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Well it turns out that MediaMarkt are now listing a Hero 12 Black including the full accessories bundle for €399.......with free delivery by Monday! I better have a word with the wife to tell her how perfect it would be for her horse vids!

Not the best of starts for the new job @busabeast

Fitting some new rubber on the atv...radial six ply.

My other favorite looking bike.....

They're obviously a well known and respected business......it's bewildering why they don't present themselves at the level that they actually are. An ancient website, with no SSL security, and not mobile compliant......they're really underselling themselves. Normally it's the other way round......some complete and utter shyster or no hoper presenting themselves as the biggest player in the game. And I'm usually the one that's done it for them!

I'm out on the Louigi Moto company doo this afternoon/evening . We are going to see a talk meet/greet type thing with James Whitham and John McGuiness. I'll try to not get pissed until we get there

Thank you all

No Pete...I'm mostly likely going to be running into hillbillies.

Start switching relays, two won’t have broken at the same time. I did that in Morocco once, sound logic. Bike came back on a trailer…

Fuck all that shit, too much razzle dazzle, it ain't American football fer fucks sake. Let’s get back to the old school build up, loads of singing, swearing and threatening the opposing fans. If the mood takes you, a brief pitch invasion to the visiting fans end for a little scuffle.

Hmmm do i play this card again Or shall i say fuck it and just go out, i think i shall see how i feel when i wake up in the morning

Avoiding the Black Friday mayhem on this sunny but cold morning....21f & frosty Seriously thinking about a dirt road ride in the big truck w/ the missus today.... just too damn nice to stay inside all day.

And she agreed it would be great to film the horses! So the trigger has been pulled!

A hour and a half later and not a cloud in the sky ...bugger. Been trying to suss out why buddies scoot hooters don't work..hooters work direct from battery.....took switch to pieces what a fooking faff about, but its clean and contacts not corroded....no power to the switch, so I think he needs a auto electrician.....beyond my capabilities.

Shit I'd hoped I had hidden that trailer well enough, damned cameras

I'm still looking for a GoPro but I haven't seen any major reductions that would make me pull the trigger. The New Year sales normally have the biggest drops because they're trying to clear the shit that they couldn't get rid of at Xmas.

If the weather is okay on Sunday I will go and visit a castle somewhere, there are one or two I haven't seen yet.

I’m going out Sunday, no idea where yet but I’m definitely going out

I hope someone gets him a pair of denture for his birthday...those gums must be hurting by now..71 years without teeth.

Damn right!

So is Black Friday real ? can you get real bargains or is it just a con. Personally I've never bought anything on Black Friday as I don't believe the hype ...........

Does anyone know an owner of one of these machines ? I have a genuine Kawasaki workshop manual for the bike, it's well tatty but all the contents are there. I don't really want to chuck it in the bin as it could be very handy for someone . Going for free ............

I dunno doesn’t look that much different to my current model MacBook. Only thing I think that is glaringly obvious is the screen resolution.

Twat you got me thinking of them again just when i convinced myself i don't need one i'm now thinking maybe i do lol

Weather's not too bad for this time of year......though I'd obviously prefer it a bit warmer. Probably be out on Sunday........cos somebody's got to do something to make this place look like it's the epicentre of motorcycling! So what excuses have you Casuals got for not riding your bikes this weekend?

If I didn't know any better, I'd tend to lean on the notion....that maybe Pete's rubbing off on you!.... or did you just nick that off him when he wasn't looking?

What!..I will have you know i that I have covered 90 miles............................since August.

fixing the damn thing keeping you busy i was on about your not allowed to ride it

You were saying you were bored and had nothing to do and now you want to sell the one thing that will give you something to do

I bought this yesterday night on the black sale....34 bucks all leather just like dady likes it.

That sounds like some smoke has escaped from a wire somewhere before the switch

Thats what my Akaso is used for I wanted to do bike vids but no bloody chance.

WTF https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-67516612

Yeh......that one! OldSkool company? Not many of them still round these days!

I think it is a bit of both. I got 20% off a Aussie Gear jacket I have been contemplating for awhile so that worked for me but you see some stuff that might be labelled Black Friday deal when it's nothing of the sort.

Working tonight, possibly going down to Redruth Wassail on Saturday, if I am not to knackered, working Sunday night. In between times going to walk the dog and watch rugby and ride the Hornet.

Happiest of Birthdays to the Chief Twat who's ahead of Pete into his 7th decade....

Don’t know where I’ll go tomorrow, but it won’t be on a ferry to Africa.

Thank you, but turns out I won't need much luck. A lot of stuff came up today and I will have to dedicate some time to work next week, so Morocco is out. Not much of a bummer because my heart wasn't really in it either, felt like I was going to do it for the sake of it. Regardless, did have a nice ride today leaving home and heading to the Algarve all the way on back roads. Left later than usual, at around 10. Everything was really pretty now that we had some rain, 2 or 3 hours later stopped for lunch by the side of the road next to a pretty field, and had my sandwich. It felt a lot colder than the thermometer showed, so it was a treat to stand under the sunshine. There was absolutely no traffic, three vehicles passed during the entire time, so I had fun taking pictures standing in the middle of the road. 20 minutes later, and I stopped for a post lunch espresso, like you do. Heading South on the N2, this used to be Portugal's main road if you were to drive through this part of the country. Getting to the Algarve, I took to some smaller roads. weather, the twisties and the tarmac were perfect, but I took a detour via some dirt roads with some nice views. The destination would be the same were you to stick to nice tarmac roads, and only a 10 or 15 minute delay by taking these. Below the tarmac bit that will take me the last 10 or 15km to the seaside, which you already see in the distance in the previous pictures. I love this part of the Algarve, riding in hills and mountains but not more than 10 or 15km from the beach and with a clear view to it from above. After a warm shower, I went for a walk. This is the same place I stayed in last year before leaving Portugal, watched the end of the sunset by the water, and started being attacked by mosquitoes, so went for a walk.

Are those the kind you screw from the outside of the tire or from the inside? Looking forward to those reports, but do carry some warm soup with you or whatever, looks like unforgiving terrain for an older person…

Well the moose tend to hang out in swampy area.lol....they work really well in the snow...and they're real easy to fitt automotive ice studs...popular tire in these parts.

What did you do to have so many old ones? I know nothing about computers but have the impression an old macbook is a very well built thing. I’ve bought three MacBook Airs, all the same except the later one with a bigger memory, lost the first two for two different car robberies, but this current one has endured a lot of punishment inside my bike’s pannier and works like new.

And I forgot to mention that I'll be able to offset the cost of it against tax, and reclaim the IVA/VAT!

It's racist.... wheres white Friday

@Slowlycatchymonkey and her mate Lisa https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGeemK7W1/

A question from Pete, how much weight do the panniers add and does it make it too heavy to push it about, how much wider than the bars are they.... And last but not least how do you ride it in the cold and wet there'd going to be puddles and everything

Yep, mine have always been like that until yesterday. I had to reset my phone setting to get it back to jpeg. It automatically changed it to HEIC - High Efficiency (probably after an update) , you have to set it to Most Compatible