S-Westerly

Oh to be so cruel.

But sometimes it can be fun to feed the trolls.

Wasn't that Guy Ritchie when he was shacked up with Madonna? I seem to remember a stink about an airfield somewhere near Dorchester and they basically got told to wind their necks in.

Ultimateaddons are pretty good. I bought my sat nav mount from them.

The loudest noises where I live are sirens or boy racers in cars. Rarely hear a bike and my own isn't particularly loud. Certainly meets Euro5 legislation.

Depends on how much difference there is but generally I go by the tyre manufacturers recommended pressure for their particular tyre. The pressure in the owner's handbook will be for whatever the OEM tyre as fitted to the bike as standard recommended. I'd be surprised if it was radically different. What I would say though is I personally would always have the same model / brand tyre front and rear.

Exactly!

Bad business at Oulton Park today. Multiple bikes in a pile up and at least two riders dead and one critically injured. Sobering.

Laptops direct is where I tend to go but I'm buying high end MSI gaming laptops as it is one of my stress relievers. Nothing takes the edge off like killing lots of electronic entities. Very cathartic.

I can see the purpose in that but last year my wife and I were up on Cleeve Hill near Cheltenham and this bloody drone started buzzing around like some kind of hyperactive wasp. Was damned noisy and rather spoiled the ambience of the place.

My father in law had one of those and I used to snipe wood pigeons in the strawberry patch from the half landing window. Great fun but not for the pigeons.

What he says, regular trainers are a no no.

Well not really the next garage was 100 m down the road. To take my helmet off I have to take off my gloves, remove my helmet, find somewhere safe to park it and not balanced on my mirrors, then carry it and my gloves round while I pay then put myself back together. Why should I? Not as if they are asking ladies to remove their veils or anything which doesn't bother me but if you do it for bikers you do it for everyone.

Sometimes I do wonder how we are still not being chased by saber tooth tigers as occasionally there seems to be a collective lunacy break out.

I've only once recently been asked to remove my (flip front) helmet and that was a Tesco well off my regular routes. I returned the unused nozzle, waved and rode off to the next garage down the road.

I've calmed down a bit but am still disgruntled. Having thrown a hissy fit I got more info which in some ways makes it worse. The joining engineer is a new hire and is required to have a specific simulator course which she doesn't have. Now they knew this from when they took her on so a) why didn't they get her on the course ASAP and b) why wait until 24 hours before she was due to join to tell us she couldn't join? Complete cluster f@@k.

Changing out some crew tomorrow, should have been more but office screwed the pooch. Got provisions today which means at least we have coffee again. Sadly the supplier hadn't sussed that leaving chocolate exposed to 30 C temperatures is generally not a good idea. Refused to pay for it. Stuff was delivered by pirogue which is basically a large canoe with an outboard. Definitely 3rd World here.

I have insulted amoebas. Today the f-wits in my HR told me that the 4 Engineer would not get relieved tomorrow for "operational reasons". That sounds reasonable cos shit does happen but on making further enquiries it turns out that the joining 4th had an issue with her documentation. They've had 2 weeks notice to check this out so wtf does it not become apparent until 6 hours before she's due to fly!? I get to tell my guy he's not going home and will miss the family wedding he was due to attend next week. I really hate these bast*rds now. Used to be OK but last year they farmed it out to the Mumbai office and it's been total shite ever since.

I forget where but somewhere I saw a sign in a petrol station that "motorcyclists must dismount before using pump". I tend to although if it's pay at pump I wonder why I do.

I think a lot of people doing a tight low (walking) speed turn put their foot down. Not saying it's right but it's a reflex.

Wouldn't be too keen on that in Florida. Remember they can shoot you there and then feed you to an alligator.

My HR department have the collective IQ of an amoeba. They've known for 2 weeks we need to change out at least 13 guys and they've been prevaricating for days now. Finally I went over their heads to big boss so it is now happening on Sunday except for 2 Filipinos who've already been here 9 months and despite weeks of planning HR haven't got the right documentation for their replacements. Oh and me as my relief is relieving the Mate who's well over his time. Meanwhile they'll source another Mate to come here so the guy who's supposed to be promoted can relieve me. Maybe in a month. I hate these reptiles.

So you've been to Wiltshire then? Never seen so many torched gatsos as there. Shame Oxfordshire is so law abiding as its overrun with cameras and stupid 50 mph limits everywhere. Very Green though.

Try the Persian Gulf in summer. Well over 40 C. That's what I call hot.

When my wife got a new car I had a whinge about the lack of a spare wheel whereupon she asked me where was the spare wheel for my bike.....Point.