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You have the train as an alternative, it’ll last almost the same if you arrive in France and jump straight on the motorway. Sofia went to the dreamland from sleeping pills, and now it’s nice and sunny in Santander while all other vehicles exit the boat while motorcycles wait. We shall sleep in Portugal and have a nice roast for dinner!

So it was only a 13 mile ride home but these are my initial thoughts. It almost feels like a toy compared to the Rally. Revvy engine (but in a good way) , it ran out of puff at about 65mph so I need to look at the gearing. Suspension felt fine on the road and good brakes for a trail bike. The handlebars are shit , too narrow and not enough sweep but I have bars and hand guards on the way. Once i've done that and got a rack I'll be off to do some (easy) lanes to see what it's like off-road

If all goes well yes, 9 weeks in so far so still very early days

Lol, eat your heart out @XTreme. We just had a customer come in and give us these as we fixed her starter motor problem foc a while back. We didn’t have to go to Baza for them

Well I finally decided to bite the bullet and retrieve the rowing machine from the mini gym down the yard and see just how unfit I am. Bought a new heart rate monitor to avoid a cardiac arrest like all those plonkers who jump into a fitness regimen they’re really not fit enough for - usually men jogging or running It went surprisingly well, the reasonable baseline start I set for myself was so easy I bearly broke a sweat, my heart rate was superduper, recovered very quickly and I’m feeling pretty high (and a bit smug) on it Anyway I’m posting partly to share the joy and more importantly to say that ACF50 is feckin amazing. The garage sized ‘gym’ it has been in since 2019 has concrete running downwards to the unit so in heavy rain it floods a bit, it’s constantly damp as a consequence and gym equipment especially rowing machines with their little chains and thin perforated metal covers are notorious for rusting to pieces. I liberally ACF50’d it once 4 years ago (including disassembling it to coat the innards). Theres not a spot of rust on it, it’s running very smoothly. Viva ACF50!

Haha well we're hoping it's only the one but twins are in line in both families so

No, I ride in the winter, you don't even ride in the summer.

So it's in dry Dock now eh, time to get the barnacles off the Hull and a respray

Bench will be good for the winter then.

I have had a can of ACF50 till earlier this year.......the can went rusty and leaked the fluid all over the work bench....

I did the Sled yesterday, i'll get some race fuel and stabilizer from work to top up the tank and then it will be parked for the winter.

Time to give the Harley it’s winter coating of protectorant.

Meeting a friend for cuppa, going to Brizzle to see the boys, packing for the ride to Spain (I always try to pack the week before cos theres always something that needs ordering) and sorting out one of boys 21st Birthday this Sunday. Might squeeze in a bit of yoga to make sure I avoid any consequences from the above madness.

In fact the scoot is coming in there tomorrow, there is a storm forecast for Wednesday and Thursday, there is a dead tree the other side of our boundary fence and it is leaning towards my shed, if it falls my shed is right in the firing line.

is it yours ?

Cheers Bob, it’s a spectacular area for tarmac and there’s plenty of trails too so it pretty much caters for everyone. Winter time it’s gets very cold and there’s a fair bit of snow and ice so you need to pick your time carefully. As for the bike, yep all fine. It’s was a bad connection on the battery after all that. It seems that one of the terminal screws just wouldn’t tighten down properly and it was causing the problem (an easy fix and I did apologise for wasting their time but they were cool about it and said “that’s what the warranty is for”). They also changed the fork oil while they had it as the front felt a bit choppy. It’s so much better now.

ACF50 is a wonder, but, for some weird reason, we can't get it here! I guess that, because it's a pretty dry atmosphere and they don't salt the roads here in winter, there's probably not much of a market for it. Good show, on the fitness regime, keeping it going is the hardest part.

I’m pretty sure @Six30 used this excuse for the child porn they found on his laptop when it went into Curry’s for repair.

Happy when anyone sticks it to the critics but honestly it’s just weird to watch. Like Variety shows are still alive and kicking and an unpolished dance routine worked out in a bedroom mirror is being performed by a 14 year old just discovering their sexuality. Don’t get me wrong, she is talented and nice looking too but thats not something I’d want to watch, she needs a manager to refine that shit, maybe someone like Simon Cowell

That's a trip spoiler. I too have no sea legs and turn green at the smallest waves. Hope the worst is over.

Another week......and I've got a meeting with a prospective new client at Venta del Peral Services at 11am this morning!

Does ACF50 work on wood?

I put up a 8×6 shed at our old house in the UK. It was a cheap (relatively) wooden thing and it was shit! It went together reasonably OK, but all the shiplap on the walls bowed and distorted within a few months, which then let the rain and little furry creatures in. Eventually it became pretty much unusable. It was still standing when we sold the house, but I'd guess that the new owners would have taken it down, before it fell down. The moral of the story is that wooden sheds can appear to be a reasonably cost effective solution, but decent ones can get pretty expensive!

If it arrives with a beard and tits it could well be mine

So how stormy is too stormy to ride in? I had a look at storm Agnes cos a friend I’m meeting up with in a week or so is riding through it from up north down to Portsmouth to get to the ferry on this- Not exactly great for winds speeds “up to 80 miles an hour” Would you ride it or put it in a van? Having been across Bodmin on a bike in a storm I’m definitely gonna say van.

Well its definitely not Fred's

If the weather turns really cold this winter the scoot will end up in the spare room, it is not particularly warm in there (rad turned off) but its dry.

i do mine, not cause i will be riding in shitty weather or salty roads but because of condensation in the garage over winter

Let me know in the spring.

Well when we asked her at the weekend if she wanted a little brother or sister she said she did and was really excited about it so we will see

I think I’ve seen more dilapidated wooden sheds than ones in good nick. It requires too much maintenance for most people. Personally I can only just be bothered to get a wooden fence sprayed every other year and I’m not even the one out there having to do it

Congratulations!

Yeah I reckon. Given what I do for work I have been out and about in all of these towns after dark and St Aweful, while grim and full of hostel dwellers, it is in no way the worst. I would rank them worst to best, PZ (Drugs probs, evil estates.), Bodmin (Drug probs), Liskeard (Just fecking rough), Camborne (Incest centre of the UK), Redruth, St Aweful. Launceston is pretty sleepy as a town although the pubs get a bit rowdy with carrot crunchers at the weekend. Oh and I forgot Newquay, fights and vomit, plus drugs. Grimy shit hole with a pretty face. Always used to be ethnically Scouse, not sure about nowadays.

He's not happy

Can you not just use next door's shed ? It looks pretty impressive

You want to see my father in-laws shed. He went to town on it. He said he was going to build himself a little shed. It’s about 6000 square foot I kid you not. My MIL is urr how do I politely say a total cowbag? So in his ‘shed’ he has a warehouse heater, a sofa, a TV and a full sized kitchen along with his classic tractors and some vehicles he doesn’t drive but likes to look at. He even put in a road so it was too far away from everyone else for them to just pop in Wise man. I have my bikes, a sofa and a fridge in my garage and a room within it with a large workbench, underfloor heating, a kettle, nice chair where I faff about making bits n bobs. Time and space to yourself away from your loved ones is priceless. Go large @Saul, even if it’s just two cheap jobbies joined together. The trees were deliberately planted so it will eventually be hidden.

Just found this in the sale for £900, me and the dog could move out.

Sailing out of Plymouth right now, Sofia’s feelingthe waves and not enjoying it. Not me though, I’m feeling like a well seasoned sea wolf, drinking a pint and watching the rugby.

On the bus (oh joy) going to collect my Yamaha 🏍

Because I'm doing a site for an electric violin maker I've been researching more on this subject. And one name kept popping up: Lindsey Stirling Apparently in 2010 she went on America's Got Talent and got slaughtered by two horrible cunts whose names will be familiar to you! "judge Piers Morgan buzzed her. He told her: "You're not untalented, but you're not good enough, I don't think, to get away with flying through the air and trying to play the violin at the same time." Sharon Osbourne commented: "You need to be in a group. ... What you're doing is not enough to fill a theater in Vegas. Yet today she's a worldwide star!

women commentators on mens football ..just fuck right off