yen_powell Posted January 20, 2023 Share Posted January 20, 2023 2 hours ago, Pedro said: I just realized that within a week I’ll have been a member of the Horizons Unlimited forum for 20 years! Because I have no personal computer at the moment, only my work one, I am missing loads of bike stuff short cuts and that was one of them, I'd forgotten all about it. So I googled it, got my user name wrong a few times then managed to log in. 21 years and 40 weeks since I joined, probably 20 years since I posted anything. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Six30 Posted January 20, 2023 Share Posted January 20, 2023 44 minutes ago, Pedro said: It's one of the most competent race bikes ever, wash your tongue! It may be , but it fell out the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckster Posted January 20, 2023 Share Posted January 20, 2023 7 minutes ago, Six30 said: It may be , but it fell out the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down If the fairing was on it you would be touching yourself. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckster Posted January 20, 2023 Share Posted January 20, 2023 It’s an XRTT 750 by the way, not an XR750. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Fallsalot Posted January 21, 2023 Share Posted January 21, 2023 10 hours ago, Buckster said: It’s an XRTT 750 by the way, not an XR750. Yes you tell him never did a post get me so exited and disappointed at the same time 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckster Posted January 21, 2023 Share Posted January 21, 2023 29 minutes ago, Sir Fallsalot said: Yes you tell him never did a post get me so exited and disappointed at the same time He might flounce. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XTreme Posted January 21, 2023 Author Share Posted January 21, 2023 Had a better nights sleep last night, and apart from one of two bouts of hard coughing I haven't been too bad. My ribs and back are still painful because of the hard coughing, but the anti-inflammatories are helping a bit. This has been far worse than Covid, or any bout of flu I've ever had, so what the hell is it exactly? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pedro Posted January 21, 2023 Share Posted January 21, 2023 2 minutes ago, XTreme said: so what the hell is it exactly? 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earache Posted January 21, 2023 Share Posted January 21, 2023 15 hours ago, yen_powell said: Because I have no personal computer at the moment, only my work one, I am missing loads of bike stuff short cuts and that was one of them, I'd forgotten all about it. So I googled it, got my user name wrong a few times then managed to log in. 21 years and 40 weeks since I joined, probably 20 years since I posted anything. I've been on adv rider for 20 years and probably Horizons as well - I'll try to log in as you did - if I can - and see. Doubt I ever posted there though. edit: Almost 20 years - a few months to go . 3 whole posts too! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earache Posted January 21, 2023 Share Posted January 21, 2023 Local guy shot and killed a cat in our area. He's a 6'5" tall former football player for the Denver Broncos; so that's a big cat! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pedro Posted January 21, 2023 Share Posted January 21, 2023 36 minutes ago, Earache said: Local guy shot and killed a cat in our area. He's a 6'5" tall former football player for the Denver Broncos; so that's a big cat! Do you kill them for sport, or was he threatening his place? Can't help but not like to see an animal like that shot. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boboneleg Posted January 21, 2023 Share Posted January 21, 2023 I felt a bit better today so we went for a walk down to the river ................... 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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boboneleg Posted January 21, 2023 Share Posted January 21, 2023 Look at these nutters ............ 2 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slowlycatchymonkey Posted January 21, 2023 Share Posted January 21, 2023 Theres nothing like hearing a West Country accent to make me happy! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yen_powell Posted January 21, 2023 Share Posted January 21, 2023 2 hours ago, Earache said: I've been on adv rider for 20 years and probably Horizons as well - I'll try to log in as you did - if I can - and see. Doubt I ever posted there though. edit: Almost 20 years - a few months to go . 3 whole posts too! I was shocked at how many sub forums it has now, I'm sure it was only a quarter of that all those years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Six30 Posted January 21, 2023 Share Posted January 21, 2023 2 hours ago, Earache said: Local guy shot and killed a cat in our area. He's a 6'5" tall former football player for the Denver Broncos; so that's a big cat! Why did he shoot it ? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cupid Stunt Posted January 21, 2023 Share Posted January 21, 2023 Well, that was just fucking stupid Drove up the Black Mountain to get some scenery shots, it was full of wankers everywhere blocking the roads so they could play in the snow, soooo I had an idea. "I know" I though to myself, "I'll head up Betws Mountain, that won't be busy", I know a short cut through route I used to take on the dirt bikes when I came off Rhiwfawr and headede up Baran Mountain. so off I set, I very quickly realised it may not have been the best idea I ever had, especially in my Shitroen C3, asx the first obstacle I remembered I always encountered on route was a sheet of ice across that always forms when it's cold, sod that though I know it well enough to get a sensible speed up and skaet over it, job done, this is a very trick and tight single track road with just enough room for one car and in places it has sheer drops one one side and ditches the other, but persist I did, please with myself at getting up some of the snow and ice covered inclines and round some of the 180 tight hill turns on single tracks, I was just 5 minutes from destination when I encountered a long steep hill so I got as much speed as I could muster trying my best to not let the wheels spin but alas half way up it just wouldn't grip any more, FUCK, I had come down similar sloaps to get where I was, I managed to very gingerly revers down the frozen slope and got to a point that was a tiny bit wider but not really enough to turn in, I managed it anyway by reversing the rear end as much as I could up a bank but then had to gather grit from the river in the small valley in front of the car placed the grit in front of my front wheels (its a front wheel drive POS), hit the accelerator so the front end slid round to the right rather than going off down the valley and into the river, whooo hoo, job down, continued back on the road I came down juft to find another hill too steep to ascend, FUCK again, nobody here no phone signal. I began to liitterally scrape the tarmac with a windscreen ice scraper and only had about 200m of it to clear LOL, fortunately before done some other cars got stuck too further down so we all chipped in and got one car up at a time, one of them had been further along the route all night (twat), eventually got home, frozen hands and not one fucking picture. Here's the route, have a ball and do a street view imagining it covered in frozen snow and ice GPS co-ords for start 51.761599, -3.880478 GPS co-ords for stuck point 51.765916, -3.927134 1 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earache Posted January 21, 2023 Share Posted January 21, 2023 2 hours ago, Pedro said: Do you kill them for sport, or was he threatening his place? Can't help but not like to see an animal like that shot. Not for sport - to keep them from attacking livestock and pets mostly. They'll attack humans as well. We've had a huge spike in the number of attacks around here lately. I see their tracks in the snow in my yard all the time - hate like Hell to meet up with one in the yard some night. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earache Posted January 21, 2023 Share Posted January 21, 2023 43 minutes ago, yen_powell said: I was shocked at how many sub forums it has now, I'm sure it was only a quarter of that all those years ago. No kidding. So many threads - makes the search function about worthless. Needs to be pared down a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earache Posted January 21, 2023 Share Posted January 21, 2023 52 minutes ago, Six30 said: Why did he shoot it ? Attacked livestock and pets in the area. Just a matter of time before it goes after a child or adult. They are relocated once and if they come back they're killed to prevent loss of life to others. Sad but has to be done. Same is done with bears here. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Six30 Posted January 21, 2023 Share Posted January 21, 2023 24 minutes ago, Earache said: Attacked livestock and pets in the area. Just a matter of time before it goes after a child or adult. They are relocated once and if they come back they're killed to prevent loss of life to others. Sad but has to be done. Same is done with bears here. is a shame , understandable though 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Fallsalot Posted January 21, 2023 Share Posted January 21, 2023 7 minutes ago, Earache said: Attached livestock and pets in the area. Just a matter of time before it goes after a child or adult. They are relocated once and if they come back they're killed to prevent loss of life to others. Sad but has to be done. Same is done with bears here. I find it quite sad as we don't have any problems like that here although i wish those rules applied to some people LOL, I do understand as we do have animals that are pests and are legal to shoot and have seen first hand how people react that are totally disconnected from reality, i used to shoot rats years ago up the lane from my house on the weekends for the guys that ran the allotments there, i killed more than a dozen every weekend for months and they would still keep coming, but people couldn't see them as a problem so killing something like a big cat would drive them crazy. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XTreme Posted January 21, 2023 Author Share Posted January 21, 2023 1 hour ago, Cupid Stunt said: Well, that was just fucking stupid Drove up the Black Mountain to get some scenery shots, it was full of wankers everywhere blocking the roads so they could play in the snow, soooo I had an idea. "I know" I though to myself, "I'll head up Betws Mountain, that won't be busy", I know a short cut through route I used to take on the dirt bikes when I came off Rhiwfawr and headede up Baran Mountain. so off I set, I very quickly realised it may not have been the best idea I ever had, especially in my Shitroen C3, asx the first obstacle I remembered I always encountered on route was a sheet of ice across that always forms when it's cold, sod that though I know it well enough to get a sensible speed up and skaet over it, job done, this is a very trick and tight single track road with just enough room for one car and in places it has sheer drops one one side and ditches the other, but persist I did, please with myself at getting up some of the snow and ice covered inclines and round some of the 180 tight hill turns on single tracks, I was just 5 minutes from destination when I encountered a long steep hill so I got as much speed as I could muster trying my best to not let the wheels spin but alas half way up it just wouldn't grip any more, FUCK, I had come down similar sloaps to get where I was, I managed to very gingerly revers down the frozen slope and got to a point that was a tiny bit wider but not really enough to turn in, I managed it anyway by reversing the rear end as much as I could up a bank but then had to gather grit from the river in the small valley in front of the car placed the grit in front of my front wheels (its a front wheel drive POS), hit the accelerator so the front end slid round to the right rather than going off down the valley and into the river, whooo hoo, job down, continued back on the road I came down juft to find another hill too steep to ascend, FUCK again, nobody here no phone signal. I began to liitterally scrape the tarmac with a windscreen ice scraper and only had about 200m of it to clear LOL, fortunately before done some other cars got stuck too further down so we all chipped in and got one car up at a time, one of them had been further along the route all night (twat), eventually got home, frozen hands and not one fucking picture. Here's the route, have a ball and do a street view imagining it covered in frozen snow and ice GPS co-ords for start 51.761599, -3.880478 GPS co-ords for stuck point 51.765916, -3.927134 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tango Posted January 21, 2023 Share Posted January 21, 2023 These are from Thursday night, but it was pretty much gone by the morning. Caused quite a stir here though! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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