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Almost back home and passed above the lake at Dillon....

Next stop was the Train Roundhouse in Como. Wish I could have gotten closer but it was fenced off.....

My presemce has been equested and required at work tomorrow, but I had to pick N01 up from the physio at 16h00 so the afternoon was pretty screwed by the time I could get out with the bike, but I squoze in a last ride before real life restarts. having not planned anything and not wanting to waste time doing so I just did one of my "box the compass" rides ie ride north for half an hour ( west of north in this case) then turn left and ride west for half an hour, then turn laft again to ride south for half an hour and left again for a half an hour... not being too particular about the time and only roughly the direction, I just take the next promising looking road the looks like it goes the right way, found some crackers today. I said the other day that I often come across these, this one was again in the middle of nowhere, down a dirt track somewhere out towards Aillant sur Tholon. " eternel souvenir of the resistant CHAPOTIN Henry of AUGY, chief warrant officer, shot by the gestapo *th August 1944 at the age of 19." up across the tops, dodging the rain clouds I really should have thrown that bloody orange sign in the ditch before taking this photo! Back in the sunshine and into the woods found a nice country retreat for my retirement it was starting to get late , gone 19h30 already so I headed for home with no more photo stops. did about 130k in all, just bimbling around.

..got the bike out and went for a scoot. Passed the Cline Mansion, looks like it could use a bit of paint. Built in 1928 by Foster Cline (rancher) Bet it was soemthing to see in it's day...

No, no psychiatric types tend to volunteer for the gig if you get my drift.

Word is Moses rode a KLR down from the mountain with the tablets...then broke down, needed a new motor, God said get a freaking Yamaha for Christ sake, went ureaka, great name for a kid...true story..

Printed?!?!? It was probably chiseled.

Tried to find an off road way around Hoosier Pass with no luck. Found a cool lake though and the waterfall that feeds it...

Back down the hill to Como again I go. This is the train depot, eating house and hotel that are obviously not in use anymore. Shame. Not a lot else happening in Como these days...

My goal today was to go over Boreas Pass and into Breckenridge from the south - but the Pass was closed due to Covid-19 safety measures. WTF?

How many fingers do you use to pull on your levers (not that sort), clutch and brake. Do you use a different amount on the brake to your clutch ? Are you a flash fucker with no clutch lever (Honda DCT) ? You wanted some new threads Pete, this is top drawer stuff, feckin rivetting ? Personally I use two fingers on each

Where's the 'run like fuck' smiley

And if you're really bored: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knocker_(folklore) A mythical creature called a "TommyKnocker" kept the miners safe. Today, in the next town over (Idaho Springs), there is still a brewery called TommyKnockers - named after the English. Shame their beers sucks - should have gotten a few English brewers to come over as well.

Found a better pic of the Welsh Wall in it's heyday. The two big buildings are still there today. One is still a church and the other is the Police Station (big blue building in pics above)

I think you will find all the real old people were born in the 50's

And this is the Welsh Wall. Portions of it are modern but you can see the old portion still in there. Couple of old pics showing the Wall in the 1880's...

But there are lots of examples where the walls / foundations are still in use. The Welsh made walls have no mortar whereas more modern walls here do have mortar...

It is pretty cool living out in the boonies..until you need something like groceries, fuel, etc. Then it sucks as the nearest shop of any kind is 30 miles away. But still, it's worth the extra effort.

Me and Jerry Seinfeld were both born on 29th April 1954. Him in Brooklyn.......me in Swansea! I got the short end of the stick!

Come on guys Seinfeld made a fortune on a tv show about nothing, work with this...

I work in a Ducati shop, we have lots of oil. If it's good enough for those highly strung darlings then it's good enough for my bikes ?

? Like I'd get Mandi off road.

No unfortunately, you need to rent it from Vimeo, worth the $5 or so...

Rode around the lake to find teh stream that feeds into the lake. Passes by yet another abandoned gold mine...

I posted this in the wrong thread! It's my age!

Just not sure whats it about yet....

Connecticut renewed my permit to carry, another 5 years packing beaches.

Stuff gets smaller as you age.

Gold. When gold was discovered here, the companies that owned the mines needed experienced miners as none were in the US at the time. So, they enticed the English, Irish and Welsh experienced miners to come here. Later, other nationalities came, but it was all UK initially. Funny, if the old western movies were accurately done, most of the characters would have had English, Irish and Welsh accents. It's amazing how many of them were here. Read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_County_Regulators#:~:text=The Lincoln County Regulators%2C or,County War in New Mexico. The Regulators were famous and led by John Tunstall from England. The movie "Young Guns" was about this group.

Wheres the worried smiley

2 on clutch and 2 on the brake but one covering them most times It would be pretty hard to get any more than 2 on the front brake of the 650 LOL

Hill above town. Old gold mines all over the place...

Bloody hell.......seen these @Sir Fallsalot?

Got that album. My left eye feels like there's something in it. Felt like it on and off for 6 months. O by the way, Lewis Hamilton has said we should pull down all statues of people that had anything to do with the slave trade. Followed this lad for years, well before F1, defended him against people says he's an arrogant nob. Twat can kiss my spotty left cheek now.

When was it printed? 1987?

Pffft..my staffs servants servants ride those....

Good thing you arnt a proctologist, two fingers?

I'll take three of them, send them around to the servants door and they'll deal with it

Should I have a change today and shave the left side of my face before the right ?

How about my ongoing battle with Jock Itch?

Twat!

Has anyone watched this film? Just watched it over the week-end and if you are looking to watch one determined human, this is your film. I don't think I need to go to this extreme but it sure is fun watching someone else do it. I would just be happy to hike this route.

That's it - just a quick blast near home and I'm back.

I got 4 bikes that use the same oil so i buy in bulk and save a fortune, i use this one its cheep because they don't sponsor a racing team to promote it and it comes direct so no middle man to pay https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/EXOL-PREMIUM-QUALITY-SEMI-SYNTHETIC-10W40-MOTORCYCLE-OIL-4T-20LTR-JASO-MA2-SPEC/291449598888?epid=19034027897&hash=item43dbbff3a8:g:M1MAAOSw3fZaAcNE

I'm working on it, oh interesting you say.....ok, still working on it...... ?

On the way to Machinemart in Colchester this morning to collect some tools.

I have an update on the Marshmallows... one of the manufacturers of the polyfilm for silage bales over here gives a percentage of his profits to cancer research, the pink ones support research into breast cancer and the blue one for prostate cancer.