revtothelimit - motorbike forum

Mr. Dazzle wrote: Mon Jul 07, 2025 1:31 pm Do it for the Costco card!

I was offed one of them without a degree to my name, they'll let anyone in.

Mr. Dazzle wrote: Mon Jul 07, 2025 1:31 pm Do it for the Costco card!

Wowzers, can't wait for such a useful benefit

I'm planning on doing my Fellowship some point soon. Still not signed anyone's passport photo

Mr. Dazzle wrote: Mon Jul 07, 2025 2:45 pm I'm planning on doing my Fellowship some point soon. Still not signed anyone's passport photo

Guy I know has just got his, my boss is in the process of doing hers too. Sounds like hard work.....

Mr. Dazzle wrote: Mon Jul 07, 2025 2:45 pm I'm planning on doing my Fellowship some point soon. Still not signed anyone's passport photo

Pictures a hairy toed @Mr. Dazzle walking into Mordor.

One does not simply walk into Mordor.

Expect, that's exactly what Sam and Frodo did.

Mr. Dazzle wrote: Mon Jul 07, 2025 2:45 pm I'm planning on doing my Fellowship some point soon. Still not signed anyone's passport photo

Me neither. (I let mine lapse as I got fed up telling my Institute that I was still retired every bloody year - in order to get the reduced membership rate).

I've things to do but I'm cat clamped.

Count Steer wrote: Mon Jul 07, 2025 4:31 pm

Mr. Dazzle wrote: Mon Jul 07, 2025 2:45 pm I'm planning on doing my Fellowship some point soon. Still not signed anyone's passport photo

Me neither. (I let mine lapse as I got fed up telling my Institute that I was still retired every bloody year - in order to get the reduced membership rate).

I have let my professional memberships lapse since retiring. Some were bloody expensive and frankly of little use at this time of life. Happy to be Mr Not of any consequence.

Skub wrote: Mon Jul 07, 2025 9:05 pm I've things to do but I'm cat clamped.

You should worry. There are 42 million kangaroos in Australia and only 3 million people in Jamaica. Which means if the kangaroos were to invade Jamaica, each person would have to fight 14 kangaroos!

Taipan wrote: Tue Jul 08, 2025 2:10 pm

Skub wrote: Mon Jul 07, 2025 9:05 pm I've things to do but I'm cat clamped.

You should worry. There are 42 million kangaroos in Australia and only 3 million people in Jamaica. Which means if the kangaroos were to invade Jamaica, each person would have to fight 14 kangaroos!

Yorick wrote: Sun Jul 06, 2025 4:20 pm

Yorick wrote: Wed Jul 02, 2025 4:53 pm Swam 800m. Not bad considering I was rushed to hospital in December as couldn't move arms and legs and in screaming pain after 6 week illness.

Chuffed to bits

Getting fit for Portimao

1000m today, non stop

At 950 I had a bit in the tank so sprinted the last 50 hard. I like to finish exhausted.

It worked

Aimed for 1200m today. At 1150 I felt good, so rather than sprint the last 50m I did the whole mile. 1610m

Wasn't really breathing hard at the end.
Now gonna buy a stopwatch so I can push the mile harder each time

I'm really quite chuffed with my fitness.

Walk 7 miles every day according to my app on phone
Cycle 8 mile route twice a week.
2 long enduro rides a week.

Happy boy here

Now gonna walk into town for a few cold ones. The missus flew to uk today and it's traditional that I have a naughty afternoon at the bar

New route today. Far far too many 180's and hairpins (or hairpin like access and exit) for my arm. Had planned to talk to the planner tomorrow morning as I was sure he wouldn't put me back on the same route, even though it does use 'my' bus.

Sadly, he's put me on the same route tomorrow - FFS First time they've done something like that and probably cos I did a little cheer at driving 'my' bus again - but seriously, they Know how many turns etc etc and know I had issues on a half day on with lots of breaks !! this is a whole day (12 hours) with two 1 hour breaks and one almost 3 hour break - but the long breaks don't make up for the amount of constant twisty turny


Anyway - just for fun - they are doing some road works on the 'main' road up, luckily I only have to go up/down this 3 times in the day !! They've basically cut away half the road to restructure the underneath (and possibly widen it)

Not a lot of room even for a baby bus like 'mine' !!!







Wouldn't be quite so bad if this bit of road was straight and with a verge - it's not !!! Some lorries have been up and down too - some of the tall thin cone things have been knocked down (not by me !!)

Been smashing holes in super tough concrete for metal poles up at the donkey sanctuary where Penny helps out.
Even with big SDS drill they take an hour each.
Did 2 and my arms and wrists were screaming at me to stop.
7 down and 3 to go.
.

Taipan wrote: Sun Jun 29, 2025 2:58 pm Broke down in my Campervan. Started fine this morning and we left the site. About 20 miles down the road I decided to stop for diesel. Went to start it back up and the batttery was flat?! Rang breakdown to get a jump start but they wouldn't come out as the vehicle is registered as on a SORN. Guess what idiot forgot to tax it when he started using it again a few months back!

They said email us a proof of tax and they'll send soemone out. So i had to ring my son to go to our house where the documents are, and to tax it online which he did. Meanwhile my daughter rang us and I told her what was happening. My son-in-law said have you got jump leads, which we did, so he came out and got us going. Just been out to the camper and tried it and it span over like a good un!

Well that came back and bite me. Got a £325 fine through from DVLA today! Wife is angry abouyt it, but you have to answer to yourself for your own mistakes. I think of it as a stupid tax! Just hope there isnt anymore fines winging their way to me!

Taipan wrote: Wed Jul 09, 2025 7:22 pm Well that came back and bite me. Got a £325 fine through from DVLA today! Wife is angry abouyt it, but you have to answer to yourself for your own mistakes. I think of it as a stupid tax! Just hope there isnt anymore fines winging their way to me!

Trade it in for an 40+ y/o VW camper van. Although it may break down more often,at least you'll not get the home budget raided for tax evasion,you absolute criminal.

How did dvla know you was on the road.?

I sent an email yesterday to work asking to finish early tomorrow as needed to see the physio after that route yetserday.

Got into work and the planning manager talked to me and said thursday is fine, I need you to do the first bit of the navette on the shit route, then I'll swap you for other stuff that doesn't include a million demi-tours

So, did almost two hours on the shit route, came back, brief pause (during which the bus for the next route was changed twice!) then took another 10m bus to go back in the same direction but no demi-tours !! Except there'd been a cycling accident just at the bottom of the road I needed to take and the gendarme said the road would be closed for a minimum of 30 mins.

Luckily I had headed out a bit early so, back to the depot, other planning guy said "there's a little lane that runs up the side of the depot, would that miss the accident ?" We had to check googlemaps cos I had no idea there was a lane there, but it did miss the accident, but too small for a bus !! So I swapped for a sprinter and another guy got a minibus and off we went

Back to the depot to swap for a bigger bus and off to get a load of kids to go to a pool/waterpark type of place. Two hour wait for them, but it was rather lovely, under some trees by a river.

Then up to my resort to get a group of workers to bring them back down. This was interesting as I've rarely done that route in a 12.5m and people really do not get just how much space you need on hairpins Hey ho, didn't hit anyone


Pics from the stop near the pool -

Mr. Dazzle wrote: Mon Jul 07, 2025 2:45 pm I'm planning on doing my Fellowship some point soon. Still not signed anyone's passport photo

Signed lots of those, documents, marriage documents, funeral papers, registers and much more.... once you are a notary, it sort of gets out!

I had the usual Wednesday Eucharist at my smaller church. Then off to the cathedral to take part in the Leavers Year Six Service for our local education trust. Was a nice service, albeit some caterwauling that was supposedly singing by a local talent. Prayed the Blessing for them. Then in the car to collect my little girl from the clinic and back home. Rather tired at the moment. Did my tax return thingy online for the CofE system, so HMRC can work out how much more money to take away from me. They clawed back a further £3k from my wife, and she is paying what she is supposed to through PAYE, so it is doubly annoying!