Throttled

Rode it, for the first time in weeks, due to getting an infection that is not testing as covid, but is like covid, but harder to shake. Happy that it started first time and ran fine. I even managed a challenge tag.

It is a numeric concept, where numbers get too large. I missed the earlier debate about its use, but happily accept the Hoggs ruling and I get to keep my 10 points, which is a number less than infinity.

For the highest number

Thanks for that. Got a quad lock for my phone as my main present.

All things Hoggs round, 10 points for a police station, which is full of....!

Chapter 4, so now got 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 & 9

Lewis was about 700 miles, the IOM was about 550 miles and Dingwall also about 550 miles, total 1800, so the MOT cannot be right as it was less than that. Need to do some checking. Edit - I used "mileage history figures" but the mileage for the 2023 MOT was 8,411 and a few days ago for the 2024 MOT it was 11,524, so 3,113 miles over the past year. The 1,708 was the mileage 2022-23, and it was 1,183 for 2021-22, when there was no touring at all and the pandemic was restricting use.

I am surprised it is under 2k. That distance included trips to the Isle of Lewis, Isle of Man, Dingwall, numerous challenge tags and use most weeks of the year.

MOT, no advisories. I have done 1,708 miles over the past 12 months.

Lock 27 for the 2. Now got 1, 2, 3, 5, 6 & 9.

I change tyres either at a service, so use the dealer, or when I get a puncture, so wherever I get taken to that can provide and fit a new tyre.

Update using self scoring Fiddlesticks - 610 teo63 - 540 JRH - 335 Mawsley - 230 Throttled - 230 oldgrump - 210 Nick the wanderer - 120 Grumpy Old Git - 120 CB999 - 100 _amw_ - 60 bonio - 40 Bungleaio - 20

Properly cleaned the bike. There are some tiny rust spots on the frame and the centre stand is quite bad. Other than that, the All Year Biker treatment has held up well to a winters use.

Airhawk, to make the ride more comfortable. Also consider Grip Puppies or heated grips, depending on the time of year you will be touring.

The French use mopeds to ride between wife and mistress.

On Saturday she will get her 3rd dan black belt Shito-ryu karate. Of course, I accept her apology and so does the bike.

I could park it in the living room, next to other ornaments.

It is apparently to do with the granite used locally, due to availability. It is a hard wearing stone. I experienced increased tyre wear both times I did the NC500.

The wife has apologised, to me and the bike.

Yesterday I used my bike to visit a friend. I don't commute any more, so visits, a bit of shopping that fits in the huge top box and runs for fun are the main uses of the bike. I use the bike all year round and with everyone having a driving licence in the house, sometimes the bike is my only option. When I got home and said what a nice dry, warm run it had been, my wife described the bike as an expensive ornament. I think that means my bike is absolutely not an ornament. But, arguably, it is not essential, we could cope with the cars alone. But, that cannot be enough to claim the bike is an ornament, surely?

Bar Grill 55, for number 5. Now got 1, 3, 5, 6 & 9.

Cafe Bar Two Six, using the 6 Vault 94, using the 9 Now got numbers 1, 3, 6, 9

Finally went to Whitelee windfarm, south of Glasgow. It is truly huge The road over Eaglesham moor is brilliant.

South of Scotland Whitelee Wind farm carpark

The insurers do use their own data, which is the job of actuaries to produce and analyse.