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It is warm out there, got a sweat on Would have liked to have gone further, but SWMBO would not have been happy.

Sleeping in a van in October and then fucking walking about? No wonder she's always off somewhere to get away from you!

Funny enough I did think about doing just that but the thought of someone like you picking us up put me off. There’s all sorts of boring cunts out there you know

Yup and had a gentle 7 mile walk along part of the Pembrokeshire coast. now sat in a pub drinking larger with the money I saved by not staying in a hotel

Landscape as well Clive? You're not fucking around now!

Just checked my scoots tyre pressure, 12lb front ......26lb rear! Got permission to go for a little ride.

Clacton International.

No no no I’m not a total peasant I had surf n turf in the local pub but the wagon was smelling a bit ripe this morning

That’s what happens when you ride a CB500, the body starts to shut down.

Where’s the fun in that. There is absolutely no adventure in you at all is there mr humdrum.

Bollocks!....forgot about that, normal photographic procedure will be in place for any more photos.

@Slowlycatchymonkey is a strong women , take more than a welsh dinosaur that is nearly extinct to make her flounce

I think he’s stepping up his game to make her flounce so this forum will be a total sausage fest just the way the fossil likes it lol

I think it knocked us out we didn’t wake up until 10 this morning surprisingly good nights sleep for the both of us. Going for a walk around the coast now, Broad Haven and onto Barafundle Bay if my legs will take it

@zzzak stop hacking Pete’s account!

wheres the nearest place to you i can rent a bike

yeh you..

As we have so many people of limited intelligence here, I'll phrase this ride report in a meaningful way that hopefully they can understand! Once upon a time....... .......I took a trip up into the Sierra de Cazorla going via the opposite side of the reservoirs......passing through Santiago de la Espada! And this is a route I'd take visitors on.....in fact, Dell and Lyn did it in 2007. I hadn't been up there for some years.....it was great fun when I first came here, but now it's bloody hard work. Cos you spend most of the time in second and third gear with switchback bends on adverse cambers every 50 metres or so. At points the road surface isn't too clever and there's big drops either side onto rocks. Then you've got wild boar, deer, and goats that sprint across the road or jump off the banks right into your path. Plus the occasional twat in a car or bike.....who are incapable of setting up the bends correctly. If that's not enough, there's no phone signal or towns for 50 kms! So this isn't the place to fuck things up. Now ask yourself........could you see yourself riding here? This is the perfect bike for this sort of stuff......it was hard work on the R1150GS! My left wrist used to kill me with all the gearchanges. Just crossing into Jaen province at this point..... We're still at some altitude..... Looking down right across the valley! When I got back to town it was fuel up again (bike always goes in the garage with a full tank).......and a serious Jet Wash as it was covered in flies and dust! On the way back I passed 20k kms......it was 15.5k when I got it 15 months ago. Not a lot admittedly, but with roads like these you can fit a lot of motorcycling into a relatively modest mileage. So if you want to participate in a motorcycling extravaganza of truly epic proportions such as this......I'm ready when you are!

Ah crap, her hipster boyfriend has just turned up…….about half my age with a trendy beard. Wanker.…………oh well, time to read my book and stop kidding myself

On my way back to Spain…….well I will be at 0610 in the morning so for now I’m plotted up at the airport. I have a bag that needs to go into the hold so I can’t check-in until about 4am which means I can’t go through security to where the bars are…….no, I’m stuck with coffee shops instead. Schoolboy error. The upside is that there’s a stunningly beautiful woman a few metres away and she definitely has all the moves. Swished across the coffee shop with coffee in hand, I swear she just glided a few centimetres above the floor. I wonder if I could impress her with my best chat-up lines? I reckon she’d be impressed

I’m on a camp site with proper facilities I just choose which one I go to and how long we stay. We were moving on today but our walk out and stop in the pub took longer than expected so staying at this place again tonight and moving on tomorrow that’s the beauty of this I do what I want when I want there’s no schedule to follow don’t need to book anything I just turn up, I”m laying in bed watching a film at the moment the wife is sleeping beside me. I can’t see what Pete”s big problem is with someone doing something other than working themselves to death, watching Netflix, travelling 2 hours to get a cup of tea or having a two hour ride into waste land twice a month. Now I could say what a waste of a life but I won’t because it’s not my life

Honest question, you drive around and sleep in your vehicle, that sounds nice but you are a couple doing couple stuff, along with 7 mile walks and all that, do you use any facilities for showers or how do you manage to not getting too funky?

your wasting your breath on the gammon...

Harder for the police to get him when he is mobile.

No, just empty Stella cans, no dead prostitutes in the hedge bottom either.

Was there any sign of a lorry and trailer in the ditch by the layby ..............

So you went to the first layby and then turned around and came back ?

That’s just van life tell him @Six30

Go farther, dude!

Does Karen have a gas mask

Sorted

Starting in ‘off’ mode completely defeats the object of an ebike but I do appreciate the general approach you’ve described Pedro. I started on ‘Low’ progressed to ‘Eco’ and settled on ‘Mid’ for 95% of the ride………but it was a shit load of fun going up very steep hills in ’Extreme’

My friend used to drive the fast response emergency vehicles, flat out to a crash scene in full drama mode, and station wagons carrying what must have felt more than what they should. That’s a very cool job you have! Both on the job itself and in the way you hell your community.

The trick is to ride away in off mode, then turn it into eco mode. By starting is turbo boost mode will ruin anything you do after. Anyone that had ever cycled will know that keeping a 20kmh average is proper hard word, turn on turbo mode in an electric bike and suddenly 25kmh uphill feels like the walk to check your mailbox in the morning.

So now you don’t look like a parked loitering gipsy, you’re just choosing to sleep in a van smelling like take away fish?

Im rather proud of myself this evening, finished a long term project restoring a “Louis Philippe” wardrobe ( 1840 ish) that belonged to wifes grandfather and had been left to fester in an outhouse. I’m not a cabinet maker or restorer but i reckoned i could make it useable again and possibly nice looking even. The photos are probably fkin hooge, sorry, no access to poota just mow. Ikea are shit compared to this, the whole thing gous from flat pack to fully operational in about an hour, all held together with just 6 wooden pins on top of this achievement, i managed to diagnose and repair the 12v socket on the tiger ( im crap at electrics and hate it but got away with this one

@Pedro you owe me 120 knicker. after you embarrassed me with my bin bag blinds in the marmite wagon I had to buy some proper ones testing them out over the next few days. Currently down in Pembrokeshire eating my favourite dead animal with some fishy stuff and chips

.........at a forum that I hadn't gone to for some time (not that other one) and I was met with this message as soon as I signed in. That price level is pretty much correct for just a small forum these days......it's very difficult to make ends meet! Obviously the owner must be throwing in wads of his own cash to stay afloat! Fair play to him, that's some commitment. I certainly wouldn't have opened this place for you clowns if I hadn't already got the resources available.

every place i stayed on in van had lovely hot showers and a nice toilet for a shit. if your into going off grid for a few days then you would invest in a proper camper van

Not quite, that place is about 3 mile from here....then rode another 5 mile, then came home..

he just dont get it... wanted to go away for a few days this week in the van, make the most of the weather, cant this week though , hopefully weather will stay nice next week

twat

Johannesburg.... then riding back up in the back of a van

I thought one in Canada nearest to you ..obviously .

she would beat him in an arm wrestle .. easy

ive even done more than the twat ....

I believe there's only one female here who can talk a glass eye to sleep Pedro!

What you needed is a quickshifter up and down the box without needing the clutch on downshifts it's a game changer. Looks like a great area to mooch around in, I'd say the busa would do it but it would take abit of hustling to get it to behave