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I guess you have to know the area, and as a shooter I'm more than happy these two are off the streets.

The (long) weekend starts tomorrow. Off to buy some sloe gin from a small distillery, might sample the spiced sloe before passing over my hard earned. Saturday will be wiring the workshop up. Sunday will be the final clay shoot of the year, then Monday is a funeral for an uncle that wasn't really an uncle. We're going more for an aunt than anything else.

Yes, they take a little longer to warm up but do retain the heat a little better

The throttle side on my OE Yam died and got replaced with the Ultimate Addons grips. Not bad after a few mins to warm up, and not to mention no stupid extra controller box having to be mounted on the handlebars

Would you mind sharing who you went with in the end?

Working tomorrow and we have the Chrimbo clay shoot on Sunday

Well the Optimate didn't help me, so went and got a new battery.

Received the Optimate 4 to keep the battery in condition over these colder moments

Currently in Valencia for the boys on over revving mopeds going round and round in circles.

In the current age of mobile phones having internet, if he was the be unlucky enough to get pulled on the way home from the MOT, those kind officers might just ask home to do it online in front of them. MOT's are live updated, so he's be able to pay for the tax within minutes of the MOT being completed.

Long sleeves, gloves, PPE3 mask other than that not much of an issue. Just made sure I had a shower as soon as I was finished.

Starting to re-lag the loft and board it out whilst I'm at it. What an existing life I have

What chargers are you wonerful lot recommending? I keep looking at the Optimates, but not certain which one to go for. I have dislike for anything Oxford as the few item's I've bought over the last couple of years simply do not last. So are there any other brands worth looking at?

you think I got energy.... Shooting is for stress relief, wallpaper stripping is because we've just finished a full house rewire. The shed didn't quite go to plan, got a call at 9 this morning with 'there's a little issue'..... They didn't follow the plans and only put a single 4 foot door on it, so explained that as they had already delayed once and I had to reschedule to work from home today they had to resolve and still arrive today. They appeared at lunchtime and the boys who did the bolt work did a decent job. Jost got to hoover it out, seal the concrete, go get a board for the consumer unit to attach to, run the armored cable and wire it up. Also got to arrange a security light and decide if I want to insulate it or not.

An adventure lid is what I'm tempted with for riding into work (London), slow traffic and better vision are my aims.

Stripping wallpaper ready for the plasterer to come around and fill all the channels left from the full house rewire, then a little shooting and back home to empty the old shed which is being replaced tomorrow.

The only question I think Ride missed was budget, also allowing for the fact you'll need to buy helmet and other protective clothing into that budget

Like Fiddlesticks the Virgin box is in modem mode as the security is poor. With that in mind I have the Amplifi Gamers edition, but for normal use I'd recommend the Amplifi-HD https://amplifi.com/amplifi-hd You get to tweek the settings per device for either normal, throughput or gaming.

and whatever you do, DO NOT TRUST CHECKATRADE!!!! biggest scam site short of facebook marketplace

Workshop base being concreted on Saturday, otherwise nothing planned

I had a DataTool on my first bike and had no issues with it or the battery on the bike. A couple of times the bike even sat for a few weeks without touching it and no issues with starting. I think a lot depends on the product regarding how much it eats the battery.

Taking an exam that I've been puting off for a couple of months.

If I ever have dried on bugs I just place a soaked cloth for 5 mins whilst I clean other parts.

I did hear an old skool thing of adding sugar into the glue which is meant to help, but most likely talking crap again.

With the bike (an me) off the road at the moment and the weather as rubbish as it is, I took the oppertunity to give the jacket and trousers a wash and re-proof..... Took longer to wash it than it did to dry for some reason