Sir Fallsalot

So @Pedro since we are on about rules just to clear things up if you close the Submission thread before the end of the month does that mean any photos taken after that qualify for the next bike of the month even if they weren't taken in that month 

20 minutes ago, boboneleg said:

I haven't done that ford for years Fred , we must make it a mission next year that you take me that ford and I'll take you to couple over here 

you can go through i'll take the bridge lol i hate that ford it's not that deep but the rocks in there are slippery as ice and make getting onto the concrete slab each end difficult and they keep changing every time we have bad weather

Been out on the Beta all afternoon doing the local lanes photos you've all seen before but i'll put them up anyway, it was a bit windy on the hills hard enough to ride the ruts without the wind blowing me off course

I came down here on the XR with the chainsaw yesterday clearing some fallen trees only right i go up it today, i'm so unfit at the moment when i got to the end which is only about  200 yards i was breathing like a guy who smokes 40 a day with one lung 

went down a lane to Stanley town and onto Penrhys golf course lane

Further along looking towards Porth

Short Video from here looking into the Rhondda Fawr Valley

I switched valleys to go up to Miriam's bench haven't been here for a while and it hasn't improved, the golf course lane i came from is the other side of the valley

Another short video from here looking into the Rhondda Fach Valley and blowing a Hooley

had a play through the forestry at the end of the lane 

Onto the ford in Ynysybwl

i decided not to go through and went this way and over the foot bridge i think it would have been easier to go through the ford

took the lane from the Jampot down and had the opportunity to try out the new silky saw

It worked much better than i thought a hand saw should but bloody hard work with all the bike gear on some of those branches were more like trunks

from here i headed home via Eglwysilan mountain. I'm aching like hell now really need to work on my fitness 
Route map

35 minutes ago, Nute said:

Mother in law staying with us at the moment. She’s stepped on the puppy 3 bloody times so far. He’s laying in front of the fire minding his own business and she seems unable to get from one side of the room to the other without treading on the poor thing.

Thankfully she’s back the US on Thursday. I should be more tolerant but it’s bloody hard at times. 

I think i should have posted this here
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/12Dq3imJdGj/

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/12Dq3imJdGj/

14 minutes ago, Sir Fallsalot said:

Just pulled the Beta out as i haven't looked at it for 3 months and the fecking battery is dead bloody Lithium crap, hoping my charger can recover it.

Just checked and the battery charger is out of recovery mode and is now charging, Thought i'd give the starter a push and the bike has started Lithium batteries are great 

4 minutes ago, Catteeclan said:

What charger have you got Fred? Looking at getting one as Lithium are getting more popular.
Brother in laws bringing his Husky down soon and that's got one too. 

I have one of these
https://www.sportsbikeshop.co.uk/motorcycle_parts/content_prod/248878?glCountry=GB&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQiAyc67BhDSARIsAM95Qzsml_sND7Y7HO7g31GBKUjvRQ3oh3aPglTkCYdLqTcGI-IrXCWhhfYaAvsPEALw_wcB

Just pulled the Beta out as i haven't looked at it for 3 months and the fecking battery is dead bloody Lithium crap, hoping my charger can recover it.

29 minutes ago, Six30 said:

@boboneleg @Sir Fallsalot looks like us dirt bike boys are getting the cold shoulder here...no votes for any of us

I don't care i know my bike is the best and everyone else is wrong

19 minutes ago, Skippy said:

So basically this BOTY competition consists of all the BOTM winners? If that’s the case I thought my crappy old FZ6N won one month didn’t it? Or is that just wishful thinking/dementia?

Eh no you need to go back through the tread and do some revision or @Pedro is going to fail you 

My late Christmas present to me turned up today slightly larger than the old and cost considerably more hope its worth the cash, it cut through a 4" diameter branch easy enough today something i know the old saw would have struggled on 

15 minutes ago, YamaHead said:

Here's 1 that Fred might take a likin' to.... XR 680R by Parr....

I'd prefer it with dirt tyres on 

23 hours ago, Six30 said:

When i was a kid living at my parents house our next door neighbour had one of those. he got up for work one morning to find the engine gone someone had removed it while it was parked on his driveway and nobody saw or heard a thing 

Who's doing what,
i have nothing planned this year the kids are away so probably just be me and the wife having a living room party, saying it like that makes me think i might not show up LOL

Just now, Pedro said:

He can bitch like a young Karen, though.

My wife don't bitch and how do you know her 

7 minutes ago, boboneleg said:

Anyone else working today ?  I have just made a big box out of six smaller boxes to ship a headlight fairing .  I knew watching Blue Peter when I was a boy would come in handy one day

I'm off until a week today so just chilling out enjoying the freedom. I was out on the XR this morning clearing some small fallen trees on a local lane that's enough exercise for today 

21 minutes ago, Pedro said:

Bellow you´ll find 2023's BOTY picture submissions thread:

 

 

It wasn't just me that did something exactly the same as in December 2023, you might want to check @Renegade's picture, as that was the exact same one as well. Phil, you old cheating 

 

 

More than @Renegade's cheating, what saddens me is that last year the exact same effort resulted in 15 submissions. This year we lost Pete, Marcel is off stalking somewhere, but everyone else is still a member.

In @Renegade's defense he's an old fucker and his brain is only running at 50% of normal, years are like months to him now 

12 hours ago, Six30 said:

i have to clean my bike , its stilled caked in mud.. couldn't be arsed when i got back and the mud was still wet ...i fear i have made a fatal error and more work than it should be

That's the one thing a lot of people are not prepared for when riding through muck you will still be finding the stuff weeks after washing it. I cant be arse half the time and just leave it if i know I'm out in the next week or two

2 hours ago, Six30 said:

Is there a bike in @Sir Fallsalot picture 

Must be it says above 

On 26/12/2024 at 22:30, boboneleg said:

Nice one Fred , superb work there.  I trust you were wearing your hi-viz and hard hat while performing these operations   ...........

 

I did have my chainsaw trousers on underneath my waterproof over trousers, they were surprisingly comfortable when riding the bike i may have stumbled upon something lol 

48 minutes ago, Nute said:

Our bird feeder is falling apart but rather than buy the same crap again which will last 2 years and rust away to nothing I thought I’d make one. Rooted through my bits of metal that I have and can’t find any suitable stainless or aluminium so will need to buy some. The only bit I want to reuse is the half sphere plastic thing which stops the squirrels getting on to it so the new tube needs to be the correct dia for that. 
 

Cant believe how bloody expensive stainless tube is. There is a metal fabricator by the station 5 mins from me, might go up there after new year and see if I can scrounge some

I’ve had stainless and ali bits from my local scrap metal yard usually for free but I do weigh in a lot of copper in with them

In a pub called the moody cow near Ledbury waiting for the most expensive fish and chips I’ve seen in a while hope it’s good 

My daughter and her boyfriend are off to Austria skiing today and we have to drop the boy off in Ledbury to met up with his girlfriend and then he's off to the Isle of Man with her so me and the wife will be on our own for new year, But thinking about it we wouldn't see them if they were home anyway. And @Pedro just so you can feel a little less victimised the last time the boy went to the Isle of Man with his girlfriend the both of them were taken aside by security and interrogated like you were and his girlfriend lives there LOL 

I was off out to cut some firewood i spotted this morning but went to auto parts first to get the replacement bolt for the daughters car and what should i see in their car park when i was there it was a big tree down so i cut that up instead, saved me a much longer trip bloody hard slog on my own

Still trying to work out what tree it is, some of it was already cut for me the wet ends of it have gone an interesting colour

Annoying the neighbours cutting the pre cut bits to size

My wood store is now full finished the day off with the annual Christmas wrapper burning 

Knocked up a saw mount on the XR this morning

Covered it with a plastic bag with a helmet bag on top for the trip up to Merthyr as it's bloody foggy as hell and a bit damp

First tree cleared

Rode around this one last time and thought since i'm here just cut it

Forgot to take a before on this one it was overhead you had to duck under 

And the folding saw destroyer now destroyed 

Then onto this lot 

My little saw made short work of it all

The gulley repairs i done back in the summer held up well to the storms we had. Those two rock in the middle of the stream have been washed there right in the path of the line you need to get up the bank, too bloody heavy for me to move shows the power a stream has in flood

I wanted to check out a lane that runs from the end of this one over to Aberdare as i'd had reports of it being washed out, when i got to the top of the hill i was amazed how good the weather was the whole of the valleys were submerged in a thick fog all day but it was blue sky's and warm on the hills 

Photo taken about 15:30 as the sun was starting to go down

Last one before heading down into it to go home