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I was disappointed they decided to stop production of the FTR.

Me too … but only if you get rid of road tax for bikes and you get whoever maintains to lovely smooth main roads in France to come do ours.

Its the same wherever you advertise ... I had my VW Touareg on auto trader for £X and got lots of "I can collect it today for £half X " and other similar crap. I just deleted them although I did go back to a couple and said "to you its £2x" ... then you get the "I'll be round at 4pm to look at it" and then never show. A mate of mine was flogging his Volvo and 2 guys showed up, one asked to see the MOT history so he went inside to get it and saw one of them squirting something around the engine bay as he came out again. They then said "you got an oil leak mate, we will give you £halfX". Turns out the even put some in the rad expansion tank.

Looks like you have been shat on by an ostrich, a really sick one.

God I loved the 80's ...

I do love my Indian ( I find the FTR's one of the best looking bikes ever made), but I have to admit I find the aesthetics of the bikes with all the boxy fairings and luggage rather difficult to appreciate .

Mine is only a 5.7l not a 7l and id swear I can see the gas needle move with my foot down. Id be surprised if it got 15/gal.

Would that have meant relocating to FL? My wife is American and when we got hitched we had to decide where to live. My qualification for my job is not something which is recognised in the US, my only options in the US were flying instructor or a McJob or similar so we ended up here.

Jeez, that must be worth a mint. Im not sure ive seen seen a 7l one ... lucky bloke ... Must be a couple of million quid he is driving round in

Is it a 289 or a 427? Id love a real one, or failing that a Superformance one, but I cant afford either . Mine is a humble AK, but it's bloody good fun.

Not very imaginative but I'm shit at taking photos & was in a hurry ...

I normally wear a leather jacket and bike jeans but if it's going to be wet I have a Held textile jacket. The jacket is waterproof although whatever you have in the pockets gets wet annoyingly. The bike jeans were sold as "showerproof" but they weren't great. I sprayed them with the stuff I use to keep my work boots waterproof and they are a lot better now, still not perfect tho...

Have you ever been to Norway? The place is full of EV's. I think I've had to charge mine at a public charger maybe 5 times. In the time it takes me to have a piss and a drink it's ready to go agin but I agree , not everyone is going to want one.

One has a 1973 somewhat tuned 5.7 Chevy V8 in it (AC Cobra copy), and the other was made in 1913 before the concept of mpg was even thought of, 3.1 litre engine originally making 20hp, several of which have died in the last 112 years.

Extremely extremely uneconomical. Gretta would have a heart attack ...

Neither of mine would make it - 90 miles for the FTR (has a gas tank smaller than my coffee mug), and about 140 for the Yamaha. Neither of my petrol powered cars would make it either ... but my electric one would

Green one does look nice ... but my lawnmower has more power than that.

Trump is signing up to become a member here … ?

No, as above like deer, rabbits, boar, pigeons or such. I’d rather eat a deer or a rabbit which has had a relatively natural life than a supermarket chicken which has lived 6-8 short and shit weeks. I shoot and eat both - they need controlling, and I do it as humanely as I possibly can.

Some of what you buy in Tesco has had a pretty shit and short life. Take a look at how chickens are raised for food, it’s pretty grim. I’d rather eat something which has had a natural life and a quick end if Im honest. People should understand where their food come from and what its been through.

If you want to view it that way. They were all returned safe and sound and handled with great care when out of the water for the minimum possible time. The money I pay to be able to go do this contributes to clean ups of the rivers, breeding and stocking programs for the fish, works to encourage rare or endangered water/ water side animals and management of the overall habitat. I'd like to see it go further than it does, but without it our countryside might not be as attractive as it is.

Put it back. No idea if you could eat it or not, but it’s been in a muddy river which the UK water utilities are not above occasionally dumping sewerage into. The water must be pretty clean or you wouldn’t get the amount of wildlife on and around the river that we saw but the rules are catch and release. The point of barbel fishing is that they fight so hard once hooked, very exciting and you might not see what you have hooked for quite a while.

We did Home fishery, Dean and Chapter and The Old Harp … I think, all close ish to Ross on Wye, kipped at the Royal Hotel RoW. I didn’t organise it and just turned up at the what three words locations and fished. Five of us, 45 or so fish all Chub and Barbel, best Chub around 5lbs but they were all 3-5 lbs, best Barbel just under 10lbs. Just got home bloody knackered & somewhat muddy. Makes up for all the trips in the past where we have blanked or arrived to find everything flooded

I’m in Herefordshire fishing the river Wye with 4 mates. Attempting to catch barbel, had 8 so far between us, been great fun, last day tomorrow.

At the risk of Marcel's head exploding I took my Indian in for a service a few days ago and the grizzled tech that did it did a brief test ride on completion. He came back in and said why can't HD make an engine like that. Ive ridden loads of HD's but that is only the second FTR - I can't understand why anyone would buy a HD when Indian makes something like that.