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My mum left me a few gold sovereigns, Victorian, Edwardian and George 5th ones. I went through them spread out on the kitchen work top and selected a few to give to my son to sell as he was having a bit of trouble money wise at the time. I couldn't remember how many there were exactly, but I was sure I was missing one, gave up worrying about and put them away in a hidey place. This was about 5 years ago. Last month my dish washer finally expired after 20 years of faithful service. When I pulled it out from under the kitchen unit to replace it with a new one there was a gold sovereign sitting on top in the centre.

Just back from a few days away. Back to work (on site) tomorrow and my paid for fork seal cleaner had arrived whilst I was away. As I said before, my home made one didn't really sort the leak, just reduced it a bit so I paid out for the Sealmate. The bike was already up in the air with the dust seal pulled down from before I went away so I have just been out and had a scrape. First attempt wasn't too good, I really struggled to slide the thing around. Then I removed the mudguard to give a bit more room and it all got easier. The trick is to get the bit of hook ended plastic shoved up past the seal, wrap a cloth around the bottom part and squeeze really hard and then just twist your hand around the fork leg. Went round three times then wiped off the film of oil that had run down whilst using it. Then I was bouncing the forks up and down till no more oil appeared, which took about 3 x 10 goes till it stayed clean. refitted the dust seal and put the fork cover and mud guard back on. I'll see how that is by the time I get to work tomorrow. Whilst away I called into a very small village to look inside this cupboard which is in the church there. There was nobody else there, had the place to myself, no signs saying what is there either. The square section between the grooved pillars opens completely up. What is inside to be revealed in a future write up.

I have an oversized EBC disc on the front of the dog it got bent once when a big rock flipped up and hit it, i found out at the bottom of the hill i was on when the brake lever pulled all the way to the handlebar with no slowing down the bent disc had pushed the pistons back in the brake caliper so i had to pump the lever to slow down. I fixed it on the trail with an adjustable spanner, i could see where the rock hit so put the spanner on there and pulled it back and its still on the bike now not bent and no pulsing on the lever i think i had a lucky pull

Agrinax radials are meant to be good

Wouldn’t a sofa , tv or pots and pans have been more apt What the fuck they going to do with that liven up bath time with it ?

But at least it has good tyres and straight discs

A really nice small and simple electronic tire pressure gauge. Just a simple button on and off and accurate. I bought it ages ago for the Transalp, suddenly it went missing and I never saw it again. Modern electronic stuff like that is crap, bought an Oxford one the other day and it’s useless, you need a degree to use it every time, and three measurements give three different readings, and as the fitment to the valve is shit you end up loosing pressure every time you use it. Ended up taking my normal one to Morocco last time, looked like a fucking F1 pitstop every time I used it in front of a hotel

At Mendip auction rooms. Just bought a full size reproduction divers helmet for the boys as a house warming gift. Needs a bit of a clean but think with some (fake) fish swimming around in it they’ll be made up

No

Might get myself one of these , feckin ace

You forgot the lippy.

i left school with what i started with , bugger all

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Make you wonder why plod has said we weren't chasing but the little fuckers should have stopped. When do we get the statement, "they were such good boys".

I did something in my last year of junior school, no idea if it was an 11 plus. There were only two of us destined for my senior school because we had both moved away from the immediate area but still stayed at the same junior school for the last year. We both had to go to a room and take an exam whilst a member of staff watched us and timed it, took about an hour. I can recall the questions were mostly English and Maths based, I know I had to guess a lot of them as it was stuff I hadn't heard of then. When I turned up at my senior school they streamed us, we had three bands and a dribbler class. I went in to the top stream and my mate went into the lower stream, but was moved up to the middle stream at the end of the first year. The dribbler class was wound up by the 3rd year and the occupants moved in to the lower stream.

Breaking news , they have just arrested the ring leader

My Versys discs seemed to be warped from very early on, I could always feel them pulsing when slowing down. I cleaned the disc buttons using brake cleaner spray with a bolt, washers and nuts to spring them open and it seemed to sort them. These are the 103,000 mile discs the dealer who videoed the bike said must be replacement discs.

The unions would be straight on to that and nip it in the bud, that's my job that is!

I quite like the dark colours. No matt black option though.

LATEST!!! Apparently the bike has been fixed. The guy I spoke with had no idea what the techies have done and that he'd find out and let me know. Perhaps I'll never find out. Told him I wanted the bike returned here as covered by the extended warranty breakdown cover. It'll probably be another week as he said a different department deals with that. I'm out on the lash tomorrow afternoon, so I told him tomorrow morning or Thursday would have to do. I'm not holding my breath about anything M & P related here.

That’s what I have on now, thought I would try something different.

You seen this @XTreme That could have kept you in hay for six months … how the other half live !

So two Ned’s died honing around on an electric motorbike! Probably out nicking stuff. Then there was a riot? Nice, get the water cannons out, they could all probably use a wash anyway.

My bike's too boring to fail MOT's and warp discs!

That’s as ugly as you.

Hmmmmm. And it fits. Probably test ride next week.

Ace photo, you were much better looking than that Swansea/Dago twat

Isn’t it time someone gave you a bike?

I believe that's what they call "character" Alan. And Hondas are boring because they just keep on running! Boring will do for me!

I'm surprised that none of these test bikes aren't in the colours of the original Transalp

Hurrah !! at last we see one with a sump guard fitted

He dropped half to a small farm on the other side of town first, then we led him to where the horses are. And we had a guy we know with a forklift to get it off the truck and stack it under cover! Ended up a bit cheaper at €1200......but that's still nearly double what it normally is.

I presume he’ll follow you to your gaff as that much is going to be a fucker to get into a Picasso

Dam straight.

Like you I'm always losing the bloody things. Being magnetic isn't always a good thing. There's a long term joke running between me and an old school mate. We're always accusing each other of pinching tools when ever we go round. Normally starts with, "You thieving basted".

Did the 11 Plus (of sorts) three times. Once when we lived in North Wales and we moved on my birthday. Had to do it again in Cardiff, then when I went to secondary school, much of the catchment area didn’t have the 11 Plus, so I had to sit the school’s own exam for streaming kids. Mellow at Cardiff National Eisteddfod, 1978

Share your chips, just order another portion for sharing, that's the lesson. Don't eat pubes is another one.

Indeed, but he was the one putting his own ... I give up

I think only today did @Renegade realize you´re not going back so he stopped lying, no point in making the effort anymore.

Nice one @Catteeclan , I bet that beats working on feckin Peugeots

Looks like i can stop wondering where that went now

Yes Harder to ignore in person

well at least it wont rain in his shoes