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Another trip over to to Davidstow this morning. Forecast was okish but by the time we had been there for 20 minutes the rain started. Forgot to take any water proofs so we got wet. Shadow ploughed on but after 40 minutes she had had enough. Rode up to me stop and said ; ”‘I’m out, all the water is running off the tank back onto my Fanny, my Fanny is wet and cold and I can’t take anymore.” Now this practically floored me and I genuinely nearly pissed myself laughing, much to her disgust . I did suggest her saying her crutch was wet next time, but I’m not sure she got it. I rode home chuckling all the way. I was laughing and told her mother what she said. Shadow didn’t like that either.

Another day over Davidstow with Shadow, hoping it will be uneventful. Going down to Portreath this evening with my aged Fowey Biker buddies, of course Shadow as well.

I suppose it's in the eye of the beholder but I like it. Could do with some decent clocks but for local on road bimbling about I think it makes sense.

Isn't this just an expensive CF Moto?

I reckon if they brought them here for that price they would sell hand over fist. Some decent tyres and there would be a lot of fun to be had.

Beautiful song, not sure that's the best I have heard it sung I used to sing in choir with a retired farmer, called Taff (Erfyl Jones), thunderous bass. To hear hing sing Calon Lan was something special, in fact he taught me.

ok

Inline like a Harley parallel like a Guzzi

I have a 270 degree Parallel twin and a inline four. Love both but I do look back fondly on the 3 BMW boxer twins I had in the past. Had a triple several parallel twins, singles and fours. Never had an inline V twin but had a Parallel V Twin. At the moment I love the Twin in my Hornet lots of bang for what it is. So probably twins for me.

Zongshein Benelli, POS I know but looks nice A Grumph, Greaves with Triumph motor Lovely old Panther Nice Severely tempted by this Ginger Blade Coffin RD

Decided to go up to Kitt Hill for their first Sunday in the month bike meet. Lone wolf today as Shadow is working and the Fowey geriatric bikers group have been out once this week. Anyway had a great ride up on the Hornet, love that bike. Tried out the Honda Road App and worked well for nav, still don’t really know how to control music with it or really care that much but will persevere. The nav directions came through to my lid and directional arrows came through on the bikes screen. Clever stuff I thought. Lovely old Wing Morini 3•5 was for sale for 3k . I liked it but not that much. Triumph Street RS in a nice colour

Thrown in the deep end tonight but it turned out ok. Had a message in the week as there was a Lifeboat event on the quay. 200 years celebration. Anyway my group was asked to sing a few songs after the Vicar did her bit. We rocked up to a packed town quay, bit more of an event than just a few songs. Went well so all good in the end. After there was a band called Johnny and the Lips. Apparently Johnny was the wizened up old bass player who was in the Commitments from the film. Brilliant band all the same, brass section and all. Shame I had to come home to go to work. Working Sunday night as well but don’t have any other plans yet.

Twist and go?

No sign of a bridge there now. I remember seeing some film clips of one of the races there years ago. No safety precautions back in the 1950's

No sooner had Shadow and I got back from Davidstow last night then I got a message from my mate to say a few of the Fowey lot were going up to Damerells. So off we went again but on the Hornet this time. We met at 4Turnings garage at 6pm where my mate Andy turned up on his new bike, a 2015 Triumph 900 Thruxton. Very nice indeed. Also Gary on his 1973 Bonniville and Martin on his V85TT. We rode over to Bodmin then up the A30 to Indian Queen’s, stuck at 70 as Gary can’t see over that speed due to the vibes. Place was packed when we got there, 100+ bikes I would guess Nice survivor GS1000E I like this Oil Head RT, Very nice Victory, I think they generally look way cooler than Polaris’s Indian replacements. Still have an itch for a Blackbird After Damerells Andy suggested that there was a bike meet a couple of miles down the road to a Cider Farm. So off we went only to crash a private party and were asked to leave. Walk of shame.

I think it is because it was originally built on common land and it returned to that after the war. I think they held motorsport their in the 1950's even hosting I Grand Prix. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davidstow_Circuit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Davidstow_Moor

True, they will both be gone soon enough.

I do have a son, not sure he is a rainbow though. Suppose greasy gobshite twat doesn't really go with Sunshine and Shadow.

It's not to bad really only about 25 miles away, just the roads aren't great and we have to ride through Bodmin and Camelford. Disused WW2 airfields on common land aren't that common, well down here anyway

Not quite that old Those nicknames suit their personalities.

Not far off, just gotta wait for her 17th Birthday in October.

I’m thinking of moving to Davidstow airfield. Spent 6 hours up there in the last two days. Firstly spent 3 hours up there on Wednesday teaching my oldest daughter to drive, who I am going to call Sunshine in comparison to my Shadow. Sunshine is such a joy to be around, but she is going to take awhile to pick up all aspects of car control. Now Shadow, ever competitive, was not happy I spent three hours with Sunshine. So yesterday’s riding lesson had to last the same time. To be fair to Shadow I hardly saw her, she came back every half an hour or so to touch base but soon headed off again. She is doing well up and down the gears confidently with good clutch control. I’m going to get some cones and do some CBT style manoeuvres to get ready for her test at the end of August. I took a tarp and laid it down so I ended up chilling and listening to podcasts for hours. The question of lowering the CB125F has gone away as Shadow is happy with her lowered seat. She says she feels much more confident and feels she is not sitting on top of the bike anymore but part of it instead. If she is happy that is good enough for me. After her three and a half hours and 35 miles, of course she had to do more than Sunshine, Shadow needed feeding, apparently feeling faint So a 45 minute ride down to Fraddon for a Maccies. I have come to the conclusion that 80 + miles two up on a CB125F is not fun, our combined weight is close to 23 stone, a lot for 10hp to drag around. The bike does it without fuss but it is a suboptimal set up. At one point Shadow was annoyed that another 125 passed us and wanted to know why. I explained because of my heavy ass,

Go down your local chinky takeaway, They might help if you buy something

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