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Fitted my Christmas reef today

Psyching myself up for when Mandy gets in from work. A colleague of hers, who is completely incompetent and with no people skills, was made up to manager of the department that she works in. So she's now got an incompetent manager with no people skills telling her what she should be doing and picking holes in everything she does, so she's generally in a pretty foul mood when she gets home. She just needs to get through the next 18 months, when she can start getting her NHS pension, and she can tell them where to stick their job! Although, the way things are at the moment, I'm not sure that she'll last that long before telling them what to do with it!

You go in his shed and are never seen again, like his bike.

He's probably why it's so dangerous to live there , secret drug lord............... probably has the monoploy on chips in the area

Bike polished, tyres checked, and chain lubed!

I bet I could smoke your ass on the track....give me the exact same bike ...give me five free laps ..and I pretty sure you couldn't keep up with my time...since we're on the subject of bullshitting...you got to remember when you were just a little tadpole floating in your father teasti....I was wheeling a 1/4 mille long bridge on a 73 H2 750....at the age of 17 years-old..

Are you busy icing the cake now then?

Heston Blumenthal makes the front page.

A year and a half, that is a long time to tread water....hope she manages it without killing the guy.

My old range rover was a pain as some of it was imperial and some was metric it was a year when they were using up the last of the imperial stuff before it all went metric

Not sure what you mean mate, I bought the bike to do trackdays and with the intention of maybe getting in to racing but funds and other things got in the way and dictated otherwise so I've decided to sell up

Who honestly believes some of the sh*t that appears on twitter

Just finished putting tree up

Perhaps when you buy an electric bike it will come with a pillion violinist .

Looks to me like imperial sizes..... The way it should be

Well thats the jag dropped off to get the intake manifolds replaced. £300 for the whole job which i didnt think was bad. Should be done either tomorrow or Wednesday

Take this guy on as your pillion.

Found it

Try a bit of tape or foam with tape over the camera’s mic. Blocks buffeting and allows some sound.

There’s a word for people like you, however I am too polite to use it.

dead right

yeah but there's 5 of us, which means two hotel rooms for 5 nights and car is still the cheapest way for us despite the bloody crossing costing 160€ each way. it,s also doable in a day's drive for us from here. less so from where you are.

Yes, @Clive, but there's too many days left as far as she's concerned!

A fencepost turtle by the sound of it. I bet she is counting the days down to finishing...

He's also very good at shifting the blame when he fucks up! I guess that it's only a matter of time before he fucks up big time and can't shift the blame, but that's not going to help my missus in the short term, unfortunately.

Is @skyrider in danger?

Well its on the Internet it must be true Bob.

15 min north...looks like winter.

like this...

Eating, drinking, watching shite on TV, out with the dogs, out on the bike, play a bit of golf……….just like normal but with turkey and cranberry sauce.

Was going through my cedar chest cabinet....want to see something fancy? Gold plated wrench .

No! But you're never out in any conditions......so the fact that it's snowing isn't relevant. But if you did manage to get out......

France has, until this year, avoided having an MOT equivalent for motorcycles. they have now invented one, and have somehow managed to take all the stupid bits of everybody elses MOT or equivqlentand roll them into one pointless surperfluous and inefficacious bi-annual visual inspection. The statistics ( these are generated by the French "Sécurité routiere" organisation who are rabid anti speed, anti motorcycle road safety advocates and remain incontested by the govt. and ratified by the majour insurance companies) - the road infrastructure is directly implicated in 25% of all road traffic acidents. - in road traffic accidents involving motorcycles, The fault is imputed to the motorcylist in less than 40% of cases. -the number of motorcycles on the road has increased by 30% in the last 5 years. -over that same period the number of mortorcycle deaths has decreased by 20%. - Mechanical failure or defect is implicated in less than 0.5% of accidents involving motorcycles. Now I have nothing, as such, against a regular MOT type test if it can be shown to be beneficial. it can't. the govt has just announced how the test is oing to work ( bearing in mind that this is supposed to be in place for january 2024) and it appears that the test centres will not be required to have anyone on their staff with a motorcycle licence! The staff will be required to undrego a 1 day raining course on how to carry out the check, and this will include instruction on how to move a motorcycle around the workshop and " instruction on how tp pick up a motorcycle should you drop it". Needless to say, this raises some eyebrows, not least those of the insurance companies who maintain that if you do not possess a motorcycle licence, and you damage it whilst in charge of it then any insurance would be void... Is it only me that can see some charges of GBH on the horizon here...? anyway, yesterday afternoon, despite temperatures around 0 c we went and made some noise and fucked up some christmas shoppers saturday afternoon, to display our discontent. we stopped in front of each of the main MOT centres in town. They were closed of course but it was easy enough to set their alems off with a couple of bikes up against the building and half a dozen backfires... this fucked up their day as they then have to get someone out to shut the alrm down. It should be mentioned that the police ;otorcycle escort managed very successfully to be busy at the other end of the convoy whilst this went on... as that last pic was taken, the camera battery succombed to the cold, which was a shame cos as we started to move on one of the dozen of BMW GS's refused to start and had to be assisted by a guy on a 1990 Honda transalp... of course i laughed like a drain suggesting they were using the Honda to carry out a " reliability graft". 30 seconds later, Karma struck and the tiger refused to start. Victim, I suspect, of an hour at idle speed with heated grips on full power. The convoy dissapeard down the road and I started to ring Mrs Moon to bring me some jump leads ( i've never tried to push start the tiger and wasn't about to start in the middle of town in saturday afternoon traffic... Then an angel came to rescue me, one of the FFMC outriders ( either a girl or a guy with very pretty eyes...) had seen me pull off to the side, guesse what had happened, ridden forward to a colleague she knew had a booster in his top box, and bought it back to me. Luckily the battery on the tiger is easily accessible under the seat so we started it from the booster and I followed her to catch up with the main group. The battery seems fine now so ai can only think that it was the heated grips drawing more power the the constant idle was providing charge to the battery. the battery is at least 6 years old so it may well be on it's last legs as well. After the group dispersed I rode into town with a mate and we found a bar in the centre square that was doing christmas ale and mulled wine. On top of that, the landlord announced that he give a 10% discount to motorcyclists at the weekends. Result! got home well after dark and with temps down beloz freezing. Lukily the ride home was nly about 5 km so no real challenge. I don't expect the demo will have the slightest effect on the installation of the new technical inspections set up, but at least no one an acuse us of not have protested from the beginning.

Well what makes people think I'm bullshitting about a trackday ffs

So what exactly am I bullshitting about here?

No wonder the Dagos don't have much time for your lot!

Thats because a horse and cart has less to check…

Do you think we might have a bullshitter on are hands...?

I thought we would be listening to the sound of the bike with the new camera or is the music to overwrite your screaming every time you see a wet patch

Probably on top of it too, Marcel.

The French are great at protesting! Will they be burning some shit down as well? Typical Brit Shit! Maybe time to check out the Honda dealer Chris? That old Transalp of yours just kept on going for years!