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Or buy a Royal Enfield for half that price?

Fetch the comfy chair!

Maybe I should get a van, then I could take the bike to the shops in that and wouldn't need a topbox.

I know @XTreme, the concept of a working bike is lost amongst the casuals!

Thanks @MooN. Hoping to get the keys to our house on Friday. Really looking forwards to that, so we can put some proper roots down.

We are only resident in these countries for as long as we're still welcome, Pete. This could be revoked at any time. Citizenship gives you permanence. Look at the people from other countries who have lived in the UK for decades and are now facing deportation. It could happen elsewhere if the wrong government gets in.

It's obviously not a definitive test

Ah, yes, French bureaucracy stepped up to another level! Good luck with it anyway. Hopefully you'll get there in the end.

Yes, if you shoot it at someone and they die it was probably a live round.

Ah, now, that's where you're completely wrong! @XTreme is a well known scrubber!

Bleach on metal is ok as long as it's not left on too long and is well washed off. Harpic black bog cleaner works wonders on really grubby headers.

See.....you now know about it.

Is that Harpic bog cleaner or Solvol?

Caroline says that she's washing her hair that day, sorry.

Welcome to the madhouse, Jed.

Excellent that you got across OK. Any border issues? Yeah, just because the sun is shining doesn't mean that it's warm. Hopefully your run down south will go well. The bikes are running OK? I bet you'll be glad of having the bikes when you get there.

Yeah, definitely would have liked to have seen them live. Mad as a box of frogs, though!

Unfortunately I saw them after Lee Brilleaux's passing. Saw a tribute band, The Feelgood Band, who are pretty good and kind of endorsed by the surviving members of the original band.

I saw Kiss when they did a tour without all the makeup and gear, which was pretty forgettable! Cheap Trick were good. They were my late Brother-in-law's favourite band back then. The Flame had just hit the top of the charts when we saw them. Saw Bon Jovi at Wembley arena too, that was my ex's choice.

Yeah, that was what we went to see in London.

Oh fuck, you reminded me that I saw Gary Glitter at Brixton Academy........the shame!

I had a period where I saw bands regularly. From The Groundhogs in the back room of a pub in Croydon to Led Zeppelin at Knebworth. Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, Ozzy, Rush, ELO, Rory Gallagher, Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, Marillion, Motorhead (several times), Elbow, Joe Bonamassa, The Damned, Dr Feelgood, Gary Moore, Matt Schofield, The Groundhogs and others that I can't remember for the moment! The best were probably Pink Floyd - The Wall, Elbow at Cambridge Corn Exchange Worst: Gary Moore - After The War tour and Rush - Roll The Bones tour. It was the Rush gig at Wembley Arena that put me off going to big venues. I'd seen them twice before and they were brilliant musicians, but the sound at that gig was awful, so I decided that I'd had enough of the big venues! Regret not seeing Bon Scott era AC/DC (although I did see a really good tribute band that played all that era stuff) and Stevie Ray Vaughan. He was due to play in the UK, but was killed before the tour.

Yeah, I think they threw the towel in a few years back unfortunately.