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Missus' bike.

It reminds me of the prohibition era in the US........and I can see it going the same way. But time will tell!

Reminds me of when my last company fitted trackers to all our cars. A lot of guys were very pissed off about it. One of the guys phoned the HR manager one Monday morning and asked her where she went at the weekend. She said that it was none of his business, so he told her that where he went at the weekend was none of her business either!! Shortly afterwards the trackers were all removed!

I think that you're being very dismissive of the dangers of stopping in a lay-by in Kent...........and shitty is a very distinct possibility!

Thanks guys......

I think that this is something that's been raised many times in the past. I honestly don't think that it's something that could safely be applied to bikes. Imagine a system that shuts the throttle, or even applies the brakes whilst the bike is leaned into a bend? Suddenly having to compensate as the bike starts to run wide due to changed speed? A few people having accidents and getting seriously injured or killed would have the governments demanding the systems being disabled in quick time. His anti-EU rhetoric gives the impression of a certain amount of, dare I say it, scaremongering!

Dunstanburgh Castle, Northumberland

An apothecary in Lucerne, Switzerland.

The calm before the storm..........or he's awaiting fresh instructions from HQ?

The suspense is killing me. Will the motorised pogo stick sweep to victory, or will it be the ride of shame tomorrow morning?

You could lodge an appeal, Bob?

We went on a Land Rover tour that day and it was the only grey day of our 2 week holiday, but it kinda added to the mood of the place and it meant that it wasn't too hot for the tour.

I did some work one time in Portugal for a service agent in Lisbon, but there was an air traffic controller strike on the weekend that I was due to fly home, so the agent asked where I wanted to stay over the weekend. I had a holiday in Cascais many years before, so I asked to be booked in an hotel there for the weekend. On the Sunday the engineer that I'd been working with came over and took me to the castle at Sintra to look around. I really enjoyed it. Funnily, it was that engineer that got me hooked on olives! He took me to the airport on the Monday and presented me with a carrier bag full of jars of olives. I didn't like olives (or so I thought), but I couldn't refuse such a generous gift from this nice man, so I brought them home. When I got home I showed them to my then wife and she said "I didn't think you liked olives?" "I don't ". But I opened a jar and tried one..........I now eat olives regularly and love them!

Nice shot. Is the castle at Cinta anywhere near you, @Pedro?

There's a Honda DN01 for sale not far from us. 2009 with 17K on it. The guy wants €5500 for it.

Good tip.

Does it come with the change of identity and false passport, or is that extra?

Do you find that because you sit on a scooter rather than in it, you feel a bit like you're balanced on top of it?

It could be a draw!

Unfortunately I think that this is a big factor too.

Truth be told, I still really enjoy getting out on the bike. A short run to the next town to have a coffee or a round trip down to the sea and loop back, it's all good.