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I flounced....and you fuckers didn't even notice.?

Im getting on my GTR and seeing how far i can go maintaining a 125mph average speed. ?.

Because of the unusual position of the UK weather wise it has more tornados per unit area of land than any other country (as in number of tornados for the size of the land mass) but they are generally too weak to be noteworthy. We have at least 33 a year and outside of America hold the record for the largest outbreak of tornados. In 1981, 105 tornados in 5.25 hours. Not a lot of people know that... probably cos its not that interesting ?

Off for a walk down to the river with Paolo later today, I'm quite excited as the 'Perky Coffe' van could be there as restrictions have been lifted. I'm going to go out for a ride tomorrow as the TV will be full of Prince Phillip's funeral and although I respect the dude i'm not really enamoured by funerals. I may go to Wales as we are allowed to travel there now.

I will mostly be being a casual, I think Having said that, the weather has been so nice I am almost guilty I haven't been riding, stuff just has been getting in the way. I might take a couple of hours ride to a hilltop and grab a snack on my own. Might take a picture too, and post it in the "your day today" thread

The best thing i can say about the experts in our group is that they are patient and helpful. The lesser-skilled are good about finding bail out routes so they dont hold up the main group. Most rides are set up so that even slower riders dont hold up the faster ones for that long. motorcycle peeps are awesome, most times.

Why is there a female riding day? Whats that about? Is there a male day? A human being day? A dog day? A cat day? Just motorcyclist day should be enough, because motorcyclist is not man or woman, its just motorcyclist! Just be!

Maybe he just didnt broadcast the trespassing part?!

I’m pretty sure there is a “bring your gimp to work day” you could join that.

@XTreme and @Swagman.....

the RNLI ( UK Lifeboats) on the south coast used to say something similar about the french SNSM ( French Lifeboats)?

It's the ones who live in Gaylord who worry me the most!

Descrimination , pure and simple. I demand a one-legged person riding day ?

Just planned a 5 or 6 hour ride for tomorrow with blue skies outside, and now people are talking about bad weather....

Im waiting for a casual riding day, one i can just sip a nice cappochenolattespecialgrandelatté extra cream, with my spotless adventure boots propped up on a starbucks foot stool. A man can dream cant he. ?

Thats not doppler either. ?

You expected me to spelll spanish rite?

yeah, for the moment. I read somewhere thet in the UK you can be fined 3000£ for leaving the country ( or returning?) but that tourists from other countries could come and go from the UK as they please.... WTF ? similar story from Spain?

Triaged that to next weekend, i need to clean my KLR, change the oil thats full of gas. ?

A prime chance to dess in all black and riot. Fight the power.

or getting ome shots of him out on his bike will mean he's been testing acid.... fukmine, imagine Buck on acid ? ?

looks like sweet F A this weekend, still restricted to a 10km radius, kids at home and Madame is working all weekend. Can I be arsed to start the "nd pair of shutters for the front of the house? The suspense is killing me...

A prime chance to try google maps in search of some of those great gravel roads.

And the weather looks decent for a change...... However.....where I can actually go is not looking so good now we've got a Perimetral Lockdown again! I think we can safely say that I'll be heading north.....unless I want to ride 3 miles and then turn round again! So what are you lot up to? The answer "Being a Casual" is not acceptable! Google is watching you Twats!

TLDR- Not a lot to see here, you’re better off reading the Baja thread, thats what I’m doing next ? This ride report is the most lacking you’ll likely ever see under ‘Ride Report’s but its not my fault honest.. well maybe it is but I feel innocent. The day started well, I pulled the blinds to see the sun shining through the window and even though my inadequate phone doesn’t show it in the pic I can easily see Wales across the water, even the wind turbines slowly turning. This is unheard of early morn because even on the sunniest days the sea mist takes time to clear and holds the temp down, often until midday. Not sure about the ‘pano’ setting on the phone, it seems to make the central focal point of the photo the cesspit, so here you go a pic of the top of the cesspit, you’re welcome. I checked the forecast and it was very promising. Skiving is now firmly on the cards. This type of weather which I love always gives me grief on the attire front because in the sun its lovely and warm, out of the sun its still only 6 degrees. Taking into account the wind chill on the motorway I plumb for the subzero skimobile suit- not a wise choice ? Mr Slowly says he’s going to come along and we decide to turn it in to a test run for the longer days in the saddle on the LEJOG trip end of May. Seeing how long it takes before aches turn fun into pain, what the timings of preemptive breaks will be, getting Mr SCM familiar with using sat nav while riding, figuring out what works when we ride together over longer distances and any bike changes that might be needed. Easy peasy. Whacked together a chunky chilli in the slow cooker so the ingrates dont bother me at lunch time because “Im hunnnngreee” made a large flask of tea n some sarnies and feeling like some multi tasking genius who’s won the lottery we head off to the Wye Valley. But priorities n all that so first a wee dap up the motorway for breakfast at Lockside. Not biker breakfast prices but to hell with it, this is the first time we’ve eaten out in over a year. If you’re ever in Bristol and want to flash the cash on your brekky this is the place to go. Odd location but classy enough to serve Bloody Mary’s with your fry up! This is where my ride report goes down the pan. I review the helmet cam footage eagerly anticipating something worth of seeing only to discover that in-spite of spending a lifetime deciding its optimum positioning (skyline perfectly horizontal, what I’m looking at dead centre of the frame, helmet encroachment minimised) I hadn’t realised just how not upright I am on the bike so I have a lot of footage of tarmac and my speedo (which is not something I can post on a public forum ?). It just doesn’t adjust up or down. A schoolboy error maybe but they dont mention that in their sodding fitting video on youtube! We head over the bridge where I do my best impression of a flip top lid in the hope of getting at least one bit of footage to put on here but in the interests of not closing the bridge with an accident only a complete moron would cause I give up. I’m navigating quite badly and miss both opportunities to make it onto the A466. Where we went next is a mystery to me but it was sunny and felt great to be over the bridge again at last so who cares. Stop to rejig the sat nav and have a great ride over to Usk, then Monmouth and back down through the Wye Valley before heading over to Frome until the sun refused to reappear from behind the clouds and we headed home again. Ooh exciting a pic at the petrol station cos my husband is enamoured with his new helmet- me not so much but of course I said its lovely! ? The only ride report worthy pic taken from the “ABSOLUTELY NO PARKING, you will be clamped” sign just before Tintern Abbey. The risks I take for you ? The cloud cover that refused to break just outside Bath despite the ‘sunny all day’ forecast ? And home again. A little icing on the cake to discover the miniature weeping Cherry Blossom tree we planted last November for one of our dogs burial (yes we were that sad about it) has against the odds grown and already produced its first little blossom. Distance- not that far 150 miles but a lot of B roads which is exactly what LEJOG will consist of and out for about for 7 hours. A good first long ride together celebrated with beer and chunky chilli. All in all an excellent skive. A bonus item- while we were fuelling up I watched Mr SCM automatically stop talking and his eyes swivelling about as soon as he heard a motorbike engine, long gone are the days of him saying to me “you’re not listening are you?”.... because he is now too ... gone man, solid gone... ? Dunno why this pics here twice, tried removing it but it wont let me.. TECH SUPPORT HELP.....

Not anymore! Heyho, we were lucky enough to catch the tail end of an ideology some employers had that you look after your staff. Similar to the military, accommodation was provided, housekeepers kept the place working and changed the linen and you worked all the unreasonable hours necessary whilst doing precisely what you were told when you were told to do it ? Why they couldn’t find another use for it I dont really understand.

Talking of abandoned places I really want to go back and have a gander in one the student nursing accommodations we had. Is was a beautiful mansion built by a philanthropist for use as an orphanage. We were the last cohort to use it finishing in 1997. The govt then got into a row with the locals about using it as a home for paedophiles and its been left to slowly derelict since. Its still covered by hospital security staff but that doesn’t stop it rotting. It turned up on a few ‘abandoned places’ websites a while back, these pics are a good 5-7 years old, dread to think what it looks like now. Such a waste and quite sad if you knew how alive and loved it was.

You guys are daft! ?

First hit on google not my fault jetskis are called lake lice we hate them anyways. ?

Tym’s the one torturing us with it!

Without the internal exploration it's just click bait!

yeh , you love it...

Michelle never said that about your KLR!

Seriously @Tym, is that your tractor?

Taking your bike out of storage.......

That would certainly encourage social distancing.

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I think you ought to take me on your bus for the day

@Swagman......he's being brave and has showed up! What a little trooper he is!

Oh Deere, i have one with a Kawasaki V-Twin, team green all the way buddy. ?

I had pipes like that on my 1990 Sportster. ?

The trans sibierien, Vladivostok - Moscow has been my dream trip since I was about 6. originally wanted to do the train ride but once I got riding I've wanted to do it by bike. The dream is not dead, but it gets a litle less likely with each passing season and then I came across some aussi dude who rode it as part of Sydney to London, alone, at 70 something and the lights go back on... more realistically, I have a fully planned route for a trip visiting all the capital cities of the schengen area. 21 cities 30 days 10900km +/- 3500€ budget 'soon as I can sell a child or 2 ... ?

Kick started the Tomos, ok that hurt...took a spin, made it into second gear, came home...my inside's dont like bumps yet. Hay, its a ride report. Dint say it was a good one... ?

HI hi, new here so I need to find my feet still. So, thanks for the big welcome... ? Ride pretty much anything I can, where I can, and have been doing so for a long time. Heading to SA in a few days to ride the winelands on a 1200GS. I have not been there for a long time, so looking forward to it. Covid has really messed with riding for a while now... When I catch up with the protcol here, I'll be more active....