MooN

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...

Despite other sh!t going on I abandoned the children to their own devices for a couple of hours this afternoon and headed out to do something useful... and clear the mind at the same time. I used "Kurviger" to plan a route as I had 3 fixed waypoints I needed to visit to verify the availability of water and electric hook ups for our boats in the event of us actually being able to run this season. We have a guide on each boat for the clients which I update at the beginnin of each season and I have found that the most reliable way of getting valid information is to go and look ofr myself... so waypoints were Surgy, Villiers sur Yonne and Monceau le compte. add start and finish and kurviger sorts out a route based on various other criteria ( fastest, shortest, main roads, curvey or downright winding) I added a couple of other waypoints to take in one or two portions I wanted to ride, export to " Scenic" on the "mefone" and jobs done. screen capture for those who like, those who don't like can do the other thing... First stop Surgy, Neither water or power available here which came as no surprise but a nice picnic area and ahade to hide in Temps in the upper 20's so shade is always welcome when disguised in bike gear Back over the river, not in the shade... and on through Clamecy to Villiers sur Yonne to see if there's still a standpipe at the little port there Villiers Sur Yonne it looked like a snowstorm had just gone through, look at all the white fluffon the ground The stand pipe is still there and even has a pair of fonctionning taps... no water in it though but I found the stop cock under a steel plate so I know it can be nade to work as and when needed. I also say this, as important a peice of leisure equipement as any if ever Boboneleg comes this way again... a pleasant spot to sit and contemplate I moved on from here heading towards Bazoches, across country on the minor roads, I wanted a closer look at this hilltop building which i'd never seen before the road up was narrow and steep but gave some good views of the surrounding countryside From afar I thought it might just be a grain silo or something but a bit odd perched up there on the hill. Turns out it's a very nicely maintained chapel Time was getting on and I need to get home, the roads from here were all well known to me and fairly rapid, here to Bazoches was again smaller back roads but then it was then quick and straightforward. got home around 6, just in time for aperitifs... ? cheers!

please tell me you don't think I actually bother to read what you write Pete...

you too have ;isconstrued my original point, but I can't see who to explain myself better. more sucinctly perhaps would be : some people prefer to avoid any interaction, for fear of giving offence or being accused of giving offence. Am i the only one who percieves this?

Welcome in.

Ok. Ill try to explain myself better. my original point was that To avoid the risk of giving a percieved offence we say nothing. A sad state of affairs that suits mo ones purpose. and if you think that sexual stereotyping is dead in the workplace im Europe you are very wrong my friend. I am currently helping 3 teenage daughters with their career choices.... believe you me sexism is alive and well in the career world. I also had to get rid of my best mechanic last year, fired for sexual harrassement in the workplace. Hes 10 yrs younger than me so its not just the “old guard” either.