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Too hot!!

It's not always blue skies and sunshine here!

i just get down to the beach... at 26 seconds i step over @XTreme

My shit is well and truly gripped by this bloody heat! Hate it. It's nearly 30C here. I'm not genetically engineered for these sort of temperatures.

The bloke at the end of our street, he’s waited till the hottest part of the day when the sun is directly over him to start laying edging bricks on his neighbors garden, X copper so what should I expect, it’s 28 in the shade he’s had that part of the garden in the shade all morning and now starts working in it, thick BASTARD.

You need to come down here for a course in Motorcycling Tourettes and Water Avoidance Bob!

You don't need a large bike to tour Europe Dave, i've done France twice on my 250 Rally and I'd happily set off on it tomorrow. just use the back roads and you're laughing.............

In 2013 I worked with Gabe who was going to open new premises for his fledgling company Zen Overland. He got an old railway goods shed and we spent 3 months doing it up . Here I am up on the forklift trying to sort out some electrics, not a lot of health & safety going on here .......... a and Gabe cleaning the flourescent lights........... Things are startting to take shape................. Gabes XR400 , his supermoto and my KTM950................... Gabe on the phone taking orders.................. and my personal tea mug ............... This was at the opening day, Sam Manicon and Graham Field have there backs to me as they set up their stalls..............

And to top it all I left the washer shed door open and they've eaten the power wire to the washing machine. Tripped the rcd bit I'd prefer the little fuckers fried.

I had to collect my son from a wedding reception in Bristol to take him camping. No idea which bit I was in, but it was some sort of hotel and I could see the famous suspension bridge very close by which everyone said I should drive over as it was the best way to get to Devon. So I managed to get onto the thing. No sod had bothered to tell me you had to pay to cross it and did I have the right money, did I buggery. Me and my young son trying to find the right change amongst the darkest recesses of my car and camping gear with a queue behind me. I was also very surprised at how narrow the bridge is when you are actually on it. edit. Did a youtube search to remind myself what it was like.

I did a pub relief manager job in Bristol in a previous life. Can't remember where exactly, maybe southwest. Anyway it was a bit of an eye opener. Family had conjunctivitis and had to be off the premises. Apparently the relief guy before me had a one armed bandit nicked, and an old clock off the wall. An old guy from across the road was telling me his hard luck story about his wife having died, trying for a free sympathy pint. He didn't know me very well Later on one of the barmaids told me that they used to see him out of the bedroom window beating the shit out of her. Yes. Bristol. There last time I went there was a couple of years ago and stayed in a flat over my mate's son in law's shop. Pretty central as we walked everywhere. A great real ale pub across the road run by biker, and some idiot upset the HA there and took a pretty spectacular kicking. To be fair, he was a bit of an idiot. Of course the place emptied, the CCTV tapes disappeared before the cops turned up. Yes, Bristol. I quite liked it!

I could get my mate to lend you his dog, he seems to think they’re truffles and scoffs them up

No surprise what’s gripping my shit eh Pete? MY CUNTING NEIGHBOUR. Mind you we’ve had some firm interest in our house so you never know Pete we might move to your village. Just watch the house prices plummet.

It's better to cross it when you've got a 'jumper'

Fuckin rabbits, shitting machines. I know what comes out is small but the quantity and locations the prob. Why can't they dump in one area rather than where ever they are at the time.

Yeah you could be part right Pete looks comfy, not the van part though.

Yes......she has suffered from that! Austin had Covid as well but it had no effect! He probably done it's head in!

I have it’s exact location already on the sat nav, still undecided about Thursday and Friday though. The only certainty is that we need to be in Dublin by midday on Saturday.

It turned into a bit of a monster in the end, he didn't want to spend all his time just taking items in and just sending them back out again . His real love is making one-off parts for overland bikes so he closed it in the end. He let me go long before the end which pissed me off a bit as he didn't really give me a reason. I still sold some stuff for him on a casual basis about a year after but I haven't seen him for a long time now. He's a really nice guy, a good engineer and an ace rider but I've no idea what he's up to now as I don't do any social media.

he was. and, so damned smart. as a puppy, he followed Chris's mom outside one morning to pickup the newspaper. From that day forward, he didnt need to be showed again, just let out. One morning, he didnt return as quickly as he should have. Finally, came running up with a paper in his mouth. Guess he had scoured the neighborhood until he found one in someone else's driveway (paper boy hadnt left one at mom's)

Tramlining could just be the tyres you have fitted a different make might take that affect away

Revolver Records, I used to get all my import stuff from there

For a couple of pensioners they have still got it.

Gorgeous fella. Very sorry..

Didn't realise that's where bungee jumping started! As for the second video, made my balls shrink just watching it when he was walking on top of those supports.

or more recently..............

Yes, Bob. My brief dabble with cars before returning to the fold (until later, when I got a job with a company car).

My buddy says his 560 is a bit narrower than the previous model...

The T Max 560 is a very good scoot, as I have said before, it's a automatic bike with a scooter body.........but bloody expensive.

I'd have to move into the car. It has air-con.

Bike tells me it’s 28

The pub would have been the Highbury Vaults. You we’re lucky they were soft Rovers wankers, had they been City fans you definitely have got a kicking

Don’t be daft they put up caravan sites.

Well that’s a picture of the grandstand doesn’t look so grand though, then the long distance speck is Lincoln Cathedral taken at the Carholme golf course, and that’s my bike just so you didn’t have to guess, that’s about all the scenery you get around here.

It's a step up from a van Clive! Not a big one admittedly!

Or on a scooter........oh wait a minute!.

Yeh....get a fucking grip @Mawsley.....or you'll end up like one of those sad cunts in a van!

No.....he's owned it for 11 years: https://www.whois.com/whois/zenoverland.com So like most setups in this market sector it's going nowhere fast. Virtually all the Adv writers/adventurers/tour companies have lacklustre home made sites. The only one I've ever seen that I'd class as professional and fit for purpose is Rawhyde.

Tomorrow is going to be the same, then comes a change on Wednesday with a predicted <50% chance of light rain int the morning, we’ll see. But yes, so far it’s been glorious.

Yes mate, applied and picked up the new TIE cards a couple of weeks ago. No drama and better than the stupid bit of paper we had before which had faded so badly it was illegible.

Yes, Redland. Although I don't think Lois's accent is half as thick as mine I ought to text/call her or Austin really as I believe she has long covid .

That's how I first met her. There used to be a chat group on yahoo for Serow owners, she was looking for a kickstart kit for her trip through the America's and I supplied her with one.

Yes, that's the guy, perhaps he's just bought the domain name ?

@Catteeclan would have jumped at that shit for sure!

After our ad hoc late lunch we headed up and over the Conor pass, the view from the top was stunning. and crossed back to the east side of the peninsula over the Caherconlee road- which was especially nadgery with a lot of loose gravel. In fact the road was effectively a river of gravel, which made for some very exciting descents. With just one short stretch that had enough grip to stop and put feet down.

Me , Paul , Austin , Lois and Charlie . Trail riding in Wales back in the day........................

This might work.........................