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I'll try this one for now out on Wednesday so may change it

Came back with mother on a holiday....only it wasnt a holiday she was infact leaving my dad. No one knew that at the time. Dad included....having said that, had i have known i wouldnt have stayed with him anyway as he was a twat and owned a Harley. True story. She said she just couldnt stand the leather chaps any longer. The embarrassment was killing her.

Top box normality restored!

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No top box................................

We have a polish welsh guy over the road. He was really offended when we mentioned his polish accent. His wife is german and hes obvs welsh but her accent has rubbed off on him...she speaks very little English so i assume he speaks German. Anyhoo my hubs was chatting to a guy and on explaining where we live this guy says oh my polish mate lives over the road from us !!! So hubs says no he is Welsh and this guy says ohhh yeah but we all call him the polish one.

Nowhere near as funny as a Jamaican with a Bristol accent When a big dude with dreads an all walks up to you and says 'allright my luvver' it doesn't half turn your head.

The story of a family being torn apart by assless chaps just has the ring to a freaking awEsome modern day hallmark holday classic, just saying....

Just seen this on Twitter......from a Bible Bashing Yank! "I just heard my nephew Bryce came out as gay… 6 weeks after getting the Jab. It can’t be a coincidence".

Harley ownership!

sad. i just realized i spent 9 days riding thru some incredible scenery and took not one picture of my bike. I feel like Buckster....

We survived Christmas day and boxing day! Hoorah! We actually didn't drink much alcohol and Christmas Dinner was a manageable size, but we waited until the evening for some Christmas pud. Planning another mini Christmas Dinner this evening to use up some more of the turkey and the leftover veg. Had a few Zoom calls over the last couple of days to catch up with family that we weren't able to see. Mandy is off today and tomorrow, so we may head over to Triumph in Montpellier tomorrow to drool over some bikes!

Fuck off it’s winter you twat.

Count me in!

Looks like a real German BMW to me, unlike your BMW badged Loncin.

welsh accent is odd in a welsh accent.

Yes i did. After a few months though my accent changed and i started to sound like a broad cockney. Weird thing is when i went back for a holiday 30 plus years later i couldnt help but start the accent again. Weird when you hear it yourself changing. Sounds like you are putting it on or taking the rip

personally the low points on the forum are when people get their knickers in a twist and somebody feels the need to flounce. it's usually due to a misinterptretation of intent or of the written word lacking nuance. You could argue that this happens in real life too. and it certainly happens on nearly all forums. I just think its always a shame and the forum is almost never better off or richer for it. The high points, for me, are the writings and ramblings of some of our "raconteurs" who are real story tellers and have had me in stitches behind the computor screen. Being allowed to share in moments from the lives of members from around the world with different experiences and cultures is, and always has been, a privilege. Thannk you all ( or nearly all...) for that this year.

Hmm I'll leave that to Buckster

A vintage KLR is flying by your bike Sir.

I got a compact camera and a new check shirt.

Good news, Custom pancake leather holster from Simply Rugged holds Bisley perfect just behind the shifter, great car gun, got her loaded with 300 grain hard cast plusPplus. In case i have to stop a truck that a good round...means i can stop six trucks, or 3 twice.

I must be on everyones ignore feature this is so fucking cool!

You miserable old twat.

jammy dodgers and jaffa cakes

Any high spots? Any bad moments? Was it entertaining? Or was it mind-numbingly boring? Basically......did it serve any purpose in your life other than being slightly more interesting than a screensaver?

And this is the final BOTM for 2021! You know the criteria......it must be your bike and it must have been taken this month. If you make a submission and then get a better shot later on.....then just submit the new pic and ask for the old one to be deleted! This submissions thread will be open from now until Wednesday evening 8PM UK time, at which point the voting thread will open! Voting will then take place throughout Thursday 30th and Friday 31st December! Poll closes 8PM UK time New Years Eve! So let's go........

So when are you going down to Kent to burgle @Six30's turds?

Well its all the government chip software in the fluid that's caused it.....everyone knows that don't they

You've hit rock bottom there Rick!

Is that its head or someone driving it backwards.

Yeah and we still think you are a Welsh Twat.

Gravel traps like the ones on the outside of the corner at the race track? I'm great at those. Once highsided and flipped an R6 right into one. 10/10

When you say over the road I assume you mean in the lay-by opposite the one you are currently parked in.

You're welsh Spanish accent u mean?

You love you farkles over there so maybe the scrap yards will turn up trumps.

As soon as I came back to Chiang Mai I was planning my next adventure - some off road exploration around Pattaya, down south. Up here in Chiang Mai we have beautiful (and kind of vertical) mountains but down there they have the great and the feared SAND. Oh yes, Pattaya is basically a sand hill planted bars and rubber trees and palm oil. I have never ridden sand before, so I did the obvious thing - drove 700km in one day and booked myself a dodgy CRF300L with slightly crappy tyres on which to fling myself head first into this new challenge. I knew the basic idea was to use throttle and body position to keep the front end light, but putting that into practice is a terrifying leap of faith. And guess what? I DID IT. I followed this local guy on his KLX as he throttled through the sand trails he rides every weekend, and I prayed to the gods of motorcycling that I wouldn't stack and break a collar bone. It wasn't pretty, not least because the CRF had fifty-fifty tyres instead of something aggressive enough not to deflect off the sand contours so easily. But I doggedly followed, and although I managed to kiss the ground a couple of times that day, it was NOT ONCE in the sand. Anyway, I finished that day's riding still terrified (and messy) in the sand, but resolutely upright. I took a day to recover from the adrenalin overdose and then - well, it's the old dogs who know all the old tricks, and the new ones too. I got in touch with a bloke who'd been riding this stuff for longer than I've been alive, and asked him if we could head out. He was up for it, and dang, I hit the jackpot, because this man not only rides like a champion but knows how to coach. Not only was he able to explain what I was doing wrong and what I was doing right, but he also had the knack of doing it in a way that inspires confidence in the student. I cannot overstate the importance of this. So we hit the trails together for two days. Coming back into town from the last day, we were chasing the fading light, because two out of three bikes didn't even have lights. So the pressure was on, and we hit race pace. Oh my gawd, you should have seen me smash those sandy tracks, even though I was wrung out from a day of chasing this insanely bike-fit bloke. In three days I had gone from cannot to definitely can. Which is not to claim that I'm any good at it, but the hardest step is always that first one, that binary one from cannot to can.

Sorry I got distracted by the next adventure.... short attention span haha

Stole a chicken.

It is weird. I grew up in oz and christmas day was usually one of the hottest days of the year. Mostly spent on the beach playing in the sea

Well I made it back from my road trip, so if you're incapacitated by overconsumption of Christmas goodies, there are a couple of videos to watch while you digest!