yen_powell

This has happened to me a few times.

I paste a youtube link into the editor box and straight away it gives me a live video doodah (stop me if I'm getting too technical) which if it is wrong I can no longer delete it. I've tried going away and coming back to the thread later and hit the reply button again and the little fucker will be waiting for me still.

What i want to know is, how do I delete a youtube video from the reply box?

18 minutes ago, XTreme said:

Clueless! And when was Engelbert a hard rock singer? 

Actually I'm surprised that @Buckster can't come up with anything......as there is a connection to him

What about you @yen_powell?

No idea, too busy counting fingers.

I'm from Dagenham, I use all 12 fingers.

On 16/06/2020 at 18:02, XTreme said:

Very sparse dash on that Yen?

Stuff gets smaller as you age.

On the way to Machinemart in Colchester this morning to collect some tools.

In the cold bit of the year I am using a knackered pair of ex German Luftwaffe grey leather gloves. They are very hard to get now and my favourite pair is more holes than glove. I managed to get three pairs from a shop in Exeter a few years ago, sometimes I wear them but I usually go back to the holey pair. In warm weather I wear any old motocross gloves that I can find.  If it dips below zero degrees I might use a pair of those two fingered Pathan gloves, but only until I get to the city when I switch back to the grey ones.

https://www.surplusandoutdoors.com/shop/outdoor-clothing/gloves-accessories/german-grey-leather-luftwaffe-425817.html

8 hours ago, Pedro said:

I don’t think I have a cockney accent 

It's just how I imagine you, when I'm not picturing you talking like Crabtree of course.

Well we've got a Welsh Spaniard, so we have illegal immigrants wrapped up,

an Englishman living in Scotland showing the locals what is what, he can be our endangered minority rep,

Pedro with his perfect cockney English confusing tourists in lifts if I remember correctly,

And leave Bob Milligan alone, he may have done a few hundred dodgy human deals but if it wasn't for him we would get no visitors or tourists to the east end of London, he's probably supported a few million workers in the last 30 years alone, let alone all the dock workers since the 1830s who managed to get a day's work after standing around for a few hours. Also he is keeping the burglars away in our parking depot at night when everyone has gone home.

On 06/06/2020 at 13:14, Buckster said:

I did let a fellow ride my KTM once at a BMF rally, he sat on the back seat while doing so for some reason and it smelled like shit afterwards, no idea who it was, any idea @yen_powell?

My feet didn't reach the floor and I'm a tad under 6 feet tall. I was probably riding back towards and shouting out for you to catch me when I came to a stop.

From what I gather, I don't follow the news that closely, in America a policeman killed someone whilst arresting him and is going to be tried for murder. This has resulted in a few of people demonstrating legitimately and the rest all getting free tvs, luxury goods and trainers.

If the rozzer did a bad thing and he is going to be tried for it and justice is done and is seen to be done, what is the civil unrest for? 

1 hour ago, boboneleg said:

I remember you like this Fred

 

The best paint scheme for the AT.

8 hours ago, Renegade said:

About 1976-77

That picture on the right always makes me think of Marty Robbins. This is how I remember you and I would like to point out, you didn't even buy me dinner first.

Early 80s on a plastic maggot (I loved that bike) and mid 90s, having a little lie down whilst everyone else is queuing en mass to get out of the Kent Custom Show, sod that for a game of soldiers!

6 hours ago, XTreme said:

Who's this.......

It's you in the 70s, I saw the picture in another thread.

4 hours ago, boboneleg said:

I'm pretty sure Pete wore  every one of those items

I reckon you're right, but not in wool, he's more a man made fibre sort of guy.

6 minutes ago, XTreme said:

Good to see he's still riding Yen!

Yeah, he was on the Dulville today. He has an Enfield Twin from the 50s or 60s and a black thing, an AJS twin something or other, don't really understand them, they are horrible to ride with their controls the wrong way round.

Here he is now

9 minutes ago, XTreme said:

Is that him? How old is he now?

70 or 71 I think. It's his birthday next week. That picture is a bit iffy in the colour department (or my eyes are) cos he is a ginge, we have to keep him out of the sun. Whenever photographed he cannot help but strike a 1970's catalogue pose, he doesn't even know he's doing it. It's a bit of a running joke so this is the card I made on Moonpig for him.

At 5 minutes and 21 seconds in that video you will see a bloke in the 59 club who looks like Donald Trump in a leather jacket. That is Ted and today he turned up on his Honda Dullville and was showing me some pictures from old holidays we have been on as a group that he has dug out whilst bored in lock down.

2 minutes ago, XTreme said:

No hanging round outside public conveniences then @yen_powell?

I might put my panniers on, pop an empty lemonade bottle in and wee discretely into it whilst pretending to lean on the bike.

I'm off to non 'working from home' work in the morning. Going to meet my Irish and Hispano/Caribean chaps at one of the storage depots with my trusty tape measure to look at big concrete blocks and posts to see if they will be fine to hold up some large signs for the re-opening of the Recycling Depot to the great unwashed which we will be installing on Tuesday. This is to make all the local people arrive from the same direction and queue like civilised people.............. No fear of that, it will be like The Hunger Games on Steroids. Hopefully the signs will turn up later tomorrow before I leave work so I can check to make sure they don't say something like 'REESICLING DEPOH PLEEZE FOLOE AROES'  and make me look like a twat.

Then it's a quick dash to the office to print out some setting out drawings for Wednesday and an OS base sheet. I shall hiss at anyone who approaches me and queue for the single toilet between 50 of us. Then off to some roads where I have to design some old bollocks to temporarily make the footpaths wider in a couple of market areas which I got given on Friday afternoon and they want on Monday night. This I will sketch on to the OS base before drawing it up when I get back home in the evening, only then realising my handwriting is rubbish and mostly unreadable. Then It's off to a new building site to measure up a temporary crossing for cranes and shit so I can price it and send them a letter demanding money with menaces.

Then shoot over to another road to make sure Parking have put up suspension signs so I can swap some parking bays to the other side of the road on Friday. I have upset Parking last week so there is a chance they will play silly buggers with me as a punishment, or give me a foot way parking ticket again. Then marking out some new islands because we are being allowed to carry out any site work that takes less than 3 days and if I mark it out tomorrow I won't have to get up early on Wednesday when they want to start smashing holes in the road and want to know where all the power supplies are coming from/going in.

Then 50 miles back home on lovely twisty country lanes because the weather report is glorious for tomorrow!!!!

My car is £260 a year, my bike is £91. I think the bike tax is fucking disgraceful, I'm doing the country a favour using a bike to commute to work and that's how they repay me. It comes to something when motorbike tax is higher than insurance.

2 hours ago, Sir Fallsalot said:

I flushed the cooling system on my old Africa Twin this week, when i drained the expansion tank it stayed blue up to the high level line so wouldn't have known if it was low just by looking at it. I started thinking of ways i could clean it, went through the wife's cleaning cupboard and after trying a few different detergents unsuccessfully i found this stuff

Its quite a coarse power so got an idea of how it might work, poured some into the expansion tank added some hot water and spent the next few minutes shaking it vigorously and to my surprise the stain started to disappear flushed it out with hot water and repeated the process. I think i got a good result with it, i just wish i had a before photo to show how bad it was.

 

 

I think I had my AT about 5 years before I realised there is an inspection hole under the rear mudguard to check the expansion tank level. I used to take the side panel off.

Or this, Flemmy and Motorhead!

I was singing this at work in the scrap yard, I think I was about 19. I sang, "I'm a lone wolf ligger
But I ain't no pretty boy" just as the foreman Tony walked past. He immediately turned and said, "That's right Yen, you're an ugly fucker"

I should mention that when Lemmy died I was hoping he'd do the riding his bike up out of the grave as per the video as part of a re-release publicity stunt!

26 minutes ago, XTreme said:

This is possibly the worst rock video involving motorcycles that there's ever been! It goes back to 1982.

While the American vids of the time had big budgets and stunning fit birds.....this Brit one must have cost about a tenner!

The birds look like cheap hookers who they just found down the bus station.....and even the bikes look like they've come from the scrapyard!

 

How about this one then?