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Who will win this month? @Marcel with his shiny new Indian? @busabeast with his Yoshimura stickered bog standard Suzuki? Maybe @Slowlycatchymonkey will finally take a photo of the mythical BSA. As a change this month I will be starting the discussion thread in the gallery early to give you time before the submissions start, I know how you all like a bit of submission. @Six30 you can ignore this.

@Catteeclan Is this what the front brake hose looks like if it is PM me your address and you can have it, Its only taking up space here.

I’m in St. Ives still but when I get home I’ll see if I can find the copy and scan it

Never had a new bike back then or the cash to afford one but as mentioned we rode around in groups and met others always swopping bikes. Meanwhile, bearings in and forks tarted up ready for some nice new webs.

I don’t think it was ever online

I have a couple of wedges to tap into the split in the yokes. Couple of screwdrivers will work as good.

True to form, we off to the coast tomorrow, and the weather is going to turn shit. Better make the most of today.

I can still remember Steve Neville at the TRF AGM talking about using the internet and emails for contacting and recruiting members, he was laughed at, comments like, "Hardly anyone has a computer", were thrown about. He mentioned internet cafes (do they still exist?) and they rolled up like he was making it all up.

I know the Nurburgring properly, in a slow car. The level of track knowledge it takes to do those speeds with the control they process on such a long and varied track is nothing but awesome. It takes repetition and obsessive learning, it obviously takes balls but from the brain it’s a lot more training and learning than being mental.

I won’t you can fuck off with it .

Step this way for Rugged Individualism!

You will be in like a cheap slut next month, everyone knows it.

I shall never enter botm again .. sir

Do you need a front brake hose for that now if you do measure the old one and i'll see if i still have one here. i need the length because i used one hose to extend the rear shock reservoir on my bike and cant remember which one i used.

To be honest I haven't had the time to get out on the bike so not sure I'll be putting a submission in this month

You need a chain conversion once you are north of those figures, lots of tuning goes on. Your bike is designed to be tuned but

Going to get out early cos 37C is forecast today!

Many year ago I had a Kawasaki GPZ305, that was belt drive, the belt snapped while out on a ride, luckily near to home when it did. Ŵent and ordered a new belt, when they told me the price I almost passed out. £150, and that was around 1980, so I converted it to chain drive, shortly before it devoured its camshafts.

Devastated more like, offered to put me touch with a dodgy dude for a Spanish passport. Although that could be to ensure I'm caught and permanently deported

Oh god not the B word and I don’t mean bullshit Thats the point of “content you like” Ive spent an hour today watching that tosspot Dobbs cos you posted a YouTube vid of him. What a waste of an hour

My father in law had a huge computer, he never had the Internet in his house ,he just played Patience & MahJong on it.

Fancy that. Young people not wanting to listen to old farts. Never happened before

That was so you would stop badgering her into meeting up with you

your in for a treat @boboneleg you and your crowd much be very special guests at the monkey household

The entrance ...

Saw one of these FTRs riding through my village yesterday, and decided to see their specs and prices. The “scrambler” version has only 150mm travel in the front, which doesn’t excite me much, but the worse is a 13 litre tank. What kind of pussy thing to do is putting a 13 litre tank in a 1200 twin?

@Buckster has a bike shop ... and you buy bikes off him ....

They certainly didn’t smell like they washed too often and I wouldn’t mind one bit if they tried a mint rather than the rancid coffee they whiff of

That’s because she used to be a boy………I do hope I’ve overstepped the mark

I understood nothing apart from the smell of fish!

Jesus, I am sweating cobs. Wetter than a blindfolded lesbian in a fish market as they say in the posh end of town. I've had a real fight getting the fork back into the yokes. I'm about 2mm short compared to the other one that has remained undisturbed and I can no longer get enough grip to twist or push the thing any further. I have decided to use gravity to assist. I am refitting the wheel and will bounce it on the brakes to see if it moves up a little before putting the pinch bolts back in.

I prefer to talk about bikes with someone who actually knows about the bike, you know, get the info you want about the bike you want to buy. You can keep your wank bank stocked up with internet images like everyone else. For the record most of the men I've bought bikes from are ugly old munters with tits down to their knees

No on this occasion I’ll swerve a pic … @Marcel might though

Got the fork mostly back together and the snap ring back in. Filled it with oil and waiting for it to settle before removing the excess. As usual, there is bloody oil everywhere, I'm like that Exxon Valdez when I get going, bird life will be wiped out for miles around my garage.

Using my Amazon spring compressor today, as usual I have managed to get oil all over the poxy place. My late Dad's early 70s foldy Workmate thing finally came in handy for something. Put the new seal on using the Amazon supplied bullet doobrey to stop it getting cut up by the sharp edges.

When you get patted down by the security people at the airport I'd have the receipt with you to show them before they snap on the rubber gloves. It's going to show up in the x-ray bit you stand in that they have at most airports now. I got pulled because I still had a handkerchief in a jean pocket that they could see on their machine. I had to hand it over and he took it gingerly between two fingers and put it in the property tray with my belt and coins.

The Hernia support arrived today! Hoping it'll help me get through all the travelling to NL in 10 days time.

Ducati is one brand I definitely won't be buying. They had a really strong sales team made up of women who actually rode and rode well so you could wander over at a bike festival and they knew about bikes. It was refreshing because mostly with bikes it's bimbos hired in who know nothing about the product. They were such an impressive outfit they had a group photo in the adventure biker gallery at ABR with all the other A list off roaders pics. I asked my nice looking friend who's mainly a Yoga instructor (so she's also slim and fit) why she wasn't with Ducati anymore, she replied I'm too old for them. They got rid of all of us. Some head honcho came over from Italy and replaced them all with young airheads. Apparently that's more in keeping with the Ducati image. An image they can shove where the sun doesn't shine. Backward twats.

Indeed I did, I was reading my bible and in Leviticus it said that if a man lies with a man as with a woman he must be stoned, fuck that, I was out of there.

Must be a relief not to have to listen to pretentious hippy shit like "Dark Side of the Moon" anymore?