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My Christmas season has been spent looking after Mrs. Hook w/ her new knee...gotta admit that I'm proud of her for doing well w/ her recovery. Seeing consistent increments of improvement everyday. Kind of anxious to see how well she'll be doing by our anniversary in Feb. Hopefully be mobile enough to do a day trip to Hermiston to see my Great G-son by then...

First thing you've said that makes sense.

@Buckster @Vamana Gupta Thanks for the relationship advice lads , while I appreciate it is coming from a good place I'm not sure if either of you are best placed to give it.

Thank you one and all for our kind words, it has helped me a lot.. Crissy greets to you all. Lyn.

Well that was an hour of high tension but the carbs are back in. Won’t lie it’s not a pleasant job but doable with a bit of patience and a hair dryer to warm up the rubbers. The bike started first time on choke, came off choke reasonable quickly and once warm was able to set the tick-over to where it should be around 1050 ish. Supposed to be 950 to 1050 so no complaints. Still have to check the carb balance but to be honest it’s doesn’t seem far off IMHO. The point for me is that the bike ticks over well off choke now which it didn’t before. So for now I will take that . Still be a bit of fine tuning to come but I am a happy bunny. Still have to clean the tank out before the bike is rideable but my garden is currently like the Somme so getting the Sprint in and out isn’t easy on my own so no rush for that. Much else to do.

Well HH is a happy bunny, apparently his bike is going much better now with the new pipe, apparently the handling is on point now and the front brakes are awesome. Funny how having the right brake lever and straight forks does help . Seriously I am happy he is.

First time it years the doors are lockable on my big shed where the Hornet lives. Spent all morning repairing and re hanging the doors that Gerotti broke. To be honest I enjoy a bit of wood work or wood butchering in this case. The best bit is that it never cost a penny. Coat of red stain on the next dry day and all will be good. The roof on the bike shed is next.

The Lurgy seems to be releasing its grip, so I may try a walk to Tesco later.......and the Christmas tree and decs are coming down tomorrow too! Bah Humbug

What's with you two ? You and Ian seem to be obsessed with gay sex , I think you should rent a motel room , go and pick up @Buckster with the miata and take care of your fantasies...we don't need to hear details or videos...

Merry Christmas everyone.

Picture I just took in the borders.

I don’t take many pictures, I’m pretty sure this was this year.

A merry christmas to all on the forum

My current favourite, the £500 Triumph

Just been out for a ride and the clutch slip has gone. Rebuilding the slave cylinder cured it Still got the tick over to sort out, kept it going today by just keeping the choke slightly cracked. Not ideal but good enough to check the clutch out. Oh and heated grips are a necessity came back shivering like a shit house rat today.

Congratulations me, unfortunately I cannot display the title as I need to figure out how to add it to admin.

Well this old man got some great news today....My son has made it back to OR & is finally out of Israel! Got a text reply from him today telling me he'll be state-side for another year while he waits for his top-secret security clearance to clear before he heads off to Germany into more of an Administrative position w/ the company he works for....No More sand people & war zones to work in! He also told me that my oldest G-son is moving back to OR from NM....so I called him straight away to get the low-down. His job w/ NASA turned out to be a dead end...so he sold his house in NM & scored a job w/ Amazon at a new data center in Hermiston OR...just over an hour away from Elgin ....he starts the 12th of Jan. I'm so stoked & I can't wait to see my Great G-son...he's a beautiful boy & an absolute Chip Off The Old Block....

Oh Lyn, I feel your pain mate. I spent a good year crying my eyes out after Jana passed. I drove to a beautiful place called Black Horse creek & spread her ashes, along with ashes of our son & her Dad. She just wanted to be near water, so I made that last wish happen. It absolutely tore me up at 1st....but with time, it also brought me some real Peace. I truly hope & Pray that you find that Peace as well.

To the dickhead who accused me of following his wife home from the pub last night, I know where you live!

Electric cars the truth I'm fed up of comments from people ridiculing EVs. They don't know what they're talking about. Personally, I drive two top of the range EVs, a Jaguar and a Porsche. Their acceleration and handling is fantastic. They look brilliant and they're really cheap to run. They need hardly any maintenance and haven't depreciated since I bought them. Literally the only criticism I could make of them is sometimes, if I really push them into a corner, they can fly off the track and get stuck under the sofa....

Bloody 120 mph wind gust wrecking havoc all over the Duchy. Trees down everywhere, RTA’s, roads closed. Lifeboats, coastguards and all the other services on the go all night. 53,000 homes blacked out. Worst of all for me pealed the roof off my bike she which was new this year. Tore the doors off my big shed and blew the sides out of my recycling bag store. At one point we had a tin can twister flying around the garden . Managed to trigg it up today hopefully good enough for overnight so I can get on with fixing it properly tomorrow. Guess the Triumph Carb rebuild is on hold until the shed is secured. Bikes all untouched I couldn’t get to much today as Shadow had a hospital appointment and I had to take the Mr’s down to RCHT Hospital in Truro to see her 94 year mum who is in with. Flu I have everything crossed she comes out again, my Mother in Law is a gem.

Well the snow didn't last long and it cleared up nicely....out busting trails at the moment..i have to say busting trail after some fresh snow is extremely fun... I did get stuck in a field , nothing to winch on, had to use my Raw Viking strength to muscle it out...lol.....nearly had a heart attack...lol.

Is that a double Dinn stereo on that Harley?

So, a bigger topbox

To use a local phrase "He is all cock and ribs like a Zanzibar Greyhound" He reckons he can get 70mph out of it but the couple of times I have ridden with him he never got much past 60mph. I have had a couple of spins on it and it wouldn't go past 60mph with me on it but then again I reckon I am twice his weight. It's not a pristine example of the breed either. Hateful thing IMHO, Shadows is a much better bike if a little slower to accelerate. But talking about 125 performance is a bit like fleas arguing over who owns the dog, as I tell the kids loudly and often

El Twatos...!! Well just did and emergency pass so neighbors and my son can head to work this morning....this tractor has to be one of the better investment I did over the years...and its a blast to work with...instead of dreading snow accumulation now I look forward to it now...

Nah he is fine and he hasn't smashed up his helmet so hopefully only pride and ear bending to deal with.

The dog was added in later to make the story better, you were not paying attention as the story wasn’t about you.

Yeth I haff

You never know, he is 19 and dumb as a rock but I can’t claim to have been much different at his age. To my knowledge he has been down 3 times in 2 years. He treats Shadow right and I genuinely like him so I hope he gets through. Shadow won’t let him hang with the numpties anymore so that is a positive. She bollocks him about bad riding

My missus loves the whole Xmas thing and one year we had a ‘heated discussion’ about the merits of decorations……she got the hump and took them all down on Boxing Day while I was out on my bike……..didn’t bother me in the slightest but you should have seen the disappointment on her face for the next week or so.

And it’s clean again….

Hello!! Here is my contribution for 2025 motorcycling images! It was a good biking year! That's why I haven't visited you very much here. Wishing you all the best in 2026 and may it bring Adventure, happy kms, new memories and lots of love!

At the request of our two youngest, home from uni or a couple of weeks we have done Christmas at home, just the 5 of us this year. being skint ( as ever) we just did really cheapo gifts this year, but as meny as possible, individually wrapped under the tree so that here was a huge pile of them. I think a pocket knif that the 3 girls clubbed together for and gave to me was the most expensive one on the year. We had beer, wine and nibbles till late last night, did the presents this morning and had a proper Christmas dinner with Poularde Roti, Gratin Dauphinoise, ( that's roast fat chicken and spuds in cream sauce to you along with broccoli, yorkshire pudding and gravy. preceeded by aperitifs and accompanied by a nice local red wine. Now I am doing my best imitation of a beached whale on the sofa...

I have actually very few pics of the bike this year, I've done quite a bit of riding but more often than not in a group this year, as I now work more social hours. I have also done a lot more leading a group as well which also makes photo stops more complicated. I took this one whilst waiting for the others to turn up for our Vosges trip, back in May.

My first thought was to nip out before Mandi got out of bed but I'm prob still over the limit and it's bloody freezing out there. Merry Christmas.

Can't tell if its horizontal with this phone...let me know Pedro.

Just been out on my Triumph, it has sand and some read splatter on it, not dirty but still trying not to think about it.

Looks like I am a clever twat, unlike you dullards.

Spending Christmas with my mum and my brother, just us three tonight. Day after tomorrow meeting with Sofia for a few days, and would like to take the bike and spend a full day to get there. Thinking of washing it in a bit, it's dirty from rain on the motorway and it's sunny out, but chilly so might not do it. I'm embarrassed to be on the same forum as @Saul

KAYZ1...we can all relate to what your going through, many of us have lost loved ones , greeving im afraid there's no quick fix , what I've found for myself is to focus on the good years and memories that you all shared....

Never need to apologise on here Lyn. 60 years, I'd be broken if I lost Mandi after only 35. We watched Mandis step dad deal with Mandis mums passing. He kept her next to a photo for 2 years before he let us spread her ashes. He'd also talk to her, passing comments. Think it was his way of letting go.