smilinjack

Well, the sun's out, I'm just getting ready to ride over to Rushden. First time the bike's been out since I started my new job so although it's not the most exciting ride ever, I can't wait. Winter-really!

Proper job. welcome mate

Yeah most Shoeis have replacement pads in various thicknesses.

Yep, up to the tits in it here too. Just started a full time "proper" job and running the business evenings & weekends. I check in every day but haven't been posting a great deal. Liverpool today, how exciting

There can't be that many trains to spot nowadays surely? Not like pre Beeching days certainly. But they are without doubt the Old Guard of the Anorak Army, wouldn't you say?

Yes our dear friends at FFMC. If nothing else it will be interesting to see how we respond in comparison to the the cheese eating surrender monkeys.

Think I'll stick with my shotguns

Got a job in Edinburgh this Wednesday and I'm quite close to the castle. I'll keep it in mind PS by pure coincidence I'm going to a Masons' regalia shop. I bet they'll know all about it

I like Belper. Good farmers market on about 3rd Saturday of the month. Always have an ostrich if I go.

Nice one mate. Scholes was the best English midfielder of his generation by a country mile (couldn't time a tackle for toffee mind) so I'm glad he got the farewell he deserved.

Evidently took that little vid I posted to heart. Well done you!

I'm watching Everton/Villareal

Nice one Jeff, all the best. I've just finished my first week back in wage slavery too. So far so good.

Jeez Jax I'm sorry. Hopefully you'll be back & sorted in due course.

The nearest you're gonna get to being Eddie Lawson. Just soooo sexy and if there's a better looking retro muscle bike I don't know what it is. Don't care how it goes, handles or stops, it don't matter with these babies. Love em. http://www.posters57.com/images/Eddie_Lawson.jpg

Have you seen the other one where the cop strolls out & raises his hand to stop the guy?

dont it want one the other side too ? I expect he'll post a pic of the other one fastened between the bars & oil cooler bracket or something equally bizarre. Show us what you got Gaz

Don't want to piss on your strawberries, but I'm not sure that's how it fits

Never buy a bike that's been test ridden!

Ignition lock is optional but IIRC chainguard is a requirement for MoT test. I'm happy to stand corrected though.

Already is a classic Dave if you ask me. TT600-never. It doesn't have "popular" status and that headlamp looks like a pair of undercrackers draped on the nose. Bandit 12 def a candidate, VFR750/800 I'd say is almost there, Hayabusa maybe. And the first Fireblades are up there for me.

Thing is, phones are getting bigger again. I looked at a Samsung Galaxy. Belting phone but I see where it got it's name-it's as big as a chocolate bar. I'll stick with my crappy little Samsung that I scrounged off my son for the time being I reckon.

I think all the Spanish ones do that

Weather was sunny every day average temp around 28 degrees. The ride to Zaragoza is basically the N-232 from Vinaros where our flat is, straight through the mountains and across the plain of Aragon, which is very windy by the way. That made my head shake a bit. Total each way about 150 miles. Just as we turned off towards the Torre Miro pass I spotted these-must have close to 100 eagles or Griffon Vultures just circling on the thermals. At the top of Torre Miro close to 4,000 ft and pretty ****ing cold! The way back was pretty much the same, taking us past one of my favourite ride out destinations, Morella. Still has the old city wall and gateway some way below the old castle. The road down from Morella, where you start to ride into the warm coastal air. Didn't quite get this pic off in time, otherwise you'd just make out a guy towing a caravan up the pass. Back down in the warm stopped for petrol and these babies rocked up. WTF are they?

A few pics from our weekend in Zaragoza. Lovely town but the food this wasn't oily food, this was foody oil. Now I know what it feels like to be a sump. Kept me blowing chunks on Friday night. Anyhow, this is the wife on Puente de Piedra with the Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar in the background. Zaragoza's most famous landmark. And this is the main square with the basilica and the town hall. And the Aljaferia palace, built in about 1180. Lovely piece of Islamic architecture when you get inside. I'll put up some bike pics later.