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I was on site today and when it was time to head home the forecast was doom, gloom and shitloads of rain. I put my waterproof trousers on and another layer under my bike jacket and sweated by bollocks off all the way home in the dry. Fucking weathermen, wankers the lot of them. Sun is forecast tomorrow and I have to go back to site. If I get wet I am going to pop something awful into a jiffy bag and post it to Michael Fish.

Na..the weekend kids (crackheads) have gone home.....it is now full of doddery old gits...er wait a minute.

Lovely here in Ingoldmells 22c....sat out and had a pint..

XTreme: "I had the GS for 7 weeks and it spent 5 fucking weeks (in total) at the dealers". Skippy: "HOLD MY BEER".

Fifteen years time? I’ll still be waiting for the Kawasaki tank and still trying to get the DR running. Thanks, I’m fucking depressed now.

After over 4 months of continual heat with no breaks.........today it's down to a pleasant 24C! Unfortunately it's pissing down as well! Can't fucking win can I?

Home now the site Internet went down, so tablet and phone became useless, so we could not cast Disney and Netflix to the TV, wife was not best pleased..... she threw a hissy fit and started packing the car Nice drive home though, empty roads.

At the moment. Reading the link below reminds me, we never found our dustbin after the hurricane in 87, so he's asking for a postal gift. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Fish

We're both good to go now for West End OAP discounts Phil!

Don’t go there Pete

she couldn't go a night with out netflix ... should of give her a

Mushrooms anyone

85.................

This Saturday there is a (Classic) scooter show about 1 miles away from wherevi live...and Sunday iam off to Doncaster Robin Hood Airport to see XH558 doing high speed taxi run.... ✈

I see blue skys now.

We’re getting scattered strong showers all over, but some areas are so dry or burned that water needs a long time to start hidrating the ground, otherwise it flows right over and just causes floods. Considering last month’s fires some rivers will be contaminated with ash saturated waters now. This is all according to plan though, rains through this week and maybe a bit of next one, and then a second summer comes to provide me with a sunny trip.

Just so you’re up to date @XTreme it’s now 8 weeks since I dropped the bike off to be repaired. Cunts.

Raining here , tomorrow looks ok though

Need to go pickup some plywood for Woody, cant belive how much wood costs, holy chit how people build nowdays is b eyoned me.

Nice thinderstorm going by breaking up a dry spell.

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This is ending up worse than my GS trainwreck Ray!

Nice one Pedro, I hope you deal with your emotions ok . It could be a roller coaster ride one way or another . I'm looking forward to some photos of the mighty GS in exotic locations already

I love a bit of hype, all helps to build anticipation and I like reading the prep people do. Look forward to reading and seeing it all. Sounds like it might be bitter sweet. I dunno if you are really scratching wounds or just doing something that feels like it needs to be done? I met a guy at Burgh Island once who went every year on his own. It was the hotel he and his wife went to and when she died he continued to go. He looked very sad so I asked him why he returned to a place that made him unhappy, he said he felt like he was connected to her there and even though it made him sad it was lovely to feel like she was there. I hope you get some of that too

Not a joke, but just amazing. Watch the fuel drop.

Ferry booked for 16th October so if you could have a word with the weather In a rather excellent score this is when my Dad will be discharged from hospital after his knee op. So I'll be about to take him to hospital and do the important stuff and will skip the irascible PITA recovery part which my mother will have the pleasure of doing

Starting a ride report weeks in advance the actual thing takes place is not my style at all, I hate all the hype. However, this is more of a declaration of intentions so that I have no excuse to cower out at the last moment quoting some excuse. I have been making tiny preparations over the last few months, just to get myself in the mood. Stuff like renewing my passport, buying a phone that can manage using Moroccan data while keeping my Portuguese number active for (pretending to) work, buying a fender extender to protect the rear shock from rocks, buying a half tinted visor because the dark one is deadly at night and days get shorter in October, buying tires two months in advance, etc ... all that seems like over preparation but in fact was just me trying feel a little more in control by solving stuff when in fact I'm honestly plain scared about what I'm going to face riding out of that boat in Tangier. I've gone to the ridicule of freezing a couple of things at home, so that I have something nice and warm ready for when I return in the dark. My plan is to visit some familiar places and mix that with a bit of adventure, maybe see new places maybe a little more off the beaten path. Mountain passes are what I look forward the most regarding motorcycling, more so when they're heading to the wide open desert heat and herds of camels, in this case it's the easy familiar places that really amp up my anxiety, places where I proposed marriage and was happy, and where my heart broke and I contemplated darkness. Not sure if it's the happy places or the sad one that will challenge me. I'll be doing it alone at my own pace because that's how I deal with stuff, and because in a weird way I can't help but scratch wounds, you know it'll hurt but can't stop yourself from doing it. Today I booked a ferry ticket for the 29th September, a few things were starting to make me doubt going and finding an easy reasonable excuse for staying home working instead, so I bought the ticket and posted this so I'll be too embarrassed to not go at the last moment All that's left now is give the bike a small service, like an oil change and air filter change, and put the new tires on, and hopefully I'll be good to go. I say hopefully because I'm not really up for fixing anything on it, it's never needed anything so here's to that! My mum's 70th birthday is on the 27th, so on the 28th I'll ride to my place, pack everything nice and tidy and get in the mindset, have a nice sleep and on the 29th set off to catch a ferry that's leaving at an unreasonable 15:00 from Tarifa, since it's an adventure I'll probably miss that boat and call an hour earlier to change the ticket to one at 19:00 All in all, it'll be a grand time filled with extreme emotions, a perfectly reliable bike, twisty mountain passes shared with overloaded trucks, smells of spices wafting through street markets, and dusty boots.

Do modern innertubes eventually go pourous? how often are you supposed to replace them? I'm having a bit of an odd phenomenon with mine at the moment. The tiger has spked wheels, so runs tubes. they're fitted in "tubeless" tyres ( pirelli scorpion III) and have been without problem untill this summer. With the temperature range having been larger then usual this summer I have expected a certain amount of pressure variation but have been finding that both front and rear tyres need systematically pumping up, and always the same amount. the rear ( officially running at 2.9kilos pressure) will be missing 0.4K when I check with cold tyres wether they've been let overnight or for a number of days, The front ( usually at 2.5kilos) will be missing 0.2kilos. This has been the same EVERY time I check tyre pressures, which has been every time I ride cos I know they'll be low) I use a pressure guage to check the pressures and then a foot pump with a manometer on to pump them up. Both guages correspond. I have found no leak at the valves ( and anyway, if it was a valve leak it would surely continue leaking, not just drop the pressure by 2 or 400 grammes respectively... and to have BOTH valves go dodgy at the same moment...! Unlikely in the extreme I would imagine. So, my next thought is " Pourous tubes". is that still a thing with modern rubber? I ran tubes on the transalp too so have been using them for 20 odd years and never suffered from it before. Any other explanation? Just to throw out any theories you may come up with, I corrected the pressures on saturday morning befor leaving for a weekend trip. Over the weekend did 800 and odd km's getting home sunday night. Checked tyre pressures monday morning and they were spot on, not lost a gram! and yet they've systematically lost pressure overnight for the last few months.

Who doesnt?

Before he retired he moved to a website called Netweather (which I loved) and continued to broadcast from his home until a couple of years ago. His disaster was everyones disaster and he was massively misinformed by the met office as was every other broadcaster of the time but somehow (being popular) he copped the full blame. He was much more reserved, extra conservative on his predictions after that and a grumpy, reluctant 'Netweather' was born. He broadcast from his study and gave you the worse possible outcome of any forecast. This meant if Micheal says the weathers good its definitely f'in good

Is he still living

Shoei people were dropped at birth.

Pissing down here today, it's definitely going to get colder this weekend as I'm going camping on the bike

Going home tomorrow late afternoon..

Beautiful here.

We needed it......but I just want it to clear by the weekend!

Because he is a cunt.

Sounds great Pedro! The only thing I'd say (given recent events) is I hope you don't encounter any bike issues when you're over there!

work. working on boats everything is done kneeling down and ofen at arms length, my knees are fucked cos of that. my shouldaers are fucked cos of getting in and out of confined spaces and / or lifting weights (bateries) or wrenching at arms length. Back is fucked to to the endless working in confined spaces or leaning over an engine. Rheumatoid polyarthritis is not helping...