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Sorry all, i have been away again...no not inside. Pat my long time lover has MND and i have to look after her 24/7 these days so not a lot of time to myself. So i tend to pop in and read a bit. Glad you lot are all still with us. It's shit getting old. Still have a bike or three but not a lot of time to ride.. I will get out this year thou. Best wishes to all you twats as Pete would say::: Lyn. One of these days i may turn up on Petes door step again

On Saturday Paolo and I walked another section of the old Midland Railway line . lovely weather for February and we even stopped for a sausage bap and a coffee in the old Warmley station

You are correct sir.....I flipped the twist shifter over to the left side, so it shifts backwards, but wasn't hard to get used to. I also added a hydraulic front brake caliper...Best upgrade I've ever done....It'll put you on your head! Also added a MegaRange sprocket gear set to the rear along w/ oversized Michelin tires. Just got an email today informing me of my new eBike that has been shipped....me anxiously waiting.

I hate steel sheds The assembly instruction that came with the shed made Ikeas assembly instructions seem like plain English.

Made me laugh. Especially the bit where one of them fell off and his mate started laughing at him and he then fell off!

Especially when I can ride UP my steep driveway....sitting down!........ Read 'em & weep--

I know they had a following that is another thing i couldn't understand LOL A mate of mine had a silverwing used to get quite annoyed when we called it a CX or a dressed maggot LOL

You will still ride more than @busabeast

Hi Lyn.......sorry to hear about Pat! Age is catching up with all of us now! And did you see my groin photos after my Hernia op......I can repost them if necessary! Be great to see you if you can ever make it over here!

The retirement is going well then

Working all bloody day again today! Couldn't have gone out anyway......it's been pissing down and bloody freezing!

It is the son in laws shed, he wanted it for his push bike, lawnmower and other gardening tools. Not the best shed, many of the pre drilled holes did not line up. it is just for storage, It does need a light in though. Insulate it I doubt he will bother.

Never rode one but one of our parts suppliers had a mint red one. I thought it was a good looking bike but even he said it wasn't the best bike he'd had by far.

Definitely recognize that chap.... Great to see ya again Lyn!

They have really lowered the standards on what is considered professional in recent years.

A Transit would have run the bus and the lorry off the road ..

Professional driver stays on the road while the noob panics and drives into a ditch.

I always know what's going on....

Ignore Busa.......he just jumps into any conversation not knowing WTF is going on!

No I have looked around and to be honest I don't see anything I like, I don't want too many electronic gadgets. as an ex electronic engineer I cant think of a worse place to put electronics than on a bike LOL and at the monet all the manufacturers seem obsessed with making bikes lower shorter and more compact while I'm getting bigger LOL so think I will stick with the Yam for now

In order to make a post: Evening all, a few of you will maybe remember me from a year or 6 ago...Lyn ( Male ) Have had a look around and just had to make a post, so i had to sign up.. More annon. Lyn.

The bikes then were all very different from each other......not so much today. He had zero natural ability......which is something that you really need to have. Of course, natural ability can also get you killed when you don't know your own limitations.

It probably had a feels like temperature of -75⁰c with the wind chill

How do you remember what something was like to ride from 50 odd years ago? I struggle to remember what my gs550es was like to ride from 20 years ago

I saw him at the Royal Oak pub in Hurdlow.......well I think it was him.

Damn that is cool...

It may well suffer from that, being as its stood on paving slabs, my shed is on blocks off the ground and has a wooden floor, so it does not get too damp on there, I did price it up to insulate and board my shed, but never got round to doing it...

I smiled when they were unboxing the new stuff and Joe took the piss about Freddie and batteries, I nearly missed it but went back and listened again and he did. Made me smile.

Yes, I laughed out loud when he said that! The cam timing was out from when the bike had a top-end rebuild by a bike shop! I think that someone mentions which bike shop in the comments.

I was just wondering about condensation in winter time

I had a mate that had a CX500C the custom looking one, I always thought that looked a hansom bike. Never rode one but I liked the look of the custom and the later Eurosport styles one.

2021 was a vintage year for bullshitting!

Watch, he will be blaming you for the next one.

Right.... well when you know all the details then come back to me, you weren't there you just think you know, as a professional driver there was nothing else I could have done to avoid a collision. But you must know better.....

So how did you and @busabeast get on when he came over in September 2021.....

You'll turn some heads at the Line Dancing class with that Scott!

"Make it as simple as possible for the viewers", for him more like. Is there a reason for the cam timing to be so far out, I'd guess a previous owner had been in there?

How did I miss this, only 4 years late. Hope you're well Lyn.

Maybe it needed it the most?

A turbo charged maggot what the hell were Honda thinking, i couldn't understand why, of all the bikes they produced then they picked that pile of crap to stick a turbo on LOL

Made by a local artist , there is another on the other side proclaiming 'Bath 8 miles' and a bench with a big man blowing a horn in the middle. From what I can see it has f*ck all to do with the railway/cycle path

Fair enough, I guess these days generally if you've ridden on you've kinda ridden them all sort of thing as these days there aren't really any bad bikes apart from the Chinese stuff that's coming through but one day even the Chinese crap will be decent. Yeah it is needed that to survive biking you need to have some kind of natural ability its not really something that can be taught you either have it or you don't. I think its only gixxer riders that run out of natural ability these days

He was abit of a liability on a bike you mean?

I'm not sure. It may have been the CB500T. I think that they described the engine as 2 lumps of snot moving up and down! Safe to say, it wasn't a big seller for Honda!

Well it made it from London to Detroit......so a little jaunt to Atlanta shouldn't be too bad!

Good news to some.

Indeed, @Bruce thing is, usually it's only really loud people that think I'm mature just because I normally speak in a very calm way, and am quiet or reserved with my emotions when faced with very effusive people. Pete, quite the opposite, is louder than a spanish old woman and roars his laughter.

That was the first one, the one you borrowed to go for the left at home ignition key. The best as well, the MK2 was not as good but had better ( so WMB ) told us, gearbox.

sugar and milk;; Well i have had the Big C twice more but still here to make life a total misery for those who know me::: The list of bikes has gone down to: Honda::: C70, Innova 125cc and a Honda Forza 300 scooter:: still can not get out and about with these bloody Welsh lock downs, I can't move out of Flintshire and you could bloody walk boarder to boarder in an hour.... Awaiting new bike in 2021 when Honda pull the middle digit out.