Mickly

Don’t know if it’s in the useful info preceding this, but, according to Alan Millyard & Sam Lovegrove ( both who’s opinions I respect ) the idea is to set the surface & transfer, then put it in place and slide the backing out leaving the transfer in place. Apologies if this has already been mentioned.

Mate had a Shadow, was utterly reliable & an every day ride, had it for 5 years and sold it for more than he bought it for, only sold it coz he’d run out of space.

Now sorted, got these from Stratford Autojumble on Sunday - Alpinestars Tech 7’s really good condition and only £50

No worries

If you can stand an early start, get across to Hoar Park tomorrow morning, judging by the forecast there will be a good selection of bikes there, plus the Cafe does a Biker special Sausage or Bacon roll plus tea or coffee for £5. Get there for about 10:30 for full effect, everyone buggers off from about 12:00, including me.

Yeah, it’s only a short stretch, but I’ve mapped out a series of lanes linked by roads that goes to near Daventry, gonna get a mate along, shouldn’t really be green laning solo.

I’ve checked the TRF green lane map & on the OS map app - here it is in green:

Went scoping out some green lanes, there’s one leading over the busy Burton Dassett hills, never have I had so many disapproving stares while doing something legal.

After getting my leg trapped between the bike & a fence post doing a bit of green laneing I think I need some properly protective boots. So if you’ve got a pair gathering dust and taking up space, I’m looking to spend around £30 for some used MX boots size 10 / 10.5

Happy birth….. ooh look … cake yum, now where was I?

West Midlands #4 The Wandering Kitchen at Wet & Wild Southwest Complete #15 Iron Bull Road House East Midlands #1 Hellfire Caves East Midlands #2 Stop & Stuff at Pure Triumph Woburn ( closed on a Sunday ) East Midlands #3 The Granary at Fawsley

Indeed I never pay full price for a Domino’s pizza, usually get 241 but pick up only.

Spotted this in Newquay today, quite tidy in my eyes.

No, but over bloody priced £89 ??

Having done a couple of Bikesafe courses I can identify with the Observer effect, we were told to ride as we normally would so the feedback would be useful …. Yeah right, with a copper up your chuff that wasn’t gonna happen, so it was a nerve wracking process of reigning back my normal exuberance while not riding like a spinster with a box of eggs in the top box. They were not fooled, at the first stop and feedback session I was told to stop dicking around and ride properly

Being a chopper the harness might be home brewed, look up a standard harness for ( I’m guessing ) a XS650 heritage. is the bike new to you or is this a problem that has just happened?

Happy birthday @rennie, here’s hoping there will be Cider involved

Have you actually read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance? It’s bloody hard work !!

Took Zippy on its first green lane expedition - what could go wrong? HS2 that’s what can go wrong, 5 mins into the ride I came across this: no signs at the beginning of the trail and nothing advising as to which way to go: B*stards So I took a left turn and followed a path made by walkers skirting a farmer’s field, only at the point they got back on the track they obviously were able to step over the black plastic barrier - I couldn’t do this but managed to get through it - no pictures as they could be incriminating Further down another section I came across this: what is wrong with people? These were sawn branches deliberately strewn across the track. Probably not a great idea to do this after a period of heavy rain, things got a bit muddy: I ought to get some proper kit before doing this again, don’t think my Alpinestars SMX-5’s are really up to the job. All in all a couple of pleasant hours, worked up a good sweat, but in hindsight doing it with a mate would’ve been better as I would have not been so tentative through the muddy stuff knowing that I’d have help if I f*ckd it up … oh and some better tyres.

Let me know what you think of it.

Even worse when you kneel on an escaped screw

Bloody Pikey

Put the camper up for sale on Autotrader, immediately got calls from bloody Pikeys asking how much for cash today, no other questions. One of them phoned twice and tried to deny, then got abusive when I called him out. I told the first one I wasn’t gonna let him chip me with a shit offer so he could flip it immediately for a profit, he hung up.

And some good bleeding tube, some good bleeding fluid & some good bleeding spanners