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So tomorrow I shall join @Pedro for a trip around Portugal. Fingers crossed for not to much rain, many nice roads and plenty of great evenings chatting while enjoying good food and good wine!! I made 2 little videos while loading tge bike in the garage. Its not great quality, for sure no where near @Grasshopper's Ride cinematographic excelence!! Its just a little amusing rambling of my part. Its the first time I have ever done this and it shows! Anyway, its just me talking to you!! Thanks for watching!

cherry scrumping tiger

A quiet rainy Sunday here, so to warm up the house I thought to make some good old fashion chocolate chip cookies. ??

Rename it Maximumbikes ?

One of my top ten vids ?

I could, BUT...... Really, the man insults my motorcycle and then asks for custom cookies...... WOW, you are a special one!

French cherry trees to rival Bob's neighbours

Pete, can you move my post to ride reports? I done gone put it in da rong place innit. cos i is a fukwit!

which is problematical as he's the bloody driver! ?

So I thought we were getting along just fine and then this.....OUCH DUDE!!

This month I will enter Charlotte looking just lovely by the lakeside on a beautiful sunny day. ?. There is even a rainbow in there.....just too perfect ?

Nice one Sofia, I use Kriega products as well, probably for about the same time period as you. Kriega make great kit

Bucks that one person on a tour bus no one wants to talk too...?

Back to my weekend dmanit. profile in courage, Loosenuts™ now can see at night! if Buck tries to ride this his spandex will melt! I leave it up to @XTreme to detail the explanation on how this all is supposed to work! This isnt your average Honda peeps!

I think its a great idea just because it reminds me of the old days when youd do a switch and people were left on Ghost Boards...the original darkmotorcycling foums...lol

Had to put some money in the bank yesterday so a visit to Yarmouth was done. The place was heaving, people bumping into each other, greeting with hand shakes and hugs. Think this things not over yet. Still had my market chips though.

Shut up you fucking rissole

I want to run this past you to see what you think. Now we know that we need to bring in new members to survive......every forum does. And this isn't as easy as it was 20 years ago before Social Media existed. And we also know that that there are only two sites (both corporates) ahead of us on Google, which is a great result after only being in existence a year. But the problem is that Google search results are not bringing in new members! The new ones who've signed up either came through Facebook, or they came over because they knew me from another forum. So I've been doing some research on Google Trends to identify why we get nothing from their search results. Here's the worldwide data from the last 12 months on searches made for "Adventure Motorcycle Forum". As you can see, there wasn't enough data recorded to generate any stats. And any variations of search terms using "Adventure" deliver the same nil result. The upshot of this is that the "Adventure" word doesn't help us one bit.......because nobody is searching for that criteria. So I then did an analysis of searches for the term "Motorcycle Forum"......and look at the difference! Essentially this demonstrates that the words "Motorcycle" and "Forum" are both critical.......and any other descriptor around them that would put them into a niche area of motorcycling are actually a negative. If we want to bring in new members (and we won't survive unless we do)........we need to appeal to all motorcyclists - irrespective of what they ride. So......are you thinking what I'm thinking? And for the hard of thinking here (of which there are many).......I'm talking about a rebranding! What does a rebranding involve? Different domain name and revised colour scheme. Do you we start again from nothing? No......every thread, post, image, avatar, and all your account info is copied over exactly as it is now. You'll just sign into the new domain using the same password as you have here. If you've forgotten your password, then you have the option to reset it on the sign in screen. Will the site be offline for a while? It'll take me a few days to do all the preparation beforehand, and at the end of it I would only expect the site to be offline for about an hour while the switch occurs. Will things be different on the new site? No difference whatsoever apart from the domain name and colour scheme. If any of you have suggestions on colours then let us know cos I'm not very artistic and I have no sense of style whatsoever. I like this place as it is......why change? This is a lot of work for me, and I can really do without it. But look at the stats......they show conclusively why we need to do this. If we don't, this forum will go the way of it's predecessors. It's as simple as that! I'll listen to you guys.......if the majority don't want the rebrand then it won't happen. I'm only suggesting this initiative based on those stats, not on gut feelings or personal preferences.... and AFAIC it's a no brainer! Tell me what you think?

Nothing butt the best pucks for me, leather sole, camo canvas, $250 at tourAticktock i;ll betcha. almost free on amazon. well, it did qualify me for free shipping on Loosenuts headlight. ? too

how to ride nearly 3 hours whilst remaining within 10km of home. something like this: nearly all pretty minor roads, which is what we like, and the dark brown bits on the trace are unpaved sections. Sun shining, spring in the air and 20 odd degrees forcast for the afternoon. I had to take N01 daughter back to uni in the afternoon so did this in the morning, set off about 10h30 up through St Bris le Vineux and on to St Cyr les Colons the village itself is "out of bounds" so cut north back under the autoroute, twice, and on to montallery and Bleigny le Carreaux. It had taken me a while to find a way out of Bleigny le Carreaux without crossing the 10km line, but a shot dirt track liason sorted the problem allowing me to cut back westwards through to Moneteau and cross the river there. There was no way to hug the northern edge of the circle without crossing out of it, so I had to work back south a little before heading towards the western sector. and some cherry orchards. soon be scrumping time... time ws getting on and I knew N01 would be getting her knickers in a twist if I didn't get back soon so from here, above Coulanges la Vineuse, I pushed on a bit down through Vinvelles, back across the river, up and down the hillclimb course at Chitry le Fort, back to St bris, cuting left up over the Col Du Cremant and back to the river at Vincelottes and thus home along the riverbanks. Got home with impeccable timing ( as always) at 12h30 just as Lunch was coming out of the oven. 100km almost exactly with a moving average of almost 50km/h . scoffed lunch, jumped in the car and did 3 hours of Autoroute taking N01 back to Dijon.

I don't mind the current colour scheme, but perhaps something warmer, or more "naturery". Red is too stressful, brown in not so nice, but a mellow orange, or green. The orange and teal theme is / was popular. The current one is easy on the eyes. The name is hard, but Adventure isn't right. The word moto or motorcycle is needed... So what do we have..... - a pub like experience with lots of different styles of bikes and people Moto Pub Hub Motorcycle Pub Hub ...are those weird? Just getting started with some ideas.....

Evenin’ all How’s tricks? I see in my absence you sent Bruce over the edge. Ive seen quite a lot of films featuring boats and theres always cabin fever or an insane captain theme in there somewhere so maybe he just drank too much seawater and will realise we cant survive without a slice of Bruce Butt?! Anyway. Nice tech break.. apart from all the emails, messages, online banking and all the work that had to be done onbloodyline ? Getting out for a ride tomoz, cant wait, meeting up with a couple of friends I haven’t seen for a very very long time due to Covid. Well thats the plan, one of them has just noticed his tyres on his new old bike are splitting and will have to get new ones asap but will it be done in time to meet up in Gloucestershire tomoz? In my pandemic shrunken world this now counts as a major event, the suspense is killing me

Today has been a good day on here! Based on the fact that nobody's flounced! Yet!

They just want more pictures of me.

Resurrecting this thread as I was looking through some old photos. This is one my mate Tone took of me on a trail above Lake Como in Italy, it’s one of my favourites.......

but in order for them to make that choice /decision, they have to find us... which isn't the case at the moment.

I’m ok with whatever the the forums called as long as it isn’t tmb you know the rest, but you do realise that some people once they see the kinds of post and language allowed may not want to join just a thought, make the most of my thought I don’t have too many, colour/Color I like yellow and black.?

Good stuff Tym but FFS get some proper size hose clips.

Where would you like to go? Pedro will take many much better then me and you can count on a good supply frm him!! Will do my best to keep safe, portuguese insurence is rubbish..... Kiss

Cool vids, you have a very beautiful voice it was so nice to hear it! Whoever owns that grey car needs me to test drive it to poland and back...lol

Just name it after some porn type words, you'll soon get to the top of any search engines.

Rockers only beaches! Mods suck!

No wonder you're not allowed to have a camera, get on the other side of the road where you can get a clear shot without the telephone lines in the photo

I'm going to be a moderator? Cooooool!

Me thinks the Captain had a mutiny and took it out on me. I tried to be nice, really, this was me being nice, dint work, i guess im not good at it.?

I;ll give you the phone number to buy it and ship it back just so she dosent keep causing traffic flow problems over here...

You cant be 30, you look 22 at the most. Probably only 21.5.

Get a room you pair of faggots!

I think your first time videos were fun. I would love to be getting ready for a trip right now, so be sure to share lots of photos from your travels. Have a safe and fun trip!

Nice photos @Specs Thanks for sharing. I really do want to visit Scotland some day. Such beautiful landscape and so very different from what I have lived in for almost 30 years.

Good effort on carrying the little bags with small volume this time. Like packing a donkey, I like it. Carrying an umbrella?

Here’s another one.???

Here's a few photos of it when Fred and I rode a lot of it in 2019, not in any particular order.

When my left thumb really hurts as I pull my clutch in sometimes and makes me swear out loud, I always have the same chilling thought afterwards.... Please god, don't make me have to get one of those Africa Twins without the clutch!

If my knees finally make it impossible for me to get on a bike, or be able to hold the weight of a larger machine, then this will be my solution.

I use German air but they bottle it in China. I've been assured that no Chinese air actually gets into it though.

I once shared an office with the Highways Maintenance people, the School Dinners monitoring mob, Parks department, abandoned vehicle wollahs, skip licencing experts and the Cleansing blokes at a time when my borough had been subdivided into 7 mini councils. What this meant in reality was that we got 7 very expensive chief executives and lots of managers but the staff who did the actual work did more tasks than usual, but over a smaller area. So the people mentioned above numbered 3 or 4 in total. So the man in charge of all the above 3 people looked after the general dustcarty type stuff, but also clinical waste, dead animal disposal, winter gritting and the washing of shitty clothes for ill people. The last was used to wash our building's union flag which was briefly on display until mobs appeared on a protest saying it was racist against the local Indian population. My comment from the back of the room that it had been their flag for a few hundred years were ignored. One day I heard this bloke take a call from a distressed resident who's Alsation had died at home. They wanted to know if the council would take it away and dispose of it properly. He asked where they lived and said that he had to walk past their flat on his way home for lunch so he would drop a form in to them which they needed to fill in before he could arrange it. So he knocks on the door and it opens. A tearful woman took the form from his hand, then before he could turn away, the man of the house appeared and plonked a blanketed dog's body into his arms so quickly it was grab it or let it fall to the floor. He had to get quite stern with them before they finally took it back off him. Put him right off his lunch he said. A short time before I had shared an office with the Planners and Environmental Health. This meant that whenever I went to the fridge to get milk for tea making I would see things like a dented tin with BOTULISM written on it in magic marker. One day one of the EH ladies came in (the lovely Sandra from Brum) and asked if I had a magnifying glass. When I asked what for she said that she had just been putting sticky tape down on someone's bed to capture samples of whatever was living in it, she showed me a wallet full of bits of tape. I thought for a while and then it came to me. The Microfiche machine! That made things big. Sure enough we popped a bit of tape in and this shadowy image came up in startling detail. She had a bug ID book and you worked through from head to tail on any bug, ticking things off as you looked at each part and eventually arrived at what it actually was. Something like a red chicken mite I think, how that got into a bed I have no idea.