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I love the young ferns and watching them uncoil more everyday. This is a young Western Sword Fern

Starting ok

Pete tells us he's some sort of website person but really he writes those smutty postcards you used to buy at the seaside

We're moving house, so probably not much bike action. Sunday, Monday and Tuesday are looking a bit shit here too, so I don't think I'll be too upset.

It is a great spot, at the end of a really fun road too. I go there often.

I'm still locked in the town and it looks like I'll only be able to get out tomorrow! So another miserable weekend for me coming up. Only positive is that there won't be any more mud involved......I still haven't got over last week's ordeal. What are you guys doing?

Ah yes a good front’ll do it

You really know how to chat up the ladies Sir! Have you tried using a Georgian font yet?

It was a busy day taking care of mum and stuff, i took a nap now i want to go out and play night rider!

Uhum!

That's why I haven't moved for over 30 years

When i break down i need a fuckin Snap-on truck full of tools anyways why bother. Tuna fish samwich and drinkie poo's, wait for recovery.

No wonder you don't go further than the dockside when you're on your own

Keep them pistons down the bottom! Wise words!

Seems dead here tonight i have a plate of cheese and crackers which i'm washing down with some desperados chilling out listening to this because i cant stand the shit the wife is watching on TV now i really want to go clubbing whats everyone else doing

You dont know why

Played this out loud. It wasn’t appreciated by the heathens. Think you had to be there at he time!

“Western themed” ? Just I took my kiddiwinks there once many moons ago and was flashed by a ‘cowboy’ (strange bloke in fancy dress) and havent looked that way since

No way?! Im pretty damn close to that. Jeezus its not that freaky cowboy thing is it?

Me and the wife or should it be the wife and i usually attend a motorcycle rally not too far from there before this corvid shit. Its held at Court Farm Country Park its a lovely place to ride around if i don't get too pissed the night before

Bandit. It’s supposed to be my cheap dont care about it winter hack/general purpose bike. Turns out I love em regardless so not panned out the way I expected

I dont want to take mine to the garage. It doesn’t feel right since I got it back. Not as sharp.

Cross near Axbridge. Woz odd my bezzies expect a certain level of attendance to appearance and didn’t recognise me getting off the bike.

Not just you that's why i don't take mine to the garage Excuse me i need the little boys room

Picked up my bike from the garage this morning. What is this weird separation anxiety that occurs when youre parted from your bike? Or is that just me?!

Well you posted as i did lol where was your sunny ride to

Im still ‘ere just about Ride out in the sunshine today Met some olduns but gooduns n ate in the sunshiny garden of a pub Bought gin on the way home, not had one of my favourites since last summer tastes pretty weird now

Yeh I know Fred! Has the whole board flounced? Bruce hasn't been giving more bikes away has he?

Stupid thing is my mortgage was ridiculously low compared to what people have now i'm probably only about £250 a month better off, but combined with a better monthly pay than I've ever had i can now see my bank account increase every month. Just got to get rid of the kids they cost more than the fucking mortgage then me and the wife, to quote someone from the past are minted

Yeh.....that's a good feeling! My last mortgage was paid off in 2001.

15 years is how long I've been employed by the company i work for, i have lived in my house for 32 years have no intension of moving, I've tied up so much of my life here i just couldn't leave it, plus I've been mortgage free for about 7 years and am lucky enough to have no debt and that's how i want to keep it

Apart from the house I was born in, this is the longest I've been in any house (15 years). We would like to be somewhere different after all this time, but the cost and logistics of another move at our age is too much to take on.

"At present I have BMW F650GS, lovely bike, but very heavy for me, even without luggage on it. I was thinking of trading it in for a v-Strom"

I've got a couple of the XRV OE spark plug sockets still. One rusted up badly through years in the bike tool kit, but they were very good for changing the 4 plugs on the AT, especially when teamed with a socket and ratchet. The pivoting part means you can almost remove a plug round a corner.

If you've got a Honda the O/E plug spanner is always the one to have.

what a balls up it is out there, it would be like that over if if Labour got in.

Got to take the wife to Baza tomorrow morning to pick up the dogs' medication. Which is a legit reason to leave the town.

Odd, you should discuss this today. I tried to test my battery voltage today using the heated vest plug wired into it. The two terminals are a fraction of a millimetre apart so of course I managed to bridge it with my tester points and heard the snick of the fuse blowing. Stupid plug design! So I popped the cover off the electrics to change the fuse and whilst I was in that region I took out the Yamaha tool kit for the first ever time to chuck it in a drawer for safe keeping. It had a spark plug spanner, and I usually find the ones that come with the bikes are the best. It was really wedged behind all the wiring, glad I did it in daylight!

OK, what the heck? I just spent way too long looking at tractor pictures..... They are just too much fun, look at this lovely photo of one I found.....

what a coincidence they are testing them there

A company by the name of Vertical Scope! These are just the ones that show up on Google.....there's page after page of them! Amongst their acquisitions are a lot of motorcycle and automotive sites......and every forum looks exactly the same! Like THIS in fact! Vertical Scope buy them up, then bump up membership prices and plaster the place in Ads. Total domination of the market! Of course, the independents have always had paid memberships and Ads as well! And I do understand the reasoning for this! However, I will point out that all the forums I've done since 2002 have always been free and never had Ads. Yet the strange thing is that the site owners who receive revenue get worshipped as Forum Gods, but when I give people something for nothing, there are some who are still not happy. But what do I know? I'm just an Internet troublemaker after all. What can we learn from this @Tym?

There are always downsides!

What a beautiful little cove

Logging trucks are cool! 18 speeds with big detroits screaming! meanie v12's!!!! Whooo, hoo, hold my jake brake!

This one has your name all over it. 1961 5hp.

I'll take the money, assuage your guilt folks and send me the filthy lucre.

I personally don't have a problem with a discreet and relevant ad here or there, as long as it doesn't eat up too much screen space or become to obtrusive, if it means the survival of the forum. Voluntary donations are also OK I think. But this is going at a tangent from the original post. Yes, buying up forums and killing them off doesn't strike me as a robust business model!

Oh yeh.....big dosh! There was never any hope of me selling any of mine......one look at the clientele would have been enough for them!