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What if you are god itself? If your consciousness is just floating around in the emptiness of cold eternity and you’re just keeping yourself entertained with a dream? Anyone could be god, and everyone else’s reality would be be a byproduct of someone else’s dream? If I’m god, why would I create an old Citroen Berlingo to be parked right outside the door bothering me right now? Am I punishing myself?

Well that got abit tight..... that truck should have not been in there.... but i managed i tipped the load of stone where it was sat in the pic then extricated myself the way I came in

I just realised that I have been trail riding for 45 years, that means I've done 45 years of getting bikes filthy and then washing them only to get them filthy yet again ...........

Out and about with the Dear Boy. Got my walk in before the rain comes.

But I've got this as a backup

No point, I already have the pinnacle of motorcycle excellence.

Only if I win the lottery mate! The old FZ6N is going to have to see me through next year at least…………anyway, as Ogri says, “it’s not what you ride, it’s how you ride it laddie”.

If you go to Los Pinguinos and it happens to be a cold year there will be no shortage of cold, snow and ice and overall misery. I have never felt the slightest curiosity about it

This one should last me another 20 years.

Went out on the ebike this morning with a couple of the guys from the group. It was a glorious morning. We clocked just over 40kms. It has clouded over now and is slightly chillier. Forecast is for some high winds over the next few days, but no rain. We really need some rain here now. We get the occasional shower, but we've not had any appreciable rain here for well over a year now!

Clearly they haven’t

I have to laugh at some of the comments you usually get on the Facebook group after the rally, things I've read people complaining about are, the campsite was muddy, the campsite was too wet, it rained all weekend and there was nowhere to get out of the rain, the rally should have been cancelled for safety reasons, there was no hot water the food was shit there were no showers, there was no food. The whole event is advertised as as an extreme rally and the conditions you can experience when there are well documented over the 60 years its been going, yet these people still turned up and rather than accepting the rally is not for them and moving on they go on line and blame Conway MCC because it's not their fault they turned up to a rally in February unprepared and got wet and muddy thick fuckers

This is not religion, it’s philosophy

I’ve done the Dragon Rally a couple of times (2012 and 2013) and that’s enough for me. I like camping but fuck getting cold and wet nowadays. Some of my mates still go every year which seems pointless to me. There’s a rally north of Madrid in mid January (Los Pinguinos) which is supposed to be good, might give that a go one year.

Yes, I do a bit, completely out of the question now since I split a vertebrae 18 months ago, only gotta sneeze wrong and I'm in trouble. I really do need to get out on the scoot more though, it's a capable and nippy machine.

Some nature has come to visit for the Winter again, about half the size of a thumb

Can’t see myself buying anything in 2024, nor really wanting to.

I can't really see me changing a bike next year. My boss really, really wants a Desert Sled so I could sell mine to him but I have absolutely no idea what I'd replace it with (if anything) .

Good point Pedro, I’ve had a word with myself and given myself a good slap for even considering it in the first place.

And we have too much......several roads around here were impassable yesterday. Says turning dryer and colder here for the next week. I was thinking of going a short ride at the weekend, just to Asda. ...May not bother if it's freezing.

Managed to wash the Beta today as well first dry day since last Saturday's ride Just checking things over ready for this Saturdays ride after which it will be filthy again

I finally managed to wash the Yamaha this morning . I have repositioned the headlight bulb (I had mounted it upside down ) and isolated the side stand switch . Anything else will have to wait as I have to collect Paolo from college in a mo. This evening we are out for a meal to celebrate my niece's birthday and tomorrow we are off down to Weymouth for the weekend ( should I have waited for the weekend thread for that bit ?) .

About the same temperature here, not a cloud in the sky......I may wash the car, I think it's red under the muck..

I'm not what you'd call woke Pedro, I'm not offended easily

Overcast and gloomy here......and it's getting colder in the day now!

I've got nothing planned because I still don't see anything that's a better fit for me than the CB! And if it's still with me in July then it'll be the longest ownership of any bike that I've ever had! What about you lot? I imagine @Skippy will be on the hunt soon!

Buckster hit upon a god idea why don't we post made up ride reports with pics or without obviously all from the archives of Google pictures..... it could be fun and get the traffic moving on this site

We wouldn't be in this situation if @Six30 had got the mod gig

Every year here, it's a pain having to park the scoot at the garage while the mechanic and I have a natter and mug of tea.

probably keep bmw for this year

Some people, https://www.instagram.com/reel/CzWKS8gLpq1/?igsh=MGVmM2U1NzU1OQ==

Only had my bike for 3 months, no intention of changing it. Exactly what I wanted.

The list of bikes I would like to own in the future is long....some of them are in the realm of fantasy But most far exceeds my finances........so for now the Daelim will have to do.

Faro is bigger and in the summertime, there’s that.

It's most likely a retirement village for conspiracy theorists and other nut jobs ....................

Was there a sale on for Ruskie hats ?

It's not a bad day here again 9⁰c and a few high flying clouds

They still wouldn't get it even with a book

Woke cunts as usual everything is always somebody else's fault instead of the cunts realising that nobody forced them into going

Yes and the virtual pictures

Looks cracking @Saul

Not all the Home guard were comic, over 1.7 million of them by the end of WW2. Manned Anti Aircraft batteries, Coastal Batteries and Bomb disposal. 1200 killed on duty. Not all like Dads Army.

I try to rationalise things. If something doesn't directly affect me, then I try to ignore it. I see people getting worked up about things that are very unlikely to affect their daily lives. The media are very good at manufactured outrage, running stories that are designed to get various people hot under the collar and it seems to be very successful. I try to look behind the story and work out what the agenda is! A lot of these stories are just a distraction, designed to take people's attention away from something else that is generally more likely to affect their daily lives! Anyway, getting worked up about things that you have little control over isn't good for your blood pressure!

Was the name of this years TRF Christmas trail ride and someone much better than me at photoshop came up with this for the header photo The day was starting from Abergavenny, so the bike and gear went in the marmite wagon last night ready for the off at 08:00 this morning just as i was gong through the door i realised i hadn't put in my bike trousers so after a quick visit to the garage i was on my way. 51 bodies had signed up for the ride and then split into groups of between 7 to 9 members and given routes with varying levels of difficulty. The group names were Chick Chasers , Sleigh riders, Mincing Spies, Tree Fairies, Frank Incensed, Myrrh and Tinsel Troupe. I was assigned to Frank Incensed group who were one of the smaller groups at seven and a harder route of around 70 miles so that suited me fine. Some of the members at the meeting point, Kim was the only one to dress for the occasion she said it looked nothing like that when she got back lol This was our route there were a number of different routes and some groups had the same route but would ride in opposite directions to keep the numbers down. I like riding this area as the lanes can be difficult and there are not many gates to open and close The ride leader kept up a good steady pace throughout the ride and with no navigation mistakes so i only had a chance to take photos when someone was stuck or we were waiting for others to catch up , The first of the lanes summed up the rest of the ride they were slippery muddy and very wet in places The hold up ahead was someone having to have their bike picked up of them i was a bit slow getting the camera out i need a go pro LOL We had to negotiate a few fallen trees on route due to the recent weather And some twat of a farmer deliberately blocking the road, he had the bucket of the machine close to the tracks it was tight but we all got though. Things never look difficult in the photos The Frank Incensed group Waiting again, one of the guys was falling off regular and as the ride went on it was getting noticeably more frequent we found out he only got into trail riding a few months ago so was understandable and to be fair was doing well I had a walk back down the lane to see what was going on and here they come It was harder to walk back up to the bike than ride up This was the last photo i took and was the last lane the lad that was falling off done as he decided to head back to the vans as he was fucked and the next few lanes were quite difficult We missed out the last two lanes on the route as it had got dark when we got back to the vans the yellow weather warning arrived i had just finished loading when it hammered down. The bike is and gear is going to have to wait until tomorrow for a wash now The jackets not too bad But i think i'll need a shovel to clear the pavement after i wash the bike off Still waiting to hear how the other groups got off and i think there might be some videos of todays ride turning up later Got to say a great end of year ride i must get out more often next year i think