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27 here this afternoon and set fair for the next week or so. It's allegedly due to a high pressure system that entered the UK illegally and is now stuck there until such time as it can be sent to rawanda, which is fine by me cos the outer edges of it are blocking the shocking bad weather from the south from coming this way.

in order to be eligible you have to have owned at least 47 different bikes in the last 3 years and any photo has to be of yourself on the bike on a thursday at no less that 874metres altitude. Only photographs of 811.4kb will be accepted and must be posted in an east -west direction on a tuesday and contain an equal number of green and red pixels along the median axis.

nope, you were a fucktard beck then and you're a medicated fucktard now.

there's only 7 entries cos there's so many rules a regs that most people can't be arsed.

the problem with riding in a group is that I can't stop for pics whenever I want so there aren't many pics. I'll see if I can cobble something together over the next few days.

Just got in from a 3 day trip to the ardeche. 1130km 18 hrs saddle time im fooked.

Dunno if this is allowed cos i inow you wnt have bikes in vans, but heres a pic of my bike in a town called “Vans”

Left home at 08:00 this morning, 10 hours and 450km later ( including proper lunch, coffee and beer stops) arrived in Saint Cirgues en Montagne, about to attack the apperitfs… tomorrow, The Ardeche.

daughter signed up for amazon prime so I've hacked her account and am watching "The Good Doctor" but I imagine I will get bored with it before series 3

Hi Russel, Ignore the peanut gallery... you'll learn to sift throught he dross and find some pearls ( you'll need to look hard, but they are there). Bobo neleg's question is the good one, cos a 650 sports bike might be a bit of a handfull for starting out, and yet a 650 cruiser or traily type would be better adapted, so don't stick at cc but horsepower and size. Remember this mantra f your looking for a budget 2nd hand machine; Cheap and fast won't be reliable Cheap and reliable won't be fast Fast and reliable won't be cheap on top of that, remember that if the deal looks to good to be true, it probably is... I would advise getting something you can get both feet flat on the ground with, its reassuring for a first bike. add to that something the will retain some resale value so that when you get bored and want something bigger and faster, you can sell it on ( so not italian or chinese). let us know how you get on and we eill take the piss accordingly

Nope, i was busy doing “me”.

Brother in law is going on a temporary transfer to a specialist centre in Hyeres tomorrow and needed some stuff dripping of for him in Lyon before he leaves. Wed planned to go and spend the afternoon with him sunday to take him his stuff. But, the cat escaped from the colditz courtyard on Thursday night, reappeared on friday in a bad way. Vet says she got bitten by a dog so 4 stitches and convalescent. Didnt want to leave her alone all day Saturday so Mrs Moon stayed home & i decided to run down to Lyon and back by bike. 4.5h run south ( no motorway) getting there at 14:00. Sit around in the warm and dry taking the piss out of brother in law whilst a storm front goumes through from sw to ne and then a 3 h night blast up the autoroute home for 22hoo ish. Boy did i get that plan wrong! left here 09:00 having checked the weather radar and realised the storm front was moving faster then forcast and starting to rotate north. i stopped about an hour out to zdd a layer under my jacket cos the temps dropped 5°. Again an hour later for a quick slurp of coffee from my flask and a 2nd thermal layer. I was already on the northern edge of the storm fron and the rain was coming down steadily. I got a bit further south before finding a bus shelter to eat me sarnies in whilst watching alternately the rain and the weather radar. It become very clear over half an hour that i was going to have to bail on the brother in law and rely on that age old tried and tested military strategy of” running away”. The storm front was moving much faster than id thought and the main body was now right between me and Lyon. The weather radar shows the storm had reached the Rhone valley and stalled, curling north in an anticlockwise rotation, generating wind and lightning strikes along with heavy rainfall. i misread that completely! And rode home with my tail between my legs ( metaphorically. Though the rain eased as i got further north i definitely found the limits of ALL my rain gear well before i got home. I dont remember being so thoroughly soaked in years. i am decidedly too old for that shit. i’ pit brither in laws stuff in a box and sent it “chronoposte”. 400 odd km round trip, 300of which in steady rain. on the plus side im not aching all over this morning, and the bike didnt miss a beat.

I got some saddle time on monday, Rode down to St Pourcain sur Sioule ( between Moulins and Clermont ferrand). 435km round trip in 7 hours ( 5 hrs riding) bike running great after a half days fettling sunday, greasing the brake discs, tensioning the handlebars, topping up the blinker fluid and all that...

I'm a little surprised that I still haven't recieved my invitation to the coronation yet...

Thank you gentlemen, I will pass on your remarks.

"There's no excuse for suzuki ownership"

Oh I never said h'd listen to me... but I did say I'd ask.

Gotta be sofia I think. Pete' pic is... well it's Pete innit... Marcel has snow which is good, but that bike is just fugly! Buckster has a trailer, so obviously not Ren mahaged to get photo bombed by some miserable looking SOG Alfalfa had the makings of a good picture but then some eejit dopped a boat anchor in the forground blocking the view Pedro has a great shot but Pedro ALWAYS has great shots, which I'm borderline jealous of Specs has a castle in spain but Sophia's better looking than Specs, so she gets my vote

or anybody else who's actually ridden one. Srambler 900 questions, not for me, but daughters boyfriend is passing his test at the mo and is looking for a bike. He was looking at a triumph scrambler 900 (2nd hand but from a dealer) and I stupidly said " I know a bloke wot's got one, i'll ask him how he likes it" ( I was probably a little drunk at the time...) His will be restricted to 47.5 HP for the A2 licence ( I think) I'm vaguely trying to steer him in the direction of a Trident as being better adapted, and more saleable as and when he changes his mind as to what he wants. Thoughts?

old enogh to know better, young enough to not care.

i believe he was

that actually sounds quite nasty

OH FFS! The Cat just fucking farted on me and it bloody stinks! I think we mistook a skunk for a cat, it's bloody awful.....