Slowlycatchymonkey

Blimey that was fast the aircons been fitted upstairs already. A lot of mess to clean up now though

Good luck with the house but more importantly new bike? What bike, more details needed or your just a tease.

Nothing wrong with rst’s just those ones

I’m already embarrassed on your behalf. Ride to a bike shop, buy boots, bin monstrosities

I use heated grips and thick winter gloves or mitts. The grips on the highest setting still work well. Too well on the Bandit I ended up with burns on the centre of my palms on one cold ride

What a glamorous life you’ve led. No wonder you ran away to Spain

Nice weather though so a ride out to pick up supplies will be good.

I’m hoping lazing about and sipping gin but in reality aircon guys turning up today and got to message Juan to bring our stored stuff back. Unpack n set things back up. Which all sounds easy but my Spanish is worse than when I left, I start in Spanish then somewhere along the line it turns into French and back to English

Sticky tape would be a full blown car/helicopter chase here cos obviously you’re a drug runner/vehicle theft type. Spose it’s different if you live in a place not covered with cameras.

You’d get ripped to shreds here if you obscured or obviously altered your no plate in anyway. A bit of mud is enough for a fine. An easy nick with hefty consequences. @Saul ignore the witticisms re Royal Enfield the comments are not made from any actual experience… and.. umm .. you can get a speeding ticking on a bicycle so there’s that

I have a ‘show plate’ ie not a road legal plate for skinny arsed bike of mine. It has legal size letters on a smaller yellow back plate. It looks all legal and dandy (only used on private roads and at shows not road legal obvs ). i reckon of you’re after the retro just about legal look reducing the size of the backplate (not the font size by more than 1-2mm) is worth it.

Oh so illegal. The dimensions for a UK number plate lettering and board size is very specific, it’s points n fine worthy of breached. If it’s a private plate (ie not the number originally assigned at registration) your purchased plate reg is simply on loan to you and breaching the plate law can see your plate reg taken back! In reality you can minimise the size of the plate (the large yellow backing part) and keep the letters to the legal size without it obviously making a difference to the appearance while still improving the aesthetics If you change the colours, font or size of type face you’re asking for it! ps the rules are different for vintage bikes!

I have the RE engine guards from RE and they’re petty good for stretching your legs on on extended rides The hand guards I’ve not bothered with but am changing my mind. Apart from a dumbass gluing a grip weirdly that caused a clutch issue, Today I’ve finished riding my Himalayan to n from Andalucia for the fourth time with no problem. Is been a delight. Just does what it does the unobtrusive way it likes to.

@Saul cheers

Ooh link please

Well like a lot of oldies not much of one

Oh ok so long as second to your eyes the motorcycle accessories are next

So your eyeballs are worth risking and your motorcycle accessories aren’t? You’re killing me

Bagsy the lipgloss

Yer n not forgetting the war generations head shaking complaints about “the youth of today” and “what did we fight a war for?” whilst looking at the younger generation. Or did the 60’s n 70’s not happen?!

I’ve just finished stories of a London dispatch rider in the 80’s called “Where are you now?” by S P Muir It’s pretty short and wasn’t bad. He clearly held back on some of the really good stuff, I’m guessing from the tone of the book because he’s still afraid of upsetting the met police! Now I’m reading “The Adventures of An Introvert” by David Chapman which I’m hoping will warm up soon cos at the moment I’m bored with his wouldn’t say boo to a goose way of living.

Generational disapproval a story as old as time.

Hopefully the connectivity that the internet has brought means that globally youngsters are all pretty much the same. Imagine that, everyone says “No ta”