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Got Itchy in my sights now. The things that tedium makes us do

Perhaps I'll mention the war!

No not Corrie. Well ,probably is. But I just noticed I'm level on topics started with Suzukijax, so I'm starting another one in a shameless effort to get up the rankings. Add any nonsense you like

Oh yes.........just had a passable chicken curry mind. And finished nicely in time for the big 9 o'clock Corrie. What next for Carla? Night night gang, I expect I'll disconnect when I go upstairs.

Stuck in some crappy hotel in East Kilbride waiting for my dinner. There's a whacking great party of Germans in and they all seem to drink Guiness Ach du Lieber und Stoller as Kurt Vile famously wrote. Internet don't work in the room but at least I can kill some time down here before Corrie. Desperate times people

Oh yeah course I've met GTman too, and delboy. It's coming back to me now.........

Please don't be offended if I miss anyone. My memory ain't what it was Davehutch Itchy Rose Trebor Yankeedoodle Skrach Jezza Jimmy(or is he only on the Bandit forum?) Suzukijax Coupla lads from Black Country way but I've forgotten their usernames-they know who they are! Oh yeah one was Hawki. Had a really loose chain at Chatsworth ISTR

The recent offerings from Gaz remind me very much of one of the great unsung literary heroes. A fella named Horse Badorties, hero of Bill Kotzwinkle's novel The Fan Man. Pray tell Gaz, do you know this book? "How very wonderful man, a machine to answer my Horse Badorties phone. Now I will have more time to do my important stuff, man. All I have to do it record a message, man, then I can go about my important Horse Badorties business. But first, it is vitally important that I smoke some of this Peruvian cabbage to clear my head so I can lay down just the right message..."

Speaking for myself I've had some major changes in my life and don't have anything like the time I did for forums (or is that fora) and as has been said perhaps this is a quiet time. Kids going back to school, holiday season drawing to a close, not so much good weather & daylight to discuss rideouts. It can be hard to know what to talk about. But real mates can stand a bit of silence can't they? We don't have to have a constant stream of new threads just for the sake of it.

Still, it has a certain synchronicity being a Bandit forum wouldn't you say?

Nice work mate. I did finally get out on the VFR yesterday but only 100 miles or so. Buy yourself a drink for your epic!!

I used to go there quite often for work in the 90's & yes, that rate sounds right to me you needed a fistful of cash to get a coffee. In fact we used to pay for most services like taxis with dollars or Deutschmarks. Happy days And yes Rose, WHEN that lot get into the EU, and it will happen, the entire edifice will go IMHO.

DK motorcycles will set you up with Maxxis touring @ £145 a set. They rock.

http://www.mag-uk.org/en/campaignsdetail/a6883 FYI

I think it's fair to say there are a good few knobs on the road, and a lot of them ride motorbikes. I'd suggest Rose that your mirror is your friend here-no right & wrong, just let the asswipes by to wreak carnage well away from you. As for road positioning, visibility is most certainly improved by using all of the road, but you will leave yourself more vulnerable to running out of road if taken to the extreme. I took up a good position centre of road to enter a left hand turn some years ago, only to find a waste paper trailer in my way. He'd crossed the white line. I was unable to turn futher in time, so I clipped him with my pannier, down I went. Written off bike, broken leg. It's not that long since the IAM was advising actually crossing onto the "wrong" side of the road to improve observation distance. but I'd say there's more to roadcraft than just being able to see a long way.

And you thought your local ring road was a hassle.............

Ebuyer sell a caddy for 2.5 inch drives which allows you to hook it into another computer via USB. Reboot & with a little luck the computer will recognise the drive (you didn't say what killed the old machine) and you will have access to the file structure.

I worked yesterday and today but if the weather is up to scratch tomorrow I'm taking my maiden voyage on the VFR. Had it six weeks & done 40 miles. If it's crap I expect I'll go to work again.

I remember seeing a chap a few years ago who'd converted a top box so his Jack Russell was securely seated but could get his nose in the breeze. It even had a set of goggles As for that rig, I reckon I've seen it recently-unless, God forbid, there may be more than one!

Not a great pic but it does in some small way capture the Isle of Man ethos. This guy's just left pits and I'd say is now past 90mph. Took it from a footbridge I had to use to get to the mininmart how mad is this to have your car parked on your drive, the air reeking of Castrol R, and these guys barreling by? As has been said, at least he went out doing what he loved.

I was watching the bikes leave the pits to go down Bray Hill yesterday (had a job on the island.) Until you've seen these guys in the flesh as it were you can't appreciate what balls they have. Sad news but certainly no shock. RIP

Honda VFR. Lasts for years, well built, best all rounder you're likely to come across.

Most forums I've inhabited seem to have a long running musical thread, apart from this one. So how's about you share your current musical taste with us, maybe a Youtube link or similar? I'll start: currently listening to Tiamat, A Deeper Kind of Slumber. Years old but class doesn't age.

Agreed-I had a 750 Custom, US style thing which I fitted T bars to. Well, it was the 80's

I think my mate's still got most of an XS850 in his shed. Let me know if you need owt