Sir Fallsalot

I've mastered going down them its just not a very elegant way and the pain in my back and elbows should be gone in a few weeks

It's too heavy for you because your an old duffer, just remember Michelle is a spring chicken fit and healthy ready to take on the world not ready to leave it behind

Your not wrong there, Honda is supposed to have a reputation for for fantastic build quality but I've seen some shit build quality on line and on my mates bike to back that up. Again i think its the type of paint they use is new and will take time to perfect in real world use but that's just one of many things that need improving

Trouble is @Clive they don't use oil base paints anymore, it's more environmentally friendly stuff now so they don't harm the environment. But now the environment harms the paint

Yes they are better at rusting and corroding nowadays

Now that's my kind of food @Pedro ?

Excellent stuff @Grasshopper's Ride that tool sure beats my steel bar and hammer. The one for removing the steering stem bearing is something i can easily make but until i saw it i hadn't thought of it so simple. It was a pleasure seeing you handle those tools for the first time you looked very competent you could learn from this @XTreme

I'm with you @Tym This tool chest i acquired when the Linde forklift factory closed. The boys that worked there were selling them off after they finished. they were full of tools as well but i have no use for a 1" drive socket set so just had the chest and a large steel cabinet This tool bench was also something i sort of picked up. It was on a site i was working on and i had spotted it outside while they renovated their workshop and it was still there when i turned up to do a job two years later. I just happened to be in a van large enough to fit it in that week and after asking the engineer we were working for if i could have it he said get it in the van quick when nobody is about, so it came home. When we turned up on site the next day some twat had been in in the night and stole the cable we had pulled in the day before. When the police were there the engineer only went and told the police that the workbench had been stolen as well FFS As for organised i made this to tidy up all the 3/8 drive stuff i have acquired over the years as i only seem to use the 1/4" or 3/8" socket sets on the bikes i needed it where i could find it

Who did you have to shag to get that Yen asking for a friend

I got loads of tools Bob. I still own a socket set that i bought in Halfords when i was 16, its not in its case anymore and i broke the ratchet trying to undo a car wheel nut with a 4ft scaffolding pole as an extension many years ago, and funny enough i broke the 19mm socket from the set doing exactly the same thing just before Christmas

Doesn't matter how competent anyone is really Pete there's always that one time it all goes tits up when your on your own but its a risk i'm willing to take As for stairs Yup this is me on stairs

Sounds delicious

Its only the trail riding side of it they say that @XTreme

That's right Bruce that's why I've ignored people who tell me not to ride on my own most of my life as you can end it in such simple ways you may as well be having fun when it happens

No not really Pete i put it up years ago for two reasons first started thinking about it when we had two gargoyles pinched off the windowsills, They were some tat the wife liked and i was constantly threating to throw them in the bin i think she still believes i did that and they weren't stolen The second reason makes me feel sick just to type it, when i was digging out the back garden i put a temporary washing line in the front garden and some sicko took my daughter knickers off there nothing else, i'd like to think it was just some lads fucking about and didn't know they who's they were, she was about 9 at the time

In case you don't know Ice is slippery as i found out this morning

My wife has had it as well as my parents

I was hoping they would have the six month extension this time round so i could fix anything in good weather. I replaced two brake light bulbs last weekend only thing i could find wrong. I haven't been underneath this car though so see what happens tomorrow

MOT on my car tomorrow so up and out early

The storm here ended two days ago they had it bad in skewen and up north. As i said the plant i'm working on deals with storm water and has been running flat out at the start of this week and at 75% capacity for the last two days when we've had no rain there's been a lot dumped on us this week https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-55767054

What do you mean by self cover @Pedro

Yes tried it and and various versions of it. works great on tubeless wheels but didn't work on the tubed type, when i removed the tyre i had to deal with the mess it makes as well as the flat so will never use it again

That's just it if your enjoying the bike and the problems are minor then why not carry on enjoying it ?

Hopefully she will fancy some sushi after that

Sorry as a comparison hows your riding partners bike been compared to yours