Saul

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.

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

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

Finally someone got the reference.

You got my vote

Here's the add, more than a year old but I am sure this is the one he was on about https://www.autotrader.co.uk/bike-details/202407151800748?sort=relevance&advertising-location=at_bikes&make=Triumph&model=Speed Triple 1200&postcode=PL23 1EQ&price-from=9500&price-to=10000&fromsra

No I have seen the add in Autotrader 9.5K for a Speed 1200, with extras the original price was close to £18K. Couldn't quote chapter and verse but I will look for the add.

Ok, my misunderstandamafying.