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Nope. Didn't tell him either. One of the reasons im so worn out is that since June the boss and I have been working flat out to simply try and keep the company afloat and survive into next year. If the company goes under then i'll have to find another job, at 49 with the physical health problems I have and being a foreigner ( and english with the Brexit bollox currently going on) my CV is not particularly attractive and jobs are scarce with the economie screwed by covid. The work load has now eased as we have almost no clients now so it's just putting the boats to bed for the winter which I can do at my own pace then probably furlough till december I expect. I'll just have to deal with it untill either it gets better or it breaks completely, when it will be boyonf my control anyway.

you mean they tell you to fuck off? ? Oh and if you're looking for sympathy, it's in the dictionary about half way between"shit" and "syphillis"

if it's not tyre pressure, or wear then it's road surface I reckon.

dunno, doc reckons I could be back at work in a week so if I can work, I can ride...

1st gear, engine running, rock back an then forward, as it comes off the stand, clutch out and away you go... apparently not an orthodox method nor recommended by the experts but i did it like tht for years with the transalp...

spot on. since the back op i am not supposed to be involved in the hands on crawling around engines in bilges, but due to the covid bollocks we have no staff so it's been down to me. I have 2 fucked shoulders ( one now seriously screwed) and a hairline crack in my left knee for which I have already done an MRI scan and heve an appointment with a surgeon mid october. The latest bout of endless hours and stupid positions has the whole organism stretched to breaking point. it broke.

I think the point was that you shouldn't need strength... if you do it poperly, which I clearly didn't. odd thing is that i put me weight on the centre stand foot, my right hand on the rear grab rail of the bike and the left hand on the handlebar to steady it so when lifting, any pull or force would have been through the right hand to ppull the bike up and back, but somehow my LEFT shoulder went POP about halfway through the manouver.

rode to Sens, an hour north of home for an "off road training day" 1st exercise, using the centre stand, now my bike doesnt have one ( though i've done it a million times before on previous bikes) so I used the instructors bike, GS1200. I now have a dislocated left shoulder, have ridden an hour home one handed and am now waiting for Madame Moon to come home and take me to A &E. Bugger!

working tomorrow, last day with multiple clients I think, so will probably start decomissioning some of the boats as well as they won't be going out again this year. Sundy, off road riding course. If you don't see me again I fell off and died...

Yeah, but no. I'm a one bike man I guess, I am happy to do as much as I can do with my one ride, I just don't know those limits yet with the tiger. I explained to the guy whose doing the training ( he's a full time instructor for the police nationale motorcycle school in Sens just north of here and has set up a company doing this at the weekends) that I want to discover what i can do with this bike as it stands... with what I've got, kit and tyres.

the idea is to know enough to not get into a situation you can't get out of. Knowing your own limitations is probably the most important skill when you ride alone. the plan is to be with a professional when I go looking for those limitations...

no tats here either. Madme Moon has a couple but not my idea of cool.

I thought it might be an I phone. thanks.

that's one of the reasons I 'm going on this "big trailie" specific off road course Pete, I'm happy enough on these easy trails with the Tiger but I find myself looking at other trails and thinking " i would have tried that on the tralp" so I'm hoping this will give me either more confidence with this bike or some handling tips as it's a very different beast.

very little time for riding in august and the one or two short trips I did to blow away the cobwebs were tight timewise so rarely stopped for pics. here's what I did get

nice pics Pedro. What camera are you using? the pics are really sharp.

I think that was this one

don't have many dirty pictures, and still haven't got tigrou really dirty yet but here's a couple from the transalp days. going back a bit though cos still on yellow plates.. .

you bloody animal you... ?

s'funny I was going to say just that...

Bonjour...

only Winnie the pooh fans will get that one... Just popped in to say that I'm not dead yet, just been flat out at work, the French have taken to heart the idea that holidaying in France is neccessary this year so they have, massively, but for the French "holiday" means July or August, nut June and not september, so we have been at running at full capacity from 10th July to end August (which though excellent is not going to make up for the other 6 months of running at either 0 or 5 %... ) with just myself and the company owner working rather than him, me and 3 techniciens. needless to say I have nearly as many hours overtime owed as I have holiday still to take so It has been" work, eat, sleep, repeat" for the last month and a bit. It has now gone quiet again so I'll be back with more tales of derring do from Burgundy shortly, Starting on sunday when I will be attending an off road motorcycle training session with a professional instructor, given as a birthday present from Mme Moon. it's going to take me a while to catch up with everything on here but normal service will be resumed as soon as poss. ?

that's t'other sid eof the rive to where I was, but I clearly need to look into that GR. thay'r not all accessible by bike, the GR 13 I think goes through vermenton but you'd be a bloody clever rider to take a bike trough it, most walkers give up and switch to the road

I'm an asocial git at the best of times and and rarely so happy as when I'm alone. I do though, enjoy fom time to time riding in company, if the company is good. there is a small group of riders here ( we're no longer an official club) who I am sufficiantly comfortable with to simply be. I avoid big groups like the plague, just not my thing.

you should see some of the stoopid places I got to with the transalp... but it was lighter, less pwerful and specifically MUCH less expensive in case of damage...I'm still being careful with this one, and haven't mastered it off road yet ( I had the transalp for 17 years and 120 odd thousand km's...)