MooN

Allo, Allo... welcome in

they have to have something heavy enough to not be picked up by a tornado... Welcome in rboett...

I hate to admit it but... he's right.

nothing new Tym, the R.U.C in northern ireland used similar vehicles long before the "SUV" fashion

welcome in Phil, be nice to see another Trumpet in here...

Hello and welcome in

yeah i think that only works for girls bikes Pete

I like the bar support for the gps, I need to get mine up over the clockstoo, it's a bit low and to the left at the moment, but I'm not prepared to pay touratwat prices to do so.

nice! that bike is far too clean by the way...

They are if you don't know how to avoid them. I saw none in the entire 6 hours I was out, but I was on single lane backroads for most of that time.

beer wine with food ( Burgundy of course, maconnais preferably) pastis for aperitifs Get 31 for a digestive... but not often any of it really.

didn't quite do the run I'd planned today as unfortunately, Madame MooN doesn't live in the same space / time continuum as the rest of us mere mortals which means that we often eat at unorthodox hours... To be fair she's currentlt doubling up as telephone information service for friends and family wanting updates on her mothers state of health. I managed to finish the washing up by about half 2 and get out of the way before her bestie turned up for the afternoon... I had set the gps to take me south into the morvan with the Dam at the Lac de panneciere as a waypoint and Mont beuvray as a trunaround, back lanes and minor roads only on the way out and a faster trace to get back home. It kind of worked, I still found myself on some very stony tracks, not a probel in itself but not what I wanted really and the gps clearly thinks it's a road. I got a quick drenching on the way back which wasn't forcast either so I had no waterproofs with me ( unusual for me, I usually carry them all the time) but I managed to avoid the worst of it by boxing round the showers and I'd ried out again by the time I got home. 340 km in 6 hrs ( that's an average of only about 55km/h some piccies: Nice address... Crossing the river Chateau Faulin Dam! Here's your "Boeuf Bourguignon"... on the hoof, as it were... Just the other side of this junction I would be liable for a 135€ fine... 100km as the crow flies from my domicile.

I do tend to avoid off road when it's wet, I have neither the tyres nor the riding ability to deal with it. First rule of staying alive when your on your own,, know your limits. Plenty of tyres around that would be better suited to the sort of offroad I do but I would then almost certainly loose something at the other end of the performance scale when I'm trying to keep up with the other nutters ahen group riding ( BMW 1100RR Yam R1, a brace of fjr1300's CBR1000RR, vfr 800, vfr 1200 etc etc. The tiger is far better at this than the transalp was, unless it got really twisty...

it is mate, very. nobody has been out cutting grass and trees and hadges for 2 months of spring so its all a bit wild and wooly and very green

gotit! SFR that was the guy,

oh yeah it's not the bike that's not capable Pedro... I've currently got Pirelli scorpion trail II front and back and I really like them on the road, not enough testing off road to make an informed opinion yet. Very similar to the michelin anakee II 's that I ran on the tralp, can't fault them on road and I have learnt to push the tiger waaaaay beyond anything the tralp could do on the tarmac.

what about wossisname... old git... new mexico... something about square plates... rode an old mans bike, BMW sunothing or other...you remember... "wossisname..." fell out with someone and flounced... then there was "thingamajig"... Yank, another old wierdo... "oldbmwmaster"? or something like that? kept on about his "bitches"...

ooh shit, yeah Dell and Bustup how could I forget them? they came through on their way back from somewhere with dell's boy on the back If I remember rightly.

the tigger is absolutely brilliant, I'm loving it. twice the hp of the tralp and just sooo much ore refined. I'm not so confident with it off road yet where it is a little heavier and the power delivery is much different. I had the tralp for 17 years and over 140,000 km so it will take a while to get that level of confidence back with another bike anyway.

The "Ex"

yep, hilly, woody and green Pete. it'll be hilly, woody and brown if it doesn't rais soon. reservoirs and rivers are all full but we'be just had the hottest and dryest spring on record.

I met Catee a loooong time ago when he gave me some transalp bits, & Bob stopped by at work for a coffee on his way back from Italy a few years back. How much you are prepared to trust them as references is up to you ?

3 daughters...