When/Where/Pics was the last time you rode your bike ?

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It's Muriel time again.
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Where on earth is that? Impressive…

…or is it AI again?
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Wossname wrote: Sat Sep 28, 2024 9:57 pm Where on earth is that? Impressive…

…or is it AI again?
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Skub wrote: Sat Sep 28, 2024 12:54 pm It's Muriel time again.
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That's lush! And colour coordinated to boot 👍
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Wossname wrote: Sat Sep 28, 2024 9:57 pm Where on earth is that? Impressive…

…or is it AI again?
It's a relatively new one in the Fernagh estate in Newtownabbey,as Mr.LB linked to. There's a vent under the wren's arse which pumps out steam when the chippy is in full flow. I have to think it was intentional. :lol:
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kendo57 wrote: Tue Sep 03, 2024 3:22 pm It was and freshly resurfaced which was nice.
I'd like to think they did it especially for you :)
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Up and out for an early start this morning - it was 6 degrees when I set off. Pleased that my current favourite jacket combo (Knox armoured shirt) with a wind/waterproof shell worked well in the lower temperatures. Wish I could say the same about the vented gloves that I grabbed, mistaking them for winter numbers...

Hundred miles over to my brother's works open day and a bit more than that on the way back - A roads in the morning, motorway home. Enjoyed the ride there, not so much the return leg.

Nice day out and saw lots of interesting stuff. Didn't take a single photo.
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ChrisW wrote: Sun Sep 29, 2024 6:05 pm Didn't take a single photo.
Slacker. :P
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Skub wrote: Sun Sep 29, 2024 6:21 pm
ChrisW wrote: Sun Sep 29, 2024 6:05 pm Didn't take a single photo.
Slacker. :P
I do my best :)
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ChrisW wrote: Sun Sep 29, 2024 6:29 pm
Skub wrote: Sun Sep 29, 2024 6:21 pm
ChrisW wrote: Sun Sep 29, 2024 6:05 pm Didn't take a single photo.
Slacker. :P
I do my best :)
You might have mentioned why your bro's works are worth having an open day. Can't be many places that are worth the trip. Bakery? missile factory? (probably don't have an open day), aerospace, brewery, linoleum factory, Pilkingtons????
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Count Steer wrote: Sun Sep 29, 2024 6:55 pm
ChrisW wrote: Sun Sep 29, 2024 6:29 pm
Skub wrote: Sun Sep 29, 2024 6:21 pm

Slacker. :P
I do my best :)
You might have mentioned why your bro's works are worth having an open day. Can't be many places that are worth the trip. Bakery? missile factory? (probably don't have an open day), aerospace, brewery, linoleum factory, Pilkingtons????
Funnily enough we used to live not far from a Pilkingtons R&D place. He works for Royal Enfield.
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ChrisW wrote: Sun Sep 29, 2024 7:22 pm

Funnily enough we used to live not far from a Pilkingtons R&D place.
There's one not to far from me,Pilkingtons Lathom,we meet in the big lay by just down the road
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ChrisW wrote: Sun Sep 29, 2024 7:22 pm
Count Steer wrote: Sun Sep 29, 2024 6:55 pm
ChrisW wrote: Sun Sep 29, 2024 6:29 pm

I do my best :)
You might have mentioned why your bro's works are worth having an open day. Can't be many places that are worth the trip. Bakery? missile factory? (probably don't have an open day), aerospace, brewery, linoleum factory, Pilkingtons????
Funnily enough we used to live not far from a Pilkingtons R&D place. He works for Royal Enfield.
I wanted to work for Pilky's R&D when I was a young whippersnapper scientist. (But so did lots of other yws's...it was quite competitive as it was pretty cutting edge in the glass business and paid well).
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Bustaspoke wrote: Sun Sep 29, 2024 9:32 pm There's one not to far from me,Pilkingtons Lathom,we meet in the big lay by just down the road
That's the one!
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Skub wrote: Sun Sep 29, 2024 6:21 pm
ChrisW wrote: Sun Sep 29, 2024 6:05 pm Didn't take a single photo.
Slacker. :P
My brother apparently isn't so much of a slacker it seems (I've always known this tbh....). Here's one he took of my favourite bike there. I've obscured my face mainly because I'd not looked in a mirror since getting there and had horrendous helmet-head:
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ChrisW wrote: Mon Sep 30, 2024 7:11 pm
Skub wrote: Sun Sep 29, 2024 6:21 pm
ChrisW wrote: Sun Sep 29, 2024 6:05 pm Didn't take a single photo.
Slacker. :P
My brother apparently isn't so much of a slacker it seems (I've always known this tbh....). Here's one he took of my favourite bike there. I've obscured my face mainly because I'd not looked in a mirror since getting there and had horrendous helmet-head:
You look a bit jaundiced there man,but happy with it... :thumbup:
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Count Steer wrote: Mon Sep 30, 2024 7:09 am
ChrisW wrote: Sun Sep 29, 2024 7:22 pm
Count Steer wrote: Sun Sep 29, 2024 6:55 pm

You might have mentioned why your bro's works are worth having an open day. Can't be many places that are worth the trip. Bakery? missile factory? (probably don't have an open day), aerospace, brewery, linoleum factory, Pilkingtons????
Funnily enough we used to live not far from a Pilkingtons R&D place. He works for Royal Enfield.
I wanted to work for Pilky's R&D when I was a young whippersnapper scientist. (But so did lots of other yws's...it was quite competitive as it was pretty cutting edge in the glass business and paid well).
Total brief derail

Wonderful headline, many years ago, in the Basingstoke Gazette. It explained that a certain Mr Pilkington found broken glass in a restaurant meal.

Well, made me smile :)

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Rode the A3102, affectionately known as the "Spanish Stelvio" from Velefique to Tijola, 43kms of superb tarmac.
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(Note this is not my photo, as I didn't want to stop to take one)

Fantastic road, and the 452 Himalayan was a really good bike to do it on.

Even though rises up to 1,820m above sea level, temperature didn't drop below 25°c, and not a cloud in the sky.

Dropped in the the Almeria circuit on the way back as Focused Events are having a track day there, but they were still unloading the trucks, so nothing to see there.
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Whysub wrote: Mon Sep 30, 2024 10:05 pm Rode the A3102, affectionately known as the "Spanish Stelvio" from Velefique to Tijola, 43kms of superb tarmac.

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(Note this is not my photo, as I didn't want to stop to take one)

Fantastic road, and the 452 Himalayan was a really good bike to do it on.

Even though rises up to 1,820m above sea level, temperature didn't drop below 25°c, and not a cloud in the sky.

Dropped in the the Almeria circuit on the way back as Focused Events are having a track day there, but they were still unloading the trucks, so nothing to see there.
Awesome :obscene-birdiedoublered: