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My weekend started today as i have taken today off work. Just fitted some carpet on our landing only taken me a year and 2 hours to fit, it was an offcut from a new carpet my parents had fitted, it's been rolled up at the bottom of the stairs for a year and that's how long the wife's been nagging me to fit it, she must have got smart and used reverse psychology on me because last night she said take that carpet to the dump tomorrow if your not going to fit it, got up this morning and just laid it WTF i hope she's not going to make this a regular thing

Shopping, ack, where are my coupons....i love coupons, got to go shopping and i got chit to fold in the dryer, being a housewife is hard work.

Yep this time because a ferry for two (with bikes) was well over a grand, flights £69 (rising to £150 by the time youve added the necessary baggage extras) so no contest. Getting up in 2 1/2 hours for the flight cos Mr Slowly doesnt like Ryan Air so much he’s prepared to get up at stupid oclock to avoid using them. We’ll see how long that embargo lasts

You're a fucking lazy twat Fred!

You drove away a whole generation!

There is a huge pile of rubbish somewhere along the length of the tunnel, where folks have dumped stuff down a ventilation shaft. Nigh on blocking the tunnel

what lives in a shit hole of a city with a shit footy team ?

Van action Sunday ... nephew bought a Thundercat 600, think i said.... any way had a spyball alarm , fucking thing , turned into a drama, nephew ended up replacing the loom £40 and couple of hours fitting it. Got no mot so off to a private bit of road to give it a run make sure its all good before we mot it .

Here's my plane story ................ In the past I drove up the M5 between the M4 and Tewkesbury every morning. One day I had a new driver with me , I was asked to take him out and show him the ropes. He wasn't a local, he' d moved down from Northampton so he didn't really know the area. At that time RAF Lyneham in Wiltshire was used to train pilots flying the Hercules and as part of their circular route they used to fly parallel to the M5. On a winter morning when it was still dark you'd see them coming towards you from the distance and you'd see their becon lights flashing every 10 seconds or so, I got well used to this and could pinpoint exactly when they'd flash. So I'm driving and in the distance I can see one of the Hercules coming towards us. So I said to Lloyd ' there's Fred up there ' , Lloyd is looking all around and says ' where's Fred, who is he ' I says ' my mate Fred, he's coming towards us in his plane ' He's looking at me now like what the fuck is guy on about, so I said ' look he'll flash his lights at me now ' and of course the lights went on and off. I timed it right and said ' I'll flash my lights and he'll flash back ' which of course is what happened. I left it there and all day I could see him looking at me trying to work out if I was lying or not , by 4.30 pm when were in a cafe having a cuppa he couldn't stand it anymore and asked who Fred was, what was he doing etc but I just kept saying he's my mate but I can't tell you anything as it's top secret. When we got backto the depot he was telling all the other drivers about Fred and his plane..............

If it was the Ruskies there would have been two typhoon jets from Coningsby by its side.

Here’s one that happened the other week, an old neighbour of ours from when we lived in Conningsby died suddenly, he volunteered at the Battle of Britain memorial flight, so come the day of his funeral the RAF sent a guard of honour, but just before the funeral took place they lost all the power supply at the BBMF they had to close down so all his colleagues where able to go to the funeral. Spooky

Where else in the world can you walk into the shop at a petrol station and the very first thing the cashier says is “how are you?” and so I answered, we’ll I’m not bad though me knees are giving me a bit of gip and me prostrates not behaving either. Me right eyes feeling a bit off. I have the beginnings of a headache though that might just be the remains of this mornings hangover, it’s hard to tell. My stomach feels a bit neglected, I could eat a scabby horse. But I’ll make do with this here lasagknee and chips as well as this bottle of water, me €20 of unleaded. And thank you for asking!!” hows yourself? looking a bit traumatised, he didn’t answer. Just took my money and wandered off with a glazed look in his eye. meanwhile…..

Nap....any cookies left?

My god.....that is some tunnel! There's stuff floating round and growing in there that looks like special effects in something like "Alien". I believe only @yen_powell has the expertise to handle disgusting, toxic shit like that.

This is one project if it comes off i might actually dust off my pushbike to ride through its a long one

People get past that though surely?

There is a tunnel under Mapperly, were @Motobiker lives........1,130 yards long.......fenced off to keep people out.

We did a couple of group rides, but they ended up being rubbish. 1 wanted a slash/shit. 1 wanted a coffee break. 1 or more wanted a ciggy break. 1 or more needed fuel. 1 wanted to keep stopping for photos. 1 (lead rider) got lost. After several hours very little of a real ride was had, did not bother again.

I took your comment on board and went for some exercise with me mate tonight had a little loop around some lanes i haven't done in years Here's my mate showing me how not to do it And here's me showing him how not to do it LOL We took in the old railway tunnel just to see if its still clear Why does my mate look like Stan Laurel Then we had a play on one of the old coal tips i used to train on This is my mate showing me how to do it And me showing him how not to do it I decided to have a go at the bigger one which turned out easier easier than the smaller climb because it was straight up i chickened out on coming back down though Which will come tomorrow because Apparently I've reached my daily upload on youtube which i didn't know was a thing Anyhow because i done it my mate had to do it But being a twat or is it better rider he came down it as well The videos as usual make everything look relatively flat but it was pretty steep looking from the top down

Nooo........he just rides for his own pleasure, he is not a fan of group rides.

Chinese bike section? It's a ginger dream!

My buddy is leaving the T Max 560 at home, he will be on the Vespa Sei Giorni.. Better find my parka out.

Sunday is the wife's day, if she wants a drive out somewhere, I do the driving.

See you are a nosy bastard.

No Clive.......you've got there!

I did think any of the guys who I knew back then are still riding....... Balding!...I am getting there.............fat as fuck!........I am a bit overweight, but no beer gut..

That is a question!! It’s not something I really want to think about. The campsite looked just about perfect. Great reviews nice photos - basic, owned by a biker. However it was pretty terrible - we slept that night in a barn as the camp ground was, a bit of a mess. The place looked more like a junkyard than a campsite. But, we slept in the dry - which was just about the only positive thing to be said. Kinsale was rammed with America tourists - every cafe had at least an hour wait time for a table - so we had breakfast at a service station (most of which offer very good eats, I might add) and then followed the Way to Kenmare then over the tops to Killarney. The morning was a damp one - but it quickly improved, the sun came out and it was great. So, not the best of starts but there was some hilarity comparing the reality of that first campsite to the photos and reviews online. I didn’t get shouted at. But… it has to be said, we were conned by t’internet. Main lesson for me is always stick with officially sanctioned campsites!!! I took zero photos. Until we were well away from that place. google - motofirm camping

31 over the weekend......I could do with it a bit cooler really! However, the weather really changes on Monday! I should be OK to get out on Saturday and Sunday cos I got the Baza shopping done today, but it'll have to be early!

His stuff appears to be early 80's-on which is the biker generation that came after mine. I came in at the start of the 70's at the point the few remaining Rockers had grown their hair and evolved into Greasers! But by the late 70's that had pretty much finished. That whole Rocker/Greaser scene and the leather jacket/jeans image had originally come from The Wild One, whereas the following generation were very much HA influenced with the denim cutoffs, mullets, patches etc. That wasn't my thing and by then most of my bike mates had either been killed, maimed, or just packed in bikes......so that's when I started doing my own thing.

I know where your coming from @Clive all my younger life I've just done what i wanted but after working in the waste water industry and having to do confined space training its made me think why am i still alive

I don't get why all the big companies have pulled the plug on big thumpers citing EU emissions, yet all these things are turning up?

I would want a gas tester and oxygen supply to go into that tunnel....

No but there is some workings in there where they dug into the old coal seam during the miners strike i had a look in there as a kid and even with my limited knowledge back then i knew it was too dangerous to go past the entrance yet they were pulling coal out of there

Oh yeh, plenty do, there are several vids about it on YouTube

Not too sure about that maybe you can ask her when she lands in spain

Its only a Quarter of a mile and you have to turn around and go back as the A470 to Merthyr is built on the old brecon line across the entrance/exit This is the end we had to turn around on heading east towards Quakers yard station

Maybe the slash/shit one...........the rest...naaa.

Was that list just about you @clive

An old one but still funny

These guys have absolutely nailed another cover!

Plenty of those around here, have no opinion on them. Scratch that, I have no basis for an informed opinion but still think they’re shit

Now at Killarney and we’re going to stay here until Thursday morning, came over Mills gap and it’s pass, that’s the road from kenmare north into the national park, which was really nice. But obviously a Sunday so a lot of trippers. Normal workday tomorrow onwards so should be much better. Probably Dingle peninsula tomorrow, Ring of Kerry on Tuesday and Ring of Beara on Wednesday. Back of an envelope plan. More photos from tomorrow as today was mostly about getting here. One of the lads got to stand in the Atlantic!! Exciting. Anyway 18:45. Tents are up and shortly a walk to the pub/carvery along the road. We’re a little way out of Killarney. Quiet campsite, set back from the “ring of Kerry road” - I’m tired. 551 road miles from my front door, a lot of the roads today have been quite nadgery, narrow lanes with grass up the middle. It’s been fun. Despite the damp start.

I better! The plan is to cook a mean spaghetti and squid for saturday evening, I shall write a strongly worded letter if they mess up with that

For full effect it should use a picture of his Chicom bike.

Oi I was having a break, I just made the mistake of stopping having a break. Til the next time.