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Fairs have changed a bit since the 60's......didn't seem like there was anything available capable of delivering Death and Dismemberment. No Mods and Rockers or Greasers and Skins fighting either! Still.....I had to take the grandkids so I made the best of it! Loads of stalls in the streets selling fake Nike and Adidas etc. Then into the fair..... I wanted a go on the Dodgems but Jake said I couldn't because I'm too old! Julian looking cool on the roundabout..... And we were there till it got dark.....then bought the kids whatever toys they wanted on the stall. Took them back to their flat then.....they wanted us to come in and play with them with their new toys. But we're not allowed to go in......our money can, but not us!

Facing in

Well I don't like how you said that it's not right and it's not my view so fuck you all

Stealth.

More of your favourite type of Brit running away from winter electricity bills. When the cap finishes it’s literally cheaper to spend the winter in Spain. Sad times. Reading the news has made me think I could apply for asylum here on the grounds of systemic governmental abuse and torture, I think Sanchez would be amenable

All the outside family always said I was hard on my 3 kids and both me and Mandi kept up a united front against them. An example would be keeping them sat at the table in a restaurant while the rest were making noise and running about. Caused some arguments along the way but they all say our 3 are "brill". I'm led to believe thats good. I too have mo time for other peoples kids although the birth of our 2 grandkids seem to the exception.

Odds are it wasn’t sucking a gingers cock in an abandoned Spanish village.

As you've probably seen, I took @Skippy to an abandoned village yesterday, and the approach "road" to it was a bit chopped up. It was tarmac......but in a very bad condition with trenches and holes everywhere. Now I could have taken him on this alternative route back to civilisation.....if you can call this place civilisation. But I didn't......because it involves about 10 miles of even worse tarmac. And in some places there is no tarmac.....just sand! The ironic thing is once you get to a proper road surface you think you're back to Civilisation. But you're not! Because you've just arrived at yet another abandoned village. Some years ago I ended up fucking up my fork seals on one of the XT600's because I thought I could just belt over them. You can to some extent........till you come across a trench that's deeper than it looks. This is where it starts..... Then it starts getting worse..... After a while you come across some abandoned shit......basically most of this stretch is abandoned! Then off we go again..... Then we get some more.... And then back on the "tarmac". The thing about living where I live is you can't buy a bike that is focussed in one area......you need something that will reasonably handle whatever conditions you may come across. Because the road you've seen here actually shows on Google Maps as a legitimate route to get from A to B. And it changes into that surface without any warning whatsoever! Oh......and if you bin it out here there's no phone signal, so you're on your own! A Dutch mate of mine lay semi-conscious in the middle of the road for 6 hours after hitting a wild boar on his Varadero......and being well into his 60's he was lucky to survive! Which is more than I can say for the Varadero!

Most people with these vehicles would look after every nut and bolt but now they're being bought for that reason so standards are bound to fall.

Had a quick look. The NPCC (the police) say it’s used for speed enforcement and by Law Enforcement Agencies to track VOIs vehicles of interest like a possible terrorist threat or drug running. These VOIs flag up on the system. 90% of the recorded info (which is kept for two years) is never accessed or reviewed. So there you go they don’t do mot tax or insurance automatically.

i'll have you done for infringing my right to free speech .... Starmers a cunt

I know what you mean @Richzx6r it seems daft to ban a subject that effects our daily lives so acutely but you’re approaching it from the stance of someone who’s doesn’t see a reason to throw a tantrum over a discussion about politics. Unfortunately because it has such a profound effect on peoples lives people feel passionately about what needs to be done and easily get carried away even if in other areas they’re perfectly reasonable. I was brought up in a house where politics was debated on a daily basis. It was a normal topic of conversation and you were rated on your ability to debate. Mostly this was simply a discussion about whys n wherefores but sometimes a huge amount of fun with whooping and jeering thrown in for good measure when someone exposed a weak point in someone’s argument and the OP couldn’t respond or keep up. I loved it when that happened it was a good laugh. Sometimes it would degenerate into someone getting called a wanker or having some physical attribute mocked for a laugh at their expense but we never took it seriously. When the conversation finished the topic was finished… for the time being until the person who lost came up with a new angle A lot of people do get very angry, it’s sad when people fall out over politics.

Some of those so called safe E numbers are shocking. Blue and yellow colourant was famous for it. Sugar can have such a profound effect on small children if it was tested as food additive it wouldn’t pass. The safe limit testing on additives only tests them individually. It’s perfectly legal to use a cocktail of them which combines to make very high doses in some processed foods. I wouldn’t give my sons ‘Fruit Shoots’ to drink because they had more sugar in them than Cola but some friends bought tickets for us all to go to the Panto (snore) and they had nothing to drink there except fruit shoots - not even water! I’d seen the effect this purple coloured drink had on my son at childrens parties so did not want to buy it. My childless friends (and we all know how judgmental and strongly opinionated on child rearing childless people can be) looked at me like I was a horrible mother (you know the sort, fanatical about their child having a healthy diet) and said oh go on he can have a fruit shoots at the panto at Christmas surely. I said ok but but he won’t see much of the panto and youre responsible for peeling him off the ceiling. They look satisfied with their victory. Well you can guess the rest. The looks in their faces made it worth it. First off when he started flipping empty theatre seats they found it amusing, then the smiles quickly faded when it ramped up to crawling under the seats, disturbing other patrons and disappearing through the doors back stage. I said satisfied? You’d better go and find him. They were so acutely embarrassed at the idea they would be thought to be his parents they refused. I said I thought not, I do these things with good reason. They were pretty quiet with their judgmental childless views after that

Stop it you twat your putting me off them now, i quite like them and thinking of a bike to run thorough the winters but not happy about the old fart image i'll be branded with

If I was 70 years old and had lost all my street cred and talent I may think bout it but....I'm not and I haven't and I wont

You wanna nice Honda CB500X Rich

He’s coming …

Oi el ginger there's some politics going on

What @Slowlycatchymonkey said, I've seen it many times and before the internet I've seen people fighting over it in the local pub some people cant control their feelings on the subject and as far as i'm concerned its a lot of wasted time and effort because your talking about something you will never change and can only have an effect in the polling stations which is where i air my views, that's if i can be arsed to vote for whatever piece of trash is up for election.

Did you give it a general knowledge quiz?

Happy Sunday Today I will mostly be doing nothing

I'm back and the car park robbers only managed to get £5.00 off me

Sorted

Twat

No.....I'll leave the thread to make things clear. But to reiterate that this is something that everybody agreed to in the T&C's at signup time.

And I bet he's been dribbling over the face

Haha well if you get one you'll definitely be branded old and in to getting bummed so I'd steer clear till you hit such an age as you can't ride a real bike anymore

With the amount of gayness going on here lately .... I think some... Most maybe should move to a gay forum..

Like Fred and Caroline said.......it creates bad feeling. Look at Social Media channels.....it's full of that along with Covid conspiracies. This no politics rule has been in place on all the previous forums.....it's nothing new. So if you want to talk about Politics you need to go to a Political Forum....not a Motorcycle one. By all means put a Political meme in the Jokes thread......but let's not get into any political discussions. And I will add that the people who have have been starting these threads today (knowing full well the rule has always been in place) would be better served by making positive motorcycle related contributions to the forum as many others do.

My sister found out quite early on that certain E numbers in food would send her daughter into a hyperactive madness where she would become almost uncontrollable. I was there once when the ice-cream van came round and my sister overheard the other mothers slagging her off for not letting her have an ice cream, my sister wiped the floor with them and ended with saying she'd buy her daughter an ice cream if they were willing to look after her for the next 12 hours. An example i remember was she could eat a tube of smarties but only after all the blue ones were removed as there was something in the blue colouring that would set her off.

Yes but if you have garage plates on and are using them for their intended purpose your covered by them for tax insurance and MOT the car your driving doesn't need that. but doesn't mean you can nip over your mates house with them on as far as i'm aware.

Cos people often take their opinions on politics seriously and see any debate as a personal attack rather than a topic for discussion. People genuinely fall out for good over this stuff. Mainly cos they’re mental but there we are

Yes get the Busa. It fits me like it was made for me and it would make it so much easier to steal one if I knew where one was.

Fuck off you libtard.

When the chain snapped on the first journey they took it to Granada. They were really very lovely but the mechanic somehow soaked the exhaust wrap in oil which gave off noxious fumes forever and the chain wasn’t tensioned correctly (far too loose). So I crossed them of the list!

It’s the old nature nurture thing again isn’t it. I’ve watched one of my flakey friends nurture her teenage daughter into anorexia with her competitive pressuring style of parenting and not acknowledge she has anything to do with what happened. Then I see another friend with one daughter who is lovely n easygoing and one that’s a hellcat with behavioural problems from the outset. Its not easy there’s no manual (well there are thousands of conflicting manuals) and no one size fits all solution. Plus some people are just born bad. Sounds harsh but they literally have a larger psychopathic element than the norm. So there’s that too.

The biggest con now is vehicles driving around with no MOT but they are taxed . They probably tax them just before the MOT runs out and then drive the death trap around for another year.

Correct , but I bought it before 1st September

It's very overcast here today

I did part of the Gorafe Desert nearly 3 years ago......well, the parts that me and the Strom were capable of doing:

Currently sat in my car in a lane near the airport. Fuckmine, it’s nuts around here

Ok, you may have a hot lap top but will you be sat in a lay-by near Bristol airport at stupid o-clock tonight waiting to collect your mother-in-law and her argumentative niece. Welcome to my world, at least I can pretend I don't understand her if she kicks off (my wife's cousin)

I’d fancy another trip over as long as I stay out of Huescar town limits. My bike doesn’t like it.

I’ve had two over the years but the first one I bought was when I took my first TL1000S into my mate’s shop for a service and he always let me take a bike out for a few hours. Now, I’d had a real assortment of bikes as a loan bike from him over the years but taking that Busa out was off the scale. I spent the first hour trying to calibrate my brain to the acceleratorion, the second hour muttering to myself “why on earth would anyone need this kind of power?” and the third and final hour telling myself that in no account was I going to buy one. I’d been back in the shop for a minute before I ordered one. They are that kind of bike.