Slowlycatchymonkey

Do you need us to start chanting “Do it, do it, do it” ?? Oh no wait you cant flounce, its not in keeping with the sudden, mysterious and seemingly baseless flounces this forum prefers. You’re going to have to wait until no-one can fathom what just happened and then suddenly request all your posts are removed ?

I went in 2019 and had a f’in amazing time. I’m not a festival person but the sun was shining on full blast the whole weekend, there were bikes galore, good trade stands, plenty of talks from people who actually walk the walk, lots of different bikes to test ride, an off road track on the premises, TRF ride outs, an adventure film festival hall showing good bike adventure films, tons of excellent food wagons, good live music n plenty of beer flowing and everyone seemed really bloody happy all the time, Ive never seen so many smiles with folk chatting freely to complete strangers. I’ll rephrase that last bit, Ive never seen so many legal chatty smiles before ? TBH it was like a parallel universe where everyone’s happy and I dont see how it can ever be that good again. But this year nearly every well known adventure/round the world rider seems to be going as are a large group of the women I went to the Himalaya with (and they’re chomping at the bit to get out) so who knows what with lockdown fever it might just be the best party ever... or it could rain incessantly and be a huge letdown, we’ll see ?

Theres just a small number of the Adventure bike doing the rounds. Apparently the HD adventure bikes going to be at the ABR festival this year but it’s probably a bit of a trek for you ? Great line up this year and its the first weekend after lockdown restrictions are lifted in June wooohooo ? They’ve got Boorman there promoting it but I watched ‘long way up’ and wasn’t convinced he was convinced by it so itll be interesting to see what he has to say. I cant stand bike snobs (snobs full stop) but was surprised to catch myself quietly sneering at the idea of a HD adventure bike, oops ?

Great vid. Feel like I’m on holiday with you ? Like where you shot the video and even more liked that the audio quality was good because normally theres wind noise wrecking it. Soz about the dimwit in the car, glad youre ok. Not great for the confidence is it but you look the sort who will manage to push on past it to triumph.. triumph boom boom.. aw come on who doesnt like a cracker joke?!

I wouldnt worry if they did the English have always positively thrived at going places theyre not welcome ? What June trips that?

Xtreme can help you with that, I understand its within his area of expertise.

Xtreme have you stopped paying six and started doing you own trolling? ????

Oh yeah just noticed your location, I now don’t care if they rust and crumple like tin foil you jammy git! What turned your head towards the CB500X?

They steered me away from the BMW ones cos they didn’t rate them as much so it’s worth avoiding the showroom and popping your head round the garage door to see if a mechanic has a cheaper solution. Mechanics don’t seem to suffer brand loyalty, they appear to just like the stuff that works the best. On the other hand you’ve just spent thousands on your new toy and if the Honda ones are best then apart from the obvious why skimp?

Anyway from the interesting trail braking/cornering post, the pictures of cigars n castles and now the NC500 website link I’m starting to suspect there more to Buckster than his cunty exterior shows ?

Lol well it’s one way to get yourself a decent size pitch to yourself ?

Congratulations on the new wheels, bet it’s all the sweeter for having none for a while. For my know nothing tuppence worth on the engine bars when I got my first set I went to the dealers and cos the mechanics there see all of the various types folk have unwittingly bought and they have quite firm opinions on which ones work best. The ones I’d picked out were very well reviewed but they said “yeh they are good but the paint flakes, not straight away it takes a good while but they get tatty long before they should.” They then ordered up the ones they said worked and looked the best. So the point I’m painfully wobbling towards is- I’d ask the mechanics at the Honda dealers what they think.

@Buckster Rightey dokey matey bloke flap old salty seadog amigo skip-jack jockstrap piano tuner you have posted something most fortuitous and useful which on this forum is well urr something ? Emailed Nathan Millward about the Garbage Run (LEJOG) in 3 weeks time as I have a strong suspicion it’s not going into Scotland cos of the rule of 8 (yes I know it’s currently rule of six but it changes 17th May to the rule of 8 for Scotland) and hes cagey about it, hinting in the not looking likely direction so I’ve said if he can’t split people into groups of 8 we’ll do the Garbage Run to Alston and then carry onto the NC500 on our tod. So tell me about this wild camping thing then, are there any rules or can you just pitch your tent wherever takes you fancy? Have you paid the £15 for membership to that website and if you did what’s it worth over just buying the Rough Guide to the North Coast 500? Any info appreciated.

Sad int it. For some reason I can’t fathom in this country it’s seems to be acceptable to treat people who work in shops like they’re subhuman. A friend of mine works in Asda said the most oft repeated word (out of earshot of the customer) is now cunt. Maybe Buckster should apply for a job there, teach them how to truly express themselves ?

Now that is a stretch ?

Idiots. Not just a stretch I dont see any correlation.

Theres a lot of angry peeps about at the moment. I read in the paper that people who work in face to face customer roles are having a particularly hard time at the moment because the people are being extra mean arseholes right now. Did you see this one from the staff at mcdonalds in America who were fed up with people being nasty? They’d just had enough.

You can do what Ive seen done with some ebike conversion kits- just stick a sticker on there declaring its the correct power. Policemen like stickers ?

Nice work

You gotta up your game, youre classy enough to carry off a katana.

A cheeky little redirect form pron hub could do the trick though ?

I find the current colour scheme easy. Like Grasshoppers suggestions. Does it need to contain the words forum and motorcycle in it?

Ah arent you lovely. I have two online talks to watch about mobike pics n vids, both only 30 mins long, one by Lisa and Simon Thomas and one by Austin Vince so theyre by good peeps and I still haven’t watched them. If I wait much longer my access will time out, must find the motivation cos I really dont want a load of crap vids and photos to look back on when I’m old in my rocking chair with a stick and a shot gun waiting to chase people off my land ?

Very nice it is too. Is it road legal? We have very strict rules about the power and speed allowed on bicycles n mobikes here.

I may have to visit you one day just so you can teach me a bit of photography and maybe record at least one watchable vid that I can post ?