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Few weeks now isn't it Clive?

I'm not interested in them...... @Earache is! I've always been a Tourance Man! And when I've bought a bike with Deathwings on I've got them off ASAP!

Any disturbances where you are?

@boboneleg @Sir Fallsalot........any experience with these tyres?

That's the image that the manufacturers have sold them Bob! And what they don't seem to want to accept is that a completely different set of riding skills are needed.

Keep an eye open for a couple of ride reports from me.........after 9 weeks incarcerated I'm grabbing every opportunity I can!

Not easy to lug about as you get older though Ray!

1300 miles? ? To give you a perspective that's about the distance between the south coast of Spain on the Mediterranean to the north coast of France and the English Channel.

I can't see they're an 80/20.......at a push 70/30.

Never used them......they're a 50/50 tyre I think?

Livin' The Dream Clive!

Weather looks decent enough here......late 20's and sunny........so I'll be Styling and Profiling! But my wings are still clipped as no entering other provinces is still in place! What are you guys up to.......cos it's about time we saw some ride reports from you lot!

There are some people who should never ride bikes......ever! It doesn't matter how long they ride, they just have so little ability that they're a menace to others. I remember one guy in the early 70's......he was always an accident waiting to happen. He didn't belt about or do crazy things.....it's just that he was a disaster. The number of times he left his sidestand down and came off was unbelievable. But he still did it. He'd wear big baggy flares which acted like parachutes......and on a few occasions the kickstarter would go up inside them after he'd kicked the bike over. And he'd find that out when he came to a stop and tried to put his foot down......and over he went. Wearing a long scarf round his neck......getting it tangled up in the chain and nearly strangling himself......yeh he did that as well.

Sounds like the idiot I talked about!

Yeh but the MSF were trying to kill him Rog!

Well I've seen a few over the years....so I could probably fill this thread up with stories. One that springs to mind was a buddy of @Renegade........who I had the misfortune to be behind on a run back in 2003/4. Ren knew he was a total twat but didn't warn me! I won't name him on here but Ren knows who I'm talking about! So I'm behind this guy on country roads and whenever he sees chevrons way up ahead for an oncoming bend......he just slams the anchors on. So then he has to accelerate again to reach the bend.....and slams the anchors on again. Going into a bend (totally upright) he seems to drift from one side of the bend to the other for no reason. Then when you finally got through the bend you'd start to pick up speed again......and he slams the brakes on! For no fucking reason. But the final thing (which I'll never forget).....we get to a long straight of about a mile.....totally clear. And he waves frantically for me to overtake him! Nothing odd about that you may think? Well it is when you consider he was on an XJR1300 and I was on a TTR250!

31? That's some serious shit Fred! I've seen temps that high here at midnight!

12 in June? A few days ago @Sir Fallsalot was at breaking point cos it had reached 30?

Panic!

As I said earlier.......it's different things to different people. Some always like to ride in groups......I don't......I did enough of that in the 70's to last me a fucking lifetime. You meet up somewhere......and guaranteed some twats haven't fuelled. So we all have to stop at the first petrol station. Then some can't keep up and you're having to wait for them all the time. Stop and start continually! Then some twat breaks down (no recovery trucks or phones in those days).......you get going again and some twat falls off. Finally get to where you were going and somebody reckons it's shit and it was a wasted ride......so him and the guy who took us start scuffling. Go in a cafe and somebody sits on the jukebox and falls right through it and the Police get called. I could write a book on some of the stupid shit I've seen! That's why I go where I want, when I want, and at the pace that I want. And I don't have to keep checking my mirrors every two seconds to see what other twats are doing around me.

Posts deleted! You know the Forum Guidelines guys......no Politics on here......there's enough of that elsewhere!

You've had it hot though haven't you Clive? We've got some odd weather coming for the second week of June.......normally it would be 30+ every day now.

And that's the cheapest it's been since 2006.

1.05 a litre for 95.......so about 4.50 a gallon.