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Last time I was here was about 3 or 4 years ago......when I had the Strom. And just like back then, it was bloody scorching today at 37C No sign of any repairs having been done to the station building over that period, but at least it doesn't seem to have deteriorated any more than it was. Watch the vid......it'll give you a better overall perspective! The bike ran well......didn't miss a beat! After nearly a year of ownership, I can't fault it! Admittedly it won't get your adrenaline going......and it certainly won't get you a blowjob! But you can be damn sure that it won't be going on a Grua any time soon! If ever!

My vote goes to the white beach hut.

Too hot to be out long so no rendezvous with @XTreme today but instead an hour or so exploring along the coast.

The guy was moving!

Who will win this month? @Marcel with his shiny new Indian? @busabeast with his Yoshimura stickered bog standard Suzuki? Maybe @Slowlycatchymonkey will finally take a photo of the mythical BSA. As a change this month I will be starting the discussion thread in the gallery early to give you time before the submissions start, I know how you all like a bit of submission. @Six30 you can ignore this.

@Catteeclan Is this what the front brake hose looks like if it is PM me your address and you can have it, Its only taking up space here.

Yeh that’s it for him … and it will get you a blow job ….. off a fella

Don’t bother with paracetamols mate, take a few of these.

I’m in St. Ives still but when I get home I’ll see if I can find the copy and scan it

Never had a new bike back then or the cash to afford one but as mentioned we rode around in groups and met others always swopping bikes. Meanwhile, bearings in and forks tarted up ready for some nice new webs.

From a mountain in Norway cruise Ship on the right

That is just moronic you'd have more street cred if you had a trike! And it's required you to make it quieter and that is just pointless

I don’t think it was ever online

I have a couple of wedges to tap into the split in the yokes. Couple of screwdrivers will work as good.

True to form, we off to the coast tomorrow, and the weather is going to turn shit. Better make the most of today.

I can still remember Steve Neville at the TRF AGM talking about using the internet and emails for contacting and recruiting members, he was laughed at, comments like, "Hardly anyone has a computer", were thrown about. He mentioned internet cafes (do they still exist?) and they rolled up like he was making it all up.

I know the Nurburgring properly, in a slow car. The level of track knowledge it takes to do those speeds with the control they process on such a long and varied track is nothing but awesome. It takes repetition and obsessive learning, it obviously takes balls but from the brain it’s a lot more training and learning than being mental.

The whole bike needs painting.

Well you seem smitten with it so guessed it was your steed to see out your days on

Most on here could benefit from a few pots of these, and all of the flouncers. Bucky needs them mostly after hitching a bloody trailer to his monstrosity

I won’t you can fuck off with it .

It’s a bit much to be honest mate, mind you the other nine months of the year are pretty perfect

Step this way for Rugged Individualism!

I shall never enter botm again .. sir

You need a chain conversion once you are north of those figures, lots of tuning goes on. Your bike is designed to be tuned but

Going to get out early cos 37C is forecast today!

Many year ago I had a Kawasaki GPZ305, that was belt drive, the belt snapped while out on a ride, luckily near to home when it did. Ŵent and ordered a new belt, when they told me the price I almost passed out. £150, and that was around 1980, so I converted it to chain drive, shortly before it devoured its camshafts.

Devastated more like, offered to put me touch with a dodgy dude for a Spanish passport. Although that could be to ensure I'm caught and permanently deported

Oh god not the B word and I don’t mean bullshit Thats the point of “content you like” Ive spent an hour today watching that tosspot Dobbs cos you posted a YouTube vid of him. What a waste of an hour

My father in law had a huge computer, he never had the Internet in his house ,he just played Patience & MahJong on it.

Fancy that. Young people not wanting to listen to old farts. Never happened before

@Buckster has a bike shop ... and you buy bikes off him ....

They certainly didn’t smell like they washed too often and I wouldn’t mind one bit if they tried a mint rather than the rancid coffee they whiff of

I prefer to talk about bikes with someone who actually knows about the bike, you know, get the info you want about the bike you want to buy. You can keep your wank bank stocked up with internet images like everyone else. For the record most of the men I've bought bikes from are ugly old munters with tits down to their knees

Using my Amazon spring compressor today, as usual I have managed to get oil all over the poxy place. My late Dad's early 70s foldy Workmate thing finally came in handy for something. Put the new seal on using the Amazon supplied bullet doobrey to stop it getting cut up by the sharp edges.

Ducati is one brand I definitely won't be buying. They had a really strong sales team made up of women who actually rode and rode well so you could wander over at a bike festival and they knew about bikes. It was refreshing because mostly with bikes it's bimbos hired in who know nothing about the product. They were such an impressive outfit they had a group photo in the adventure biker gallery at ABR with all the other A list off roaders pics. I asked my nice looking friend who's mainly a Yoga instructor (so she's also slim and fit) why she wasn't with Ducati anymore, she replied I'm too old for them. They got rid of all of us. Some head honcho came over from Italy and replaced them all with young airheads. Apparently that's more in keeping with the Ducati image. An image they can shove where the sun doesn't shine. Backward twats.

Cl 500 … @XTreme it’s got your name written all over it

The post box at the bottom of my road has had its new knitted top piece added.

Indeed I did, I was reading my bible and in Leviticus it said that if a man lies with a man as with a woman he must be stoned, fuck that, I was out of there.

Must be a relief not to have to listen to pretentious hippy shit like "Dark Side of the Moon" anymore?