Stocky

1/ Cable tie on the front shock tells me that I'm using 75% of the travel.

When are you using 75%, during normal riding?

If you adjust things so that you're using more than that day to day then you run the risk of the forks bottoming out when you have to do an emergency stop. Not a good idea.

Donington Park

Thoresby Hall

Skylarks

I ride a Ducati ....... rattling along

Enough said

Today you may get wet

You've got to be prepared for that everyday in Scotland

As important as being able to do this is, the video showing the scumbags that the law are prepared to do it is much more important.

Like a lot of modern bikes it's designed for riding on dry roads only. Take that out in the wet and you will end up with any crap that's on the road splattered all over your back.

If they're not tidying up they get sent to the tool store to ask for:

A long stand

A long weight

Some benzine rings

A left handed screw driver

A metric adjustable spanner

June 15th & 16th come along it will be great, all the information is here https://www.prescottbikefestival.co.uk/ and if there's anything you want to know and can't find it, post here and I will try and answer it for you.

Nice but dry weather only I guess.

as the cool lake water gently laps my testicles.

Now THAT sounds like fun

I got myself a set of these this weekend:

Wow that top is HUGE compared to the trousers.

Several pairs of clean underpants.

The only time I've been over there it was peeing down with rain on the lower parts. It stopped raining higher up but only because we had got above the rain line into the cloud, so visibility was then about 5m.

I must go back some day when the weather's like that.

I like being top of the leader board, but I don’t think I should be, according to his posts, BabyD has 820 points, which puts him comfortably in the lead.

Learn to Unicycle and when you've got that mastered buy a Muni; that's a Mountain Uni and go off road.

You will improve your cardiovascular capacity no end, have quads like steel and it may well help with your knees. I had to stop playing rugby a number of years ago due to knackered knee and nowadays I even forget which one it was.

Google a guy called Kris Holm if you want an illustration.

We took the bike on the Uig to Lochmaddy ferry in 2017 and everything was fine. They got us and another bike onto the ferry first and on our own, so there were no cars snapping at our heels when we went up the ramp. The bikes were tied down, under our supervision, with straps that would hold an artic in place, and we were upstairs selecting the best seat on the boat before hardly any cars were even on the boat.

Always get one knobhead trying it on at the lights but then don't go anywhere when the lights actually change, why do they do it?

You answered your own question, because they're knobheads.

A fantastic ride around North Wales Yesterday

Ludlow Race Club

Acton Scott Working Farm

The Old Bell Museum

Artisans

Dolgoch Tea Room

Statue of Hedd Wyn

Plas yn Rhiw

Stone Science

Captain's Table

Conwy Valley Railway

Sam's Cafe

Cae Dai's 50s Museum

Route 66 Cafe

Ponderosa

I want a bit more of a presence on busy roads (particularly while commuting)

How about some advanced training instead, it teaches you to see and avoid the hazards, rather than expecting everyone else to avoid you just because your bike is making a loud noise.

It will probably be cheaper than the exhaust, won't effect you bike's resale value, my well reduce your insurance premium.............

In the Hebrides you raise one finger from the steering wheel or handle bars as a gesture of thanks when someone has given way to you on a single track road with passing places .

That's the mrs' job to say thanks, I am told to keep both hands on the bars and concentrate.

the only other drivers who wave at each other is motorhome owners

You've never driven a Morgan then. We had one for a weekend and the convention seems to be to drive with the roof down and wave with your arm extended up well above the windscreen line

Last 2 Pubs:

Travellers Rest

Hare & Hounds

Lynn's Raven Cafe

Food Stop Cafe

near Keswick where I camped overnight

Nutter

Make sure you don't get stuck behind someone with a REALLY loud exhaust.

Pardon?

I couldn't find a Ducati dealership convenient for me, the only one I've yet to get, and then I found out that in a few weeks time there's one opening on my usual route to work in Worcester.

So all I've got to do is wait.