Trooper74

I treat the motorbike like prepping a Phantom F4J for flight ..... get all the right kit into one place, remove the locks and chocks, have a good look around the bike for anything untoward, dress for the occasion ( usually multi layer fibre pile and bib tights, with a one piece waterproof shell at this time of year ), position for start (my bike lives outside) ... climb on, start, check lights .... launch The process is about 15 minutes start to finish but i stay warm and things work ,,,, Summer is a different ( somewhat quicker ) process ......

Anything MZ ETZ 250 / 300 wanted .... distance no problem ... Genuine restorer to oily rag standard .... NOT FOR RE-SALE !!

The porn music is useless without the German Porno Tache ........

Casuals .... while i'm riding from Rotherham to Salisbury in February ... the only Motorbike on the trunk roads ... I often wonder where the Wonder Ninjas and their plastic fantastic spaceship bikes are hiding ... then April arrives and the sun comes out and they appear in their Dainese finery and me and my 400cc thumper or 300cc two stroke get sneered at. But i'm not bothered ... I just keep riding ... 16000+ miles on the Himma and the MZ's in the last 12 months .... Casuals ..... HA!

As posted in the flounce forum ... i am the flounce miester .... usually mid evening after 3 cans of beer lol lol

Flounce Miester here .... where has " My Content / my posts " .... gone to .... ? Sigs .... ? More importantly ... where has all the Challenge stuff gone ...?

So an easily accessible and usable forum is now totally baffling and frankly un workable .... sorry guys i cant work out how to see my content, my posts ... take care .. don't stay safe, your motorcyclists .... bye now ..

Thats a bit racist .... i didn't know they where Chinese, and i didn't blame anyone .... i thought it was a global market place

Aliexpress .... Isn't that where you order and pay for something, and 6 months later something completely different arrives...

IP44 .... I wouldn't breath on it heavily .... My Himma instrument binnacle is IP68 .... the worst of all ... I have to remove the cover monthly and dry it out with a hairdryer ...

IP Rating .... ?

Keep away from EBAY i would suggest ... he got his off Faceberk ....

Thats well overpriced ... Son's had 2 of them and they where in excellent condition ... he paid less than £600 for both .... first got nicked ... current one is at 40K milage without any issues ... just good maint ...

So here we are,,, I have handlebar mounts for my Garmin's for my bicycles and Garmin mounting plates are cheap as chips on Amazon.... So just to remind folk of the original premise ... the Himma has a clock on the instrument binnacle but the figures are <5mm high ... I can't see them even with my glasses on. So this is my solution ...

There where a row of cherry trees along side our local Asda .... they where selling punnets of cherries for £2.99 as me and the kids where standing on the back of my truck picking fat juicy black cherries for free !!! Although the next year they produced no fruit and haven't since ....

The centre of Rotherham is the home to large quantities of our eastern European friends, refugees etc ... in an an area, sometimes referred to, as Eastwoodistan. Not for them prepackaged fruit when it grows on trees. I often see whole families stripping apple, pear, green gage and plum trees that grow along the canal ... they take the food away in sacks .... Good for them ...

Behind our house is a ribbon forest planted by the local council some 20 years ago .... there is a 5 metre gap between our fence and the forest edge in which we planted 2 apple trees, which over the years have produced the years apple sauce for the pork roasts ... We leave the apples late to pick and yesterday was the day ... Gone, stripped of all fruit ,,, not an apple on the ground or to be seen, so not kids ..... Curses ..... We're off to find one of the many hedgerow apple trees today to restore our apple sauce stocks from .... on the Himma of course ... any excuse

Railway is OK ... Interesting and pays the bills ..... I did this for 23 years before trains .... much more fun ...

To add to the blunt instruments wrapped in towels you have been carrying for a while now ... and those two bottles of paint stripper wrapped in cling film .. alledgley ....

so how olds your son ? Meoww .... So my youngest girl has the family classic car ... Hillman Avenger .... not perfect, but better than a moggy... On her way back from Uni in Dundee she calls up and says " the brakes make a grinding noise when i use them" Pads have gone ... "Call the AA' say I.. She turns up 12 hours later .... No AA callout ... She found a small backstreet car spares shop in Berwick.. asked the man what she had to do ...she jacked the car up, took the wheels off, one at a time obviously, replaced the pads, as he had told her, outside his shop ... and drove home .... .... Result !! My eldest girl would have sold the car, bought drugs, and turned up 6 months later in the back of a police car ... Kids today ...

Wifes gone to her sisters ... you watch Solaris with a good bottle of scotch ... you sleep well .... You wander down stairs in the morning and the living room is caked in semi naked 17 and 18 year old girls...... AAGGGGHHHH What ever you will be wrong ,,,, you make sure your daughter is ok ... in her bed ,,, good You tiptoe down stairs helmet in hand .... stop it !! Crash helmet ... Try not to look at the semi naked drunk sleeping girls ... well don't try too hard as you know your daughter is not among them .... Ride away ......... hoping heart will return to sensible rate soon ..... Give it a year or 2 and you are so used to semi naked girls being about the place you just kick them, feed them coffee, and phone their mums ... Mums .... now their the pretty ones .....

If you've ever travelled on one of these ... ( 2 x 220 Voyagers "multiple working" ) ... ?? It doesn't slide through Red signals or over run the platforms because of our automatic traction control systems .... we spray sand in quantities dependant on speed between the wheels and the rail head ...

We're "On the Rail " I survey and observe testing of traction control systems on passenger rolling stock and on track plant .. Here's one we did earlier ... I'm the Design Authority for the equipment we install .... which in real world terms means ... Me and Mick design the systems, with help on the software from Alex, Chris and his team install them, and I sign them off as safe back into traffic ... No pressure then ...lol

WELL .... all depends on what you class as a commute. It's Thursday .. I've ridden on the mighty Himma to work each day this week. I'm based in Rotherham; Monday .. Burton -on -Trent. Tuesday .. Derby. Wednesday .. Newport, Wales. Thursday .. Preston. I'm stopping overnight in Preston as we had a long day. Friday .. Preston, Harrogate, Rotherham. Most weeks involve a round robin between ... Newcastle, Derby, Bournemouth, Bristol, Dartford ... once a month Edinburgh .. Every 2 months ..Inverness. It's my commute ....

I do old skool directions taped to the tank as well, but it all goes tits up if you take a wrong turn, miss a junction or have to follow a diversion So you get lost ... great joy .....