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My last GS got a new engine at 15k miles because it was getting corroded. Finish on them not the best, and using dissimilar metals on the rear hub doesn’t help. I also got a new ‘beak’ as the original was delaminating, new switchgear, and a new exhaust because the ‘exup’ valve had seized. Warranty is great! They were going to pay for recoating the wheels, but I traded it in.

Dawn was telling me that he’d very recently cycled across Scotland, off road, in two days with no ill effects. Always out walking or on his pushbike. I wonder if it was something congenital that had never been picked up as there was no reason to suspect anything wrong with him? Funeral is next Friday, the 17th.

Son.

Mine was a later model. Different mechanism.

Nice! I'm sure that you'll get used to the dreadful gearbox. Tidy.

238 kg springs to mind.

Belfast band. The drummer has decided to concentrate on her education so a guy is drumming now. European tour just announced.

Hope that the weather is kind for you. RouteI looks great! I need to get down that way again, while I still can.

Never mind the music!

What? Are they charging for punctures now? I didn't get charged for mine. The nail was free.

Well said.

Heavy casualties there, and possibly NATO instructors working.

I wanted to go back to Norway but this covid thing has messed up any plans I had. Have already done the NW500 or the best parts of it several times, and Fred will tell you that it's camper van central up there. I went up to Skye in a borrowed van over Xmas, thinking that it would be quiet, but everybody else must have had the same idea! Shit happens. With fuel costing what it is, it makes my flesh creep just thinking how much it'd cost to do the trip that I did to Norway again. That was 6.5k miles. That's about 590l assuming 50 mpg. In Norway that's about £2/l, so about £1200. Not cheap when you factor in the increased cost of accommodation and food. If the conflict escalates or spreads, then any European travel plans are academic anyway, I'll have to go to Scotland again.

Fascinating.

Quickly moved it on to a mate from the club. His neighbour reversed into or should I say onto it as well as his wife's bike. He got double what it was worth from the insurance claim and bought himself a Triumph of some sort. Do you remember Fred? Spraggy had it. He liked it. I thought the suspension too soft, probably knackered!

How boaring!

I bought a bread maker about two years or so ago, and after trying various types of bread now stick to baking a white loaf using French bread recipe. Brilliant for toast! Not so keen on the stuff with bird seed in it.

Why? Do you give lessons?

Content? At least I try to get mine factually correct.

"History 101 type chit to be honest."

I live in the UK. Here was referring to that. We have enough corrupt politicians of our own, I have given up on colonial politics.

Anti tank missiles and instructors sent from here as well as some special forces instructors as I understand it.

EU?