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I started out on a Honda 125, really liked it , as much as you can like 12 hp I pitched up at a dealership to test ride a CB1000 but got refused because I had too many points on my licence, buy Yamaha were happy to let me have a go on theirs so I ended up with a Yamaha

I think it’s basically an MT09 with extra bits on and a tricked up suspension. I really like my 09 but I did find myself idly flipping through autotrader bikes wondering what I could chop it in for. Probably more of a reaction to the blah blah blah of whatever inane garbage my MIL was watching on the idiot box than a real desire to change it tho.

…I’m on the edge of my seat … Actually in bed because I’m too old and can’t be arsed to stay up another 45 mins. I’ll get woken up in a couple of hrs anyway when my son staggers in and doesn’t turn the lights on as he tries not to wake us up and then falls over the dog toys scattered around everywhere.

Mother in law staying with us at the moment. She’s stepped on the puppy 3 bloody times so far. He’s laying in front of the fire minding his own business and she seems unable to get from one side of the room to the other without treading on the poor thing. Thankfully she’s back the US on Thursday. I should be more tolerant but it’s bloody hard at times.

Have a really not posted a picture before? I don’t take many pictures of my bikes so it wouldn’t surprised me. Must admit I didn’t expect to get any votes and I’ve not voted for myself. I love the way these bikes look but I get they can be a bit marmite with people either liking or hating them.

We have an invite to a mates party however I will be the dropper off and collector and will be home in between. We have a puppy and I don’t know how he will react to fireworks, and can’t leave him on his own at present. He has a bladder the size of a peanut and the way he chews stuff he’s like a waste disposal unit with legs.

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There is a scrap place quite nearby but I need 22mm tube or the anti squirrel thing won’t fit. I thought the chances of them having a couple of meters of it might be slim but I will give them a buzz. If I can get a short bit the right size I can weld a bigger bit on each end if needed.

Our bird feeder is falling apart but rather than buy the same crap again which will last 2 years and rust away to nothing I thought I’d make one. Rooted through my bits of metal that I have and can’t find any suitable stainless or aluminium so will need to buy some. The only bit I want to reuse is the half sphere plastic thing which stops the squirrels getting on to it so the new tube needs to be the correct dia for that. Cant believe how bloody expensive stainless tube is. There is a metal fabricator by the station 5 mins from me, might go up there after new year and see if I can scrounge some

I don’t often take photos whilst I’m out, this is the only reasonable one I could find, taken beside the river Test.

He will come out the next morning and the bike will be gone and so will the enclosure thing.

A customer of the local bike place near me has a V Max which I love the look of. Never ridden one but it does look lovely. Keep meaning to test ride a Scout but my back is knackered and I am convinced I’d be crippled for a week after every ride if I got one. I’m supposed to be having a bit of bone removed from my spine in Jan which I hope will improve matters so maybe 2025 will be the year …

Wotcha watching? My 12 week old puppy chewing up a couple of pieces from a puzzle my wife and mother in law have been doing for the last couple of hours. I might give them another hour before I tell them they are going to be 2 pieces short ….

I cleared the leaves in the garden and collected all the bits of branches and other crap after the last storm last weekend. Now the place looks like the aftermath of a small war again. we are currently in the process of house training a puppy, poor thing almost gets blown into next doors yard everytime he goes out for a wee.

Glad she is OK, and hope this hasn't knocked her confidence. That your kid has been knocked off must be about the worst think you can hear as a parent, can't have been much fun for you either.

Im just loving my garage heater Might even get another one so I can be extra toasty out there ... bloody freezing outside though and I still have 20 tons of leaves to clear up.

I'd love to see some snow down here, although I changed my car in the summer and the new one will be bloody useless on snow ... so be a good excuse not to go to work

They are bloody brilliant. I was wondering if I could wear mine whilst skiing , need to rig up a 12v battery to run it as it works off the bike

Clearing up leaves today, making a huge bonfire and making sufficient smoke to annoy my neighbours. Needs doing every few days at this time of year. Had to change the belts on the leaf sucker half way through, they dont seem to last very long. I did get out for a bit later, nice and toasty in my heated under jacket thingy.

Surely to get sufficient energy density for practical storage for refuelling its going to have to be stored at massive pressures, which must take a ton of energy in the compression process? I have cylinders rated to 300 bar and they are pretty chunky, I'd imagine you are going to need to go a long way beyond that to make it practical.

I realise that, I have an electrolysis machine which generates one H and 2O's from a given volume of water, but it uses lots of electricity to do it. In an electric car one uses clean power (mostly) to charge the thing up and off you go. There are transmission losses in getting it from generation to point of use, around 10% but it depends on lots of things so could be less. The electric motor in an electric car is around 90% efficient. Overall transmitting and using electricity in a car is pretty efficient. For an H car again you need to use electricity... to produce H gas, then you need to liquify it. H needs to be cooled to circa -250DegC to liquify it, process which uses over a quarter of the energy in the H to achieve. Then you need to transport it, still at -250C and store it, still at -250C (I assume?) until it goes into a car fuel tank as gas. The fuel cell/ engine is more efficient than an ICE engine but less so than an electric motor. I think they are 60% efficient? So you lose a big chunk of the energy to make the H then liquify the stuff, then store it, only to use it in an engine which itself is about 60% efficient...or am I missing something here...?

Ah OK, they must just pop down to the lake of hydrogen at the end of their garden to grab a jugful then.

I wonder where the hydrogen to run it comes from in the first place.

Sorry to hear that, it’s heartbreaking to go through. Make his last day a really happy one for him.

Thanks, it's so sad that they have such short lives. He passed away in my arms last Monday but I keep expecting to see him come into the room, and then I remember. I still get broken up about it. I hope yours gives you many more years of love.