Slowlycatchymonkey

Forecast gale force winds. On the phone on hold for 39 mins before getting through. Still I’m grateful they take safety seriously and I got a place on the next ferry

Hopefully Sunday but we’ll see!

I often quote you, what’s the biggy? You know what if its some sort of savagery Ive missed, leave me out of it, I’m distinctly in the fluffy blanket, hot chocolate, life can bugger off zone at the moment.

Yep thats what Ive done

Apparently as we have surpassed the 50,000 infections mark the health secretary is making an announcement later. Hoping if any restrictions are reintroduced its after Ive left for Spain but then again what about coming back On the upside and the reason for posting here is Mr Slowly has been invited for his booster which makes me very happy. So has my dad and all of our older rels. Cant believe what a brilliant job this area (and many many others have done), heartening ay

Oh dear. I turn up in need of fluffy kitten stories to salve the disappointment of my ferry getting cancelled and this is what’s on offer

He blocked you when he joined so youre kinda wasting your breath

The Gods wondered how this person didn’t get the message, they wondered how they could send a disastrous flight experience down to earth and the little people still refused to understand so they sent Zeus who threatened thunder and lightning until the shipping forecast creaked with warnings of doom and everyone ran away Yep they cancelled the ferry due to forecast gale force winds Heyho at least the inner tube I ordered will turn up in time now

Sold it, how long did you have your last bike @Motobiker ?

Went to Stafford to meet up with the other Himalayan ride women. Thought it would be a good idea that as Id been up since 2am and didnt want to flake out after one G&T to drink Cola cola, forgot how sensitive to caffeine I am, its like rocket fuel, we got to bed at 6am this morning. Ive pretty much sabotaged enjoying any of the preparation for Spain now, wot a moron, well worth it though

Ive come off on the Portway! Although you skilfully executed a saving manoeuvre after suffering mechanical failure where as I ungraciously tipped off my bike coming to a stop I was so embarrassed, Id only been riding a week or so and really hadn’t mastered the slow control needed to filter in that environment but decided to man up and go down the centre of the two lanes anyway then the gap closed, I did some pretty incompetent braking and toppled off in the centre of the two lanes. Then it got scary because the traffic started moving again and no feckers stopped, they were driving around me either side at increasing speed as the traffic cleared and I couldnt pick the bike up because the cars were squeezing by so close. In the end I managed to get it upright, I half closed my eyes expecting to get hit by a car but somehow it was dandy and the bike was fine but my god I felt a prize prat, a lucky undamaged prize prat but way up there on the Richter scale of a dumbquake

Wow that is better than good Congrats

Pete’s just about to launch a soap for motorcycleriders.net members

Relatively I did cos I needed them delivered quick n all the cheap ones were coming on a slow boat. Heyho.

Love it!

Spain currently looks dandy from top to bottom, the weather temp here has dropped but not horribly and theres rain forecast so Ill have to find my waterproofs. Fortunately on a good day the Ferry port is only 1hr 40mins from here

I’ll let you know tomorrow after Mark the Mechanic has finished on the bikes, if it all goes smoothly I’ll be looking at ticket prices and getting it booked up then Theres a ferry Sunday and one Wednesday. Sundays pretty much out cos the women I rode to Everest with are meeting up for a curry on Saturday and Id like to see them before I go but if Wednesday is an expensive ticket Ill drop ‘em like a hot rock Apart from ordering PCR tests and collecting a few bits n bobs (Amazon firestick tv and a slow cooker ) Im wholly unprepared and pretty excited to enter the world of winging it again after the decades of the meticulous research based decisions you are compelled to make when your in charge of a family, patients or a business. Yeefuckingha

Damn I forgot your two syllable word sounds rule.

I’m sure the smorgasbord of veritable wife beater delights that make up motorcycle forums run from anything like this…(yer right ho ho) Option A TMBF to this Option b Motorcycleriders.net

The gov website says it should be on the centre line but tbh I can’t be arsed to waste time on it, I’ve ordered cheap dots from eBay n hopefully the glues good enough that they’ll be there at MOT time next year!

So you rented for a year? Which bits rolled and which bits coasted?

Left the title open for Sid James so have at it but if anyone could also answer my question that’d be great. The new number plates with ‘UK’ on them have arrived. I toddled out ready to screw up drilling some holes and notice the Continentals existing number plate has two red dot reflectors like the ones below. Can I stick these directly on the number plate? I thought you weren’t allowed anything else on a plate? Also if it was stuck slightly off centre would anyone at an MOT centre care? Edit: Balls to thinking about it, Ive ordered the stick dot version and that’ll have to do!

Spitting distance?