Very pretty corporate video BUT have they fixed the bits of it catching fire/melting issue when it uses it’s afterburner for any length of time, is the generator reliability sorted because the last thing I read was that it had a 10th the desired/planned life span and was an absolute sod to get at and if it’s anything like the F22 it’ll spend hideous amounts of time in the hanger being maintained/fixed.

I ride at a very slow pace to the nearest hills and then go Banzai to get the hill climb KOM, I then ride home at a slow pace trying to gt my lungs and heart back in my chest.

I have been known to question the integrity of peoples carbon frames in an attempt to get them to slow down……

Not that I’m competetive you understand

15 miles of torrential rain, if the dictionary had a picture example for each word then by the end of the ride me and the Sith Hound would be found under “misery”

we really shouldn’t be talking about such things…

Ermm 40 in 30 outside a school and on the last day of work for my old company.

97 in a 70 on my old KR1S (they were being nice), “we’ve been doing over a 140 since Gatwick trying to catch you” I’d rolled off as it was starting to get a bit hot.

65 in a 30 whilst overtaking, trip to magistrates and 6 points and £200 (a good few years ago now)

Been fairly good since then.

GSXR1000, sitting on the speed limiter watching my friend on his very tuned and de-restricted ZX12-R leaving me behind.

Scene setter I think……

I hate the bloody angels……………don’t blink!

Erm bit late to this, but are there anymore available?

Ohh The Pit is new, it’s like Deliverance on the North Downs but steeper and with no run out. It’s near Folkington by the bottom of the B’stard.

Another good pub is The Giants Rest in Wilmington.

What Rewski said + there is “Fort Fun” and “Treasure island” on the sea front as a kiddies rides play area thing.

More power does not necessarily mean a better signal, we are just starting to switch to a “digital” network (it’s still analogue waves, they just represent digital values, don’t let anyone tell you different) so it’s new to me but we will be doing signal strength and quality checks.

What age group are the kids? What sort of holiday are you looking for? Plenty of MTB nearby on the downs and in Friston. If you want a guide let me know.

Fenton…..Fenton…..ohhh Jesus Christ!

Good writeup, sub 12hrs is my target for next year.

This is Starbuck, (and if you watched BSG, yes she lives up to her name!)

Ferrets tend to ignore cables but will chew TV remote buttons and anything rubber (can result in an expensive vet bill so be careful)

Ferrets last about 7 years, best in pairs or more, can be litter box trained (most of the time) and will go for walks on a lead (no homing instinct so be careful). Be prepared to give inquisitive dogs a good boot in the face as well.

Also homes require ferret proofing (think curious toddler with claws). A large cage to put them in for when you are out or sleeping is a must.

Ferrets respond well to attention and love, the more time you put in the better pet they are. Watching a group (collective noun – a business) go bonkers when you let them out of the cage when you get home is great, also the stealing and moving of treats and toys is hilarious as various ferrets “secret” caches of goodies get moved around the lounge by the others. Oh and sock stealing from the laundry pile as socks are evil and must be punished (usually by a death bite and removal of the heel).

Ferrets are fine, yes they do smell but after they are castrated a lot of the smell goes.

6 months of no riding due to breaking the cashew nut sized scaphoid bone in my left wrist.

Badgers, gotta be careful of them crafty buggers!

Hit them once, hit them very hard and then you have a nice rose bush fertilizer………….

Curtis LeMay (founder of SAC) and his equivalent in the nuclear weapons storage had a “gentlemans” agreement that if the top brass and civilian government got taken out in a surprise attack they would launch a retaliation themselves.

Also, LeMay, in the early period of the cold war when missiles were still being developed thought that a limited war was possible with only minor US casualties (a few million) compared to Europe (10’s millions+) and so as the war was winnable with acceptable losses routinely got his bombers to fly past the Point of No Return in order to provoke the USSR into action.

Mrs Ming took her car in for a service to be told that the broken exhaust bracket did not need replacing, the diesel system required a power flush and clean (£125), the brakes needed doing otherwise it would fail it’s MOT (£600) and it needed two new tyres (£150 each), they also charged £20 for a new brake light.

So I challenged them and after a bit of umming and ahhing it did’nt actually need it’s brakes doing that urgently and the tyres were perfectly fine. I also queried the 20mins charged for changing a lamp as it took me all of 5 minutes and that included finding the appropriate screwdriver in the bottom of my tool box. They had also thrown away the exhaust bracket so I ended up fabricating my own one.

When I did the next service myself it looked like the pollen filter had never been changed (they charged for it on both it’s previous services).

Oh and 40K miles later the diesel system still has not been flushed.

Tossers.

Digging the transparent aluminum spokes 🙂

Dropper posts
Disk brakes
and whilst not a product, riding with the Sith Hound.

🙁

+1

Hardest thing being there at the end, making that decision, but it is the right thing to do. Feel for you, remember the good times.

“Working” on the railway the public never cease to amaze me. Take the other day, I’m dressed in full orange, hard hat, boots, gloves carrying many kilo’s of radio test equipment and as I walk from the track up the platform ramp I’m asked what station is this (pointed at the sign and told him the station name). Same bloke then asks me when the next train to Streatham is, how should I know I’ve just walked off the bloody track do I look like a flippin timetable!

I’ve also been asked why somebody’s train was late the week before (arrgh I cover the whole of the SE of Blighty, how should I know!)

I have also been a naughty boy and when asked when the last train home was by a very drunk member of the public I told him in about 20 minutes so he went off quite happy, actually he’d missed last train by about 5 minutes, the next one was 5 hrs later.

Hope Rossi does well but is he getting too old, has the urge to win left him? Time will tell. As for Stoner, good luck to him, I suspect that his 07 championship was partly due to Ducati’s very italian interpretation of the fuel catch/overflow tank rules.

Woodpeckers managed to take one of our radio sites off air by pecking the denso tape around one of the aerial connectors full of seeds at the top of a 30m mast and allowing water in. Result; no coverage. Two new aerials, phasing harness and cutting a feeder cable back as the internal insulation was sodden and we were back on the air; for how long I’m not sure as all day were were being “told off” by the woody massif 😀

Enemy Mine

Ah, the famous Elephants of the Surrey Hills…

ohh gawd it’s happened again, I’ve touched a mirror and I’m in a parallel universe, is Thatcher still Queen and did the USA win the last world cup?

Hmmm

Dune – read the bloody books
The Last Starfighter
The Thing
The original Day the Earth stood still
Iron Sky
BSG from start to finish
Forbidden Planet
Capricorn One
Planet of the Apes (original)
Skyline – apart from the rubbish acting I did find it very disturbing
Star Trek Wrath of Khan
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Silent Running
Moon
12 Monkeys
Akira but only in Japanese with English subtitles

Read: The Kraken Wakes and Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham

Sunday mornings with a cup of tea,

and your biscuit of choice.

Liver and Bacon for dinner….mmmmmm

Ha ha trailrakers v stanmer roots ha ha ha

Enjoy!

I’ve had a couple of nasty ones over the last month, both times on the right leg, both with lots of swelling and fat ankles.

*unts

Serious job, serious implications, some things you don’t **** about with.

Bloody marvellous so far!

Sith Hound at Speed

Chewie

Fastest Dog on the Kessel run

Oh and do them up “Harrier” tight as well.