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Still moving like crab but I just ate pizza for breakfast so it’s not all bad

Little 600km bimble ..went to the dealer to pick up my rear rack for the tour pack.

Stop eating stuff out of the bin.

spent the morning today trying to drop the temperature inside the house. Then shut all the shutters cos it was 38 in the street outside and buggered off to spend the afternoon at a friends house who's got a pool... I was planning on cycling in to work tomorrow morning but they're forcasting 38 to 40 c for the afternoon and I aint cycling home in that!

Head to the Peak District if you get a chance, it’s a stunning place. That’s where we lived before moving to Spain.

did you bang your head as well on your off

Well I’ll mark that one down as excuse number 76

The mitas are gone, replaced with these which are never going to last as long but will be better for light touring on possibly wet tarmac

He’s ginger, dumpster diving is in his nature.

Bike’s been serviced and ready for a big ride now. Got properly wet riding back home in my jeans and summer jacket, though. Then dinner at friends’ house, culminating in rum and cigars until now. Merry Christmas!

That's two older than me then. Four of us went out for a drink last week and I was the youngest! Unusual.

They'll be the best bikes in the world you know!

Would a Poll help?

The wife's frozen shoulder gave her the same symptoms she's had it a year now. I recon she's been putting in some serious overtime on the voodoo doll she has of me for taking the piss out of her shoulder LOL

Yep, I think @busabeast qualifies on both counts

Ps, if you’re looking for sympathy, you’ll find it in the dictionary about half way between “shit” and “syphilis” …✌

I don't know of any Poles selling bikes at the moment.

Just the front and rear springs i think it's sprung for someone about 75kg from the factory. if your down this way anytime your welcome to take it for a ride as you know there's plenty of local stuff to try it out on for a few hours.

Possibly but it's over 40 years since I had a two-stroke. There are other bikes in the frame as well.

You're thinking of becoming a Beta Bum Boy?

I can only describe it as its like riding a vibey 4 stroke you get some vibration through the footrests but you forget about it in minutes there's no real top end but if you want it its just a matter of fitting the RR pipe and you get the top end without compromising the bottom end torque apparently. Suspension is a load of shit but new springs for my weight transformed it into usable

I’ve got a client who races extreme enduro on a modern 250 husqvarna 2 stroke, he was looking forward to trading it with a 300. Says the extra low down grunt makes everything a lot easier at the expense of nothing. On something like an x trainer it must be even more so.

A very fair assesment of the game @Clive without having to resort to wanting them to get their tits out

I watched 15 mins of the 1st half, and that was my interpretation of the game, kept loosing (or giving away) possession... Thought then.....they are gonna loose.

x2 peak district, lovely area, and good roads

i watched the last 15... england was shite , giving ball away , bad passing and not one of em got their tits out .

I have just phoned the mayor of Huescar to inform him that you are a fake Welshman and that your real name is Windsor. Expect a knock on your door in the next five minutes...............

Sounds like a nerve problem, we're all starting to fall apart

Haven't been active much lately ..did I miss something? Pete got the surgery and someone messed up the paperwork and they made him a vagina ?

I’m afraid he’s a custom bike hipster dude

My wife says I walk like a penguin when my back goes.

I quite like them on the Africa Twin I haven't done many miles since fitting them though

Yes. I’ve had a few sets of the original ones and really like them as a smooth road tire, this is the rocks version which looks less gay and will probably be better too except maybe last less.

I don't have a afternoon kip either. ☺ Think I am kind of programmed from my last 10 years at work, was up most day days at 2am to be at work and on the road by 3am.

I don’t know how you stay awake until 12.30 am @Clive I’m in bed by 10.00pm

A good full 7 or 8 hours kip!...not had one of them for years, most nights it's bed at 12.30am (ish) but usually up around 6 to 7am.

On the rare occasion I have one I’m glad I’m a girly crap crap who can stay layed down eating pain killers and bacon sarnies

I was up and walking Costa at 7:45, he is not to blame for my bad habits It’s your choice to get hungover, that’s how real men do it!

Don’t know, but on the way north we’ll sleep twice more or less close to Santander to go ride around the Picos for a day, and Bilbao is a town I really dig. Maybe something to do with boarding on different places in the uk too. I don’t really know why any of it is actually happening, I’ll basically be tagging along with @Sofia as she revisits some of her favourite places while also trying to keep to the appropriate side of the road.

Just another reason why you shouldn't ride, at your age

So i moved on up to the A40 at Bwlch and turned off towards Llangorse but then took a small road to go around the south of the lake towards a village called llangasty-Tal-llyn. The church was down a lane off this road and ends a the lake, there is only a derelict farm and a house directly by the church so god knows (see what I did there ) where the congregation come from............ The round trip was about 145 miles and it wasn't that warm for the middle of August but at least it wasn't raining today.