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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....

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that chivas regal is bloody foul stuff, you'd be better off using it as paint stripper

300€! FFS! it cost my wife and daughter less than that to see Iron Maiden live in Paris including the trip there and the parking...

" Oh your goin' straight to hell for that one..."

well I went riding yesterday and the weather was shit today. spent all morning trying to get wife's laptop working it no longer recognises our wifi router... picks up 3 other networks that are nothing to do with us but refuses to acknowledge the esixtance of our livebox thingumajig. this is a netwrok it connects to automatically for the last 5 years or so. Network is running fine cos my laptop and all our phones are wifi-ing away on it like there's no tomorrow. after much searching ( cos I haven't a f'kin clue what i'm looking for) the thing generates a message window saying that network searching is switched off ( so how the fuck does it ind the other networks then...?) I check this out and it is switched on. It now tells me that none of the networks it usually connects to are within range ( it is about half way between the wifi router and my laptop which works fine, the other three networks are our neighbours and all waaaaay further away.) There was some swearing and after resetting network settings and trying to install a network automatically and then manually I gave up and said fuck it. we went to a freinds house for lunch and came back home at about 6pm. Mrs Moon switched poota on and lo and bahold it connected automatically as if nothing had happened. I fukin Hate computors!

well that would nearly double it's horsepower...

so far the chinese are only doing the 125 and 50's on their own, they are waaaaaay off pruducing anything with more power than that.

I think @Saul's Enfield has had a bastard love child with Pete's ex chinese BMW... This turned up at work last week. MASAI 125 " Trail Adventure" on sale from march...3690€ do you reckon it'll sell? So I've already told tham it needs spoked wheels and handguards...

well by bike got Fucking blown off the side stand by the wind this afternoon! Never had that happen before. Smashed the bloody pannier lid too. weather was okayish this morning ( +ve temperatures & sunny) so I decided to take the bike down to Louhans rather than the car. I had to visit "feu" parents in law's house as brother in law was there last week and incapable of putting some water pressure in the boiler without flooding the place. I used the autoroute a bit there and back cos I wasn't sure how long the repairs were going to take. Bloody quick job in fact cos there was already a tap on the offending pipe so I just needed to shut it with a pair of grips and open the stop cock to refill the boiler. As it took 10 minutes rather then a couple of hours and involved zero trips to the plumbing suppliers I decided to call on a mate in town. I pulled up at his place and the wind, which had been increasing all morning, was now really blustery and his house faced right into the teeth of it. I parked up infront of his gate, got off, walked round the bike, removed lid and ear plugs and had by back to the bike whilst I rang the bell. I heard an almighty "CRUMP" from behind me and the bloody bike was on it's right flank. Rero scratched, brake lever bent slightly forward and right pannier forward outboard edge broken off leaving 2 holes through the ford outboard vertil coner of the box. Could have been worse, I reckon I can glue that up at home. Once I got home I realised that at some point on the journey the aluminium sheet covering the centre section of the box obviously flew off. Anybody got a spare lid for a Triumph right hand side case to fit an 800xc? That ally cover is 75€ on Triumph online FFS the route I took, ish. no pics cos it was too cold and windy in th emorning and on the road home i was too pissed off. 430km all told.

Maybe I'm just a little more subtle about it than @XTreme ? Though my replying " you wanted out, you got out, now fuck off!" to qny mention of brexit would ive it away somewhat. Each time I go back for a visit I like the UK less and consistently fail to imagine ANY circumstances that would entice me back there for anything more than a short visit. ( I am sure there ARE some nice places still, I just haven't found them)