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Cleaned my boots ................. and loaded the bike ...............

Well I must be feeling a bit better because I checked and prepped the bike after 8 weeks standing. Tyre pressures checked, chain lubed, linkages checked and greased, and loads of dust cleaned off it! I'm good to go......weather permitting of course!

This guy brought a bunch of old boards to me and asked if I could make a table out of them. The boards were the rough sawn oak floor joists from his Grandmother's 140 year old house in Nebraska. Had just enough material to make the top - the legs ands aprons were made from new oak and relic'd a bit. One of the more fun projects I've done.

I'm in the garage prepping the bike for this weekends trip to Shropshire. I'm going to need a bigger bag , nothing to do with trying to fit this in you understand

Lots of paint touching up to do but he's happy.

Assembled my nooo workbench chair, has an adjustable ring (oo er misses) so short arses like me don’t have to have their feet dangling cutting off the circulation to the back of your legs. I’ve put up with the other one for about 15years, feck knows why Very happy. The pink things are napkins, the picture frame is where all the ‘art’ work the children bring home from school gets stuck, yes the kaleidoscopic flooring will trip you over if you look at it when pie eyed. I think that’s it although I spect you lot will find something else

So last week when I was out on Miss America she was cutting out intermitently. In the end I noticed that it was on lanes with 'whoop' sections so I stopped to have a look and could see that the side stand was a bit loose so I reckon it was bouncing a bit and the side stand switch was cutting the ignition. I normally take side stand switches off my bikes as they can cause trouble when riding off road but I had missed this one. So today I decided to eliminate the switch, first I took the stand off ............ the springs looked shagged so they will be replaced Then I unbolted the switch and traced the wiring to the connector up under the seat and removed the whole thing I then cut the sleeving back and snipped off the connector The idea with this is too join the two wires and plug the connector back in to fool the ignition that the switch is still there. For small electrical jobs I use these soldered wire connectors You then need a concentrated heat source to melt the solder and shrink the tube around it. I use this plastic blow torch which works a treat .......... and the job is done , just plug the connector back into the loom and Bob's your Uncle

It wouldn't be a fair fight...with my genetics and intelec ...reflex like a Canadian lyx and strength like a bull moose...even with the two of you at the same time...swift kick to Bob's remaining knee cap and I would use Buckster beard has a mop..

The Gods of Skive were listening, my Dad just txt, full English breakfast on him

It's no place for pussies, that's for sure. But the summers are really nice and you could explore loads of old ghost towns, mining sites, etc. around here.

I'm going to Drag Bingo tomorrow night, it's only the bingo caller who is in drag thank god. Then some sort of beach themed pub do on Saturday night. I go dressed as normally for UK winter and my mates tell the landlord that is actually what I wear on the beach when we are on holiday. On Sunday morning I am meeting another mate who wants to try out his new (to him) Suzuki engined CCM, we are meeting on some back road in the sticks and then heading off to the bike show in London which will probably be as awful as the first one I went to at Excel about 10 years ago, but I will give it one more chance.

Well that was a write off. Wish I'd stayed working. All the greasy spoons are closed down (another gov triumph) all three supermarket cafes no longer do a full English and my Pops was in a mood for various reasons and not a lot of fun. Pah back to work.

It's the future!

But wihpete as you campaign manager you'll get nowhere as usual

if she ever looked on here im a dead man !

Nice one Bob i think i said before i done that on the dog as well as the clutch switch and then drove it of the side stand with the starter motor in a petrol station when i forgot about it

Well @yen_powell hasn't! To Yen, those items are like Kryptonite to Superman!

About to finish some work and then take the bike out for a little ride. It's sunny and should warm up nicely in a couple of hours. Maybe try and take a picture.

That’s because you are as old as dirt.

But he does misspell dumb and dumber which is comedy gold.

Last night i discovered the battery tyre pump i have has a duff battery, I used it to pump the XR rear tyre up a few PSI and ran the battery flat even though it said it was 100% charged before i started, so put it on charge overnight but it wont switch on anymore even though it's showing 100% charged. So tonight i stripped it down removed the battery soldered on a length of cable (off the old tv i changed a month ago) to the battery wires and now its a plug in 12v pump, not sure if it will last as the original battery was 7.4v but everything works for now the digital display and pressure cut off setting even the little LED just need a fag lighter plug to finish it off now

Seems to be a bit better thanks. Still got a hacking cough but temperature is normal and I don’t need to lie on the sofa all day feeling sorry for myself. It’s a scientific fact that man-flu is real and totally debilitating. Women just get the ordinary version which frankly is no more than mildly inconvenient. Are you on the mend Pete? I’m back to the UK on Monday for a week to see my old man and try and sort out some admin for him. If you’re feeling better in a couple of weeks time I’ll take a ride up and we can catch up over a coffee and slag off everybody on here just like last time.

I believe a lot in what's been said about people isolating for the best part of 3 years and not mixing with others has reduced peoples immunity so now when you get the flu its a lot worse, hopefully my immunity levels have built back up after the bout i had. Everyone in work has had it bad as well.

Could be or it could be coffee machine capsules

I've got a pair of those Forma boots. Very comfy straight out of the box and I did about 700 miles of riding in a torrential downpour over the Christmas holidays and they didn't let a drop in.

Is this the picture of you naked on a Giraffe

Yep be warned people who spend their weekends going to garden centres and washing the car are still out there in large numbers.

Cruised over to Apex - a ghost town about a mile from my house - to see the front of the hold hotel has collapsed. Bummer. Hate to see it fall into further disrepair. Some then and now pics...

Jeez there are some scoot/bikes that are wrecks for sale on FB Marketplaces.......have they never heard of a bucket of water, wash and wax and a sponge...

Sic him Bob!

So @Marcel with the superior genes thinks that us mods are dumb but quotes dum and dummer with a photo of Laurel and Hardy ...............

I agree ...I can only describe are two new mods has Dum and Dummer...

You've hit the nail on the head... I did get two jabs when you couldn't even entre a restaurant at the start but will never get another one...I think vaccines for flue is totally ridiculous....unless you're at high risks from some other illements....

The latest on the wife's shoulder is she has to have something called Hydrodilatation to to improve the movement of the shoulder joint and decrease pain. She was talking to the doctor about it and he said there's been a lot of these cases since covid and they are looking into it. He said its not the vaccine itself but they think its the way its been administered.

shouldn't they be called them instead of pair , just to be pc

But the forma ones identify as a pair of slippers

Yes, I was debating on which boots to wear. The Sidi trials boots offer a bit more protection but like you say the Forma's are so comfortable so I think the Forma's will be used this weekend. PS. neither of these boots identify as gay ....................

So well versed I’m not sure I know how to talk to normies anymore! Still not a lot of fun though.

Pete you'd be in your element there, though you'd have a fit with all that snow about

or Laurel and Hardy .

I should add that my daughter had a Piaggio NRG 50cc, I de restricted it (naughty me ) so it would do 45mph, she used all of that speed, but did not ride like a idiot, so in that time she never dropped it or had a crash. Then she swapped to a car and had two bumps in the 1st year.

No we would have all made this place a ghost town overnight if that had happened

This wouldn't be happening if Six had got the Mod gig!

Granddaughter is going to take her CBT in a couple of weeks. So today she took most of my wife's bike/scoot gear (helmet, gloves, jacket (textile), trousers (textile) and boots) in preparation for the big day, her mother not very happy about it though.