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It's finally out and I hardly cried like a girl at all. Sorry about the blurry photo, my hands are still shaking. First wee when I got in a little while ago made me jump, that should ease a bit. I was busting for it, rode like a loon to get home so I could do a sitty down wee.

I've only had a catheter once and I was knocked out when it went in. But I will never forget its removal. The infamous nursing quote of, 'I'm going to count to three'. Then they bloody do it on number two. It was about 5 minutes before my back was relaxed enough to let me put my bum back onto the mattress.

@XTreme can point you at some Chinese copies.

Here's some photos from my ride with the TRF Sunday. The forecast said it was supposed to rain but we didn't get a drop had a great day with no incidents. Some of the photos are from the lady that accompanied us shes a bit of a camera buff

Bloody hell i use one of those for drawing wires through conduit

Mainly to keep myself entertained, I continued to edit a few videos of my ride from North Portugal to the Algarve. The end results are not what I would have liked, I ended most days with no battery left on the camera, mostly from filming boring shit or leaving the camera on while having lunch , and somehow lost some footage. To top it, I lost a piece of my mounting system and ended the trip with a crap camera location. It was quite frustrating to edit, but I "helped" by narrating. Center, starting in Serra da Estrela, including a short walk in Piodão, and more rain before the Alentejo: Alentejo, Alter do Chão through to Estremoz's Castle, and sleep in Monsaraz Plans weren't followed this day, there's a swimming pool, though: The Algarve, the end of the trip deserved more than just a short clip of some twisties, I failed with the camera:

Had just left school and was working in an amusements, 9am til 12am. You're prob right on both counts.

Just so you cast aways know, if you fuck off somewhere else there won’t be a thread worrying if you’ve been stolen ...

My knob was tiny and cowering in fear. Something funny I have just remembered. The surgeon squirted gel anaesthetic down the old pipe first. Then whilst he is waiting for the nurses to hand him the instrument of torture he turns to me and casually says, "Don't panic, I'm just squeezing your penis to stop the gel coming back out whilst we wait for it to work." He had to tell me because I had made it quite clear I wasn't going to watch him or his little tv. What a funny job to have eh. Then he said, my CT scan showed my kidneys were now clear of stone fragments although he saw a few small sharp bits wedged between the stent and the uretha. " You might feel them as we pull the stent out!"

Some poor old twat is sat somewhere in Devon with his dog, feeling totally rejected now..

really? That doesnt compute. You arent lane jumping when you filter, so i'm guessing a heavy handed flag holder. We've been flagged to the front of stopped traffic in several states. Its usually Colorado where we run into the "sensitive" types and get 511'd. Next time that happens to me there, i'm getting the group to drive the speed limit in all lanes and let them sallies behind me stew Double fines dont apply if you arent violating a regulation. I would have instructed the yellow creature in the errors of their way.

You are such a moist flange.

naaah, sorry mate, I figured that in this particular case you would be about as much practical use as a the little motorised cupholder that slides in and out of the side of my computor.

I resemble that remark!

Or....get fred across to do it for you and you can have a right old knees up once its done ✔

It’s been a while since I last posted and Pete was so worried he checked to see if I was still alive. He was disappointed to find I was. Anyway, managed to get the old Suzuki TL1000S back to the UK and sold with the help of a good mate.......so naturally I needed to replace it with something to thrash around on. I give you the venerable CBR600F3, steel frame and carbs with an offensively loud Arrow can. Just the job!

So, got to editing this and it ended up too long for most people, still, it's got pretty great views, some of my favourite roads, some castles, the Serra da Estrela in the rain, and much more of my voice over it all ... ... which isn't really a bonus Watch at your own risk, I kinda like it, though

I know they want to be compensated for the storing n sorting of parts and there would be significant overheads involved in this but I can’t believe the price of some of it. Pannier racks arrived today so went to have a look at how to fix them on and barely touched the pillion foot peg when it fell to the floor, it’s snapped off near the bolt end. When I saw the price of the individual parts I was very grateful it had hadn’t flown off during a ride. Get a load of these prices. Yes they are genuine Suzuki parts but it’s still eye watering. I only need part 23 but £64.30?! I’ve emailed a parts warehouse selling on eBay that does two pegs for a tenner but all the spares for the bandit state they’re good up to year 2011, mines 2012 when the bike changed

Pete, the ginger Svengali.

You mean this is not a Scientology forum!!!!.

I haven't got a clue if it's all of us who get mentioned Rich Though it appears @Slowlycatchymonkey did get an honourable mention inasmuch as they don't appear to want her back! So it may just be us two......and they think the rest of you are just deluded acolytes who appear to be under my control. Obviously I'm some sort of Jim Jones or David Koresh type of character! Shit......this is like something you'd read on a Manic Depressives newsgroup, or some outlandish theory put forward by David Icke.

So is it just you that still gets mentioned over there or is it all of us? If its the former then I think its a personal vendetta against you for some misdemeanour that they think you have done if its all of us then I'd say they are all just butt hurt that we all have somewhere else and much better to be than there and even more so that this place is thriving

Glad all went well Yen!

You know his type well then....I.e does it do the brum brum thing or not if not ....

Just thought I'd chuck that in for Chris as being a diode it'll only pass current one way.

at the moment it atarts and runs ok. cos i haven't started cutting bits off it. the problem arises when you switch it off. If you're within a certain distance of an autoroute toll gate, or a mobile telephone antenna or relay, or a number of other radio emission sources, You can't disactivate the alarm with the remote control due to the interference from external frequencies. This happens on a regular basis and is extremely annoying. There is a solution when this happens: switch ignition on ( alarm siren sounds, indicators flash and electronic immobiliser cuts in) once the alarm stops screaming ( 30 seconds) you have 5 seconds to switch off and switch on again the alarm emits a series of short "bips" and a series of long "beeps" the long beeps correspond to your manual pin code. when the number of long beeps equals the first digit of your 4 digit pin code switch off the contact, then immediatly back on again and count the beeps corresponding to your 2nd digit... and so on untill you have entered the 4 digits of your pin code. the alarm then emits a series of "bips" for 3 seconds and flashes the indicators once to confirm the alarm is disactivated, you then have 45 seconds to start the engine or the alarm will reactivate in it's default mode. believe me, you learn this procedure by heart... you notice that the whole procedure relies on the "series of "Bips" and "beeps".... so when your alarm no longer makes any sound ( which is now the case here)... you're "fucked" ( Fucked being the correct technical term for the position in which you find yourself in the middle of sodding nowhere at 2 o clock in the morning.) It will then start raining.

I just can’t be arsed with face book. It doesn’t like the privacy settings I use so it blocks me. Facebook and Google track every single thing visited, Google will accept being blocked (mostly) but Facebook oh no they won’t have it so sod ‘em. I tried to join the Bandit forum quite a few days ago but they don’t want me either cos I’m still waiting for admin to approve me... do they know you over there Pete? Having said that I might now go and have a look

That's insane! Have you checked on a Bandit FB group?

So that's no invite for me again then?

don't for one minute I hadn't thought of the possibility of getting Fred and / or Bob over for beer and bike fixing.... not currently feasable with 14 days quarantine involved at each end.. If I want Triumph to do it, they can do it tuesday. I,m going to be working this sunday so tuesday would be the first opportunity I could have a couple or 4 hours clear to have a go at it if I want to try it myself.

Absolutely! That's why there's no Mods here! And not very much in the way of rules either!

I stepped down really because I lost my biking mojo, Clive......but the writing was on the wall I think. 008? No, I see myself more as an Austin Powers!

Clive's talking about the changes there in the last year or so Bob......in your day you and Ian together did a great job! There was a different bunch of people there then (where did they all go?).........and generally it was a pleasant and relaxed atmosphere.

Applications for the mod gig!!! He did not do a very good job of vetting them, look at the toss pots who ended up as mods. But on the upside it makes him look better....... marginally.

Six is desperate for attention, he talks about me all the time, pretends he wants a decent bike etc.. but lets face it, he's circling the drain.

So..... @Buckster goes in there, all guns blazing. @Six30 comes in here waving his Willy. But it's a good cover for a international spy.

My dad wouldnt let me have a banana seated bike, he said he caused medical issues.

Get them to do it.....that way they're accountable!

“Xripper.. potent monolithic ripper rotors” it even sounds like a death machine

She figured you were ginger so you likely wouldn’t last long enough to get the use out of it.

Ok this is the awkward bit, looking at the drawing if the wire 10 doesn't show up as negative when you test the wires using the multi meter on Ohms i suspect it will be the negative return from the lamp on the dash so to test this i would connect a wire to one of the 12v positives and connect it to one of the 4 remaining wires, then test the other 3 in turn with the voltage indicator to see if you have a voltage on any of them that you didn't have before, you may find it will be less than 12v if its going through the lamp. repeat this test with all four wires by moving the link wire to the next one until you find the return voltage on the wire from the lamp. you may find the lamp will light up when you complete the circuit with the voltage indicator but not always. Once you found those two wires then what your left with should be wires 3 and 5 doesn't matter which is which because your going to connect No 4 and these two all together and hopefully the bike should fire up and none of this

If that dove on top of the chimney ever decides to land near the ground, it's fucked Costa, the dog, finally laid down in frustration after 20 minutes sitting down waiting for the bird to fall from it's perch ...

He's bothered with doves perching on the chimney and the neighbour's tv antena and acting all confident up there. He bloody hates cats, though, a few of them dare to cross the garden when he's inside and all hell breaks loose, I once ran to open the door in stealth mode, he was a foot away from catching the surprised cat that managed to get away with a screech. The contentment from the scare he put the cat through? that lasted a day

You were working......but had a Chopper? You were either being used as child labour.......or you were a grown man looking like a twat on a childrens' toy?