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Start prepping for a week w/o the missus....she's leaving Wed. for her hometown (Emmett ID) to sit with her 12y/o grand-daughter while her son & daughter-in-law pay a visit to Nashville TN. She's making me some of her kick-ass meatloaf for me to survive on while she's away. Had to run off 7 deer this morning outta the backyard....keeps her dog from getting beat up by one again....gave that dog a concussion & a coupla staples in her head last time. That dog thinks she's 10ft. tall & bulletproof....she's a Chihuahua/Italian Greyhound mix & can run like a gazelle.

It a age thing. Mine is my inner ear problems, my wife just says "What the fuck are you doing on the floor"

If Busa was a bus driver.

I had an Octavia vRS TDI estate a number of years ago as my company car. The boot was huge and it went pretty well too! The only downside was that it didn't really like a lot of town work, so, when I'd been doing a bit of driving around London for a few days the DPF would clog and a couple of times wouldn't regenerate, so it had to go into the dealers to get sorted. Other than that it was a brilliant car. It went back to the lease company with 100k miles and still looked like new.

Many years ago me and my older brother fitted a used auto gearbox to one and didn't quite get the torque convertor alined. 30 miles down the road the noise bearing and seal failed resulting in a long line of oil on the floor before it could go no further.

I have just looked on DVLA website, and the Capri (1.6 GT) is still on there!! Well sort of, last taxed in August........................1987

I would, but if your CB500 is perfect for your roads an Africa Twin will feel large and top heavy in comparison. What would you gain from one?

Things Pete might say

Unlike Busa’s truck.

Now that's something we can all agree on!

I need to do a proper long trip, outside Wales, loaded up, to get a better feel for it. No bonding yet.

If you want a low seat comfy tourer you want a lowered GS. Handling is slower than a tall one, but as a bike to carry luggage over all sorts of roads nothing beats it. Buy a good looking late 2015 / 2016 one, it’ll be ok.

She had the Ghia and no idea, sorry i'll get me coat LOL

Must be racism

I am not sure really, more thinking about it, an itch. Not sure if I would trade in my CB500. If I did get an AT would have to lower it. Serious off roading isn't for me. If not an AT I would think of a CBF1000, or VFR 800. More a big comfy tourer territory. I suppose I am more thinking out loud.

Btw, I totally agree

Mine was like that, but white.......the bloody thing rusted away before i had finished paying for it.

That's seriously impressive how the driver has managed to clear the stream, i'd struggle to do that on a bike

Daytona Yellow, not the best colour for a Capri imo but that's a very nice example

Agree with this. Although, my scarpa goretex mid boots have been perfectly comfortable from day one, but they do leak in really wet weather, the same as my Merrells. I've got a pair of Berghaus fell walking boots, which are completely waterproof but they're a bit heavy and make my lower shins sore after several hours walking. For the most part the Scarpa boots are my favourite, because they're so comfortable and pretty decent support and grip.

Thank you!! a British bike, in Britain makes me super, super happy!! And we found out it was really made in Hinckley, so 100% gravy!!

You could not do it, if you want to be a square.

Oh, yes, @XTreme Please change the picture but leave the thread open

And the vote is closed, but the thread remains open because that's how I rule, anarchy! Congratulations @Sofia

I had one in exactly the same colour Fred. That looks like a GXL or Ghia, mine was just a lowly 1600L

Fucking insurance company is at it again, tried to change the bikes over tonight, all that's different is the registration number and the value of the bike, they want £66 off me to do it i only paid £86 for the year and its a month old fucking twats i told them i'd phone back tomorrow once i processed it all and hopefully i'll get someone who i don't have to ask to repeat every question three times before i get the gist of what they are asking.

I think my balance has a lot to do with it as well, if i walk on something like a curbstone and look up or around i fall off it, never used to years ago

It's strange that weight is a big factor as we get older, but never entered into it when we were young.

I was asking that on the second of September

I have one @Saul but i am like Pete with his CB500 i think the Africa Twin is the best bike in the world LOL Honestly though it is a tall bike and not sure if lowering it would make it handle weird. I do think they are big heavy bikes to move about now where a few years ago it wouldn't bother me. Riding it is totally different doesn't feel heavy at all on my own but i find i'm not as confident on it loaded up with the wife and luggage as i used to be. I don't use it on the dirt never bought it for that, it makes great road bike, I've been looking at down sizing to a T700 or the new Transalp, even looked at the NC750X as an option but all those thoughts go out the window when i ride the Africa twin.

A bit like my (occasional) riding buddy.....he had a TMax500 and developed a itch for a TMax560. He paid £12,000 for a new one, disliked so many things about it.......6months later it was sold back to CMC Clay Cross, he lost nigh on 4 grand.......the grass ain't always greener came to mind.

Did you sit on that man’s Chopper?

My mate Nick has one, he's not overly enamoured with his yet either. He's had at least 10 Africa Twins (and Transalps ) in the past but he reckons it needs a bit of work to get it up to standard.

You have to take into consideration that if you compete theres a chance you might win and like fuck do I want my bike on the front page of this shitshow

I'll have to factor in three of four errors in for the October one. This was never as much fun when I was doing it every month.

I'll tag you when it's over. Or, judging by my proficiency in this vote, I'll tag @ Bruce.

At least this is making it a group effort, think of it as team building, companies pay money for this shit.

Steve McQueen did the same on a Benz 300SL during the filming of The Great Escape, being chased by cops into the film set. He must have been better than your neighbour, or more famous.

850 miles isn’t enough. He just told you it doesn’t have any torque compared to the GS, so let him forget about the BMW and awake the next morning thinking about reliability.

Our next door neighbour had one of them old capris , was in the 1970's , he was a keen golfer, he would drive round the alley where we used to play as kids after golf as pissed as a fart... fuck knows how he got home with out hitting anything, one time he came home closely followed by the police and got nicked .

@busabeast did you used to drive trains as well

Funnily enough I was thinking what an eyesore that Virago was. Love the yellow Triumph and the V50.

Some nice cars and bikes there Dave (apart from that godawful Virago). I drove one of those Sumbeam Rapiers back in the day, it was pretty quick thanks to the Holbay engine

A few gems from the event today. Very small but looked to be a success. This was the star for me. So clean and very well restored. Was so taken by how good it was under the bonnet I forgot to take any more pics of it. 3ltr auto.

This is her natural hair colour i had to go back a loooong way for that photo Check out the plastic pig we had some fun in that lol

Has to be Sofia’s IoM photo as I climbed that mountain in my bike gear one year. Extremely Betty Swollocks!