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Spent my Birthday today @ home w/ my favorite food made by my favorite Girl....gonna top it all off w/ some good Tequila tonight.

.....still lurking here.

Not too much difference to Mandi's old 1000.

Happy Birthday Scott

Caught the 09:19 train to Newton Abbot this morning to collect the CBF600. Uneventful journey on a pleasant GWR intercity type train. I don’t know the right name for it but big green fecker will do. Arrived at 10:53 and was picked up by the seller, Cornish fella called Rob. Drove past Channing Wood Prison to Denbury to pay for and collect the bike. I am chuffed with the bike I got for £1100 with a full set of Givi boxes, heated grips, 31k miles with four services in the book. Everything working, good tyres, never been dropped and sounding sweet. What’s not to like for a work hack. Filled it up and rode the 62 miles home, pretty uneventful really. The bike went better than I expected with a fair bit of zip when you get the revs up, obviously no competition to the Hornet in terms of power and handling but still pretty good nonetheless. Very stable in windy weather and pretty comfortable. Of course as soon as I got home Chloe was desperate to go out for a spin so I headed up to Damerells to get her a sausage sandwich. Unfortunately the cafe was closing just as we got there at 3 pm but I placated her with some Pringles and a tin of pop. Then headed home so another 40 miles on the day. The bike came with this enormous top box, would have been right up Pete’s Strasse Which I took off before we went to Damerells. Chloe has informed me that when she passes her test she wants it. Her perch passed the arse ache test so she has given her approval . I really enjoyed the day and am pleased with the bike for the money. I also love the old school clocks but do miss having a fuel gauge and it has been years since I’ve had to count gears but it all came back to me quickly enough. I have some obsessive cleaning to do but apart from that all I have to do is ride it. Good day.

When i first had the CB1000 i rode it home from Canterbury and thought i'd run it until it hit reserve which it did at about 220 miles on a duel carriageway about 5 miles from my house turned it to reserve and the tank was empty had to get the wife to bring a gallon to me. When i got home and had a look at it someone had removed or lost the long pipe off the fuel tap so it was always on reserve. I had to get rescued another twice by the wife before i finally fixed it

Nice one Saul Even with the fuel gauge i always reset the trip every fill up so i know how far i can go, do it with the car and the works van as well

Perhaps I should of called it sports day.

Yeah I did some research before I bought it, hopefully several years service in it for me. Bike, because it matches her riding gear

A school with trackdays sounds great!

back in Blighty , cold and cloudy

Rained here all morning so done nothing other than a bit of house work. Just had a phone call to go see one of my granddaughters doing the schools track day. She's only 5 and mum had forgot and was out elsewhere. I said I'd go and went and put some jeans on only to get a second call to says she'd got the day wrong. Bored now.

I followed him, until he came to Portugal and made an entire video of himself and a friend destroying dunes by the beach. I don’t tolerate that shit The sands of Leiria laid waste to his clutch and he limped back to France, I was happy with that

I don't know why but there is something I really enjoy about going to collect a new bike from somewhere far away. Last one was Norwich, before that was north Wales ( that was a Sunday night in Jan, fecking frozen), im in Hampshire. I have bought a bike from Edinburgh ... but got that bought down in a van. That CBF looks lovely, hope you enjoy it.

She did ask what i was doing luckily every time i was on my way home and was close to the house

Good

I bet she was delighted by the third time

Yeah I have done that, 102 so far from the tank but I am thinking around 200 before the light come on. Have to wait and see.

The topcase or the bike? those are pretty bulletproof bikes, aren’t they?

I started to watch his video from Portugal but didn't finish yet! Now I have to see it!!

Hard to beat! happy birthday!

Got a soaking this morn fitting brake pipes to an Audi TT. Was jumping in the car when the showers return but got to the point I couldn't get much wetter. Put another shelf up in the garage and now time for some housework. Mandi's in Copenhagen again so I'm blasting out some Prodigy while cleaning the bath room.

Good to hear from you, the rumours that you were a human popsicle lost in the back of your camper on some frozen mountain are untrue then.

They should name it The Wankster!