elizabethf

Maybe check out the meet up section of this forum and pick your region, there will likely be loads of upcoming bike meets where you'll meet new people. Plus over time at all these meets you'll see the same faces hah!

Here's my 'little angel' http://i68.tinypic.com/2h4dlxk.jpg

A new favourite for [mention]MarkW[/mention] Have hundreds of pics of your dog and a ball? Or your cat sleeping on the window? Do they make you burst with love but no-one of you timeline seems to understand the need for or want the pics? Put them here for the animal lovers! (Rants about your pets being little turds are also welcome, we've all been there)

Bad *any* taxidermy?

This needs to be a thread doesnt it?

I'm just jealous you've both got garages. Posh bast*rds lording it over us scum Double garage with electric doors thankyou very much lol That bike even has it's own carpet! Beautiful bike might i add! Im off to pick my first big bike up (hopefully today) and I'm quite nervous about the setting off! Like you though I'll feel ok once I get moving!

Riding horses is a surreal thing. At any point regardless of training they could easily turn round and think 'nah f this' and get you off!

I work for a council in charge of highways. Cuts in funding for roads from central government. That is all. That £420 million they recently released to all councils to share wont go very far at all. Lincolnshire for example, the council covers over 5000 miles worth of road surface, and of that 420 it's only been allocated around £1 million.... Plus £1 million is all well and good but that is just for temp pothole repairs. Most of our roads are due completely pulling up and resurfacing.

I have a Honda CBR 125 for sale

He must go home and cry each day...

WTF is a familam? Not doing most social media I am far behind the curve of modern usages but I can't even work out where that particular abomination comes from. Abomination is correct. It social media slang for family. Most used by people (mainly women) trying to be cool I think.

The word I hate the most is "fami-lam" "Visiting the familam today" No Dani, with your infinity symbol neck tat and 'live love laugh' decal on the wall, you are seeing your parents today. That is not a word.

That's just called poor socialisation training. Dallas is trained so she won't charge into you as soon as the door opens and jumping up is a huge no-no . All things taught from day one of her being with me. One of the worst offenders for the behaviour I described above was from the huge Dogue de Bordeaux belonging to one of my friends. To be fair though, as he's a journalist for the Daily Star it was just as likely to be him doing it as the dog... he left his morals at the door the day he took that job I suppose! (Fun random fact: i have a journalism degree. Second fun random fact: I was a journalist for 7 years, hated it, moved to "the darkside" of comms)

It's a shame Direct Line don't cover motorbikes (yet?) as they are brilliant. I have home, car and pet insurance with them. all of which heavily discounted because all my insurances are with them as is my partner - so we both get discount from each other haha.

I think they're all turd. Spent an hour and a half on the phone to Hastings on Friday because they hadn't uploaded my bike documents to their website, so i had to ring to change my licence and my bike. After a 40 min wait to get through, the lady on the line for bikes didnt know what pillion meant, and then proceeded to tell me they couldn't insure the new bike! back on hold while she figured it out.... basically she had tried to update the bike BEFORE updating my licence to a full bike one God forbid you have to claim with/against hastings!

That's just called poor socialisation training. Dallas is trained so she won't charge into you as soon as the door opens and jumping up is a huge no-no . All things taught from day one of her being with me. On the other hand, it's interaction nonetheless. In some way us and our pets (particularly thnigs like dogs, rats, pigs etc) are very good at communication despite being differing species. We (in theory) understand when a dog is upset, warning us it is going to bite that little shit child pulling on its tail before it does, we teach it to wait, sit, not jump up, be a service animal so we can use its strong points (sniffing) etc. Pets teach people about life and loss. They are another type of companion to just humans. When mine was a puppy she was a comfort for me after a bad time.

Thats why the little brake piece comes with me!

Buuuut I have a dog that enjoys chasing cats (she's lived with cats... she chases anything though lol)

Maybe there's a b usiness in there, scooping up parts of people's written off prides and joys and making them into something nice....

Also another random tip to add to the 100000s now going through your head... dont feel like you have to do a really tight 8! give yourself space

haha i guess that's why i put lucky in "" More interesting trinkets I guess. Some have those guardian bells, I have a snapped off piece of brake I learned plenty that day about muddy roads thats for sure! I agree with you all on learning and experience btw

Anyone have any lucky charms, bells, routines they have to do? I recently turned a negative into a positive charm thingy. While training slipped on some mud and I and the bike were mostly fine but i did snap off a bit of a brake lever. I kept it, then filed it down and drilled a hole in it to turn it into this. Shoved it in my pocket for my mod 2 i might stick a split ring on though and use it as a keyring for the bike keys instead. http://i67.tinypic.com/flhs14.jpg

This thread can be anything it likes EXCEPT CATS. I'd like cats more if they didnt crap all over my garden. Even better if their poo wasnt such a delicacy to my dog

Added to my ignore list Yep, definitely a wrong'un

I love borders! Though I also love all dogs! Hah it's general chat so this thread can morph into whatever it likes!