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Sounds a bad one! Fingers crossed!

Superb Ian! But 2 ride reports in a week......and pics? You've lost TOTY now for sure!

Not out on the bike today?

.......and stay in your van!

And I could sort out your computer issues Keith! But I don't think I could handle being surrounded by old people though! Cos invariably they're fucking miserable and complaining about everything.

I'd have thought that dealing with knuckle dragging parents would have been the worst part Dave?

Imagine if I was living next door to you.....wouldn't you love that?

Yeh.....there's so much more right across Spain Bob. But time, work commitments, and Covid restrictions make a lot of them impossible.

Step this way for Rugged Individualism!

Well I guess it can happen to all of us! Of course, breaking down on a very hot day in the middle of nowhere in rural Spain makes it even worse! OK.......here's the story! I was out by 10 before the wall of heat came down, and crossed into the Murcia province! Didn't take long to find some abandoned shit......a Petrol Station! I continued on and came across an abandoned country house! It was in a right state! Went in for a look round but the roof has fallen in on most of it! After clambering around in that devastation I continued on.......and found another Petrol Station! Which is when I was faced with the breakdown! No.....not me obviously.....I ride a BMW! Gutted now aren't you? It was some toothless Dago from Alicante broken down on a 20 year old two stroke Aprilia 125! He asked me if I had any ideas on what the problem was! All I could respond with was...... He reckoned it was fuel related so he did some shit with some tools! While he was trying to get it going I had a look round! By this time he'd got it spluttering away......though it didn't sound too clever to me! He told me he'd had the bike for 20 years since it was new! That's what they do here.....I've spoken to old guys who bought a bike new in the 1960's and have still got it. When I tell them I've had 64 bikes they look at me like I'm odd! The guy said that it's never broken down before in 20 years! Until today! Well until I showed up basically! Anyway.....I didn't have any more time to exchange pleasantries with toothless motorcyclists. I thought I'd put all that behind me when I left @Renegade on his own to be Billy No Mates until the end of time! It was starting to get hot, so it was off home before it became too unbearable. But as usual I found more deserted shit en-route! So there you have it......just another day in Spain

That's pretty radical shit there Fred.....I'm looking at it and cringing! This bit was OK......but the rest of it, not a chance!

No wonder there were so many casualties!

The anti-vaxxers, lockdown, 5G nutters were kicking it off in London today then? Making speeches that doctors and nurses giving out vaccines should be hung apparently.

Wasn't Cupid there as well?

Nice one! Yeh.....we do seize up a bit as we get older! When we were young we could ride all day no problem at all.

When do you reckon that you can get back on the bike again Keith?

And I seem to remember you going to Wales to meet up with the guys and then ending up in Hospital? About 2004/2005?

Who'd have thought a year ago that things would still be as bad as this? I think we've all got to get used to a different way of life now!

Wear metal glasses and when you take them off it peels the skin off your face!

No......I never mentioned death. It's just that if numbers get to 50+ we'll get locked in the town again.

This popped up on YouTube......and it's unbelievable! Down to -71C in Siberia! People leaving their cars running permanently......cos it'll freeze solid after 20 minutes of inactivity. Break down in it outside the city and unless you can fix it on the spot you're likely to die! Cameras and phones not operating properly.....cos they're getting frozen.

7 cases in the town!

‘Everything pointing to’ need for a third Covid-19 vaccine dose, says Spanish health minister! Spanish Health Minister Carolina Darias said on Friday that “everything is pointing to” the need for a third dose of Covid-19 vaccines to be administered to the population, given the new variants of the coronavirus that could reduce the protection already being offered by the existing medication. We've had 7 cases in the last 14 days here!

Stuck in today.......brutal out there now! 37C and still rising!