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Ohhhhhh … fightin talk … bet it’s more reliable than a Harley, and probably quicker

Ain’t that the truth. One of my lads was watching the football a few days ago, they should get an Oscar the way they roll around in apparent agony after the slightest contact…and if the ref doesn’t take any notice they are miraculously healed and get back up and carry on playing.

I can't compete with all these fancy high tech boxes ...

First time in a MacDo’s for years. Rode to work ( lots of motorway), lovely going in, hot as hell coming back. The only thing I dislike about my Indian is the amount of heat which comes of the engine - fine at 70, awful in 30 deg heat at lights or slow traffic. After 45 mins I had to pull in to Macs for a frozen smoothy thing, which in fairness wasn’t bad. Sadly the AC in Macs was busted….:(

Coming back from Horsham this afternoon I noticed a few had sprung up on the A281. Fucking things are everywhere. Apparently the UK has endless cash for these things but not enough to fix the roads. I can't recall the exact numbers (or be bothered to look them up) but something like 250 of those idiots on motorless bikes have been killed or seriously injured in the least few years due to road defects. If you add in all those that weren't reported plus those who ride bikes with motors and it's prob a big number. If it was 250 people in a train crash there would be a national enquiry, but as its people on 2 wheels the govt couldn't give a shit.

Get a garage heater. Turn it on a half hr before you go out to spanner things.

I don't know why but there is something I really enjoy about going to collect a new bike from somewhere far away. Last one was Norwich, before that was north Wales ( that was a Sunday night in Jan, fecking frozen), im in Hampshire. I have bought a bike from Edinburgh ... but got that bought down in a van. That CBF looks lovely, hope you enjoy it.

I’m never allowed to forget when I got “rumbled” cleaning engine bits in the dishwasher. You’d think I was drowning puppies in it.

Took my bike for a service at the Indian dealership in Wokingham, never been there before but really mice place/ people. They had the bike in there that Guy Martin used for his wall of death thing, looked lovely ... not for sale tho...

We had the imperial system when I was a kid but thank god we changed. I used to go help out at an old folks home when I was a teenager, getting their shopping. Some of them could only work in shillings and bob and 2d whatever the hell that was, utterly clueless about anything base 10 orientated. It was like we were speaking 2 different languages.

How anything even vaguely complicated ever gets built in the US is beyond me. This be needs to be 1 inch and 13 /28ths of and inch and that bit is 56 and 7/ 97ths of an inch .. its like a foreign language..

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Im happy to contribute if we need to raise some cash...

Or take the cap off…pretty clever!

We flew into Uyuni, then went south down to the border with Chile. It would have been fun to ride it but a) we’d probably have gotten lost or broken down and ended up dead, b) it was 5000m+ altitude and any sort of physical exertion is difficult when you are from sea level. We were warned about parts of LaPaz, and Uyuni in particular was sketchy, the villages south of there less so but I hired a guide with a Land Cruiser (even he got lost twice). He had enough spare parts in the back of it to cover most breakdowns, and 30 gallons of fuel on the roof as there aren’t any gas stations and a huge cylinder of O2 in case we needed it. In terms of risk from the locals parts of the US are worse. My wife used to live near Camden in NJ, not the sort of place you want to wander about at night, even if you are Buckster…

I was in Bolivia a few years ago, well off the beaten track - im not sure I would feel safe on my tod there, really sketchy in some places and I'm Bucksters size. Fantastic place though.

Ive been out all day and only just got back home but had that sinking feeling when I saw the thread title. Ive not been here very long and not known him anywhere as well as you all did but I have to say he came across as a great bloke, really sad news. Im a member of a few bike forums and this is by far the most entertaining one. It has a very much more personal and unique vibe, and even though there is a lot of piss taking its obvious that some of you have known each other for a long time. I hope we don't loose it, I'm not much at IT but if its a case of funding to keep it going I'm happy to pitch in. RIP Pete...

Distinguished Gentlemen's Ride on Sunday morning. Doing the Guildford one with a few friends. 600+ noisy bikes in Guildford High Street was fun last year, ends at a brewery

Hope you make a full and speedy recovery! I absolutely hate hospitals but I guess judging by the speed with which they whipped you in it might just have saved your life. I can recommend the diazepam, or any opiate derivative if its on the menu, lovely stuff

My day today, went wheeling with a group of friends in the woods and trails around Farnham. Lots of sand and a bit of mud which is very difficult on only 1 wheel so a few falls, but only 1 broken bone.

I find them quite interesting. This is the inter web though, so anyone can say anything and its not going to change anyones mind, but the discussion is fun.

Did a 160 mile round trip to see my mum, traffic was awful, roadworks everywhere, shitty roads - coming up the hill with 100m to go until I'm home I was thinking that I'd got there and back without anyone trying to kill me, then a woman in a small silver hatchback pulls out of the school next to us straight in from of me. No "sorry mate", just ignores me and drives off.

My brother has an encyclopaedic knowledge of how our bodies work, he might be in a similar line of business to you (but im only guessing at what you do), and he wakes up in the morning and stretches his arms and legs, flexes his fingers and thinks thank god, it all still works! Given all the things that can go wrong its pretty amazing that it all works most of the time. Edited to add - sorry, I didn't mean to give the impression that he is in any way religious, he's not.

Evolution/ natural selection only works up until breeding age, after that you can get cancer, have a leg fall off or think the moon landings were a hoax, it won't make any difference...

Leave him there, the world will be no worse off.