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58 minutes ago, XTreme said:

Today marks this forum's 4th birthday!

As I've said in the past, I only started it as somewhere different to go when we were all locked down at the start of the Pandemic.

I never expected it to last once we got mobility again......but amazingly we're still here. During that time we've built a solid reputation as established Internet troublemakers!

And we've also built a place where the very dregs of the motorcycle world can behave in a way that would get them banned on any respectable forum.

Besides the usual morons from the past we've actually managed to attract a few more......which is what we have to do if we want to survive in this era of Social Media.

So if you've got mates that do forums then call them in so the likes of Buck, Six, Busa, and Marcel can call them cunts and nonces!

I thought it was the average mental age of the members?

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1 minute ago, XTreme said:

Nor here!

Or maybe we've just not discovered them yet?

Nice! I miss the bike nights that we used to go to. There doesn't seem to be the same thing here.

2 hours ago, Pedro said:

Nice looking roads!

Cool top box, too, nice and square looking. Gone are the days of the little rear seat bag?

Yes, they're pretty interesting roads.

The little tailpack just makes it harder getting on and off this bike, with the higher seat height. So I think that I'll stick with the top box.

Get an old transalp 600/650 Pete! Go retro! Or a Triumph 400X!

1 hour ago, XTreme said:

As an update, I'm still debating which way to go on this!

What do you think I should get?

Has your criteria for it changed or not?

31 minutes ago, boboneleg said:

Nice one Bob, I've never ridden a Triumph triple , perhaps I should go and have a test ride just for the hell of it.

Cheers Bob. This one is different from my previous Triumph triples, but it sounds very similar. I've loved the sound of the triples, ever since I saw a guy at college on a 750 Trident, back in 1975!

11 minutes ago, XTreme said:

Excellent Bob! Can you get access to the Castle?

And Dunlop are shit......remember them on the CB?

Don't forget to change your bike and avatar in your profile!

 

Cheers Pete. Yes, you can get up to the castle, but it's a bit of a climb!

Yes, I'm not a fan of those Dunlops! 

I've been past the Château Quéribus a few times, but never took the road up to it, so I thought that it would be a nice little run on the new bike.

I headed around the Narbonne northern ring road as usual and took my normal route up and across past the Abbaye Fontfroide. It was slightly cloudy when I set off, but it was blowing a hoolie! On the road past Fontfroide I was getting knocked about by the wind and I did seriously consider calling it a day and head back home, but I decided to persevere and carried on.

I turned off that road at Thézan-des-Corbières and headed west. The wind was now behind me, so it wasn't so much of a problem then. 

I was trying to get tuned into the new bike, which rides and handles quite different to the Scrambler. I noticed also that the Michelin Anakee's on it don't tramline like the Dunlops did on the Scrambler. The ride is also more plush on this bike, but it holds its line pretty well through the twisties. 

My route took me through Durban-Corbières,  Villeneuve-les-Corbières and Tuchan,  so I passed by the Château d'Aguilar before turning off and heading up the gorge near Padern and then on to Cucugnan, where the turning up to the Château Quéribus is. 

The road twists up the side of the hills there before you reach the road that takes you up to the castle carpark. The road up to the carpark is pretty narrow and there's a couple of nice, tight hairpins up there. 

The carpark was not too busy, so I stopped for a couple of pictures and then went down the same access road. I stopped at the junction of the main road for a coffee from my flask that I'd taken with me. The wind was howling across there and I ended up wearing more coffee than I drank. I was fearful of the bike getting blown over too, so I decided to just head back by the same route and save further exploration for some less windy days!

I was pleased how the bike felt and performed. I was starting to get tuned into it by the return journey.

9 hours ago, Pedro said:

Greyhound, with Tom Hanks in charge of a war ship during WW2, it’s good.

 

Tetris, about the fight for the rights for Tetris, it blew me away what an adventure it was.

Greyhound is a good film. 

I've not seen Tetris, but my ex brother-in-law was involved in coding the game for Mirrorsoft, when it was first released. I need to watch the film to see if his version of events matches the film. 

2 minutes ago, Six30 said:

yup

Nice!

Just now, Six30 said:

your probably right ..none of that shit here... mrs said to me what you doing tomorrow..i said im up early to go pick a bike up, what bike she said ..

i said, one ive just bought.... end of conversation.... thats the style @xtreme

The black XT then?

I reckon it's Pete's wife. It's all part of his plan.

Pete: Look love, I asked on the forum who's the person stood behind me and encouraged me to press on with the forum, and they all said it's you!

Pete's missus: oh, that's lovely. Why don't you go and buy yourself a new motorbike?

Pete: oh, well, if you insist, love.

This is all part of his game plan! He's so transparent you could read a newspaper through him!

12 minutes ago, YamaHead said:

Haven't seen much of him since his Mom passed away....

I didn't know that his mum had passed. Hopefully he's not been too badly affected by that.

Went to a spring fair at a local vineyard earlier, but we didn't hang around too long because it was too hot in the sun. 29C here this afternoon. BBQ tonight, but we'll probably not sit outside for too long, as the mozzies are also about!

5 hours ago, Sir Fallsalot said:

Our two weeks of summer will fix that 

Hosepipe ban next week then!

Buckster?

Just now, Catteeclan said:

 

Are they just trying to get the car testing stations to do them?

Here in France the testing stations are independent from garages, they purely do the tests and nothing else. And, yes, they are trying to get the current stations for cars to do bikes too. Some testing stations have said that they simply won't do bikes, because they don't have the staff available to train. It's a mess!

Coupled with this, the government haven't set a price for the tests, so those stations that will do bikes can charge pretty much what they want!