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Went to that there London.

I asked for the 'My Little Stud Pony From The Internetz' package deal, but they didn't know what I was on about...

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derek badger wrote: Fri Mar 19, 2021 7:45 pm Went to that there London.

I asked for the 'My Little Stud Pony From The Internetz' package deal, but they didn't know what I was on about...

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He's been rumbled. :evil:

Bike's looking cool.
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Skub wrote: Fri Mar 19, 2021 8:07 pm
derek badger wrote: Fri Mar 19, 2021 7:45 pm Went to that there London.

I asked for the 'My Little Stud Pony From The Internetz' package deal, but they didn't know what I was on about...

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He's been rumbled. :evil:

Bike's looking cool.
I had to recalibrate my brain after not riding 'enthusiasticly' for a while.
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derek badger wrote: Fri Mar 19, 2021 8:11 pm
I had to recalibrate my brain after not riding 'enthusiasticly' for a while.
Sounds familiar. It's taking me longer than I'd thought to stop riding a naked like a sportsbike. :roll:
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Got me some stickers, seemed pretty damn expensive but I was told they'd make my bike easier to start.
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Oh and they sent a free lump of CNC'd aluminium with the stickers, which was nice.
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demographic wrote: Fri Mar 19, 2021 8:19 pm Got me some stickers, seemed pretty damn expensive but I was told they'd make my bike easier to start.
Send some to badger. :thumbup:
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Skub wrote: Fri Mar 19, 2021 8:22 pm
demographic wrote: Fri Mar 19, 2021 8:19 pm Got me some stickers, seemed pretty damn expensive but I was told they'd make my bike easier to start.
Send some to badger. :thumbup:
Well, its funny you mention that. Yer sort of on the right track with the type of bike anyway.
My finger slipped on the buy it now button a couple of times recently and its all got a bit spendy in a hurry.
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Lectron carb?!
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Spent ages removing bodywork on my NC absolute PIA.
Fitted the sub harness then couldn't get it to work - eventually managed it .
Went out on the CBR but traffic was really heavy and it took ages just to get to Redbridge so I gave up .
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Went car shopping and put a deposit down on a 6 month old ST-line Fiesta Hybrid.

I started off looking about a week ago with a budget of £10k but mission creep got a hold of me.
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Spent most of the day at an accident on the M1 around Newport Pagnell Services. If you were stuck or delayed I apologise, but someone won’t be home tonight.
Got home to find I have bought more bits for the Triumph Explorer that is coming on Tuesday. Funny how it has everything I want, yet I’ve got 2 boxes of bits to fit when it arrives.
Anyone want a Sprint ST 1050, 2005, no MOT, lost interest?
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Skub wrote: Fri Mar 19, 2021 6:40 pm *Shudders.

Took me nearly a fortnight before I could eat proper food again after the last pull.
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636mick wrote: Sat Mar 20, 2021 5:10 pm Spent most of the day at an accident on the M1 around Newport Pagnell Services. If you were stuck or delayed I apologise, but someone won’t be home tonight.
Got home to find I have bought more bits for the Triumph Explorer that is coming on Tuesday. Funny how it has everything I want, yet I’ve got 2 boxes of bits to fit when it arrives.
Anyone want a Sprint ST 1050, 2005, no MOT, lost interest?
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You wish!!! Probably around £1k.
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636mick wrote: Sat Mar 20, 2021 5:26 pm You wish!!! Probably around £1k.
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Stick it on the St1050 FB page, at that price your arms will be ripped off
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v8-powered wrote: Sat Mar 20, 2021 7:16 pm
636mick wrote: Sat Mar 20, 2021 5:26 pm You wish!!! Probably around £1k.
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Stick it on the St1050 FB page, at that price your arms will be ripped off
Cheers, don’t normally do f/b but I may have a look.
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I'm chilling today. I've taken a lot of pain meds over the last two days (between the physio apt on Friday afternoon and the cooking, carrying, more cooking, my arm/shoulder has not been a happy arm/shoulder :( ) and done more cooking for one meal since Friday evening than I have in blooming months. Probably years!

Took some of the prep and pre cooked food to some friends chalet on Saturday morning to then finish prep and cooking a Chinese Takeaway style meal for 9! Bloody loved cooking in their kitchen (normal to large size kitchen in a gorgeous, newly renovated chalet) - huge difference to cooking in my teeny-weeny little space :lol:

Menu for 9 (2 vegetarians both eat fish so oyster sauce was ok) -

Starters
Sesame Prawn toast (shallow fried, reheated in the oven)
Vegetable spring rolls
(Duck rolls brought by another friend - he only had rice paper so wasn’t happy with the result but they tasted good!!)

Mains
Sweet and sour chicken balls
Lemon chicken (the vegetarian was so impressed at how soft/succulent the chicken looked when she was cutting it for me that she had four pieces!!!! And bloody loved it!!!)
Beef and Green pepper in black bean sauce
Char Sui Pork (cooking the pressure cooker so not possible to slice it - but thoroughly enjoyed!!)
Chow Mein (vegetarian) - only dish I consider a fail 😞. I forgot to take the lucky boat noodles. My friend gave me some Japanese noodles from her cupboard and I over cooked them 😡😞😞)
Fried rice with vegetables (vegetarian)
Tofu and mushroom (only dish I’d not made a smaller version of at home) - the two veggies loved this. The meat eaters liked the mushroom side, unimpressed with the tofu 🤣 I was amazed at just how huge/how much the small bags of dried mushrooms became!!!
"Seaweed" :)

Starters -

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Mains

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From the other side of the table!

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Happy cook chopping stuff with lovely sharp knife!!! Damn that kitchen is amazing!!

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Todays loft finds!

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Off to the RockStore, it's the monthly Third Sunday Kaw Meet, which also coincides with the third Sunday vintage bike meet. Expecting a herd of Zee-Rex's.
Local freeway was closed for a while. There was a Fatal, then as the cops were trying to get the traffic turned around some woman got out of her car & starting barfing.. so she got a DUI.. & so did two others who demonstrated difficulty with doing a U Turn.
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Got fed up with the peeling gaffa tape on the seat of the BMW, now sporting a sheepskin pad again, needs a bit of trimming up and fixing on properly.Lovely having a warm bum after the cold fake leather original.


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