Reasons to be cheerful

[sidecar bob]

...you can pick up some good stuff for relatively cheap prices there also...a mate of mine was visiting France a couple of years back, came across a property in a small town that was 'too good to be true'...it was true and now him and his partner are winter free and own a magnificent building (a fair bit of work), and a lifestyle that some only wish or dream of...sounds good...good luck...

I looked a that, but I'm better to keep my property here on a market that I understand & pay aprox $200nz per week to rent. It may be Spain next winter & Italy the winter after that, so it means I'm not tied to one place.

[ellipsis]

I looked a that, but I'm better to keep my property here on a market that I understand & pay aprox $200nz per week to rent. It may be Spain next winter & Italy the winter after that, so it means I'm not tied to one place.

...it still sounds like an excerpt from a cool story, whatever way you do it...it's a far cry from telling my missus that I'll take her away for a weekend, somewhere, sometime...

[Ocean1]

Well, I guess that's that then.
I've been fixing BMW cars at the same location for 23 years, but 27 years in the same street.
I went to the TT last month & while I was away, I thought, fuck this shit, I don't need the stress anymore, so listed my business up on trademe with a borderline stupid price.
12 enquiries & 20 days after listing it, it's sold.
I'm thinking Perpignan in the south of France is looking very good, lovely climate & a day by car or air to at least 5 Moto GP circuits.

Nice. I know a few that have or are about to retire offshore, all sounds very exotic. In fact I've just received an invite to a bar warming in Vietnam.

[husaberg]

I looked a that, but I'm better to keep my property here on a market that I understand & pay aprox $200nz per week to rent. It may be Spain next winter & Italy the winter after that, so it means I'm not tied to one place.

Malta...........

[sidecar bob]

I've got to put 1000 km on this before Monday, so it can go in to be converted to a race bike.
Not sure I can cope.

[Grumph]

I've got to put 1000 km on this before Monday, so it can go in to be converted to a race bike.
Not sure I can cope.

Not sure your back will cope....
Kirby had a good mate who ran everything in from the CB750 days right up to GSXR1100's. A days run to the west coast and back around the passes saw everything nicely bedded. Never dropped one either...

[Akzle]

ozzies are fkn gay. whoda thunk.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...on-437806.html

[Blackbird]

Well, we've just celebrated our 45th wedding anniversary and haven't been stabbed or otherwise maimed by my infinitely better half so I'm extremely lucky . Also celebrate our joint 70th birthdays in a couple of months so to mark both events, we're lashing out and going on a 4x4 safari through Kenya and Tanzania. Just got time to get one more decent ride in beforehand

[sidecar bob]

Not sure your back will cope....
Kirby had a good mate who ran everything in from the CB750 days right up to GSXR1100's. A days run to the west coast and back around the passes saw everything nicely bedded. Never dropped one either...

63.5 percent of mission accomplished. Down to Taihape, gas & a Moro bar, over the Gentle Annie to Hastings, another splash of gas & a feed & back to Taupo.
Great day, but obviously not as young as last time I rode a bike like that.
I'll drop the forks through & Jack the arse up a bit in the morning & do the same route clockwise tomorrow weather pending.

[Ocean1]

I'll drop the forks through & Jack the arse up a bit

Most times anyone describes that I can read it both ways.

I assume you mean drop the clamps on the forks?

[sidecar bob]

Most times anyone describes that I can read it both ways.

I assume you mean drop the clamps on the forks?

I phoned the chum that going to race it & had a yarn. He said to slide the forks up 4mm in the clamps.
It was fine rolling through high speed corners at umm, the speed limit, but nailing it off a slower apex it would run wide & rolling off the gas to try to fix it made it extra horrible.

[Moi]

Well, we've just celebrated our 45th wedding anniversary and haven't been stabbed or otherwise maimed by my infinitely better half so I'm extremely lucky . Also celebrate our joint 70th birthdays in a couple of months so to mark both events, we're lashing out and going on a 4x4 safari through Kenya and Tanzania. Just got time to get one more decent ride in beforehand

Congratulations to both of you on both counts

[ellipsis]

...I was thinking I may have to pull out of the Spring Classic, Nth vs Sth at Manfield in Oct due to fukn dollars and sense...so I booked the flights and a mattress and shower for three days before I actually fell into the 'shoulda done it' scenario, down the track...done deed now......j

[Blackbird]

Congratulations to both of you on both counts

Thanks Mark - Jennie has the patience of a saint

I actually suggested that a new 765 Triple could be my share of the celebration. I was given to understand that my health could take a sudden dive if I tried it

[caseye]

Congratulations to both of you on both counts

I second that, well done you two and do enjoy Tanzania.
My Ratbag now rides her own bike ( A Big Arsed ol Arlen Ness Nosed M50 Boulevard) for now, she's just had a trip up Norf to Whangarei with a bunch of hairy assed Fat Bikers, this weekend, enjoyed herself despite herself she did.
Report when you get back please.
Friend of mine from here, has just returned from 2 weeks in the mountains of Pakistan riding a rented Enfield 2 up, they had a great time.