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Well I just got back from the weekly fuel run and my underpants are wet..... ? because it was very RAINY and WINDY! ? It was nuts, no visibility and brakes, what brakes, those are only good for the summer time right? lol. So ya that was exciting. I'm now going to finish my latest video and edit some photos. Tomorrow looks rainy again so I think I will head into the forest and get muddy. ?

Just got back from the hole in the wall that was working on Tomos, she lives! Tranny oil shorted out the electrical when my brother brought the bike up sideways in the back of his car. November Bike of the month coming up ya know! ?

Krypton Factor for the over sixties!

Tomorrow I shall take a short ride to Ericeira, probably the last one while the weather's amazing, and will enjoy that cool vibe for a day or two. On the way there I will stop by my favourite hilltop cafe where I will attempt to style and profile if the place is Covid friendly and not crowded. If it is crowded, I will sulk and carry on to stop somewhere less cool to have coffee.

Well i call Friday the weekend so i took Tomos for a spin. Her first job was to be a postie bike. Then a mad adventure through town and around the coastline! Wind in my hair if i had any kind of chit! Rode through town and buzzed all the people drinking outside the Brewery pub due to Cornhole rules, eat my smoke, i cried....!...lol Turns out being transported laying on its side allowed tranny oil to short the electricals, the guy tuned the carb, soldered a negative ground, she;s good to go...about 53mph it seems with the jet kit sproket and pipe my oldest brother had bought, well into the 40mphour range easy. they arnt allowed to go over 28 mph when they sell them. 70cc seems like a waste she;s way to fast now. ? Works fine off road! You cant carry a GS ya know!

You know that Shad = cheap chinese Givi knock off , right ?

Stick a electric sander up your ass with 50 grit loaded, turn it on high, let me know.

Brilliant Tym! You need to get the Cam on next time so we can all get the Tomos experience.

Got any pictures? Because otherwise ...

Now where's the adventure in that..... ?

I am going to visit Old Sarum tomorrow, I will take the scenic route across Salisbury Plain as there is no live firing tomorrow.......... https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/salisbury-plain-training-area-spta-firing-times/salisbury-plain-training-area-spta-firing-times-october-2020

You know that you can buy waterproof trousers nowadays ?

We need a Ride Report! As for BOTM......the Billy No Mates Strom has gone (it never got one vote) and the Dark Motorcycling Beemer is now in the picture! Watch this space!

That looks way better Pete, the bike looks ready to run from zombies better now! ?

I'm glad I'm not the only one that thinks this. ?

It's going! I'll fill it and spray it though in case I ever need to use it. I couldn't take the one off the Strom because they'd wired it in to the brake lights. This is what it looks like now......it's starting to come together!

Givi stuff is simple, reasonably priced, and just works.

I think there is another top box base plate (BMW original or givi?) to which they permanently screwed the 4 spacers holding the Shad base plate on, I just hope they didn't glue it onto the base plate. That's proper pikey, if that's what they did

In order to make a post: Evening all, a few of you will maybe remember me from a year or 6 ago...Lyn ( Male ) Have had a look around and just had to make a post, so i had to sign up.. More annon. Lyn.

Weather looking very good here....... Bike looking very good too......still more detailing to do but that'll be an ongoing thing. Trying to get everything as I want it in one hit will kill me at my age! So I'm going to be Styling and Profiling.......no idea where at the moment though. The Dark Motorcycling locations are a fair distance away......so those are for later on in the year. What you got planned?

As someone who has previously been 'escorted' off the Plain in the past and been buzzed by an Apache helicopter I'm taking no chances

Tomorrow I'll probably change the engine oil and filter on the 650 and maybe rebuild the front forks see what's going on in there after fitting heavier springs a while ago

Come on then......somebody must be doing something?

Get rid of that box, Pete, and just carry a small bag if you want to carry a sandwich or some water. A big box like that ruins the lightness of a small bike like that 650, it just doesn't look cool

Nope I've been working from home all week, luckily I've let the office side of my job pile up as its been so busy on site and used this week to clear it, after this week i think if i hadn't had this time at home i would never of caught up with it. I thought i could see the light at the end of the tunnel today but it turned out it was some fucker with a torch bringing me more work

That one doesn't have another Shad Plate underneath it like mine......and it's not elevated.

There's a certain knack to it.........which is beyond normal human thought processes! I've always preferred Givi......no stupid rituals or YouTube tutorials needed on them!

I got it by following this!

Weather is looking good here to but no good to me as I'm in quarantine for another week, So if i start typing more incoherent shit than normal the lock in is getting to me lol

Thanks Fred......but no good it won't budge!

Shit i had a bit of colour still in what hair i ahd left, tis silver now... I liked that bike wa much better that of the second one. Still reading posts and catching up on the years gone by, i do hope every one is of good health.

Rub mud over the scratches to hide them.