Cupid Stunt

A house in Defynnog

Thanks

Red Kite - Milvus milvus on the Black Mountain

Usk Reservoir

Dragon's Breath

The Carmarthen Fans

A Hazel Tree

Well, that was just fucking stupid Drove up the Black Mountain to get some scenery shots, it was full of wankers everywhere blocking the roads so they could play in the snow, soooo I had an idea. "I know" I though to myself, "I'll head up Betws Mountain, that won't be busy", I know a short cut through route I used to take on the dirt bikes when I came off Rhiwfawr and headede up Baran Mountain. so off I set, I very quickly realised it may not have been the best idea I ever had, especially in my Shitroen C3, asx the first obstacle I remembered I always encountered on route was a sheet of ice across that always forms when it's cold, sod that though I know it well enough to get a sensible speed up and skaet over it, job done, this is a very trick and tight single track road with just enough room for one car and in places it has sheer drops one one side and ditches the other, but persist I did, please with myself at getting up some of the snow and ice covered inclines and round some of the 180 tight hill turns on single tracks, I was just 5 minutes from destination when I encountered a long steep hill so I got as much speed as I could muster trying my best to not let the wheels spin but alas half way up it just wouldn't grip any more, FUCK, I had come down similar sloaps to get where I was, I managed to very gingerly revers down the frozen slope and got to a point that was a tiny bit wider but not really enough to turn in, I managed it anyway by reversing the rear end as much as I could up a bank but then had to gather grit from the river in the small valley in front of the car placed the grit in front of my front wheels (its a front wheel drive POS), hit the accelerator so the front end slid round to the right rather than going off down the valley and into the river, whooo hoo, job down, continued back on the road I came down juft to find another hill too steep to ascend, FUCK again, nobody here no phone signal. I began to liitterally scrape the tarmac with a windscreen ice scraper and only had about 200m of it to clear LOL, fortunately before done some other cars got stuck too further down so we all chipped in and got one car up at a time, one of them had been further along the route all night (twat), eventually got home, frozen hands and not one fucking picture. Here's the route, have a ball and do a street view imagining it covered in frozen snow and ice GPS co-ords for start 51.761599, -3.880478 GPS co-ords for stuck point 51.765916, -3.927134

Like Bob say's XF Freewing similar to the DR but with twin ports and a counter balanced crank, it was still a vibey thumper though.

Yeah those ADVbummer guys were getting properly annoyed all day long, I had supermoto slicks on and kept overtaking them all day

Yeah, it'd be nice to get out again but it ain't gonna happen

My Son Ashton, our bikes and where my father's ashes were spread at the rivers crossing on Sarn Helen A few more pics from the day

I'm not, this was eons ago, gave up the trails or rather my joints gave up the trails

They had a tendancy to blow their CPU, happened to mine and cost a feking fortune Was a great trail bike though, loads of power and surprising torque, just not great for long distance trail riding, I also had a MK 3

Toughest day out enduro riding ever, nearly rode over a water fall, got taken out by a overhanging branch, all due to head down fatigue This is the bastard branch, I remember sitting and thinking "where'd my bike go

CCM R30 with 710cc conversion and straight through pipe, longer swing arm so it could take dirt wheels

My CRM AR

Looks like he's on the way to Glastonbury

Didn't take it today but made it today, just an artistic edit of one of my photos

If I go to an Indian restaurant I'm in the curry house, does that mean if I go to a Chinese restaurant I'm in the dog house?

I'd call them wankers but I doubt they could get a stiffy

Everything is going to be absolutely OK, I know this because some woman in mid Wales at the rear end of nowhere has put a flag up to support you, all is good now.

Pleiades aka "Seven Sisters" - Messier 45 illuminating the dust cloud passing by it at a rate of 18km/s, the start cluster is more than 400 light years away and it's the closest Messier object to Earth Shot from my garden with a standard camera and 500mm lens Folklore: (there's many alternatives from just about every continent/country) After Atlas was forced to carry the heavens on his shoulders, Orion began to pursue all of the Pleiades, and Zeus transformed them first into doves, and then into stars to comfort their father. The constellation of Orion is said to still pursue them across the night sky. One of the most memorable myths involving the Pleiades is the story of how these sisters literally became stars, their catasterism. According to some versions of the tale, all seven sisters committed suicide because they were so saddened by either the fate of their father, Atlas, or the loss of their siblings, the Hyades. In turn Zeus, the ruler of the Greek gods, immortalized the sisters by placing them in the sky. There these seven stars formed the star cluster known thereafter as the Pleiades.

Your's is @saul@bikers.social mine is @photo@toot.wales

Yeah, like anything techy it takes a bit of learning, there are Youtube videos to help Basically the entire network is made up of separate servers (instances) pretty much anyone can create an instance whether it's for a group/individual/whatever, an instance can and often do block many other instances as there's a hell of a lot of porn/sexual soliciting/extreme racism etc out there I'm on the toot.wales as it seemed appropriate I avoid the arty/photography one's as they're very lefty softy for my tastes, millions have deserted Twitter and found Mastodon as an alternative so there's lots of whingy twatter users looking for "safe spaces" (twerps), I just post pics on there and immediately block any obvious far lefties as it winds me up to read the crap, I should imagine the biker.social will be more to your liking but you can see people from other instances if you wish