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British summer time Mind the Hobbitses Dear Boy

Looks a Bloody Hoot

Yeah village aint the same without the idiot, although I have to commend you for taking on the task in his absence Marcel.

Spent the morning out playing with the CBF. Feeling a little tender from yesterdays efforts over the community centre with a bar and some very nice people plying me with Doom Bar. Wouldn't have been a bad morning to go out for a bimble but not today. Absolutely messing around with minor stuff just put on a USB charger and changed back to the standard screen for an experiment. No issues with the taller screen just want to see what the standard one is like with that little defletor thing.

I think you would be hard pushed to beat a CB500F or CB500X or even a Kawasaki ER5 or 6 as a first bike. £3k to £4k should get you something pretty nice. As to riding gear you don't have to spend to much if you don't want to, you can get some decent quality lightly used branded stuff second hand on Ebay. Great place to get some Gortex lined boots for silly money, including Alpinestars. Richa isn't bad riding gear if you must have new, should get a good jacket and trousers for £300. LS2, Caberg and HJC Helmets are pretty good value and good quality new. You can always buy better at a later date but riding gear is a personal thing weather you go for style or just function in the first instance. You will end up with 2 or 3 sets before to long. In the winter I always seem to have one set drying.

Worked last night but jibbed on taking the bike as it was thunder and lightning. Singing over the Fowey Community Centre at 3 pm. Working tomorrow night but hoping to get out on the bike tomorrow day. Fuck that Fred I don't do heights

Stop navel gazing with your buyers remorse. Not a massive amount of money it you want it why not buy it, especially if it means something to you. I can think of things that make you a fool but not this purchase.

Not making any political point my politics are my business. The Conservatives in Britain could be considered ideologically similar to the Democrats in the US, whereas the Labour Party is just slightly to the left of that in their current form. Although the whole political spectrum in this country has moved to the right and Labour currently inhabit the centre ground where the Tories used to be. As the memes illustrate same shit different clown.

You are missing the woke factor here, most of the LBGTQQIA+ mob are pretty wokie in their views and don’t objectify physical appearance in the same way most men do especially when younger. Or probably more accurately don’t admit to doing so. The person I am talking about working with is an attractive woman but her female partner looks like a prop forward. And I still think it’s a load of old bollocks. Why can’t they just live the way they want without forcing others to conform with what ever crazy shit they come up with next. Taking enormous offence at Misgendering and dead naming FFS.

Hello my old friend, it’s been years

I know mate it's shit, but it's the modern workplace, more's the pity. I work with a Lesbian Paramedic once a month and fuck me is she a humorless twat. 10 hour overnight is a long time minding your P's and Q's. She bloody hard work to talk to. Mind you she is prone to going sick which works well for me as I get to go home if I'm not needed elsewhere.

Just find out what S/he likes to be called and use their name. I do take your point though, my daughter Kady has a friend who wants to be called Alex, was Annabelle, who get really upset if someone 'Dead names' her or uses her old name. Such a load of bollocks to me.

Popped up to Damerells bike night, kinda wish I didn’t weather shit no food not a very good turnout. Did get a couple of pics. All shiny ready for bike night Lovely Thruxton Really like this old school Tiger Also saw a new Triumph 400X. Quite a big bike in the flesh Some other randoms there was a really nice Suzuki Beamish but never got a chance to get a pic of it before it went. Another couple of bike clubs turned up who I never heard of although they had local type names.

Two wheel dickheads I mean. I popped out with Shadow on the Hornet as we had to go up to Damerells to book her CBT. Anyway on the way up to Bodmin to join the A30 to Indian Queens some twin headlight Sport bike, Aprilia maybe, was up our chuff most of the way , couple of times we passed cars, tractors he was right there up our chuff again. I rode normally, not playing silly buggers especially with Shadow on the back but he never passed, starting to get on my tits a bit anyway we came up to Lanhydrock roundabout and had to anchor up last minute for a Tesla who indicated one way then went the other. Sporty boy wasn't watching shot past me right out into the path of the Tesla, somehow the Tesla just about stopped in time and didn't broadside him. Dunno if they have some sort of collision avoidance or something because I though matey was toast. We rode on past the drama and as we went past Chloe called him a silly twat, gonna have to speak to her about her gob. On the way home from Damerells again going down the St Austell distributor road which is a fast sweeper between 3 roundabouts. Come up behind some maybe 600 jap sport bike, twas green so probably a Kawasaki T plate with a loud fart can on it. Matey see us drops two gears and is off like a stabbed rat , overtaking on double whites and weaving all over the shop. Each roundabout brought us roughly back together than he is off again each time. I never got involved at all just riding normally. When we got to the traffic lights at the bottom his is there revving the tits off his bike and, making a hell of a row looking over his shoulder at me. I just smiled at him. Anyway when the lights change he throws it left on full throttle nearly losing the bike on a manhole. Then proceeds to piss pass 4 cars in a 30 zone barely holding the thing. Why the fuck do they behave like that I don't know, especially on wet roads. I must say that witnessing such stupidness is teaching Shadow a few valuable lessons much more than listening to me drone on. She is not slow to judge and was not impressed with what she saw.

Had to break out my spare boots as my current ones are falling to bits. Got them second had off eBay for £35. Supposedly Gortex. Brand is Gaerne which I haven’t heard of but they look promising And no the dog is not standing on the ceiling I flipped the photo so they are right way up. Light was weird in the room.

Been bimbling with my Shadow. Took her for a McTreat.

To be fair when the revs are up it's off like a stabbed rat. I suppose I'm always comparing it to my Hornet which takes off much lower in the rev range so feels much faster.

Been out polishing my Italian turd this morning. Just cracked 800 miles since I bought it two weeks ago. All good so far. No rocket but really good for commuting.

The last time I looked there were 3 Triumph factories in Thailand. I don't know if they actually assemble bikes there or if they do to what markets they are supplied to. Its was hinted they did sell Thai Bonnevilles in Britain, in the press here a few years ago. That may not have been accurate so what you say may very well be. It's a moot point as to weather a British bike is british because it has been assembled here and to be honest I don't really care. For me it's all about quality and reliability wherever its built. Of the three Honda's in our household two of them were assembled in Italy. There are plenty of Nissans assembled here with one hell of alot of French parts, does that make them Japanese, French or British? As to the original point I think RE have a steep task to outsell the small Triumphs, as Buck says it all depends on price. They won't do it on looks IMHO. People love Triumphs here, me included.

Narcissism?

True but the Himalayan is priced on a par with the 400X, I don't see that RE can significantly undercut the Speed 400 with the Guerilla. Also RE carries the stigma of Indian POS as Pete would have told us and I have heard it many times in the flesh. Triumph not so much, as yet, even though many are built out of the UK although that could change if they new 400 proves to be problematic. For the record I do still like the Interceptor and old model Himalayan so I hopefully don't share that bias.

I think Triumph has cornered the everyday small bike market with those 400's in the UK. I had a close look at the new Himalayan a few days ago and from my point of view it is an ugly fucker from every angle, to heavy and to big. I would be interested to see the new Guerilla in the flesh but I don't think it has a chance against the Speed 400 in terms of sales.

Easy to say not so easy to do in practice where I live and wasn't really the question I asked. The seat was part of customising the bike to her, I am going with lower shocks to get the balls of her feet into play, which can be reversed when she has built her confidence through practice. I may do the forks but we shall see. At the end of the day you can find videos to back every opinion but I know my daughter and will do what I think is best for her.

Don’t be silly, don’t you think I haven’t already tried that, and a Dax and a Monkey. She has her heart set on a red CB125F.

In the process of doing that but confidence needs to be built, and I think lowering the bike is a viable way to help my daughter out.