... freezing and on some twisty, muddy roads... loved it! Today was my first day "on call" following an experienced SSBB rider... 9.30am met him in Telford, 10am rode to Oswestry, then to Shrewsbury... back to Telford... got into my comfy bottoms and sat in front of the fire for 15mins and ...

... at 7.00am for their trip to Germany (Christmas market jolly), then home and top up, after which Gee major should have rocked up and I'm driving him to Stourbridge ready to start his new job (induction course and equipping) on Monday. At some point during the weekends proceedings a libation may ...

Just got my step dad to buy for. Taking him to see Star Wars when it's released and probably getting him some Rum Truffles and possibly a Star Wars mug

Other than that I just need to wrap it

Blade wrote:2016 R1 will do nicely

Seen Santa today and told him I want an R1 but not sure he was any the wiser. Oh well hopefully the missus my surprise me

... false; LAUSANNE, Switzerland — Valentino Rossi has stopped his legal fight against a race penalty which cost him the MotoGP title last month. The Court of Arbitration for Sport says the Italian racer "has now informed the CAS that he does not wish to continue ...

... slowing down, so whether that’s indicative of a known problem, I don’t know. At the launch he was a man in demand but I’ll try and catch up with him again to find out whether he can shed any light what he thinks may have happened and why.

Dean Catton. I don't think he joined up when we moved to the new site. Met him a couple of times, nice bloke.

Guys a total idiot but more worrying are the mass of idiots following / supporting him.

... Great post Duckey. (y) Surely there could only be one winner there . I think Obama is not a bad fella and has an air of wisdom about him but putin has made him look a total mug. He would run rings around old trumpy bollox I don't think Mr Obama will be easily lead on by Putin's scheming. ...

... Putin v Trump I'm worried about. Surely there could only be one winner there . I think Obama is not a bad fella and has an air of wisdom about him but putin has made him look a total mug. He would run rings around old trumpy bollox

... maliciously, like a politician. In a well-organized world he would be on the stone-pile. But in the world as it exists we are asked to listen to him, not only politely, but even reverently, and with our mouths open." H.L Mencken.

I'm going to leave the PS4 downstairs and move the PS3 into my son's room.

Battlefront will be included with the PS4 Santa brings him, that's a given

... the owner said "don't worry they'll only have been moved somewhere" then went upstairs and retrieved the missing kit. The owner told him it was a child ghost, which liked to play jokes and move things, but wasn't malignant in any way. Two guys I've known through work over the years ...

I have heard that several respected talking heads in the F1 paddock are predicting that Alonso has run his last F1 race , Ron and him dont see eye to eye and all the top seats are taken and Alonso won't go to any of the lesser teams so ....

... much bad news at the moment and it's nice to hear a good story. There is a guy who joined the church my wife goes about a year ago. His wife left him after racking up a load of debt so he was introduced to the church by a program they run to help people in financial crisis. He will be on his own ...

C00kiemonster wrote:

Fireblade_Ro wrote:Why is your driving licence at the ready? Or is that a really dumb question?

Test rides?

Doh... dumb question

I've just returned home from a 'date' - with my dad Took him to a LOVELY pub called The Swan at Pangbourne to show him some nice places to take a lady that he's met

Nice to hear more uk based riders in wsb but personally I would have liked to have seen him stay on the r1

Scott Redding is flying on that Pramac Ducati. There is a video on the Pramac Twitter feed of him bump starting the bike on his own in the pit lane.

... can't warrant spending all that money on road tax for a few rides. You definitely learn a lot riding in winter!! I agree duke. My mate (I'll call him Mr Mike) crashed on a trackday in Intermediate group. He was too fast for the group and came up on a group of people that should have been in Novice. ...

No Rossgo, he's gone back to Court as the family lodged an appeal to have him convicted of murder rather than manslaughter.