Nute

Give him/her a hug, every day. I lost my dog after almost 13 and a half years last week, Im still heartbroken about it.

You've got the right username. Glad you survived....

I go out of my way to park in front of signs like that.

Ive tried buffalo, really nice!! Never had Elk, didn't know much about them so looked them up and wow are they big for a deer! Where I live its mostly Fallow or Roe deer, fallow are the biggest at maybe 75-80kg max, roe are very small but my favourite venison. We don't have a tag system here, if its in season ad on your land its yours until it crosses the boundary. The seasons are geared to the breeding times but there is always something in season year round. We do get a few Muntjac in our garden, they are tiny but really cool. Never eaten one tho.

I've never understood the Americans who get all dressed up in camo, then have to put an orange day glow vest on so they don't get shot by another hunter. Lovely animal, never shot or eaten one myself but I do love venison.

A 4.8 in a little van must have been great fun

Life deals some people a really shit hand. How profoundly sad for his family…

Get yourself a tin of Surstromming by mail order from Sweden, then get back to me about stinky canned fish once you have opened it. Its fermented herring, someone told me they open it in a bucket underwater to try to stop it stinking the house out.

Pilchards are great too … yum

I’m in the far south too, but every 3-4 years we get a good dump of snow…makes riding a bit difficult. And of course as we don’t have equipment to clear it we need to wait until it melts or the local farmers clear it. Dog included for scale

Wow, what a great place. A good few million bucks worth there! Do they ever drive them? Thanks for the offer of the shirt, really appreciate it but I wouldn’t want you spending your $ - it’s nice just seeing the photos. It’s motivated me to get off my backside and fix mine

I hope she’s ok and all goes smoothly for her, sounds scary to say the least.

No, bought it from the guy that did but he then lost interest so lots of kinks to iron out. It had less than 300 miles on it. As I can’t afford a real one this is the closest im going to get. It’s great fun, tho ( when it’s working) I doubt it would beat a Tesla away from the lights.

Fortunately it’s very simple electronically, unlike anything modern.

Nope, US v8 from 1973, rear axel/ brakes off a jag, steering from a BMW, nothing Jap in it if there was it prob wouldn't have gone tits up.

Broke down, car not bike ... bloody annoying. Fortunately have a recovery policy who gave me a projected wait time of 2+ hrs before the recovery truck could get there, plus apparently it was a £40 excess for recovery .. The tow truck showed up in about 45 mins so can't fault that, and the guy helped me push it into the garage once we got it home. Turns out he used to live in Finland (the place id love to live given the choice) and was a really nice guy. Had a quick look when I got home, fuel getting to the carb OK, carb working OK, nothing obviously wrong with the distributer but that is as far as I got before going out on my bike. I'll have another look at it later in the week

It does look a bit like you have a barbecue fixed to the back of it.

If every car driver had to do a CBT prior to their test the roads would be far safer for bikes. Might make them appreciate how vulnerable we are to them behaving like twats.

I’ll take a look at the innov ones, not heard of them before. It won’t stop people driving like twats but at least there will be no argument if I do have a problem.

After yet another car driver trying to kill me it's time to fit a dash cam thingy. Indicating to exit a roundabout from the inside lane (two lanes on the roundabout, big white arrows in the road indicating both lanes exit onto a dual carriageway), driver to the left of me decides he is going to carry on round to effectively do a U turn by going all the way around in the outside lane to go back the way he came from, no indication that he's going to do that, just cuts straight across in front of me ... I didn't hit him but it's just the latest thing which has made me decide to get a dash cam. I want one hard wired to the bike, camera front and rear. Anyone got any suggestions? Anyone use one? I have one I can fit to the side of my lid but I always forget to put it on/ charge it up etc.

I had a few other priorities at the time than pulling my phone out. This is what I was trying to get running, mine isn’t fixed to a kart, but maybe one day

Best of luck with that Clive. I almost managed to set myself on fire on Saturday trying to get my pulse jet going using a leaf blower .. a sudden change in the wind direction and im partially engulfed in burning propane. Eyebrows half gone, hair on arms and legs partly gone and face was fecking agony for two days. Fortunately it's now subsided to just angry red and hasn't blistered. To make matters worse my brother, who was assisting, fell about the place laughing whilst I was putting myself out...

i have had pneumonia, nearly bloody killed me. Four courses of antibiotics to sort it out, each stronger and more unpleasant than the last. If a vaccine reduces the chance of going through that again sign me up, I don’t care if it’s got nuclear waste, asbestos and trumps ear wax in it.

Off to Halfords for a sump plug washer, highly likely they wont have one but im bound to end up buying other crap I don't need there.

I’ve got my lads next week … even he’s not that bothered but all my in laws etc want photos. Wife will still be in the US so will be me on my Todd. Currently in Florida where it’s ungodly hot, humid as hell … but we have had some real hum dingers of thunderstorms. Mother in laws car broke down yesterday, battery knackered so fixed that today.