Sir Fallsalot

Actually there's loads for electricians at the moment its just not our kind of work. we've had 8 on furlough since Christmas and most of them have been working not sat in the house doing nothing

We took men on about 8 months ago because welsh water told us to accelerate the job in Llanelli and then last month they pulled the plug on all their new projects we've finished the scheme 2 months early as they asked so now we have no work to go to until march

Well this weekend i will spend thinking myself lucky, we ended this week by making 6 of our guys redundant some i'm really sad to see go and others i don't particular care about but still not a nice thing for them

That's right @Pedro i'd be happy if the only thing stopping me from riding was high winds

I bought a new pair of boots wore them once the left foot leaked so sent them back got a replacement and have worn them once now dying to get out more to see if these leak before the bloody warranty runs out

I traded the VFR for the Africa Twin in 1993 to slow me down @boboneleg but all it did was reduce my top speed i was still a twat in the twisties and i was a bigger twat when i rode on my own, when with others i tend to ride as they do. I have slowed down a lot over the the last 10 years but i still have my moments where i just go off on one. I owned the VFR for four years and had a speeding ticket every year. I also had i few run ins with the police i wont put up in print on it so it had to go and i also decided i couldn't be trusted on anything sporty so stuck to the trail bikes or naked bikes to keep the top speed down.

Not sure Pete i only joined up because it covered 3 of the bikes i own in one place and was a great resource of information even with the clickyness. I only tend to sign up to stuff i have an interest in. One thing i can never understand is why people join bike groups for a bike they don't own or never have any intension of owning beats the shit out of me that one

I think so and then everyone disappeared its been dead ever since

I use Facebook for the bike side of things like what events are coming up and dedicated groups for a particular bike for information, but even sticking to those groups i have to come away from there to take a breath because i cant take the crap on there it's so hard to scroll past and not read it The only forum i visit other than this one is the XRV one but i found it very clicky. when in its prime i could answer someones question and the guy asking it would thank someone giving the same answer 3 posts down and not even acknowledge me and this happened all the time so i gave up on it, now its dead I've tried but still the same and I've been active on there for 13 years. Enjoying this place at the moment, but as its growing i'm finding it more and more difficult to keep up with everything and starting to miss posts as i don't have the time to sit and read everything, the good thing with the forum is its easy to pick up where you left off where on Facebook its lost forever after a day

And the last SP30 VFR again. I was always late for work and forever leaving at the last second. I'd been travelling to ferry road in Cardiff and could do it in 18 minutes riding like a lunatic same route every morning. This particular morning i was later than normal and after not being able take another bollocking i had to pull out all the stops to get there, I was up over the country lane from my house to Beddau in the blink of an eye and left the mini roundabout on the back wheel going as hard as i could and what should i pass going the other way while on the back wheel a bloody pursuit car, never seen one in this area before no problem i thinks as i drop back onto two wheels he ain't catching me. I come up behind a car going into a bend ahead and thinks take your time there's a long downhill straight after the bend you can take him there, but as i enters the straight i see another pursuit car in the junction half way down the hill, i decided to play it cool and follow the car down, the copper pulls out behind me and i feel my heart sink as i see the blue lights come on as i'm really getting a bollocking in work now i'm going to be real late. So sat in the plod car he asks me what the speed limit is down the hill and i say 50 he says no it's 30 and i go down the victimisation route and ask why i was pulled over instead of the car in front doing the same speed and his words were, he didn't come out of Beddau roundabout like a fucking lunatic do you want a fixed penalty or go to court so i accepted a fixed penalty and left with my tail between my legs 54 in a 30 that time, but i recon i was reported and the cops were waiting for me as i'd been down that hill about the same time of day for months at over 100mph so it was back to the A470 now that was deadly hated that route

Second SP50 was on the M4, VFR again. travelling back from the Isle of wight after a weekend away with the wife. Going past the junction before the Newport tunnels about 130mph and spots a patrol car in the corner of my eye on top of the bridge so i slows down to 70 and thought i got away with it but he catches me up around Cardiff gate done again 90 in a 70, what a dick i should have stuck to the 130 he would never had caught me before i turned off for home

I cant remember the the first SP30 but the first SP50 was on the M5, the place i worked needed a door latch to finish a motor control center before it could be delivered so they sent me to Bridgewater to pick it up on my bike (1986 VFR750). As I got on the M4 at Cardiff i was stuck behind a lorry being escorted by four police cars i tried to pass but they blocked me off by swerving in front of me with lots of hand gestures so i took it they didn't want me to pass. After crossing the old Severn bridge they carried on along the M4 and i turned off south on the M5, the road had very little traffic on it so i picked up the pace to a sedate 150mph a nice relaxing speed for me back then When i was approaching J18 i went through a fog patch and after wiping my visor In the distance i saw what i thought was a patrol car so i just shut the throttle off and let the bike slow down on the engine, it was a copper and i past him at about 75mph which was enough for a pull from him, it was a proper good cop bad cop scenario, i thought he was going to do me for my number plate when he asked me what my reg was on the bike about 8ft in front of him because the number plate was so small he couldn't read it, ended up being done for 96mph in a 70. I had worked out after paying fuel i would have had £75 on the mileage expenses but look how much the fine was, what a twat LOL

Same here Yen i scanned my licence years ago so it wouldn't get handled too much wont change it until i'm forced to

Don't forget i was 15 i was still learning. this is my score card before licence's went on line here

I've lost count of how many times I've been done for speeding mostly in cars and vans probably because there's no plate on the front of a bike. My introduction to the life of a criminal was when i was about 15 and got done on my DT175 so when i applied for my provisional licence it came with 7 points, which i then added another 4 a few months later because i gave my mate a go on my bike and he done a runner from the cops but an old twat in the village grassed us up I even have evidence, my father found these in the garden shed a few years ago that i had hid from him

When i took my car for an MOT last Saturday i nipped in the shop next door to get something for breakfast and while waiting to pay a little old lady was talking to the girl behind the till and said we had a birthday party for so-and-so last week, the girl behind the till started to explain to her what she had done was wrong and her reply was "its ok nobody will know". She didn't even understand she is one of the ones most at risk we're all doomed

Those were taken in 2017 on an older i phone using the panoramic feature the new phone will be a lot better now i know what your looking for. Trouble is the pano view tends to bend the image like this one

Is it a Honda

What about something like these is the quality good enough and will they fit

Looking at Madam Lou i think she is the hill above town now.

You didn't see many 465's about over here and the 490 i got was registered for the street so i could ride it anywhere i wanted straight from my door which is one of the things that attracted me to it. this is the only photo i have of it. I'd given it a hard life wish i'd looked after it more and kept it.

@Grasshopper's Ride The only advice i can give you is to get out there and test ride bikes then pick one on the results of that. By all means take advice on what issues or what to look out for on a bike. Only you can decide what you like and want. I remember all my mates telling not to buy a YZ490 to use as a trail bike 30 odd years ago saying it wouldn't work and i was crazy, you know shit like that. But because they dismissed it so much it just made me want it more, so i bought it and after a few days on it i realised all the stuff my mates were telling me turned out to be total horse shit i'd never had such an adrenalin rush on a bike, even when it tried to kill me which was most of the time i still loved riding it. It only managed to break my collar bone but i was back on it as soon as i could. Yes it needed lots of maintenance and went through a tank of fuel almost as quick as a tube of autosol in Pete's hands but i'm glad i didn't listen to my mates and followed what my heart wanted it was great fun