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85 so no going on a bike for her these days, the last time she was on one was riding pillion with my dad on my rd 250

I;ll just flash some me in leather pics to bring the womens in, no worries if that doesnt work, look horseees!!

There isnt one fuckin ant alive around here today, eat my food will ya,pffft! ?

Had a great ride yesterday on Charlotte. Went back to an old bridge over a beautiful creek that we found on the Himalayans once. ? I captured some lovely video footage of the creek and will make a short video once I have time. Now that I am riding almost every day and outside more the video projects get less attention. ?

I had intended to have a ride somewhere on Thursday but a friend thought he’d go on Saturday so a change of plan. Transpired that he didn’t want to go too far and do some nearby lanes, that I didn’t really fancy. Eventually got out late morning after making sure that I had deballasted sufficiently as most of the public khazis would be closed due to the lurgy. A very important issue these days. The only plan I had was west so thought I’d avoid the hordes on the Beacons and get there quickly, as it was a late start, along the M4 then turn off somewhere. I just saw a place name and headed towards it until somewhere else caught my eye. As seems to be the norm for me lately, didn’t stop other than for a few snaps when I was in the quieter hills. Fortunately the roads were fairly quiet earlier on because I suppose many were in front of the box watching some funeral. I usually hear my first cuckoo of the year at this spot, but nothing Just over 250 miles so happy that I can still do some miles. I think that the reluctance to take photos has something to do with the effort it seems to take me to get off and on the bike!

Just got back from another sunny ride. ? We had one of my work clients along with us today which was fun.

Walking like juan has lost his donkey

19c and blue skies.....but not allowed to go anywhere! So it was ride the roads I'm allowed to ride once again. I can't go nowhere! Obviously that's better than this time last year when I couldn't leave the house......but it's still frustrating to only be able to ride in one direction (north) all the time. Any other direction and it's turn round and come back after 3 or 4 miles. And we've now had 10 weeks of this so far this year! Still.....if I've got to be locked into a town, then this place is a damn sight better than the shithole I was born in.

Cosmos seedlings growing in our bathroom

Rode around a bit, a few bikes were out, my bike ran fine, i got tired fast, so i came home. End of ride report. ?

Boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo !!

Well i was thinking of doing a ride report but i don't think i'll bother now

I done that last week and was quite disappointed when i came back and no one had flounced or argued

yes the cafe is right next to where the iom ferry docks , but wasn't able to go on the bike as i had to take my mum (bike isn't taxed or mot'd yet anyway) anyway it was a good butty and we watched dogs playing on the beach ?

Taking a tech break next week (as far as practicable) cos I got a lot of work on and I do like a distraction! So if I’m not about it’s not because I’ve moved over to the dark side it’s just my middle name is procrastination ?

So tomorrow bright and early i’m driving to Lugo, in Galicia, which is in Spain, for lunch and a meeting. Got two letters and a printed covid test, to show at the border ...

Turns out I didn’t ride at all, my dad got the vaccine on friday and has been feeling shit since, so I took pity on Costa and we went for a walk instead. Today as well. now finishing breakfast and not feeling like bothering with sunday traffic in the least

I didn’t fancy walking home. ?

went for a brew and a bacon butty at the half moon bay cafe at heysham near lancaster then we moved on to morecambe for a look round ?

This is The Style......

Surely this should be happening in work time... networking n all that malarkey, tis cheaper than golf or expensive lunches so really it should be a goer! Paid to bike, its the way forward!

Well I did say as far as practicable and sometimes its not practical to ignore an itch ?

Better than the other way around

Ya, check it out, i had hair when i had a Cobra sideband...and a peterbilt...?

one of mine was a multimode a sideband

fucking idiots, you don't moor a boat on a slip. God lazy journalists boil my piss! I don't expect them to know what they're talking about, but when you don't know you go and fucking ask someone who does. wankers all of them. rant over.

Skenfrith Castle

what did you do next push it back in the garage and go join your friends in the special pool....

Looks great and shit as it is as least they give you an area with a perimeter. We’ve had to ‘stay local’ which means only a few miles from home. Even Boris got a pasting for leisure cycling 7 miles as many deemed that too far! And as you say it is beautiful where you are ?

Some epic riding stuff in these reports. The colour of those school buildings are fantastic and that was a great bit of youtube of the goats moving about in the tree. I suppose we’re just not used to seeing cattle in trees, may as well have been an episode of the magic roundabout with cows up there! ? We have a lot of wild goats in Cheddar George and when they’re clinging to the rock face on the road above you you can’t help but feel wary ones about to ping off! Here’s a of one of them looming over the road below and one silly billy that simply went to far. They climb trees too. Hope you get to really enjoy Morocco when you get back there.

Been out this morning and back in time for MotoGP.

Smokey doesn’t care if you’re on two wheels, four, or eighteen!

It's a PITA but at least I can get out. So it was up the canal paths and I even managed to find some ruins on the edge of a cliff! I'm not sure who in their right minds build houses on the edge of a cliff......but this is Spain after all!

So today I decided to get over the bridge and invade Wales, well just slightly as I would be in and out of the border for this trip. It were a bit nippy when I left at 08.00 at 1C but the heated grips were on and at least it wasn't windy. Down the M4 and across the Severn Bridge and bypassed Chepstow and took the B4293 to Monmouth, fuckmine look at the shit on this road............ Passed through Monmouth and up past the Rockfield Studios where Dave Edmunds used to do his thing.................... Had a quick stop at Skenfrith Castle, sorry about the shit photo but the sun was really strong by now and it was turning into a glorious day........... Moved on up the road towards Grosmont and nearly hit a mother duck waddling up the road with her ducklings , I missed them but stopped to get a photo but by time I'd walked down the road they'd dissapeared throught the hedge. Instead I took a photo of mummy sheep and her lambs in the field , please refrain from getting a hard-on now Pete I carried on up to Peterchurch and then went east , crossing back into England and Herefordshire which is home to some of the finest cider apple orchards anywhere........ I made my way to Hoarwithy which is litteraly on the border as the river Wye is the border here between Wales and England. I popped into Tresseck campsite as my mate was there in his motorhome and was rewarded with a bacon sarnie.............

So on down some more gorgeous backroads and across this glorious common.................... Mr Pheasant wasn't too pleased by my arrival.............. I came across a handwriiten sign further down the road and went to investigate. Fawley Chapel, I can't really find out much about it but it looked old and the village only had about 4-5 houses including the farm............. I made my way down through the Forest of Dean but didn't stop to take any photos as it was rammed with mountain bikers and I spent most of my time trying to pass them. Back across the old Severn Bridge to England where I took a photo on my GPS, I have no idea why it came out like that ? Was it doing an impression of 'Galloping Gertie' ? Or was I speeding ? It wasn't me officer, that's my mates GPS

You not had your collar felt yet @Six30.

Is that trooper or blooper @XTreme

dont put yourself down so much!! It will be good! We cant all be great at everything, my picture quality is not amazing, but I cook really great food!!!

You may need to lower your standards of what constitutes a terrible picture or I might not be able to contribute to this forum ????

Yer definitely sounds like “another world within our world” and one for the list ?

Hummus, vegetarian Paella and some greens. Terrible picture because @Pedro was not there... He was very much missed! Not just to take the picture, also to share a good glass ( or bottle!) of wine, good convertation and his compliments at the end! ?

You could try these but their postal service is fucking slow, I've had stuff from china faster than from them and their only 45 minutes away from me https://www.mandp.co.uk/products/130-80h17-65h-tl-conti-trail-attack-3-rear-tyre-697719

Probably not......but that never seems to stop me. cough cough....? But mix the dust with the heavy amount of pollen we had in the air and mouth breathers will be doomed.... ?