Muddy

Here in Jobsworthshire, Ingerlund

Welcome Phil. Whereabouts in SW France are you? I've a few friends I visit regularly in St Pons de Thomieres. I love that region. Fantastic roads.

That's the thing. That sort of shit is tolerated these days, when years ago you'd get asked politely at first to do a search and not to duplicate. Repeat offenders got flamed. These days people sign up, don't even introduce themselves and then start asking stupid questions, rather than lurk and learn. The whole damn world has got lazier and dumbed down drastically in the space of a decade. All bikes have their issues and a decent forum will have exposed and solved most of them. Which means there'll likely be a thread explaining a problem and fix in great detail. That was the case on CarpeTDM.

When I was researching new bikes I lurked on the few Tracer sites around, both MT09 & 07, and they were all very poor, mainly because the FB groups took the energy. The Honda CB500X forum was very good though, lots of energy. Carpe lost quite a few people to FB and was almost dead, then it picked up again in recent years. I've warned people that if they lose forums to FB groups, they'll regret it badly in years to come. Forums are like pubs and have their own unique identity after a while.

That 'Comarca De Huescar' sign with the scull and shadow people very cool. Can't work out if it's a 'welcome to' or 'stay the fuck out of' though.

My next helmet will definitely have a peak. In these northern latitudes the sun is very low in the sky in the winter and a couple of times I've been completely blinded and had to pull over quick. I'm not bothered about the aerodynamics as I rarely go over 60 mpg.

Hello there Mawsley

Hello and welcome That's a beemer that has seen some serious action, for a change.

Hello and welcome Sofia In a few weeks time you'll be saying to Pedro, 'eeewwww, what's wrong with those guys' and Pedro will laugh hysterically.

Hiya Pete and the rest of you fellas. So it lives again. I thought FB had taken all your souls for good.