Sir Fallsalot

Same here Yen i scanned my licence years ago so it wouldn't get handled too much wont change it until i'm forced to

Don't forget i was 15 i was still learning. this is my score card before licence's went on line here

I've lost count of how many times I've been done for speeding mostly in cars and vans probably because there's no plate on the front of a bike. My introduction to the life of a criminal was when i was about 15 and got done on my DT175 so when i applied for my provisional licence it came with 7 points, which i then added another 4 a few months later because i gave my mate a go on my bike and he done a runner from the cops but an old twat in the village grassed us up I even have evidence, my father found these in the garden shed a few years ago that i had hid from him

When i took my car for an MOT last Saturday i nipped in the shop next door to get something for breakfast and while waiting to pay a little old lady was talking to the girl behind the till and said we had a birthday party for so-and-so last week, the girl behind the till started to explain to her what she had done was wrong and her reply was "its ok nobody will know". She didn't even understand she is one of the ones most at risk we're all doomed

Those were taken in 2017 on an older i phone using the panoramic feature the new phone will be a lot better now i know what your looking for. Trouble is the pano view tends to bend the image like this one

Is it a Honda

What about something like these is the quality good enough and will they fit

Looking at Madam Lou i think she is the hill above town now.

You didn't see many 465's about over here and the 490 i got was registered for the street so i could ride it anywhere i wanted straight from my door which is one of the things that attracted me to it. this is the only photo i have of it. I'd given it a hard life wish i'd looked after it more and kept it.

@Grasshopper's Ride The only advice i can give you is to get out there and test ride bikes then pick one on the results of that. By all means take advice on what issues or what to look out for on a bike. Only you can decide what you like and want. I remember all my mates telling not to buy a YZ490 to use as a trail bike 30 odd years ago saying it wouldn't work and i was crazy, you know shit like that. But because they dismissed it so much it just made me want it more, so i bought it and after a few days on it i realised all the stuff my mates were telling me turned out to be total horse shit i'd never had such an adrenalin rush on a bike, even when it tried to kill me which was most of the time i still loved riding it. It only managed to break my collar bone but i was back on it as soon as i could. Yes it needed lots of maintenance and went through a tank of fuel almost as quick as a tube of autosol in Pete's hands but i'm glad i didn't listen to my mates and followed what my heart wanted it was great fun

I've mastered going down them its just not a very elegant way and the pain in my back and elbows should be gone in a few weeks

It's too heavy for you because your an old duffer, just remember Michelle is a spring chicken fit and healthy ready to take on the world not ready to leave it behind

Your not wrong there, Honda is supposed to have a reputation for for fantastic build quality but I've seen some shit build quality on line and on my mates bike to back that up. Again i think its the type of paint they use is new and will take time to perfect in real world use but that's just one of many things that need improving

Trouble is @Clive they don't use oil base paints anymore, it's more environmentally friendly stuff now so they don't harm the environment. But now the environment harms the paint

Yes they are better at rusting and corroding nowadays

Now that's my kind of food @Pedro ?

Excellent stuff @Grasshopper's Ride that tool sure beats my steel bar and hammer. The one for removing the steering stem bearing is something i can easily make but until i saw it i hadn't thought of it so simple. It was a pleasure seeing you handle those tools for the first time you looked very competent you could learn from this @XTreme

I'm with you @Tym This tool chest i acquired when the Linde forklift factory closed. The boys that worked there were selling them off after they finished. they were full of tools as well but i have no use for a 1" drive socket set so just had the chest and a large steel cabinet This tool bench was also something i sort of picked up. It was on a site i was working on and i had spotted it outside while they renovated their workshop and it was still there when i turned up to do a job two years later. I just happened to be in a van large enough to fit it in that week and after asking the engineer we were working for if i could have it he said get it in the van quick when nobody is about, so it came home. When we turned up on site the next day some twat had been in in the night and stole the cable we had pulled in the day before. When the police were there the engineer only went and told the police that the workbench had been stolen as well FFS As for organised i made this to tidy up all the 3/8 drive stuff i have acquired over the years as i only seem to use the 1/4" or 3/8" socket sets on the bikes i needed it where i could find it

Who did you have to shag to get that Yen asking for a friend

I got loads of tools Bob. I still own a socket set that i bought in Halfords when i was 16, its not in its case anymore and i broke the ratchet trying to undo a car wheel nut with a 4ft scaffolding pole as an extension many years ago, and funny enough i broke the 19mm socket from the set doing exactly the same thing just before Christmas

Doesn't matter how competent anyone is really Pete there's always that one time it all goes tits up when your on your own but its a risk i'm willing to take As for stairs Yup this is me on stairs

Sounds delicious

Its only the trail riding side of it they say that @XTreme

That's right Bruce that's why I've ignored people who tell me not to ride on my own most of my life as you can end it in such simple ways you may as well be having fun when it happens