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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?

I phoned work yesterday, just to make sure I was due back on Monday... "Oh no" they said, we've had a load more cancellations so won't be starting back till the 3rd may. I wonder if they'd have actually told me before monday morning if I hadn't phoned? so, another week of furlough for me! This weekend, i will be riding.... not far, but riding. We're still restricted to 10 km from home ( straight line distance) BUT, are allowed beyond that for neccessary shopping or services. So I have found a barber about 30 km away ( the one I usually use is closed as it's inside a shopping mall) so I'm due there this afternoon. I might get lost on the way home... tomorrow I have worked out a route of around 140km that stays within the confines of the 10km perimiter... so some serious adventuring

well spotted! I'm also just sick and tired of people just being absolute fuckwits.

I've always done it instinctively, Interesting what you say about trail bikes though Buck cos I've always used the rear brake to sit the bike further down into a corner. I find front brake use tends to sit the bike up.

you know I've got 3 kids right...

In the world at large today, everything is somebody else's fault, nobody accepts responsibility for anything, be it politicians, companies, drivers, school teachers or parents, whatever goes wrong is always the fault of somebody else, at all professional levels. if the professionals refuse to take responsability for their own decisions or shortcomings then you can't expect the moronic amoebas and bottom feeders nourished by an incessant supply of media effluent and mindless televised drivel to man up and accept responsability for their own failings. In the absence of any logical or credible alternative, they simply make something up, however implausible and in this domain there is a stunning ability to deny all logical or intelligent argument ( or any scientefic or tangible proof for that matter) simply on the grounds that it doesn't suit their purpose.

What I could really do with is you popping round to explain that to my employers. they don't seem capable of comprehending that either they find me an office job, or I will shortly suffer catastrophic and definitive mechanical rupture ( back, shoulders, knees or hips). I have now requested, in writing, twice, a meeting with them to discuss possible solutions. I'm still waiting.

Christ, that's nearly a month for x ray results! this year I have had , cardiac scan, thoracic x-ray, shoulder scan, shoulder x ray and echography of right hand. ALL results available to me and copied to my GP within 48hrs ( the thoracic and cardiec stuff was via the ICU so normal, the rest was 24hrs except for the shoulder x ray which was 48, the hand ecography results took 15 minutes... I know the french system is faaaaaar from perfect but it sounds like the NHS in the UK has given up the struggle!

fucking idiots, you don't moor a boat on a slip. God lazy journalists boil my piss! I don't expect them to know what they're talking about, but when you don't know you go and fucking ask someone who does. wankers all of them. rant over.