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anything using "Motorcycle" rather than "Bike" is a mouthful, add more words and yes it become long and boring. some of them were a joke Pete...

it's not a "right" or "correct" way of riding Pete, it's just "another" way of cornering, I use it either when I've misjudged a corner and gone in too fast and need to correct, ( backing off the throttle will sit the bike up and make it run wide) or am trying to keep up with faster bikes / riders and need to carry more speed through the corners.

you don't want to "hit" anything once you're beyond a certain angle, The clue is in the title " Trail" braking, you're just feathering the trailing (rear) brake into the corner, allowing the use of the brake as a further control of angle and speed ( in conjunction with throttle and bar inputs), usually only releasing it completely, as Buck says, at the apex as the bike then needs to sit back up and accelerate out of the corner. ( some sort of disclaimer here about not confusing road and circuit, safety ahould be first consideration etc etc and that I am in no way affiliated or accredited by the california highway patol or anyother competant or incompetant organisation)

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Georgia the state or Georgia the country?

French cherry trees to rival Bob's neighbours

cherry scrumping tiger

Pete, can you move my post to ride reports? I done gone put it in da rong place innit. cos i is a fukwit!

how to ride nearly 3 hours whilst remaining within 10km of home. something like this: nearly all pretty minor roads, which is what we like, and the dark brown bits on the trace are unpaved sections. Sun shining, spring in the air and 20 odd degrees forcast for the afternoon. I had to take N01 daughter back to uni in the afternoon so did this in the morning, set off about 10h30 up through St Bris le Vineux and on to St Cyr les Colons the village itself is "out of bounds" so cut north back under the autoroute, twice, and on to montallery and Bleigny le Carreaux. It had taken me a while to find a way out of Bleigny le Carreaux without crossing the 10km line, but a shot dirt track liason sorted the problem allowing me to cut back westwards through to Moneteau and cross the river there. There was no way to hug the northern edge of the circle without crossing out of it, so I had to work back south a little before heading towards the western sector. and some cherry orchards. soon be scrumping time... time ws getting on and I knew N01 would be getting her knickers in a twist if I didn't get back soon so from here, above Coulanges la Vineuse, I pushed on a bit down through Vinvelles, back across the river, up and down the hillclimb course at Chitry le Fort, back to St bris, cuting left up over the Col Du Cremant and back to the river at Vincelottes and thus home along the riverbanks. Got home with impeccable timing ( as always) at 12h30 just as Lunch was coming out of the oven. 100km almost exactly with a moving average of almost 50km/h . scoffed lunch, jumped in the car and did 3 hours of Autoroute taking N01 back to Dijon.

which is problematical as he's the bloody driver! ?

they did something right with the picasso, though fuck knows its ugly enough.

you can work on the basis that anything Citroen is either brilliantly quirky and a nightmare to work on, ( Traction, mehari, 2CV, DS, GS, CX, BX,...etc...etc) or simply a pile of shit and even shittier to work on ( berlingot, C4, C8, C5, C1...etc ...etc...) I've used most of these last at work one time or another and have hated every sigle one of them.

The idea is that once you're leaned over at speed in a bend, applying a little rear brake will a) compress the rear suspenders slightly and b) slow the forward momentum slightly, both of which will ( unless countered by steering or throttle input) tend to push the bike further over into the corner, which is useful to know if you've gone in too hot. incorporating this information and technique proactively rather than reactively, allows you to corner faster or tighter than if not using the technique. I don't use the front brake in a corner as this tends to sit my bike up, out of the corner. ( slowing the front end will transfer mass forward and outwards).

From what i've heard, the camping cars are more of a problem than the midges on that particular route. A victim of its own success perhaps, cos it should be a superbe ride.

oh don't, I still have fucking nightmares about that! ?

but in order for them to make that choice /decision, they have to find us... which isn't the case at the moment.

well yeah, DUH! they're Citroen...

not to be compared with Yen's stone passing episode, far from it, but I discovered yesterday during a visit to a neurologist who took too much pleasure in using an electric cattleprod on me, that I have carpal tunnel syndrome in both wrists and the beginnings of "tennis elbow" or tendinitis in the right elbow. My Father in law used to say " I wasn't sick 'till I went to the doctors..." I think I might just give up asking what's wrong, ignorance is, after all, allegedly bliss.

those Deux Chevaux are killingly fun to drive! especially the older ones. Thay're an air cooled flat twin 430originally ( developing 2 fisca lhorsepower, hence deux cheveaux) or 600cc for the 2CV6. pistons fitted blind so no head gasket, a central camshaft and no coolant... fucking bomb proof! If you ever get the chance to drive one, throw it ino a roundabout flat out... the bloody thing 'll lean far enough for the passenger to get their knee down ?. the early nes wre built along similar lines to a Jeep, simple pintle and gudgeon hinges for boot, doors, bonnet and windscreen. With a canvas roof you can strip it down to engine and chassis in about 10 minutes, The original seats were also designed to be removable so they could be used as chairs outside during a pause or a picnic. they're totally cult here now.

Yorkshire people, moving south of the Humber?! it must be reet grim oop ower t'watter fur real men te come an' mix wi t'likes o they shandy drinking pooftas...? I used to have a mechanic from Barnsley, he could speak french with a Yorkshre accent. He spoke almost normal english most of the time but when his brother turned up he slipped back into using "thee" and "thy" rather than you and yours...?

there was some talk of them having to withdraw from Europol ( successor to Interpol in Europe) as well. nice ride Swagman. I remember going to cleethorpes from school ( Louth) many...many, years ago

I only buy local stuff Pete, its so much more eco conscious

bike's been sat for a couple of weeks due to lockdown and I just aired up the tires this morning, the rear having lost nearly 1/2 a kilo of pressure. So I pumped air into the tire, do I need to ride it gently for a few miles so that the new air mixes properly with the old and gets evenly distributed around the tire?