So... What oiled your gears today?

[MCN]

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[Easy-X]

Got various emails for my OU degree course. The usual "virtual student association" and "virtual wellness support" and "virtual study guide" ad nauseum but thrown in is a free student copy of Office 365 which is nice... it triplicates what I already have (personal, work and now education licences) but it's the thought that counts

I'm now weighing up a profile icon (no-one would want to see my mug in Microsoft Teams) for the various seminars over the summer. Nobcat is sorely tempting Quite looking forward to it all.

The wife on the other hand is "why educate yourself?" and "how much is this gonna cost?" mostly in the vein of the Bill Hicks bit "what are you reading... for?" Fuck it... tally hoe, chaps!
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Royal Enfield Continental GT 535, Husqvarna Vitpilen 401, Yamaha XSR700, Honda Rebel, Yamaha DT175, Suzuki SV650 (loan) Fazer 600, Keeway Superlight 125, 50cc turd scooter

[Easy-X]

One I heard today with regards to anxiety:

"possession by a predator of the spirit in the desert of the soul"



One of those JBP aphorisms he seems to trot out with regularity. I wonder whether anxiety is akin to colour blindness. If one were to equate colours to possibilities does the anxious person, in the extreme, inhabit a grey world devoid of joy? This assumes that one does not see objects but instead a haze of possibilities of what the object could be as much if not more so than what the object is.

I'm thinking visually of the hazy netherworld that Frodo enters when he puts on the ring
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Royal Enfield Continental GT 535, Husqvarna Vitpilen 401, Yamaha XSR700, Honda Rebel, Yamaha DT175, Suzuki SV650 (loan) Fazer 600, Keeway Superlight 125, 50cc turd scooter

[Nobby the Bastard]

Have you been at the cheese again?
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trevor saxe-coburg-gotha:"Remember this simple rule - scooters are for men who like to feel the breeze on their huge, flapping cunt lips."
Triumph Sprint ST 1050

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[Ste]

Managed to crash my (push) bike a week and a half ago and injured my elbow but of more concern was in a few miles time when I realised that my GPS had been knocked off the handlebars.

Thirty something miles from home and my elbow was bleeding quite a lot so I didn't turn around to go looking for the GPS when it could well have landed in a puddle rather than anywhere useful.

Luckily home insurance covers things like that and after quite a bit of faffing around they've agreed that to replace my 14 year old GPS with a model that has equivalent features and maps will cost nearly £900.

[MCN]

[Easy-X]

I'd have thought the... errr... impact site might be indelibly seared on your memory
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Royal Enfield Continental GT 535, Husqvarna Vitpilen 401, Yamaha XSR700, Honda Rebel, Yamaha DT175, Suzuki SV650 (loan) Fazer 600, Keeway Superlight 125, 50cc turd scooter

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[blurredman]

A lot easier to disasemble than I thought it would be.

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Finding it difficult to get the right mk front end though, now that I know what I need to replace.
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CBT: 12/06/10, Theory: 22/09/10, Module 1: 09/11/10, Module 2: 19/01/11
Past: 1991 Honda CG125BR-J, 1992 (1980) Honda XL125S, 1996 Kawasaki GPZ500S, 1979 MZ TS150.
Current: 1973 MZ ES250/2 - 18k, 1979 Suzuki TS185ER - 10k, 1981 Honda CX500B - 91k, 1987 MZ ETZ250 (295cc) - 40k, 1989 MZ ETZ251 - 51k.

[RhynoCZ]

Today, I did not crash my bike (see the ''Clothing options'' thread) and I had a blast with my mates in Germany from Thursday to Sunday. A friend of mine lives and works in Mosbach. He bought a flat there, so he invited me and 3 other mates to spend the weekend in the South-West Germany. By the way, the Sinsheim museum was splendid. The Mercedes-Benz museum was unfortunately closed (when my mates bought the flight tickets prior to that, nothing pointed towards the museum being closed at that time; I drove there in my w210), but we did the Porsche museum, Stuttgart sightseeing, a beer festival and other such stuff. A weekend well spent, I say.

EDIT: A few pictures from the trip.

The Sinsheim museum - WW2 stuff, cars, motorcycles, trains, bicycles, planes (you may enter most of the planes), iMAX ... simply a huge place, where you can spend hours. Also, I had no idea how tiny some of the planes were inside. The museum is also right next to the Autobahn, so we were there in no time. I would definitely recommend this place to anyone interested in this stuff. Next time in Germany, we're going to visit the Speyer museum, it is a much larger and more packed with all sorts of machines sister museum to the Sinsheim museum.

The Porsche museum was alright. I'm not a huge fan of these cars, and it was quite crowded as well. IF the Mercedes-Benz museum had been open, I would have probably skipped the Porsche one.

Overall, the trip was great. Germans even liked my w210, as there are not many of these still around in that part of Germany. They either drive much newer Mercedes-Benz, BMW and Audi cars or historical vehicles. I've also seen a lot of EVs there. German beer was good, they mostly brew Pilsner anyway, and the food was excelent. The Autobahn was alright, cruising at 160 km/h felt like doing 100 km/h on Czech highways. The top speed of the trip was 210 km/h; did 2100 km in total. The car could go faster, but I decided not to push it too hard so far away from home. The weather was also very hot, 37 °C on the car's ambient temp gauge. Luckily, I had fully functional A/C.
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'87 Honda XBR 500, '96 Kawasaki ZX7R P1, '90 Honda CB-1, '88 Kawasaki GPz550, MZ 150 ETZ
'95 Mercedes-Benz w202 C200 CGI, '98 Mercedes-Benz w210 E200 Kompressor

[grr666]

I made tagliatelle from scratch today at my cooking group for lonely bastards. First time ever making pasta from
scratch. It was about 4 feet long, pretty good for a first attempt. We also made a green vegetable sauce to go on it
made from pulverised courgette, spring greens, leeks and broccoli then folded in some grated parmesan once done.
Alongside that was a feta, watermelon, mint, onion and garlic/roasted almond salad.
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[MCN]

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[to v or not to v]

[DaddyStu]

[Nobby the Bastard]

TBH, sounded very scrummy to me....
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Triumph Sprint ST 1050

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[dave001]

[Islander]

[Easy-X]

Oh! The Name Drop Game

I once helped Brough Scott (of CH4 Racing fame) program his Psion Organiser when I worked as a temp at the Racing Post.
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Royal Enfield Continental GT 535, Husqvarna Vitpilen 401, Yamaha XSR700, Honda Rebel, Yamaha DT175, Suzuki SV650 (loan) Fazer 600, Keeway Superlight 125, 50cc turd scooter

[Hong Kong Phooey]

Well I let Davy Jones's (of The Monkees) tyre down on his car, while it was parked in the supermarket. He's dead now. Soz Davy.
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'81 CG125, '97 FZS600 : '99 CBR600F4, '09 KTM RC8

[Diggs]

I out-drank the members of thrash metal combo Anthrax, when given access to a free fridge backstage at a festival.
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Now - Speed Triple, old ratty GS550, GSXR750M
Gone (in order of ownership) - Raleigh Runabout, AP50, KH125, GP125, KH250, CBX550, Z400, CB750FII, 250LC, GS550, ZXR750H1, Guzzi Targa, GSX750F, KH250 x2, Bimota SB6R and counting...

[A100man]

I met the Tygers of Pan Tang* in a pub in St. Albans prior to their gig circa 1981.

and Otway (obvs) - everyone in the world has met Otway.

* Apart from John Deverill who was 'busy doing his hair' according to Rob Weir.
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Now: A100, GT250A, XJ598, FZ750

Then: Fizz, RS200, KL250, XJ550, Laverda Alpina, XJ600, FZS600

[Diggs]