MooN

sorry, should have edited that photo smaller and better framed but couldn't be arsed... I snapped it whilst the kids were doing the washing up, hence the disorder in the kitchen...

This evening we have been mostly drinking a Macon Villages 2016. A little sharp for my liking but quite quaffable

2 hours ago, Buckster said:

From Yorkshire? Won’t be buying any rounds then.

but apart from that we don't have any sterotypical preconceptions in here... 

Welcome in Drjon 

subtle difference between a biker and a Motorcyclist...?

Night shift 's just come on, welcome in Stevek 

Allo, Allo... welcome in 

3 hours ago, Buckster said:

Do storm chasers ride GS’s now?

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

Welcome in rboett...

6 hours ago, Buckster said:

Look at the end of the day some people are casuals and some people aren’t.

Some people grew up riding bikes and it has got into their blood and they will always ride bikes, people like me, @XTreme, @boboneleg, @Tym, @MooN and others. Even if they have a small break they come back to bikes, some of us have always had bikes and we always identified with the culture including in the media, we don’t all identify with exactly the same area of biking but we all have things in common and all have crossovers in at least two or three areas. While there was no forum we didn’t stop riding.

The casuals on the other hand may have ridden when young but it never really took with them, it was just another mode of transportation, they may have a bike rotting away in the shed so they can say they have one, they like the idea of being part of the biking scene but they need to be stroked and encouraged by others to keep it going and when there is no focus like the forum they just drift away on the tide so to speak. 
 

The real difference between casuals and bikers of course is that at the end of the day bikers don’t care if you ride or not because riding is personal to them, sure they like to share it but they don’t need to. Casuals have a desperate need to be included, they need the validation.

 

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 

4 hours ago, XTreme said:

€25 from Cosmo

Not sure if they sell stuff for Brit Shit though! 

yeah i think that only works for girls bikes Pete

17 hours ago, boboneleg said:

So I got out for a ride today, first time for 11 weeks, just 165 miles around the Cotswolds

 

 

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...

15 minutes ago, XTreme said:

Superb Chris!

Are the cops doing checks there.......cos they are here?

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. 

16 hours ago, Pedro said:

I really rate the Continental TKC70s I have now on road, both dry and wet, and they give plenty of confidence in the kind of dry hard packed dirt I see in your dirt road reports.

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...

5 hours ago, boboneleg said:

It still looks pretty 'green' there Chris .

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 

4 minutes ago, Pedro said:

SantaFeRider rode BMWs and MotoGuzzi's? I think he passed?

gotit! SFR that was the guy, 

9 minutes ago, Pedro said:

Surely it's capable enough, what tires are on it?

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"...

2 hours ago, XTreme said:

Trying to think who I've met: Ren, Cupid, Pedro, Bruce, Dell, and Yen are the only ones I can think of.

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. 

4 minutes ago, Pedro said:

Good stuff, France at it's best if you had a picture of a baguette and pate or a butter and ham sandwich as well. 

How are you enjoying the Triumph on these day trips?

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.