Sir Fallsalot

Seriously

this is one month i will vote for Pete's photo but which one remains to be seen

Easy enough Bob the lane was wide enough for a 4x4

I thought that said smile when i first read it as well

Feck off he never got a photo in BOTM when he was alive why should it be any different now

Eventually convinced myself to go out on the bike this afternoon i don't know whats wrong with me, the wife's is away and i'm home alone took me until 14:00 before i got out. I wanted to take some photos of some of the local lanes to me to add to the TRF's green road map (GRM). Had my usual spin over Eglwysilan to warm up and stopped to chat to a local lad for a while, think i might have talked him into joining the TRF, after numerous messages from his missus he headed home glad i don't have that problem. I head from Eggy down to do the lanes around Pentyrch i like these as there's no gates to open and close Love the lanes when the trees close them in from Pentyrch i took the back roads to Peterston-super-Ely and then picked up a nice unpaved road over to St Nicholas and hopped on the A48 to St Hillary to the first lane i wanted to take photo's of for the GRM. This used to be a sump smasher coming down it as it had deep washouts on it now its a nice easy lane but a little overgrown I went down it and then back up, the photos are from the bottom up. The top of the lane starts off on some overgrown tarmac, when i entered the lane at the top i went around a right hand bend and the middle of it was covered in a ridge of mud hidden under the weeds which had me off in the bloody stingy's from here i went up over Cowbridge common to a short lane near Prisk the other lane i wanted photos of, it's always overgrown in the summer but I've not seen it this bad before The entrance is there honest I tried to battle my way through it But the mighty XR was defeated i was going up hill and the summer tyre offered no grip at all on the surprisingly soft ground at this point probably only 100 yards in i turned around. The lane is wide enough for a 4x4 so easy enough to turn around on This is the exit from the lane at the top a rather posh house next to it A gentle ride home form here picking up a few unpaved roads on the way i was out about 4 hours and covered just over 50 miles in excellent weather as usual wish i'd got off my arse and gone out earlier though.

I had to turn around on my lane it got so bad and i was only 100 yards in LOL

I'll put this up from this afternoon while i look through what else if any i have

You own a pavement princess no good you going there

This place has changed, i know for a fact Pete wouldn't have allowed our front page photo i think he used the words over my dead bo ahh right i'll leave it there then

How you getting on with the DR in stock form Bob

this is the KLR650 i remember what the hell happened to it https://www.motorcyclespecs.co.za/model/kawasaki/kawasaki_klr650 93.htm

Had to leave my works van on site today as it's dead. I suspect a failed starter motor or dodgy solenoid, battery charge is good but nothing happens when you turn the key and being an auto i couldn't bump start it so it's getting recovered tomorrow

Marcel when he eventually meets Buckster he's bloody obsessed with him.

Probably the only book i'd ever read as i usually give up after the first page

Didn't do a lot yesterday because after my lane maintenance on Friday with the machete the knuckle for my middle finger had swollen up on Friday evening for some reason and i couldn't clench a fist. It feels like i have an infection as the swollen area was warm to touch it was like that all day yesterday and this morning. Using my hand today seems to have loosened things up but still cant clench my fist and riding the XR was a pain as the clutch is hard to pull with a good hand so was only out for a few miles to bed the chain in.

What RPM is the tick over at now hopefully not 3000RPM LOL

I started changing the chain and sprockets on the XR today ended up making new wheel spacers for it with what i had left from doing the dogs. Fitted new seals as well, nice and tight now, should keep the crap out and make the wheel bearings last longer

whoa don't start him running lets feed him in slowly with just any photo he might get overwhelmed if there's a subject involved

Do you mean Barenaked Ladies you illiterate Canuck

that looks uncomfortable lol

I've wondered the same. they must have heard you there's only 51 now lol

And look how much their asking for it

Nice On a separate note are you taking up Pete's role of buying a bike putting next to zero miles on it and then trading it in for another bike