Slowlycatchymonkey

Not your usual tippitoed bmw rider for sure ?

The guy at the BMW garage said they do it on quite a few models and they always get complaints ? I don’t really see how if you can’t get your leg over a taller bike that most people are gonna be able to ride it anyway cos you need a reasonable degree of hip flexibility to stop on a bike you can’t touch the ground on. Seems daft. Then again BMW always had the rep of an old man’s bike until Boorman n McGregor did some trip so maybe it’s just an adaptation for them ?

Had the same problem on the 9T it was a right pita. Got the larger footplate from Nippys which was fine on the sinking front but if the camber was too much you may as well book the hernia op before you tried to get it upright! A friend put an extra slab of metal on the bottom and now (thanks to the fact he’s a biker he new precisely how far to raise it without making it unstable) its now perfect. Ridiculous lengths to have to go to though. The Himalayan has the opposite problem, a stand thats too long and makes it too upright if the ground slopes up! Apparently they’ve fixed the crappy side stand on the latest iteration.

Is that an ice hockey puck?

Looks great and shit as it is as least they give you an area with a perimeter. We’ve had to ‘stay local’ which means only a few miles from home. Even Boris got a pasting for leisure cycling 7 miles as many deemed that too far! And as you say it is beautiful where you are ?

Some epic riding stuff in these reports. The colour of those school buildings are fantastic and that was a great bit of youtube of the goats moving about in the tree. I suppose we’re just not used to seeing cattle in trees, may as well have been an episode of the magic roundabout with cows up there! ? We have a lot of wild goats in Cheddar George and when they’re clinging to the rock face on the road above you you can’t help but feel wary ones about to ping off! Here’s a of one of them looming over the road below and one silly billy that simply went to far. They climb trees too. Hope you get to really enjoy Morocco when you get back there.

I wouldn’t like to imagine how slippery that shiny tarmac is when it’s raining and did that lorry have enough bales precariously balanced?!

Great pic of a Grasshopper, you’re right it doesn’t look real! Hope Cappuccino is still there for a visit when I get there although I’m guessing Morocco food labelling laws are non existent and it’s a Coeliacs nightmare ? Looks like you had a blast regardless ?

Kinda going a bit Cornish now aren’t you? Somerset traitor......

@Sofia I have but you’re gonna need to lower your standards waaaaay lower than your very lowest standard for me to post ? Tell you what, next time I take a half decent food pic I’ll put it here. Don’t hold your breath that could be some time ?

You may need to lower your standards of what constitutes a terrible picture or I might not be able to contribute to this forum ????

Yer definitely sounds like “another world within our world” and one for the list ?

Well that was a cliffhanger. Boom boom. I’ll get mi coat.

I’m surprised it wasnt handed over to them but its probably a bit far gone for their budget now. Just had a look on ‘28 days later’ and its no longer salvageable. Floors have fallen though and its thoroughly rotten. Shame to let a beautiful grade II listed building end up that way. If anyone likes abandoned places 28 days later has some good ones on there. Is there a 28 days later type of website for Spain?

Cold but nice enough for a quick spin, definitely snowmobile suit weather though ?

No chance of China without a guide. Rode in Tibet 2019 (which for anyone not interested in global politics is ruled by China) and the control exerted by the govt is quite a surprise. Guides are obligatory, map pages had to be removed and destroyed, multiple military check points on a single road where they go through your bags yet again, on tarmac road you have to slow to 5mph for gantry cameras (I assume because their number plates are so tiny it wouldnt be able to pick up the number plate above that speed), your route has to be pre approved and then you can only stop for fuel at the places they have said you can and can only have the amount of fuel they calculate you need to keep you on the pre approved route which is brought to you in a jerry can so you don’t take more than necessary to get to the next stop. Still worth a visit though, the guides and the Tibetans are lovely people! Tajikistan is an unusual pick what’s the draw to that one?

Not anymore! Heyho, we were lucky enough to catch the tail end of an ideology some employers had that you look after your staff. Similar to the military, accommodation was provided, housekeepers kept the place working and changed the linen and you worked all the unreasonable hours necessary whilst doing precisely what you were told when you were told to do it ? Why they couldn’t find another use for it I dont really understand.

Good way of doing it. You want everyone to enjoy themselves- tricky balance in a group that big!

Talking of abandoned places I really want to go back and have a gander in one the student nursing accommodations we had. Is was a beautiful mansion built by a philanthropist for use as an orphanage. We were the last cohort to use it finishing in 1997. The govt then got into a row with the locals about using it as a home for paedophiles and its been left to slowly derelict since. Its still covered by hospital security staff but that doesn’t stop it rotting. It turned up on a few ‘abandoned places’ websites a while back, these pics are a good 5-7 years old, dread to think what it looks like now. Such a waste and quite sad if you knew how alive and loved it was.

Tym’s the one torturing us with it!

Maybe he just didnt broadcast the trespassing part?!

Because of the unusual position of the UK weather wise it has more tornados per unit area of land than any other country (as in number of tornados for the size of the land mass) but they are generally too weak to be noteworthy. We have at least 33 a year and outside of America hold the record for the largest outbreak of tornados. In 1981, 105 tornados in 5.25 hours. Not a lot of people know that... probably cos its not that interesting ?

Are you sure this ones not a porn bot?