So... What oiled your gears today? ARCHIVE

[Diggs]

[Easy-X]

Had the first proper tear about on the Rebel
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Husqvarna Vitpilen 401, Yamaha XSR700, Honda Rebel, Yamaha DT175, Suzuki SV650 (loan) Fazer 600, Keeway Superlight 125, 50cc turd scooter

[Sister Sledge]

[thx1138]

Bad weather. Earnings went up this weekend.

[chickenstrip]

Coming from a depressed mood, had a wallet clear out (dead moths mostly), and found my PO Travel Money card, and remembered there was still a couple of hundred quid on it...timely!

Later, plugged in the Strat for the first time in a while, dropping it down to open G, and hammering it like Keef (5 strings, 3 fingers and one arsehole ). And a bit of slide. I'm as rusty as my strings, but happily lost a couple of hours.

Edit: before the Keef stuff, in standard, worked out on a couple of Fabulous T-Bird tunes, a bit of Jimi, and a Ronnie Earl rocker. Didn't take long to come back to me. Wish I could be doing it in a band though.

Another edit: and all the working out and stretching I've been doing over the last year or so meant my dodgy arm wasn't aching afterwards - that's a first!
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Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
THERE'S MILLIONS OF CHICKENSTRIPS OUT THERE!

[hellkat]

I started a really interesting and specific course today, about assessing specific types of people for their jobs - which I hadn't considered myself likely to have done before.

I was casting about looking for some volunteer sorta thing to do, now that my term at the hospital has finished and I had resigned from the Royal College due to hours clashing with the job I was doing (which I then lost that job, annoyingly!)

ANYWAY!
If I pass this course, and then pass the vetting (!) it could be quite regular,and turns out the money's not bad ... but probably wouldn't provide a full time job, so I would probably still do office work.

So if I do manage to skate through the vetting process (by the skin of my teeth, if I do ) then I'm hoping it will be the start of my next 180 degree about-face in life.

Cos I can feel that coming, encroaching upon my life like a huge iceberg, there's a change in the wind, says hellkat's life is on the move again
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Not nearly as interesting in real life.

[Easy-X]

Best of luck, Hellkat

Today I went up the A3 to work on the new bike: vans everywhere Filter on... van... filter off... another van, grrrr...

Wait! What's this? A throttle that actually does something for a change? Eat my dust, white van man!!!!

(I'm sure the novelty will wear off in a decade or two.)
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Husqvarna Vitpilen 401, Yamaha XSR700, Honda Rebel, Yamaha DT175, Suzuki SV650 (loan) Fazer 600, Keeway Superlight 125, 50cc turd scooter

[weasley]

Rode my mountain bike home from work today. It’s a 12 mile trip. Felt really good, so ended up taking the long way and doing 23 miles. Then went to a fantastic Turkish restaurant for dinner. Stuffed.
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Yamaha XJ600 | Yamaha YZF600R Thundercat | KTM 990 SMT | BMW F900XR TE

[Courier265]

My order from Demon Tweeks arrived Monday but I've opened up the box today.

Ordered 2 sets of front, 2 sets of rear EBC pads (£12 each) and a couple of large cans of Brake Cleaner.

What oiled my gears is the fact the order was correct and I've saved a load of cash.

The Pads are for my Inazuma's so now I have some stock.
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CBF500 - 2 x Inazuma 250

[Kawasaki Jimbo]

Five miles of filtering mostly stationary traffic for the second day running. Ha! Get a bike, fools!

Yesterday I might have popped out of lane 2 into 3 in front of another bike at the start though. Apologies.

[Sister Sledge]

^^ Yup I did a lot of filtering yesterday on semi-rural roads and boy it annoyed some motorists! Them sat still at lights and I simply trundled past to the front each time. I'm amazed at how much distance I can gain like that.
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CCM 404 DS

[Nobby the Bastard]

[Sister Sledge]

A few actually did it when driving along - sitting to the right of the lane of traffic. Every single vehicle that did it was a people carrier which I found strange.
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CCM 404 DS

[thx1138]

McVities iced gems. Got the perfect ratio of "icing" to biscuit.

Minust one point for the biscuit being too good, it's not supposed to taste better than the icing.

[Easy-X]

In a car there's nothing worse than going down the road, in plain view, and someone ahead pulls out of a junction causing you to brake. And then to compound it all they then proceed to drive at 5mph less than the speed limit

Advantage bike! (To be fair it was a learner driver today so I didn't give them any abuse as I flew by.)
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Husqvarna Vitpilen 401, Yamaha XSR700, Honda Rebel, Yamaha DT175, Suzuki SV650 (loan) Fazer 600, Keeway Superlight 125, 50cc turd scooter

[thx1138]

[Easy-X]

No, not a driving school, just a regular car with L plates.
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Husqvarna Vitpilen 401, Yamaha XSR700, Honda Rebel, Yamaha DT175, Suzuki SV650 (loan) Fazer 600, Keeway Superlight 125, 50cc turd scooter

[hellkat]

Karma soap from Lush

Anyone wanting to get into my good books would be well advised to purchase a large chunk of it and present it to me on bended knee.

A strangely heady mix of motivational in the morning, and sensuality at all other times. Karma soap gets me into the mood for sexytime, (its not so good for sleeping, too lively), and gets me happily out again in the morning.


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Not nearly as interesting in real life.

[Nobby the Bastard]

[hellkat]

Well it does.
I'm very aware of senses, and things that smell good* ... does the biz.


*things that I think smell good, e.g., I think, for example, that Joop smells like shit, so someone wearing Joop will get a swift elbow. Whereas, someone wearing Brut ( yes yes I know ) will invoke memories of my tumultuous youth and therefore ... jiggi jiggi may occur.


Sensuality, its a hugely underestimated thing.
It's not just about feathers and candlewax (boring, hackneyed)
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Not nearly as interesting in real life.

[Nobby the Bastard]

What annoys me is that fact that if I use a feather it's called sensual but if I use a frozen chicken it's pervy.
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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."
Sprint ST 1050

[Sister Sledge]

[King29]

Limmy's show. All seasons on Netflix. The guy is funny as anything.
If you like Rab C Nesbit and Still Game then you'll love Limmy's show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHPTIfeB0qw

[Sister Sledge]

^^ Ah yes I discovered it the other week. Some scenes are so hard hitting - you expect a laugh but are instead hit with cold reality. It makes for an interesting ride!
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CCM 404 DS

[thx1138]

i watched Limmy on Twitch the other night, he rambled on for ages, never quite getting to the point and distracting himself, it was quite entertaining.