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Had a run up my mountain to check on the locked gate situation gates still locked but negotiable on the bike, had some good weather that i wasn't expecting so was a great few hours out Photos are of the same places you've seen before Solar farm in the distance Even found some abandoned shit to keep @XTreme happy

In a pub in Suffolk now. There is a silver van in the car park, I should check it for gammon.

My spoked wheels are a little strange.... just a little bit different.

If Mawsley was a chair …

Bit risky parking there surely Ian? People are going to mistake it for another Dumpster and start lobbing their rubbish all over it!

320 miles south of Edinburgh.

What difference does that make, does it make your wet suit too wet or is it the wrong kind of water

Yes haven't long got in. Eleven and a half hours of muddy fun bloody aching all over now, the lads i was out with today were a bit faster than the usual ones i go out with i'm not ashamed to say I've had a beating only took two photos all day

Went to Stafford to meet up with the other Himalayan ride women. Thought it would be a good idea that as Id been up since 2am and didnt want to flake out after one G&T to drink Cola cola, forgot how sensitive to caffeine I am, its like rocket fuel, we got to bed at 6am this morning. Ive pretty much sabotaged enjoying any of the preparation for Spain now, wot a moron, well worth it though

But they are bloody good wheels and he'd get most of that back if he got rid of the bike and sold the wheels separate

yes, of course I could have waited for a couple of years until Honda added them to the bike. plus an extra 50cc and a wizz-bang full colour screen on the dash. but then I would have had to pay upwards of an extra £6000 for the privilege. and the bike would have suited me less as they made it lower. I wiped out my savings for other bits and bobs as well as the cash I had left over from the bank loan... but in the scheme of things, Its turned out to be quite a bargain.

£2.5 and no lottery win required. Im rather good at saving dontcha know. Also I got a surprise discount on the bike, I was originally quoted £12000 and ended up paying rather less. (a lot less - winter discount) luggage and a few other bits and bobs were put on the back burner and I splashed out on the wheels. My bike came with tubes as standard.. the only thing I didn't like about the bike and they had to go. I was going for Alpina.. but in the end found I could afford these. just. just after fitting them. I have a waiting list of owners hoping (vainly) that I will sell the bike and then sell the wheels. to them. NOT A CHANCE!!!

i have to cut the grass, hopefully tonight i will be dazzling the local trophy wives clubé meeting at the yacht clubé. Wrapped the SEAC and gave the girl a 15 foot tail to boot, the girls will love this. Mermaids were born players.

Well I've been out today.....

Rain makes for bad water clarity on a positive note, i just scouted out a parking spot next to the niantic bay yaught clubé for tonights activities.

There's no right kind of water!

Friendly advice and a warning....

looks same here.... so i will be Dossing all day

Just listening to this on planet rock thought id post it here just look at that crowd

Hoping to kick off in the next 10 days. Having to leave arrangements until the very last minute as commitments mean the date in mind next week could get pushed back but rough ideas are starting to come together and even if there are delays this will be executed soon. Thinking to catch the ferry from Plymouth (Portsmouth is also an option) to Santander. According to Google the most direct route is then 8hrs 45mins to the Andalucian coast. I’m not in any rush so I’m going to allow 3 days riding for that, meaning we can meander via the most enjoyable roads n soak it up. Taking the Himalayan (awesome friggin bike so that’s a given also the RE Continental… ouch ). Have committed to recording some of it for my boys so I should hopefully have some stuff to post… although as someone who doesn’t even like having their photo taken that’ll be ‘a challenge’ There’s definitely more of a winging it feel to this than usual! Don’t want to miss the opportunity to ask for ideas or opinions though so let’s hear ‘em

There are shitloads of you tube clips of mad inventions and if you look at one the place will plague you with suggestions for others. Honestly, how did we not get a man on the moon before the Yanks I'll never know.

Very tasty.

This was a band who busked all over London, first one of their videos, good car driving song, singing the chorus as loud as you can when I'm in the mood. Then them busking and Arnold the passing dancer.

Good to see you've manned up at last Dave! Unlike the King of the Casuals @Six30!

No idea why this popped up, but I know the song from the UK TV series (comedy?) MUM which is brilliant and well worth a watch, by the same writer as Him and Her I think.

You're living the dream Dave!

Raining here.

Sun's coming out!

Rained all night, ugh.

Well it don't look too bright today......skies are black and it looks like rain. So I may be working all day.

Don’t talk about old Pete like that, you young whipper snapper.

Mine's got the spoked wheels, smart ass!

No a guy called big Nige not sure if you know him He's piloting this here think i posted it before

Nope, only in my mind. I've been on google earth riding through those hills near you

One springs to mind and also one I've never admitted to...until now. Was on a trip to Germany in 2016 and left early on a Saturday morning to head back to the UK from Neuerburg on my own, leaving the others at the hotel. Leaving the town, there were roadworks so I stopped at the red light and then went on the green as usual. Thing is, the roadworks lane was on the left and when I set off I stayed in that lane and headed down the road totally forgetting where I was until a van came towards me flashing it's lights and beeping it's horn. In a split second I realised I was on the wrong side of the road and moved the bike across to the right so quickly I ended up riding on a grass verge and nearly binned it before pulling over and spending a minute nearly throwing up with the shock. Anyway, got back to Calais in less than 4 hours so the day turned out alright in the end

dont know , not looked. done a few in van though, can i add them cause bike was in the back

weather looks good Sunday .... im out out, sorry no van action..... im letting you down, i know you all love the van action reports , just be the bike this time, apologies

I was at college in Lewisham, SE London during the winter of '76/'77. It was a bitterly cold day and during the late afternoon there was a bit of snow started to fall, so I decided to bail out of college and head for home in Kent. I was on my RD350B and the journey started OK, but as it went on the snow got worse. By the time I got to about 10 miles from home I was riding in the ruts left by cars, with both feet down! My visor wouldn't stay open because of the ice on my lid and I couldn't ride with the visor down because it was steamed up and the snow was just sticking to it. In the end I ripped the visor off and slung it. My mum and dad lived at the bottom of a hill on a housing estate. I took a look at the hill when I got there and decided that I'd leave the bike at the top of the hill and walk the last bit home. The journey, which normally took me about 30-40 minutes had taken not short of 1.5hrs and I was frozen to the marrow by the time I got home.

Going too fast on my CX500 on a dual carriageway, saw a queue and started braking, brakes not up to it so carried on down the middle still braking like mad, reckon I passed about 15 cars before I got to the speed I should have been filtering at. Riding into the Blackwall Tunnel when a metal hub cap came flying at my face from traffic going the opposite way. I jerked my head so quickly to avoid getting knocked out I had a bad neck for about a week afterwards. On my GPz750 late at night, I came flying round a corner on a dual carriageway hill in town. Two cars had stopped for no apparent reason so I braked and came to a nice controlled stop. Looking in my mirror I saw a Ford XR3 Turbo thing with all its wheels locked up screeching up behind me. I clenched everything and it stopped gently touching my number plate.

You have to eat what you're given in the Old Folks Home Pedro!

Oh yeah, Riding my XL250R along a city street and there was a man standing with his back to the kerb looking at his roof. Just as I passed he stepped back to get a better look and my left handlebar gave him a crack and I wobbled to a stop fighting my handlebars which were going everywhere. On my FJ1200 riding along a busy shopping street just coming up to a zebra crossing. From behind me on the right a large dog was running like a loon. He passed me and turned suddenly left across the zebra. Just as I was thinking, 'I'm going to hit him', a car coming the opposite way ran him over, went over his back legs and belly. I stopped the other side of the crossing shaking like a leaf, when I looked round the dog had got up and was running in circles yelping. Pedestrians dragged it into the vets right next to the crossing, no idea what became of him.