Cupid Stunt

Last time I rode to North Wales I refused to take any main road, it was pissing down all the way and it took me 6 hours Coming back over the mountains in gale force winds was an interesting experience, bike at 25 degrees tilt (no kidding) and the rain coming up vertically into my helmet, shitting my pants getting thrown all over the road, they're memories and stories to tell later in life, I can't remember the rides where it was all pleasant and nothing interesting happened

I don't understand why someone wouldn't want to do that No such thing as the wrong weather, just the wrong clothing. It's about scenery, adventure and kudos Yes, camping and eating tinned breakfast wears thin pretty quickly but with experience you stop eating that shit, take the proper gear and cook up your own eggs and bacon They're riding through woodlands and terrain that dates back to the ice age, the feeling of being in places like that is unique, calming and inspiring

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They're impractical really, even the auto mix bikes like the CRM, you can't always trust the mix and they use nearly twice as much fuel so you can't have a route that doesn't include nearby fuel stops They are great fun and give max power for minimum weight, my GasGas EC300 was a monster on power, I got it up to nearly 80mph over the rocks on Sarn Helen coming back down towards the gate :), it's capable of higher speeds not not with me on it over rocks , my two CRM's were awesome too and I remember my old RD250LC was quite a beast in it's day

All the best enduro riders started out doing Trials, David Knight, Graham Jarvis and many others MX riders simply cannot handle the gnarly stuff, been out with a few and they always head for the nearest fire road to get them home by mid morning LOL

Yeah it can be very painful at times, mine started at the ripe old age of 48, couldn't believe it, I went to the docs as I thought I might have broken my thumb joint in one of my many daily bike off's, he sent me for an X-Ray and they told me it was osteo arthritis I said "fuck off, I'm only 48", it's just got steadily worse and in more joints ever since But I'm still a fucking 9 year old

Here's one of my earlier flights FPV over Three Cliffs Bay I only went out about 1km here, all that was needed, on an old 1.4m Sky Surfer powered glider with my GoPro strapped on the nose and batteries moved back to balance it At 3:41 3:46 you can see where I'm sat in my little chair on the flat field atop the hill remote flying the plane with my FPV goggles on

He used a powered glider not a helicopter but even so he had to be very skilled in gliding to preserve battery, bear in mind it was 114 miles each way, it took him all day to do it, must have been incredibly boring Although my gear had far greater potential I personally never went further than 2 miles out, as my objective was videography it seemed pointless when I can just drive closer and launch from there

Yes, I still like the looks of all the street scrambler style bikes, it's just that generally they're all show and no go when it comes to trails here, we just don't have any easy off road, it's all steep rocky terrain, and like you I can no longer do it, for me it was early osteo arthritis, it killed my off-road fun 10 years ago now, I'd get half way round a planned route and have to quit and go home due to the pain

I'm a tech innovator and early adopter, I used self made FPV gear on RC aircraft long before the term "drone" was commonly used to describe them, back then they were called multirotors/quadcopter/hexacopter/octocopters, but mostly I fitted kit to RC airplanes and had long range system that could get me up to 40 miles away (others had systems for much further, one guy did a record flight at (as I recall) 114 miles Basically for me it's always been about photography/videography, pretty much anything I did had a camera strapped to it, with the FPV stuff it started with trying to figure out how I could get my GoPro into the air and I bought cheap toy helicopters to see what could lift it and fly with it and it went on from there right up to 3.5m powered gliders and ultra fast racers that could get up to 140mph PS Pete I was also the first person you knew with a sat nav on a bike You hated them until I pointed out that it allowed me to ignore it and just ride wherever I wanted, going up any random turns I decided to investigate but then get me back to where I knew with no hassle as I would always be able to see where I am My original on bike sat nav consisted of a compaq portable computer and a seperate bluetooth GPS unit, the Compaq had to be held in a huge yellow Otterbox case with Ram mounts to hold it on my handlebars I was also the first person I knew of to have a GPS system for off road trails on a dirt bike using the same hardware above and early versions of Memory Map with OS mapping down to 1:25,000 My early helmet cams were basically a camcorder (tape type) with an analogue input into which I plugged a CCTV bullet cam which in turn was strapped to my helmet with velcro, the wires were run down into a "bum bag/fanny pack" this was standard definition of 640 x 480 recording

....now we know eh

Bloody Hell, that reminded me Bob, went to check on the final score of the thread I started on RC Groups where I showed people how to modify that toy drone so it had full APM functionality inc flight paths (fully autonomus flight patterns) GPS waypoints, FPV, gimbal etc Last time I looked it had around 4 million views, it's had 82,033 replies taking up 5,469 pages Looks like they upgraded their systems and archived all the original stuff so the last post on the thread was Sept 2021

Just saying

Seen loads of twats do that Also that exhaust pipe is far too low, maybe ok on a flat track circuit, wouldn't last 5 minutes on rocky Welsh trails

Hey Yen This video has the planes in I was on about Funny, typical old school East End Brits, three piece suits on the beach sunbathing LOL

More like the English spent their earlier lives grafting whereas the Welsh spent it sat on the sofa watching Twp Turpin and masturbating

Llangiwg Church star trails, around 500 images put together in a video to make a timelapse

89 seconds of the "Pecker Log" The first woodpecker is the male Great Spotted, after 29 secs it the female (no red patch on the back of the head) Taken with a cheap trail camera that I pulled apart and refocused for closer subjects

Upper Tawe Valley, right where I used to live

Parrot Anafi

Cap cloud over Mount Teide I took this whilst out at sea on a catamaran going full pace crashing into the waves, I had to hang onto a post for dear life to try and get a steady shot

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A short wander around WWT Llanelli, it was cut short cos my fekin' back was killing me Anyway, some duck and stuff, oddly for November in Wales there were Bees, Butterflies and Dragonflys as well as Lilly flowers Green Plover aka Peewit aka Lapwing Carrion Crow - Corvus Corone Female Tufted Duck Male and Female Gadwall Young Mute Swan Common Darter Oakmoss - Evernia prunastri Speckled Wood Buttefly Male Gadwall Lilly flower Common Darter - Sympetrum striolatum Arty Farty Grassy Arty Farty Leaves Aty Farty Wetland Grassy Arty Farty Bullrush - Typha angustifolia Female Greenfinch - too many lost to bumble foot Arty Farty Wetland shot Fekin Tufted Ducks everywhere (Coot in the background)

The ones I was on had roofs