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Had to go and get a replacement headlight bulb this morning for the Yamaha so turned up at an official Yamaha dealership, all swanky marketing stuff and a full range of new bikes. I thought to myself “I’m going to pay for all this bling”……….. but no, I spoke to the salesman in my bestest Spanish, he checked to see if they had any in stock and gave me one………for free! I thought he was joking at first but it seems he was happy that I’d made an effort to speak Spanish rather than just shout in English Happy days.

I can remember the first 3 but not the hand written one which you think i should considering it was on my birthday. A bit of info to bore you of my woes read it or skip it it's up to you. The first SP30 i was on my way to work and was always late so i'd had a final warning about it, that day i was even later than normal, so gets the bike out fits my brain under seat (wont be needing that) and off i zoom, Usual ridiculous speed though the country lanes to Beddau and came out of the mini roundabout in Beddau on the back wheel, not a showing off wheelie but a come on i'm fucking late throttle twist wheelie, while the front wheel was in there air i noticed a traffic cop passing me in the opposite direction, no problem loosing him here i thought, then i came up behind two cars a little bit further on and thought don't panic just take them after the bend on the down hill straight, i was just about to go when i spotted another traffic cop parked in the junction half way down so just decided to follow the cars in front. As i passed the copper sure enough he pulled out behind me and followed me for about a quarter of a mile before pulling me over. After i politely asked him what the problem was he replied with whats the speed limit along here, to which i replied 50 he said no its 30, after a little chat back and fore i asked why he had singled me out as the two cars in front of me were pulling away from me yet i was the one that got stopped just seems a bit unfair, his reply was, well Mr jones they didn't come out of Beddau roundabout like a fucking idiot did they, to which i replied ok what am i having, work was ok when i explained but i just said i got stopped and showed them the producer and not the fixed penalty LOL. The first SP50 was on the M5 heading to Bridgwater for work, different company though. They had a motor control center ready to leave the workshop and was missing a few door handles so they asked me to pick them up so they could be fitted before it left. A paid ride to Burnham on Sea and back seemed a good idea especially when i worked out i'd have around £45 expenses after paying for fuel. I set off along the the M4 from Cardiff only to join the motorway right behind two lorries with a police escort and they wouldn't let anyone pass, i was stuck at 50-60mph all the way to the M5 exit after the old Severn bridge. When i got on the M5 the road was clear so the brain went under the seat headlight on full beam and ran the bike through the gears like i was on a drag strip heading down the long hill before junction 20 i went through a fog bank and when i wiped my visor i could see what looked like a traffic car in the distance, looked at the speedo it was showing more than twice the speed limit so i though i'd better slow down and closed the throttle, it was a copper and i rolled past him about 75mph and was pulled in straight away. Sat in the traffic car i had to hide my giggling because it was a proper good cop bad cop routine, the one was saying your getting something you didn't even have the courtesy to slow down as you passed us and the other was saying you'll be alright he's having a bad day, this went on for a bit with the one pointing out everything i was doing wrong and the other reassuring me when his back was turned, then i thought i was in more trouble when he asked me what my reg was as he couldn't see it the number plate was so small, i thought he was being sarcastic but after i told him the reg nothing more was said about it. They booked me for 98mph. After being released i picked the handles up and had a gentle ride back. I was supposed to go to court but it was in Bristol so i just pleaded guilty through the post and got a £78 fine and the usual 3 points The second SP50 was on the M4, me and the wife were coming home from a rally i think it was the Crazy Buzzards beach party near Torquay and i was 3 figure cruising again all the way up the M5 and along the M4 when i passed under a bridge just before Newport tunnels i caught in the corner of my eye a traffic car tucked away on top of it so i slowed down to the speed limit fucker pulled me over by Cardiff gate which was about 10 miles from where i spotted him he then said i was going over 100 mph because he had to do over 120 to catch me up anyway after me explaining to him if i was doing over 100mph he would never had caught me up because i was turning off at the next Junction which i wish i had done now. Anyhow cant remember the speed we agreed on and left with my new fixed penalty which was a good job as my points had started to run out LOL All of the above was done on my VFR750 fantastic bike to ride made 120mph feel like 70mph needless to say i put it in for my first new bike the 93 Africa Twin to try and cut my speed and never thought about that type of bike again.

Fkn el @Renegade was that what you needed for a horse and cart

I've still got one of these

I think we are there mate. As you know I had to fix Shadows CB125F a couple of times, I noticed there are loads of them on Ebay crash damaged up for auction as write offs with little more than plastic damage. All eminently fixable but insurance write offs nonetheless. It's sad when it is deemed cheaper to throw stuff away rather than fix it.

It's easier to hoover the mud off the garage floor

I haven’t got original car licence but I have my original HGV

I have had a look at a few 125cc on some salvage sites, may take the plunge if the scoot sells in the spring.

It's now a throwaway age..........almost.

If they can't plug it in and just fit parts until they solve it then they don't want to know nowadays .

Fred storms back into the lead with evidence even though he wrote that bottom one himself to impress the girlies

'82 GPZ 11....ELR...

they are going to look big to a small boy ...... when your tea bagging him. .

Your 3 months behind in posting the whats my next bike poll, Pete would never have approved this

Just to let you know that the CB500F is gone... and something else took its place

I still have mine too,

I still have my green license here somewhere which also has an SP30 hand written on.

When did he learn to write?

Love the Zundapp

It was on when I bought it , I had no idea why untill I read this

Wes Cooley...

Montesa 'crosser....

I also kept my points up as the years went by i was a constant offender Its a good job they stopped recording them on your licence i would have needed a roll up one

Had a great stag do there for a mate of mine. Woke up in the morning wearing a pink dressing gown in a house I didn’t recognise. If that wasn’t bad enough I was hanging out of the back door guzzling black coffee when the milkman delivered the daily pint and said “ooooh another wedding is it?” Apparently, I was in the Best Man’s house and he’d been the Best Man at loads of weddings…….fucking hillbillies

I received some gentleman's reading material today. Properly labeled as well. I do happen to have ginormous gonads.

Nice exhaust

Hornet 750, my guess!

Ooo you big tease.

To be fair they did that to mine as well

Garages ain't what they used to be, i am trying to get a little welding done on the Dacia, the 4 garages that I have used in the past all answered the same.." Oh, we don't do welding"....

No.

I though the tradition was for a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, not a pile of shit.

You said you got them when you were 14 they probably ran out by the time you got your licence only show on there for 3 years. I got done a few months before i could apply for my licence

I get paid for looking at the ones in Bournemouth. They are just as shit as any others tho.

His bus is faster than his bike

Are the roofs where you live not nice to look at or have you looked at them all... are the roofs in Bournemouth nicer to look at...

You got your bus seat on you bike

A tad chilly today

Trumpet looks good in black and white , it looks nearly as old as you

Just looked on AliExpress and there is a CDI for £285.. But the one in photo looks nothing like the CDI that was fitted to my bike, could be a risky buy.

New toy

Okay, who sent a picture of a dirty bike to Pete?

It'd kill him.

Just as well Pete isn't here to see this shit.

On the Beta group page someone pointed out the difference between the X Trainer and RR air filter cage and said on my bike their interchangeable which sounded correct as they use the same air filter. So i ordered one and it arrived tonight The one on the left is for the X trainer looks a bit more restricting than the RR one. The bike is running a little rich from new and is definitely thirstier than the 2022 bike so hoping this will help lean it out a bit without messing with the jetting. So put a clean filter on and fuck it don't fit. I placed the cage on a piece of paper and drew around it and the footprint of both cages are identical it's that locating spigot thingy is about 6mm longer than the X Trainer one I got my needle files out and started filing a new locating bump, after about 30 minutes it was done and it fits just need some time to test ride it now