Slowlycatchymonkey

At last an emergency return request has come in, this means 🏍 woop woop.

Yes there’s a word for them an ‘aeolist’ a pompous windy bore who pretends to have inspiration.

Agree any instruction manual or factual reference books are all better in paper.

They suit well worn bike

He makes a couple of interesting points but boy doesn’t he ever make a meal out of it!

My new e-reader arrives today. A perfect example of great tech that comes at a price. I’ve joined the library, looked up how to borrow free ebooks and it’s not straight forward owing to having to download a licence for the book to a laptop or similar before you can then put it on your device. I have that feeling of excitement mixed with a trepidation you get when you know somethings not going to be straight forward. I opted for the one I have because it had actual buttons on the side for turning the page rather than a touch screen which according to the reviews is much easier to use.. who knew...

Well welcome back. Works particularly boring today then?

I’m a no stickers person. Bit like tattoos, I like them on other people.

Anyway @125cc who are you? I’ve looked at the welcome thread and can’t see your “Hi Im such n such I mainly ride in circles on sundays” type intro, it might have got lost in the transfer or I may well have missed it as I’ve been away... on a sabbatical of sorts.

Yep your posts sum it up. It’s wearing and disruptive. It’s fun when it’s new and you’re marvelling at how clever it all is but they carry a time price which seems tiny for each individual items but add them all up and they’re just time consuming and annoying. I think my wireless printer is brilliant but sometimes it’s also close to being smashed into small pieces. I used to go to a 1920’s hotel on an island that had no technology past approximately that era. No mobile reception, no televisions in the bedrooms just an old wireless with satisfying turny dials and positive switches and a Bakelite phone. It was bliss. I still go occasionally (obviously not at the moment) but it’s not the same, new owners so it’s been revamped a bit with wifi throughout etc it’s not the same.

I hadn’t read your reply when I posted mine but I’m with you 100% I even looked for a Star Trek gif but couldn’t find what I was after! I love sat nav and the idea of switching on the oven so dinners ready when I walk through the door but all this stuff comes at a cost, not the financial cost but the amount of time spent engaged with it, it’s tiresome. I mostly ride with no sat nav even though when I need it I really need it and prefer peace and quiet to alerts and chimes. My rather brilliant new kettle which I’m very enamoured of started alarming at me the other day. Apparently it wants descaling, I don’t have the appropriate descaler so for a week every time I wanted a sodding cup of tea (which is often) lights flash and things ping. Being nagged by my kettle annoys the living daylights out of me. Similarly my clever Apple Watch spends a lot of time sat on the bedside table, I don’t want to be tapped because I’ve reached some stupid goal set by someone else! Wrestling with it all seems to come down to whether the thing that’s supposedly making your life easier is actually yet another thing to think about that must be engaged with or whether it really just efficiently gets on with making your life easier without bothering you or breaking.

Having said all that I’m having a smart meter fitted next week cos our electricity bill is astronomical so I’m prepared to take the risk

I’m a Luddite when it comes to these things. I accept they’re useful, would make my life easier and save money but I have an ingrained aversion to adding in anything extra just because its just something else that can go wrong. When the clever underfloor heating timer went up the spout it was a total pita that’s never been fully resolved but when the crap mechanical bimetallic strip thermostat in another area wore out after decades of use it was no problem you just turned the dial until you heard it snap. I prefer basic controls preferably dials you can turn to buttons you press (that often have to be pressed in a particular sequence to make them work), hard wired to wifi and the minimal number of settings because you often read the manual and end up only using 2 maybe 3 options. Given the choice I’d probably be using dashboards with toggle switches, you know the sort you know have definitely been pressed

So far you hold the record for most flashes in a week and still in possession of a licence, you may be invincible, although I’m not sure about the super hero name... hmmm Flash man?

So am I but as I’m the only one who does diy I’m only torturing myself!

Dandy. My license is clean, I have points to spare

If that’s the case I’d say an agreement on info sharing is even more likely, after some more ridiculous posturing, some difficulties have caused some trauma somewhere along the line and enough time has passed.

Plus this

Where is this quote from Mr G? I find it hard to believe they’re prepared to drop a potential source of income. Seems likely something will replace it or they’ll come to a new agreement.

I tried wallpapering for the first time in august. I don’t think I’ve ever sworn so much doing DIY, at one point I said I was going to time travel back find the person who invented wall paper and finish them before they’d had a chance to put the stupid idea forward. Then just one strip of paper from the end whilst sitting with my extremely exasperated head in hands I saw the instructions printed on the inside leaf- paste the paper. The outside was printed saying paste the wall. I choose to believe it was an awful experience because the instructions were wrong... nothing to do with my ability, or lack of

I like them, the black and white plates I mean not the daft way stupidly tiny plates are mounted. I wonder what other countries insist on yellow n black? The Indian number plates are so small you can’t read them unless really close. In Tibet you have to slow down to 5 mph every time there’s a camera (and there’s a lot) because big brothers number plate recognition doesn’t work on the tiny letters if you go any faster

Must be easier to spot the drug dealers in lockdown!

I wish I could be bothered with Facebook but I’ve just never liked it. I manage to click email links to say ‘happy birthday’ and do use messenger but the rest of it makes me nauseous. Friends I used to like seem to have been sucked into a world of either pretending their lives are perfect in some weird new version of Hyacinth Bucket one upmanship or the other extreme of continually posting ‘woe is me’ stuff. Anyway off topic. Yes she’s is hard as (in a good way). I also like that she wears and champions pink. A lot of women will tell you they hate pink. I always think that’s crazy, how can you hate a colour but I think it’s more to do with rejecting things that represent being feminine as ‘not hard enough’ That in my book is a shame cos most people could do with embracing their feminine side a bit more, might not be so many folk wandering around with repressed emotions spilling out in daft or destructive directions...

That’s great news. You can’t not like Ana Carrasco, she just seems to mainline and beam positivity, bit like Bryony Frost, dunno how they do it. Marvellous.

It’s certainly worth a look, I like it. The Versys is currently about £700 more but I reckon the extra bhp would make it worth it. It’s also lighter than the Himalayan with better ground clearance. I’d want to know about the mentioned vibrations though because that’s wearing if you’re riding a long distance, the Himalayan is anything but wearing it’s the opposite, very relaxing. A factor against for me would be its durability which on the Himalayan is just outstanding (you can’t underestimate the convenience of being able to bend bits back) but it still wouldn’t put me off if it rode well. Plus it very much depends where you’re riding it, in this country or somewhere where Kawasaki spares are available dandy. I’d test ride it for sure.