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France few year back , end of September rained most of the time there was there tractors coming of fields , mud every where … Dirtiest any of my bikes has been

we do love to get dirty...........

....now we know eh

so its fantastic for gymwithch to go away on bike towing it on a trailer but when i take mine away in van.... you lick arse hypocrite

What do you do when your out for a couple of hours on a courtesy bike, take it up some muddy tracks of course

Buckster would be my nomination if we had a photographer of the year award.

We had some neighbours come by once who had just been to Carmarthen. They were complaining that they searched everywhere for this great castle they had heard about, but all they found were the council offices. I asked if they might have got the place mixed up with with Caernarfon.

Saw this on another forum. I keeps seeing references to bikes in vans here, if you're gonna carry the bike somewhere, do it like a big boy!

She's fucking riding it! You took your bike for a scenic trip around Devon and Cornwall in the van and you never even got it out! It's only experience of that area is looking out the fucking window! That alone should get you TOTY!

we hand em out to KLR riders cause they cant figure out Tinder

Really like your abandon villages/buildings posts! Here and on FB. You would have a blast at Bodie, California. A whole mining town that was walked away from, but now has some park rangers living there. Pop over sometime and we will take you there! (open invite to all you furriners)

Im doing my best pic wise. I had cropped all the screen shot ones that Andy took but accidentally sent the uncropped ones. The interwebs at campsite is slower than a Harley. So couldnt be arsed resending. Will try harder

This one is for you, @XTreme.

Birthday dessert for lil ol me, once we got back to 3Step. Our host is on the left. Chilly Saturday morning, as we pack up to head to Moab. Saying goodby to the "inn keeper"!

3Step turns out to be a great little offroad BNB, with cabins and teepees and even room for camping. Breakfast included and dinner, if you want to pay extra. The food was really good and the owner's great people. Probably because they ride motorcycles. in dirt!. If you go, get this cabin. If you go, get the cabin above. Indoor plumbing and propane heater. Even has a kitchen! Below is the main house. Meals served, conversations had. And, yes. That truly is the bath house if you are not in the family cabin above. Just a heads up, this being Utah and all. Liquor stores are few and far between. So, if you need something stronger than beer, you will have to bring it in yourself. Friday morning, we got up and waited for temps to warm up by reviewing the various trail maps available at 3Step. We found an easy route out to Canyonlands and took off. About half the easy route was paved, but we got to do some fun, easy, hard and muddy dirt roads mixed in with the incredible views. Canyonlands gives the Grand Canyon a run for its money! Those hills in the bottom left of the picture above are probably several hundred feet high! Gives you a scale for the place. You can also see a dirt road running thru there, Lockhart Basin. That is part of the Utah Backcountry Discovery Route, rated Expert. Look up this road on YouTube to find out why! The camera flattens the slopes out, but behind the three riders was the tricky part. There were two options, but one must chose a direction quicker than our guy did But, as you can see. He survived.

Those feckers then used to drive down to Carmarthen and park their cars in the most unsuitable places so that I couldn't get my truck down King Street to deliver

Play nicely boys Just this trip today. To Andys dads and back. No pics. Just alot of biking !!!

thats the point of taking it in the van you thick twat ... rained all week , we could still get out and about in van and had a nice week away , if it had been sunny all week i would of gone out on bike , repeat that out loud to your self and something just might click.

So tarmac had arrived by the 70s then. That must have made motorcycling easier.

I can still recall my shock at hearing Welsh spoken in the flesh rather than on TV at 5am on a Sunday in the 80s. It was two children about 8 or 9 years old running around a ruined castle. It wasn't a pay to get in, manned castle, it was a free for all. I'd been busy trying to get inside a fenced off tower which had no centre and only the stubs of a spiral staircase sticking out of the inner walls. I was halfway up and near a ruined window when I saw them running about and chatting away to each other. There was no one else about so they weren't putting it on for my benefit. Anyway, I found myself at the top of the tower and realised that getting back down was quite daunting with only a wall to lean against. When I emerged a pale shadow of my formerly brave self the kids had long gone. A few years later I was in a chip shop in somewhere (Pembroke Dock??) with a woman in front of me. About 6 or 7 of Wales's finest well built youth stuck their head in the door and shouted something at the woman, possibly in Welsh, their diction wasn't the best. She muttered something back and one of them shouted at her, "Fuck off back to England you Cockney cow!" Right then the shop owner asked me what I wanted and I did my best to have any accent except a London one.

......from the nomination threads for TOTY and MOTY! Obviously there's never any shortage of twats to choose from.......and the question is whether @Buckster can retain it? After all, he now has a camera and this year he's facing very stiff opposition! MOTY is always more difficult because it ain't easy to think of anybody who's actually contributed anything of value on here! And of course, the previous holder flounced......in fact I'm sure he flounced when he won TOTY about 15 years ago as well. And you never know, we may end up with our first ever WOTY! So from now on, keep your eye open for twats (that won't be difficult) and look out for members who make positive contributions to the place! We're on the home stretch now!

This is how it was then!

In 1971 I fell off my Vespa there on the rough car park......which is now where the Bus terminus is! Not one of my better days!

Well as council offices go the Carmarthen ones are pretty impressive, there was obviously some wealth there at sometime in the past. Also one out of only two places that I've seen a coracle being used for fishing rather than in a museum

My votes on Bruce.

This will not be to everyone's taste, but that's hardly a surprise, winter and cold means more traditional foods for me, for whatever reason. One of the most old school typical things in Portugal, involves a lot of different cuts of meat and sausages, plus cabbage and carrots. It's called the Cozido, here in a tiny restaurant 1 mile away from my home. Hoven cooked codfish with potatoes: Pantry pasta, with horse mackerel fillets as main protein, anchovies, capers, olives, onions, it was great: Sofia's lasagna, unfrozen for a comforting dinner: Nuts A mother's friend sometimes makes a rich tomato sauce and freezes in small portions, a few are sent my way and are a nice thing to have in the back of the freezer, here is one of them with some tagliatelle: Mum's squid and chorizo with mashed potatoes: Getting home late on a cold sunday means no fresh groceries, unfrozen portion of peas plus a quick turmeric and coriander rice. Very much portuguese, codfish in the oven, lots of olive oil and "punched" potatoes.

When things are finally set up here they’re on my hit list.. the hell I won’t.. the hell I will! I’m expecting it to be a a bit of a touristy let down but growing up with limited tv offerings meant Westerns n John Wayne were waaaay up there on a kids watch list!

A typo, it’s his annual badges parade

On the way out, earlier that morning, one of our guys had seen some houses "against the rock" he said. Our return route took us right by the rock he saw. What we found there was a polygamist sect of Mormons, who had built their houses on the inside of this semicircular rock formation. The houses cant be seen from the main highway, giving them some privacy. We found out later, after asking around, that the houses are actually built into the rock, with tunnels connecting the sister wives

He'll shag anything. Badger-shagger has a certain ring to it

I think we all slow down a bit and think twice as we get older , when I think of some of the stuff I used ride my KTM 950 on I think to myself 'did I really do that'

Heading daaaan saaath today. The plan is to park van at Dawlish and then we can have a mooch on the bikes. While we are here though we are picking up the NC23 CBR400RR which @oldgrump has very kindly got running tickety boo for me. We are also going to call in to Gosport to visit Andys dad. Not sure how this is all going to happen but we are here now in Dawlish at the campsite. Heres a pic of our set up we took at the services. And hopefully a video..... I will upload more as we go Video is short. Dont know why as i recorded longer than that.

Just saying

He's a regular David Bailey compared with @skyrider

It has fuck all to do with me, I’m the only serious contributor here.

That's what you think.....

thats the mods past and present on other forum

I seem to recall them having these big metal things with wings (Spending a week out west with us should convince you to try harder. There is a great group of riders i associate with that would let you couch surf and uber bike the whole trip! So, all you need is airfare and some gas money)

Cheers Rick......I've been saying I wanted to visit the States for 50 years! Haven't made it very far!

And for sad bike of the year award!

Buckster went lame this year, the winners curse.

Sofia's chicken pie, with phylo dough

Here's one of my earlier flights FPV over Three Cliffs Bay I only went out about 1km here, all that was needed, on an old 1.4m Sky Surfer powered glider with my GoPro strapped on the nose and batteries moved back to balance it At 3:41 3:46 you can see where I'm sat in my little chair on the flat field atop the hill remote flying the plane with my FPV goggles on

I'm a tech innovator and early adopter, I used self made FPV gear on RC aircraft long before the term "drone" was commonly used to describe them, back then they were called multirotors/quadcopter/hexacopter/octocopters, but mostly I fitted kit to RC airplanes and had long range system that could get me up to 40 miles away (others had systems for much further, one guy did a record flight at (as I recall) 114 miles Basically for me it's always been about photography/videography, pretty much anything I did had a camera strapped to it, with the FPV stuff it started with trying to figure out how I could get my GoPro into the air and I bought cheap toy helicopters to see what could lift it and fly with it and it went on from there right up to 3.5m powered gliders and ultra fast racers that could get up to 140mph PS Pete I was also the first person you knew with a sat nav on a bike You hated them until I pointed out that it allowed me to ignore it and just ride wherever I wanted, going up any random turns I decided to investigate but then get me back to where I knew with no hassle as I would always be able to see where I am My original on bike sat nav consisted of a compaq portable computer and a seperate bluetooth GPS unit, the Compaq had to be held in a huge yellow Otterbox case with Ram mounts to hold it on my handlebars I was also the first person I knew of to have a GPS system for off road trails on a dirt bike using the same hardware above and early versions of Memory Map with OS mapping down to 1:25,000 My early helmet cams were basically a camcorder (tape type) with an analogue input into which I plugged a CCTV bullet cam which in turn was strapped to my helmet with velcro, the wires were run down into a "bum bag/fanny pack" this was standard definition of 640 x 480 recording

Helps the viewer feel part of the trip

We went off AutoCad to Draftsight because it was free but a few years later they started to charge for it, It cost £70 a year per licence now. i only use it for simple electrical drawings none of that fancy shit you do Simple shit like this

Route today plus a few more pics. Oh and knob off @Buckster