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Only pic taken this month

dunno mate, i wasn't taking in the atmosphere. didn't notice any particular mood in the hotels and restaurants, the brits I saw seemed to me to be as loud, ignorant and vulgar as ever. but then I was brought up in genteel lincolnshire villages, not big inner cities. N0 1 says that she was shocked last night when they went out for a drink around 9 pm and there were already girls her age absolutely legless lying in the gutter outside or stumbling around the bars screaming at each other with piss stains running down their legs... it's not so much the state of them that shocked her but that they were in that state by 9pm. To be fair, I saw no evidence of this in the Lincolnshire countryside I spent saturday afternoon walking around.

I left home at 07h00 friday morning, and drove to Liverpool, I had reckoned it would take about 10 hours... it actually took 14! just because the traffic in the UK is soooooo slow and dense. The brits drive like complete twats on the motorways too, any time there's 4 lanes, lanes 1 and 2 are completely empty with everybody driving 4 inches from the car in front in lanes 3 and 4. I lost count of the number of times I just played the ignorant foreigner and overtook everyone on the inside... wankers. On Saturday I drove from Liverpool to Louth and had a wander round the town but apart from the chinese restaurant, the indian and the "Mr Chips" chip shop i recognised none of it. Did the high school reunion thing sat night which was amusing and drove home sunday. 2200km in all. that's why I wasn't on here this weekend.

Sorry i misunderstood. bout an hour and a half, or 2 h if not on the autoroute, 140odd km i suppose.

Not really taken that much notice to be honest Pedro, when they look worn i change them. I rarely change front and rear at the same time. Ive done about 50,000km on the tiger and dont thing ive changed tubes.

I'll keep an eye on pressures for the moment and plan to change the tubes with the next tyre change I guess. My problem with that is that there is absolutely no trustworthy motorcycle mechanics within a 100km radius of here so any tube change is going to involve some organisation.

Really? Wow, never done that. the tubes I have in must be 4 or 5 years old...

isnt that the one they called "the land crab" it was so shite?

should I be replacing tubes periodically? I never did on the tralp, I had the same tubes for years.

Do modern innertubes eventually go pourous? how often are you supposed to replace them? I'm having a bit of an odd phenomenon with mine at the moment. The tiger has spked wheels, so runs tubes. they're fitted in "tubeless" tyres ( pirelli scorpion III) and have been without problem untill this summer. With the temperature range having been larger then usual this summer I have expected a certain amount of pressure variation but have been finding that both front and rear tyres need systematically pumping up, and always the same amount. the rear ( officially running at 2.9kilos pressure) will be missing 0.4K when I check with cold tyres wether they've been let overnight or for a number of days, The front ( usually at 2.5kilos) will be missing 0.2kilos. This has been the same EVERY time I check tyre pressures, which has been every time I ride cos I know they'll be low) I use a pressure guage to check the pressures and then a foot pump with a manometer on to pump them up. Both guages correspond. I have found no leak at the valves ( and anyway, if it was a valve leak it would surely continue leaking, not just drop the pressure by 2 or 400 grammes respectively... and to have BOTH valves go dodgy at the same moment...! Unlikely in the extreme I would imagine. So, my next thought is " Pourous tubes". is that still a thing with modern rubber? I ran tubes on the transalp too so have been using them for 20 odd years and never suffered from it before. Any other explanation? Just to throw out any theories you may come up with, I corrected the pressures on saturday morning befor leaving for a weekend trip. Over the weekend did 800 and odd km's getting home sunday night. Checked tyre pressures monday morning and they were spot on, not lost a gram! and yet they've systematically lost pressure overnight for the last few months.

work. working on boats everything is done kneeling down and ofen at arms length, my knees are fucked cos of that. my shouldaers are fucked cos of getting in and out of confined spaces and / or lifting weights (bateries) or wrenching at arms length. Back is fucked to to the endless working in confined spaces or leaning over an engine. Rheumatoid polyarthritis is not helping...

ill be 66 and about to retire, If i make it that far.

Boring mode *ON* ( cos I hear a lot of people saying she should have abdicated in favour of charles years ago) Queen Elizabeth could not have handed over to Charles any sooner than she has done. She could have delegated more of the public appearances, as she did with the last state opening of parliament and a couple of other more minor occasions over the last couple of years, but no more. There is no provision in the United Kingdom's constitution for the abdication of a reigning monarch, there is no legal or constitutional framework for it. The option doesn't exist. When Edward refused the crown in december 1936 he had not yet been crowned and therefore was not technically a reigning monarch, though given the title King for the 11 months following his fathers death due to the rules of automatic succession of the eldest son, ( now changed by Elizabeth to the automatic succession of the eldest child) in the same way Charles is referred to as King Charles 3rd from the moment of his mother's death on thursday. Edward had to make his choice before the coronation. Charles will only become legally and constitutionally King at his coronation. Until that time he could technically refuse the crown as did his uncle in '36. Boring mode*OFF*

or any weekend music festival...

you suffering again then Bob? sorry to hear that, I hoped the last surgery had at least diminished the phenomenon.

That's what I thought, thanks bob, I couldn't be arsed to find a pic

Haven't Husqvarna or someone already got a bike called the Nuda?

like so many Harly riders....

ate in Lyon’s “Food Traboule” sunday lunchtime. Corn Dogs

I'm working tomorrow, then I'm on holiday till the 19th. Once I get back I then have 6 days to work before I leave definitively.

This is why Mrs Moon is NOT accompanying me on the trip delivering N01 daughter to Liverpool. she can say her adieu's at home and have a bit of a cry with the remaining 2 once we've left.

good point

i hereby categorically and emphatically deny any and all knowledge of what the fuck is going on there!

I saw one of my old bikes parked outside a bar a few years ago, it had a lot less miles on the clock than it did when I sold it...

if I don't vote straight away I'll forget until it's too late. besides why be bothered about how anybody else votes? I just vote for either the best photo or the bike that has done more than the others one way or another during the month.