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...on a bike of course. So it seems I'm not the only one coming up with plans for trips I'll never do... but what's yours? Post it here for advice on how to make it a better fantasy, roads you mustn't miss etc. etc. But first some rules, or next thing someone will be off with Elon to the moon and back * Got to start and end at home, using bike, ferries, tunnel. No planes. * No more than 14 nights away * No more than 7.5 hours actually on the bike each day

That's me... planning trips that I probably won't ever make... but if the chance comes, then the plan will be ready.

It was back in the '70s, pretty hardcore in those days. He did three 8-hour nights of haemodialysis at home every week on a machine the size of a public phone box. After his transplant, they put the machine into a museum - it was so out of date.

My Dad had kidney transplant. Gave him a complete new lease of life after 10 years of dialysing.

Happy birthday MB.

Evohome heating: each room has its own schedule and its own thermostat. Works really well: before, the only way to get the lounge warm enough to sit in was to superheat the kitchen. Now the lounge gets warm in the evenings, while the bathroom is warm for a couple of hours in the morning. I make the room where I sit and work a bit warmer on weekdays, but it stays cooler at weekends.

I was taught to filter by my instructor, when I was doing DAS. We'd get caught in the evening rush hour, and he'd talk me through everything to look out for as we filtered through. Good way to learn.

These things * "it doesn’t happen every time but every second or third time" * "it took 20 minutes for the coughing to stop" make me think it's less likely the choke or the carbs, or anything to do with the fuelling, but more likely to be electrics. Damp and humidity can change make a bike with an electrical fault run lumpy one day and fine the next, and after 20 minutes heat from the engine can dry out a cable that is leaking charge through a pinprick hole. I'd be trying stuff like WD40 over the leads to the spark plugs to see if it makes a difference. If it does, then you're nearer finding where the problem is.

Got an MOT for the DRZ. Clean pass

Both really good bikes. If it were me, I'd make sure I could sit on one and know I'd be happy on it before parting with any cash.

@Silentbob83 Some people pass their test and immediately know what they want, and go out and buy it. As for me, I hadn't a clue. I hardly knew one end of a motorbike from the other, and hadn't a single idea of what I wanted to ride. So I bought a friend's bike - an old 500 - and rode it happily for a few years. When eventually I found *the* bike, I pxed the 500 for not much less than I paid for it.

Must have shaken you all up @Richzx6r with the young'un in the car

He needs to slow down a bit - still at work here! Hope to finish before the reindeer arrive.

I think the error has come from a misreading of this chart, showing prison population per 100,000, from statista.com: which puts Anguilla in 20th place and adds (United Kingdom) as it's a UK colony. This chart was for June 2020. The UK reported 79865 prisoners in June 2020 (down from 84000 in pre-covid February*) which equates to an estimated 118 per 100,000. *https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/prison-population-figures-2020

@Fish My guess is it means this: You're insured during your test. You're also insured afterwards if you pass. Problem is that people can't write clearly. But they realised they'd made a mess of the sentence, and so they had another go, adding "You are not covered to ride home if you have failed your test." in the hope that this would clear up the confusion they'd created

Kind of you, Rant. Owe you a beer

oooo slagroom.... :win

Ta for that; sounds like a useful tip I've some heated inner gloves. Don't really them cos they're so bulky.

Hotel Huberty

You're about 3 bikes too late too

I've grown very tired of the doorstep proselytizers. I used to get some fun out them, mainly because it's so easy to run rings round their emaciated theology, but the sport of taking their ludicrous cartoon of God and finding in it an object for disbelief - it becomes a bit samey. Reminds me of "Lake Woebegone, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average. Everyone there is Lutheran. Even the atheists are Lutheran. It is a Lutheran God they don’t believe in."

Never, ever on a pizza. Not ever.