curlylegend

I have 3 motorbikes, I am only allowed 1 wife/girlfriend. I just want to be absolutely clear about this. You have 3 motorcycles and one wife AND a girlfriend ? How very French !

It'll be to do with the amount of bloody rain they get there !

What about a Ural ? I've seen a few of them round here, Nantes area. They have two wheel drive and I'm almost certain, reverse gear. Le side-car is popular over here, probably because of the suitable road network, as you've noticed. You could contact Alternative sidecar in Montgeron or speak to motosideadventure.com in Valence. I'm sure they'll give you good advice. Bonne chance !

So the penny's dropped at last ! Well, assuming you are Scotch, you'll have had a fair drouth for the beer. So the amount of money you'll save will let you have much better things to do than making you feel ill the next day. Within a few months you'll have saved up enough for a brand new Brough Superior. And another few months you'll be looking at a genuine vintage one !

After fitting pilot jets #40, to my Yamaha TDM 850, I went for a thorough road test. Headed east towards Nantes and took the southern loop of the peripherique to take me to much more interesting roads along the south bank of the Loire. Weather excellent and bike running perfectly. Total distance 319 KM and fuel consumption 4.15 L per 100 km. Stopped in a small village for a coffee break and n for a while. Went to use the public facilities and was a bit surprised to see this ! Never seen than in a public toilet in the UK.

Good luck getting them to attend for anything nowadays.

I don't know if you're allowed to ask nowadays. In Scottistan you'd probably end up in jail !

I'm dying to ask for more details, but I don't think I will.

How about going to one of the more lenient States in the USA and getting a full license there. Probably quicker and unlikely to be any more expensive that getting a full license in the UK. Could you ride in the UK with an American License ?

Strip it, find the fault and fix it ! Otherwise it will just come back when you least want it. It might very well just be a bit of contamination that a squirt of electro cleaner would shift, but you couldn't be certain unless you'd seen inside the switch.

From my observations, I've never seen any French People eating snails or frogs' legs. On the very rare occasion we've accidentally ended up in a tourist trap resto it was always Brits who dared each other to order them. If you keep away from these places and particularly if you're in France Profonde, that is the places well away from big cities, you'll still get andouille, which are actually chitlins, ris de veau which we would know as sweetbreads, and even panse de brebis known to us as haggis. This will be in the small restos with usually a chalkboard for the daily dish. To me this is real French cuisine. Good wholesome hearty meals freshly cooked with seriously fresh ingredients. In our local supermarche we can get all sorts of stuff that we used to get in Wolverhampton after that last disagreement with the Germans. Like rabbit, calves brains, ox tails, livers from just about all known domestic animals, potted haugh, and squares of pigskin. One of our guests remarked that the French were taking this low fat and no fat stuff as seriously as the UK, because there was plenty of it on the shelves. We had to point out that it was LEFT on the shelves because it's just not that popular round here and the full fat stuff is always first choice. But even we can get McDonalds and Kentucky Fried Chicken if we wanted to go exotic, which a surprising number of the younger locals seem to do. However all is not lost if you prefer over packaged over processed nutritionally questionable junk food, The supermaches are delighted to sell you that too !

Just shows you, takes all sorts...

Oh, never mind, there are lots of other places you can go to. How about Belgium, or Denmark or Germany ? Or even Holland ? I have a friend who also can't stand France, he manages to quarrel with just about everyone he deals with. But he adores Egypt ? He says the only thing wrong with Egypt is the Bloody French Tourists !

If you add in another day, start at St Nazaire and choose a route along the north bank It could be well worth it. Don't bother crossing to the south side to see this, you've got it here...