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The day started wet, i almost said sod the Mot, but dried up around 9am, so game on!. Rode the 200 metres to the end of our Cul de Sac, and turned onto Jubilee Way, passing the many pot holes and discarded Mc. D wrappers and Costa coffee drinks containers, I also passed by such sites as the Tesco Express, and the Cuckoo Birch pub, carried on the 600 metres to the Oak Tree roundabout, turn left onto Eakring Road, passing by car corner (Peugeot and Suzuki dealer, and Evans Halshaw) which strangely never seems to have people looking at car on offer for sale. After 500 metres I turned onto the industrial estate where the testing station in located. The testing station is 1st come, 1st served, I had a hour wait till I was at the head of the queue. The tester approached me, I gave him a quick rundown on the Keyless ignition, and off he went, I watched from the viewing area, the location of the fuel filler had him foxed, it was easier for me to open it than try to explain the opening procedure. The test took all of 10 mins, resulting in a Pass with no advisories, which I expected. I did the retun journey home, the exact reverse of my journey to the station, all in all a nice hour and a half out of the bungalow. The ride as made me wish for a longer ride, so at the weekend I may go to Poundland in Mansfield!, bike/scooter parking is free there. So my wallet is £29 lighter, the mileage on the scoot has risen by 2 miles, and the temperature gauge did not rise off the C position.. Now that it has 1 years MOT do I (try) to sell it, or keep it.?. Yes I am

Our little town's Mayor paid us a visit recently....he's a peach of a human....VERY busy with running a construction company & all the civic duties that being the Mayor brings. He was quite interested in my Ebike, as he's heading up a project that's building a 63 mile long bike trail that follows a minimally used train track over to Joseph. I've rode this trail to it's current termination point a coupla times....it's quite picturesque & NO cage traffic! It takes off just north of the train station & follows the Grand Ronde river for a bit....which you can see has turned into a trickle with the heat wave we've experienced this summer.... The trail doesn't go very far as of yet, as our Mayor tells it....due mainly to butting heads with land owners along the rail's path. A Town Hall meeting recently showed quite a bit of support for proceeding with this project though.... Really looking forward to seeing this trail get completed to @ least Looking Glass creek....it's beautiful up that way! Mr. Mayor also noted that the trail is wide enough to accommodate the Mrs. new trike that I'm fine-tuning.... So....More Ride Report adventures yet to come....

Why did i think this is what you meant when i first read that

Iam (hopefully) going on a epic (for me ) trip next Wednesday to the Grest British Car Journey museum, photos and ride report will be included. .....watch this space.

The Harley or @Buckster ?

Still better than anything from the blue dildo bandit.

Nice one Scott, we have lots of 'cycle paths' over here that are old rail lines.

Popped up to Liskeard for chequered flag bike night. Only stayed long enough for a coffee and a quick. Chat only about 15 bikes when we were there but more were pulling in as we left. Couple of Vicars turned up with big white crucifixes on their backs. Load of women from Plymouth behaving like arseholes all drama and fuss. Few normal guys but don’t know if I will bother again. Of course no show without punch performing Nice Panzer, I like that, especially that it is single seated Cool blade, but had to explain to Shadow it was a Honda not a Repsol. Fantic 700 Vicars ADV750 scoot CBR 650, I could see one of those in Shadow’s future I didn’t mind the red VFR. The hands are Shadows, she was sticking with me and dancing, her ADHD was kicking in because of the noise. When the biker chicks turned up with their pantomime I took Shadow home as their carry on spiked her anxiety and she got really stressed. Not used to adults behaving like that.

About that video …

I’ve taken my art work to the streets ..,Banksy here I come

Hot again but I've been in a garage with my old boss. The garage is in the trees with a cool breeze coming through the holes in the walls.

The subject of 1 of my favorite tunes from RUSH....

The new "Yer Man" @ the IOMTT.... he's doing Joey proud!

Glad it passed Clive, you must be doing something right. I would love to see some more reports from you get out there.

Considering that we might get more ride reports as excellent as this, I say you keep it. Someone has to keep the standards up around here!

The Transit and the gammon driving it.

I wonder what she does besides playing football ...............

Νot this time .. i have been at some of monasteries some years ago , but i want to go again at Agios Paulos cause my unkle became a monk there the last 5 years and i dont see him yet. Cheers !

I can hear Pete now: ...."Indian P.O.S.!"

Proper RaceBike.....

Can't wait for things to cool down a little....I'm due for some dirt action...shouldn't be to long now...by the end of the month things usually change around here....been a hot summer on the east coast...just to dam hot to be in trails with the 950.

I completely forgot the cameras were there again and had to stop for a few minutes (average speed traps) Ffion Davies caught me on her camera at the hairpin, I though I was riding casual like, I think I'll have to re evaluate "casaual" or I'm gonna get flipped by my sidestand LOL

Just leave it or he will flounce again.

There is nothing like an original and that is nothing like an original.

Parcel eventually arrived at 16.30 . I now have a brand new fork leg , oil seal and bushes for the WR250 , now all i need to do is swap the internals over from the old one.

I only said epic for me!.... it may be something else to you

Not that much I reckon....especially since the train tracks have been there since before 1890 when Elgin actually became a town. The Excursion train only goes up to Minam which isn't quite halfway to Joseph...the rest of the track is used by a company that runs recumbant rail cars that you peddle w/ urethane wheels-- like a skateboard.

This is really useful information for the sad cunts on here.

Just got a call from this guy who's looking to buy the 1290 from the Honda dealer....he wants to trade a 2023 tiger 1200 explorer....he said the tiger is to big....

Pulling tiles off the wall in the bathroom as she wants a shower unit instead of the bath/shower we have. Had all the doors and windows open and the breeze coming from downstairs was nice and cool with a bonus of the dust going straight out the windows. Why do some tiles almost fall off and others are bloody welded on. 2 walls to go yet.

45 mins , you couldn't ride that long with out falling off

I am also waiting for a delivery, estimate was 09.04 - 13.04 ............... still waiting In the meantime I have washed and polished the Sled and gave the Donkey a quick wash.

Harley riders .. move along , nothing to see here … no chance of the front wheel coming off the ground.

So how much land do you need to steal off the natives to get it done?

I've bought a bunch of rainbow stickers...I'm gonna stick them on my friends harleys wyll there not looking...

Another sweet Z1R from Sanctuary in Japan....

Odd 1 from MV....

Looks quite inviting....Nice pools!

Thanks for that , it brought back some good memories. We used to go on a family holiday to Chaniotis in Halkidiki every year for a family holiday. For one day of our stay I would always hire a Yamaha DT125R and go and ride the trails in the hills. Did you go to visit any of the monasteries near Ouranoupolis ?