After 2 weeks away and 2615 miles I'm home again. A friend, Sergio is from the mountain area near Lake Como in Italy so this year he made a Biking holiday out of his trip home and invited myself and Gary along for the trip, and for once I had the money and time off available to say yes! ...

Kwacky wrote: ↑22 Jun 2023, 07:26 That's a decent increase. But I've got to say I prefer your increase to the ones we've had in the UK.

That was on top of a 20% last year, but yeah seems you guys are getting smashed

... the broken shoulder is something else What you don't want to hear, is about my shoulder... You'll probably not remember, but about this time last year I crashed at Cadwell. Nothing as serious as you, just a tiny chip on the end of my left clavicle & a couple of ribs. I've broken both shoulders ...

House repossessions are up 50% on last year. Every four minutes, a household becomes homeless. To highlight this outrageous statistic, we ‘made’ Big Ben ring — with a digivan playing the chime every four minutes in Westminster. We need the government ...

... soared to £20 billion in May, pushed higher by the cost of energy support schemes. May's borrowing figure was £10.7 billion higher than a year ago and the second-highest May borrowing since monthly records began in 1993. Economists had predicted borrowing of £19.5 billion for May.

MX day on Saturday ,EV lost her confidence because shes hardly ridden this year and on a bigger bike. The track was un-watered and like riding on glass marbles, but once the side cars went out there was a clearer line and she was ok. Watching a 700cc 2T side ...

I took my Son to the National Kit Car Show at Malvern yesterday afternoon, he had a great time.

I'm off to meet my secondary school head of year for coffee this morning for a good old catch up. My Son loves him too so will be good fun for him.

... semi rural) the worse it gets. I didn’t go through this system myself, in NZ at 15 yrs old, I just rocked up and got my full licence on the day. A year later they brought in the a graduated system and I had to do that on my bike licence. So I really couldn’t comment on the effect of the system ...

More YouTube stuff, not cutting edge rocket technology today, 100 year old car's stuck in the mud...
https://youtu.be/JyVXQ0wn440

Showing my wife how to wash her car. I reckon it gets done once or twice a year.

Today I washed all the dead bugs off it after yesterday's 310 mile and 13 hour ride to the lakes and North Yorkshire, it's splat time of year. We found a nice place for lunch in the middle of no signal nowhere. Screenshot_2023-05-21-13-49-09-17_3d9111e2d3171bf4882369f490c087b4.jpg IMG_20230522_221614.jpg ...

... Fortunately old age means the increase is manageable but I still think we will hit a recession once the mortgage increases start to bite as the year goes on. Still at least those poor bankers won’t go hungry. 😳

... is £290k which is about 9 times the average wage. And the average deposit put down is £62,000. That's more than we paid for our french house last year. It's ludicrous.

1 to 1 with my Manager yesterday and I brought up training and career progression. He seemed receptive and when I mentioned my 1-5 year plan he looked surprised I'd given it much thought. I just hope he doesn't think I'm stepping on his toes like he would have when I first joined. I would ...

1 to 1 with my Manager yesterday and I brought up training and career progression. He seemed receptive and when I mentioned my 1-5 year plan he looked surprised I'd given it much thought. I just hope he doesn't think I'm stepping on his toes like he would have when I first joined. I would ...

... car is a bit of a mare to get at without taking the front bumper off but I'm stubborn so I made it work.. Then decided to run my tester on this 10 year old battery. https://i.imgur.com/limTGZul.jpg The front bolt on this ECU box is totally blind with the bumper on and surrounded by sharp things. ...

They won't have any in stock because they only did the SCS model for one year

Tuffers wrote: ↑16 Apr 2023, 20:59 Thank you all. It's a special birthday year this year for me. You only live once as they say. I'm well chuffed with it. Need to save a few pennies for a couple of mods I want to do as it's near enough broke me. I might see you on the A44 sometime cookie.

Defo. That’s a great bike

Thank you all. It's a special birthday year this year for me. You only live once as they say. I'm well chuffed with it. Need to save a few pennies for a couple of mods I want to do as it's near enough broke me. I might see you on the A44 sometime cookie.

Top darts!

What year is it?