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This was nine years ago

83 now........and Clint Eastwood is 90! I can remember watching him in Rawhide when I was a kid!

Robert Redford

Never seen him before.......had no idea what he looked like! But I know now! And he looks like a Cunt to me!

Got it, hard to mistake that one! Do we give out gold stars? Well here's one just for fun ?

What a smile ?.... I sensed you boys were getting a bit worried about the ladies, this should help.

I'm really busy now with work.......beginning to miss the peace of the lockdown!

The rest of the week looks pretty crap weather wise so I decided to get out for a short ride on the T700 once I'd finished the shopping ? So as Wales is still out of bounds I decided to ride some back roads in Somerset, a couple of trails , dip my toe into Dorset and then head back home. The roads are still fairly quiet if you stay off the main routes , just a few quarry lorries to get past around Frome. After crossing the A361 at Nunney, I made my way up Gare Hill, through the forest and onto the first couple of trails. The trails are still pretty dry, not much mud about at all which suited me fine as it was only my second time off road on the Yam.... I came across this structure in a field just off the lane, it looks like some sort of old crop store, I can't imagine it was for livestock as the roof would be much lower... I pressed onto the next lane before coming out onto the B3092........ After passing through Bourton I was now in Dorset and went further south to Fifehead Magdalen. Here I turned west and over the River Cale which was really low...... Now I started to head north and cut through the back roads to avoid the traffic in Wincanton and Castle Cary, after passing through Bruton I stopped at the top of the hill near Milton Clevedon to have my sandwiches and coffee from the flask. At the bottom of the hill is what looks like an old drove road, these were used in the past to drive cattle, sheep etc to market. You can tell it's a drove because of the width between the fences............ Once I got to the top of the hill I crossed the A361 again but heading north this time and made my way across the Mendips to Wells. At Wells I continued across the Mendips until I dropped down to Chew Valley lake where I stopped to take some more coffee from my flask..... It was only 15 miles to home from here so I skirted around the very edge of Bath and then back home. It was a good ride and I just get more and more impressed by this bike everytime I ride it

PS, never take WOT advice from a KLR Driver

right, WOT in a 125hp bike digging into sand is exactly the thing I'm not very comfortable with

Thats the plan.

Great stuff, Bob. Bike looks great on those trails, sure enough it'll feel like a pig when going through the kind of mud you're used to taking lighter bikes on proper knobbies on. I have great admiration for guys who can use a big bike to do stuff like the trial's riding type stuff shown above, that shows real skill. I loose all confidence when on the GS and the nice hard dirt turns to sandy trails. Soft ground just makes me wimp out, I'd like to say it comes from not wanting to damage the bike but in fact it comes from not knowing what to do with it on soft terrain, may take a class one of these days when stuff opens up again.

I was thinking of the high fender kit as you say no point if your staying away from the boggy stuff On a seperate note i'm waiting for you to recreate this simple maneuver lol

I was looking through some pics for a froggy farceburke page and thought you migt like to see thm here, though some of you saw them back in 2015 on Maximumbikes, so you may pass your way. The pics are from a ride I did in september 2015, I rode with a group from Auxerre up to Sixte Fer A Cheval on the Saturday and when they turned around to ride home on the Sunday, I headed off on my own. The plan was to ride the Grimsel, Furka and susten passes in the day, finishing at Lauterbrunnen in Switzerland overnight and riding home from there, via Belforet and the Autoroute on the Monday. the day got off to a bad start with a flat rear tyre. I think a pinched tube when having the rear tyre replaced a day before leaving so I lost a lot of time furking about with that and then riding gingerly as far as Chamonix before making a decision as to whether to continue on alone into the swiss alpes, or turn for home and ride the autoroute where I had garanteed air pumps at regular intervals and easy assistance if required. The tyre seemed to be pretty much holding pressure when I checked it at Chamonix so I said "Furkit" and kept going. up towards Martigny looking back to Chamonix and Mont Blanc I had lost so much time in the morning that when I got to the junction of the furka and Grimsel, it was clear that I no longer had time to do all 3 passes in the day and get to Lauterbrunnen before dark ( september, swiss alpes, 1500m plus altitude, in the above pic I had stopped to put on winter gloves already and it wasn't midday yet, so I really didn4t want to have to ride at night with the temperatures involved) After much soul searching I decided that I should skip the up and back trip up the Grimsel pass and push on to the furka and sustenPass and complete the loop round the Jungfrau to Lauterbrunnen as planned. so I turned my back on the grimsel pass that had been on my bucket list for years ( i'll obviously have to come back) and headed east up the Furka Interlaken The Jungfrau, from Lauterbrunnen. The Campsite handyman lent me his compressor the next morning as my back end was flat again. It had survived all day previous with no problem... Riding in Switzerland on the secondary roads rather then the autoroutes is a slooow business and I averaged only 50 odd km/h all the way from lauterbrunnen to the border, but once back in France I hit the autoroute at Belfort and it was a long booring run home checking the rear pressure at every fuel stop.

Yes, still waiting for borders to reopen. Managed to scrape some MT07 pegs around the northern twisties last week though, so not hating life too much ?

Sounds like the twins are ripe for persuasion, can there be any better sign than fighting over the next chance to go for a ride? Of course if you were here in Asia you'd just line up the whole family on your Honda Dream and off you'd go, probably with a couple of chickens to boot. I am always available to be a bad influence, however may be considered geographically undesirable at the present time

I do some off road riding in Moab when it's too cold here. It;s not far away and we just toss the dirtbikes in the truck and go. It extends our riding season a bit. Pics form a previous trip - snowing at my houise as we load up and 26C in Moab....

And one pic from my phone that I forgot to add. Shot from the fuel station parking lot in Leadville. Not bad scenery for a fuel station!

Thought about stopping for a beer at the Silver Dollar, but thought better of it as I had some miles to cover to get home.

The road on this side of the hill does not suck - just made for going fast...

Had to do this for my friend from Cork - just sharing the love...

And now back down the hill into Aspen...

Made it to the Pass / Continental Divide. Wind was whipping at about 45 mph at this point. Thought my bike was going to blow over...

Looking back down at the valley that I just rode through..

Getting on to the fun part of the ride now. Roads were barren except for me and my bike...

The town of Twin Lakes has little in it aside from some old cabins. The sure picked a great location with views!

After passing Leadville, I came upon Twin Lakes, Colorado - home two, twin lakes. Who'd have guessed?

Yes ? she looks the same throughout her life i didn't think she qualified but she started killing xenomorph's in 1979

I was thinking of putting a bloke in to even things up but then thought there's enough ladies on here they can do it themselves

This is a great thread to have next to the woman riders one, mostly because of the wanking banana

I can see Helen Mirren in her face