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I may go to Morocco again, this time with a different take on things and to revisit the desert with a better understanding of myself and the bike. I'd like to go somewhere new on the motorcycle too, that would mean Spain or France or the Nurburgring or Italy, the Via del Sale. Thing is I don't like crowds. A summer week to go somewhere sunny in Portugal would be very much appreciated, too. What I do plan on doing is taking a few short trips, go somewhere specific and return the same day or with a single overnight stay. I have been meaning to do this often since I started riding but somehow quick trips seem to never really have the pull to get the bike going.

So then, what’s on the cards for you lot in 2023? I’ve nothing set in stone but a trip north to Alcaniz for the Zombie Chopper Festival at the start of May is a possibility, meeting mates from the UK.

The way things are shaping up in the world my only plan is to try and survive the year!

Tea Bags come from Albox!

All a bit unformed at the moment but off to a mates place for a weeks skiing the port du soleil end of Jan, a bit unfit to ski all day everyday so went back to the gym today.. painful!! Back to Spain after that for sunshine riding and I still haven't visited the spaghetti western place which I really want to see. April I'm taking a small group from Blighty to the Alps, must get on with the planning for that, booked the ferry.. yep that's all I've done Badly want to ride back to beautiful Scotland and see my bro at the same time so summer time ish for that one. Hopefully my BSA will turn up at some point so that'll be fun/disappointing, might even go on that .. unlikely. Morocco is definitely on the cards but as there's already other things booked for the beginning of the year it's looking more autumn time, although a friend is suggesting we leave the men behind and ride Arizona in the autumn which I wouldn't sniff at if that happens I'll still be dipping my toe into Morocco but maybe just a short one. And sometime in-between I'll have to ride the Himalayan back to Blighty for its MOT. Got very boring house renovation stuff to deal with, putting furniture on the spots everyone needs to step around to avoid going through the floor isn't as great a solution as it sounds So sick of this dreary weather, it'd take more than a daylight bulb to rectify this misery I know this is a banned topic but FUCKING BREXIT!

yeh you could bring back more tea bags from Bazza

you do fuck all any way

Nephew can do his second part of his test in June so can then get a 400cc bike... going to do few days away up north , Bangers and Cash auction van action on my own before that though .

Much riding proposed, looking to change my job, get fitter and improve my health. Lots of singing and thinking of doing some sort of advanced riding course so that I can volunteer for the blood bikers. All general goals granted but I am sure more will come into focus as it gets closer.

When my choir met Pele. Before my time with them but it does make me smile. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0ds6b2z?fbclid=IwAR2oiM5ULyGlmAyPwV9-zd5cBHf72Y58lU89Dk9msSWxKjQF35lLrDYL0kA

We've got a week booked in the Massif Centrale at the end of January to do some snow shoeing and tobogganing, if there's any snow there! Friends coming over for a few days at the end of Feb. Got an appointment with the Urologist in mid-Feb to see about an operation. What I do after that depends a lot on the recovery time. Nephew's 30th birthday at the beginning of April, so we should be going to the UK for that for a few days. My boys are talking about coming here for a holiday May/June time. Mandy has to take the first 2 weeks in August as holiday because they shut the factory down, so we'll see about going somewhere on holiday then. I guess that we'll see what else occurs to fill the gaps!

I am for sure going to the UK in September 2023!! Miss the Green and Pleasant Lands!!

yeh you got tarts like @busabeast playing... say no more

Mr Slowly complained he got a text from the medical centre telling him that losing just 5% of his bodyweight will help him live longer. I say oh I don't have a text. He replies "BECAUSE YOU'RE NOT A FAT BASTARD" I say but neither are you, they must still have you marked down in a high percentile from when you were playing front row rugby. He's not amused. As if post Christmas people don't feel bad enough about all the crap they've shoved down their gobs the GP practice is sending out "you're a fatty" texts

Lots of rallys.

Have one scheduled in June with the wife on the GoldThing; Home to Lake Tahoe, San Francisco and then up the coast before heading east to Salt Lake CIty and back home. Another week long ride just around Colorado with friends Dave and Debbie (GS1200 guy) An eastern trek from here to Chicago, Indy, Ohio and then south to Tennessee and Alabama (Barber Museum) and then back home via Texas. If there's no snow and I'm able to get out, I'd like to do the MotoGP again in Austin, Texas in April. A little early to be riding around here so it'll be a last minute decision. Might try again for Jasper, Canada again in August.

My main focus this year will be my sons 30th birthday. He's always wanted to go to the Teatro Alla Scala in Milan to watch an opera. Unfortunately we have to include a visit to the mother-in-laws in Caserta at the same time (the other end of Italy) or there will be hell to pay. Going to Dent for XRV/Big Trailie rally in September as one of the guys is turning 70 so I don't want to miss that. I'd love to fit a Euro trip in as well but we'll have to see how that goes,

Zzzak.

A great man while a football star and a greater man after stopping playing football, it's a rare thing but he managed to be a great symbol for his country's greatness.

Happy New Year everyone. I hope 2023 is a good year for you, well balanced with a healthy amount of smiles and adventures.

He was diagnosed when he 4 years old, that really helped a lot with his education .

I think not Mr Provocateur!

Ahem and Pete. Lets have an even playing field ref.

Moderator to isle 5 please, we got a member leaning towards politics

Exercise helps, Pete, but it can only do so much, mate!

He probably did, I wouldn't know I blocked the nutjob after his second or third post

Not anymore Pete. The majority want another referendum, only 24% don't want another one. You have to assume the rest favour another referendum cos they want back in Although currently the stats are only just in favour on going straight back in, some want to wait 2-4 years before a vote, some longer, the vast majority think the UK has not benefited and it has contributed to higher living costs, red tape and businesses going under.

Marcel and his gang would give him a swift up and under!

2 hours

He was a great man!

it looks like it could be turned into a great bikers pub

I like small

What you want is a nice super Bee. But shush, we havent even got one of those yet, the prototypes went to germany and the Uk, the Uk one has dissapeared into the MOD who are “testing” it… the super bee. The storm bee is the only one i e been on that isnt riduclously small.

Just as crappy on the inside as the out Cool copper topped bar though ...

Could have gone to the gym and worked out with @XTreme's latest clients, but decided to head up to the local for lunch. This place is 60 miles from nowhere .... Beautiful day for it...

naah, they'd just tell me to stop eating anything that has any taste of flavour and only eat stuff that tastes like shit, looks like shit and has no gustative value makeing meal times a simple refulling excercise by removing all and any concept of pleasure.

'Twas fun at work today, everyone back fom a few days off over Christmas to start the year with a whole new IT system new database, new system and I think new servers, so no one knows how any of it is supposed to work, As a cost cutting excercise, our part of the building is now running from a generator cos the fuel cost is less than the electricity cost, but it kept shutting down so we were struggling to learn and use a whole new computer system with reppetitive power outages. Luckily my putor and main screen are on an inverter thingy but that only really allows you time to shut down properly rather than loose anything you haven't saved... The director had had one good idea though, and that was to tell all our clients that we weren't open till tomorrow so at least we weren't trying to deal with that at the same time. The genny problem turned out to be that the phases were unequally loaded so once that got rewired more closely to how it should be the power supply settled down, and to my amazement the ney IT system, or at least the part that concerns me, seems to me far more intuitive and user friendly than the old one so, all good in the end.

See Ken Block dead as well , some sort of Snow mobile accident

I know mate, it doesn't bare looking at to closely. Genuine people like John Pilger see it coming .

Bloody heck Saul, https://uk.yahoo.com/news/xi-jinping-preparing-chinese-people-094946509.html

Can you send me a Sur Ron storm bee in a nice box pretty please

There's some young ladies there who could get you in shape!

Do they take fat SOG's? no point showing this lot if they don't

This just went live.......it's what I've been working on non-stop from way before Xmas! What you actually see is just the shop window, because behind that It's absolutely massive: integrated membership system, course booking and payment facility through the Stripe payment gateway, about 20 different levels of member access to private areas with hundreds of course training videos, written materials, mock exams, personal messaging, download repository, employment directory, automatic streaming of Vimeo and YouTube video channels etc. Logistical nightmare because it involves complete synchronisation of all the various processes into one system. European Personal Training Institute

Someone altered Andrew Tates Wikipedia page