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Sometimes even locking your door doesn't work. ? I was woken up last night after one of our big bear residents decided to see what was in my shed, the hard way. ? I woke up from the noise and scared the poop right out of him ? before he could make a bigger mess. Guess what I'm doing today after my ride.....although the homemade door held up ok, so it should be an easy fix.

I'm gonna ride like my hair is on fire and my ass is catchin' ! Gonna hit up an old abandoned train station, some old train cars, gold mines that are outta business and then have whiskey and whores at the hotel tomorrow night. It's all true except the whiskey and whores part.

Before I start I must make it clear that there are no photos of Devils Bridge as the best thing you can do when you get there is too pass through very quickly to avoid all the wannabee's and power rangers Anyway, after getting some petrol I got onto the M32 and headed up to the M4 , as I'm just exiting the slip road I notice the old bill in my mirrors so move over and let him pass but on come the blue lights and he signalling me to pull over, bollox I wasn't going that fast . Anyway he then pulls into the middle lane and I realise that he's trying to halt the traffic, luckily I'm at the front so when he stops I get a birds eye view of him running up and down the motorway picking up someones luggage which is spread all over three lanes, great start to the day Anyway, over the bridge and up through the back roads to Raglan, past Abergavenny , through Talybont and onto Brecon. Then the climb to Upper Chapel where I stopped to look at this lovely little church Carry on to the road leading to Beulah, over the army ranges

Fantastic Bob......brings back some memories!

From Tregaron I passed though Llanddewi Brefi but you wouldn't know as the sign has been knicked again , as said earlier I scooted through Devils Bridge and onto Cwmystwyth and then found a gravel road to have a little play on and a play on the rickety bridge........ At the entrance to the Elan Valley road they have put some pic nic tables by the river which was very nice Then it was a steady ride back to the motherland with a couple of coffee breaks on the way.

I stopped for a coffeee at the top, it's a great view from here From Beulah I took the road through the Abergwesen pass to Tregaon, this is a great road but very busy with cyclists today

GUNS.......? Just big sticks and a banshee cry works every time.... Yes, a bear did that....bastard

A Bear did that? Do you have guns there @Grasshopper's Ride?

@Skippy is bringing up the rear! Will he come from behind?

I wanted to have a quick run to test the camera quality out on the new smartphone......which is a Samsung Galaxy A71. Apparently it has 4 cameras and can take photos at 64 megapixels with a resolution of 9248 x 6936! Big numbers.....but what's the end result? Normally my pics are around 3 to 4MB.......when I checked the pics from today they were 25MB+. Is there a difference to the naked eye? Massive! It's like going from an ancient 1980's TV to the latest giant 4K HD flat screens. Seriously.......you could take pics for a glossy calendar with this thing. The ones you see here are reduced in size and optimised to bring down the file size......but I think you'll see a major difference. Very short vid to give you the general idea of the location.......then the pics!

A tight race this month between two very different bikes. Takes the stupid term "adventure bikes" and slaps it with a wet noodle......?

No website tops VisorDown needing bike valet's to wash motorcycle's because their other man servants are to busy.

Canadian bears are much nicer than StateSide™ bears, you dont need to worry unless the Canadian versions are on holiday and have been drinking allot of beer eh? ...

And the A71 is classed as a midrange camera!

@Grasshopper's Ride........check the pic quality......and that's when they're compressed.

No......I was Regional Manager for Byte Computer Superstores! I was previously doing the same job but living in Milton Keynes (lovely place but can't say the same about the people)........I moved from there in 1997 because we wanted to be back in Wales.

10c here this morning with blue sky perfect riding weather ?

No......you carry on Michelle! We like laughing at some of the pretentious shit that goes on there!

Whatever bike it is it'll be covered in shit within about 10 minutes! And it'll never, ever be washed!

The good old days of death threats over WD40!

That's the bike that I've got. He took it to Moscow and back. I'll be selling it before long in all probability as my back can't take it. I'm getting old. Fortunately still ok on the GS.

That’s the only way to win, Labour is the 35hp party.

Don't I know it. One day they're all lovey dovey, licking the salt off of your truck in the driveway and the next night the bastids jump in front of your truck....