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oooh, oooh, I got some more, not very "adventure" though

Great photos, those oversized lawn ornaments are totally something you would see in the US. ? In Canada we have a big goose......?

I now have a photo that may qualify after todays couple of hours out might change it as i'm planning to be out again later this week

muddy track from today. no blue skies here.

it's getting to me. Weather's shit : 4 deg c and 10/10th cloud cover. blustery wind and threatening rain or sleet. It was something of a struggle to work up the energy to get all the clobber on neccessary to go for a ride. I did manage to persuade myself. I wanted to check the tyre pressures as I was certain they were down a bit having sat unused for so long nad with the recent temperature changes since I last checked so first stop was the nearest air line at the main renault dealers and petrol station. Nope, they've removed the air line and put a notice up saying " renault quick service centre does not check tyre pressures" okaaaay... fuck you then, I only ever filled up here cos they had free air. A couple of km's furter out of twn is a Total station with petrol ( thank you) and free air. Tyres were effectively 200 and 300 g light front and rear. Should be 25 front and 29 rear... that's Kilos per square metre. felt much better after that. No plan but took some back roads, that petered out and became gravel roads which I think I've been on before and thought that it was a through road, picking up tarmac again further on, so I risked it, gingerly though as these tyres are not off road tyres and not ideal on wet mud. a couple of km further along I realised that if I drop it im going to fuck my knee and / or shoulder lifting it. Answer: Don't drop it then... found tarmac again after 5 km or so riding down another lane I thought I saw something incongruous... WTF ? that looks like a giant rubiks cube... I kid you not! down some unpaved road theres this... thing... which I can only imagine has been put there for the benefit of trail walkers as it's at the jucntion of a couple of blazed trails I thought only the US was into outsize roadsize furniture... there's this huge rubix cube, an enormous chair, some outsize oldfashioned bycicles and farm implements, a giant chess set and a perch for storks to nest on... under the chair is a picnic table with a box of board games and some holly on the table with a sign saying " help yourself" I played an opening move on the ches board, and left. back up the muddy lane It soon became obvious that @XTreme is a bad influence and I found myself here, doing the cleaning thing before riding home. No leaf blower to dry it with though! only 50 or so km's and I will admit to having the heated grips on.

What the eye don't see, the heart don't grieve over...

looks like you're about to get labradored.

About 400 miles on a KLR........that must be one of the highest mileages ever recorded on the same engine?

Really, jeez its a fucking Kawasaki even bikes made in India go farther, furthermore, one word, doohickey. No other bike made had its very own "widget"

Since Buck entered his balls i guess i can throw in with this end of 2020 field of misfits, what the hay. One last shot for the old girl, then retirement from competition. Dont let the fact its my birthday influence anybody Unless you dint get me a gift yet.

Man do i have the perfect swamp for you people!

...and made a video of it Watch at the expense of your time. Can't say it's something I would recommend if I didn't spend a ton of time editing it myself Camera angles aren't satisfying to me, it's a learning curve. Plus the battery died and didn´t record the best parts, which annoyed me no end, also a learning curve as I've got an hour of filming boring shit.

I just noticed somebody stole my sidestand! Bastids! ?

That was all very good considering the conditions! Ugh! Im ready for summer already.

I like that a lot. 50km is what you need to get your head straight. I need my 50 to 75km ride, it's like a fix.

Hey @MooN and @Sir Fallsalot, on the 31st I´ll just consider the last picture posted on this thread, ok?

Brilliant Chris.......but considering your recent surgery those conditions look a bit risky? Those would be extremely high risk conditions to me irrespective of having surgery or not of course.

Tell that to this guy to showed up at a KLR forum...lol..i kept telling him he got a good one. "I have a KLR650- 2020 new bike 6 days old. I have done 680 Kilometres on it and not impress at all. I enjoy the bike riding style, but I find it to be far underpowered at highway speeds of 100 kph - 110Kph. At 110 the bike struggles to rev over 6.5 revs in 4 and 5 gear. It actually struggles to maintain that speed and takes a while to get to 130 km per hour.... There are red flags coming up here for me."

I'll have you know an old friend of mine has a CB500 with over 200,000 soulless miles on it. I find a lot of people say things don't have souls because they work correctly all the time and lack the challenge of keeping them going, like a KLR that has heaps of soul

Managed to get out with a friend for, and i quote our current lockdown rules "a recreational activity" this afternoon and things were a little messy after the weekends storms i didn't take too many photos. First lane was sort of a first time for me considering its only a few miles from my house, farmer on the quad in the distance was sort of ok with us being there just asked to make sure we closed the next gate When i said this was sort of my first time to ride this lane it was because i originally tried to ride this in the dark about 8 years ago with another friend and we got the both bikes stuck here, it was gone midnight by the time we got them out and went back the way we came. I didn't get stuck this time and the young couple were quite amused at our efforts to get through it The next lane started with a steep rocky climb which really brought home to me what the last week laying on my back eating crap and drinking shit loads had done for me, when i got to the top i thought i was going to have to grab hold of the spark plug wire to bring me back i was fooked And then we were faced with this puddle luckily my mate stepped up to try it out we decided not to proceed past where he was and dragged the bike back A few girls on horses turned up to show us how to do it, poor horse dipped his balls into that freezing water? We took an alternative route around which brought us out a bit further on and started us on the route home. we rode a few more lanes local to where i live And then headed to the jet wash to clean things up a bit before heading home my sump guard really packs some shit in there A good afternoon that i needed started getting cold on the way home i think it was hovering around 4 deg C all day

Which one do you mean? The one before the cobblestones wasn't bumpy, just a couple of jumps. The cobblestones are ancient, time did that. The forrest road after that is how forrest roads get in Portugal, distorted from tree roots below. There is a reason why "adventure" bikes have been popular in Portugal since forever, road surfaces! Thanks, but they'll stay colorless and black for now, they do look nicer than in that video in person. The bike is filthy from winter and mud.

yup, going down that gravel / dirt road was stupid. I didn't realise it untill I was about a km in but yeah. I got away with it.

Pretty good!

I, for one, can't imagine doing 200.000 miles in one bike and not growing to love it. If something does me the service of providing a good service I get attached to it.

I put the bottom one in to show no snow at all on the hills in the south but loads up north

I have this habit of bumping into this one friend i don't see very often in odd places on the bike and i bumped into him up there tonight haven't seen him for a year or two

That top one is a cracker Fred!

Looks a bit mucky there Chris!

Your opening sentence was me 3 hours ago even the temperature was the same ?

that is a stunningly sharp pic! me likey ?

Bob has never been the same.

Very cool muddy pictures, something very cool about riding through what are slippery paths on foot but are grippier on knobbies. BTW, is that a chubby front tire on the CRF? Looks balloony.

"Resident strange woman" I like that... ? I have to give you credit Fred, you would have won the contest if it had been Mudlover of the Year! Voluntarily doing such things is slightly crazy ?.....welcome to the club, weekly meetings are on Tuesdays in the swamp! lol

Great shots Fred! That's some real hardcore shit there.......and as much as I love bikes, there's no way I'd do anything like that! I feel ill just looking at the pics of that CRF in the swamp! Our resident Strange Woman @Grasshopper's Ride might find something like that to be somewhat invigorating though! What you reckon @Tym?

True Legend! And developed his style from studying Jarno!

" Blessed be the cracked, for it is they who let in the light"

Bugger.

The DR650 is a dream bike in many ways, the problem is I need to modify it out of the showroom in order to mount the thing...? I'm thinking, keep the Himi for my dirt pig and just pretend it's like my old cars, one day you ride, two weeks you fix and repeat. So now I am thinking of something for the tarmac, something smooth and stylish for coastal highway rides. This has my attention right now.....?. Maybe it's the fancy coffees kick'n in.....

I had a free day today so I decided to take a ride down to the Stonehenge byways as English heritage is threatening to close them again. The weather was decent when I set off but the roads were still soaking from last night so I took it steady on some of the back roads. Once I got down to Tilshead I turned left to get onto the byway that runs around the back of Westdown Camp , everything was open on Salisbury Plain as there is no live firing for the next couple of weeks. I use this site to check the status before visiting....... https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/salisbury-plain-training-area-spta-firing-times You can see Westdown Camp in the background here................ the byways on the Plain are well marked, this is how it should be done I dropped off the byway by the Great Bustard Inn and rode down to Airman's Corner. From there I took the A303 to get to the Stonehenge byways and sure enough the whole stretch of the A303 had bollards all the way along and the gates were shut across the byways. No photos I'm afraid as it was impossible to stop. At this point there was a lot of muttering inside my helmet but I set off for the Woodhenge turning to see if I could get in that way....... That'll be a NO then ? I carried on down to Larkhill and got the same result........... On the post here there was a copy of the TRO (traffic regulation order) so I took a while to read it. It seems that the byways (and some roads) were shut for the winter solstice and to be fair I had seen quite a lot of 'travellers' vehicles parked up nearby. I think the authorities were worried that some might use the solstice as an excuse to park up on the byways and then stay there. But I shall definitely keeping an eye on the situation as I have a feeling that English heritage will use any excuse to get their way and close them permanently.

The weather was still holding out for the moment so I decided to head north and then west to head around the perimeter path . I had real trouble finding my way in until I relised that a housing estate had been built on the byway Thanks for putting that sign up mate but I think you'd have trouble seeing that from the road I rattled along up the path, a lot of the top surface had been worn away by all the rain we've had and there were some big holes here and there to keep you on your toes. On a smaller bike I would be on the left hand track but today I was sticking firmly on the right side as the wet chalk, mud and some of those puddles would not have been a good idea ......... The o/e tyres on the T700 are fine on the gravel but had I attempted to ride the other track on them I would definitely have ended up on my arse This was a handy stop, I was dying to go so I stopped for a while. You can see one of the mock villages in the background that the army boys like to play in................. Then the heavens opened and it's bit exposed up there so I headed to my exit as quick as I could.......... What do you do if it's chucking it down and you want to stop somewhere to eat your sandwiches in the dry ? You find a nice uninhabited bus shelter It rained all the way back home but my gear kept me dry inside and it's good to ride in the wet from time to time and it improves your riding skills ?

ohhhh, look me and trees.......??

A gentle spin out with a couple of mates on their scooters and we even took in some dirt tracks to get to the beach. Fair play to them as it was quite bumpy in places. I forgot my baseball cap hence the daft headwear. Can’t burn my head can I?

Is that in Narnia?