Rider

Happy new year everyone.

Thanks everyone. Just got to renew my passport and save up some spending money, it's very expensive there.

Lynne my girlfriend has booked me a two week holiday to Iceland in April. I can see my kids grandkids who have lived there all there lives. I lived there for 11 years. Haven't see much of the grandkids over the last 14 years, some once, some twice. Not seen any of my mates for 25 years. I wish Lynne was coming but we have so many animals and no one to look after them. This is the reason I have not gone before, because I didn't want to leave Lynne by herself, I thought it wouldn't be fair. But she has done it now, so off I will go. I love her very much.

I know what you mean. The amount of times my Mum managed to change the source on her remote for the tele. I even had to go on the internet and try to find her remote control buttons so I could tell her how to get it back on hdmi. And when they moved to be nearer me and my girlfriend as my Dad was ill. Changing their address for the bank was a nightmare on the phone as my dad had Alzheimers and my Mum is nearly deaf. My Mum is 85 and has had to go into a home and she has turned into the Nan on the Catherine Tate show.

My bike sat-nav went wrong while I was updating it. Got in touch with tomtom and they said it would cost me £86 to repair. After a few emails back and forth they said they would repair it for nothing. Got it back today and they have sent me a brand new one.

Got "The best death maker" in German on the inside of one forearm. And "Better let him sleep" in German on the inside of the other forearm. And "When hell is full the dead will walk the earth" on the back of my neck. A sword going through a scroll with my two sons names on it on my arm. And a little Elephant on my shoulder.

Been reading about a few accidents on here and just wondered how many of you have got a camera on your bike. I know they can be expensive but I was lucky as my girlfriend brought me a Gopro Hero 2 a few years ago. I have it to record just in case I have a accident and know some swine can't lie about what happened. It's nice to watch a video of your ride but for me that's secondary.

Look on jesterstrickbits.co.uk. They have faring bolts for a GS500 E. There was so many pages to look through I gave up on page 8. You might find some for the F though. Their search thing seems rubbish though. Just type in faring bolts and you get pages of them.

Hope this is in the right place. Thought it was about time I got a new helmet as I'd dropped my other one twice. Thought I'd go with a Shoei XR1100. As I had heard good things about them. My girlfriend found me a XR1100 Conqueror at Demon Tweeks outlet store. Only cost £260.92p. Ordered it on Wednesday afternoon and got it Thursday afternoon. Can't believe how light it is. And you get a Pin Lock visor and insert with it. Just got to fix my headset to it. Took some pics if anyone is interested. They are a bit rubbish. I hope they load ok. Nope can't load the pics must be getting old and senile.