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Cupboard on landing in between the bedrooms. Shelf inserted just above head height for helmets. Then bought one of those disabled rails (long one) fixed that underneath the shelf to hang clothing on and on the floor are the boots at the front and panniers at the back.

This was from 2008. It was a charity meet in Horncastle and they did a ride out.

Santa. Delivering justice, not just presents.

Just for info. I’ve had my optimate, (it’s an optimate 4 I think) connected to my bike since mid October. The first time a started my bike up was Tuesday 4th April and the bike started first press of the button. The Optimate cycles the charge by draining and then recharging and other fancy stuff to keep it in good condition or something like that. Long time since I read the manual.

Have a look on auto trader, eBay, mcn to what sort of price other bikes of same year, mileage and condition are going for. Also tax doesn’t carry over to the new owner anymore. You will get a refund when you sell for any months outstanding and the new owner must tax the bike before riding the bike away.

Personally I would wait until you’ve done all your tests and then go for the bike you want. You will find it very difficult to get test ride from a dealer until you have been riding for 12 months. You can go and sit on them to get a feel, but in all honesty you won’t know if a bike fits you until you have ridden it. Catch 22 for a while. Don’t be put off by big CC’s. Get the bike you want. As long as you respect the bike then you’ll be fine. Just build up your experience slowly. Good luck with it all.

I hope the rest of the season is as entertaining as this weekend was!!

This is on the WSBK website. https://www.worldsbk.com/en/news/2023/Bradley+Ray+joins+2023+WorldSBK+grid+with+Motoxracing+Yamaha I don’t think anything like this has happened before and I can’t really see what good it’s going to do him. A part time contract is no good for any racer.

Yeah. Really not sure what’s going on there. Is he still with BSB and just doing those rounds in WSBK? I’m off to do some digging….

I agree. I personally wouldn’t have bought a bike I couldn’t fill up, but he has it now so was offering a solution he might not have thought of.

Has he thought about carrying a funnel to fuel up?

Cracking weekend of racing!! New faces and some talent this year. Loads of drama. I know Philip Island is does not always reflect how the season will go, but Bautista couldn’t have asked for more in his title defence. Gonna be another belter season

In MRA when I use a waypoint (it’s been a while since I sat at my PC) there are lots of option inside that waypoint You can change its colour for instance if it’s going to be a fuel stop. You can set a time, for instance 20 min rest break. This will add to the overall journey time. When creating a route the quickest way I find is to set start and end points and if I don’t like any roads that MRA creates based on base criteria I’ve set up, such as, avoid Toll roads, avoid motorways etc. I will just drag the section I don’t like to a road I do. There is loads of other stuff you can do, and they are constantly updating, and upgrading what can done. I know they are looking at integrating the route creating side and the navigation into a mobile app as I speak. They run webinars on how to use everything which you can view at any time, and lots more. I have Lifetime Gold membership as I was an early adopter to MRA. I don’t know what the price of subscription is now but I think there are 2 or 3 tiers.

I think it depends on the bike also. My MT09 Tracer was a bitch to get on the center stand and it’s a fairly light bike. I had trepidations when I first got the VK1, but it’s easier to get that on than the Tracer ever was. Almost 250kg with a full tank.

Give it another month and it’ll start getting busier. The younger ones will there then.

Last year I was travelling along one of my favourite roads, the B1225 High Street. I normally do it from Caistor to Horncastle but this day it was the other way. Anyway, I had spotted a 4x4 Nivara type vehicle in the distance approach a junction to my right but it didn’t get to the junction. It stopped about 20 feet short and stayed there. It then was obscured by some hedges for a while and I looked to my right as I passed the junction and still no movement. I then looked in my mirror but still no movement. I don’t know how long I had been transfixed in my mirror but it must have been longer than I thought. I looked back to the road just at the right moment really because if it had been a millisecond later I probably would not have had the same outcome. As I looked back at the road it was bending to the right and I only had about a foot of road left. I would say it was around a 25 degree bend and I didn’t have a lot of time left as I was about 70mph. Time slowed down only for a second and my first thought was ‘f**k, this is going to hurt’ My second thought was ‘It looks like the grass verge is very bumpy, this is going to hurt’ I had initially resigned myself to coming to a bad end, somehow my thought process changed and I did turn into the bend as I left the tarmac. I just kept my focus on the middle of the road and I eventually got back to tarmac. The bike squirmed and bucked a bit but I managed to keep on the dry muddy bit before I got to all the wild flowers and weeds where I knew it would be bumpy as shit. Just a weird experience where I think my fight or flight instincts kicked in. Flight initially came to the front but fight overruled. I think if I didn’t have the years of experience I have it would have been a different ending. Once it had happened I just forgot about it and cracked on. No point dwelling on it and obviously I knew what had caused it.

You need to go and sit on some Im only 5’7” with in inseam of 29” and sit on my Versys 1000 no problem. I use the foot peg to mount/dismount. When looking at a bike look for seat if you are vertically challenged.

It’s got an innovv camera front and back too. I have one on mine for just in case. Quality is not as good as a go pro, but for evidence and personal use, it’s excellent. Also it’s a fit and forget system so in that respect is better than the rechargeable go pro’s. I looks like it’s had a few ££ thrown at it. Hope you bag it. Although reading the advert it doesn’t look like that or the sat nav are part of the sale.

Personally I would say anything under a 1000 for 2 up touring will struggle. I say go and look at the Versys 1000 MK1 or 2. MK 2 is from 2015 onwards and they changed them a lot up to 2019. MK 1 is probably within your budget. I have owned a MK 2 new from 2017 and it’s the best bike I’ve owned. I used to get an itch every year or so for a new bike, but 6 years in and I have no intention of changing.

We let them stay on condition they kept the log burner going while we were out.

Took my wife Glamping for her birthday for two nights.

You can tell that’s an old joke. They shave them nowadays.

You paint a pretty picture. This was not my experience when I went in 2015 my first trip abroad. You claimed you were not ‘organising’ the trip but you’d done it a few times and if anyone wanted to come along then sort the bookings etc yourself. Absolutely no problem with that. The issue I had is that you seemed to relish pretending to play the pied piper. I wasn’t enjoying the erratic riding and certainly didn’t enjoy the instance when you decided to force the group to make an illegal U turn on a German Motorway because you didn’t want to create a detour on your sat nav. This was when I decided to pay for a sat nav app for my phone. I set the hotel as a favourite so I knew I could get beck there on my own if needed. What really opened my eyes was when you refused to provide me the day’s destinations when I asked. What was that all about?! The reason I decided to travel back on my own is because I knew what was coming…. Although I was nervous about undertaking the trip on my own I knew I only had myself to look after. I was so pleased that another one of the guys said he would come with me. As as for you trying to persuade him not to, and you confronting me on the morning of the trip back telling me not leave him as he was slower than me. I couldn’t believe what I was hearing because 3 days earlier you left one of the guys (smallfrowne) that broke down in the dark, in the middle of a forest, with intermittent service. So you didn’t miss your tea. Who was the first one to say they were not leaving him in the middle of nowhere? Me. (Thanks to the other guys that decided to stay back, I can’t remember who you were) Good job really as he would have never been picked up by his recovery and it was lucky a guy in a massive 4x4 and big trailer passed us and took him to the nearest bike shop. Anyway I never left the guy that decided to travel back with me and said it was a pleasure travelling back. it took me 12 hours to my door from leaving and I heard there other group took a hell of a lot longer than that with more break downs and meanderings. The group of guys I met where great and although I had been out for days out with you over the years before this trip and we got on well, something happened on this trip that put an end all that. I have not been abroad on the bike since.

Agree. Anything in a wrap. You can even put the filling in and roll it so it looks like a Swiss roll. have you tried wrapping your sandwiches individually in grease proof paper or such like then wrapping in tin foil. Keep the sandwich in the wrapping while eating and this will stop the contents going everywhere, or at least massively reduce the risk.