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A real mans bike.

Just when you think Marcel might be losing his grip on TOTY he pulls one out of the hat!

Oh come on !! we don't hate it. It's just that it would look better in another colour, like this ...............

Back when I worked @ a bike shop, a particular customer who was tight with the owner came in for a new tire on his PC.... But before I could take a wrench to it, he proceeded to use up the rest of the old tire's life....right there in the parking lot....SmokeShow from HELL!! 'Twas quite obvious just where the bike shop was in that neighborhood...

He is one of the true gentlemen in MotoGP. I don’t often say this about spaniards

Mawsley spotted on holiday.

It seems I am a taxi driver today, a school run, a commute to work, and repeat at 3pm. I hope they fix daughters car sharpish, all this driving interfere,s with my busy schedule.

And I've got a lead via his old school's Facebook Group. A couple of people remember him. Waiting for somebody who may have more information to come back.

TBH Pete, it's a pretty sharp looking bike. But then again, I'm fairly biased as I was spoon-fed on Honda twins by my old man. It looks like it does the job well...& is easy on the wallet.

I'd never dream of doubling the speed limit, maybe triple but not double

Are you sure Sounds like just the types to end up in some Spanish ghetto

So what's your opinion on my Honda then Scott? Yes.....I know it's not a Yam but since the demise of the XT thumpers they don't make a bike that's right for me!

That’s Pete’s dream bike.

Fingers crossed

He's a helluva rider....It's awesome to see him looking happy.

There is no dark side of the Moon, as a matter of fact it's all dark.

@boboneleg I was talking to your son earlier, he said can you stop sending this.

As you might have noticed, the GS has been traded for a new Transalp. I wanted something smaller and lighter for my advancing years. Well, I managed the lighter bit, but the seat height is the same and I still struggle with the leg over. It had to be the black stealth one for me; red, white and blue not exactly my favourite colours! Extras fitted are a quickshifter, hand guards, some wind deflectors, centre stand and heated grips, and have taken gap insurance and the prepaid first three services deal. Bike has a Datatag tracker fitted. As Fred knows, new Honda seats are hard and I live in hope that it will break in before the bones of my arse give up. I did four and a half hours going up to North Wales and I felt like a rent boy who’d pulled a train - not good. I did it in three and a half coming home, and it did seem a bit better. Maybe my arse was getting used to it! Reminds me a lot of the KTM’s I had, probably a lot to do with the engine characteristics, and the longish suspension. A bit of a pain to keep a steady throttle in town at 20 or 30 mph but fine on the open road. It’s quite happy to chug along at 30mph in 4th. Power comes in from around 5k rpm up to about 9.5k rpm; the red line is at 10k. The torque is developed as the revs build up rather than low down although 3rd will take it from almost a standstill up to about 100mph ish I’d imagine. Still running in but Honda say after 300 miles okay to wind it up. Twisty B roads are fine using 3rd and 4th. I like the handling, but the suspension isn’t that great compared with the GS. A combination of a hard seat and budget suspension with only preload adjustment doesn’t give much scope for adjustment. I haven’t tried tweaking anything yet but intend to try some small changes. It’s averaged 65.4 mpg over 400 miles and I reckon that’ll get better. I was using as much power as allowed (keeping below 6k rpm and no full power acceleration) for the first 300 miles and then I kept the revs up a bit more for the next 400. That’s pretty much my initial impressions. Hopefully maybe some more to follow. I have a black SW-Motech crash bar and sump guard on order. I’ll fit the crash bar when it arrives I suppose but will leave the sump guard until after the first service which is a week next Saturday. I need a GPS support and will probably get their soft panniers. I prefer the Garmin XT to the rather simple Honda Bluetooth offering. Their video show the bits fitted to their bike. I’m off to a the overland Event near Oxford next weekend so will try and get a few photos then and then some more after the service has been carried out.

there you go

80+ mpg as well Scott! But these morons on here absolutely hate it for some reason!

No! When you're bumming round and existing off the Social you're not going abroad. But one interesting thing I found was that the people who went to school with him (all mid 40's now) have all led settled, normal, stable lives and have their own families now. None of them went on a path of self destruction like he did. So it wasn't his peer group leading him astray.........I made sure he got into the best school in Swansea to give him the best opportunities. And I got the other two into the same school (cos they had a brother there) and they screwed it all up as well. But that's down to their mother fucking their heads up. She joined Facebook 10 years ago to try and find them as well. Even mentioned me in case I knew! Which was pretty ironic because she's spent most of her life making sure I never had any contact with the younger two. I only came across the post a couple of years later by accident. She didn't look too good in the pic so her search could have been because her time was running out.

Is any one else thinking what I’m thinking …

That's not good, we'll hopefully you will find a lead

The only reason I can see for them disappearing is that they have changed their names, sure the uk authorities will be able to find them

Nothing on there!

It definitely seems like the the only avenue left open is to go in overtly mate, that's the only way you may get whatever you're after

I've done searches for all of them for many years.......always coming up with nothing. In terms of this school thing......they went to the same school as well but I'm going for the eldest first cos he was the one I got custody of! And I was much closer to him than the others. He went off the rails in the mid 90's with drugs......ended up having to get him out of Cardiff and Bristol in the middle of the night because of the situations he got himself in. Last thing I heard was that he was somewhere in the east of England in 2005, and the other two were in London.

Yeh I know a couple of people on FB and they don't use their full real name.

Could be that he's changed his name?

Have you tried the same search with the other two?

PC800 V-Twin?

Pity he never won a MotoGP title!

Yup and there's parts you can double that on the right bike, like here LOL

Whats really mad is this is going to be 20mph But this looking the other way at the same spot is 60mph

Yup i know all about it 30 doesn't keep me at 30 so 20 got no chance LOL, It's not going down well here at all but not every 30mph road is going to become 20 there is a little common sense with it, through the streets and built up areas will become 20 other roads will stay at 30 This is an example of whats changing by me, this road is going to stay at 30mph and this is going to become 20mph

Funny that’s exactly what your wife said

Seen that one before, it's not very attractive is it

If you’ve been looking for over a decade and turned up nothing then it’s probably time to face up to the idea that covertly isn’t working. Prepare a letter saying what you want to so it’s ready to send the second they’re located and go for it. Put your search out there on social media, contact everyone you know who has had contact with them and reach out to friends and family from the area. There’s no way they won’t have looked you up, even if it was a just a drunken google of where their dad is the curiosity will be there. The worse that can happen is your requests are denied so what have you got to lose? At least you can say you tried. Carry on with the ineffective methods you’re currently using and like you say time will run out. Sometimes being bold is the only way to go.

Welcome to wales …

Yes, you lose all credibility.

Yeh.......nothing shows up. Whether she's still alive now I'm not so sure......I have checked Death notices but no results. But she had no info either so it would have been a waste of time talking to her. No way I'd communicate with her anyway.......she's a contributory factor to the position I've been in for years. Give you an example of her mindset.......when the middle one left school he got a job as an apprentice electrician. Which would have been a good trade for him to have! But when she found out that meant less Social Security going to her due to more money coming into the house, she made him jack it in and go on the dole. And stay on the dole! Eventually the boys left Swansea, and she was left on her own for years! Finally as a bitter, twisted old woman she started trying to find them in 2013. So in trying to hang me.......she hanged herself as well. And fucked the kids up for life in the process.

The authorities won't give out info! And anyway, the three of them won't have changed their names. The last time I got a lead to the younger two was about 15 years ago and that came from court hearing dates. This isn't a case of searching for people who've put down roots, started a family. They've seemed to roam around the UK with the younger two usually together. Previous times I've found them when I was in the UK led me to squats and crack houses.......this is the type of lifestyle we're trying to find information about. So I can't go about things in the normal way.

I've found people who knew him and one guy said he spoke to him on Facebook over 10 years ago. But it looked like he closed his account and has never been heard of since. So the trail seems to have gone cold!