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A dash of yellow to brighten your day! Some Bird's-foot Trefoil

My feet didn't touch the floor on either side, I have never had that with any bike before. Some grown ups had to hold me vertical till I pulled away and then after I had gone round in a big circle I was like a kiddie on his first 2 wheeled bicycle calling out to everyone to catch me when I stopped.

You can see @Six30 is keeping a eye on me!.

Those lambs are getting a bit of cock by the looks of it.

A 600-700cc single in trail-bike form is the perfect bike for me. Enough ooomph to get you down the road but light enough to pick up when you toss it down the trail........... All hail the mighty Donkey

A couple years ago a company that does vintage car/bike/boat insurance did a photoshoot that included me and my 851. This is a shot at the end of the day, excuse the helmet hair. Not that it looks much better pre-helmet. There are no pictures of me looking stylish around a motorcycle I'm afraid...

Sounds like my general bike life

It was a sight to see, I had to burn the seat afterwards.

I guess you;d call that bus a Double Dicker now eh what?

Here it is …

Whoo hoo im in the projected cone of probability of being WIPED OFF THE PLANET!!! Bread and milk, i need bread and milk like...now.

Firstly, Pete hasn't seen a beach in 10 years, he lives in the equivalent of death valley. Secondly, I am out, Covid and staying home drinking wine hasn't been kind to me Thirdly, I hope I never see that spandex picture

Maybe it's because you don't take my picture taking tips, or buy ugly/chinese bikes?

he's about 6 ft gay

One more month (ish) and no double jabbed person will have to isolate. Not that that helps you now. So good luck. The lateral flow tests are incredibly unreliable though, if youve been eating or drinking before you do it it can easily give a false positive, fingers crossed

i got far to much style for stripes and shit .... you know this .

So you hop around naked in a field......and I'm the one that's depraved?

I read the ‘unread’ sections title and last comment as- Buck in Spandex I can remenber a pic of you on it, you made it look like a toy. How tall are you ? All I can say is the images of Boboneleg and Buckster together that appeared the minds eye may have scarred me for life

Your depravity knows no depths

Test yourself every 2/3 days Fred, if you're still negative then you're good to go

Fucking great just had a message off the lad i've been working with all week saying he's failed two DIY covid lateral flow tests, said he's going to have a proper test tomorrow. I've just done a test myself and its negative

Yeh, with a Tiger tail on the end!

A bit of storm eh @Tym......suppose you will send the remnants of it our way!.

If he won't play on the lycra front, let's see a photo when he had a real bike. The KTM640 ADV

Liar ya pining for it.

I must be getting old, I actually quite like that................

There's a guy up in the North-East who has imported five from Canada, 2019 and 2020 models. He is asking £7,400 for them (on the road price), if it was nearer to £6,500 I'd be on my way to collect one . Me and my mate (Sarge) have looked into importing a few times but it's cost prohibitive at the moment , if we could find someone in the States to store 5 of them for us for a year and fit used speedos so they look like a second-hand bike then it would be worth it as then the tax implications would be far less.

yeh if you could , park the van right in front of it so we cant see the thing thats in the photo now

That's too much fuss for me. In Portugal we're spoiled and used to taking good expresso for granted. You walk down a city street, pop into a cafe, enjoy a shot of good (actually good) expresso without even sitting down for 0,60 to 1,00€ depending on location, and walk on having spent one minute in the cafe. I couldn't be bothered with all that in the middle of a bike ride. I might get a really small container like @bobonelegand see how it works in order to be really hipster and have a coffee on top of a mountain with nobody else around. Might as well take a rum flask and have some añejo, if it's winter ... Having said that, I have a fond memory of when I was in Brazil when I was 19 and stayed for a month in a small three or four room inn in Tibau do Sul, a small village in the northwest. As I was about to go out to meet my girl and her friends after dinner the guy next door invited me for coffee as he was about to have some outside so I stayed. He was a traveling salesman selling whatever all accross southern america, and brewing coffee was his night ritual. He roasted the beans with a small torch in a metal sheet, then ground them and then boiled it in an open container, no machine or press or nothing, just waited for the coffee to settle and poured the clean liquid on top. That is my favourite coffee ever, just the smell left from the roasting is better than drinking some of the modern stuff. Took him long enough to brew that cup of coffee, too!

Or you could go to the beach and take some selfies like i did to get the ladies attention, just saying... Isee @boboneleg posted a topless pic, we should do a calender... Hey Pedro, any money shots you should be our best hope ya know young and fit hopefully. Bucks out, his last pic in spandex was a disaster.

No it just had that much power I put on because I was fed up picking the wife off the floor.

Not a great deal of words today as I'm going all Pedro-like. I went to have a look at some new (to me) Droves on the Somerset levels today. On the way I dropped down over Burledge Hill where there is evidence of some great lane management.......... Up over the Mendips and down through Wells, Glastonbury and Street to get to Somerton and onto the fun stuff. You get miles of this..............

I had never shared a pool with a seagull before. Although it looks summery, that is 50 meters high on a oceanside cliff, the wind was quite strong and not very warm at all. Took a walk before dinner, and you can see the wind on the water below

I thought this was one of Bob's holiday snaps, but it's the wrong way round.

A bit further on and it started to get a bit sticky, there is no gravel surface under this grass, it is pure peat and with the amount of rain we had yesterday it was slicker than a Beavers back end. The fun bit is trying to guess where the tractor ruts are under the grass so that you don't tip over in them............. After heaving my way though my thermostat started reaching boiling point so some clothing was removed and I made it back to terra firma. I carried on to do some more Droves which were pretty uneventful and then came to the North Drain. The North Drain does exactly what it says on the tin in that it drains the water off the Levels, there was a big shoal of Roach basking in the sun........... I started to head north now and back towards home, here you can see Nyland Hill (an extinct volcano) in the forground and the Mendip Hills in the distance as viewed from the Levels.......... Once I got up on the Mendips I stopped near Priddy at a convinient tree stump to sit on for lunch........... I had a quick look at a campsite (for future reference) and then made my way home. There will be some bike washing to be done tomorrow.

The Somerset levels.............

It's just dawned on me. You've just got back from a long hot ride in this picture. This is how you stand for at least 10 minutes to let the accumulated ball sack moisture evaporate and to let the arm pits drain before heading indoors.

Lost in the dirtroads of the Algarve, this looks like a mexican cartel village

I have been planning a couple of longer trips, 3 or 4 days, but am not sure anymore how many hours I can ride comfortably in a day having not done any longer trips since the problems with shoulder and now knees. So despite the weather forcast being shyte and our region being on yellow alert for storms I decided to see how long I could last. I had heard tell of a road near Reims that was once a race track, and the stands have been left intact along the side of the road. I saw it on the telly a couple of weeks ago so though I might go have a butchers: Reims, and most of the Champagne region is on the Marne river plain so is obiously strewn with cemeterys and memorials of the first war and the battle of the Marne ( i did a ride report from Chateau Thierry and the american cemeteries and monument a few years ago) so, this being kind of my pet subject, I had to visit this, the National Monument to the 1st battle of the Marne ( sept 1914, with the advancing Germans just 30 miles from Paris, Marechal Joffre ordered his retreating 6th army to turn around and attack. The BEF on his flank did the same 24hrs later and the german advance was stopped and 5 days later was in general retreat) a small British cemetery nearby I also rode past a huge French military cemetary and an Americain one also but it was pissing down with rain so I didn't stop. The weather cleared again and as the sun came out I found a lovely quiet spot to eat my sarnies, in a village called "Oyes" the whole time I sat there eating and reading my book, about half an hour I guess, not a single car came past...lovely! Moving on, I crossed the Seine at Romilly and found the old race circuit pit lane and stands at "Gueux" just west of Reims being a Sunday there were a few people about as it's obviously a meeting place for the local petrol heads the grandstand opposite I went on Into Reims for petrol and rode home stopping a number of time to shelter form the heavier rainstorms that came through, they don't last long but they drop a huge amount of water on you and you can go from dry road to 3 inches of standing water in under a minute, so I prefer to pull over and shelter for 5 or 10 minutes if the opportunity presents itself, as it did here in a derelict Service station which I had to document for @XTreme I did try the door but it was locked. all in all 450km and 7 hours including stops, I could probably do another hour or even 2 after a longer break so i'm pleased to find I can manage so long and can now plan accordingly.

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I'm going to book myself in for a proper test over the weekend, I've had both jabs so only concerned about spreading it if i have a positive test on the weekend. I think i'll be off work next week if his test is positive tomorrow could really do without it

That's what that bird said to me in 72 when she saw my foreskin!

I used to ride a 640 Adventure, I'm 5'8'' and I managed ok.

When I left school I was 5 feet 11 and 3/4 inches. I now seem to have lost those 3/4 of an inch and am at 5'11". This is also coincidentally Buckster's inside leg measurement.

It was about 22c today, we don't get a lot of mosquitos around here, it was the horseflies that were trying to munch on me

A driftway, a lovely wide lane with plenty of grass (for on the move snacking) to make your sheep, cattle, turkeys etc walk along, promising them a nice Christmas as they make their way to Smithfield Market. I did hear that the Norfolk drovers would dip the turkeys' feet in tar to protect them on the journey.

the history of the battle of the Marne is french history Bob, and no one wants to learn about battles the French won because it would oblige them to question their stereotypes. The Body stood up fine to this test, worked the following day with no more then normal aches and pains so it's looking good for a 3 or 4 day ride at the end of august... if we're not all in lock down again by then. I'm surprised you've heard of it Pedro, most people haven't and I certainly hadn't until recently. The old start / finish straight throigh the stands and it lane is now the D27 between Reims and Gueux.

At least you led in gently before you called him a dumb cunt.

Yes. Infection rates are rising but hospitalisation and deaths currently arent increasing at the same rate which is the key factor. Getting a mild illness that requires no intervention and causes no long term disability is the key.