Cupid Stunt

Just all the paranoia around drone use and the media scare mongering, if the CAA have managed to come out with sensible regulations then people should follow but local authorities are always ten years behind the times It's ridiculous, apparently at the park you have to write to them, on the day you're going to fly the drone (if you ever go permission which is very unlikely) they will cone off the entire area with warning signs, it's crazy when you think that hundreds of dogs per week are let loose in the park, far more likely someone will suffer a dog bite than a 250 gram drone hitting them and the consequences more serious too Like I said though, nobody owns the airspace above their land so as long as I'm not stood on their land I can fly over making sure that I maintain line of sight and that I am well above the height of the tallest building/structure

Yep, certainly was today, warmer than normal but all else typical

Fed up with sitting around the house I got off my arse and decided to go for a ride I headed for Craig y Nos castle and country park as I wanted to get an aerial shot of the castle, a bit drizzly on the way but very mild and no wind at all, up the Upper Tawe Valley (A4067) to the castle, parked up, set up the drone, launched it just to hear a "jobs worth twat" shout "Oi, you can't fly drones here", muppet, damned thing weighs 250 grams it's not like the old days with giant octocopters carrying full size DSLR's, anyway I had to oblige and fuck off, but grabbed a shot of the pond first So anyway, no point in arguing with civil servants, I'll just go back and get my pics from an adjacent field, people don't have the right to the air space above their property, otherwise you could ban British Airways Off and up over the mountain on the A4067 past Crai Reservoir, I can see the clouds are low on the top of the mountains to the west, I hadn't factored in that I'd be riding through there later DOH! Down the other side and through Defynnog and into Sennybridge for a stop at the garage and cafe There were for trail bikes outside, one KTM, an Aprilia Trail (like my old one) and two Royal Enfield Himalayans Went inside, joined the queue to order some brekies and went to sit at a table on my own, the lady behind the counter said "oh I thought you was with those guys next to you, "Nooooo" I said, "they've got 4 dirt bikes all with road tyres on", needless to say they didn't say much to me after that :), especially when one asked "what are you riding?", "my scotter" said I, "but it's seen more dirt trails than those four" Oooh, brekies arrived with a nice pot of tea Filled up with fuel at bloody £1.45 per litre then headed off on the A40 towards Llandovery, had to stop on the way to admire the autumn colours, the pic doesn't do it justice Passed by the West End Cafe and on to the Owl's nest to see who was there, only two bikers, nice old boys on NC750's, didn't stop there as their prices are a rip-off Time to head towards home over the Black Mountain, stunning road all the way (A4069), was often used by Top Gear and other in their programs, however as I started to head up it got very rough very quickly, riding through the cloud and winds got up pretty high too, slowed me right down to a crawl in places and couldn't see more than 60ft ahead Headed off from the car park higher into the cloud and as it levelled out I spotted two other nutters in the cloud with me Dropping down the other side towards home and it was boring towns the rest of the way after this:

Last time I rode to North Wales I refused to take any main road, it was pissing down all the way and it took me 6 hours Coming back over the mountains in gale force winds was an interesting experience, bike at 25 degrees tilt (no kidding) and the rain coming up vertically into my helmet, shitting my pants getting thrown all over the road, they're memories and stories to tell later in life, I can't remember the rides where it was all pleasant and nothing interesting happened

I don't understand why someone wouldn't want to do that No such thing as the wrong weather, just the wrong clothing. It's about scenery, adventure and kudos Yes, camping and eating tinned breakfast wears thin pretty quickly but with experience you stop eating that shit, take the proper gear and cook up your own eggs and bacon They're riding through woodlands and terrain that dates back to the ice age, the feeling of being in places like that is unique, calming and inspiring

They're impractical really, even the auto mix bikes like the CRM, you can't always trust the mix and they use nearly twice as much fuel so you can't have a route that doesn't include nearby fuel stops They are great fun and give max power for minimum weight, my GasGas EC300 was a monster on power, I got it up to nearly 80mph over the rocks on Sarn Helen coming back down towards the gate :), it's capable of higher speeds not not with me on it over rocks , my two CRM's were awesome too and I remember my old RD250LC was quite a beast in it's day

All the best enduro riders started out doing Trials, David Knight, Graham Jarvis and many others MX riders simply cannot handle the gnarly stuff, been out with a few and they always head for the nearest fire road to get them home by mid morning LOL

....now we know eh

Just saying

Hey Yen This video has the planes in I was on about Funny, typical old school East End Brits, three piece suits on the beach sunbathing LOL

More like the English spent their earlier lives grafting whereas the Welsh spent it sat on the sofa watching Twp Turpin and masturbating

Trains, planes, scooter and automobiles Just use the menu on Google maps and select "timeline", from there you can select dates/years

Just noticed there quite a few missing off my map, like Geneva and Bruges, must have had location services turned off

This is where I've been

Very freaky but on this occasion quite useful A while back I found out that the assistants on phones like Google Assistant when enabled are constantly listening to what you say, it is computer analized and you are fed adverts based on what it decides you're currently interested in. Don't believe me then do what I did when I was curious, whilst driving around in my car I would talk out loud to myself saying lots of things about dogs, dog food dog's lead, dog collar etc etc (I don't have a dog). Get home open my browser and go to Facebook and like magic there were adverts for dog food on the right column, freaky. So, the last few days we've had an issue with our boiler, it's losing pressure and we have to keep topping it up, pain in the ass as when the pressure drops the boiler won't fire up on the timer. I haven't searched google or Youtube for anything about it and yet this morning I go onto Youtube and there are several videos right in front of me on how to deal with low pressure on a boiler It turned out to point me in the exact right direction to diagnose the problem Seriously activate the assistant on your phone and test it out, it's scary and freaky but sometimes useful

Oh fuck me, we've now got our very own snowflake thread

Muppet, you have correct hub types fitted to the old rims

You could have bought a used Caponord used the wheels and thrown the rest away and still saved £500

https://metro.co.uk/2021/10/07/m25-protester-admits-being-a-hypocrite-after-taking-two-overseas-trips-15382474/ https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1502598/Insulate-Britain-latest-Cameron-Ford-four-month-Canada-trip-diesel-van-europe-Roger-Hallam https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/insulate-britain-leader-who-blocked-25175683 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/10/07/not-perfect-says-insulate-britain-protester-photos-emerge-10000/ https://itsamazonprime.com/2021/10/08/m25-protester-admits-to-being-a-hypocrite-after-taking-two-trips-abroad/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lrhJlSzpjg https://www.dailyadvent.com/gb/news/amp/d04494fe2c71da6dcfda7151997c6b46-Insulate-Britain-leader-who-blocked-M25-admits-being-hypocrite-over-travel-tour

Or maybe, just maybe you could follow that advice for yourself by fact checking information beforehand as it makes your post pointless I wonder, do you always fact check all information regardless of whether it suits your own stance or do you selectively fact check on just those that aren't to your own taste?

Are you trying to say the article on that complete twat is inaccurate? or are you just attempting to discredit the information because another information source has decried the source? Either way the article and information stands, just interesting to see the tactics

Well, it had been a few years without a bike but I eventual decided to get riding again albeit a bit more sedated as I could never seem to act my age on road bikes and we all know how that ends, been there done that, don't want to spend another two months in a wheelchair So a scooter it was in the hopes of limiting my own twatish behaviour I was getting a bit nervous riding the scoot, loving it but it was a bit odd in it's road manners, low speed bends/corners in particular the bike would step out on the rear causing butt fluctuations and a need for clean underpants on occasion after a while (500 miles ish) I thought I'd best have a closer look to see what's happening, the rear tyre had plenty of it's tread, I'd got rid of the chicken strips nicely, I did my normal tyre pressure test with my thumbs and all was fine Still stepping out on roundabouts and bends, so I put a shout out on a scoot group on facefook and it was suggested the tyre pressure might be low, surely not I tested it the same way I always tested my dirt/trail bikes with my ultra reliable thumbs As it happens when I put a pressure gauge on it there was only 6.5psi in the rear and 24psi in the front, whooops, fucking twat, I'd been gunning that round big fast bends and ridden around 500 miles including all the way to Aberystwyth and back. Well what a difference now, I'm even more impressed with the scoot, frankly for the roads I ride there's no need for anything more, I don't do two up riding, I don't do motorways or dual carriageways or at least I avoid them as best I can and stick to smaller A and B roads It now sticks to the tarmac like shit to a blanket or in this case shit to my undercaks with a 6.5psi tyre pressure So the moral of the story is don't be a cunt, scoot tyres are much stubbier and thicker and thumbs don't work

Why on earth have people got in excess of 50/100/200mbps? Even full on Netflix with multiple users only requires around 8mbps, at 30mbps full movies download in minutes I can understand it if you're running your own servers at home for the World to use and need a great upload speed ??????

The broadband here is hopeless, with a max of 7mbps if you're lucky I've had to get a 4G router via the Three network which at least gives me usable results, I have no need for anything faster, it only takes minutes to download an entire movie, how much faster does anyone need?