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    About 10 years ago there was a sudden spate of manhole and other metal covers being stolen along with people risking life and limb cutting live cable alongside railways, scrap prices were good enough to take anything it seemed. Our own highway inspectors would remain unseen for most of the month with a mass sighting of them on the day overtime and mileage sheets had to be put in. They all usually parked down the same back street and one winter day they all drove home in the dark without realising every single gulley cover in the road was missing. We use hinged covers now, even our road signs are composite rather than alloy. The worst thing was when a cast plate with names of fallen on a war memorial got pinched. I think the local scrap dealers clubbed together and paid for a new one.
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    You monopeds are always claiming that!
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    I thought if I went on my push bike via my nearest footpaths and bridleways I would gain access to some lovely narrow country lanes with no cars on them as well as some of the green lanes I used to ride my motorbike on. After two footpaths, a bridleway and another footpath I gave up due to the severe clagginess I found and rode back home. Here is a close up of my bike showing some nature on it.
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    My best was £60/£80 a year for my Africa Twins, then the Varadero. That was for third party fire and theft, 20k miles a year, commuting, ride other bikes 3rd party only and business use (for my job, not delivering pizzas etc) But when I bought a new Versys it went back up to the £250 mark until I lowered the value by using it a lot when I got it back down to the £100 mark. Another new bike has put it back to that range again. I swap back and forth between fully comprehensive and TPFT depending which is cheaper. I believe I have 38 years no claims bonus at the moment, but no company has allowed more than 9 years and when I started riding the most you could have was 3 years with the companies I was insured with. It's the road tax that hurts now, nearly a hundred quid a year for something that doesn't wear the road out or cause congestion!
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    They refused to go to the doctors. Stumpery? Well it was just a label next to a lot of tree stumps all piled about higgledy piggledy, I think for what eventually grows on them, usually ferns and flowery things I reckon. Wikipedia says https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stumpery
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    Some of my colleagues have found plague victims. The last batch was multiple hundreds of people at the Royal Mint site and all work had to stop whilst the archaeologists go and do their stuff. This is the first batch below, my colleagues found more in 2003ish https://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/collections/other-collection-databases-and-libraries/centre-human-bioarchaeology/osteological-database/medieval-cemeteries/east-smithfield-black-death-medieval
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    It was today, that is how it is usually. Last few months it was rammed though with lockdowners, but back to normal now. I found a whole new park today that I had never seen before, in my own town, walked past the small gate lots of times over the last 20 years and only noticed the small sign today for the first time. Walked through the little gate into a paradise of peace and quiet with some winos sitting under a thatch roof band stand in the centre, even they were chirpy and wished me a good afternoon. They have a......'stumpery'! I'll take a camera next time I'm out.
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    Just now in the local park.
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    The stereo system is good on your bike, BMW of course, so I suppose it ought to be. Can't even hear the wind noise over the music. That last picture of the two bikes facing the camera. You know how you see shapes in stuff and once seen it never really goes away? When I look at the headlights I am now only seeing the Polar bear from the foxes glacier mint advert looking over his shoulder and flashing his tea towel holder at me.
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    Neighbour is back home, or at least someone is moving about in there and their car was outside earlier, thin walls here. Also I'll have you know that she knocked on my door on Christmas Eve and gave me a box of chocolates for being a nice neighbour, which does make me a bit embarrassed about not knowing their names when the police asked yesterday. I wasn't ill after eating the chocs so it wasn't an attempt at getting new neighbours.
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    I hope your birth certificate is in order. You're not still down on it as a girl are you??
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    Remember Pete, don't be doing all that perfect Spanishy type talking then falling for the parting comment 'Have a safe trip' and answering 'Thank You' in English like in The Great Escape.
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    I've had to buy some Tourances, used them a lot on the AT so was a fan of them for a long time. Went over to Avon Storm3D on the Versys, they lasted forever and were good in the wet too and it was only £150 for a pair. Unfortunately although Avon have the size on their website, I couldn't find any places selling the 19 inch diameter front for the 1200. So the Tourances are now sitting in my spare room waiting for the okay to ride anywhere I want and then I shall do so on new tyres with a round profile.
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    I love his videos. I have a suspicion he earns a whole lot of money on the side doing Hollywood movie trailer voice overs.
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    Jesus, that's been beaten with the ugly stick, kicked with the minger boots and flattened by the 'looks only a mother could love' steam roller.
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    I am truly gobsmacked!
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    I still think 3D printing is powerful magic. We are living in the science fiction of my youth. Have you ever seen the episode of Red Dwarf where during a disaster an emergency crew member is 3d Printed by the ship's computer and it jams slightly as it comes out of the plotter, over prints in the head area and he has to bend his head right over to look at people all the time?
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    You forget, I am partially colour blind, the blue doesn't bother me too much. You can buy the file only and get them printed up again if you know someone with a printer and the right colour plastic, I'll see how I get on with them.
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    Got my Polish 3D printed hand guard extenders. Just pushed them on and they seem to be tight. Did 70-90mph home on the motorway and they didn't move, stopped the cold wind shooting up my sleeve. I only fitted the right one to come home as a test of the difference they make. Might run a bit of glue or silicon on them to make sure they don't leave me. No tax requested, just came through the post.
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    It's those James Bond style hand brake turns!
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    That first picture with the white and blue houses is gorgeous.
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    Went out for a brief ride to make sure all was well and that my side stand was not going to fall off. The bash plate reverberates a bit so I stopped once to make sure all the bolts were tight in case I'd missed one, but no, looks like that is just what it does.
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    You must have hated that episode of Some Mother's Do 'Ave Em where Frank says he wet his knickers at Paddington Station and when probed reveals that he wore dresses till he was 5 because a Gipsy woman told his mother she was going to have a girl so she bought all the clothes and they wouldn't take them back at the shop.
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    It's on, only had a single washer left over as well!!!! Lost two sockets somehow. The good thing about having my sockets and ratchets in order on those plastic things is that I know when something is missing and what it was. One was a hex/allen socket which had I found had stayed in the side stand monster bolts that I had trouble undoing at the very start of this thread. One down two to go. The other was a 6 sided 14mm socket. I knew it had dropped off of one of the bolts as I was working round the skid plate tightening fasteners and it was easier to get a 12 sided 14mm and carry on and I thought I would look for it afterwards. I hadn't seen exactly where it went to but it hadn't sounded like it went far or even on the floor if you know what I mean. I did about 5 circuits of the bench with a torch, even rechecked all my magnetic dishes in case it had stuck underneath. Finally it occurred to me that I hadn't looked inside the new bash plate.....that's where it was. Long screwdriver pokey time to get it within reach.
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