Slowlycatchymonkey

Tis the vicious insurance thats puts me off Spanish bikes. The UK insurance price is generally about 2/3rds less and I don't have to try and haggle in a third language.

Yer tricky for the rockstar ride reporter to tolerate the can't be arsed factions but there you go, was busy with IRL, shit happens

Or is it time to up consumption and lose your inhibitions, just saying, there's a lot of homo chat on here

Too tall for my short arse self. I've been racking my brain trying to remember what the hell the little light bike was that @Sir Fallsalot recommended so I don't have to ask for a third time

Two weeks.. and bog off, no-one can follow your ride report, it's like being next on stage after a killer act to find you get booed off

ps the second one is cheaper than the first cos you don't have to buy a lot of stuff and have already taken the hit of losing a second income.

But you'll get yourself something else?

I knew I could rely on you

Yer thought you'd approve, that's Julie Cool Terrorist's bike. She spent the week before I arrived riding with Dai Jones cos she's thinking about doing the mini mondo.

I'm left wondering how you would know?

Jesus I'm not looking forward to returning on Saturday. The aircons on 24 degrees and I'm cold Oh it's alright, I've had a look and it's only a drop of 14 degrees compared to here

Yer but you could go the whole hog and resurrect that charming 80's style bike jacket you loved to death. I can see it now 'Time Travel Biker' a straight to Freeview B movie. A cult classic in the making. Yes I'm aware someone (probably Busabeast) will be changing the L in cult for an N

Yer I don't think Keiss is the best out there, it was just the cheapest well reviewed I knew about at the time. If I'd known how useful it was going to be I wouldn't have minded paying more. Having said that the Keiss stuff is still trucking along 6 years later.

Dont forget click and collect. It's a lot easier explaining away things they haven't seen Amazon same day delivery nearly killed me, all the stuff turning up on the same day, not a good look, might be better for the wider environment but its not better for the environment I have to live in when it looks like Santa's been early

It often seems to

Thought they might be. Topbox, engine guards and a rip off version of bark busters perchance?

I should probably get shot of mine before the new ones released. Who's gonna want 24.5 bhp when the new one far more usefully puts out just short of 40?!

You gotta nip that in the bud, monies will be needed for farkles!

Takes a minute or two to narrow down what you want out of a bike doesn't it. But the answers often more power Quite bored with the Himalayan now just because of it's lack of power on an overtake. Thing is whilst I'm fond of it I'm really not bothered about leaving it exposed to the elements in airport parking and it's simple enough that with YouTubes help I can fix most problems myself. Considered bringing the Bandit out here but they have a reputation for tatty paintwork and mines in excellent nick so I'd spend too much time wondering if the Spanish sun and desert sands were battering it to pieces!

It beggars belief really doesn't it. If somewhere is in a convenient location you're gonna go in and see for yourself regardless of what anyone says. Not confirming the offer in an email stinks, it's got a whiff of stitch up straight ahead!

A bike for fun times then. My favourite kind of bike. Not saying the more power you have the more fun it is but yer thats exactly what I'm saying So this is the third bike in just a year, keep this up and you'll overtake Pete in how many bikes you've owned

Got the Keiss heated body warmer and rarely use it now just cos the sub zero artic suit is so warm. But before I had that I used it a lot from end October right through to May. That and heated grips was the difference between staying out and enjoying the ride and going home. Mr Slowly also has the body warmer and uses his all the time. He likes that its relatively thin so doesn't take up much packing space and fits under normal bike gear (so long and its not tight fitting stuff), it does exactly what its say it does (rather that the usual over promising) and has the advantage that unlike bulky layers or suits like the one I use when you get warm enough you simply switch it off. The disadvantage I found was forgetting you're plugged in and walking into a petrol station to the sound of a twanging lead being ripped from it's socket, but even though I did that more times than I can count it still didn't break.

Feel the same about the Triumph dealer in Somerset 'Total Triumph' the woman who was in there was a miserable see you next Tuesday, said lots of negative crap to me. So much so I left and went to Brizzle!