manxie49

Yep .... Another year without the TT, P----d of about it even though in reality I was expecting it. As someone said today, it's playing right into the hands of the anti TT brigade who seem to be gathering support. https://www.manxradio.com/news/isle-of-man-news/2021-isle-of-man-tt-races-cancelled/?fbclid=IwAR1Z2jE9jMrG7f0eLSY8RuQZjeGbcDMQPbe_CN6J6gbQFF6fAqkU-tnk0O8

Excellent bike .... Glad you had a good first ride after getting back in the saddle, looked like a nice day for it as well

I try and do more than I'm probably qualified "or knowledgeable" enough to do. I do have a bit of mechanical know how, I used to rebuild old Land rovers for a hobby, but they were easy to work on. With the bikes I tend to look at where my limitations start and end, for instance, I know I am totally crap with electrics so I leave it to the experts. Most other things I'll have a go at, if it goes wrong I can always put it in my mates van and get an expert to look at it. I do find more and more bikes and cars are becoming increasingly difficult to do things with without owning a multitude of specialist tools. That said, I also believe that "having a go" helps you get to know and understand your bike, that knowledge is especially useful if you do long distance touring, a little bit of know how can bale you out of the crap. I agree with Tiggie, you tube is brilliant, I've learnt so much on there. So I would say to anyone, if you feel comfortable having a go then do it, if not take it to a garage, I don't think it reflects on anyone as a biker.

Haven’t had any problems ..... yet anyway. Just looked online, doesn’t appear that you’re alone, Amazon are apparently working on a fix

You and me both! As sky rider said, there’s been rumours of holding it in August .... time will tell

Announcement on Monday as to whether TT is going to go ahead next year .... Fingers crossed https://www.three.fm/news/isle-of-man-news/tt-2021-announcement-due-on-monday/?fbclid=IwAR2gHhyAVgBFwU-OP3YWJh8KAG3lfuovDp3cKNDoZZluTT_dvaMmj3dNZoA

Well put together video .... Looks like a cracking place to explore

Cowboys abound at the minute .... We recently had a shiny new extractor fan installed in the kitchen. A week or so after installation I noted the kitchen was steaming up, nothing was being extracted, so I got the step ladder out and had a look above the cupboards and this was the F-----g disaster that I found! Ducting was too small for the power of the extractor, continually blew everything off .... These people are supposed to be tradesmen, more like cowboys, quick to take your money but not that quick to accept responsibility when things go wrong.

enjoyable day out today, riding the green lanes, and enjoying the solitude, didn't see another living soul on any of the green lanes today. Time for the wash off now, I seem to have more mud on me than the bike has!

Yep .... Me to somehow

I'm starting to see WD40 in a whole new light now

I always attributed it to roping the curry and poppadoms down too fast, that's the only time I ever seem to get them

Big deep breath in and hold it (although make sure you start breathing again before tuning blue and passing out ) , don't know why but it seems to work for me .... That said I only seem to get hiccups after eating spicy food for some reason...

I remember when I was a kid listening to the Police on a scanner, you could only hear one side of the conversation as I recall ..... TETRA is the big thing now, down side is it supposedly fries your brain!

Used by a lot of agencies including emergency services, allegedly they can’t be scanned

Michelin ultra heavy duty, bought mine from dirtbike xpress. Use them on my off roader and have found them to be pretty good

Some fantastic places over there to explore, plus the weather to enjoy doing .... Hopefully lockdown lifts soon so you can get back out into them there hills!

Analogue, as Bender said, you can buy digital ones but you need to be licensed, I use one when I'm Paragliding. There's different types of digital radio as well, making it even more confusing, such as TETRA.

If you think helmets cams are too big check this out ..... The first ever helmet camera used in the TT by a travelling Marshall. I'm glad things have moved on since this

If the boots you're wearing are ok, waterproof, have you thought of something such as Lenz heated socks? From what I recall they're not cheap but seemed to get good reviews.

Happy Birthday

Laughed at this one, reminded me of the wife driving off in the car with my helmet on the roof and me running down the road waving like a lunatic trying to stop her

Never seen myself as a judge .... more an executioner, always fancied that job

I think I need a 3t van state of some drivers over here

I need to talk my missus into letting me use the car more