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Too tired right now to put up today's pics....and I need a beer. But will put them up tomorrow morning when I get up....

Today I went over the top of the mountain towards Oria......and this road is a tricky one in places! It gets very narrow, has a variable road surface ranging from billiard table smooth to bomb crater, and at some points you have a sheer drop on either side. What's frustrating is that I'm still not allowed to leave the province so I can't actually get to Oria itself.........because in doing so I'd be crossing the border into Ameria! So it's literally over the mountain and back the same way! Not ideal, but it's better than being under house arrest!

I see that picture and without the words I would assume they are all laughing at the rider for buying the bike. The women is smashing a bottle so she can glass him as he has just spent her year's drinking money.

I won't be able to ride anywhere for a little while as the NHS will be interfering with me next week. Time to deal with the mild mannered kidney stone they spotted 2 years ago when I rode to A&E at 3am to discuss the other one that decided to make itself known with some forcefulness. So I thought I would have a ride about today with my camera in a tank bag for easy access. hence the lazy bastard photos, couldn't be arsed to get off the bike. I even got too lazy to take pictures in the end. All the best views are where it is either too narrow or too steep to stop. I am starting to think a video camera would be better because it was a beautiful ride but I will never manage to get pictures of the nice bits. I did this route last Saturday with an old workmate, I'd knocked it up on a ropey programme called Tyre and made two files which I loaded on to my Satnav. I like to have roads to myself if possible. It had to be two routes as there is an inch deep ford in the middle and no matter how often I tried it kept going the long way round. I thought I'd do the same route today, this time without worrying about someone following me. The route started at this sad looking pub. I once watched Jimmy Jones the comedian there, someone I had only heard on audio tape previously. He was famous for his 'kin this and 'kin that style of delivery. The pub got taken over and turned into a Thai restaurant and for a few glorious months there were 4 orange, yellow, green and blue dayglo plastic full sized palm trees with dayglo coconuts. The council made them remove those! I was gutted! From here I took narrow lanes through to Wethersfield via Great Saling and Shalford Green. Lots of daffodils about at the side of the road or on the junctions. Saw a cottage being rethatched and then I was riding through Wethersfield high street. Leaving Wethersfield I headed across to Sible Hedingham and Castle Hedingham, home of the famous side car company I believe. Out the other side of Castle Hedingam I saw this barn being built. For a brief period I did nothing but draw steel frame and reinforced concrete detail drawings. The trick is to make it impossible to get a spanner or socket on the connecting bolts by cunning design or even better, impossible to physically get a bolt through the holes in the first place. It's an art that is, I miss that type of work. I came into Lavenham, went down the pretty high street, but then turned off to follow the lanes through to Kersey. I stopped to test out my Yamaha cup holder. It is standard equipment, non of your having to pay extra like the BMW owners. I came into Kersey via a little side road that they don't signpost, possibly to keep oiks like myself out. Passed this weird shed, not sure what that is all about. Kersey is not on any sort of main road, no one passes through by accident. I stopped to take a picture of the inch deep ford that my Tyre programme didn't want to risk. Stopped to get rid of my earlier coffee as I was hopping up and down inside my head by then. I stopped taking pictures and carried on home via Bures, Boxford, White Colne, Coggeshall, Kelvedon and Cressing.

always have been... despite my busy schedule for the weekend I found time to take part in the demo ride organised by the FFMC ( French FEM affiliated motorcycle action group) protesting against the proposed legislation imposing a "Control Technique" ( french equivqlent of the MOT) for motorcycles, and this despite numerous independant and even govt sponsored studies concluding that: "no evidence can be found of a link between mechanical failure and motorcycle accidents" " No other european country where such testing exists can demonstrate any corrolation between the testing being implemented and and a reduction in the number of accidents imvolving motorcycles" " technical or mechanical failure is a demonstrable cause in les than 0,3% of motorcycles accidents in France" and so on and so forth. The main mouving force behind the attempt at implementing this new legislation is a millionaire businessman whose name is... DEKRA which just hqppens to be the same name as the largest chaine of MOT testing stations in the country ( the potential market is possibly worth 5 billion euros)... so yes, the french are revolting in the way they are best known for, despite covid Regs, and despite shit weather. about 250 bikes held a protest ride around the 3 DEKRA testing stations this afternoon. It may well be a waste of time, but similar demos have been held all over france this week end and with general elections looming, who knows.

Looks like red rocks from Mars...

Today we went into Utah. I've posted pics from these roads on other reports, but they sometimes bear repeating...

that's why Pete moved there...

As sundays a day off I usually like to spend it cooking or biking. This Sunday Ive chosen cooking which looking at the sunny forecast seems a mistake! Heyho full English on the go at the mo and I’m gonna have me some bacon for the first time in while ? the menu may have to be altered... ? ? ? ? Now what else to do with duck thats been slow cooking overnight?!

Thats not a universal sentiment you might be shocked to know. ?

I grew up in the US air force, guess who i am in the pic! A Dutch magazine did a story on us in 1960....made it to china by the time i was ten. Started my way back.... ?

Phil, aka Steven Spielberg, put together a video this morning....

Lots of canyons as well...

Just a day if all goes well, then back for a stent removal a few weeks after whilst awake and naked from the waist down, not looking forward to that again.

Yeh I read demands for ride reports- its why I haven’t mentioned I went for a ride today hehehee If I get out tomoz and I stop Ill make the effort to take pics but fair warning half the time I dont stop other than for tea and sarnies in a not so picturesque lay-by and the other half I dont take my phone because its the one time I get some peace. Anyway you gotta cut me some slack Ive only been here a month, and a cold, lockdown month at that and supplied some half decent wild donkey pics from an accidental ride so theres got to be at least half a gold star in that?!

Honda had the best ?

Pink thatched cottages are 10 a penny round there, common as muck. It's yer Wimpy starter home that is a rarity and highly sought after.

Tomoz isn’t technically the weekend but Ive just read due to low infection rates Wales has moved it’s lockdown plan forward and from tomorrow drum roll please ? peeps can move across the border in and out of Wales......... woooohoooo ? As hospitality is staying shut there til the 26th I’m hoping the roads won’t be busy ? Sorry to all of you Welsh folk who were enjoying the peace n quiet!

You know the drill Phil! Pics and/or Vid or it didn't happen! And anyway, you know you don't have the confidence to go out riding these days cos I'm not there to babysit you any more!

I rode my bike today, I went to Monmouth via Chepstow and Tintern Abbey and then came home. There ya go a ride report from me.

Well the thought processes for this one are pretty clear but whatever happened that led to the end result I don’t wanna know.... “Hey hey guess what she says she’ll get her kit off if a bloke does it too” “Get the weedy ugly guy off the shop floor he’ll do it” “What the one with the bad hair?” “’ That’s the one” “Ah now that’s a cracking shot, if this doesn’t work nothing will”

And lest we forget Philly Spielberg';s video from the day...

We always called it the "Cowboy's Pants Arch" when we were kids....

I got your arch right here....

This place is a geologist's dream, or nightmare - not sure which. But it is cool and otherworldly....

Cruising along the Colorado River...

Sunny and warm here today, had to open our jacket's vents....

Did Buckster take those photos for you Dave

She should be careful not to block her breather.

No you’re a Twat.?

You are to the Aliens. ?

Here ya go Bruce, Michelle is branching out . Spotted this today in Cheddar..................

Oh Bob, now my undercover operation is totally blown.....? Thanks dude!... I was trying to sneak in with a good front, now what....I'll need to go into hiding for awhile....

Damn illegal aliens at stopNstab were boiling me nads today. ?

84 mph? Shirley that's a mistake....

...and a tunnel or two...

Once out of the mountains, the topography of western Colorado starts to emerge. Much flatter, more open terrain with lots of sandstone land forms...

And another at a fuel stop in Rifle, Colorado. I just couldn't help myself....

Noooooo

https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/travel/wales-travel-from-england-can-when-roadmap-lockdown-open-borders-dates-holidays-930785

Just when you think nobody can match Kawasaki for bizarre advertising concepts......Honda steps forward!

Some really nice photos Pete. The landscape is beautiful. That looked like a really fun ride, great roads. ?

And when Kawasaki throw some words in it makes it even more bewildering! Who the fuck were the Astro-Generation? I don't remember running across any of them in 1972!

Not sure about Kawasaki's thought processes on this one. But then, I'm not sure about Kawasaki's thought processes on anything really.

Photos of the inside of this huge sugar factory can be seen here: https://www.gssr.es/slideshow2.php?Ref=AC and here: https://www.gssr.es/slideshow3.php?Ref=AC . It is now owned by a private company (biochemicals) and may have guard dogs loose inside. When I took the photos the gates were open so I just walked in...and then got thrown out by a security guard.

Try taking ‘LADIES’ out of the title and changing it to Nurburgring, jus the word ‘Ladies’ is too much for some ?

One of your best yet.... ?

I want to be a Rocker! Mods are 's!