Slowlycatchymonkey Posted October 18, 2023 Share Posted October 18, 2023 1 minute ago, busabeast said: Well I haven't ridden it since last September when I did Snetterton, I can't afford to do track days now im more unlikely to be able to afford to once the new one arrives so I am begrudgingly selling it ps the second one is cheaper than the first cos you don't have to buy a lot of stuff and have already taken the hit of losing a second income. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
busabeast Posted October 18, 2023 Share Posted October 18, 2023 6 minutes ago, Slowlycatchymonkey said: But you'll get yourself something else? I will once my finances are better, I can't justify it just sitting there collecting dust. It needs to go to someone who can use it. Unless the forum can sponsor me with a whip round..... Pics, vids and merch will be given away 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
busabeast Posted October 18, 2023 Share Posted October 18, 2023 2 minutes ago, Slowlycatchymonkey said: ps the second one is cheaper than the first cos you don't have to buy a lot of stuff and have already taken the hit of losing a second income. I know but I'm unlikely to be able to get on track for a good few years so it's not fair to keep it cooped up in the garage 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pedro Posted October 18, 2023 Share Posted October 18, 2023 No rain for ages and now it comes all at once. Gale force winds outside, Costa ran out for a quick poo and ran back inside with his ears back. Light went out twice after dinner, luckily the wine was already cold! 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
busabeast Posted October 18, 2023 Share Posted October 18, 2023 8 minutes ago, Pedro said: No rain for ages and now it comes all at once. Gale force winds outside, Costa ran out for a quick poo and ran back inside with his ears back. Light went out twice after dinner, luckily the wine was already cold! It's just started raining here too, hopefully by 5am it's stopped 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clive Posted October 18, 2023 Share Posted October 18, 2023 1 minute ago, busabeast said: It's just started raining here too, hopefully by 5am it's stopped It has been bucketing it down here since 5pm, as yet no gale force winds.. 5am ...nope I don't do 5am,s 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boboneleg Posted October 18, 2023 Share Posted October 18, 2023 How many weeks is the baby in that scan @busabeast ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XTreme Posted October 18, 2023 Author Share Posted October 18, 2023 48 minutes ago, busabeast said: I can't justify it just sitting there collecting dust. Exactly! That's the Busa's job! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pedro Posted October 18, 2023 Share Posted October 18, 2023 1 hour ago, boboneleg said: How many weeks is the baby in that scan @busabeast ? Hopefully not long, Bob. Even one week would way too much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
busabeast Posted October 19, 2023 Share Posted October 19, 2023 9 hours ago, boboneleg said: How many weeks is the baby in that scan @busabeast ? 13 weeks 2 days as of the scan 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
busabeast Posted October 19, 2023 Share Posted October 19, 2023 9 hours ago, XTreme said: Exactly! That's the Busa's job! We aren't all living the retirement dream..... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckster Posted October 19, 2023 Share Posted October 19, 2023 14 hours ago, XTreme said: It's bad enough me looking like something from the 1950's........I don't want the bike to look like that as well! People might think I'm a Time Traveller! They would kill themselves, how fucked would the future have to be for the time travellers to be ginger? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckster Posted October 19, 2023 Share Posted October 19, 2023 11 hours ago, busabeast said: I know but I'm unlikely to be able to get on track for a good few years so it's not fair to keep it cooped up in the garage Are you selling the Busa as well then? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
busabeast Posted October 19, 2023 Share Posted October 19, 2023 2 minutes ago, Buckster said: Are you selling the Busa as well then? No not at the moment.... but if I need the money it would sell for then I'll have to 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckster Posted October 19, 2023 Share Posted October 19, 2023 20 minutes ago, busabeast said: No not at the moment.... but if I need the money it would sell for then I'll have to My advice is to stay out of ditches, new mortgage and another kid on the way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XTreme Posted October 19, 2023 Author Share Posted October 19, 2023 1 hour ago, busabeast said: We aren't all living the retirement dream..... Ain't that the truth! I'm currently posting this while sipping Moet & Chandon in a deckchair on my luxury yacht in Marbella! @Clive is in Monte Carlo breaking the bank at the casinos with a Ferrari and a hot chick waiting outside! And @Renegade is in the tropical paradise of Cardiff getting measured for the dental implants of his dreams! 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Six30 Posted October 19, 2023 Share Posted October 19, 2023 12 hours ago, busabeast said: It's just started raining here too, hopefully by 5am it's stopped Why you out on your bike … 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clive Posted October 19, 2023 Share Posted October 19, 2023 Living the (retirement) Dream! This is not the retirement dream i envisaged, not a nightmare, but definitely not a dream. What with Covid lockdown, and now the huge rise in the cost of living it does give me some sleepless nights. Fair enough, we did get a decent rise in our pension this year (hope for another next year ☺) but council tax and energy costs wiped that out straight away, and food prices still rising we are now back to having to be very careful what we buy.....Asda & Tesco (other supermarkets are available) use to raise prices of things by 20p..30p or even 50p, now? somethings we buy have gone up a by £1 or more! So living the dream?..we sit in this bungalow almost 6 days per week, which I find hard has when I was at work I was on the road every week day, driving down to the south of London, or up into Northumberland, that was living the dream. With cost so high for everything, we have to live (more like existing) very carefully, holidays are 3 nights in a caravan in Mablethorpe, we do not go out socialising, yeh it's a fun filled life in retirement. But like you @busabeast I have to make some decisions, I keep saying it, but I think the scoot will have to go next spring, it is fine fettle at the moment, but when it comes to wanting new tyres and other consumables, I can't really afford them on my £40 monthly fuel allowance, if anything happens to the car the money will come out of our burial fund, they can bury me in the back garden OAP rant over...... have a nice day everyone. ☺ 3 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckster Posted October 19, 2023 Share Posted October 19, 2023 12 minutes ago, Six30 said: Why you out on your bike … Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckster Posted October 19, 2023 Share Posted October 19, 2023 40 minutes ago, XTreme said: Ain't that the truth! I'm currently posting this while sipping Moet & Chandon in a deckchair on my luxury yacht in Marbella! Bit early to be on the sauce, @Slowlycatchymonkey must be rubbing off on you. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XTreme Posted October 19, 2023 Author Share Posted October 19, 2023 39 minutes ago, Clive said: Living the (retirement) Dream! This is not the retirement dream i envisaged, not a nightmare, but definitely not a dream. What with Covid lockdown, and now the huge rise in the cost of living it does give me some sleepless nights. Fair enough, we did get a decent rise in our pension this year (hope for another next year ☺) but council tax and energy costs wiped that out straight away, and food prices still rising we are now back to having to be very careful what we buy.....Asda & Tesco (other supermarkets are available) use to raise prices of things by 20p..30p or even 50p, now? somethings we buy have gone up a by £1 or more! So living the dream?..we sit in this bungalow almost 6 days per week, which I find hard has when I was at work I was on the road every week day, driving down to the south of London, or up into Northumberland, that was living the dream. With cost so high for everything, we have to live (more like existing) very carefully, holidays are 3 nights in a caravan in Mablethorpe, we do not go out socialising, yeh it's a fun filled life in retirement. But like you @busabeast I have to make some decisions, I keep saying it, but I think the scoot will have to go next spring, it is fine fettle at the moment, but when it comes to wanting new tyres and other consumables, I can't really afford them on my £40 monthly fuel allowance, if anything happens to the car the money will come out of our burial fund, they can bury me in the back garden OAP rant over...... have a nice day everyone. ☺ The cost of living here is a lot lower than the UK, but we could never survive on €900 a month. Keeping horses isn't cheap.......but that's the wife's interest (like bikes is mine), and as she was never able to have them in the UK I don't begrudge a penny going on them. I'm lucky that my work isn't physically demanding, so as long as I can tap a keyboard and click a mouse I can keep doing it. Having said that, I couldn't do nothing like most of these Brits here.......I have to have something to keep me busy. That was really brought home to me during the Covid lockdown......I was so desperate to actually do something I end up launching this fucking place! Now that's desperation. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saul Posted October 19, 2023 Share Posted October 19, 2023 It will never be this clean again. Old and new 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pedro Posted October 19, 2023 Share Posted October 19, 2023 2 minutes ago, Saul said: It will never be this clean again. Old and new Nice colour on the new one. I do like the bronze on the 500's engine, though. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
busabeast Posted October 19, 2023 Share Posted October 19, 2023 1 hour ago, Six30 said: Why you out on your bike … I am actually... no pics though im too busy riding 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
busabeast Posted October 19, 2023 Share Posted October 19, 2023 1 hour ago, XTreme said: Ain't that the truth! I'm currently posting this while sipping Moet & Chandon in a deckchair on my luxury yacht in Marbella! @Clive is in Monte Carlo breaking the bank at the casinos with a Ferrari and a hot chick waiting outside! And @Renegade is in the tropical paradise of Cardiff getting measured for the dental implants of his dreams! You see everyone.... retirement is the life, pete has just written it in black and white.... Oh and he's never invited us to his fucking gin Palace the tight fisted bastard! BRUCE...... WHERE ARE YOU BRUCE 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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