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Complete rubish. You never know if they’re locked in or not. I once went in to Harley in Porto to look at a 95 bike they were selling, spent 20 years in a garage after the previous owner had passed. Outside the dealership is a downhill street, as they started it and it was doing it’s vibing thing at tick over I mentioned to the salesman that it was inching off the sidestand. As the twat was sanctimoniously explaining to me how Harleys don’t roll off the sidestand like other bikes do, that one was precisely doing it right behind him. I took great pleasure in that!

Just a phone snap on route, the Kyles of Bute

Result for me last night. Earlier in the week my boss rang me and asked me if I could do 3 extra hours on Sunday night, start at 1900 rather than 2200 until 0800 this morning. Didn't really want to but duty to help out sort of took over as we are always short staffed. Anyway got into work last night called control to log in, only to be told that I could go home as my clinician phoned in with Covid. Woohoo paid for 13 hours for driving to work and back. Doesn't happen often but feels very sweet when it does. Only regret not taking the bike as it was a lovely evening.

Pictures or it didn’t happen.

I fitted my new front wheel bearings, definite improvement, the vagueness has gone away. Interestingly the Harley bearings had metal seals, they were definitely stiff when I removed them and the left one more so than the right, it gave a good old click just once then seemed smooth so I suspect one of the balls is cracked but without a load you cannot tell. The Koyo’s were noticeably smoother and faster rolling, the old ones came out and new ones went in very easily, thirty minute job all in. I even cleaned the wheel to keep ugly Bob happy.

Chap was riding like an organ donor.

What a silly, silly and ugly, thing.

I'll start with some daisies later on .

I thought this was going the right way, but then it mentioned borax instead of wine or whisky.

That's a bit rough , the guy isn't even on here at the moment.

Fuck off back south of the border.

brings a whole new meaning to the phrase to "come in a jiffy..."

Also, it’s not a side stand, it’s called a jiffy stand. Side stands are so passé.

Or busa's truck. Overloaded.

Is the stand shaped like a fuckin boat anchor

lesser bikes clearly don't weigh that much...

I think sporty road bikes are worse as they don’t lean so much into the stand as big trail bikes.

14th July National holiday and party day here today. village BBQ and music in the square last night followed by HUGE firework display in Auxerre at 23h00. I was out on me bike all afternoon yesterday and another couple of hours today. first time in what seems like ages that we've had decent weather for riding.

I never leave my bike in gear ( & only have a side stand) I wonder if I should be learning from other people mistakes...?

It's a pretty obvious thing to state now but you should always leave a bike in gear if it's on the side stand . Don't ask me how I know that .

Fucking bikes, pain in the arse they are. That will annoy you all week now, you will need to buy a reassuringly expensive bike accessory now to get past it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AisRrnEoo8I (you can start to watch at the minute 4:30) I'm no saint, but I think this guy is full of himself. He was riding over the speed limit on the road and wants to blame the woman in the car for almost causing an accident. She is also at fault, but thinking that it was only her fault is too stupid for me. And even worse, he chased her riding like a maniac just to catch and lecture her! What do you guys think about this kind of behaviour?

Exactly what I thought! He was riding like a dick on public roads, then runs after her like he's on his personal racetrack to lecture the woman on her driving mistake. What a hypocrite!

Just a bit hypocritical to be riding like that....& then the last words you see on the video stating RIDE SAFE....

Feeling quite blessed that my knees are still in pretty good order....especially after a T-bone wreck into a car some 35+ yrs. ago...had a bit of Water on the Knee for about a week, but NO issues since. I think being a Skier since I was 4y/o has paid off. Now, as far as vaccines are concerned....Spicy food & Whiskey has been my "Go To" to keep from getting jabbed every year, for most of my life....seem to always bounce back pretty quickly from any "Under the Weather" symptoms.

I might get on the bike late next week and do a couple of days riding around. Sadly summer seems to be properly arriving and I don’t feel like braving the heat just to end up at home. On account of this, I’ve looked into Morocco as well, a d acouple of places I am used to ride through, now that’s warm:

John and Tom for me.

You'd need a bus to knock a Harley off its stand ................................ oh wait a minute

Tom Baker was my favourite .

Hartnell for me. Wonderfully grumpy.

well thats why I don't leave mine in gear, cos I just know I'll ride the bloody thing straing into the wall if I do . This bike won't start if it's in gear so I guess that particular stupidity is less likely than with previous bikes.

I tried to start my old TDM outside my brother in laws in gear. Only just managed to keep it upright.

I know that mate but fuzzy head after working all night lead to the error.

Who?

I'm OK with that....but hitchhikers would NOT be my target....it'd be the fruit-looped homeless scumbags that I'd have in my sights. Fortunately, we don't see too many of those over in this corner of the state....so, that's me dodging another bullet.

That’s a proper serial killer truck, if you had that you would need to roam the remote highways running down hitchhikers.

Well yesterday started fantastically with an early run home from work down the A30 across Bodmin Moor. Stunning beautiful scenery, fresh morning with my Hornet carving it up in light traffic. No heroics just bimbling along in the 70/80 mph range with an occasional spurt quicker to get past traffic. My idea of heaven on two wheels. The sound that bike makes doing that sort of thing is addictive even on the standard pipe. Anyway stopped in Bodmin to get the dog his favourite biscuits then home as happy as you can be after a night shift. Put the bike away in its tent thing, had a drink and chat with my Mrs then went to bed. Next thing I know my youngest was shaking me awake to tell me the bike has fallen over. Fuck, out of bed and dressed to get out side to see the Hornet has gone over on its side inside the tent thing and to top it off was lying against my car. By this time I was totally pissed off and even though I managed to get inside the tent with the bike I couldn’t get an angle to try and lift it. I didn’t want to try and fail and let the bike drop against my car again and cause more damage. Luckily for me my best mate is a freakishly strong bull of a man who I used to play rugby with. So I rung him, he lives in the street next to mine and he came over. Between us we lifted the bike back up, with him outside the tent and me inside. Now the damage. I had been very lucky really as the Hornet only had a minor scuff on the rear plastics below the seat. The SW Motech pannier frames saved the day at the back. The front was unmarked aside from my new bar end mirror. FFS My car has a small car park ding sized dent in the passenger door. No big deal but just enough to piss me off. Anyway ordered another set of the same mirrors from Amazon so it should be all fixed by tonight. The bike tent thing is a bit twisted but still fully functional. As far as I could tell I think I had not put side stand down fully and the bike has just rolled off it. So fucking annoying but shit happens. I think what freaked me out is that I could not get the Hornet back up on my own. Luckily my mate helped.

Hell yeah brother, hee haw!

& now for the Wheeled hardware.... An L-29 Cord...that's actually FWD Early 30's Packard Phaeton....so clean you could eat off of it... Man, I'd love to own this Truck!...

Just got back from a Fly-In & car show in Joseph.... some pretty cool winged hardware....

So now you are recommending multiple vaccines?