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Well my Mrs was 60 today so I got her the same as I did 20 years ago. Then took her out for lunch, actually bought her a pasty and took her down Par Beach to eat it in the van, it’s what she wanted I offered her a party or proper meal out or even a few days away but she didn’t want any of it. She asked for a Chinese takeaway meal with the whole family. So that’s what she is getting. Oh and the Gecko’s here. We had to go to Redruth to get the only one available in the whole of Cornwall Bloody thing has cost me a fortune. Oh and he is in the black hide apparently. Bitey little fucker

I searched for the thread where @XTremeasked what we’d be doing in 2024. Turns out I’ll be joining @Sofiaand our friend Barbara to a short trip to the North of Italy. They will be taking a ferry from Barcelona to Genoa and meeting me in Milan, while I’ll be riding from home through the south of France and over the Mediterranean Alps to Italy. I’m planning to take the short High Via del Sale road heading into Italy before heading to Milan, then a couple of nights there catching up with my friend Luca and showing the girls around, to then go to Moto Guzzi for a visit and over the “hills” to Lake Garda for a couple of days and another mountain pass when I get an afternoon by myself. Turning out to be an interesting trip on paper, if my business partners have the decency to keep to themselves in September. So this is the big trip in 2024, accompanying two women to Italy!

@XTreme was taking photos of his groin @Buckster was delivering bibles to a Lesbian motobiker gang @busabeast was in a ditch @Sir Fallsalot was up to his neck in shit @Six30 was tucking up some old dear with a cut and shut Corsa @Marcel was burying himself in a snow drift @Pedro was cooking some road kill stew @Clive was fighting with the lesser know mould monster @Skippy was being arrested for punching his neighbour in the supermarket @zzzak was holding the annual Aussie convention for tin hat wearers @Saul was off on another 10 mile hike around the coast @MooN was trying to translate the words for 'shit Chinese metal' into English sorry if I've missed anyone out .

Doesn't harley ownership normally result in an anal prolapse

My plan is for the GS to deal with motorway to Southern France, Alpine risky dirtroads, Milanese eclectic and fashionable streets, then Northern Italian countryside vistas, all in its stride at over 120.000km

Fuck off you weirdo! I don't want to see his bulging bollock and I don't know anything medical Did operation Yew tree have anything to do with your exit from the UK? Would explain a lot

And I was doing a speed awareness coarse

I love geckos, they get in my garage and after a week there's no more spider webs or any bugs. Also, when I was in Brasil 20 years ago I slept in a tiny inn with no aircon. With the window open I would get eaten alive by mosquitos until one night a gecko got in and I spent the remaining nights sleeping peacefully with the window open.

You would not believe the stress and fuss my youngest is making about getting everything right for the Bitey Little Fucker. Jesus Christ she was in earlier fussing about the temperature of his Vivarium being to low, found out she had put the heat mat in upside down. Sorted now she is in because the temperature is 1 degree to high, told her to put the thermometer in the right place then all is perfect. Then she is on how he hasn't eaten a cricket yet. FFS she has been like it all day. Yet you got them running around wild having the time of their life without being on the verge of death every 10 minutes. Oh and she has christened it 'Stitch' I have told her he will always be the Bitey Little Fucker to me. Apparently I'm not funny at all but seeing the whole escapade has cost me the best part of £300 I will laugh if I want to, as tears are the only other option

Looks like @boboneleg is bored... At the moment not a spot of mould anywhere, but watch this space , because

That's his neck

stylish dog walking around in a monsoon earlier this morning

I'm not one to put my bike through punishment for the sake of it, so won't be riding around doing loops to end up at the same place. The only bit I am really interested in doing is going from Limone to Monesi, seems to be the most scenic and spectacular, and sort of fits my trip to Milan, plus it's not a big distance. I watched a few videos of it and am pretty confident I'll be ok, unless it's raining a lot and it gets muddy, if it gets muddy I´ll turn back. As soon as they open for the season I'll book a day and pay the ticket, just to make sure. Not really annoyed they charge for it, it's really the only way to keep traffic to acceptable levels and have money to maintain it properly. I've seen what happens to some roads and paths when they go through harsh winters and aren't maintained.

Bitey Little Fucker living his best life

Unfortunately I haven't done a search for "Miserable Cunts Birthdays".

I though you might have read it on the net, you seem to know everything else that's going on in UK

He was the Head of the gang they were looking for..... but somehow he slipped the net

They're running wild here.....we've got a few in the garage and some in the tortoise's Summer area.

Bet they are cheaper there than here, the bitey little fucker cost £60.

My old girl was as well!

We already know he is mental exposing himself in public is not going to improve his condition

I had to act as chaperone once when my Clinician poked one of them back in, I promise you not a spectator sport.

Doesn't everybody?

you been watching me today ?

I don't think you'll encounter any mud as it's nearly all rock base, there may be puddles if it has been raining. We did La Brigue to Limone and then down the Colle de Tenda . I'm not at all annoyed that they charge to ride it now (they do the same for the Sommellier now) as it pays for the upkeep of the road and allows it to remain open. My mistake with the distance , it was about 23 miles NOT kms.

If you post a photo up maybe @Sofia can give a diagnosis? She is a vet after all, so there's nobody better qualified to advise!

Probably with his arse seeing as it was a Harley.

Spent the last couple of days prebooking a few rooms as I’ve learned my lesson last year in England. This is not Kansas anymore, so I’m fixing some prices down, it does take a lot of the romance away from the trip and I’d rather just look at the booking app at 16:00, like in Morocco, but that sort of spontaneously costs you in touristy Europe, so I’m planning stuff and booking shit down. I’m turning into fucking @Motobiker!!! Now over the next few days I’ll look into the ride from home over to South France and to the Alps, then back even if I don’t know wether to take the ferry back to Barcelona with them or not.

You’re like @skyrider nowadays with your three word sentences. Post a ride report with 3 pictures to back it up.

You think so....my right nut seems swollen...maybe I should take a picture and show you..?

It’s 100% possible and I think you have a burst testicle. Shit happens, get Billy Bob to check it out.

I was just reminding you.

Sorry, meant to reply earlier but been a busy day. Condensation can be a bitch to resolve, I look at umpteen places a month with issues like this. There are various things you can try or ask the housing association about trying. The amount of moisture that air can hold changes with temp, the colder it is the less it can hold (so the relative humidity goes up) to the point where if it gets cold enough and the RH gets to 100% then condensation will occur. Its a bit like sitting outside with a cold beer, the air in contact with the cold glass cools until condensation occurs. The aim is therefore to keep the internal surfaces warm enough or the humidity low enough so that the dew point is not reached and condensation doesn't occur. Keeping the heating on low all the time rather than a spike of heating twice a day is good advice but obviously it costs money. When you have a shower keep the door closed and open the window, use the biggest possible extract fan- have it on over run for 15 mins after the light is turned off. You can also get them with humidistats in so they come on when the humidity reaches a certain level. Make sure the kitchen extract actually vents to the exterior, some cooker hoods just run the air through a carbon filter to remove the smell and then recirculate it back into the room. Do your windows have trickle vents, if not they can sometimes be retrofitted. You can also get air bricks which can be fitted to help promote ventilation, they need to be sleeved across the cavity and good ones have baffles in to prevent drafts and external noise. Using a dehumidifier can help but it needs to be left running and the tank emptied so it doesn't cut out. Let the air circulate around the house rather than keeping doors closed. Don't dry clothes on radiators, ensure tumble dryers vent to the exterior (or are of the condensing type) Avoid having furniture close to external walls where the condensation occurs as it reduces air circulation. Increasing insulation where possible, assume this is something the HA will need to do. Try to avoid using any paint other than basic emulsion, possibly with a fungicide in it. Paints containing latex (vinyl silk etc) stop the walls from breathing but if its already been decorated its too late. Some people have good success with positive input ventilation, again its something the HA would need to fit but a bungalow is an ideal property to fit these to. There are several firms making these units such as - https://www.nuaire.co.uk/residential-ventilation-systems-nuaire/positive-input-ventilation-systems-piv-nuaire Try opening the windows on opposite sides of the house for a few mins every couple of hrs to change the air. The germans have a word for this - its something they habitually do. Sorry for war and peace but I hope some of it might help. Sorry if you already know all this, don't mean to teach my grandma to suck eggs. Let me know if I can provide any further info or help.

A testicular hernia....let me expand on that..my son sold his Harley over the weekend and the fellow came to pick it up Monday with a half ton truck with a atv ramp...I told the idiot that it will hook on the ramp half way up...but he insisted anyways...so 3/4 ways up the ramp it hooks ..my son was on the side hold it steady and the idiot was in the truck box pulling from the front...so I had to lift the entire arse end of the bike till it cleared the ramp...I pulled something in my back and now the pain is in my testicle...I'm still working..but in pain...is a testicular hernia possible?

Most of the Via del Sale is pretty straightforward to ride but there are a few rocky areas that you have to be confident to ride. I'm sure @Sir Fallsalot can confirm ? We had a Austrian guy on a GS1200 join us to ride along it's length (about 23kms) and he did drop his bike on one of the rock gardens and trash his Touratech lights (not that he seemed to care). You also have to pay to ride it now and there may be restrictions on what days you can ride - https://www.altaviadelsale.com/eng/itineraries In no way am I trying to put you off riding it as it a spectacular route and one that I want to go back to before I hang up my riding boots .

Mines! ......a good thing that they are all gone now, it is the one job I would never have returned to.

i thought you had a va i thought you had a Vagina ?

It’s their feet , what did you think .. dirty boy

We're all on different time zones!

I don’t know, Clive, you must be missing the mines by now.

Wheel bearings done on the dog tonight, fitted 3 stainless steel ones in the rear wheel and one dust seal. I need to get a new dust seal for the sprocket side as it shot and i will need to fit it quick or the bearing will be wetter than Clive's front room.