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In the garage, made a start on doing the steering head bearings on the Rally

Yep....you made me think........Mc.D,s it is It is only 1 mile away, maybe we could go on the scoot.

First of all apologies for so many blurry pictures. I deleted a few, but some, like the cardboard coffin or looking up one of the stairwells, I left in. Trying to take pictures on my particular phone with one hand meant I wobbled a bit taking some of them (the other had the guided tour doodah in it, the wand mentioned in the wall notices). The first picture of my bike is in the gravel car park which I later realised is on top of the complex itself. So, the secret nuclear bunker as it is now called, is in the Essex countryside not far from Brentwood. The land was bought off the present owner's grandfather by compulsory purchase in 1950. A local road was shut and screens raised to hide what the builders were doing. They removed a small hill and put down a few metres of gravel as a cushioning device before building the concrete bunker with carbon steel reinforcing then popped the hill back on top. They constructed the standard tacky cottage they liked to use to hide doors as one of two entrances. It's a big place. The entrance corridor is designed to make it difficult to move along whilst being shot at as well as a blast reducing measure. There were a few films running in some rooms. One comment that stuck was that when morphine ran out for the surviving population at large after a nuclear incident the police would be authorised to use firearms to put people out of their pain. This made me think of the Monty Python Bring Out Your Dead sketch where the not yet dead husband is claiming he's getting better as his wife tries to put him on the death cart. There is a huge amount of diesel stored there still (increasing in value as I type), plus large tanks of drinking water. All human waste would be stored in a giant tank until it could take no more, then pumps would push it out into the next door hollows dug in the surrounding fields and woods. It was still being maintained up until it was declared surplus to requirements and auctioned off, the same family managed to get it back. Apparently one of the generators was taken to pieces to be repaired when it was shut down and the thing is still sitting there in pieces. The final pictures show the communication aerial and air vent, plus a ropey looking tracked vehicle that was there back in 95 when myself and Strange Dave visited on our trail bikes before the visitor road in was built. It doesn't look as if any restoration work has taken place.

Had another outing on the Beta with my mate on his Beta we were like Beta bum boys weather was a little cold but great for the trails getting wet n the Pontypool area again here's a couple of photos and video clips didn't take many as the riding was hard in places I think the bikes look photo shopped in here Me looking... well eh yeh My mate Thought i was going to impale myself on that branch while washing the bike My mates phone is shite 360p WTF

Same as up top I reckon, they have both doors open through the day. Took about an hour and half, would have been longer if I had watched all the films, but we all saw Protect and Survive when they released it in the 80s, so I know how to wrap grandma's body in plastic and label it clearly and to wipe down my tins of food before opening them to get the fall out off them.

I’m still not banned from the Harley Riders Club GB forum but it’s pretty dead anyway, I’m probably the only person there that rides in the winter.

you might bump into xtreme in there.

This is why it pays to have brothers. Thats my old surfboard butt, those two boogie boards are coming up too today, the odd shapped one is 600 freaking dollars expensive!?! WTF!? Should say tourTeccy on it! lol https://www.paipo.com

I had a school friend who's grandfather was, or had been, "regional coordinator " fo the local administration in case of nuclear attack. if ever you asked him what would happen his reply was invariably " you're all going to die" Jolly bloke he was...

A million questions @yen_powell the next one is going to be how much does it weigh

Early 90s it was decommissioned. I think I saw the figure £550,000 somewhere. It was definitely a sealed bid auction, I remember that clearly. The name label on the side of the old PC screen is a friend of one of the group I was there with, it was bought from their employer as it was the right age and type to go on display. A few hundred people were expected to live inside, with military unit living outside to defend it.

A "pal" of his has put you forward for the (blow) job!

I wouldn't say the were 'gone' . Having looked at them the bearings look ok and the bottom race is fine but the top race does have a mark on it. I will look at it closer (my eyes are shite) and then decide what to do . I could just re-grease them and polish the mark out on the top race and re-fit them. These bearings take a lot of punishment on a dirt bike and you've seen the sort of shit we ride in. On a road bike you'd expect them to do 30 -40,000 miles before replacement.

Looks like it just needs some extra vibration isolation but the point is that it is cheaper to replace and is not the only display.

its totally original only 1 of 38 ..... that will make it more desirable.

Course if you had a van you could shove the scoot in there and go cruising to Mablethorpe! It's what's Ewan and Charlie would do I'm sure!

Forecast was just cold here yesterday, bloody pissing down.

Yeh the weathers taken a turn for the worse here as well.... hehehe

Still trying to develop some actual skills. Watch me throw myself over pipes and on my face...

Some nice machines......but a few tatty ones in there. Pricing is way OTT though.

i think you take forums a bit to seriously.... twat

Yup. When i was young and had my whole life in front of me i didn't give a shit and just used to throw myself at stuff without a care, now i'm older and don't have so much life left i seem to be far more careful and think about the consequences before i do stuff

I've been practicing some of that myself today, I don't know whats happening with me. things i used to find easy i'm struggling with now. Anyhow your looking good

I dunno, is there a patron saint for Sodomy? Pray.

Like I give a fuck what’s said … @Cliveis a proper little spy , are you Rogering him Moore for his undercover work ?

I've found it! Six posts something then the owner of the site has a go at him because he's posting on here? As usual my name gets dragged into it. I think everybody here, besides @Tym and @Buckster, posts on other bike forums. And the only reason they don't is because they've been banned from all the others. I did warn @Six30 he'd get the barrel pointing at him at some point. Now he's well and truly in the frame! Very strange mindset indeed, and as I've said before, I've never seen anything like this sort of behaviour before by forum owners. Six......you better post more there and less here or I see an Incomprehensible Warning PM in your future! And nobody expects the Incomprehensible Warning PM! This situation needs a voice of reason! @Tym.......what would you do in Six's position?

Well that’s me officially pissed off. The steering head bearing kit I bought is wrong

Warm enough for me to go swimming, just saying.

My GTR needs that done, can you stop by with the correct spanners thanks in advance.

Well Mablethorpe is closer than Spain! But @Six30 thinks its worth travelling all the way to Spain for a Blow job!. What you say @Six30

Well you know what they say about the rain in Spain ?

Now that's the style Clive!

She won't be seen in a restaurant with me because I'm too embarrassing apparently!

I really am haha... I now have suspicious bruises on my knees all the time but gradually am getting some skills happening. Was out in the jungle on Friday and finally had the technique to jump big logs with minimum fuss. A personal victory

I reckon the Africa Twin is under priced, they go for that for the 750 models nowadays and the 650 is rarer and better put together.

That's the plan.......try the heated grips.

Bloody belting down again......hasn't stopped throughout the night. Have to wear Wellies to feed the horses this morning.

Post it to him

I still have nightmares about triple carbs.

Well looks like I will be staying close to home this weekend. Most of the forest service roads are closed due to the rain storm. Too many mud slides and trees down over the road. So much for my Himalayan fun. Then my favourite road along with many of the side roads are still closed, so much for my Honda fun.... ....and NOW we have fuel rationing because the supply roads are such a mess and they can't get volume through, only 30L allowed at one time per visit......so much for my 4x4 fun. Sooooo, good thing I have many fun and interesting projects around the house to keep me busy....

Fine, just got back from my latest PT sessions with mother earth™.