Trooper74

Because you can't do 100mph into a sweeping left hander with the sun at your back on the way to the cafe / coast / girlfriend / mistress .... et al.

But still a fraction of motor car insurance for an 18 year old on a 250 trail bike.

Dry day here in South Yorkshire and Lincolnshire so a morning ride out the the Willingham Cafe to the east of Market Rasen seemed a good idea. 9 deg c, dry, so jeans today instead of the armoured, padded bike trousers. It was early when i arrived at the cafe, 20 - 30 bikes there and a chat with a few guys ensued ... Then you realise all the riders are white males over 60 !! Now white male is fine, 45% of the UK population are white male .... but over 60 !! Where are all the young motorcyclists ???? When I left the cafe i headed to the now defunct RAF Binbrook. The last home of the Lightning Fighter and where all our Tornados where destroyed by scrap merchants. I served for 25 years in the Royal Air Force,( Nimrod, Phantom FGR2 / F4J, Tornado GR4 .. Flightline Airframes Engineer ) when it was a force with hundreds of fighters and thousands of pilots and engineers ..... Now, 60 war ready Typhoons and 6 F-35's .... Putin must be trembling in the Kremlin .... trembling with laughter ...! Always sad to revisit a base that you remember as full of life and noise to find it boarded up and empty ...

lol lol

Perspective is required for this ... During the period 1984 to 1998 i averaged 26,000 miles a year on the motorbike .... I commuted (Sheffield to Norwich ) 4 days a week. Travelled on holidays and, although i had use of a car, used the bike .... all year round.

1.Head on 40mph collision with a Volvo 240, uninjured, bike wrecked, police found me screaming at driver and beating the f**k out of the car - denting every panel, when they arrived. Driver said sorry, well, he was on my side of the road !! Straight road. 2.Hit the back of HGV because i wasn't watching where i was going ... slightly bent forks ..straightened satis. Yes, scantily clad young girls in summer. DOH! 3.Fell asleep on the A14 near Ipswich rolled up embankment, fell off and .... woke up ... bike and me undamaged. Police car on scene helped me get bike back to road and shared their flask of coffee with me

Rode to work today .... cold crisp winters morning , just 24 miles mostly motorway ,,,, in jeans ,,,, wasn't too bad. Top end warm enough, feet warm .... legs ..... nicely frozen lol ... New light came on the dash for the first time .... a snowflake .... means under 4 deg c, alledgley... modern bikes eh !

Suggestions please ...

Old-codger ....... Just small amounts of bright blood mixed in with my urine .... on the paper when i wipe .... all is well but NEVER NEVER ignore it ....

OOOHHHHH GOD IT HURTS !! I've just had a camera up my uretha to help diagnose me for bladder cancer ..... Second time in 8 months..... ! First time, nice German doctor, local anaesthetic, 2 mature nurses handling the tackle. Today ... nice British Asian doctor, NO ANAESTHETIC, 2 young nurses, not as old as my boots, handling the tackle. God my willy hurts !! Talk about pissing broken glass. However ... cancer free, prostrate normal, kidneys and liver fine .. result !!! God, my willy hurts .....................

Watched some TT stuff with the GD

Screen Buffeting on V-Stroms .... Todays issue. So ..Before cutting the original screen down i found a Powerbronze short screen on the interweb ..... on first ride, a dash along the local motorway the buffet seemed to have disappeared. Today i want for a longer ride, through the Peak District. Not only no buffet but a much quieter and pleasant riding experience .... fantastic bit of kit...

Totally understand .... i'm like that when Jules is watching "Jane the Virgin" .....

1. Exactly ! 2. The gang named in the video are "The Gremlins" .... watch it .... before commentating, possibly.

I had tried to go down the satirical humour route ..... and obviously failed ..... I'll stick to Engineering Mike.....

Whats your answer ? Some counselling for the Gremlins, new trainers, maybe a holiday .... a telling off from their Nana's ..... If Constable Woke tries to arrest them he will soon be twinned with a colander i expect .....

I lived and worked in San Diego for 12 months, at Fightertown USA, Miramar. We found the Police to be professional, blunt, to the point, only interested in keeping the law ... and heavily armed. It was a great place to visit and work ... but not to live, for me. I was happy to get back to dull and windy Suffolk.

It's not confusion Mike it's lack of public profile. Through covid we saw South Yorks Police bully and coerce outside their legal remit day after day. Video after video of coercion, threats and abuse of the people they where meant to protect. These good Police ... where are they ??? The only Police i see in South Yorkshire are swaggering around with heavy Heckler & Koch machine guns dressed like the baddies from a Si-Fi movie. Our 5 year old lad ran crying from 2 officers in Meadowhall shopping centre .. he was terrified ... I have no doubt there are a majority of good officers ..... But where are they ?? They're invisible to people on the streets of Rotherham and Sheffield..

They would probably take the knee to the Gremlin Gang ....

Watch it .... do our police need a makeover ???

I've got the HITCHCOCKS short screen ... buffet free .. totally .. if you want it it's available for 50% of H's price including postage

New screen fitted to the 2016 Suzuki V Strom 650.... Who wants the old one with adjustable splitter .... £10 + p&p.

I ride all year .... surely the majority of us ride all year round ???? Theres no bad weather just the wrong clothing ... which applies to lots of games. pastimes, sports ... and transportation .... ... ... I don't get Riding Season.

Whats the "riding season" ??

So here we are in Cornwall for the weekend ... Redruth ... Tolgus Mount .... top of the hill, totally exposed .... and a 48 mph wind ... hopefully the Caravan will be ok ....with us in it .... So .. Foot Peg Lowering Kit, ...... Adventuretec in the US, Cosmo in Greece .... What about the UK ...... ????? Help ....