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@XTreme Now you got the right bike and you have a few gravel roads under your belt i need to see more of this maybe an option for @Six30 and @busabeast when they visit

the twins had organised their 16th birtday party for saturday afternoon at home so as soon as I could decently do so I ran away. I put 150km round trip into Kurviger.de hit the "small windy roads setting, uploaded it to the phone, hit GO and was off out of it for a couple of hours... The route took me out to in a loop to the northwest of auxerre along, as programmed little back roads and lanes avoiding towns ( there aren't any towns in that direction for over an hours ride anyway) so I just enjoyed bimbling along enjoying the countryside and dodging the few rain showers that appeared. Spring seems tohave only partly sprung here, some of the open places are green and springing, but otheres no more than a km or so away seem to be still in the grip of winter. Thes two pics were taken maybe a couple of km's apart a chateau in the background. the grass is lush and green, but the hawthorn hedge has not a single bud on it yet, let alone a flower I though we could do with @Sir Fallsalot down Here to get this track entrance cleared. Fred, you might need more than your wee hand saw on this one mate It didn't look like it had been down long but it's been pretty windy round here for the last few weeks so there's a lot of dead wood come down. As I rode through the village of Escamps there was a sweet smell in the air that I could't quite identify, till I saw this behind the recycling bins on the edge of the village; I then knew what that wonderful smell was. it's a mobile still! I haven't seen one for years and theyre nearly all gone in most parts o the country, burgundy being one of the few regions where there are a rew still working. The operater trundles his still into the village, usually with the permission of the mayor, the locals bring him their fruit and he turns it into alcahol for them. I asked the guy if he minded me taking a pic and he was fine with it, but the two old blokes come to collect their "Goute" ( pronounced "goote" and literally meaning either taste or drop as in a drop of liquid) though thoruoghly affable and willing to chat, definately did not want to be in a photo... here he is removing the cooked remains of grapes from the third kettle the smell had me drooling at the mouth, te old blokes were saying that I shouldn't stand downwind of the still if I was going to get back on the bike... the still itself is qbout 80 years old the bloke reckons, and, interestingly, was origibally made in... Escamps! the stuff dripping into the jug qt the bottom of the still is anywhere between 55 and 80% proof, depending on what the client asks for. This perticulay stuff is about 60% and from grapes, yesterday he made some from pears and tomorrow h's got a load of cherries to do... drip, drip, drip.... All above board and taxes paid of course he says, and I believe him.... honest... Got home to find the party over, just a couple of kids still around and that they'd saved me a LARGE slice of birthday cake, so all good.

This is not a mistake, I've landscaped it.

Got to admit Pete's photo looks good this month but will probably be the last time he'll be in with a chance of winning Because next month it will be like

Went out with Costa for a walk, tried a different part of the forrest to avoid the abundance of loud cyclists that go through the other are on sundays, it was a good choice.

Today this is me ️

Been up to Peter Hammond motorcycles as they are closing down. A bit damp on the way …. Currently sat in AV8 cafe as it’s absolutely chucking it down

Just got back from Guadix!

God dam it woman every time you type i end up using google it's like reading one of Tym's posts except when i google words you use google knows the answer

A you can imagine Fowey and Polruan being either side of the same river has always had a bit of banter between them. To us on the righteous side we view them as Polly Roosters from Little Russia that the sun never touches before mid day. Anyway day off not raining so time for a bimble. First I caught the Bodinnick car ferry across the river. Fecking £3.70 one way. If you look up to the left you can see the latest Omaze raffle house. I think the whole town has bought a ticket for that. Apparently worth 4.5 million. If I win it will be sold quick smart. After 4.5 miles down single track lanes with grass and slippery shit in the middle I got to Polruan. It’s a beautiful little village that I have spent a lot of time in over the years. I was the Postie there in the 1990’s and the Mrs and I ran the Lugger Pub the for a short time. This is the other pub ran by a team mate from my old rugby club. After mooching around for a chat I headed off for Liskeard

could be worse @XTreme .... you could be fitting a trailer

More mountain bike adventures for me today. All easy-going trails but still required a bit of effort. Going to ache a bit tomorrow

Number 7 is adding a top box to your bike....

I'm sure the title will go over most of your heads.....along with many other things it has to be said. Well today was the day to go to Juan Cortes the motorcycle dealer as my Shad gear had arrived. Couple of clips which actually includes other traffic! More bikes there than usual today......but of course I get top priority so it goes straight in to the workshop! I strolled around the showroom......couldn't see any Indian shit for @Slowlycatchymonkey though. Not as many Chinkies there as I saw before either! Maybe they're now getting the kickback from the ones they've sold. They had some Fantics in there though......Chinky engines from Zongshen as far as I'm aware! Back in the workshop and they were working on some Beemer .......and getting the support brackets fitted on the CB. Nice and clean under my seat of course! Then it was attach the plate and it was job done! Looks damn good I'd say! Well I have to say it because nobody else will. Now if I go a bit further afield I have room for my laptop, water, alternative jacket (cos temps change a lot throughout the day). And of course I don't need to carry all my stuff around if I stop off somewhere! Also, the wife will be coming on it in the next few weeks as well......because the car will be going in to the garage to repair the damage Fatty did! So I'm pleased......it's a job well done and they didn't even charge me for fitting! Cos I'm a Player......and you're not!

Fucking feels like that at the moment, my Mrs offered to get me a stick to use, I told her the only need I had for a stick was to throw at her. Piss taking cow.

They told me it went in the incinerator .................. https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/mystery-disembodied-human-foot-inside-29557810

I’ll go for this one

Few pics from yesterday..

When you've finished with those frame rails you can sell them on to the Winter olympics committee as a ski-jump

Made it to Vegas...dam those planes are cramped...packed like a sardine...let the crazy stuff begin....

@Skippy’s got it all wrong hasn’t he. Retiring to Spain, enjoying the sunshine, playing golf, riding his bike off road and chillin. He’d be having a much better time if he carried on working at a desk, drove backward and forwards buying teabags, pellets, hay, spending his money only his adoring daughter in law and occasionally visiting a decaying corpse in some ruins. Yer wotta ponce

This is what happened when I showed the photo to our Labrador. My other dog asked if you were Welsh.

Finished work early today so lit the fire then thought i'd do something out the garage, but no i just woke up from an afternoon nap.

I want to know if i drive an electric car through the clean air zone at 70 instead of 50 will i still be done, it states clearly that the speed has been reduced to combat air pollution so if my car produces no pollution then i should be exempt from the speed restriction surely

I popped down to Fowey Town Quay this morning to get a couple of photos of the guns. I forgot that it was spring tides today. Fair bit of water over the quay as well as through the Main Street. Even got one of the bins walking across the Quay. They never should have taken away the cast iron ones. Shame I never went down an hour earlier as a ship went out on the tide, I did get a shot of the Pilot Cutter coming back in. I do like The Rook with a Book. It’s to celebrate Daphne Du Maurier book ‘The Birds’. Also tried to get some photos with Place House in the background. The Treffry family who built it were also the ones behind the River defences. They were originally Privateers who robbed the Spanish and French blind at sea hence the reprisal raids, hence the River defences. Place House is deliberately built taller than the church and probably gives an insight to the family’s ego. The message is there for all to see and has been for hundreds of years.

Just popped out for an hour to blow away the cobwebs. Down to Fishy Gizzard (Mevagissey) then back to Pentewan and home. I spend a lot of time in Meva as that is where my choir is. I am sort of grudgingly accepted down there because of it but Tis a bit of a rough old fishing port really. Looks lovely but the pubs can be a bit fighty. Not so much in the summer as the Holibobs fill the place. Lots of Holiday Parks up through the Pentewan Valley. Meva outer harbour Inner Pentewan

@Marcel will get one now .... a refrigerated one .

Honestly I’m laid up in my sick bed and the sight of that made me sit up and check there was a bin nearby to catch the vom

It's a result of all that super tight flared jean wearing in the 70s. Your groins never gained the strength to hold your internal jibbly bits in as previous generations did. When all the pensioners switched to the elasticated tracksuit bottoms something was bound to give. That'll be 20 Euros for my medical diagnosis, you can claim that back on your medical insurance.

did we ever have one ..... i never seen a pic of @Slowlycatchymonkey in a nurses uniform...

This thread has confirmed I am on the right place amongst you old fellas, I actually managed to have a fall yesterday according to my bloody nagging Apple Watch. I went to a funeral of an old mate down at Golant, the wake was in the pub, only had a coke. Anyway when I had to go I went out through the front patio garden area and down some slate steps, I slipped and never touched the last four. Stiff as fuck today with my left arm and hand turning some interesting colours, but it was ok nobody saw as I haven't had any mocking texts yet. I had to stop the Apple Watch dialling 999 and confirm that I had a fall and I was ok. . Of course my loving family laughed when I told them.

Must be the cash, body parts require some sort of saw and he doesnt do tools.

And people say I look like doc magoo...holy fuck man...

Feckin Gaudix, you haven't got a clue mate. I'm just off to take my son to college, try fighting your way across Bristol in the morning ..............

Do you really take that stuff to bike rally's ? fuckmine, people must avoid you like the plague ...........

This is probably the gayest shit we've ever had on here!

Met up with Eirik......he's using his Kawasaki rather than his Aprilia! Probably wise. Just left for Baza where he's spending the night in a Cave!

You’d better make your best efforts for BOTM this month cos once that carbuncle is ratcheted on all hope is lost.

I have an image of you surviving on fags, fry ups and wank socks. You’re not helping me out by adding a bag of icing sugar into the mix

I wanted to go to Liskeard to have a look at the Chequered Flag which was once a Cafe but is now a workshop as well that does a few bike sales as well. Bloody waste of time that was the Cafe was closed and the bikes were rough as. I spoke to the chap but he was pretty disinterested and more focused on assembling a Chinky AJS 125. They did have a tidy BMW R75/6 that I liked the look of but the rest was either crap or just not my thing.