I've been to the gym this morning, weight loss is going ok, although I'm having a roast today.. I love my food.
Took the Benelli to Super Sausage for a bacon roll. First time I've used a pin lock insert - really impressed [emoji846]
That was valeted, and then ridden for 2 wet rides. If a bike can't cope with that then I give up on it. I hate this whole, clean after every ride. Bollocks to it, i'll ride it until it rots for all I care.
Today I have been fiddling around sorting more clutter for sale or disposal.Suprising how much useful stuff one cannot even give away these days.I have put numerous items,for free,on the community website.Cable,outside lighting,transformers.No interest at all.It will have to be junked-charity shops are not interested either.I hate throwing away perfectly good stuff.
Put the thing back together after making some brackets for the new aux lights and then spent half an hour going over my handiwork with the good multimeter because they didn't work. The brand new switch is hooped out of the package, I pried it out of its housing and shorted it out and on they came. So, now I'm on the throne, might go for a ride after a snack..
Got the bike out ready for a ride..........It started to rain quite heavily. Put the bike away and wiped it down. Tried again two hour later.................It started to rain again. Put the bike away again and wiped it down again. I'll be damned if I'm going to use it on the roads around here onto which the tractors have dumped clumps of mud.......I'm not going to clean the bugger again after the last two occasions of having to clean the sprayed soup off.
I know what you mean, I find that it's near impossible to get into every nook and cranny after a wet ride, so I simply avoid wet riding, and have a 'cloudy day' bike for rides where there is a risk of rain. I actually find having a cloudy day bike more convenient than cleaning after every ride. Sadly though if you ride in poor weather corrosion is pretty much inevitable
Spirited ride up to Rivington barn today, longest I've done to date about 150 miles round trip, weather was great, lots of bikes out, really enjoyed myself
1st ride of the year today arrived at Squires to find literally thousands of bikes leaving on the Easter Egg run, had to wait ages to get in as they had shut the road to let them all out on mass. Sun was actually scorcio (that's Scottish for hot hot hot) t shirt weather was a surprise, spring has sprung
Ready for first ride of 2016. Just finished fitting all the bits and pieces I got from various forum members ( plus other unsuspecting sources ) Slip-on Termi, heated Sargent seats, M4 calipers, touring screen, Ilmberger front mudguard and exhaust guard. Washed and polished!
French Voice, which I actually think is a lot better than English Voice, having seen both. I don't really bother with the English Voice. It's quite annoying.
I went out on the Panigale first thing for an hour to start to scrub the new rear tyre. It was sunny but by Christ it was freezing so I came home and swapped over to the Scrambler as it has heated grips. Spent a couple of hours scrubbing the new rear tyre off on the scrambler but going down some nice twistie crappy roads that I wouldn't take the Panigale anywhere near Ended up back in Holmfirth and had a nice latte and fish and chips outside the Old Bridge in the sunshine with SWMBO before going on for another hour or so, then came home to watch the footy, then the MotoGP. Today has been a rather nice day
Took the Benelli to the super sausage. That now all of the bikes used this year! Quite mild in Milton Keynes today, even sunny for a while.
And I'll bet the judges perch elegantly on leather bar stools, smoking a Gauloise and vote by merely moving the head a touch and laconically raising an eyebrow, coupled with a guttural 'non' .....
Hmm. Not really. As in all these syndicated shows, the format, decor, pretty much everything is identical to the original. Even the chairs are the same. And it is quite funny to hear the French referring to "The Voice" which of course, they can't say, so they all say "Ze Voice" but as they have to say it so often, it just seems comically absurd. The singing is mainly better on the French show, and of course the contestants all have to sing in two languages, French and English (although they can do others if they like). Some are really good in English, others lamentable and you can't understand anything they are singing. But the judges are generally less annoying and there isn't that obsession that you have on English shows with everyone desperately trying to be cool, regional and non-posh. That has to be the thing that pisses me off most about British broadcasting these days. Laura Laverne - how did she ever get a job? She did the whole of the Mercury Prize reading platitudes from notes.
