Mawsley

Right, it’s 11am, I’m going to try getting up a second time.

A few grains every other yard on our local b roads, mind. They’ve certainly cut back this year.

Guzzi - nice enough old men, but old men all the same who are completely unable to talk about anything other than cylinder liners with serious faces. I found the weight of their seriousness really oppressive. A magazine geared towards the serious man who likes special tools. Triumph - a mix of young and old men but, almost to a T, absolutely miserable and determined to vet anyone to ensure they gatekeep the club socials to riders they have deemed worthy. Oddly disliking of the Explorer 1200 and their owners. A magazine geared towards people the manufacturer wants to sell a bike every 6months to. HOG - my god these people are weird. All rich, or keen to appear so, and cosplaying Wild Hogs in real life. Went to one single meeting and felt like using a spoon from the expensive pub’s restaurant to commit a limited and controlled genocide of local bankers, stockbrokers, marketeers and business owners. A magazine that is a sales brochure and lifestyle options catalogue. Harley - one regional group was a collection of brilliant folks from a variety of backgrounds who enjoy a proper laugh. One regional group acts like it wants to wear ‘support’ patches and white hoods. A magazine that includes pictures of old people in fields - it’s, err, niche. Enfield - a nice club for nice old men who you’d happily let look after a young child without any worries. I’m guessing they all wear incontinence pants and use blue pills. Very nice though. Vespa - actually a very useful magazine filled with smiling people…that’s people which includes women. Very welcoming local group that rides together and has a load of socials without the imposition of godawful rawk music. Never tried a Japanese make owner group.

Morning It's cold. It's dark. There's salt on the roads. I share a house with two women. Someone ate the last of the bread so I can't have toast. I'm going back to bed.

I've been a member of a few owner clubs. Some of them we full of decent folks, some of them were full of weird old men, and a couple have been rammed with the kind of people I'd instantly block online. After all this time, I've realised I have no idea why I joined any of them - I've got precious little from the magazines and websites. The latest one is totally different to the same make but different region group I used to belong to. Are you a complete member? Have you got anything from being a member that made it worthwhile?

I got some Bobhead gear for Xmas. I was impressed with the quality so bought more from the Boxing Day sale. Aside from me being a tool and ordering some T shirts too small, go up a size, I'm delighted with it. The range is for the kind of biker who likes looking like he used to be in MAG in the 80s and appreciates a skull motif on stuff. https://bobhead.co.uk/collections/all Got the armoured shirt for a ton, which seems like the going rate for that kind of thing. It's very well made and comfortable. The Ts are a bit like football shirts, not cotton. I guess this is a wicking thing on a hot day kinda design. Whatever, they feel nice on my nipples. The normal plaid shirt I got was reduced to £20 and combines popper buttons with a zip. The sweatshirts are thick - they'll be hopeless in hot weather but I'm loving them while walking the woofs in this weather. I'm one who believes you get what you pay for in life. This stuff isn't cheap but the quality is bob on. Wait around for end of line clearances or special sales and Bobhead's your uncle.

I didn't vote for you.

Afternoon, nunchucks Bit chilly, eh

I’ve already offered to get my spanner’s out and use the bendy grabby thing I got from Halfords.

Morning buntyfunsters. Today sees the wife go in for yet more exploratory work. Been two months of digging around and poking and they’ve yet to work out why she doesn’t function properly. If she was a bike I’d have listed her on eBay by now as “unfinished project”.

Today is garage day. Going to pump up the volume, clean it out, and pop a rack on the hogster.

Id agree and say it’s like parking fines - but then I drove in Nottingham again last week and the entire city’s road network is geared towards trucking you into a speeding fine. Oodles of cameras, constantly changing speed limits frequently hiding behind a corner. Feel sorry for residents, but I’ll only do 30 on every road even if it’s a 40 or 50 because I know it’ll be back to 30 in 50m.

This sounds like a euphemism.

Morning.

I appreciate everything I was given. No, I really do. The old man vitamin pills and the incontinence pants especially. Oh my wife is a wag, tittering away by the tree. I’m thinking of regifting her.

Had a Neotek - it fell apart on me bit by bit. Very unimpressed. Got a Schuberth C4 Pro which I like a lot. Can’t comment on the relative quietness…especially with my exhausts…but field of vision is brilliant.

Well that sucks. And yey. Basically hoping my jab helps me avoid it.

Did you have the jab?

Evening. Xmas was good. Immediate family, happy day, quality bike gear from the fat man. I now hate this time of year slightly less.

Xmas beer run done Let the festivities begin

Helllloooooo Xmas food Took half an hour this morning to go from “You can eat everything..well, no, not that, that is for Xmas” to “Yes, I suppose it is Xmas and so you can eat all of it”. She’s gone to work. Course 1: croissants Course 2. The salmon with something that isn’t croissants Course 3. Everything else Id be on the Bailey’s too, given that’s a breakfast/girl’s alcohol, but I need to be at the brewery for 10 to collect my Xmas beer.