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Had a friend in from Washiungton state, he stopped over night befoire heading north to Montana. I agreed to take him as far north as I could before having to head back home. First stop was the rock church in Allenspark. Built around 120 years ago, dunno why it's out in the midst of nothing. Didn't want to get any closer; afraid of lightning strikes, etc...

Rode in the British championship sidecar enduros back in the late 70's/early 80's. 920 Norton Wasp..keeping the chair wheel on the ground. My arse is considerably bigger these days! This was taken shortly after the start of the Welsh international 2 day enduro..our white riding gear is still clean..

Back when I could hold the throttle? & my hair wasn't grey......yet.?

Near Cameron Pass, Colorado....

At this point we were about 240 miles from my house. I needed to turn around and head back while Larry headed north. Stopped by an old trading post, but it was clsoed...

Dunno why they call it the Antler Inn...and I had a funny feeling that someone was watching me eat...

Railed on for a bit as we were in a bit of a hurry. Next stop was Masonville at the Masonville Store. Odd place; they sell antique / vintage women's clothing and beer. Can't quite figure that one out. Weird biker sculpture across the street...

I'm a welder, so usually in filthy overalls and covered in grime..here's one of my "clean" moments..

I can't compete with 'pissing in someone's strawberries' but I have got a few 'leg tales'. At a Bristol NABD Rally we were having a few beers and decided to start the rally games, so they did 'dizzy sticks' and then some dude said it was time to play 'tossing the welly'. Unbeknown to them I had sustituted the welly with an old false leg, they all looked a bit apprehensive so I started and chucked it first , the distance was measured and then other dudes started having a go. After a while it started to become a bit competitive and some guys started eggin on a real huge guy to have a go, he walked over and launched the thing about twice as far as anyone else but as it landed it broke in two. I saw my chance for a laugh and slipped off my leg, started hopping around and hollering about how the hell was I going to ride my bike home now. A girl nearby took a close look at me and fainted on the spot ? ?

Only 1 I have on this PC..... followed an KLX4 to the top of Goat mtn....

Stopped by a lake and did some light off roading to get down to it's shore. After these pics, it was time to quit fuckin' around and haul for home...

Brief stop at the Antler Inn in Walden for some chow...

Zooming right along, over Cameron Pass....

Passed through the Poudre River Canyon, past Howling Wolf Rock and northwards...

So the w*nker in charge of Wales said we are allowed to invade again, well I don't need a second invitation No gestapo on the M4 once I'd crossed the bridge so away we go, off at jct 28, up through Risca and onto Machen, time to stop and get some fuel. Fuckmine, what's all this shit ? Anyway, I got some fuel and made my escape, obviously the they realised that the T700 is too cool to be classed as an off road bike ? Made my way up around Caerphilly and through Abertriwr to go through Senghenydd when all hell broke loose, cops everywhere , chopper in the sky , the whole caboodle . Obviosly looking for stray Ingerlish but I managed to escape. On a serious note, anything on the news boys as it looked pretty serious up there ? Now this is what we're talking about, the road over the top from Bedlinog is a corker............ Onwards and across to Fochriw and passing the remains of the old mines and the bridges that took the trains to them............. and then I sneaked though Dowlais to get to go by the Brecon Mountain Railway to get to Pontsticill. https://www.bmr.wales/ I made my way down past the reservoirs before stopping at Talybont for a coffee break........... I rode on through the back lanes to get to the Upper Chapel road. As this bike is fairly new to me and only just run in I was now in the position to give it a good test. The road from Brecon to Builth Wells via Upper Chapel (Capel Uchaf) is a great road to test a bike, undulations , sharp bends, straights, it has it all and the Yam passed with flying colours, I am really starting to like this bike. Down through Builth and on to Hundred House and so to the A44 before passing briefly back into England at Kington. I took some back roads down through Brilley skirting the border the whole time , got to love a road with a grass strip down the middle and down into Clyro and onto Talgarth, here the road was blocked so I took the alternative route past Llangorse Lake before dropping down through Llangynidr and stopping for another break by the Monmouthshire & Brecon Canal ................. I made my way past Abergavenny and Raglan and onto the back roads befor one last stop just before Chepstow and the Severn Bridge to take me back over the water and into England. I've ridden through here before (early in the morning when no one was about) but they're making it plain now that we are not welcome.......... However, it seems that this area is reserved for some other sort of activity ? I'll leave that to your imagination ..................... ?

I'm talking about the days of the long distant past.......where people had personalities, we actually had freedom and nobody really gave a fuck! I always remember the time a bus load of us from Swansea went to Newbury horse race meeting about 40 years ago. A one legged guy (lost it on a GS750) jumped up on a table where Yuppies were sitting, unscrewed his false leg, and balancing on his one leg he pulled out his dick and pissed in their strawberries! And the sad reality is that we'll never see times like that again! So let's hear your moment in time which will never be repeated!

National holiday here. Just happens to fall on my day off too so I didn4t actually have to work it and managed to get out for a ride in the afternoon. it went something like this I have been wanting for some time to go and look at a castle / fort pair that I noticed from the autoroute a while back. Having no real reference point it took me a while to locate themusing google maps and google earth and sort of triangulating from the autoroute, guessing distances. I found them on the "Butte de Thill", about 70km south east of here as the crow flies. I managed to turn that into a 200k round trip though... round a bend... the centre section: translation: " Here, 25th nay 1944, Hitlers babarians tortured and massacred 25 young resistants of the group "Henri de Bourgogne". They gave their lives that France might live" the stone wings to right and left of the centre lists their names and nicknames ( or possibly codenames) much time was spent dodging these, they are all flat out at the moment I had to stop and watch the lemmings for 5 minutes... all heading back to their parisien kennels after the long weekend...

Got my mate to take this today

Continuing on my search for abandoned railway stations located on the old GSSR route (closed in 1985) I was planning to visit Tijola today. But looking at the map I realised I hadn't done El Hijate yet, despite having done the stations before and after it. So I thought I'd better pick that one up before I get further into Almeria itself. Here's the map so far......the green spots are where I've already been. In the interests of authenticity I managed to locate an old photo of El Hijate station in what appears to be around the 1950's. That was then..... And this is now.... Read on for Rugged Individualism! Of the stations I've done so far this is the smallest. It's also the one in the worst condition by far! This is the Via Verde (Greenway).....I'd like to have ridden up that! But there's big fines for motorised vehicles accessing them! Hikers, Spandex twats on bicycles no problem! Initially the building itself doesn't seem too bad....... Then you look inside....... Couple of outbuildings are not much better...... Then it was clamber over bushes and banks to get back to the Strom before the place collapsed on top of me! And back up the gravel road where I'd come in! Go ahead Tym......Tweet this shit!

gotta keep the colons amused ain't ya ?

Fantastic Chris! And you got a castle in for the BleedinYanks too!

Even worse, Kawasaki dint use UV inhibitors when they molded the KLR's plastic's. If you dont keep a KLR in a garage it will freckle and fade. The 2oo4 KLR's Red plastic went to pink within weeks of ownership...

A lot of people leave that off to stop the crap packing in there when off road. I do it on mine but keep the case saver on, it also makes it easy to check for sprocket wear

Top Man! Class!

Done!

The Austin Powers years Toph?

This is nice, all hydraulic fluid has been flushed on both bikes now. Im on a roll. Pic from last night.

I forgot about this picture, super stylish. Just laying down for a tactical rest before going on to win stylishly of course. It's all in the planning.

MDS helmets, now those were cool

In Canada, we'll never get to see small children (or drunk adults) running around, throwing lawn darts into the air and then dodging them as they fall to earth, pointy end first.....good times gone by..... ??

I thought you'd have some Leg stories @boboneleg I always liked the one with The Leg coming off on the roundabout!

I'm with you Tym, apart from the seat (which looks like a Corbin that bikes looks like a POS ?

About 500 miles for the day - a good day out.

You must have ate it without noticing then Pedro!

That looks cool, and the T7 looks great as well. I would guess that the actual call to the cops might go weirdly: "they're filling up on petrol!"

Magnum would have flogged that off to some dumb Brit for sure!

Looks like a 'doer-upper' to me , get yer trowel out and get on with it ?

Did everything better, just not enough to be worth the trouble Butt, at least i cleaned her up a bit

Roughing it in the wastelands, barely surviving, miles from civilisation, dangerously near water (I can't swim).

Went from the province of Granada, into Murcia, and then into Castilla–La Mancha to enter the Sierra de las Cabras nature reserve. From then on I was running blind..........cos that's as far as Google Maps goes. The road was pretty decent though......until I got deep into the nature reserve. Then it all changed! It would need a dualsport and a fair degree of offroad riding ability to keep going, and unfortunately I was not in possession of either of those two things. There's some places that an OAP on a 220kg Strom just shouldn't go.......and that was one of them!

Love to go and see this.....it's fucking mad!

Up at the crack of 8:30 this morning and started packing the bike for a ride to Garden City, Kansas. There was a nip in the air though (ignore the date and time - I dunno hopw to set those). Stopped on the way outta town and looked back at Interstate 70....

Cool part was that it wasn't posted and wasn't locked, so I opened the door and shot some pics without actually going inside. Old slate blackboards are still up on the wall, although someone nicked their stove which should have been in front of the chimney...

Finally pull into Lamar, CO for some fuel. Saw what had to be the biggest steam train ever . I'm 6'1" tall and the wheels were as tall as me....

Only thing other than dry grass for miles is some windmill generators in the distance. Good place for them as the wind was a steady 40 mph all day today....

Hour or so later and I pull off the highway onto some dirt. Was gonna check out the trees, lakes and mountains - but there aren't any! Welcome to the eastern 1/3 of Colorado - whole lotta nuthin'....

Couple of hours later and I'm at my first truck stop of the day getting fuel. Starting to warm up as well....

I don't know about looking stylish but black and white makes everything look better or maybe not ?

Pedro's worried that I'm hitting on his girlfriend ?