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we're on the 4th generation of those, they even have them in a small trailor, capable of controlling simultaneously 4 lanes of traffic both directions.... funny thing is though... they keep getting burnt, or shot, or painted out... but you're right, big power is pretty pointless these days, unless you live near a german autobahn

Lame threads? I distintly remember somebody ( who's name should be silenced forever and buried in the concrete of an underpass along with it's owner) faking an accident, with phtos and the lot

starting to look like there night be another lockdown coming here, media have been "leaking" the idea for the last week, prepering the terrain so to speak, the officials and govt offices have gone from "unneccessary" to " Unlikely" to " undesirable" to " can't be ruled out" to " it depends on the figures" to " possibility"... there is an official govt announcement due wednesday pm.

I think you're very brave letting children and/ or teenagers clean your bikes. Did I tell you about how No1 daughter cleaned the car u gave her for her 18th? ok it was my crappy old beaten up Yaris, but she went ahead and cleaned it thouroughly... The couple of tree resin spots on the bonnet she decided would come off with some scotchbrite pan scourer stuff... Neither me or her boyfriend ( who is an auto mechanic) will ever let her forget that....

much as I hate to admit this but there is some sense in what Bucky says, the actual weight of the bike is not really the issue ( on a road bike) it's more the centre of gravity. I remember riding a mates pan european a while back and being shocked at how light it felt compared the the tralp despit it's numerous extra kilos, all about weight distribution and centre of gravity. Untill you drop it.

well I dunno about anybody else but I reckon I know where I'm going for lunch once we can travel again...

hate to tell you this Tym but most 'murricains dont really know much about " the rest of the world" if the ones I've met are much to go by

tis indeed a railway bridge, built to transport replace the canal for transporting firewood to Paris. There are some sections of old railway that are accessible and I've done ride reports on most of them before ( waaaaaaaay back when) but most of them have been ploughed under and the buildings either converted and in use or simply dismantled. the main disused line locally has been turned into a " Voie Verte" or green way and is inaccessible to motorised transport.

crisps, but we'll allow it...

you've been living a life of leisure since I can remember Tym!

doubt it, there's no mountains behind it. cool pic though.

rapidly becoming my favorite technique Bob. great minds an all that, eh! ?

to be Honest Fred, it's the palaver of getting all togged up that puts me off. Back in the day i'd bung on a jacket, gloves lid and away, and deal with the cold. it now takws f'kin ages, getting the bike out of the shed ( 1st time I've had one worth trying to keep in good nick) , change out of normal clothes into proper riding trousers with liner, jacket weighs a ton with it's various liners, by the time i've got boots on trousers and jacket on i'm sweatiting like a bastard, lid, keys, glasses, telephone, wallet fuckmine it takes nearly an hour... go outside and the sweat freezes, glasses fog up, and so on and so on... once i'm riding i'm fine but getting ready is just such a bloody PITA these days. I may of course be possesed by the spirit of victor Meldrew...

Oh I wish I'd thought of that one!

you posted that just about the moment I rolloed out of the yard..... so I consider I got away with it ?

smashing pics Skippy ?

I managed to work up sufficient motivation and energy to move my fat arse off the sofa and into the requisite number of layers of clothing to make riding possible at this time of year. I'm obviously getting old because it never used to bother me that much and we all know that we used to have "proper winters" when I was younger... We now have a 6pm curfew ( from the french "couvre feu" = lights out... in case you wondered... ) which although tecnically reduces available riding time, for me it means that Madame finishes wrok an hour earlier so I don't need to go and pick up the kids as she can bring them back ? so it actually lengthens my available time by at least an hour and a half. Result! Checked tyre pressures once out of the shed and though expinting a drop after nearly a month I was surprised to find someone had stolen nearly a kilo of air from the rear tyre and another half from the front. My Trusty High tech foot pump remedied the situation and I headed south and west. I had no clue where I was going so I just used a compass app on the phone to keep heading that way. The app has a waypoint memorisation feature that I like so when I've had enough, rather than switch on a navigation app to get me home ( they always use the same routes basically) I swith to waypoint tracking and it just puts an directional arrow on the compass pointing to Home in a straight line.... hours of Fun! There was some snow about but only in the shade, and some of the roads through the woods were bloody slippy as it hasn't defrosted for days in there... I spent 2,5 hours doing 150k, South West, then West for a bit then followed the arrow home. I also managed to take a couple of pics. Any way, enough verbiosity; I couldn't be arsed to walk away far enough to get the antenna AND the bike in the same pic ? I found an old viaduct down a dirt track, built in 1880 - 84 Oh look! a Castle for our colonial friends. This is Druyes Les Belles Fontaines, built by the duke of Nevers about 200yrs befors Columbus was born... ( 2nd 1/2 of the 12th century). from here I rode west for a while before switching on the Home waypoint tracker. Got home around 5:15pm and as the sun was starting to set the temp was dropping rapidly so good timing.

Snowed here last night. I just need to hammer some nails into the car tyres so's I can take Madame to the market in Chablis.

Scott is on Facebutt.

I though the Enfields could be repaired and mainained with a pointy stick and a medium sized rock...

on the one hand you have obi wan kenobi from Star wars or Mark renton from Trainspotting pr any number of top notch films and great roles, On the other you have the boy from " the emerald forest".

probably not... but it might be fun trying ?

Nope, Buck used to annoy me.

duh! Why do you think I'm keping hold of this one?

Bonjooar six trente. I see you already met most of the inmates ?