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Postby boxerscott » Fri Mar 15, 2019 11:48 pm

Knocked out 687miles on my LCR 1200r. Jed to Harlow, across to Northamptons sleepy Farthingstone and back to Jed. Amanda missed a spiffing day out. I managed for once to be going the opposite way to all the road collision closures, A1, M25 and M1 that I encountered. I can advise however that despite the bikes mechanical excellence the headlamp is as much use as a chocolate tea pot.

Oh and I saved £11.5k in the process. Not buying a van that I went purposely to buy. So to comfort myself i am going to buy some Arai bonce adornment.

Now for an Irish victory in Cardiff tomorrow and fingers crossed for England not to be England at Twickenham.

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Edit, forgot to add, there were hold ups on M1 Northbound , Bedfordshire and the barstewards have narrowed the lanes so much so that filtering was impossible. :evil:
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Postby Paul » Sat Mar 16, 2019 11:25 am

Sounds like a good ride despite the fruitless attempt to buy a new van.

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Re: Today I.....

Postby Blackal » Sat Mar 16, 2019 12:53 pm

Something’s not right................

No mention of an off-road excursion, running out of fuel, Gatso’d. Wheel coming loose, Getting lost, or caught short with the squits.......... :oops:

Amanda must have done the logistics planning. :lol:

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Postby boxerscott » Mon Mar 18, 2019 9:03 am

Paul wrote:Sounds like a good ride despite the fruitless attempt to buy a new van.

Cheers,

Paul
Not exactly fruitless Paul, despite some frustrating traffic conditions, and pitch black riding for the last 48miles I actually enjoyed
my first ride . Got to see our eldest and helped her resolve an issue. The failed attempt to buy a quality used van was not exactly something i can blame myself for, it was not up to the standard i was obviously expecting. I suspected the van had been clocked, it was wearing different tyres to the ones shodded at the factory. 3 replacement tyres at 28k? on a 3year old vehicle. There was something pathetic about the tyre gloss that had been smeared on as well. Why do they do that?

BLACKAL, GTF. :wink:

Btw. Scotland blew a massive victory opportunity at Twickenham. :lol: :lol:
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Postby dave the german » Mon Mar 18, 2019 12:40 pm

boxerscott wrote:
Paul wrote:Sounds like a good ride despite the fruitless attempt to buy a new van.

Cheers,

Paul
Not exactly fruitless Paul, despite some frustrating traffic conditions, and pitch black riding for the last 48miles I actually enjoyed
my first ride . Got to see our eldest and helped her resolve an issue. The failed attempt to buy a quality used van was not exactly something i can blame myself for, it was not up to the standard i was obviously expecting. I suspected the van had been clocked, it was wearing different tyres to the ones shodded at the factory. 3 replacement tyres at 28k? on a 3year old vehicle. There was something pathetic about the tyre gloss that had been smeared on as well. Why do they do that?

BLACKAL, GTF. :wink:

Btw. Scotland blew a massive victory opportunity at Twickenham. :lol: :lol:


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Re: Today I.....

Postby 70tno » Mon Mar 18, 2019 1:59 pm

Now for an Irish victory in Cardiff tomorrow and fingers crossed for England not to be England at Twickenham.


Unfortunately, that event in Cardiff didn't work out?? :D
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Re: Today I.....

Postby boxerscott » Wed Mar 20, 2019 8:01 pm

70tno wrote:
Now for an Irish victory in Cardiff tomorrow and fingers crossed for England not to be England at Twickenham.


Unfortunately, that event in Cardiff didn't work out?? :D
True, my fears came to fruition with Twickenham though!

A deserved championship for Wales and good luck in September. :D :D
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Re: Today I.....

Postby slparry » Thu Mar 21, 2019 9:54 pm

boxerscott wrote:
70tno wrote:
Now for an Irish victory in Cardiff tomorrow and fingers crossed for England not to be England at Twickenham.


Unfortunately, that event in Cardiff didn't work out?? :D
True, my fears came to fruition with Twickenham though!

A deserved championship for Wales and good luck in September. :D :D


Guess where I was last Saturday :)

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Postby dave the german » Fri Mar 22, 2019 3:18 am

Bit early for the flower show?
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Re: Today I.....

Postby GerryB » Fri Mar 22, 2019 9:02 am

Coming from South Africa in the olden days , there were more folk sitting in the stands for a school boy rugby match ..

Any provincial or Springbok game was packed out, kiddies all sitting on wooden benches on the field behind the posts on either sides ...

Seems a bit sad to see so many empty seats .
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Re: Today I.....

Postby xbpod » Fri Mar 22, 2019 2:57 pm

I think it filled up by kick off :lol:

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Postby slparry » Fri Mar 22, 2019 11:02 pm

xbpod wrote:I think it filled up by kick off :lol:



oh yes …. it was packed

We got there earlyish hence why the stadium hadn't filled out.
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Re: Today I.....

Postby Blackal » Sat Mar 23, 2019 7:38 am

Thank God Scotland isn’t reliant on international football for pride.............

The team at Twickenham - did us proud, though. :D

This will be the first year for a while - where I can’t make it down to the south of France when International footie is on.

Nothing better than sitting in an outside bistro/bar - watching it all.
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