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Please except my sincere apologies.....ark at me going off all posh ....truth is I'd forgotten I was part of this illustrious group of gentlemen....by gum av gone posh again Any road hello , how do and bonjour, things are still bloody grand over here

My two submissions: The big GS on a tiny road deep in the Douro region. And Pete, giving you the bird, on the "one of the best bikes ever made", complete with huge top box:

Once I got Bulford I set off across the Plain again to get to Tuckers Grave where some of my mates were camping for the weekend ............. Once they'd set up there tents we sampled some of the local cider ........... and then I rode home at dusk down a couple more local lanes ........... It was a long day , I was out for 13 hours but the bike was an absolute joy to ride . A great day out

Some of the lanes were a bit overgrown and some were full of flowers .......... Then it was on to Salisbury Plain and the Old Bulford Road. I stopped here for cheeky ride around the woods and a coffee...........

I have a weekend of trail riding in Surrey at the end of August so yesterday I decided to go have a look at a route to take in on the way there. For anyone that doesn't know there is a thing called the Trans Euro Trail (or TET for short) , which you can download routes to ride all over Europe. So yesterday I did a section from Basingstoke to Bulford which I will do in reverse when I go to Surrey. So I rode tarmac down to Basingstoke apart from one small section of gravel where I stopped for a coffee .......... Then made my way to the first lane just off the A339, most of the lanes were old routes used many years ago by drovers ........ and lots of covered ways that are old routes as well...............

Some of them have restrictions imposed to stop damage in the winter months ................ Then I got to one of my favourites but unfortunately it had a temporary closure imposed so I had to make a detour ................. So I made my way to a further part of the route which is the glorious track on top of Walbury Hill ............

@Six30 should have got the mod job . Know this as I had a nightmare last night

A bit of what ?

Oil change day today. My assistant thinks he can do a better job than I can. He's probably not wrong...

You own a pavement princess no good you going there

Yes , but I'm polite to them unless they start with old 'you shouldn't be riding that bike here' . In that scenario I question the twats knowledge of rights of way . Nine times out of ten they haven't got a clue , so I inform them in a very condescending tone.

Hardcore shit … and just up that lane was an abandoned building ….

First ride with any off-road yesterday Fred. It was much more manageable , less weight and now it's approx 2 inches lower so I can flat foot it with my right leg. It was a joy to ride it on those easy lanes and even in the ruts I saved it a couple of times where previously I would probably have hit the deck

This place has changed, i know for a fact Pete wouldn't have allowed our front page photo i think he used the words over my dead bo ahh right i'll leave it there then

Eventually convinced myself to go out on the bike this afternoon i don't know whats wrong with me, the wife's is away and i'm home alone took me until 14:00 before i got out. I wanted to take some photos of some of the local lanes to me to add to the TRF's green road map (GRM). Had my usual spin over Eglwysilan to warm up and stopped to chat to a local lad for a while, think i might have talked him into joining the TRF, after numerous messages from his missus he headed home glad i don't have that problem. I head from Eggy down to do the lanes around Pentyrch i like these as there's no gates to open and close Love the lanes when the trees close them in from Pentyrch i took the back roads to Peterston-super-Ely and then picked up a nice unpaved road over to St Nicholas and hopped on the A48 to St Hillary to the first lane i wanted to take photo's of for the GRM. This used to be a sump smasher coming down it as it had deep washouts on it now its a nice easy lane but a little overgrown I went down it and then back up, the photos are from the bottom up. The top of the lane starts off on some overgrown tarmac, when i entered the lane at the top i went around a right hand bend and the middle of it was covered in a ridge of mud hidden under the weeds which had me off in the bloody stingy's from here i went up over Cowbridge common to a short lane near Prisk the other lane i wanted photos of, it's always overgrown in the summer but I've not seen it this bad before The entrance is there honest I tried to battle my way through it But the mighty XR was defeated i was going up hill and the summer tyre offered no grip at all on the surprisingly soft ground at this point probably only 100 yards in i turned around. The lane is wide enough for a 4x4 so easy enough to turn around on This is the exit from the lane at the top a rather posh house next to it A gentle ride home form here picking up a few unpaved roads on the way i was out about 4 hours and covered just over 50 miles in excellent weather as usual wish i'd got off my arse and gone out earlier though.

This is the last photo of my ZRX new bike arrives Tuesday. This is showing the top box just for Pete.

I thought that said smile when i first read it as well

Watching the sun go down while @Sofiaworks on dinner. Life is good today.

I'll put this one up of Pete. Pete myself and probably Fred have all got a photo on that bridge ...............

I'll put this up from this afternoon while i look through what else if any i have

Bloody smashing mate and the Donk look proper grand in it's off the shelf suit

cut and shut ... thats so 1980's

its the picture of pete ..for sure, no contest will post one of mine , but remember pete liked xt's so he would of voted for me .... not trying to influence any one...

Just had a 5mile walk to a caravan site where Mandis brothers are staying. Barbie later this afternoon so we'll be fragile in the morn.

wet dream ...if i was in it

Great ride home from work this morning, across Bodmin moor with the sun burning off the mist, beautiful. Only 32 miles but a great way to start the day, breakfast and bed.

Since we are now able to change the picture on the front page, we're restarting Bike Of The Month with a vote for all three months in which we had no competition. You can now submit one picture of your bike on a ride, taken anytime in May, June or July, in horizontal format. As an exception, I will also accept submissions of a second picture if you wish to honour Pete, and as such if you've got a picture of him you'd like to have on the front-page for a month, we can accept that as well. They will all go in the vote, I'll consider the last picture you submit of each genre. On the evening of the 29th, I'll close submissions and start the vote.

Snap

just looked ..ufc fight not on until 3am !! ..ands its in manchester,.. what bollox, undserstand it being on that time when the fight is in america but shoud be on to suit us when its over here not the yanks

can i come and stay with you for a bit .. thanks

Lovely countryside!

You may have noticed that me and Bob are now admins. We have a lot more access, I'm currently figuring out how BOTM works, it looks like Pete coded it in HTML, once I have that figured out I will change the suzuki picture for one of my Harley.

slap him about a bit and rob his house i suppose.

Submit good pictures, and vote for anything if only to get @Buckster's bike off of the bottom of the page

That's Mr Nutjob to you.

And a fine days weather, great stuff.

dont you come across angry ramblers or dog walkers

What a load of bollox , they should have made a modern day Dominator (NX) instead of just changing the name of an existing model

I thought the Borax was a Dr Zeus character. Sure there was a film about it.

What a wanker

Obviously it didn’t happen then

Installing some new tires today in preparation for next week's trip. I should own stock in Dunlop...

fuck..we will all be banned with in a week , might as well ask @Slowlycatchymonkey

Afternoon