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Adam Riemann's channel I find pretty interesting. His prose could be a bit flowery for some, but his series of videos of buying an old Africa Twin, riding it to Nordcapp, then back to London. Then getting it transported to Australia and then blasting over a large swathe of Australia on it is testament to the robustness of these old bikes. The trips weren't without problems, but the simplicity of the bike meant that it could be repaired in the middle of the Australian outback!

Yes, I just looked it up.

Wasn't the CB500T late 70s? I can't remember now.

Made me laugh. Especially the bit where one of them fell off and his mate started laughing at him and he then fell off!

I'm not sure. It may have been the CB500T. I think that they described the engine as 2 lumps of snot moving up and down! Safe to say, it wasn't a big seller for Honda!

Yes, I laughed out loud when he said that! The cam timing was out from when the bike had a top-end rebuild by a bike shop! I think that someone mentions which bike shop in the comments.

I remember in the early 1980s Bike magazine reviewed a Honda and slagged it off, justifiably, so Honda withdrew all advertising from the mag. Bike magazine wouldn't back down and carried on without the Honda advertising. Several years later Honda were back advertising in the mag again! Journalistic integrity! Unfortunately, that seems to be a little lacking these days. That's not to say that Freddie's latest mishap wasn't self-inflicted!

My RD350B that I bought new in 1976 was £620! Try and buy one now for less than £6200!

Some of the click bait on YouTube videos is getting ridiculous now! In fact, there are some youtubers that I now avoid because of their ridiculous Click bait titles!

Of course it's the bike's fault, but most of the comments point out how he lashed his quadlock to the battery! I just hope that his neighbour doesn't let Freddie too near his bikes!

I do, but under trackies or MTB shorts, I don't like showing off my bits, unlike someone I could mention!

Cheers mate.

Yes, it's pretty spectacular.

Cheers Bob. The roads are nice at this time of year, mate......not so much in August! I've not been to Rocamadour, although, it looks like that's in the Massif Central too, just a good bit further north.

I smiled when I rode through Saint-Marcel-sur- Aude!

Cheers Pete. We've got quite a variety of terrain around here. The beach and Mediterranean on one side and the Pyrénées and massive centrale to our West and North. Then there's the Alps a few hours the other way! It's a nice place to live.

The sun was shining and the cold wind from the last few days had gone, so I decided that a little bimble was in order. I topped the tank at our local supermarket and headed up to Coursan. Then across to the Narbonne northern bypass and peeled off north towards Ginestas. The traffic was pretty light, so it was easy going. A guy on a T100 Bonneville caught up with me just before Saint- Marcel - sur- Aude. We tried having a conversation at a set of lights, but engine noise and language barrier put paid to that! He turned off shortly after anyway. I carried on North and eventually crossed the Argeliers - Trebes road. This is where the ride starts getting a bit more interesting, as the road was then heading into the Corbieres hills. After a bit, I turned off this road to head towards the medieval town of Minerve. This road follows the hillside on one side of the valley of the river Cesse, so it twists and turns around rocky outcrops. French drivers have the mindset that nothing should be coming the other way on blind bends, so extra care is needed to not meet one of them on your side of the road when coming around these bends. I stopped just before the town to get some photos. The town is perched on a rocky point where two rivers meet and have carved two valleys/canyons through the rocky landscape. I rode through the town and headed up to the carpark that overlooks it. There's not much of a view of the town from there, so I decided to carry on up the single track road into the hills for a bit. There didn't seem to be too much more up in that direction, but there were some nice views towards the Pyrénées. It was a bit hazy, so the snow on the peaks was barely visible. I headed back down to the town and set sail for home. I stopped once more to take some pictures of a village, sitting between a low cliff and the river, which has no water in it at the moment. I took a slightly different route back. Going through Argeliers and Capestang, before peeling off towards the south again, through Montels and Nissan- les-Enserune and back to home. Not a huge ride, probably around 100-110km, but nice to get out on the bike for a while.

Dunno, we'll have to check for overspray on the tyres!

It's really shocking, what he's found so far!

I first came across his channel a few years back, when I was researching the Street Scrambler. Triumph loaned him a Gold Line edition to review. He dropped it, trying to do some off-roading on it, and he nearly got stuck in a hollow, that he'd got into, but couldn't get out again! I'm not sure that Triumph have loaned him another bike since that episode!

I did a few days there a good few years back on my Speed Triple. Stayed with friends in Telford for a night and then did a bit of Snowdonia. First day was lovely, the second day not so much! I camped 1 night at a pub in the Snowdonia Park, got soaked the following day, so I gave up on the camping and stayed a couple of nights in a guesthouse in Barmouth to let my kit dry out. I then went down and stayed in a pub in Tenby and then headed back from there. Fortunately, apart from day 2, it was mainly dry. It was a good trip.