Slowlycatchymonkey

Sold it, how long did you have your last bike @Motobiker ?

Went to Stafford to meet up with the other Himalayan ride women. Thought it would be a good idea that as Id been up since 2am and didnt want to flake out after one G&T to drink Cola cola, forgot how sensitive to caffeine I am, its like rocket fuel, we got to bed at 6am this morning. Ive pretty much sabotaged enjoying any of the preparation for Spain now, wot a moron, well worth it though

Ive come off on the Portway! Although you skilfully executed a saving manoeuvre after suffering mechanical failure where as I ungraciously tipped off my bike coming to a stop I was so embarrassed, Id only been riding a week or so and really hadn’t mastered the slow control needed to filter in that environment but decided to man up and go down the centre of the two lanes anyway then the gap closed, I did some pretty incompetent braking and toppled off in the centre of the two lanes. Then it got scary because the traffic started moving again and no feckers stopped, they were driving around me either side at increasing speed as the traffic cleared and I couldnt pick the bike up because the cars were squeezing by so close. In the end I managed to get it upright, I half closed my eyes expecting to get hit by a car but somehow it was dandy and the bike was fine but my god I felt a prize prat, a lucky undamaged prize prat but way up there on the Richter scale of a dumbquake

Wow that is better than good Congrats

Pete’s just about to launch a soap for motorcycleriders.net members

Relatively I did cos I needed them delivered quick n all the cheap ones were coming on a slow boat. Heyho.

Spain currently looks dandy from top to bottom, the weather temp here has dropped but not horribly and theres rain forecast so Ill have to find my waterproofs. Fortunately on a good day the Ferry port is only 1hr 40mins from here

I’ll let you know tomorrow after Mark the Mechanic has finished on the bikes, if it all goes smoothly I’ll be looking at ticket prices and getting it booked up then Theres a ferry Sunday and one Wednesday. Sundays pretty much out cos the women I rode to Everest with are meeting up for a curry on Saturday and Id like to see them before I go but if Wednesday is an expensive ticket Ill drop ‘em like a hot rock Apart from ordering PCR tests and collecting a few bits n bobs (Amazon firestick tv and a slow cooker ) Im wholly unprepared and pretty excited to enter the world of winging it again after the decades of the meticulous research based decisions you are compelled to make when your in charge of a family, patients or a business. Yeefuckingha

Damn I forgot your two syllable word sounds rule.

I’m sure the smorgasbord of veritable wife beater delights that make up motorcycle forums run from anything like this…(yer right ho ho) Option A TMBF to this Option b Motorcycleriders.net

The gov website says it should be on the centre line but tbh I can’t be arsed to waste time on it, I’ve ordered cheap dots from eBay n hopefully the glues good enough that they’ll be there at MOT time next year!

So you rented for a year? Which bits rolled and which bits coasted?

Left the title open for Sid James so have at it but if anyone could also answer my question that’d be great. The new number plates with ‘UK’ on them have arrived. I toddled out ready to screw up drilling some holes and notice the Continentals existing number plate has two red dot reflectors like the ones below. Can I stick these directly on the number plate? I thought you weren’t allowed anything else on a plate? Also if it was stuck slightly off centre would anyone at an MOT centre care? Edit: Balls to thinking about it, Ive ordered the stick dot version and that’ll have to do!

Spitting distance?

Not sure if this is funny or sad The Gammonandments Thou shalt not blame brexit Brexit means Brexit. Nothing about Brexit is bad, ergo nothing bad can be blamed on Brexit. Thou shalt not be a snowflake And, furthermore, thou shalt not go to university which is a breeding ground for snowflakes. I didn’t and look at me. Exactly. Thou shalt reference World War Two Our ancestors didn’t die in World War Two so that we could not consider it relevant to every political issue that may arise. And the Blitz. Thou shalt blame all on immigration Too many immigrants, meaning you can’t get a job? Immigration mate. Not enough immigrants, meaning you have to do a menial job? Immigration mate. Thou shalt put an Union Jack on everything House, window, body. They call it Great Britain for a reason. Call yourself a patriot? Thou shalt believe in freedom of speech.. for yourself Say it with me: ‘Is the truth too triggering for you leftie snowflakes?’ However, he who slaggeth Churchill should shut up or else. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s economy Britain is the best country in the world, and no ‘ranking of average GDP’ can prove that wrong. Germany? Not got our innovation innit bruv. Thou shalt keep the holy days St George’s Day, Remembrance Day, Brexit Day, and whenever England play. On these days you must get beered up. Thou shalt not take the Queen’s name in vain Bloody brilliant. I won’t hear a word against her. What she’s done for this country deserves respect. Keepeth a portrait of Liz on your wall and salute it daily. Thou shalt worship the past And lo, recall how kids used to play outside ‘til dark and there was no such thing as paedos or racism.

Can you point to “normal” on this forum?

Do you normally make people lie on the ground to take your photo?

I have a jumbo sized topbox with a padded bit on it for your pillion to rest against, it came with the Bandit. After looking at the monstrosity for nearly a year I clicked onto the rack and discovered it’s cursed.. the retching is instantaneous but stops as soon as I remove it, it’s a mystery

I read up on him after I got my Hilts Mutt cos the bikes named after his character in the great escape. I was shocked how uncool he was, petty, unpleasant, nasty to his wives. He wouldn’t last five minutes in today’s world, Hollywood can’t control what information the press gets the same way as it used to and the camera phone would have exposed him. He did look good on a motorbike though.

You take your lead from a drug abusing misogynist who suffered from jealousy n paranoia then? Now that explains some stuff

Whats not to like? A bunch of irreverent oddballs typing whatever random thoughts pop into their heads all iced with a fine layer of sweary tourettes.

Or a small prick