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So would you with only 450 miles on your clock (That would be about 1937 I reckon), I swear the bike still has bum fluff and acne.

This is all Most Excellent!

On the way home from work yesterday. First service tomorrow so I can actually ride the thing without worrying about racking up the miles. That house needs sails, it's looking a bit bald without any.

The only asphalting I do is all new with hot sealed joints so no over banding needed at all. Hopefully I won't evert have to supervise that again, I found that quite stressful, every road in London has someone who needs to get in or out and they all choose the day it needs to be closed to come out of the woodwork.

I've got a school photo somewhere from when I was about 12. I can cross a few off as no longer being with us now. Rough school, bound to be fatalities though.

If we all chip in we can get him one of those there twat suits I keep hearing BMW riders wear. Not sure what they look like, is twat better than leather for protection??

One of the things I found when we cleared my late Mum's house was my Dad's old RAF Police jacket. None of your American high quality material, this is 1950s/60s British material, it is like sand paper, it will take skin off if you're not careful. I can just about get it on but I can't get it done up, I have the pot belly my old Dad never did.

What about old Nasa moon shot surplus, Tom Hanks swears by it I hear.

That's where he keeps his little triangular sandwiches with the crusts cut off.

I've been using the waterless washing method for years!

In the UK STOP signs are the only octagonal shaped sign plate. The Give Way is the only upside down triangle plate. This is so they will both be recognised even when covered in snow. We are not supposed to ever build a new junction that needs a STOP sign, sight lines should always be good enough for a Give Way sign. Therefore the only STOP signs should be at old historic junctions where buildings or walls are unlikely to ever be demolished or rebuilt.

It could have been. Never much choice of hire bikes on holiday, it was that, a scooter or a 'lean back and think of leather wallets on chain' type bikes usually.

This was the BMW single, not sure what year it was?

I have ridden something similar, was a BMW GS single. Really nicely put together, but I felt I was never in the right gear, it always felt like it was revving too high or too low, acceleration or slowing down was fine. It was exactly the same when I had something with a similar engine in Rhodes. Not sure what make it was, picture below for the clever bike spotters.

Pick it up tomorrow morning, couldn't get it before as I have been away in Devon (by car) to visit the descendants. The plan is to ride to my mate's house tomorrow morning, he gets on the back of my bike (which he will own by the end of the day) and we both ride to the bike shop. Then he rides the Kawasaki back and I ride the Yamaha. I have owned three Yamahas, an XS250 and two FJ1200s. Yamaha are too late, their brand perception is already slaughtered.

Don't you be worrying about that, it's just the cateracts.

This is the monument, which you can look at for about a minute before someone tries to mug or beg from you. Spin round for a view of the Thames and Greenwich peninsula with the Millenium Dome. https://goo.gl/maps/ge3uLwGrbVFXVJDf7

I'm working within walking distance of Blackwall Quay (as was) next week. The dock where the Jamestown settlers left from in 1606, now renamed Virginia Quay as a nod to them. It's a bit rough round there, no wonder old John Smith left on the first available boat out and hooked up with Pocahontas.

Summink wrong with your website there!

Looks like a Golden Hind or Mayflower replica

You worked in a building society? 'Computer says NO, look you isn't it!' I think I've been to Chepstow, one of those places that used to keep changing nationality. We were visiting my girlfriend's best friend who was living in a hotel where her hubby was the chef and she did house keeping. They had a lovely flat attached to the hotel and all looked nice and cosy until I spotted a glass framed stairwell against one wall and a bloke walking up the stairs. That was the boss, their whole living area was in plain view any time he used the stairs!

1998 was a good year for me computerwise. Windows 98 was out and worked pretty well as I recall, AutoCAD R14 was the first decent version with icons instead of just a side menu and tablet and making customised buttons which combined commands was easy and saved much time. I had lots of shortcuts on my screen, my own printer and my own desk. I could knock out work like billyo. Today I have an unstable desktop that loses shortcuts and customisations so often it's no longer worth bothering with them in the first place, we now have tool pallettes instead of menus so one click items take three clicks. I have no desk to myself and the one I am allowed to use has to be cleared each time I leave it, so reference items or other handy things are no longer to hand. If I want to look at a map of the borough for reference, there is no longer a big print on the wall, this is not allowed, I have to look at it online where it is slow to pan and freezes a lot and has numerous mistakes. The printer is two rooms away and there is always a queue at the thing and if there isn't it's because it is not working. If it is working my print sometimes doesn't make it through. When I received a letter, the writer didn't expect a response within a few minutes like email. My mobile phone battery lasted more than two weeks. The mobile phone itself did not make it look like I am trying to steal a book out of the library by pushing it inside my trouser pocket. I feel better now.

My first smart phone was about 12 weeks ago, forced on me by work, I had to find a small child to show me how to work the poxy thing. They also made me have my first ever lap top a few weeks ago, it's like a proper PC but with a less usable keyboard, stupid small screen and no proper mouse, they'll never catch on. I'm gonna have to get one of those switches so I can use my main keyboard, mouse and screen with it, I do my CAD and estimates on the proper PC and email them to myself when I've finished. I don't have WiFi at home so the lap top is using my phone for the WiFi connection when I work from home which is most of the week at the moment. I can see the amount of data used flying up on the phone, I wonder when work will get a red flag on that.

I haven't snapped many bolts over the years, but I think most were when using a torque wrench, I prefer doing bolts by feel. I save them for wheel nuts and front/rear sprocket nuts which are impossible to break mostly.

Look at the starch on those lapels in the middle. How ever were we on the winning side in WW2, Churchill looked like Wurzel Gummidge in comparison, no two pounds of him hanging straight!