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Nice, but I think you should model it for us! I found my Scorpion helmet to be loud on the highways...but maybe with your big head you won't notice such things......

29p short of a good fry up in the café down the road, cunts

Me in a suit , think of George Clooney in his prime

That was getting up for work time wasn't it Clive?

We had a spectacular thunderstorm at 2.30am this morning, none of your usual couple of flash and bangs.....the lightening was streaking across the sky, the likes of which we have only seen in Spain many years ago, but funnily is hardly rained. And after I struggled to get back to sleep, knackered now.

We are away next week (weather permitting) so the scoot will be in the spare room for the duration, even there it will have a padlock and chain on it, Be easier to leave it in the (steel) shed, but shed is about as secure as a biscuit tin....can cut the steel sheets with a Stanley knife.

It's a condition of my insurance here that I have an approved lock and use it! Even had to send a photo of the lock and of the sales invoice for it to the insurance. I had my bike nicked way back and I lost a lot of money on the insurance payout, so the bike gets locked, even when it's in the garage here!

I'm trying to imagine fresh and crisp...

The café down the road is called Cunts?

It's just another get out clause for the insurance feckers to rape you. Never admit to owning a lock and chain and then they can't have you over edit; @Slowlycatchymonkey beat me to it.

I think the padlock thing is a complete con, in this area it makes no real difference to the premium. I rang the insurance company and asked for a quote with a lock and without, it made £7 difference. So no way I’d commit to something that would let them off the hook if I forgot it. Also asked them for a quote with and without pillion cover and that made zero difference. As insurance companies are scum I’m resigned to the idea I’d be lucky to get anything out of them. I only bother because the one thing they do is protect other drivers from your own mistakes.

2.30am, i would be on my 2nd cuppa and getting ready to leave home go to work. Oh how I miss those early starts

Tool are easier to grab and run away with and it's easy to sell tools on Marketplace, a scoot/bike not so.

So the tools were more attractive to them than the Scoot?

You just want another picture for your fantasy collection.

I finally found a new lid I could live with today for touring. When I was living in the USA I developed a real aversion to full face helmets, I have always worn a mixture of full and open face but I think wearing only open face or half helmets for seven years meant I got used to the feeling of space. Since coming back to the UK I have struggled to find anything that does not make me feel claustrophobic. I have been watching the rise of modular helmets with interest especially when homologated to use both open and closed. I had tried the Shark a couple of years ago but didn't like the fit. Today I was looking at the HJC i100 and for the first time thought I may have found something I could live with, it had good space between the chin piece and my face and is P & J homologated. The sales guy said I should try the Scorpion Exo Tech which was actually a little cheaper and as soon as I put it on I knew it was the one. It has been a long time since I put on lid like this and found it was a perfect fit. Unfortunately they even had my preferred colour so I was forced to buy it. Features I particularly like are that the chin bar ends up on the back of the helmet when open, out of the airflow, the internal sun visor goes down very low and the main visor comes with a Pinlock insert. From here on this will be my winter and touring lid. The thing I dont like is all the writing on the visor makes it difficult to see. Of fuck me, it comes off!

And the good news is that the heat is on the way out! Hopefully I'll be out Saturday and Sunday in the mornings as we've got the boys in the afternoons. What you lot doing?

That's what I done when they asked no security at all except when at home their in the garage made no difference to the cost of the insurance at all

We normally get a lightening flash, wait 20 seconds for the thunder clap, then wait several minutes for another flash, then have four or five flashes and it's done with, pathetic

We've had a couple of pretty spectacular storms over the last week. I was woken up at 4am on Friday morning by a clap of thunder that rattled the house! Struggled to get back to sleep afterwards too.

Not really around here, but after having the shed broken into on Boxing Day night it's made me a bit paranoid took all my tools and could have taken the scoot if they had wanted, I now park my car right up to the shed doors each night, car alarm would sound if they tried to move it. But when we are away they have a easy way into the shed.....so it's coming in the spare room.

It's that bad there now?

My insurance also asked what chain and lock I use.

Nothing like that here!

Why thank you.....still black pudding is minging....

Inside your new lid once you put it on

Where is the haggis?

You are a heathen sir

One whiff of your underkaks and they will excuse you.

I was given clear instructions on how to get in and what not to lean on in case it snapped off in my hand, the plastic has not aged well it seems. I couldn't have done it a few weeks ago when I had a bad back.

So you live in Spain and....you don't eat any Spanish foods....wtf pete bet you're more in to Turkey dinosaurs with smiley faces with a orange squash to swill it down with

Didn't think you could claim compensation for being on the Dock, I'd say its jail time for you

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Although I appreciate the effort , but you been out for an hour , what did you did wheel it out your garage then wheel it back in

Been out for an hour...... Now got to get back to house cleaning!

I'm working tomorrow, then I'm on holiday till the 19th. Once I get back I then have 6 days to work before I leave definitively.

Was a warm ride, cool in the airport.....er hospital. also went to Asda for a bun. Not much of a ride, could have kept riding, but doubt the buns would have survived a long ride.

That's better

Dunno. Last weekend the boys will be home before they both leave for uni so got to make the most of it. Maybe some sort of banquet.

Whoo hoo...I am off out on the scoot again today Only going to the hospital for my MRI........but it's better than nothing.

Wedding at the weekend …. New whistle and I’m Looking fresh and crisp hope it cools down a bit though

Whats old is new again.

Now most of the lanes so far had been climbs or descents over chalk or rock and they were bone dry so the next lane came as a bit of a shock. It started well with a lovely old sign just off the main road............ Then I had to hunt a bit to find the entrance as it went across someone's drive right outside of their posh house Once I got into the lane I first noticed that there was a lot of vegetation and it was very green , this ,meant that there had to be a water course underneath and that usually means boggy going. The vegetation was thick and you couldn't see the ruts underneath so there was a lot of paddling of legs to keep everything upright............... After about 15 minutes to do about half a mile I came to more solid ground (thank god) and stopped for a coffee. While I was stopped I noticed this very ambiguous sign which just about sums up how rights of way in England . It says 'Public route to Public path ' WTF is that supposed to mean ?? The next lane is a bit contentious but the gate wasn't locked today so I carried on up Everley Down. Then I cam to a new lane (to me) and found that someone doesn't want us to ride it I just rode over the pile of chalk/rubble and carried on............ Now I had to do a bit of roadwork to get down to an area of Dorset that reminds me of parts of France. It's heath type land with lots of sand and fir trees...............

Moving the boy to Uni in Bristol tomorrow the wife is going to be devastated i don't know who's going to stress worst