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-5 her this morning with clear blue skies, forcast says -6 tomorrow but getting warmer towards the weekend. Say the first cranes flying North this morning, they're sooo early this year that they narrowly missed bumping into the last flights going south.

You found a Hobbit Hole, when you moving in?

Hi Bob, and welcome in. I agree with almost everything @Motobiker said in his post ( except the bit about northern France being uninteresting, but this is not the question here). In your case get off the ferry or the chunnel and hoon down the A26 avoiding Paris like the plague, to Reims or even Troyes, depening on your timings and how long you can ride in a day ( Calais troyes is about 4 or 5 hours depending on speed and stopping time. A second day to get from Troyes to Morzine, again 5 hours actual saddle time, autoroute to Bourg en Bresse and then take the D979 to Nantua, D1084 to Bellegarde, D1206 as far as St Julien en Genevois. Pop back onto the autoroute A40 in order to bypass Geneva ( there's no other easy way round and it avoids going into switzerland and allows you to make some ground fast) off the A40 at Cluses to follow the D902 up to Morzine> from there you pick up the route de grands alpes. I know that part of the country well, and love it. OR the bearing from Troyes to Morzine is about 139deg true, grab a map and a compass and away ye go I can't really advise on lodgings as many will have changed sice I was regularly down that way, but as Motobiker says there are plenty apps to find hostels, hotels, campsites, whatever. Have fun! I'm about an hour and a half from anywhere between Troyes and Dijon, if you need anything give us a shout.

average usage on the tiger I'm getting 280km to a tank. loaded and or autoroute, more like 200. I think they improved the feul consumption on the later models though. @Saul nice bike, you won't regret that move I reckon.

not a lot of greek in his DNA , his father was son of the king of Denmark and His mother was Princess Alicethe eldest daughter of Louis Alexander Mountbatten, 1st marquess of Milford Haven, and Princess Victoria of Hesse and the Rhine, granddaughter of Queen Victoria.

I was at school with a guy called Tom Jones, he was from Fort William in Scotland!

I wasn't looking!

euh... nope. he's of german descent and althoug they got bloody close a couple of ti;es, the germans never managed to invade England (except the channel Islands)

if it's quality is anything like the chinese bikes I work with it will be substandard. They're cheap for a reason.

just a minute, the Normans ( Nor-men) were vikings (or North-men) who settled on the north coast of France just a couple or 3 generations before invading england... so Buck maybe shares your jeans. Curiouser and curiouser...

I was apalled by the state of the roads in oxfordshire when we were there over Christmas the potholes were shocking! I was pleased we weren't in my car...

I don't keep broken shit, I just bin it. I used to take pictures of knackered stuff I had at work, I might be able to dig a couple of them out. I came across this in our workshop t'other day, The engine came in as a warranty repair job cos it was " made a nasty noise and stopped working" my professional opinion was " That's probably fucked then innit"

ooh you tease you...! I bet it has pictures of you on a scooter...

I wanted to have flying lessons this year, but last time when I got cold and turned the fan off all the other people in the helicopter started shouting at me...

the atmosphere at home is electric at the mo, one of the twins passed her driving licence theory test missing a 100% score by just one point whilst the other one flunked it! ( lazy cow didn't think she'd need to actually work for it and learn stuff...) so she's 30€ out of pocket cos I said I'll pay for the one they pass. she's also just twigged that I'm only supplying 1 vehicle and her sister's looking like getting there first...

phew... I thought it was just me. Honda melody Honda CM 125 Yamaha xj650 Yamaha xj900 Honda xlv600 ( Transalp to the incult amongst you) Triumph tiger 800xc. over the the last 35 years

well DUH! obviously!

install "electric" blamkets

I dunno, they're never at home, permamently out sabotaging the local council's plans to install curfew's, barbed wire and nissen huts. Dad did ask me where he could get hold of a vaulting horse...

sod off, it's cold and dark outside!

well it's been snowing here since early afternoon. about 5 cm on the ground I reckon too warm to settle untill it got dark. going to make getting to the main road fun tomorrow morning if it freezes overnight

I have family living in and around oxford... I was there myself for a week over Christmas. No one has heard anything about this bollox and there was certaily no sign of it I couls see. I call bullshit.

good

probably more. It's the same bollards as when the constructer gives mpg figures, the test "normes" are stupidly concieved to give optimum conditions. The electric bikes we do, be they high end or cheap shit are the same, official figures are always with no hills or wind ( or wind resistance cos they're cooked up on a rolling road, no rolling resistance from the front wheel ( cos of rolling road) at an optimum stable speed tyres over inflated, with a new battery charged in laboratory optimum conditions, and a rider weighing 50 to 60 kilos. that gets them their 100km figure. Sit me on the bloody thing, outside, with a year old battery charged form a 220v socket in normal road conditions, then your looking at 60 km ish or 110lm/h for about 20 minutes. but then I suppose if they were actually honest about it, they wouldn't sell any....