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Also had a 1970 Dodge Dart Swinger when I was a kid. This thing towed motocross bikes on a trailer all across the Midwest USA when I was racing back then...

Headed home as it was starting to get cold again. We decided to attempt a ride to 3 day, 1,300 mile Utah this coming weekend - should have tons of great pics and some videos from that trip. Until then....

We passed through some old gold mining sites - which were posted as no trespassing, so we didn't. Would love to go down there though.....

Took a long way round to Norwich first stop was for a Mcburger. We went through Norwich to a bike park which is normally full of bikes but countered 6 including us. Not that we were stopping anyway. This is the roofs of the market with the flint guildhall in the back and a small remembrance garden to the left . The Forum, can't imagine much get disgust here but it does house the Library and the BBC amongst other things. Norwich town hall, how ugly. Quick stop for the Norfolk country side pic. We're losing so much for housing here it's nice to see an open field with no signs up with planning notifications. Lots of houses going up all over the eastern counties but since the completion of the northern bypass, (Norwich) planning has been given to so many new estates.

Not been into cars like i am with bikes their just tools to do a job for me but i do miss my old range rover, we had some great fun in between the constant repairs

Phil likes to keep his bikes as clean as @XTreme does. So naturally I took him on some dirt to get his bike messy. Made me giggle thinking of him polishing the bike for 8 hours after he gets home....

Sign on the bridge said "No stopping on bridge" so we did. Fuck'em - we'll do as we please. Didn't you see the truck? This here is "Murica !

I promise I dont post from the point of view of a male with arrested development ? but I have rewritten a few posts I think might set you off ? When I joined the forum that shalt not be named in 2018 I kept quiet about being female cos I know where some lovely gents minds immediately go and it can mess things up, then after about 6 months someone who knew me outed me as being female, you can ask @Six30 he thought I was a bloke right up to the point I went on my sabbatical ? I then got 4 different guys from the forum pm’ing me and emailing me in fairly strong pursuit and I dont blame them for having a go, they wanted a biking bird so why not have a punt but for me it was a right PITA cos some can get nasty when you say no thanks. Some other guys were just nice n normal n friendly (like here) but some of them.... jeez. But its good here, just the normal type of weirdos ?

Ok, technically the 2nd ride, but this was the first one that actually went anywhere. A little 375 mile jaunt with my bud Phil on his GS. We met up at a fuel station in southern Colorado as Phil lives about 75 miles away from me. Saw @Tym 's truck there. "Murica dammit".

We have Bruce, he had sex with his wife once and she convinced him that was enough to get two kids.

Damn - gonna have to step up my game to become a special type of weirdo.

how many dirty messages did@XTremesend you when he thought you was a bloke ?

Our cars in the '70's were fast as a scalded dog in a straight line, but had no brakes or turning abilities. That's why drag racing is so popular here. My older brother had 2-3 Ford Mustang Mach 1's when we were kids. They did last too long due to interactions with fence posts, ditches, other vehicles, etc. He always had new cars as he bought them himself - they cost about $3,500 new back then. Worth 15 times that today.

After the demise of the T/A, I had a Fiat X-1/9. The single biggest turd of a car in history. Had it for about a year and it caught on fire twice!

1970 Pontiac Trans Am - I had one in 1975. 450 bhp car that had virtually no brakes in the hands of a 16 year old. What could possibly go wrong?

Being Easter Sunday, most places were closed for the holiday, but we found an old bar that was open with a limited menu. Dunno about eating in a place that's using old diesel oil drums as a bar though....

Tried to get some decent pics of the snowy mountains in the distance, but it was an uncharacteristically cloudy day so they don't show up very well....

Hammered down the road for a while and stopped for a pee break (as you do). Ice fishermen were loving the warmer weather. I know the ice is really thick, but I still wouldn't walk out there on it...even with my svelte, lithe and somewhat waif-like profile....

I cycled over to the other side of my town today. Found this spot, I swear it is about a 100 feet from the local tip where I took my old oven a few weeks ago. The industrial buildings next to the tip are behind the trees in the last picture. Also, as I cycled through a newish housing estate on the way there I saw the top part of an old brick building above someone's garden fence. I went round the corner to see what it was. It says on the door that it is an old folly and a walled garden with a number to call if you want to look inside. I might ring the number and have a looksee in the near future.

Difference here is we respect the ladies Caroline. You, @Sofia, and @Grasshopper's Ride are probably not aware of it but we're very protective of female members. Also, there will never be any ganging up as you've encountered elsewhere, and no weirdos will PM you. If an outsider started getting disrespectful to you you'd find that the whole forum would turn on them en-masse. Along with @Tym making death threats of course! Yes....there will be some smutty double entendres, Bruce's ass, and on occasion my pubes! But that's just lavatorial humour.......which is poles apart from creepy behaviour.

Had a gentle trail ride showing one of the new members of the TRF about today, he'd recently been done for riding illegally so wanted to start doing it right so why i was showing him about i haven't a clue . The lanes were really dry which made them a lot easier to ride than normal almost boring in places maybe because I've ridden them so much. Usual photo looking towards my place all new to this guy We are heading over to the wind turbines you can see on the skyline above my bike here We stopped to take this photo when the farmer in the field shouts down to us i thought here we go this lane has a TRO on it prohibiting use after 6pm thought he might be going to tell us about it Turned out him and his farmer buddy were having trouble rounding up his horses and wanted us to help drive them down to the farm with the bikes, Wish i had a Go Pro it was a mad 15 minutes those horses we determined to stay in the field But we got them down once on the track they ran the rest of the way with no encouragement from us at all Good views from the wind farm that's the Bristol channel and Minehead area in the distance We did find a mucky lane i forgot to mention there's a big rock in the middle of it. It's the same place as the photo i put up here last week so i new about it

Stop talking posh you boring cunt! You'll be wanting a fucking Butler next!

man or woman , i treated you right didn't i ... sugar tits

Victor was really hopping, the streets teeming with activity and people. OK, maybe not....

The food, although tainted with diesel and probably toxic, tasted pretty good. We had the cheeseburgers and fries with a side of chips and salsa.... (Food pics for @Pedro )

whadya mean weirdos

Today's sunny ride on Charlotte inspired this thread, as with the nice weather the classic cars are coming out to play. ?. There are a lot of them around where I live and I love seeing them, with all their cool colours and shapes. ? Here are a few from today. ?

We are about a hour away from our Easter feast. The turkey should be ready in about an hour. Since it's only Lynne and I this year we only bought a small 12 pound one. We are having my famous chorizo sausage and pecan stuffing, roast carrots and turnips along with garlic roast potatoes. Yum! Happy Easter Everyone.

I knew it, you have a viking king as a husband, guns, of course you dont need no stinking guns! Vikings dont need guns! Guys like that are why i have guns. ?

Here you go, my current household.

Yep theyre bad to the bone and it has to go. But ?

Mind you if I had a daughter and they came any where near her I’d f*ckin turn them into chop suey so you have a point! ?

And those bumpers weight about 150 pounds each. Super thick steel on those things.

I can recommend a forum that may be able to help you ?

America always had the most amazing looking cars. The UK does understated, dowdy or practical. America did look at this beast ? Cue xtreme with the beast material ?

parts are lovely on a bike... but i fear this year every where is just going to be full of tourists clogging up our roads in there cars and campers on their staycations, ruining it for the bikers .

It sounded like 8 mpg ?. I sold it when gas got up to $0.65 per gallon as it cost too much to fill it up. Stupid kid.

FFS dont make me like you now ?

Stopped by the local biker hangout in Deckers on the way home. Late in the day so not too many scooters here today. Just some loud assed HD's....

Manmade hill of gold mine tailings - freakin' huuuge...

When I was a kid I always wanted this car. Couldn’t stand the Hoff at the time, completely up his own. But the car, oh by crikey I wanted that car!

Sadly our flag is a bit ruined for me. Its associated with the lowest form of knee jerk racism masquerading as patriotism. I wish there was a way to claim it back. When I read or see other countries having some pride or joy in where they come from (like Pedro) I feel a bit cheated, like we’d all benefit from a bit of being happy about where you come from. The Welsh and Scottish are but I’m English so it comes with the territory to spend time apologising for what other arseholes have done in the past! Heyho I settle for being happy I’m from Somerset instead, perhaps a Somerset dragon ? ?

That's great Caroline! Most of us on here have met others over the last 20 years......though nobody has met everybody if you get my drift. And everybody is as they appear on here.....there's no false internet personas! So basically, what you see is what you get!

Whats the topic? Bling, yes im weak, while ordering new skins for my wheelchair i couldnt resist.

My theory, its the work part before retirement that fuck most up, the key is moving from slacker to pensioner, mental fucking stability ?

Being a mechanic I could deal with what ever went wrong but you can only weld so much before the structure is compromised. Now a mini with its current value is prob worth throwing some money at.

I too love the old minis. We still look after a couple at the garage. That rubber suspension doesn't do my back or fillings any favours now, don't think I'd own one again. We got this just before its 3rd birthday and it did everything asked of it. I scraped it after 19 years service as the metal worn was doing its work. Nothing but a run of the mill family car but all the family loved it, especially me.

The Mini Cooper S Love what they represented, how they came about and that despite all their faults theyre really fun to drive, more like a dodgem than a car. Love how they arrived on the rally scene and frightened the competition. Had two old minis, one countryman and one clubman. Neither liked to start if it was raining and required a very specific amount of choke, throttle and correct timing to get them started, mess it up the first time and you were going to be sitting around for a looooong time while it decided when it was gonna start. Loved them both. Id like another one really but the price of them now is ridiculous.

I guess boxes are usefull, i miss my 68 442 rag top, butt, it wasnt such a great car to be honest, unless you like getting 6mpg @ 100mph. This 84 325e gets 27 mpg at 100mph, when i feel like it i;ll get her back on the road.