What did you do with whatever else you've got?

[ogri48]

[Dynspud]

Hey Paul.
Don't know if it's an age thing but this has started looking really good to me:-


https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2004-HARLEY-D...:rk:9:pf:0

[ogri48]

also washed the "real" bikes....

[ogri48]

lol, I dunno dave, tell you what, borrow the fatty for a week or so in the spring, you'll either love it or hate it mate, and take it from there

[nick crisp]

Those CB13s certainly do have something of that classic Honda look. I like them with fairing and belly pan in those same colours too.

[ogri48]

they do nick, I cant help but love it. funny how they don't look anywhere near as good in the other colours(just my opinion) you think its comfy though, until you get on it straight after the fazer, and then it feels like you've got rear sets on it! the fazer thou must have one of the most lovely uncramped knee positions going..also the honda weighs roughly four times as much as the yam. Or feels that it does at least.. :lol :lol

[ogri48]

Hondas do have build quality to die for though. another couple of months and that one will be 15 years old

[mtread]

That's a nice collection of bikes  Like me, 3 is just the right number to stop you getting bored.

[Dynspud]

Cheers Paul.
That's a really kind offer mate  :thumbup

I guess it's always best to try something new and/or different before you buy.
Let's hope we have some good weather next Spring/Summer.

[nick crisp]

That's a nice collection of bikes  Like me, 3 is just the right number to stop you getting bored.

I'd get bored with the cost of running 3  :lol


One truly exceptional one is all I need:

[ogri48]

That's a nice collection of bikes  Like me, 3 is just the right number to stop you getting bored.

lol yeah mate, three is the magic number alright. As Nick says, and you know same as me no doubt, running em don't come easy, not if you want to keep them all tickety boo, but personally I aint got much else I care about aside from my dog/kids/grandkids, so I don't mind they keep me poor.

[nick crisp]

Don't mind me guys, I'm just trying to cheer myself up cos I can't even really afford one now  :'(


:lol

[ogri48]

lol im the same mate. Ive hit rock bottom this week, overdraft maxxed out, just sold my geddy lee fender jazz (I foccing loved that bass :'( :'( :'( ) to pay my partner what I borrowed off her, and ive got a triumph leather jacket and pair of gloves on ebay finishing tonight that will give me enough money to get through the weekend and next week. I wont sell any of the bikes, but everything else is dissapearing fast lol. Not working for three years to get through this degree and living at my girlfriends mums house because I havnt got one of my own is really, really starting to bite :lol :lol

[mtread]

Sympathies to you both, but glad the bikes don't go first. They reckon most of us are just 3 wage packets away from the breadline 

[ogri48]

ah these things all work out, one way or another bud. I remember two years ago when my old lab died, I would have given every bike ive ever owned for another few days with him. its all just stuff really, innit. Hard times, and good times, come and go. just gotta roll with

[coffee]

ah these things all work out, one way or another bud. I remember two years ago when my old lab died, I would have given every bike ive ever owned for another few days with him. its all just stuff really, innit. Hard times, and good times, come and go. just gotta roll with

Horrible,ain't it? apart from losing a loved one when your dog goes it's bad news,my last one died in my arms and it took some time to get over it. :'(

[ogri48]

that it is buddy. took me 18 months before I was ready for another

[robbo]

The Triumph had its first proper winter workout today. Left home at 07:30 in the pi55ing rain to ride to Folkestone to witness the Pages of the Sea art event on the beach, to mark the 100th anniversary since armistice, marking the end of WW1. This was staged at 32 beaches around the country, the idea inspired by film producer Danny Boyle, who was present at Folkestone. The beach sand painting was of poet Wilfred Owen, and was created using stencils and rakes. The port of Folkestone was a departure point for thousands of troops bound for France all those years ago.
The vantage points were crammed with people who had braved the elements to witness this unique and very moving tribute. Fortunately the rain held off for the entire time we watched the tide advance to eventually wash away the artwork.
To lighten the mood, my pal and I had a good thrash, all be it in the rain, on A and B roads over to the north Kent coast to Herne Bay, for a couple of pints and a sit down haddock and chips.
Coming home via the roads and lanes of Kent, taking in Challock, Charing, Leeds and Wateringbury, might not have been one of my better ideas, as failing light and road spray, wasn't condusive to rapid progress, but did my best, although my eyesight in the dark certainly isn't as sharp as it was.
A great day, even if a touch melancholy, which was to be expected. Glad I made the effort despite the weather. I felt it was the least that I could do.

[YamFazFan]

I thought the beach painting was a lovely way to remember. Such an original inspired idea.
I didn't get to see any of those other than on television, but we did spend the day in remembrance in London today at The Cenotaph service and march past by the veterans, the Shrouds Of The Somme exhibition and Beyond The Deepening Shadow at The Tower.

[ogri48]

cleaned up me calipers and fitted braided hoses on the cb1300..