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I was in northern Finland a couple of months back, minus 30 C. Came home with a bit of frost nip on my nose. Quite happy with snow, put the bike away and get the snowmobile out. At least it’s not 6 months of dreary grey drizzle.

That looks bloody great, I’d love it there. I’m somewhat antisocial, I’d love to live somewhere with few or preferably no other people. id just about persuaded my wife that moving to northern Finland on our retirement was a good idea, then this stupid bloody country had to go and vote for Brexit so that screwed that. Now I’m stuck in this overcrowded third world country. The best I’m going to get is to move out of the bottom right hand corner to somewhere a bit less crowded. Never eaten moose but I guess it cooks up like any other venison.

Good point, if it got rodgered by a Great Dane that might have rang a few alarm bells.

A litter of frenchie's could be worth 10k, why would they want to abort it? Then again if you are asking for vet advice on FB maybe the owner needs medical help.

At least when your kids have ridden a bike or even just done the CBT, if they then move to a car they will be a better and more considerate driver for having done so. I think everyone should do a few hours, something like the CBT, as part of car driver training. We’ d all be better for it.

Venison - haunch, fillet, sausages, loin - can’t beat it. Fallow from the eco place next door, shot when there are no eco hippies there and roe from our farm. Yummy.

We all have the same passport at present, if Scotland left the uk I can only imagine that those that lived there would get a new Scots passport. it’s unlikely to happen in my lifetime sadly. Before Brexit my intention was to retire to Finland but can’t do that now. But at least I can buy wine by the pint, so it must have all been worth it.

If there was a realistic prospect of Scotland going its own way and rejoining the EU I’d bloody move there tomorrow.

700 miles across Europe with no cones, temp speed limits, roadworks, litter, average speed cameras or middle lane morons. Not even 10 miles from the uk side of the tunnel, miles of contraflow, cones and average speed cameras. And we’ve just passed a fridge dumped by the side of the road. I so missed the UK.

How do you fill in all the gouges in the edge of the rim? I’d love to do mine but it would end up looking like a dogs breakfast knowing my luck…

Laax in Switzerland, last minute thing and was a case of wherever we could find a few days accommodation. Snow is so so, horrible at low levels, ok at the top. Staggeringly bloody expensive but you can’t take it with you…

Skiing … yay

I had the disks and pads replaced on all 4 wheels of a VW Toureg on Friday. It was painfully expensive. I’ve had it for the last 52k and this is the first set of pads I’ve put on it…I don’t use the brakes much

I had a butchers over mine today, need to clean and wax the chain on one tomorrow as its got some surface rust where I obviously washed the bike and forgot to do it. Need to take my pressure washer to bits to find out why its stopped pressuring and only does the washing bit.

Seems to exclude Norway for some reason, I'd bet the list would look a bit different if that was included.

Good luck with it

This is interesting - https://sharp.dft.gov.uk/helmets/?manufacturer=Shark&model=All&type=1

Still a shit hole now Clive. Just with more and bigger pot holes.

So the lunar orbiters sent to the moon in the 60’s were also faked? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Orbiter_program …and the orbiters up there now, launched 15 years ago or so are fakes too, and all the photos they have sent back are faked, and the high res images of the Apollo sites are faked too … ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Reconnaissance_Orbiter …and the photos gathered by the Japanese, Indian and Chinese of the Apollo sites are all fakes, and the various countries which tracked the missions on the way to the moon by radar are all in on the conspiracy and are faking everything. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_evidence_for_Apollo_Moon_landings That’s a fuck of a lot of people supposedly “in” on the fakery and supporting it for no obvious reason.

Sadly not, - don’t have any bike bags/ luggage & wife not interested in bikes which would mean I’d be here in my Tod. Lovely place though.

Currently in Copenhagen and it’s lovely. No litter, cheap public transport ( that actually works), park your bike and it’s still there when you go back to it, great bars, no obnoxious twats, no pot holes … it’s lovely, tho a bit cold.

My FTR is a brilliant fun and certainly no copy. Bikes made for the US cruiser market all look similar because it’s what the yanks want, but seems to me Harley only upped their game and produced a liquid cooled engine with a decent power output because Indian were doing it? Indian is not going to challenge Harley in terms of sales, at least not for a long time. There is a chunk of the bike riding community who just want a Harley because it’s a Harley, just like there are Ducati die hards. Indian hasn’t got that brand cachet. At least not yet. Just noticed you are in Edinburgh, I got mine from Saltire.

But you didn’t think shadows could be anything but parallel until I proved otherwise. Their direction is dictated by the angle of the object casting the shadow. It’s physics. The reality is that no matter how much of the hoax “ evidence” is shown to be incorrect the conspiracy theorists will just go back to the internet for another piece of so called evidence.

I’ll be the first to admit I know nothing about Harley’s but it does seem that actually having some competition, in the form of Indian, might be good for both companies. A lot of the big Harley’s actually had relatively low power outputs ( but reasonable torque) but more recently the sportster s ( and others) has seen this improved with a liquid cooled engine. Might seem like an abomination for the air cooled purists but If I could get past the feet forward riding stance I’d consider one.

But Zacc you thought that the moon landing was a hoax and one of your principal arguments was that the shadows weren't parallel. It seems to be one of the main arguments the moon hoax lot put forward. It took 20 seconds, two match sticks and a torch to show you that argument was bollox. Tell me again who's on the short bus?