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You have a French number plate!? ??

I just remembered that I did once meet up with a group of strangers for a multi day ride, back in 2013 I rode down to the Vercors to join up with a group of Aissies from austouring forum run by glitch.oz I joined them for 2 days on the northernmost section of their "Tornanti III" alps tour. the meet up timingwas fucked up but for the rest it was a case of just slotting into the group who were superbly welcoming and made me feel like I'd known them for years. They have abviously ridden together a lot and Pete ( Glitch) had obviously put in a LOT or planning and work prior to the trip, it was all very well organised and slick and throroughly enjoyable, no stress, no whining, no stragglers everybody just doing whatever was needed to keep it all together. As Pedro says, it is a rare thing, which is what makes it worth mentioning.

With a few exceptions I prefer to ride alone. I have always preferred boating solo and am perfectly content in my own company. I like to think that this is because I have nothing to prouve, am capable of looking after myself and making my own decisions and don't need other people. ( but it's probably selfishness, that and the fact that nobody else will put up with me for more than an hour...?) If Other people want to only ride in groupes then fine, "chaqu'un sa merde" as they say over here. I have ceased trying to understand other people.

Ham with ketchup AND mustard. ( ain't I livin' the life !)

allo, allo, ?

I should keep quiet about that if I were you Lone ?

people are f'kin idiots.

yeah, I have a givi pocket thing and its zipped in which means taking both gloves off, if the phones plugged in then it becomes a real palaver to put it back in again. I'll need to change phone soon so I'll revise the mounting system anyway cos there are no phones available now that are small eenough to fit in the same system.

Well you'll not be getting much competition from tigrou this month Michelle, we be locked down and confined to quarters at least untill december.

nope, too old now.

I borrowed a DSLR from a friend a while back and really enjoyed using it and got some stunning photos with a little bit of pre planning and thought. But don't worry, I won't be getting one anytime soon. I do agree with Pedro's comment about the pain in the arse of hauling around a big camera and my current one just fits in my pocket. I use the phone for navigation and it winds me up having to get it out from it's mount every time I want to take a pic, so I still prefer using the camera. I might look at a higher res compact over the next few months though, or maybe some post production software so's I can tweak the pics on the putor.

I fail to understand how you can still be surprised at my mindboggling ineptitude with all things computerised... it's not like I haven't always been a complete arse at it.

start taking the pics, post 'em up when Pedro opens the BOTM thread.

It's not camera advice I need, it's money for a decent f'kin camera... I'd like a decent DSLR for Christmas if you're feeling generous... I also just discovered that I have somehow managed to loose a load of picturs...they're on here, some are on fessedebouc but they ain't anywhere I can find them on the poota. ?

nt quite but yes I have a cheap camera and the light was waaaay lower than i'd usually take pics in.

nice pics Grassshopper! total lockdown here now and as I'm furloughed from work there'll be no ridng at all untill further notice. I did walk the 300yds to the bakery and back for bread this morning but that is going to get stale pretty fast... ( ) I am allowed to go food shopping and from monday pick the kids up from school but them being twins and too big to fit in the panniers, that ain't going to be by bike...unless one of them gets ill... hmmm, I wonder...?

What? I don't take any pics from a distance, can't be arsed to walk that far...

careful Buck, the French are being targeted by religious extremist terrorists for a cartoon...

ey up!

nice pics Pedro. I sooooo miss the coast . the nearest coast to me is a about a 5 hr ride...

i just discoverd that you can change your vote... ok, I wa trying to see if I could vote twice and rig it but I didn't manage that...

yeah, but I'm talking an average apeed over a number oh hours Pete, on the decent roads I'm usually riding around 100 - 110kph but over 3 or 4 hours your average would be a lot lower.

European law would not allow seizure or fine on the sole grounds of the data protection act, filming in a PUBLIC place is the key, unless you are filming children ( and an official complaint is made to the police) or can be deemed to be filming for commercial purposes in which case you'd need permission from local authorities.

to and from work is allowed. work is allowed. food shopping is allowed. only essential goods shops are open ( and professional suppliers so we can all still work) anything not work is not allowed. Any ( including work) travel must be justified with a signed permit. crossing any border within the EU must be justified and acco;panied by a negative Covid test report less than 72 hrs old. This comes into force midnight tonight. There was ( at 18h00) 600km of traffic jam outbound from Paris give them a little more time and there'll be jackbooted militia in the streets shouting " PAPIERS BITTE!"... " AUSWEISS!, SCHNELL!"