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I got back to him t'other day and he says he's been very busy ( hes a steeplejack, of sorts...) but he says he eventually got someone on the phone and suggested that there might be someone in the area who could come round... they said th'ed have a postal tracking N0 for him within 24hrs... He still hasn't told me what shop it was

they wouldn't fit in my top box, and to be honest, the weight of the bloody things would destroy a plastic tob box on the roads I use I reckon.

ou have a decompression lever!? I haven't seen one of those for about 20 years, and the last time I did it was on an old volvo boat engine

a bloke on the facebutt page "Motards Bourguinons" was asking if anybody had some old bike parts, especially engine parts that needed getting rid of cos he wanted to incorporate them into a sculpture or something. I scavenged these from the bin at work for him ( I couldn't find the crankshaft from the single so I guess somebody already had that) This also gave me a destinantion for a ride. Chateau Chinon. I had the devils own job attaching the two crankshafts to the rear rack in a way that they wouldn't move over the 180 odd km of minor roads. I really didn't want to lose them "en route" and have to retrieve them from some poor buggers radiator or windscreen. Unorthodox but effective, ( story of my life ) obviously monday ( bank holiday here) was overcast and about 10 deg C wheras sunday had been a glorious spring day. but the route went something like this as I was on my own, I ws having far too much fun to stop and take pics but took a couple alongside the reservoir the route home was a little faster, about 4 hours all told,

yeah, OK I didn't actually research it...

haven't you told them that there's a power shortage...

The Auld Alliance between Scotland and France was signed in 1295... but apart from that, I like a good kebab from time to time

lovely day today, first proper "spring" day we've had. spent the afternoon fiddling wit the bike to see if I could move the phone hoder abouve the clocks ( I can't not without fabricating some sort of bar. I then loaded it with a load of old engine parts from work that a guy I sort of know wants to try and incorporate them into some "Aaaaaaarrrrt", Two 1000cc twin camshafts are a bloody nightmare to try and attach securely onto a top box rack! they'ref'kin heavy too. Bike feels reqly top heqvy with them on the rack. I'm going to drop them off in Chateau Chinon tomorrow afternoon along with a few pistons and con rods "liberated" from the bin at work.

yeah but it;s still a suzuki

Great thing about curry, tastes the same coming up as it did going down….

Poulet tikka masala La Commune, Lyon. One of the rare indians ive found here that still spices his food properly, most have tuned it down by at least half to cater for the Fremch palette. They even do cheese poppadums FFS!

anybody got any contacts ooop tut north, middlesbrough way like? just wondering as a friend of mine here has ordered some bike parts from a shop up there and they're not answering mails or telephone anymore so he's wondering if they've ceased to be...

The Spanish Inquisition....

you just confirmed my hypothesis!

I'm convinced zzzzak is one of Pete's trolls, the only reason the persona exists is to create traffic on the site by spouting mindless conspiracy bullshit that he knows will elecit a reaction from anybody capable of rational thought. nobody's seen him, hes can'tpost a pic of himself on a bike ( cos he doesn't really exist) and where does he purportedly live? Oh, what a surprise, somewhere where there's no other members near enough to go and verify his existance.... Coincidence? I think not.

Any competent hacker would ba capable of faking a redated webpage, especially in a format so small it pixelates if you try to zoom in to the details. Photoshopping the image of a fake site in a toy phone into the image of a bike in a shed is easy. You’re just like “them”, fakes and lies, all of it!

Ah but you'll have to cos it's neccessary, even if its BIRTH identity was a boat anchor. It's been through the "OP" and had it's little bollard fitted and now has every righ to identify as a road train if it want's to

I'm not asking you to believe that the tiger is mine, or even that I exist otside of here, You're the one telling us to believe what you say and that you can prove that anything else is fake and yet you can't prove you're not a fake.

this is why the people traffickers put hem in boats that are already sinking before they set out, that they'll be rescued rather than turned around to face certain drowning. add to that the fact that the channel is the worlds busiest shipping lane and a fairly dangerous place to be in a small unseaworthy boat that shows up on no radars and is invisible from the bridge of any moderate size ship. Add to that the fact that international maritime law obliges any vessel to render assistance to another vessel in distress, and the ownwe r and captain of a vessel refusing to do so would not only lose their jobs and never work again, but could also potentially be sued by the WMO and Lloyds ( or both), and there you have the ideal situation fo the people smugglers to exploit international law to their advantage. I should also pont out that as the English insist that the body of water in question is the ENGLISH channel and belongs to ENGLAND then by the same reasoning anything floating about unclaimed in it also belongs to them Anyway, is it surprising that everybody wants to go and live in England? It is, after all, and always has been, the best country in the world. No?

you could have got thatphoto anywhere, you surely don't want us squirrel heads to just believe what you tell us, that would be gullible in the extreme, where is the tangible proof that this is a bike you own? I don't believe you.

yeah, but then youd have to deal with the French...

on a (vaguely) seious note, why seperate trikes and trailer towing ...things... from Bikes? Either they are Bikes, and we've always welcomed any sort of bikes in here ( even a pushbike riding wanabee biker once, abd there's some twat on a bloodt scooter! ) or they are not bikes, in which cas they don't belong here anyway. Integration and acceptation works both ways.

they wouldn't. easier to fly uk - Italy aoiding french airspace ( presuming it's the air traffic controllers who are revolting) then from spain to the UK. flying to Italy you just re route around France to the east. I imagine French air space covers most of the bay of biscay and skirting that to the west means a looong overwater flight. Hope you get a solution.

of course he does. It'll all be absolute bollox, but h'ell have some.

Yep, euro regs mate, but the brits won't benefit from that.... Come to that the French neither, but only cos we don't pay road tax anyway