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Depends on the rider. I had a couple of mates who I completely trusted and went pillion on their bikes many times quite happily. But then I had another mate who was nearly blind in one eye. He should have worn his glasses when riding, but he couldn't get them on with his lid on. So, his 3D vision was a bit impaired and, coupled with his failure to take into account the extra weight on the bike when taking a pillion, we ended up overshooting several junctions. How we didn't get killed I don't know, but I only went pillion with him the once!

True, I see a number of bigger bikes around, but a lot are GS' or Harleys, with plenty of small dirt bikes around too. The Honda is ok, but I'd like just a few more BHP. Tiger 800 would do me nicely!

I think that 17 years ago I was on a Triumph Trophy 900, which was a bit of a bus TBH. Quite different to the CB500X.

She'll never get ride of the Bonnie, but a smaller bike may get her rolling again. TBH, we went to Narbonne the other week with her driving the car, and, well, she got me put on the insurance so I could drive it! I'm not a good passenger at the best of times, but we had "words"!

I don't get out on the bike at weekends at the moment, my OH has lost her biking mojo at the moment. Plus it's a bit warm to get out, unless we go out early, but weekend mornings are for drinking coffee and eating bacon rolls, so that rules out early starts!

They're awesome articles, really interesting.

Another day, another shopping trip!

Tell the French that they have to do something and they'll oppose it, tell them that they can't have something and they'll fight in the streets to get it.

Interesting, as the official Covid app has stats on the vaccinations and says that 69.1% of the population over 12 years old are fully vaccinated. So, this chart is counting the entire population including kids. I think that the uptake of the vaccination amongst teenagers and 20-30 year olds is pretty poor, which is obviously affecting the figures too.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1477583795925862&id=413253402358912

Yeah, the guy on the boat had white knuckles trying to push the throttles further forwards!

I once flew between Jersey and Guernsey on one of those TriLander planes one evening in the middle of winter. Those things were like flying in a 1960's cortina! The pilot got in and turned round and asked if everyone was OK. The windows steamed up within minutes of take-off and, because of a cross wind, we flew the distance sideways. We were only a couple of hundred feet above the waves too! An experience that I never wanted to repeat!

I've not been out today, because I had to wait in for a delivery.......which it turns out was supposedly delivered yesterday! So, that's a non-delivery claim going in! Anyway, I should be out on the bike tomorrow morning, hopefully.

More Mañana than marijuana?

Yeah, there's a few different videos of him reading the results.....cracks me up every time.

True!

That's true, mate, I think that there's more restrictions on the way, which could be avoided if everyone just kept going with the mask wearing and distancing for a while longer.

It was actually a bit cooler over there because it's on the Atlantic coast. It was 35C here yesterday, so we went to our local beach. The Med was a nice temperature.

I was away on holiday for a week, Pete. Went across to the coast near Bordeaux. It was heaving with holidaymakers from all over, though! Surprising how many didn't feel the need to wear masks too, although we had to show our vaccination passes to get into any restaurants there.

That's really bad news, mate. None of the vaccines are 100%, but for them both to die from Covid-19 is very worrying. Condolences to all involved.

I had a few installations in London where I was travelling down every day for a couple of weeks, but otherwise it was just for the occasional visit to help out the London engineers. My usual patch was the A14 corridor plus Peterborough and Northampton. I had a lot of kit in Ipswich, so I spent quite a bit of time travelling to and from there.