten wallet. Then try and book up the mechanic to sort out a few bits n bobs on the bikes and order some cheap pannier bags for the Himalayan so I can stuff them to the brim with teabags

Had a really good ride on the Honda today. Super nice autumn weather and the bike is running swell! Have a fun and safe weekend everyone! Watch out for those big rocks.....

2016 RE Continental 535 2,364miles Single cylinder 29bhp £3500 The guy was a motorcycle mechanic and the bikes been well looked after. He added fork gaitors, mudguard extender, swapped the original drop bars for ones that give an upright(ish) riding position (great for an old rugby players neck) and changed the exhaust over to akrapovic which gives it a really lovely sound. Now there's breathing space to take time arriving at what bike to buy in Spain. Mr Slowly insists I take it for a spin this afternoon, because he loves it and is convinced Im going to be as smitten as he is. Only thing is, it needs fuel and well who the hell wants to try to get fuel this morning?

This thread is getting too serious.......time to drag it back into the gutter!

One of the maps I mentioned.

No, not at all, nor did she look like a sausage nosher. Arnold Circus which she is mentioned in helping get restored is the centrepiece of a housing development which took the place of the most deprived and poverty stricken area of London. To help the old locals better their living conditions they moved them all out and flattened a large area. I really mean flattened as well. When I look back through the OS maps for the area a huge section is just white space for a few years. With the rubble from the demolition they built a large mound, planted it up and then put a bandstand on it. They then moved in only new respectable people with good employment records and made them leave if they didn't behave and the old residents were shuffled off to some other slum.

I met this lady a few times between 2015 and 2017 when she sadly passed away. I went to a meeting of residents in an area near Shoreditch to talk about their traffic concerns and it turned into a how can we stop drug dealers and crime in the area etc. This lady had dominated the meeting using nothing but gentle charm. She side lined me afterwards and we spoke about a scheme I wanted to design that might benefit the estate next to her house, but which had no funding available. She had me on side in about 10 minutes, but when I went and spoke to the money people in the office the answer was still no. So I asked if they would meet this lady and tell her that directly to see if her magic would work on them. Sure enough they all came back from the meeting with a glassy stare and chanting, "We must do what Ms Khan says" over and over. So I got my funding and every time I went on site she would come and chat. She showed me where she had designed and built a play area for small children and where they could be seen by their parents from the windows of their flats, she'd had a concrete table tennis table installed next to it, convincing the Olympic people to pay for it, she had plans to rent out the disused underground car park under one block to artists so their presence would put off criminals using them and was getting lighting installed in any dark corners of the estate. She made me laugh when she told me that drunk pub goers occasionally used her drive for a piddle or a dump on their way home. The last time I saw here i was half way through my scheme and she looked tired and made a quiet comment that she hoped she would be around to see it completed. I heard she had died a month or so later. Then this turned up in Spitalfields Life a while after and I finally learnt her story, totally unexpected, I had her down as a posh lady from an old English landed gentry background, the truth couldn't have been more different. https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/06/09/so-long-naseem-khan-obe/

Well my run on the bike tomorrow will be work related! The clients I saw today gave me some pics of their cave hotel complex......and they're fucking dire. So I'll be going there tomorrow to get some pics and vids for myself!

The odd part is everyone featured in this Mocumentory claim to be Irish.

I never understood that exhaust bandaging shit......always makes me think that the bike has hurt itself!

@XTreme posted something about does mr slowly get his leg over often... you know the typical seedy drivel he comes out with, im now a mod on here and i deleted it . Enough is enough .

Really appreciate this thread, it was perfect for sending me to sleep last night.

Wait for it the next question will be how much does it weigh

Nice looking XR sir F

Good question, Arrtists dont work, they create art, Antman is a street artist by his own definitions.

Every where you go is deserted.

When they were recording it Brian Wilson was not happy with the way it was being sung by Carl or Dennis Wilson so he asked Blondie Chaplin to have a go (he was a session musician for the Beach boys at the time). I guess that's why it sounds a bit different to other Beach Boys songs.

This is not a Photoshop......it's real!

Yeh.....all the time Bob! You can remove them in open spaces with nobody near you, but invariably people are wearing them.

Not like that at Mablethorpe........more Perry Como and Andy Williams in the clubhouse. And no Elvis........Thank Fuck.

This is my favorite quote of the day

I should have issued a racially insensitive alert this vid is not woke safe thank you.

The tanks are made in China.

Don't forget that all important wrapping of the header pipe so that it rots 5 times faster

Phil MaCavity reporting

His first name is anthony so everyone calls him Ant Man!

I'm off in an hour to meet up with a new client at Venta del Peral services. Wouldn't have been out today on the bike anyway......there was heavy rain overnight and the roads are soaking!

Well ask @Clive if he'll take you on holiday with him then!

I think I can remember what music sounded like

Lokking pretty good here now......big difference compared to this time last year!

You've won it a few times......and I reckon the upside down running-in pic could be a winner!

so is that the man or the bike

No problem here (yet). Anyway, must dash to top up the car and two bikes and Jerry cans and garden buckets etc etc etc. Fuckwits, all of ‘em.

I got a friend that runs his car on transformer oil he gets it free from work owned it for about 10 years and never bought a gallon of diesel, when i asked how it runs on the oil he said it get a bit hard to start in the winter so i have to thin it out with some red diesel also from work

Still in my early teens me and a mate Wayne used to go hunting together and walking the railway line was one of our regular routes. one day we were on the viaduct and came across a dead sheep it had been sliced open by a train and its entrails were hanging out, we looked over the edge of the viaduct and below was a lone fisherman fly fishing on what we called the island which was out in the river, so me and Wayne looked at each other and started giggling are you thinking what i'm thinking he said we grabbed a pair of legs each and one two threeeeee and over the sheep went, as soon as it left our hands for me everything went into slow motion i looked over and could see the entrails were flapping about like a failed parachute as the sheep fell and the guy below casting and reeling in his lure totally oblivious of what was about to happen the sheep hit the ground feet from the guy he hit he deck in shock me and Wayne collapsed laughing next thing we know there's a guy running down the track screaming at us we start running but we are laughing so hard it was difficult to run, luckily the guy chasing us had already run about quarter of a mile up hill so he was too fucked to carry on and we got away