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sorry, moveable floorboard in a boat. A floor in a boat is something else entirely.

it is. green and damp, depite what the doom and gloom sayers might say. just atarting to turn yellow round the edges though.

its easy enough to plan an afternoons ride with todays technology Pedro, even for a self confessed technophobe like me. I plan routes on the laptop and then transfer them to the phoe for navigation. I often do this of an evening when I'm bored, that way when the fancy takes me, its all ready in the phone and I just hit GO

being "extra-european" I don't think they can organise the points, but they could insist on immediate payment of the fine, even if it involves them escorting yo to the nearest cashpoint... ( seen it done to a client for a speeding ticket)

I used to have one of these, I cringe when I see what they're worth now...

it's only 90€ if you pay within 3 days but still 3 points.

great pics yen. was that Snape maltings you visited? that burnt down in the autumn of '87 (?) i know this because i was working as a volonteer bosun fro the Ocean Youth Club refitting one of their yachts in Fox's marina Ipswich. We used to sail a lot with the essex county fire brigade an their head honcho at the time, Roger Paramour, was a regular relief skipper on the boat. That night we were all sleeping on the boat in the yard, Roger Paramour, "Smudger" Smith ( essex fire brigade no3 man and breathing apparatus specialist) and about 8 other firemen. around 2 in the morning their bloody beepers started going off all over the place, they leapt out of their bunks, forgetting that we'd removed all the sole boards to re varnish them.... it took them a good 10 minutes to extricate everybody from the bilges... when Roger's pager ( remember them?) went off, smudger said it must be a big one cos they only do that when all the pumps in the area are out. I found out a couple of days later that it was Snape Maltings that went up.

it's the reason you'll find french drivers ( not parisiens) pushing right over the the right edge of the lane to let bikes past without having to cross a solid white line, it's 135€ and 3 points here ( if they see you)

well I set off to go see the Lac des Settons empty but was turned back by the weather. grey sky and just spitting when I set off at about 13h30. I'd planned a 4h round trip using only minor roads. I'd got about an hour in when the odd spot of rain tuened into what my mother would call "mizzle" I was pleasantly dry and warm in my gear and being alons had no qualms about riding slowly along some very greasy back lanes. The wind started getting up from the south west and the temperature started, if anything to increase somewhat. We had the first of the automn storms about a week ago and evidence of this was all over the road in places. I found one spot with a tree down across the road and had to box round it. The wind was really getting up and the rain coming down harder. It stopped being fun after coming round a corner and finding a dead branch across the road very obviously very recently come down, I decided to pull the plug and turned for avallon and fuel before heading home. coming into Avallon the back way i'd run ahead of the rain but bu the time I'd fuelled it was catching me up again so I headed North and a bit East to stay in front of the weather and ride some back roads I havent done before. I got home after 2 hours out having done about 130 km. I tried a panoramic of that shot but can't decide which I prefer

that's a solid white line there you naughty boy! strung up by your balls here for that... ( if they see you)

lapsus significatif

yeah but this is rance Tym, there's just so much more class here, it'll be all sunken villages and romantic lost churches.... or mud and dead sheep

I wanted to go and get some pics of the Lac des Settons which is one of the feeder reservoirs for the canal which they've completely drained for the ten yearly inspection of the dam, but the weather is crap. I might try tomorrow but doesn't look much better.

Only pic taken this month

dunno mate, i wasn't taking in the atmosphere. didn't notice any particular mood in the hotels and restaurants, the brits I saw seemed to me to be as loud, ignorant and vulgar as ever. but then I was brought up in genteel lincolnshire villages, not big inner cities. N0 1 says that she was shocked last night when they went out for a drink around 9 pm and there were already girls her age absolutely legless lying in the gutter outside or stumbling around the bars screaming at each other with piss stains running down their legs... it's not so much the state of them that shocked her but that they were in that state by 9pm. To be fair, I saw no evidence of this in the Lincolnshire countryside I spent saturday afternoon walking around.

I left home at 07h00 friday morning, and drove to Liverpool, I had reckoned it would take about 10 hours... it actually took 14! just because the traffic in the UK is soooooo slow and dense. The brits drive like complete twats on the motorways too, any time there's 4 lanes, lanes 1 and 2 are completely empty with everybody driving 4 inches from the car in front in lanes 3 and 4. I lost count of the number of times I just played the ignorant foreigner and overtook everyone on the inside... wankers. On Saturday I drove from Liverpool to Louth and had a wander round the town but apart from the chinese restaurant, the indian and the "Mr Chips" chip shop i recognised none of it. Did the high school reunion thing sat night which was amusing and drove home sunday. 2200km in all. that's why I wasn't on here this weekend.

Look st the size of that one!

Sorry i misunderstood. bout an hour and a half, or 2 h if not on the autoroute, 140odd km i suppose.

Not really taken that much notice to be honest Pedro, when they look worn i change them. I rarely change front and rear at the same time. Ive done about 50,000km on the tiger and dont thing ive changed tubes.

I'll keep an eye on pressures for the moment and plan to change the tubes with the next tyre change I guess. My problem with that is that there is absolutely no trustworthy motorcycle mechanics within a 100km radius of here so any tube change is going to involve some organisation.

Really? Wow, never done that. the tubes I have in must be 4 or 5 years old...

isnt that the one they called "the land crab" it was so shite?

should I be replacing tubes periodically? I never did on the tralp, I had the same tubes for years.

Do modern innertubes eventually go pourous? how often are you supposed to replace them? I'm having a bit of an odd phenomenon with mine at the moment. The tiger has spked wheels, so runs tubes. they're fitted in "tubeless" tyres ( pirelli scorpion III) and have been without problem untill this summer. With the temperature range having been larger then usual this summer I have expected a certain amount of pressure variation but have been finding that both front and rear tyres need systematically pumping up, and always the same amount. the rear ( officially running at 2.9kilos pressure) will be missing 0.4K when I check with cold tyres wether they've been let overnight or for a number of days, The front ( usually at 2.5kilos) will be missing 0.2kilos. This has been the same EVERY time I check tyre pressures, which has been every time I ride cos I know they'll be low) I use a pressure guage to check the pressures and then a foot pump with a manometer on to pump them up. Both guages correspond. I have found no leak at the valves ( and anyway, if it was a valve leak it would surely continue leaking, not just drop the pressure by 2 or 400 grammes respectively... and to have BOTH valves go dodgy at the same moment...! Unlikely in the extreme I would imagine. So, my next thought is " Pourous tubes". is that still a thing with modern rubber? I ran tubes on the transalp too so have been using them for 20 odd years and never suffered from it before. Any other explanation? Just to throw out any theories you may come up with, I corrected the pressures on saturday morning befor leaving for a weekend trip. Over the weekend did 800 and odd km's getting home sunday night. Checked tyre pressures monday morning and they were spot on, not lost a gram! and yet they've systematically lost pressure overnight for the last few months.